Chapter 60 Chapter 60 The Second Drawing
After coming out of the cake shop, the three of them sat in the car to review the situation.
Pei Qing first repeated what the manager said, and then said: "This manager seems to have some opinions about Yu Lu, but he didn't say it clearly. He brought up the topic of the child, trying to change the subject."
Xu An: "Some middle-aged men have this problem, they always dislike young people. Didn't he say he went home to help his children with their homework at night? That's easy. The noise of helping children can be heard upstairs and downstairs. We will know when the time comes. Did you get the Yulu clock-in data?"
Yang Xingping took over the conversation: "I just imported it into my computer. He clocked in and out on August 31st the day before and it was normal. There was no news after the next day."
Xu An: "It's a bit strange. What time did he get off work on the 31st?"
Yang Xingping: "8:30 in the evening."
Pei Qing glanced at the computer, pointed at the days when he didn't clock in in the afternoon, and asked, "Did you go out to deliver birthday cakes these days?"
Yang Xingping: "Their manager said so."
Pei Qing: "By the way, ask those male employees, what did they say? I asked a few female employees, they all had good opinions about Yu Lu, but they said that those male employees didn't like Yu Lu and even spread rumors that she had plastic surgery."
After hearing what she said, Yang Xingping took out his cell phone and showed the ID card photo on the phone to Pei Qing and Xu An.
"They just passed it to me."
Yang Xingping enlarged the ID card photo, with an expressionless face, and repeated what the male clerks had just said.
"They said that Yu Lu used to have a round face, but now his chin is pointed, so he must have had bone reduction surgery."
Pei Qing burst out laughing.
"Bone cutting? If this is true, it's too much."
She took Yang Xingping's cell phone and looked at Yu Lu's ID photo up close.
Xu An: "Let me see."
Pei Qing handed over the phone.
The ID card photo was taken several years ago. At that time, ID card photos were not as bright as they are now, and the tone was a bit dark.
Xu An took a few glances and felt that the male clerks were just looking for trouble.
"Who can tell that she had plastic surgery? Her facial features are still the same, except that her eyes are a little bigger, and her nose and mouth are almost the same."
Pei Qing also nodded: "I just lost weight in college, but you have to accuse me of bone reduction. You are such a scoundrel."
Yang Xingping was also unhappy: "I listened to a lot of their chatter, it was all nonsense."
Pei Qing took out his notebook and his own drawing to show Xu An and Yang Xingping.
"I think we can check the suitcase and the Persian carpet in this drawing. It seems that the murderer has good financial resources. Could it be related to these male shop assistants? By the way, to whom did Yu Lu send cakes?"
Yang Xingping just asked the manager for the meal delivery records.
"He delivered thirteen orders last month, three to male customers and ten to female customers."
Pei Qing: "It's not a small number. We still need to investigate these people."
Xu An suggested starting the investigation from the time when Yu and Lu lost contact.
"Yu Lu only lost contact with people after August 31st. Doesn't he have a neighbor? He seems to be quite concerned about him. Let's go ask him."
The three of them discussed and went to Yu Lu's residence.
The house that Yu Lu rented is more than ten kilometers away from the cake shop, which is neither far nor near.
According to the contact address that Yu Lu registered at the cake shop, Pei Qing and the other two quickly arrived at the residential building.
There are ten floors in the community, and Yu Lu’s family lives on the fifth floor.
The three of them got into the elevator directly. When they reached the fifth floor, Pei Qing walked out of the elevator first and knocked on the door.
No one answered the first knock, so Pei Qing quickly knocked a second time.
While waiting, Pei Qing glanced across.
It was indeed as Yu Lu’s neighbor said in the live broadcast room, the express deliveries were piled at the door in a messy and disorderly manner.
Xu An put on gloves and sorted out the express delivery.
Pei Qing turned around and was about to knock for the third time when a girl's voice came from the door. Her voice was a little soft through the door.
"Who is it?"
Pei Qing: "Police, someone reported that your neighbor is missing."
The person next door was very cautious: "Where's your ID?"
Xu An stuck the ID card on the peephole.
After a few seconds, the door opened.
Pei Qing looked at the woman in front of him, somewhat surprised.
She is in a wheelchair.
The woman's wheelchair moved back a few steps and motioned for them to come in.
"Come in."
Pei Qing politely didn't look at her wheelchair, and Xu An and Yang Xingping followed in.
The room was clean and a buzzing sound could be heard.
Pei Qing looked in the direction of the sound and found the sweeping robot coming out of the bedroom.
The woman held a cup and was about to pour them tea.
Pei Qing felt embarrassed, but the woman didn't care.
"I haven't had anyone here for a long time."
Xu An and Yang Xingping did not look around randomly, but Pei Qing looked at the layout of her house openly, paying special attention to the wall paintings.
"Did you ask someone to draw this? It's really beautiful."
The woman smiled faintly: "I drew it myself, doesn't it look good?"
This answer is surprising.
Pei Qing said without hesitation: "It's amazing, the design is very good, simple and clean."
The woman followed with a laugh: "I was able to stand up when I was doing this, but now I can't."
She said it openly without any self-pity.
Pei Qing dared to continue asking: "Then your leg was injured later in life?"
Woman: "Yes, it was a car accident. Actually, I feel much better after the rehabilitation training. The doctor said that if I keep persevering, I may be able to stand up again."
Yang Xingping looked at her and couldn't help asking, "Do you live alone?"
Woman: "Yes, I don't want my parents to have no life of their own because they have to take care of me. If I'm at home, my parents always want to check on me from time to time. In fact, I'm fine, but they always think I'm in trouble."
She didn't continue the topic, but asked, "Did the cake shop call the police?"
Pei Qing nodded.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief: "I went there several times and the store manager finally called the police."
She complained quietly: "If there weren't so many people asking, this manager would have pretended nothing had happened. He just wanted to make less trouble than more."
Since she brought it up, Pei Qing continued to ask for details.
"Have you been home all this time?"
Woman: "I occasionally go out to pick up a package, go downstairs to get some fresh air, and then come back up. I don't walk too far."
Pei Qing: "On the night of August 31st, did you hear Yu Lu from next door coming home?"
The woman nodded. "Around eleven o'clock, I heard the door close next door."
Pei Qing looked at her bedroom door, which was open.
She asked casually, "Don't you close the door here at night?"
Woman: "I usually don't turn it off. It's not very convenient."
Pei Qing nodded, and then asked, "Did Yu Lu go out the next morning?"
The woman said, "He went out very early in the morning, around five o'clock."
So early?
What is Yu Lu doing outside?
Pei Qing asked again: "He didn't reveal what he was going to do before."
The woman said embarrassedly: "Yu Lu and I are not very familiar with each other. He won't tell me these things. We are just friends when we meet."
She lowered her head: "But he is a very nice person. One time when I went to pick up a package, there were a lot of packages and a few of them fell on the way. He helped me pick them up and brought them all the way back."
The woman smiled. "With his speed, he should have been ahead of me a long time ago, but he was worried that it would be difficult for me to pick up the package in a wheelchair, so he helped me bring it back. I was worried about him. Is he okay?"
The woman looked at Pei Qing with hope.
Pei Qing said something conventional: "We are investigating."
The woman was a little disappointed.
Pei Qing continued to ask: "So after he left on the morning of the 1st, he didn't come back that day?"
The woman nodded.
She seemed very sure, and Yang Xingping couldn't help asking, "How can you be sure that he didn't come back?"
Woman: "His electric bike is not downstairs."
She explained: "Yu Lu always rides an electric bike to and from get off work. That morning, I stood by the window and saw him riding away on his electric bike. I walked around downstairs these past few days and never saw his electric bike."
She really cared about this neighbor.
Pei Qing asked curiously: "You woke up at five in the morning?"
The woman nodded: "It's not comfortable in bed. I woke up after sleeping for a short time."
Xu An began to ask Yu Lu about his life after get off work.
"I see he usually gets off work at 8:30, so what time does he usually get home?"
Woman: "Not necessarily. Sometimes I can come back around ten o'clock, and sometimes I get up in the early morning and occasionally I can hear the door opening across the street."
This means that Yu Lu must have gone somewhere else after get off work.
Bar, KTV, nightclub?
The three of them walked out of Yu Lu’s neighbor’s house, helped her close the door, and focused their attention on Yu Lu’s house.
Pei Qing: "Want to go in and take a look?"
It's been seven days.
Xu An: "Go in, go in."
He began to use his unique lock picking method to pry open Yu Lu's door.
Pei Qing praised him from behind: "Your skills are good. Can you teach me sometime?"
Xu An: "I'll teach you after I'm done with this. You didn't ask me when I had time a few days ago."
Pei Qing: "Didn't you remember it?"
Yang Xingping saw that after Xu An had picked the lock, the lock was intact and could be put back in again, so he said, "Take me with you too. If I pick the lock, it will be useless."
Xu An: "All is fine."
While picking the lock, he signaled the two men to stay put and put on their shoe covers.
When the door opened, the three saw Yu Lu's home.
Yu Lu's family is different from their neighbor across the street who is in a wheelchair.
The neighbor across the street has a sweeping robot, so the floor is very clean. Also, because she is in a wheelchair, the corridor and living room are free of clutter.
Yu Lu’s house is also very clean, but this cleanliness does not mean that the hygiene is good. Rather, the fact is that the house has no other furniture except for the basic bed and table, and the whole house is very empty.
Pei Qing walked around the house wearing shoe covers. The house had two bedrooms and a living room, but both bedrooms were locked.
There was a simple bed frame in the living room, with a table next to it.
Other than that, there were no sofas, no chairs.
There was a layer of dust on the ground, but no other garbage.
Pei Qing went to the bathroom, but there was no toothbrush or towel in the bathroom.
It’s so clean, even cleaner than the model room.
Pei Qing: "This doesn't look right. Is it like this in your home?"
She asked Yang Xingping.
Yang Xingping said decisively: "Of course not."
He also noticed something unusual in the house.
"I've lived here for a month and there's not even a blanket for my bed."
Xu An took a few photos of the house and said, "Looking at this, I doubt that even if someone from the trace detection department comes, they won't be able to find a sample to test DNA."
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