Chapter 27 Chapter 27 The Second Drawing
The girl who lives downstairs from Xu Qianyu's house is called Zhuo Pancai. She is 16 years old and goes to the same school as Xu Qianyu, a freshman at Anqing No. 1 Middle School.
Her parents work abroad and her grandmother is the only one at home.
After feeding the stray cats, Zhuo Pancai went to a mobile phone store and bought a pair of wired headphones. After buying the headphones, she didn’t go anywhere else and went straight home.
Xu An asked Jia Yang whether Zhuo Pancai was at home when he came to visit before.
Jia Yang recalled: "I saw her twice. The child didn't like us. Her grandmother spoiled her a little. Her parents worked outside, so she lived with her grandmother at home."
Xu An asked again: "How is the relationship between Zhuo Pancai and Xu Qianyu? You should have asked Zhuo Pancai."
Jia Yang: "Of course I did. Who did I look down on? We asked her if she knew where Xu Qianyu would go. She just said, 'It's none of my business.' I was really upset. The rebellious period of children nowadays is really scary."
He was surprised again: "Why are you asking this? Did you really go to Xu Qianyu's house? You are so idle. You finally get a chance to rest, but you still have to find something to do for yourself. No wonder you are in the Serious Crime Squad. You are born to be a hard worker!"
Xu An: "Find it as soon as possible. You have to explain it to the school and the parents. Okay, go to work."
He hung up the phone and found Pei Qing standing downstairs in the community, looking up.
It was already past seven o'clock and the sky was gradually getting dark.
Xu An approached and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Pei Qing turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone and pointed at the footprints on the water pipe for Xu An to see.
"Someone's climbing down from above."
She followed the footprints and looked up, and found that the footprints on the water pipe extended all the way to the third floor.
The third floor is Xu Qianyu's home, and the second floor is Zhuo Pancai's home.
Pei Qing: "Ask your old classmate, are Zhuo Pancai's bedroom and Xu Qianyu's bedroom in the same direction?"
Xu An stared at the footprints and found that the footprints on the water pipe on the first floor had the toes pointing downwards, but the footprints between the second and third floors were mixed, some with the toes pointing upwards and some with the toes pointing downwards.
He called Jia Yang again, who scolded him and told him that Xu Qianyu's bedroom was just upstairs from Zhuo Pancai's bedroom.
Pei Qing looked at Zhuo Pancai's bedroom on the second floor. There was an extra windowsill outside the bedroom window with a pot of green plants on it.
The window is a sliding type. If Xu Qianyu climbs down from the third floor and is careful, she can use the gap between the water pipe and the wall to get to Zhuo Pancai's windowsill and then get into Zhuo Pancai's bedroom through the window.
Of course, she could also slide down the water pipe to the first floor directly outside her bedroom window.
Xu An didn't know what to say: "This girl is quite skillful."
Pei Qing: "Why go through the water pipes when you don't go through the front door of your own house?"
Xu An touched it, then looked up at the footprints on the water pipe between the second and third floors.
"Zhuo Pancai and Xu Qianyu are not that close. With the density of the footprints, Xu Qianyu wouldn't climb the water pipe to Zhuo Pancai's house every night, right? If they were a man and a woman, it would be like Romeo and Juliet. Why would these two girls climb through the window?"
He didn't understand, and Pei Qing didn't understand either.
She thought for a moment and said, "Grandma Zhuo Pancai likes Xu Qianyu very much. She wouldn't stop Xu Qianyu from playing with Zhuo Pancai. The problem should be with Xu Qianyu's mother."
Among the two families, the only adult except Zhuo Pancai's grandmother is Xu Qianyu's mother. What did she do to prevent Xu Qianyu from walking through the front door to play with Zhuo Pancai openly?
Even if Pei Qing didn't want to meet Xu Qianyu's mother, it seemed that he couldn't skip this trip and had to meet and talk with Xu Qianyu's mother.
Xu An: "I'll go, you stay in the car."
Pei Qing and Xu Qianyu's mother Zhi Hongmei had had indirect contact online. If it was not necessary, Xu An did not want Pei Qing to have direct contact with the customers who commissioned works online.
Pei Qing got in the car, Xu An and others were waiting downstairs of the apartment building. Zhi Hongmei usually got off work at around eight or nine o'clock.
It was almost nine o'clock before Xu An saw Zhi Hongmei.
Zhi Hongmei was in her forties. She walked over under the street light, the light shining on her face, and Xu An saw her red eyes.
Grandma Zhuo Pancai was right, Zhi Hongmei did cry.
Xu An waited for a while and stopped Zhi Hongmei under a broken street lamp.
The two exchanged a few words quickly. Zhi Hongmei looked at his police ID and immediately frowned: "What do you policemen do? My daughter has been missing for four days! Four days, and you still haven't found her! You are useless. I don't know what you can do..."
This was not the first time Xu An was scolded. After this scolding, the slight sympathy he had for Zhi Hongmei quickly disappeared.
"Your daughter won't show up no matter how much you yell. So calm down and let's talk."
Zhi Hongmei stopped where she was and Xu An looked at her quietly.
Zhi Hongmei choked up, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "Last time, the guy surnamed Jia asked all the questions he should ask. What else do you want to ask?"
Xu An: "Does your daughter usually go out?"
Zhi Hongmei: "She doesn't go out."
Xu An: "There are many people of the same age in the old neighborhood, upstairs and downstairs. Why doesn't she play with them?"
Zhi Hongmei: "What's so fun about it? She's already a senior in high school! She doesn't think about studying every day, but about playing."
She glanced at Xu An, who felt her contempt.
He suppressed his temper and asked, "So if you don't play, you will study every day?"
Zhi Hongmei: "Of course, studying is the most important thing now. Qianyu's grades are good. Although she did not fare well in the last exam, she still ranked ninth in the grade. If she works harder, it won't be a problem for her to be first in the grade!"
Xu An chuckled twice.
He could already imagine what kind of life Xu Qianyu was living at home.
Xu An simply asked directly: "How do you guarantee that Xu Qianyu didn't go out to play? Lock the door at home?"
Zhi Hongmei: "Yes." She looked a little cold, as if she could see that Xu An didn't like her behavior. Zhi Hongmei said: "What do you know? There are too many temptations around children nowadays. Mobile phones, computers, tablets and game consoles are everywhere. If you don't pay enough attention to them, the children will be ruined. How can they have a future... Our Qianyu usually has her own schedule. I have arranged it for her. She gets up early in the morning, does a set of listening tests, and can go home after school to do a few more tests. She can also do some intensive training on weekends... There is not much time left before the college entrance examination. All the time must be fully utilized. Now it is most important to get into a good university. Don't worry about anything else..."
She spoke righteously and clearly about her plans for her daughter, and seemed to be very convinced by this teaching plan.
Xu An thought, no wonder Xu Qianyu wanted to climb the water pipe.
People always need to take a breath.
Zhi Hongmei continued to talk: "This is the last year, Qianyu must hurry up, you must find her quickly, otherwise you will miss many papers in school and you will have to make up for it!"
As she spoke, she became anxious.
Listening to what she said and looking at her expression and movements, Xu An felt uncomfortable.
The feeling is very subtle.
Xu An asked, "Is it your daughter who is studying or you? Your daughter is missing, and you are thinking about her grades? Aren't you worried that something might happen to your daughter outside?"
Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and said directly to Zhi Hongmei: "If you want, you can apply for the adult college entrance examination by yourself and do it yourself. Don't put pressure on your daughter every day."
After saying that, he turned and left, with Zhi Hongmei cursing at him behind him.
Back in the car, Xu An was away from Zhi Hongmei and breathed a sigh of relief.
Pei Qing was getting ready to drive. Xu An had just made a voice call, and she listened to every word Zhi Hongmei said without missing a single word.
She couldn't help but ask, "Does Xu Qianyu's mother have a mental illness? How come she says that if her daughter relaxes a little, she'll be doomed? With Xu Qianyu's grades, if she doesn't do well in the college entrance exam, she can basically choose any university she wants."
Xu An: "I think she is really sick. After the divorce, she put all her attention on her daughter. Now, her daughter can't stand her and runs away from home. I heard her plan, even her sleeping time is compressed. What kind of life is this? No wonder Xu Qianyu ran away from home."
I understand, but I still have to find Xu Qianyu and not let anything happen to her outside.
Pei Qing was confused again: "Logically speaking, given Xu Qianyu's mother's condition, why doesn't she live on campus? Does her mother disagree? But the reason given by her head teacher was that Xu Qianyu didn't like group life, and she didn't say it was because of her mother. This is strange."
It was normal for Zhi Hongmei to disagree with her daughter living in the school dormitory, but the reason given by the head teacher was a bit strange. It seemed like the reason was given by Xu Qianyu, not Zhi Hongmei.
There is another question.
Pei Qing continued, "Didn't they say Xu Qianyu had dropped out of school before? Given her mother's attitude that grades are more important than anything else, would she agree to her dropping out?"
Xu An: "When did she drop out of school? Was it the year her parents didn't divorce, and Zhi Hongmei wasn't as sick as she is now?"
Pei Qing: "Ask her class teacher. She should pass by Anqing No. 1 Middle School on her way back."
She drove to Anqing No. 1 Middle School. When she arrived in Anqing, there were only a few people left on the road in front of the school gate.
Xu An was disappointed: "School is over. Don't senior high school students have evening self-study until 9:30?"
Pei Qing drove home and said to Xu An, "If those senior high school students heard you say this, they would definitely tear you apart. Now is a make-up class, and the school hasn't officially started yet."
Xu An leaned back in the passenger seat, feeling sorry.
"Come back tomorrow. I'll send a message to Jia Yang and ask him to find a female police officer to follow Zhuo Pancai. Zhuo Pancai and Xu Qianyu should have some connection. I hope I can convince Zhuo Pancai."
Pei Qing: "Don't hold your hopes too high. Look at the way Zhuo Pancai slammed the door. These two girls are both very individual. You might as well find a thief to steal her phone."
Xu An: "Looking for a pickpocket?"
He patted Pei Qing on the shoulder and said, "Fortunately you are not a policeman. If you were a policeman, you would definitely be criticized every day!"
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At ten o'clock in the morning on August 8, next to a self-built building on Hedun Road.
A young man wearing glasses came in carrying several plastic bags.
The street lights here are dim, and sometimes the man with glasses can't see the uneven road surface clearly, and needs to use his mobile phone to light it.
He opened the door with his key, walked in, and quickly locked the door.
The house was very quiet. The man with glasses walked into the bedroom and saw the woman lying on the bed, still unconscious.
He touched her forehead with a deft movement, and finding it wasn't hot, he took her temperature with the thermometer.
37 degrees, not a fever.
He shook the girl in the bed.
"Qianyu, Qianyu, get up and take your medicine."
Xu Qianyu didn't move, so the man with glasses had to continue shaking.
"Qianyu, you took some medicine this morning. Don't sleep. You must take this medicine in the evening."
After being shaken by him for several minutes, Xu Qianyu felt like vomiting.
"Stop shaking!"
The man with glasses said stiffly: "Oh, get up and take your medicine."
He thought for a moment, then said cautiously, "Qianyu, keep your voice down."
Xu Qianyu couldn't stand it: "Didn't you say there was no one around? I can't even say a word."
The man with glasses said cowardly, "I saw my neighbor come back this morning. You'd better keep your voice down so that no one can find you. The police have posted your photo on the bulletin board over there. If you are discovered..."
Xu Qianyu sat up and the man with glasses handed her the medicine and water.
She drank it in one gulp and lay back down.
The man with glasses continued, "I just went to the park and saw Da Zhuang with a red bell tied around his neck..."
Xu Qianyu immediately sat up again and glared at the man with glasses: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
The man with glasses said aggrievedly: "Didn't I tell you that? I just called you and you didn't even get up."
Xu Qianyu breathed rapidly at his cowardly look.
"Forget it, I won't talk to you. Where's your computer?"
The man with glasses took out his computer and handed it to Xu Qianyu.
He then asked, "The police are still looking for you, what should I do?"
Xu Qianyu: "Looking for it is fine. It won't affect us. We will follow our original plan. Don't bother me."
Man with glasses: “Oh.”
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