Chapter 90 Chapter 90 The Second Drawing
When they arrived at the hospital, Pei Qing first sent Chu Shuang to the orthopedic clinic and made an appointment with a specialist.
The expert looked at the film Chu Shuang had taken and said directly: "Distal radius fracture. There is a crack here. Surgery is required."
Pei Qing felt even more guilty.
She looked at Chu Shuang. When Chu Shuang heard that he was going to have surgery, he did not panic, but asked, "Is it necessary to have surgery?"
Doctor: "If you don't have surgery, you will have problems with the rotation of this joint in the future."
Since the doctor said so, then surgery must be done. Pei Qing advised: "Go ahead, do it. I'll pay for it. Don't worry. Are you going to work? I'll pay for the lost wages, too."
Chu Shuang took back the film she had taken. She looked calm and said to Pei Qing, "It's okay. I'm not busy at work, so I don't have to go."
Pei Qing's forehead was full of question marks. How could he not go?
She was a little embarrassed and asked, "What do you do for a living? Is it okay if you don't go?"
Just now, Xu An and Yang Xingping did not mention Chu Shuang's work.
Chu Shuang said: "It's not a formal job. I have a friend who runs a flower shop, and I will go and help her arrange the flowers in the flower shop when I have time."
Pei Qing: "Oh oh."
Pei Qing felt relieved that there was no need to punch in for this job.
She didn't ask any questions, but Chu Shuang had other ideas. She asked Pei Qing, "Are you police officers looking for Cao Tian because of Qin Man?"
"Qin Man?"
Pei Qing raised his head and saw that Chu Shuang had actually mentioned Qin Man on his own initiative.
Pei Qing then asked: "Do you know Qin Man?"
Chu Shuang nodded.
She was waiting in line for surgery and started chatting with Pei Qing while waiting.
"When we were playing mahjong before, I heard Zhang Wenli talk about Qin Man."
Why?
Pei Qing became interested and continued to ask, "What did Zhang Wenli say?"
Chu Shuang: "She said that Qin Man was about to divorce his wife, and he would be able to move out of the mansion and live with Qin Man soon."
Pei Qing added naturally: "Live a life with an annual salary of one million?"
Chu Shuang glanced at Pei Qing and said in surprise: "You know."
Pei Qing: “I’ve heard a few sentences.”
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Pei Qing took Chu Shuang into the hospital, and soon Xu An received the message sent back by Pei Qing.
Pei Qing said Chu Shuang was going to have surgery in the hospital today.
Xu An ignored Chu Shuang for the time being and turned to look at Cao Tian beside him.
Cao Tian was very unhappy that the police had trapped him in the car.
"I'm going to file a complaint against you. This is how you police officers handle cases. You just randomly trap people in their cars."
Xu An didn't take what he said seriously. He straightened Cao Tian's collar. Cao Tian looked fearful and dodged back.
Xu Anle was happy: "Why are you hiding? If you have done nothing wrong, you would be afraid of us police officers looking for you!"
Cao Tian said, "I'm telling you, don't try to put the blame on me. Qin Man is missing, what does it have to do with me?"
Yang Xingping glanced at the noisy Cao Tian and started watching the surveillance video on the computer again.
The video was taken at night, and not all road surveillance cameras are intact, with some cameras broken.
It was very difficult for Yang Xingping to accurately find Cao An's car among these road surveillance videos.
Fortunately, Xu An had worked in criminal investigation for several years and was familiar with his colleagues in the bureau. He helped Yang Xingping find two policemen to help look at the case.
When three people watch it together, it goes a lot faster.
When Xu An and Cao Tian were arguing, Yang Xingping received a call from the police who was watching the surveillance video. The police on the other end of the phone was very excited.
"Brother Yang, we found it! The car drove into Maoshan!"
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Maoshan was originally a county-level city near City A. In recent years, its population has gradually declined, and the number of people left in Maoshan is far less than before.
However, due to its location on the edge of City A and the subsequent opening of a subway, it has become a compromise rental address for outsiders in City A.
Yang Xingping brought the police who helped watch the surveillance to Maoshan.
The road surveillance in Maoshan is not complete, so the three policemen had to follow Cao Tian’s car back to Maoshan and question the residents of Maoshan while holding Cao Tian’s car.
The residents who stay in Maoshan are either elderly people who don’t want to move anymore, or young people who come to rent houses.
The young people who choose to live in Maoshan have relatively average economic capabilities, so it is rare to see a car like Cao Tiankai's in Maoshan. Yang Xingping took his men to ask around.
Finally, a young man chewing gum recognized the car.
“I’ve seen this car.”
The policeman next to Yang Xingping was impatient and asked, "Where have you seen him?"
The young man, chewing gum, spoke slowly.
"It was a few days ago, I forgot the exact date. Anyway, my friend and I were riding our electric bikes outside in the middle of the night, and a car drove towards us. It was this car, with its headlights on. It blinded me. I thought it was some nouveau riche who bought a new car!"
Speaking of this, the man chewing gum was also dissatisfied.
"It's just a tiny place, and you think it's worth showing off your car? Who are you showing off to?"
Yang Xingping grabbed him and asked, "Where did the car go?"
The man chewing gum turned around, pointed at the yellow wall in the distance, and said to Yang Xingping, "That piece of land over there. The car drove towards the land. It's strange that rich people still live there. Shouldn't they go to the city center?"
Yang Xingping led his men to the requisitioned land, and wrote the word "征" in red paint on the yellow wall.
The further you go in, the more desolate the land seems, with only rows of old bungalows standing on the ground.
The windows of several bungalows were cracked, but since no one lived in the houses, no one took care of the windows. Spiders could be seen weaving webs in the corners of the windows.
Yang Xingping walked into the requisitioned land.
He repeatedly recalled the woman smearing cement in Pei Qing's drawing.
Yang Xingping suspected that the woman was Chu Shuang's mother, but would a rational mother help deal with the body?
He asked the two policemen beside him to be on guard and concentrate on looking for Cao Tian's car and the cement marks on the ground.
It's actually very obvious.
It hasn't rained recently in Maoshan, so there are many weeds on the ground, and some of the foxtail grasses have black mud marks on them.
Yang Xingping followed the traces and saw a yard with several barrels pressed in front of it.
Unlike other things in the yard that were covered with dust, these buckets were washed very clean.
Yang Xingping stretched out his hand and signaled his two colleagues beside him to be on guard.
The two young policemen became nervous. Didn’t they find Cao Tian’s car?
Yang Xingping and his men surrounded the yard, and he threw a brick into the yard.
"Bang--"
Bricks hit the windows.
Yang Xingping listened carefully and heard only the sound of the wind, and no other sound in the yard.
Is there no one there, or are the people inside hiding?
Yang Xingping approached the window carefully. The window was old and had a hole in it.
He looked inside, and as far as he could see there was no one in the house.
Yang Xingping cautiously walked around the door and kicked it open.
There was no one inside the door.
Yang Xingping carefully checked the room, especially the wardrobe that had not been moved out.
Finally, he stood by the wall, wearing gloves and moving close to it.
The two policemen behind him covered their mouths and noses and looked at each other.
Why is there such a bad smell?
What is Brother Yang doing sticking to the wall?
Yang Xingping observed for a while and found that the stench in the air did not disappear for a long time.
He called Xu An without changing his expression and said, "We found the place. Ask the forensic doctor to come. It's in an abandoned house where the land was requisitioned."
Xu An: "Have you found the person?"
Yang Xingping: "It's not in the house, and the car is not there either."
Xu An: "Then don't leave yet, wait for me to call someone over."
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The orthopedic doctor Chu Shuangdeng is fully booked for surgery, and her surgery is scheduled for tomorrow.
Pei Qing received a call from Xu An.
Xu An wanted to bring Cao Tian back to the bureau and have a detailed talk with him about the whereabouts of his car.
Pei Qing: "Then I'll stay here with Chu Shuang and ask where her mother is now."
Xu An: "Okay, be careful and find a nurse who is stronger."
Pei Qing: "I know, don't worry!"
After she finished the call, she chatted with the nurse at the hospital and found a female caregiver in her forties.
After finding a caregiver, Pei Qing went back to find Chu Shuang.
Chu Shuang sat quietly on a chair in the hospital. The chair was cold. She sat upright without leaning on the back of the chair. It didn't look like she was in a hospital.
Pei Qing couldn't help but wonder how Chu Shuang knew Cao Tian.
She walked over and introduced the nurse to Chu Shuang, and then said, "Your boyfriend has something to do and needs to go with us. I found a nurse for you. This is Aunt Zhang. You have to get up at five o'clock tomorrow morning to prepare for the blood draw, so it would be convenient to have a nurse."
Chu Shuang raised his eyelids and looked at Pei Qing.
"You won't accompany me?"
Pei Qing: "Yes, of course!"
Her tone was decisive, and Chu Shuang was stunned.
Pei Qing took the opportunity to ask, "Do you want to tell your family about your injury?"
Chu Shuang shook his head: "My mother used to be a nurse. She has been in the hospital long enough. There is no need to tell her."
Pei Qing: "Really? So she is retired now? Retirement is good. She has worked hard all her life. It's time to enjoy life."
Chu Shuang did not answer, but looked into the distance at the scenery outside the hospital window.
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Xu An and Cao Tian are having a friendly exchange.
Although Cao Tian doesn't think so.
Xu An asked several questions about his car in a row, and Cao Tian became impatient to answer.
"What's wrong with me having a few luxury cars? Is this illegal?"
Xu An sneered: "Your car worth hundreds of thousands is also called a luxury car!"
When someone commented on his car, Cao Tian became furious.
Xu An forced him to sit down.
“Look at this picture.”
That's a surveillance screenshot.
The person driving the car was wearing a hat, and it could be vaguely seen that she was a woman.
Xu An: "Is this your car?"
Cao Tian took a look and didn't pay much attention.
"It's my car. I'm lending it to my mother-in-law to drive."
Xu An: "Your mother-in-law?"
Cao Tian: "Yes, it was Shuangshuang's mother. Her mother had to go back to her hometown and didn't have a car, so I lent her my car. What's wrong? Is it illegal to borrow a car?"
Xu An: "You lend out the car so easily?"
Cao Tian: "That's my mother-in-law. Shuangshuang and I are getting married. What's wrong with borrowing a car? Everything I own will be hers from now on!"
Xu An smiled.
"Do you usually coax Chu Shuang like this? Does she listen to you?"
Cao Tian: "How can this be called coaxing? Can you please stop staring at me like a thief? Yes, I admit that Qin Man and I had some quarrels before, but I really didn't want to kill him."
Cao Tian spread his hands and said to Xu An in the most peaceful manner in his life: "With my current annual salary, if I kill someone, I will lose everything. I won't commit such a serious crime as murder just for a little trouble."
Xu An: "Really? Then we can wait."
Cao Tian was puzzled: "What are you waiting for?"
Xu An: "Wait for the autopsy results from the medical examiner."
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