Chapter 19 Chapter 19 The Eighth Drawing
After dinner, Li Muxu asked Pei Qing: "What are your plans for the afternoon?"
Pei Qing: "Let's go to the wedding dress street. There are several brands of wedding dresses there that are pretty. I wonder if I can meet Zheng Rong and Yao Tan."
Li Muxu asked the driver to drive Pei Qing to the wedding dress street.
The flow of people on the wedding dress street was slow. Pei Qing looked at the wedding dresses in the window, and then looked at the men and women walking together on the street. Most of the women were very excited, while the men were not interested. From time to time, you can see couples quarreling in the street.
Marriage is the grave of love!
Pei Qing sighed and walked another kilometer forward. He didn't see Zheng Rong and Yao Qin, so he found a coffee shop and bought a latte.
Now that they were there, Pei Qing took a few photos of the satin wedding dress that she thought was nice and sent them to Han Heyue.
Han Heyue was still taking a lunch break. She saw the wedding photos Pei Qing sent and asked, "Why are you, a single guy, suddenly looking at wedding dresses?"
Pei Qing: "I just happened to come to the wedding dress street to find someone. Is it pretty?"
Han Heyue looked at the wedding dress inside and said very honestly, "It looks good, and the price is also very good."
Pei Qing: "Yes, it's not too expensive here. A little further away there is a Chinese-French manor-style commercial area. Things there are really expensive. One item costs at least three hundred thousand."
After visiting here, we have to go to the manor to take a look. Maybe Zheng Rong and Yao Tanye have gone there.
Han Heyue looked at the wedding dress and sighed, "I won't spend three hundred thousand on a wedding dress. I'm poor! By the way, who are you going to find?"
Pei Qing: "Looking for an engaged couple, do you want to work overtime today?"
Han Heyue was suddenly depressed: "Jia, my supervisor is back, doesn't he need someone to accompany him?"
Pei Qing: "Poor boy - Hey? I saw someone, I'll find you when you're free!"
Pei Qing saw Zheng Rong. She was holding a small bouquet of flowers that looked like pink roses. They must have been bought at the entrance of the Bridal Street.
Yao Qin stood beside her and saw Zheng Rong pointed in a direction, and the two walked forward together.
Pei Qing took a sip of latte and didn't move too close. He just watched Zheng Rong and Yao Qin shopping slowly from a distance.
Yao Qin seems to have a really good temper, unlike the other men in Bridal Street who start to look away after walking for a long time. What kind of person is he? He looks away and is ugly. Is this marriage necessary?
Pei Qing's eyes swept across one side of the street and found a man in a yellow takeout uniform. He had handsome features and fair skin. He walked past Pei Qing carrying four or five bags of milk tea.
Pei Qing: Wow, this guy is much more handsome than those men who just turned their backs on me.
How can someone with this appearance be a food delivery person? There should be other jobs with better value for money.
It's still so white, but under the sun in July, it will turn into charcoal in a few days.
Pei Qing only took a glance and then looked away with a hint of regret.
Three hours passed in a flash. Yao Qin and Zheng Rong finished shopping on a street and were ready to leave.
Pei Qing finished the latte in his hand, took a wet wipe from his bag to wipe his hands, and prepared to catch up.
When I looked up, I saw that Yao Tan and Zheng Rong had walked away.
Walking quite fast.
She hurried to catch up, but after a few steps, she found that the young and fair-skinned man was also following Zheng Rong and Yao Qin.
Pei Qing slowed down his pace.
It was the delivery man from before. He took off his delivery uniform.
Pei Qing didn't follow very closely, she thought of the man who asked for help in the live broadcast last night.
Is it him?
She recalled Jane Mei's appearance and felt that this man looked somewhat like Jane Mei.
She followed them all the way to the wedding street and watched Zheng Rong and Yao Tan get on the car. The man following them also got on the motorcycle parked on the side of the road.
Pei Qing thought of his electric scooter, shook his head, and decided to take a taxi.
As long as you are willing to pay, taxi drivers can take you to any remote place.
Pei Qingrang followed the car that Zheng Rong and Yao Qin were driving in front of him. The driver even gossiped, "Are you chasing after your ex-boyfriend? Oh, it's time to take wedding photos. Let's find a new one. Haven't you heard the old saying? New people are always better than old ones!"
Pei Qing was amused: "Master, do you often see this kind of drama here?"
The driver said, "That's right. That's why I like driving a taxi here. There are always exciting things to watch, such as male mistresses and female mistresses, and a woman with many men, and a man with many women. It's hard to count them."
Pei Qingle didn't know who was in the car in front of her, so she just asked the master to drive and follow.
The taxi drove all the way out of the main city.
The master looked at his watch and asked Pei Qing: "Do you still want to catch up? This watch is very valuable."
Pei Qing: "Follow me, I have money."
It was just the money he earned last night. Last night, Jane Mei's brother spent nearly 20,000 yuan, so he can still afford this amount of money.
How does the saying go? The wool comes from the sheep, so she doesn't lose out.
The taxi drove out of the main urban area until we could see the villa area surrounded by mountains and water in the distance.
The taxi driver smacked his lips and said, "You are really rich."
Pei Qing: "Is this Min Rong Xiang Ju?"
Taxi: "Yes, that's where the rich people live."
He glanced at Pei Qing, but Pei Qing was wearing a cap and a mask, so he couldn't see his expression. He could only ask, "Are you still following me? Even if you are, you can't get in to this kind of villa area without the owner saying hello to the security booth."
Pei Qing thought about it and sent a WeChat message to Li Muxu, the richest brother in the family.
[Hello, brother, do you have a house in Minrong? ]
The surrounding area looks nice, maybe Li Muxu bought a villa here.
Li Muxu: "I bought a few units when the market first opened. Have you moved to Minrong? Zheng Mingxin lives in Minrong? Then he has a lot of assets."
Pei Qing: "I want to go in and take a look."
Li Muxu: "Someone cleans that place regularly. I'll tell the security guard to let you in and I'll come find you in the evening."
Pei Qing: "Oh."
She looked out of the car window and saw the man on the motorcycle quickly stopped in front of the villa area. He seemed to take a look at the main entrance of the villa area, then immediately turned the car around and went back.
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The office of the Serious Crime Squad of the Municipal Public Security Bureau was filled with smoke.
As soon as Xu An entered the room, he opened the window to let the smell out of the room.
Xu An: "I wouldn't be surprised if the office caught fire one day."
Fang Jie touched his head: "Isn't this worry?"
Ji Wu: "Don't sleep anymore, get up."
Qian Bingcheng: "I just took a nap. I have been checking the surveillance for a whole day. My eyes are hurting. Captain, I'd better go to the field."
Several people watched the surveillance footage before and after the pyramid scheme den was shut down again, but the location of this pyramid scheme den was not densely monitored, and it seemed that there was no connection between the front and the back. It was really eye-opening, but there was no result.
Xu An threw the eye drops from the drawer to him.
Qian Bingcheng: "Thank you. Did you find anything after being out for so long?"
Xu An: "I have discovered something."
He posted a few photos on the whiteboard. They were of women with oval faces, and they all looked somewhat similar.
Fang Jie felt something was wrong no matter how he looked at it: "Did she have plastic surgery? And she was made from the same template. Doesn't it feel weird when they look so similar face to face?"
Xu An: "I asked Ying Cuicui's elder brother to identify the photos, and he had impressions of all these people. Before Ying Cuicui met Ma Youlin, she worked in a nightclub. This is her little sister. Later, she followed Ma Youlin, but they still had a relationship and occasionally had financial dealings."
Ji Wu: "In a place like a nightclub, directly throwing cash is more impactful than swiping a card, and they only recognize money, not people. It is safer for Ma Youlin to go to such a place than to find a hotel. It just so happens that Ying Cuicui hangs out in nightclubs all year round, so she has a way to conceal his whereabouts."
Fang Jie understood: "Which nightclub should we start with?"
Xu An began to draw a simple map on the whiteboard, marking several nightclubs closest to Hongqiao and circled one of them in particular.
Ji Wu: "Let's start with this 'Ye Man Xiang'."
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In the evening, "Ye Man Xiang" was crowded with people. Several women surrounded Xu An. Twenty or thirty bottles of wine were opened on the table, making the women around him smile.
Ji Wu was waiting on the side, his eyes flashing with colorful lights from the nightclub.
It didn't take long. Perhaps because the wine was too much and too expensive, Xu An quickly dragged a heavily made-up woman over.
He said, "She has met Ying Cuicui."
The woman's name was Zhang Suo. When she saw Ji Wu, she had a bad feeling and wanted to retreat, but one of her arms was held by Xu An, and she tried several times to pull it out but failed.
"Hey, big brother, please talk nicely, don't use force! It hurts me so much!"
Xu An said fiercely: "Be honest!"
Zhang Suo felt wronged: "How come handsome guy changes his face so quickly? If I had known you were a cop, I would have ignored you."
Ji Wu: "If you want to invite your boss here, that's fine, so we don't have to go back and look for him."
Zhang Suo became honest and she talked about Ying Cuicui.
"Just a few days ago, Sister Cuicui gave me two hundred yuan and asked me to buy her some desserts. I took the money and went. She was very generous, and we sisters were happy to run errands for her."
Xu An: "Why doesn't she go by herself?"
Zhang Suo rolled his eyes at her and said, "Are you afraid of being caught? Aren't you here?"
Ji Wu: "You know she's in trouble?"
Zhang Suo scratched his fingers and said, "Who would hide here if they didn't do anything wrong? It would be much better to go out shopping."
"Xiao Zhang!" A rough male voice suddenly came from behind.
Zhang Suo drew his head back.
The middle-aged, plump boss looked at the strangers and said, "You two, our store has all the necessary documents and is fire-proof. What are you doing here?"
Ji Wu: "There is a pyramid scheme leader who has come to your nightclub. Please cooperate with us and investigate."
The boss said: "We are open for business. Even if there are problems with the customers, it is not our fault. I am willing to cooperate, but it will be bad if it affects the business."
The words sound nice, but in fact he just doesn't want to cooperate.
Xu An pointed to the twenty or thirty bottles of wine he had just opened and said, "Can any of these bottles be real?"
The boss's face changed.
Xu An: "Cooperate a little. If things get out of hand, it won't be good for anyone. The guest is not your father, do you need to protect him like this?"
This was too harsh to hear, but the boss was afraid that this knowledgeable cop would hire someone to deal with him, so he had no choice but to accept the defeat.
Xu An and Ji Wu returned to the bureau with the surveillance footage.
From the surveillance footage, we can see that Ma Youlin and Ying Cuicui entered the nightclub together, pushed and shoved each other, dragged a suitcase, and walked out of the nightclub together. The two walked into the alley until they disappeared from the surveillance range.
Not long after, Ying Cuicui's body was found in the ditch under the Hongqiao Bridge.
Ji Wu decided to re-examine Ma Youlin.
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Ye Manxiang's boss sent the police away before walking back to the lounge. As soon as he walked in and closed the door, the woman sitting on the sofa looked up at him and sneered, "It's just a cop, why would he run out like that?"
The woman had beautiful black hair, long and straight. A few nails painted bright red were visible on the hand holding the wine glass.
Hearing her sneer, the boss didn't take it seriously: "He's not an ordinary cop. Be more careful. If he makes my business go bankrupt, how can I make the money back?"
The woman snorted, looking down on his cowardly attitude: "No wonder you can only stay in such a shabby place."
Boss: "If you think this place is shabby, you don't have to come."
Woman: "Tsk tsk tsk, old bear, we have known each other for so many years. If you had changed your timid habits, you would have become rich a long time ago."
The boss picked up a clean cloth and wiped the wine stains on the bottle.
"I'm already fifty-three this year. If I go to jail again, I'll die there. Life is more important."
The woman threw the wine glass at him and said, "Aren't you jealous when you see Ma Youlin's money?"
Boss: "What's the point of a fool's money?"
Woman: "You are not much different from him, let's go, just stay here."
Instead of going out, she walked into the lounge, until she opened a door leading to the basement and disappeared from the sight of Ye Manxiang's boss.
The boss didn't look at it any further. He wiped off the traces left by the woman, locked the door when he walked out of the lounge.
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Min Rong's villa was too big, so Pei Qing took the security guard's car to the door of the villa.
The security guard dropped the person off, completed his mission, and drove away.
Pei Qing stood at the door of the villa for a while, then entered the password and walked in.
The villa is spotless and the cleaning work is done very well.
Yes, judging from Li Muxu's occasional obsession with cleanliness, the people who clean the villa must have been carefully selected.
Pei Qing sat on the sofa and looked at Jian Mei's file.
The content of the archive is unremarkable.
Jian Mei had just arrived in City A and didn't have many relatives or friends. After she disappeared, the police checked all her relatives, friends, leaders and colleagues, but when they found nothing suspicious, they turned their attention to the possibility that the crime was committed by a stranger.
Jian Mei is a beautiful girl, and the possibility that the crime was committed by a stranger is very high.
Pei Qing read it through and found nothing new, just as Xu An said.
She pulled the tablet out of her bag, took out a pen and began to scribble.
A sketch of Jian Mei appeared on the drawing.
Pei Qing took a look and drew the young man he saw in the afternoon next to it.
From this perspective, the eyes and nose are very similar.
I don’t know his name.
Pei Qing was looking at the sketch he had just drawn when suddenly there was a noise at the door and Li Muxu walked in with a bag in his hand.
Pei Qing asked: "What is this?"
Li Muxu: "Dinner."
Pei Qing took the initiative to run over and take the things from Li Muxu's hand.
Li Muxu watched her take out the box, and her eyes lit up when she opened it.
Li Muxu: "Didn't you go out for a walk just now?"
Pei Qing was very grateful and said, "I'm waiting for you."
Li Muxu smiled: "Let's eat."
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Ma Youlin was brought to trial again, and the police showed the surveillance footage of Ma Youlin and Ying Cuicui walking out of Ye Manxiang together before Ying Cuicui's death.
The surveillance footage showed that the two went in and out of Ye Man Xiang together, and there was testimony from nightclub staff that proved that Ma Youlin and Ying Cuicui had been hanging out at Ye Man Xiang.
At the same time, there were Ma Youlin's cell tissues in the cracks of Ying Cuicui's nails, and Ma Youlin also had several scar marks on his body.
From any angle, Ma Youlin is a major suspect in the crime.
Just as he said, husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately.
He and Ying Cuicui got together for profit, but after the pyramid scheme den was busted, the two of them lost their previous tenderness and affection and started fighting. In the end, there is a high possibility that Ma Youlin killed someone in passion out of rage.
Faced with repeated interrogations by the police in the middle of the night, early morning and daytime, Ma Youlin's eye bags were swollen, his eyes were bloodshot, and his overall condition was extremely poor.
Finally, he made a request regarding the evidence presented by the police.
"I want to see my wife."
Ji Wu: "Meet your wife? Your wife can't go to jail for you."
Xu An: "Why didn't you think of your wife when you ran away with your lover?"
Ma Youlin gritted his teeth and said, "I want to see my wife."
Ji Wu and Xu An looked at each other, and after discussion, decided to let Ma Youlin meet his wife.
The scene when Ma Youlin met his wife was not solemn. Ma Youlin didn't even say a word. Only his wife sat opposite him wiping her tears and scolding Ma Youlin for being so heartless.
Ma Youlin said nothing. He returned to the interrogation room and started a question-and-answer session with the police.
"Why did you argue with Ying Cuicui?"
Ma Youlin: "She wants a share of my money."
"How did Ying Cuicui die?"
Ma Youlin: "Strangled to death with a ribbon."
"Where's the ribbon?"
Ma Youlin: "The lighter is burned."
The question and answer process went very quickly, and Ma Youlin's cooperation was unprecedented.
When asked about Sun Xiuxiu, Ma Youlin said: "I didn't want to kill her. She ran to the nightclub on her own and was seen by Ying Cuicui. Ying Cuicui was so angry that she pushed her. Who knew she would be so unlucky that she hit her head and died."
"What's wrong with Sun Xiuxiu's eyes?"
Ma Youlin: "Ying Cuicui did it. She was angry that Sun Xiuxiu stole her bracelet, so she dug out her eyes to vent her anger."
"Bumped into Sun Xiuxiu in a nightclub and then killed her?"
Ma Youlin paused, "Ying Cuicui thought the nightclub was boring, so she got Sun Xiuxiu drunk in the nightclub and said she wanted to punish her. Then she put Sun Xiuxiu in a suitcase and transported her to the factory under the Hongmen. She told me that she would be released after being locked up for a few days, but in the end - didn't you see it? Women fight without restraint, and it was Sun Xiuxiu's bad luck that she died after hitting the corner of the table."
"After Sun Xiuxiu died, Ying Cuicui wasn't afraid, and she dug out her eyes?"
Ma Youlin: "Ying Cuicui was originally a gangster. She once boasted that she slapped someone until he became deaf. What's there to be afraid of digging out a dead person's eyes?"
"It was all done by Ying Cuicui. It has nothing to do with you?"
Ma Youlin: "Of course, Sun Xiuxiu stole something, what does it have to do with me? Ying Cuicui's death has something to do with me. I don't admit what Sun Xiuxiu did, it was all done by Ying Cuicui."
He pushed the blame on a dead man, but there was no evidence to prove his guilt.
The interrogation in the interrogation room was still going on. Outside the interrogation room, Xu An looked at Ma Youlin, his eyelids twitching again and again.
Fang Jie stood beside Xu An, and seeing Xu An couldn't stop pressing his eyelids, he asked, "Brother An, what's wrong?"
Xu An: "There's something wrong with this Ma Youlin."
Fang Jie: "Brother An, you think so too. I also think it's not right. He only admits to killing Ying Cuicui in a fit of passion. He doesn't admit to anything else."
Xu An thought for a moment, then said to Fang Jie, "Find some photos of pretty girls, preferably ones who look a bit like Sun Xiuxiu. I'll take them in later so he can identify them."
When Ji Wu came out of the interrogation room, Xu An handed him a stack of photos.
They are all young women.
Ji Wu understood immediately: "Do you suspect he made it up?"
Xu An: "Ma Youlin was going to jail anyway, five years or ten years, as long as it wasn't the death penalty, it made no difference to him. He was lucky to make some money before going to jail, maybe he was really here to take the blame for someone else."
Ji Wu: "Who can make him willing to take the blame? He refused to give in before."
Xu An felt heavy-hearted when he thought of Sun Xiuxiu's eyes that had been gouged out.
"Just ask. Besides, can Ma Youlin and Ying Cuicui steal the car in the underground casino to transport the corpse?"
Xu An didn't believe it. "Let those arrested gamblers identify the person. I don't believe Ma Youlin can help Ying Cuicui transport the person to the abandoned factory and let Ying Cuicui play tricks on him. Isn't he afraid of being discovered along the way? Sun Xiuxiu is dead, and he stole the underground casino's car to transport the body? It would be better to just throw it in the factory. No one goes to that factory. By the time someone finds it, the body will have turned into bones and the evidence will be gone."
Ji Wu approached the interrogation room again.
A few minutes later, Ma Youlin accurately picked out Sun Xiuxiu's half-length portrait from the photos on the table.
At the same time, three days had passed since Sun Xiuxiu's body was found, and the superiors issued an order to solve the case as soon as possible without causing panic among the people.
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At Minrongxiangju, Pei Qing and Li Muxu had just finished their meal.
Pei Qing packed up the garbage and went out for a walk with Li Muxu, throwing away the garbage at the same time.
In fact, this was all a cover-up. Pei Qing just wanted to see where Zheng Mingxin lived.
Obviously Li Muxu knew.
She followed Li Muxu and strolled past the villas after throwing away the garbage.
Finally, Li Muxu stopped, Pei Qing stood beside him and looked forward.
In the villa in front, unlike the small gardens in other villas, the garden in this villa has been converted into a vegetable garden.
An old man and a young boy were watering the vegetable garden, and there were a few elderly people around them.
"Old Zheng, your dish is really delicious."
"Oh, your son-in-law is helping with the work now. Old Zheng, you don't know how to be polite. You haven't even gotten married yet, and you're ordering people around like this."
"That's right. It's just a small vegetable garden. I can do it myself and even ask my son-in-law to help me..."
The man called Lao Zheng said, "What's the matter? My son-in-law is not only my son-in-law, but also my student. Besides, as the old saying goes, if there is something to do, the disciple should do the hard work. Now Xiao Yao is half my son, so what's wrong with helping me water the plants? You are just jealous. You don't have a good son-in-law, so you envy others for having a good son-in-law!"
Pei Qing stared at the small vegetable garden in the Zheng family villa.
It was only after Li Muxu pulled her that she reacted.
The people in the Zheng family villa have already noticed the man and woman who came over.
One of the old men squinted his eyes and looked for a long time before he recognized the person.
"Isn't this the child from the Li family? Is he this big now?"
Li Muxu walked up to say hello and took Pei Qing with him.
Pei Qing politely greeted several elderly people. She didn't know any of them, but they should be elders that Li Muxu knew through business. She just needed to call them by the name of someone who was well-behaved, sensible and sweet-spoken.
Zheng Mingxin and Yao Tan looked over and smiled politely at Li Muxu and Pei Qing.
Seeing that the two parties did not know each other, the elderly neighbor introduced them to each other as a favor. After all, neighbors would get to know each other sooner or later.
Only then did Zheng Mingxin get to know Li Muxu.
"It turns out to be Mr. Li, young and promising."
I heard that the new head of the Li family sent his own uncle to jail. He is a cruel and ruthless person.
Li Muxu replied politely: "I can't compare to you, you save the dying and the wounded, and bring people back to health with your miraculous hands."
Zheng Mingxin: "You're welcome, thank you."
After a warm exchange of pleasantries, Li Muxu took Pei Qing back.
When they got home, Li Muxu asked Pei Qing, "How do you feel?"
Pei Qing: "Ask me?"
We just met, what can we see?
Pei Qing: "It seems that he is very satisfied with his small vegetable garden and his new son-in-law."
After returning to the villa, Pei Qing went upstairs to take a shower. After the shower, she sat on the sofa, took out her tablet, and tried to get a feel for it to see if she could draw some clues.
Suddenly, the sofa shook.
Pei Qing looked down and saw that his phone was lighting up. It was the vibration sound from the VX message.
She pulled out her cell phone and took a look.
Han Xiao: [J]
What's the meaning?
Pei Qing asked: [What happened? ]
After waiting for a few seconds, there was no answer from the other side.
Pei Qing thought of the environment of Hongmen and made a video call directly.
The phone rang a few times and then was hung up, followed by a vx message.
[It’s okay, I typed it wrong]
Pei Qing stared at the message for a few seconds, quickly got up from the sofa, and ran to Li Muxu to borrow a car.
Li Muxu saw her running over in a hurry, frowned, and asked, "What happened?"
Pei Qing: "I'm going to go to Hongmen."
Li Muxu wanted to ask why he had to run so far at night, but Pei Qing wouldn't listen.
He took the car keys and walked out of the villa with Pei Qing.
On the way, Pei Qing and Li Muxu explained: "Han Xiao is very polite. When I chat with her, the first word she uses is to call me sister. And according to her typing habits, commas are commas, not spaces, and she will not forget the period. Most importantly, she didn't answer the video call. They are all women. She dialed the wrong number. I called back, and it was normal for her to answer the phone and explain. Why did she hang up?"
Something must have happened!
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