Chapter 30 Chapter 30 The Third Drawing
Under Xu An's coercion, the man with glasses drank three glasses of fruit wine and his face soon turned red.
Xu An then began to ask: "What's your name?"
The man with glasses glanced at him, his gaze fixed on Xu An's face, not knowing what he was thinking.
Xu An asked again, but the man with glasses didn't respond, so he grabbed the man with glasses by the collar.
"Yan Wenxing, my name is Yan Wenxing!"
Yan Wenxing saved his collar from Xu An's clutches.
He carefully pushed the wine glass away from him.
"I don't want to drink anymore."
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Xu An and Pei Qing failed to get Xu Qianyu's whereabouts from Yan Wenxing, so Pei Qing had to walk out of the box and look for the waiter.
Waiter: "Our activities are anonymous."
Therefore, they didn’t know whether Xu Qianyu was among those who came to attend the masquerade ball.
It was almost ten o'clock. Xu An found the bar manager, showed his ID, and proposed to look for a girl who had run away from home.
The bar manager feels a headache: "It is the guests' freedom to take off their masks or not."
Pei Qing suggested: "You can say that in order to commemorate the success of the first masked ball, we hope that the guests who come to participate can leave their masks, and the bar can give them a bottle of wine as a gift."
Many people would probably be willing to exchange a bottle of wine for a mask.
Bar manager: "Then this money..."
Pei Qing pointed at Xu An: "He goes out."
The bar manager immediately smiled and took the microphone to announce this last little event.
Xu An pulled Yan Wenxing to his side and wouldn't let him leave.
As time went by, pairs of men and women walked out of the bar. When there were only a few people left in the bar, Pei Qing was sure that Xu Qianyu was not there.
She asked the bar manager again: "Is there anyone else in the box?"
The bar manager took Pei Qing to have a look.
There were some drunk people in the box, but Xu Qianyu was not there.
Xu An and Pei Qing searched the entire bar, including where the wine was stored, but did not find Xu Qianyu.
Then there are only two possibilities.
1. Xu Qianyu didn’t show up here today at all.
2. Xu Qianyu left the bar before Xu An and Pei Qing arrived.
We came back empty handed today, but fortunately what was in the drawing did not happen.
At one o'clock in the morning, Pei Qing and Xu An took Yan Wenxing out of the bar.
Yan Wenxing was still pulling the suitcase.
He found that Xu An and Pei Qing were always looking at his suitcases.
He pursed his lips and asked, "Do you like my suitcase? I can give it to you."
Xu An pushed him into the car: "Sit tight, I'll take you home later."
Pei Qing was just about to get in the car when he suddenly saw a waiter from the bar coming out with a black raincoat in his hand. He shook the raincoat and put it on.
The raincoat was very large and covered him from head to toe.
For a moment, Pei Qing shuddered.
It was exactly like her drawing, except without the suitcase.
She quickly pulled Xu An and pointed it out to him.
Xu An locked Yan Wenxing in the car and walked towards the waiter with Pei Qing.
The waiter was stopped by someone. He pulled his raincoat down and recognized that it was a big customer who came to spend money tonight. He immediately smiled.
"Sir, what's up?"
Amid the sound of rain, Xu An asked, "Is this your raincoat?"
The waiter nodded, then shook his head.
"It's distributed by the bar. Every waiter has one. Do you want one?"
He looked at Xu An's car, and although he didn't quite understand, he still offered his suggestions.
"There are umbrellas in the bar. I'll get you one."
Xu An: "No, do you live near here?"
Waiter: "No, I live three blocks away from here. I have to ride my bike."
Xu An followed him a few steps and found that the waiter had found an electric bike filled with rainwater.
Pei Qing handed him the handkerchief in his pocket.
"Thank you very much."
Xu An watched the waiter wipe the bike seat, took the keys, and rode away on the electric bike.
Pei Qing: "So the raincoat is from the bar, but the suitcase belongs to Yan Wenxing."
Xu An: "There is nothing wrong with your drawing."
The two returned to the car. Yan Wenxing sat in the back, holding his cell phone in his hand and glancing outside from time to time.
Pei Qing sat next to him and scared him.
"What are you looking at?"
Yan Wenxing was startled: "I'm just taking a look."
Xu An asked him for his home address, and Yan Wenxing gave a place name.
"I can just get off the bus and walk back by myself."
Xu An: "How can that be? You drank a few glasses of wine from me, I have to send you home safely."
Yan Wenxing felt as if he had eaten bitter gourd, and huddled in the back seat feeling aggrieved.
Pei Qing observed him for a long time and found it strange, so he asked: "Why don't you ask us why we are following you?"
Yan Wenxing was startled and asked, "Why are you following me?"
OK, this guy is a bit stupid.
Pei Qing didn't answer, and Xu An drove Yan Wenxing home.
Yan Wenxing's home is in an upscale residential area, which is very private.
Xu An drove to the gate of the community, but the security guard did not let him in.
Yan Wenxing rolled down the car window and showed his face to the security guard.
The security guard lowered the pole at the door, and Xu An drove in.
Yan Wenxing's house was very clean, as if no one had ever lived there.
Xu An watched for a long time, and Yan Wenxing went to the kitchen to pour water for them.
Yan Wenxing rubbed his hands: "Want to take a look?"
Just look!
Xu An and Pei Qing followed him and looked around Yan Wenxing's house. It was very empty and there was no place where people could hide.
Before leaving, Xu An asked again.
"You don't know Xu Qianyu?"
Yan Wenxing shook his head.
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On the way home, Pei Qing stared at his drawing.
While Xu An was driving and waiting at the traffic light, he took the tablet from her hand.
"Don't look at it."
Xu An said: "We can't be trapped by this thing."
He thought about it again and again and decided to start with Xu Qianyu's parents.
"I'll go find Jia Yang during the day, and then talk to Xu Qianyu's parents separately. You go find Zhuo Pancai. Her grandmother is very easy to talk to. Go to her computer and see who she is chatting with in the game."
Pei Qing agreed.
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At five o'clock in the morning, the garbage truck drove to Longxiang Road and collected garbage from several garbage cans on the road.
The garbage in one of the trash cans was not bagged, so when the garbage truck lifted the trash can up, the person standing nearby directing the work got some slop on himself.
He dodged to the side repeatedly, cursing several times.
The driver of the garbage truck asked him to check if there was any untied garbage in the nearby trash can and asked him to tie it up.
"Am I sick? I'll just stay away."
The driver looked at him and said, "If you don't want to do it..."
"Okay, just watch it!"
He craned his neck to look into the trash can and noticed something moved inside.
Just as he was about to take a closer look, a rat jumped out of the trash can.
"Oh my god!"
He felt sick, and suddenly saw the rat tripping out of a bag.
The bag was black and half hung over the edge of the trash can before falling to the ground.
The driver on the garbage truck urged him: "Are you sure?"
Man: "Why are you rushing me? You're rushing me to death!"
He picked up the bag with one hand, but found that the bag was tied very loosely. A skirt fell off. The skirt was gray and white, and it was still dripping. No, that was not water, it seemed to be red...
There was another "clang" sound, and a fruit knife stained with red blood fell down.
The man took a step back: "Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!"
Ten minutes later, a police car arrived.
Ji Wu got out of the police car, but the garbage truck hadn't left yet.
A yellow-haired man was standing on the side of the road, gesturing at his discovery to passers-by, spitting heavily.
In less than one morning, the news of the discovery of the murder weapon spread throughout the streets.
Ji Wu was very impatient and asked the police to pull Huangmao over.
When Huangmao arrived in front of the police, he immediately behaved himself.
"Officer, that's all we found. Hey, I just checked the sewer, and there was nothing."
Ji Wu: "Come back to the police station with us later, be quiet."
After forensic identification, DNA was detected in the bloodstains on the clothes and fingerprints of the two people were detected on the fruit knife.
After database comparison, the fingerprints on the fruit knife matched those of an underage female in the missing persons database.
Ji Wu looked at the files uploaded from the computer.
"Xu Qianyu, this child has run away from home three times?"
Fang Jie: "Poor thing, should we inform her parents?"
Ji Wu: "Notify someone to do a DNA comparison."
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Someone died on Longxiang Road.
The news spread quickly throughout the streets.
Several young and beautiful women gathered together to talk about this matter and told each other to be careful.
One of them asked, "Where's Xiao Qiu? Why haven't we seen her recently? What is she busy with?"
Another person said, "What else can she be busy with? She must be busy trying to find a rich man. She's been having a hot relationship with a man lately. I heard that man is very rich and he's not stingy when it comes to buying gold for her. Tsk!"
As they were talking, a slim young girl walked in.
"What did you say about me again?"
She sat at the bar and asked the bartender for a drink.
"Hey, isn't this about where you made your fortune?"
"Why, you're not accompanying a man today?"
Xiao Qiu tucked her drooping hair behind her ears and said, "Why should I accompany you? It's really unlucky."
"What's going on?"
"Could it be that he is another rich man?"
"Oh, poor Qiu."
Xiao Qiu sighed, "Hey, I went to Longxiang Road to look for him today. When I saw him, I was about to say hello, but he got into the car in a panic and ran away."
There was a particularly sad look on her pretty face, and even the bartender couldn't help but look at her.
"Hey, our Xiao Qiu is no longer charming? She actually ignored you?"
Xiao Qiu sighed sadly again and asked her sisters to move forward.
"I saw blood dripping from the back seat of his car."
“Wow!”
"What what what? Are you sure it's Longxiang Road? Didn't someone just die in Longxiang Road?"
Xiao Qiu pulled at the end of his hair, rolled his eyes, and said, "I thought he was a rich man, but he turned out to be a murderer. Ugh, how disgusting!"
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Xu Qianyu's mother Zhi Hongmei quickly rushed to the police station. She cried and wailed, and several policemen couldn't persuade her to stop.
Pei Qing and Xu An were there too. When they saw Zhi Hongmei crying, their hearts trembled.
Ji Wu saw Xu An and asked, "Are you back to work?"
He was about to hand the document in his hand to Xu An, but Xu An refused.
"No, I came here with Xu Qianyu's mother."
He asked again: "Have you found Xu Qianyu's body?"
Ji Wu: "No, but the two fingerprints on the fruit knife matched, and we were about to arrest him."
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On the afternoon of August 9, the Serious Crime Squad caught Duan Jin who had fled by car.
Duan Jin is not from City A, but he had been in jail for a period of time for fighting with weapons, so his fingerprints are in the database.
Duan Jin was taken back to the police station on the day he was arrested.
Zhi Hongmei did not leave. She was waiting for the DNA matching results. The moment she saw Duan Jin, her eyes froze and she pounced on him instantly.
"It's you, you killed my daughter!"
Pei Qing stood aside and saw the look in Zhi Hongmei's eyes when she looked at Duan Jin.
Pei Qing: "Do they know each other?"
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