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Swallowing the Seas - Chapter 31

Published at 28th of April 2023 05:47:44 AM


Chapter 31

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   "Almost half a year ago, I began to faintly feel that he was abnormal, but I still couldn't catch any clues. It wasn't until four months ago that I was going to Hong Kong, and he pretended to be reluctant, but in private he couldn't hide his joyful attitude. Finally, I officially sounded the alarm bell." The fastest computer terminal of 999 novel update: https://www.999xs.com/

    Zuo Qiu and Meng Zhao recently received different family members. She is highly educated and can see good education in her words and deeds. She wears a solid-color silk shirt with wide-leg pants. She wears a silk scarf with a nice drape around her neck. Although she came overnight, she still retains the daytime on her face. Makeup.

    Meng Zhao gently placed a cup of hot water in front of her and asked gently, "When did you find it?"

    "Once I took leave from Hong Kong to go home for the weekend-it was a temporary surprise operation." Zuo Qiu covered his red eyes, wiped the corners of his eyes for a while, and said, "There is nothing abnormal at home, my husband sees. It’s normal to go up, with excitement and joy in surprise. We went out to dinner, watched the movie, and went home hand in hand. Little don’t reunite with Yousheng’s newlyweds; I secretly laughed at myself for my eagerness and sensitivity until late at night Suddenly I woke up, and found out that the other side of the bed was empty, and lights and voices were faintly revealed in the living room."

    "...This can be big or small, you have to be mentally prepared..."

    Zuo Qiu put on his pajamas and gently opened the bedroom door. Someone was sitting on the sofa with his back facing her. He was slightly chubby, but his voice was very calm. There was a kind of faint superior instructor talking to the subordinate, which was peaceful and could not be rejected. a feeling of.

    Li Hongxi stood on the side of the living room coffee table with her hands hanging down, unable to see her expression at such a distance, but the extraordinary perception between the husband and wife still made her realize that her husband was rarely upset at this moment: "... Maybe? Why did she disappear suddenly? What should we do now, what should we do if we find out, this is on the cusp of the storm..."

    "There are too many such things, it's not so easy to find out, let alone you." The person paused, and the conversation changed: "I am worried about another thing."

    "what?"

    "She took our'big business' away."

    Li Hongxi looked confused and didn't realize what the other party was referring to, but then her face changed drastically: "What?! What you said is—how could—"

    His voice stopped abruptly, and the living room fell into ominous silence.

    "People don't care, you can't lose the'big business'." After a long time, people finally spoke again, with a cold and low voice: "I have arranged manpower to deal with this matter, and try to deal with it as cleanly as possible, but you Be mentally prepared too, in case...understand?"

    Zuo Qiu held her breath. She had never seen Li Hongxi show such a strange face. She seemed to be mixed with a trace of disgust, resentment and unwillingness in her fear. She gritted her teeth slightly and nodded: "I understand."

    The visitor seemed somewhat satisfied, nodded, got up and left.

    The moment he turned around, he happened to be facing the open door of the bedroom. At that moment, Zuo Qiu saw his face clearly-unexpectedly he was not very old, maybe in his twenties or early thirties, his face was pale and fat, and he was tall. It's not high, there is a scab on the eyebrows. This face is the standard gentle and kind type, but don't know why, and there is a faintly frightening breath in the kindness.

    Zuo Qiu's instinct for danger caused Zuo Qiu to lean back and grip the doorknob tightly.

    In the dim night, no one could see this concealed door gap in the bedroom. She was hidden in the darkness and felt her heart beating, but her ears subconsciously caught the movement outside, and heard the person leaving. Li Hongxi sent the door to the elevator door. There were vague footsteps and farewell sounds from the corridor; after an unknown period of time, she tremblingly opened the door slightly with her fingers, and she saw the dead of night outside the living room window, while the clock on the wall was still shaking with the second hand. A positive tick coincides with the minute hand.

    It was three o'clock in the morning.

    "The next day, I asked Li Hongxi on the sidelines, saying that I was stupefied at night and seemed to hear him talking. Did he come to visit? Li Hongxi's expression was very panicked for a moment, but then he calmed down and told me that one of their companies knows a lot of inside information My accountant suddenly resigned. If you apply for a competitor’s house, it may affect him and several other leaders. Therefore, the company will come to discuss with him late at night, but it should be resolved smoothly, so I don’t worry. Qiu took a deep breath and suppressed the choked tail: "But the strange fear in my heart still lingers. I didn't even dare to stay at home until Sunday night... The next afternoon, I was upset. Boarded the plane to Hong Kong indiscriminately."

    "This person said that he would arrange manpower to'handle' this matter that caused them to lose their'big business'?" Meng Zhao asked.

    Zuo Qiu nodded.

    In Meng Zhao's mind, the crazy Liu Li in the interrogation room appeared--"Gao Ling's cheap bones couldn't recognize reality, and she dreamed that she had a'big business', and she could make a fortune as long as she finished big business..."

    Meng Zhao leaned forward slightly, staring closely at Zuo Qiu's eyes, and said in a serious tone: "Do you remember the night this conversation took place?"

    "March 18th." Zuo Qiu covered his mouth to prevent himself from choking again, hoarsely and firmly: "I have a record of air tickets to and from Hong Kong, it is March 18."

    March 18th was the third day that Gao Ling ran away from home!

    If we extrapolate from this point, we can almost conclude that the one who has to deal with the most conscientious is Gao Ling!

    "Thank you very much for cooperating with us in providing clues. Please try to keep in touch during this period. If you can remember any details, please feel free to contact the police." Meng Zhao shook Zuo Qiu's hand tightly: "If you need any help , You can also find me at any time, don’t be afraid, we will guarantee your safety!"

    Zuo Qiu's eyes were still red. She raised her head to let the tears flow back down her nasal cavity and back to her throat, and then looked at Meng Zhao after a moment: "Thank you, Officer Meng, I was just too unexpected. I... My husband and I are college classmates. His family concept is feudal, and the conditions are not good. When he first fell in love, he was so poor that he couldn’t even afford flowers. When he came to my house, he was almost beaten out by my mother. We broke through many obstacles and walked all the way to the present, so many years of love , The feelings of so many years..."

    Meng Zhao patted her hand comfortingly.

    "I once thought, if he is really someone out there, is it because I am too busy with work and neglected his family? Is it because I am too tough and too neglected to feel his feelings? I wish I could use a microscope to see my flaws from the inside out. I have searched for the wrong place, but I forgot one thing. The scum will not be moved a little like a person because you are gentle, virtuous, considerate and perfect. The scum becomes a scum completely because of themselves."

    She paused, with tears in her eyes and a calm smile:

    "If it's not troublesome, I might need you to do me a little favor now-do you know any good divorce lawyer who can introduce me to the one who can get that scum out of the house empty-handed?"

    Most of the police and lawyers are no strangers. Meng Zhao blinked, moved a little closer to her ear, and smiled slyly:

    "...I really know a few."

    The door of the questioning room was opened, and Liao Gang took off his earphones behind the desk outside: "You are against the regulations like this."

    Meng Zhao put one hand in his trouser pocket and raised his chin: "Say away?"

    Liao Gang couldn't laugh or cry, Meng Zhao smiled and left.

    ·

    "I see. I will summarize the transcript and send me an email later...Tell Naiqin to pay attention to the emotions of the victim's parents. It is the first time that Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi and his wife came to Jinhai. Feel free to contact the media..."

    There was the sound of Bu Chonghua talking on the phone outside the water, Wu Yu brushed his teeth in the mirror, rinsed his mouth full of foam with the faucet, and casually pulled a towel and walked out of the bathroom while wiping his face.

    Bu Chonghua is a person who can strictly follow working hours the next day, no matter how late the first day is, he wakes up at 7:30 in the morning and gets up in the shower to take a shower. After finishing his morning run, he has put on his shirt and police trousers and is standing on the French windows. He hung up the phone, and as soon as he turned his head, Wu Yu walked into the room with his upper body naked, drooping his eyelids, yawning, and threw the towel on the messy guest house bed.

    He must have put Bu Chonghua on the safe and harmless white list. He wears a pair of jeans all over his body and hangs loosely on his waist and hips. The lines of his shoulders, neck, lower back, and thin abdominal muscles are unobstructed, and he has bare feet. Stepping on the carpet wet, leaving blurred footprints with the steps.

    "Are you ready?" Bu Chonghua looked away and asked lightly.

    "No rush."

    "Won't you take a shower in the morning?"

    Wu Yu opened the bottle of mineral water and drank it and said, "Trouble. You treat everyone like your educated person, early and late again, and I don't know why I closed the door in the bathroom."

    "..."

    Bu Chonghua's forehead twitched slightly, turned around, and suddenly only heard Wu Yu's voice: "Wait, did you catch someone behind the neck?"

    "?" Bu Chonghua stretched his hand on the back of his neck, and it really stung on the right side, but because of the angle, he turned his head and looked into the mirror but couldn't see it. It seemed that he had scratched the skin by his hand.

    It should be last night when one person singled out the audience and didn't know which gangster was rubbed by them, but the adrenaline secretion was high during strenuous exercise, and there was no pain for a while, and didn't notice it when took a shower in the morning.

    "It's swollen," Wu Yu said, "I'll give you a red potion."

    Bu Chonghua's first reaction was that he didn't use it anymore, but he swallowed it when he said it, and subtly acquiesced to the proposal. Wu Yu called and asked the front desk of the guest house to bring red potion and cotton. Bu Chonghua sat on the edge of the bed, with the back collar slightly pulled down. Wu Yu kneeled on the edge of the bed behind him and put a towel dipped in water on the wound. Spread two sets of weights around for disinfection, then soak cotton with medicine, and carefully smear it on the slightly red and swollen broken skin.

    Bu Chonghua belongs to the one with light natural pigmentation, with amber pupils and fairer skin-healthy, firm, and even white. It is two shades of paleness caused by Wu Yu's perennial work and rest. His hair is also very thick, shining slightly in the morning light, with a good smell of shampoo, very different from the messy black hair that Wu Yu often cuts in front of the mirror.

    "It's fine-skinned and tender," Wu Yu was a little pantothenic, mocking: "A little injury is so obvious."

    Bu Chonghua said, "I envy you even more."

    "What do you envy?"

    On Wu Yu's back, abdomen and even arms, there are many small scars and traces left after the wound has healed. You will not feel it when wearing clothes or in the dark, but if you look carefully at the light during the day, it will be quite shocking. sense. Bu Chonghua moved slightly, as if he wanted to turn around and hold back. He looked at the white hotel bed sheet in front of him and said, "Scars are a man's medal, don't you think?"

    Wu Yu couldn't help but couldn't help but: "The medal is a shit, the incompetent people are injured, and the capable people can't even get rid of the roots of the hair."

    "What do you mean?"

    Bu Chonghua turned his head and saw Wu Yu throwing the cotton ball away, and he was too lazy to explain: "Okay, be careful not to get inflammation."

    He got up to get the bottle of unfinished mineral water, but the cold water bottle was quickly taken away by Bu Chonghua's eyes and hands: "Come back, the leader asks you something."

    The two of them sat on the edge of the bed, the other knelt on the mattress, and the line of sight was stalemate for a few seconds. Wu Yu was a little bit embarrassed. He lowered his head and walked around on his body, pointing casually to the dark growth of a small scar on his left elbow after healed.

    "—This, dragged out on the concrete floor. The two big brothers were drunk and had fun, depending on their brothers fighting fiercely, each side sent a subordinate, and the other side's buddy was a Thai boxing champion, from beginning to end. I can’t even touch my hair. Can you say it can be called a medal? It’s a mark of shame.

    Bu Chonghua looked at him and couldn't make a sound for a while.

    "The medals for those who are capable are made of gold, and the medals for those who are not capable are made of flesh and blood." Wu Yu said, "Come on, hurry up and solve the case. Maybe we can also have a collective merit medal after the case is solved in 502. Dai Dai."

    He withdrew the mineral water bottle, Bu Chonghua's hand paused in mid-air, and then slowly dropped.

    At this moment, the phone jingled, indicating that there was a new email—it was the inquiry transcript sent by Liao Gang.

    Wu Yu drank water and looked closer. He thought it was the questioning materials of Li Hongxi and his wife Zuo Qiu last night. Who knows that it was Meng Zhao who went to the hospital several times to ask Liu Li's records before and after opening it: "What are you doing with this?"

    Bu Chonghua tilted his head and looked at Wu Yu's eyes up close: "I read Zuo Qiu's transcript last night, and I always feel a little doubtful."

    Wu Yu's eyes were puzzled, and he leaned back slightly and moved a little away, motioning him to say.

    "We now know that the murderer of the 502 case is no longer a single person, but an organized and large-scale group. The'Teacher Ba' seen by the owner of the print shop occupies a high position in this group, and it may even be Leader. On the third day after Gao Ling ran away from home,'Teacher Ba' rushed to Li Hongxi's house overnight and told him the news. At the same time, he said that Gao Ling had taken away a'big deal', and he wanted to arrange manpower to solve the matter. This so-called manpower should be Gao Baokang. He collected 100,000 yuan from'Teacher Ba' to track Gao Ling and wait for his mobile hands. However, due to the exposure of his whereabouts during the period, Gao Ling reported to the police once at the end of April."

    Wu Yu nodded.

    "The reason why'Teacher Ba' arranged Gao Baokang instead of Li Hongxi to solve Gao Ling, may be because Li Hongxi has culture and capital, and has a relatively high status in this organization. It is not a low-level thug like Gao Baokang. , You don’t need to go out to do dirty work yourself.” Bu Chonghua said, “But what I can’t figure out is that Gao Ling was killed on May 2nd, regardless of whether Li Hongxi sneaked into Gao Ling’s and Liu Li’s homes. For what purpose, why did he wait until the police found the body on May 9 before touching Gao Ling's house?"

    Wu Yu thought for a while, then hesitated: "Because of the hot search?"

    "Yes," Bu Chonghua said solemnly, "Because this group of people couldn't be sure if Gao Ling was still alive before the hot search."

    ——In other words, before the hot search, they didn't know whether the killer had completed the task, Gao Baokang was disconnected from the organization!

    "Is he already dead in the Four Mile River?" Wu Yu asked unexpectedly.

    "Judging from the flow rate and water level of the Sili River on May 2nd, the probability of drowning is quite high, but Gao Xia reflects that her nephew often swims with people in summer and is very good at water, so another possibility cannot be ruled out. , He ran away." Bu Chonghua paused and said slowly: "If this assumption is true, then the police are not only searching for him now, but also the...human bone helmet he took away."

    Human bone helmet.

    After Gao Ling disappeared, "Teacher Ba" told Li Hongxi that people are not important, but big business should not be lost. What does big business mean?

    Gao Ling trudged several kilometers to the river embankment in that rainy afternoon. What was in her bulging schoolbag that made her believe that she could get rich overnight?

    Li Hongxi, who sneaked into Liu Li's bedroom late that night, had obviously bought wires, tape, black plastic bags, and a lot of detergent, but she hid in the closet after Liu Li entered the house, and didn’t do anything until she was spotted. In front of home, what is he looking for?

    Bu Chonghua sat on the side of the bed and turned his head back, Wu Yu sat cross-legged behind him, holding a mineral water bottle in one hand; the two looked at each other, and both saw the desired answer in each other's eyes.

    "That human bone helmet," Bu Chonghua said softly, "maybe it was the'big business' Gao Ling took away."

    The room was terribly quiet. After a long time, Wu Yu finally slowly screwed on the bottle cap and rubbed his eyebrows vigorously: "What is the relationship between Gao Ling and those people?"

    Bu Chonghua said: "Pass the spiritual bed."

    Wu Yu didn't understand.

    "Do you remember what I said? Most people who organize a cult are inseparable from several purposes: money, female sex, and desire for control. Almighty|The Religion is no exception. It is they who woo new members when they pass the spiritual bed A method for brainwashed young women to have a relationship with people. It is hypothesized that this can convey the will of God and achieve the effect of spiritual unity; and those women are mostly from the wives and daughters relatives of internal members of the organization, and have little education. , Mostly with a rural background."

    Bu Chonghua opened the transcript in the e-mail. The first few pages were Liu Li’s first questioning, that is, when he had a drug addiction in the Nancheng District Branch: "I had a vague doubt when I first contacted Liu Li, why Gao Ling In front of her, she always scolded her parents for “sucking blood, ignorance, and harming her”? If blood sucking can barely be understood as asking her to work and earn money to raise her younger brother in the future, what does it mean to have no education and harm her? The family patriarchal complaints seem to be different. Afterwards, Meng Zhao went to the hospital to talk to Liu Li several times, and found that as long as she mentioned Gao Ling, these words were repeated repeatedly. The one that appeared the most even far exceeded the resentment for not letting her go to school."

    "——What did Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi do to make her grit her teeth and hate them for their ignorance? How many times did a little girl who was 16 or 7 years old had a relationship with Li Hongxi who lived in Jinhai City before she became pregnant? The whole family lives under the same roof. The underage daughter is so strange for such a long time. Are her parents really unaware of it?"

    Bu Chonghua raised his hand and threw the phone on the bed sheet, and said coldly: "From the first time I saw the couple crying in the corridor of the Public Security Bureau, I began to suspect that they were wrong."

    Wu Yu nodded silently, seeming to have some headaches, and asked: "Then...what should I do now, go back to interrogate Gao Ling's parents?"

    This is impossible. First of all, the police have no real evidence and cannot use coercive means to interrogate the victim's parents; secondly, Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi are clearly prepared, and all side-by-side inquiries will not have any effect.

    What's more difficult is that the couple only appeared after Gao Baokang lost contact and Li Hongxi was arrested. This means that the cult behind them has realized that they have entered the police's sight. Any investigation or even the slightest change in attitude towards Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi will directly lead to the consequences of being stunned!

    Bu Chonghua breathed a sigh and said: "I have to go back to Jinhai to continue digging, digging into Li Hongxi's financial situation, Gao Baokang's social relations, and the source background of the human bone helmet. It is impossible for a valuable thing to suddenly appear in Tianjin for no reason. In Haishi, regardless of whether'Ms. Ba' and others want to sell it or take it away, there must be a series of criminal acts behind it that have not been unearthed by the police."

    Wu Yu moved his stiff shoulder and neck thoughtfully, and Bu Chonghua looked at him. After a while, he stopped, sat on the bed and shook his head.

    "My way of thinking about questions is different from yours."

    "..."

    "Gao Ling's hometown in Jiarui County is not far from Ninghe, driving from here, one way at most half a day." He raised the corner of his eyebrows to Bu Chonghua, and the slender and thick eyelashes curled up, a little agitating: "Let's take a look?"





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