Chapter 73 Chapter 73 The First Drawing
Xu An was called up by Pei Qing.
He went upstairs to rest after dinner, and Pei Qing called him after he went off the air.
It was exactly eleven o'clock in the evening, and Xu An felt refreshed after a good night's sleep.
He was used to this kind of intermittent sleeping style. After being woken up by Pei Qing, he drank a glass of cold water and began to feel energetic again.
Xu An: "What's wrong?"
Pei Qing showed him the draft drawing.
"The missing person is a six-year-old girl named Zhao Cen'an. Her mother said she disappeared on Friday morning and has not been found yet."
Xu An looked at the drawing and it was a carriage.
He asked, “How is this different from the human trafficking I’ve dealt with before?”
Pei Qing pointed at the drawing and said, "Look, the carriage is relatively clean. There are luggage and a computer desk. Moreover, the computer desk is not wrapped up and is placed directly on the luggage bag. It is very casual, as if the owner's things were just randomly placed in the carriage. There are no large items in the luggage, and there is only Zhao Cen'an, a child. It does not look like human trafficking, but more like a private act. The driver is highly suspected."
Xu An looked at the pitiful girl in the drawing, rubbed his forehead, and asked, "How is this girl's family relationship? Do her parents get along well?"
Pei Qing opened the notebook: "Her mother said that her relationship with her husband was average. After the child got into trouble, her husband was also looking for the child, but she and her husband had no plans to divorce. If her husband wanted to steal the child, she couldn't think of a reason."
Xu An: "Maybe her husband has someone else outside. Didn't they call the police? I'll check the police system for the alarm records."
Soon, an alarm record popped up.
At 10 a.m. on September 13, the Huaihua Road Police Station received a call from a caller named Cheng Bailan, who said her daughter was missing.
To this day, the police station has not found Cheng Bailan’s daughter Zhao Cen’an.
Since Cheng Bailan really called the police and this case is not ordinary human trafficking, this case should be assigned to Pei Qing's team and fall within their scope of handling.
Pei Qing first contacted the courier company and found the recipient on the delivery note of the drawing.
The recipient's name is Ren Shihua, he is 40 years old, a native of City A, and lives on Chang'an Road, about 30 to 40 kilometers away from Huaihua Road.
Seeing this, Pei Qing became uncertain again.
"Maybe someone took his delivery box to pack something, and he may not even know the driver."
Xu An: "Whether you know him or not, just go and ask him. Find out if he has a car and what he was doing on the morning of the 13th."
Pei Qing checked Ren Shihua's personal assets and found that he only had a motorcycle and no truck.
His suspicion has been reduced a little, but we still have to meet him to eliminate his suspicion.
As soon as the sky was getting light, Pei Qing and Xu An set out to look for Ren Shihua.
Ren Shihua was a factory welder who worked in two shifts. When Pei Qing and Xu An found him, he was pushing his motorcycle out of the house, preparing to go to work.
Xu An showed him his ID and Ren Shihua was stunned.
Xu An called Ren Shihua to a corner and asked, "Where were you on the morning of September 13th?"
Ren Shihua was puzzled: "I'm at work. I've been working the day shift for the past few days. Everyone in the workshop knows about it."
Pei Qing glanced at his motorcycle, which still had some water on its tires. He then looked at the door of his house, where dirty water was flowing out from under the door.
He seems to love this motorcycle very much. He even washed it before leaving in the morning, but wouldn’t it be dirty again when he gets home?
Pei Qing: "Don't worry, have you given your courier box to anyone else?"
Ren Shihua: "Express box? What express box?"
Pei Qing gestured: "About 60 centimeters long."
Ren Shihua recalled for a moment before saying, "Yes, my son wanted to have a cat, and he kept pestering me to buy him a cat cage. He didn't want a small one, but a big one. I bought him a spliced one online, and it took me a lot of effort to install it."
Pei Qing: "How old is your son?"
Ren Shihua said impatiently, "You are sixteen years old, but you don't study every day. Just wait until you can join me in the factory in the future. You idiot, you won't study no matter what I say."
"Dad, what did you say to me again!"
A head popped out of the door, it was a tall boy.
He looked at Ren Shihua with a bad look, and Ren Shihua cursed him.
"What time is it? Why aren't you going to school yet?"
Ren Shihua's son: "I haven't eaten yet, why rush? My head teacher doesn't want me to go to class, it's okay to go later."
He put the toothbrush in his mouth, brushed it a few times, and then spit the foam in his mouth onto the ground at the door.
Pei Qing saw Ren Shihua's face turn black, so she hurried out to smooth things over. She casually turned to a blank page in her notebook, drew a large courier box, and asked Ren Shihua's son: "Is the courier box your father bought recently still at home?"
Ren Shihua's son took a look and recognized the thick yellow tape on the side of the express box.
“This one is gone.”
As he was talking, he got angry and said, "I originally wanted to put the cat outside the door to bask in the sun. I was afraid that the cat would run away, so I specially found a large delivery box. As a result, my little cat was basking in the sun outside the door, and someone came to steal its nest! It was fine when I left, but when I came back, my little cat was pitifully staying at the door, and its nest was gone."
He muttered, "It must be some old man or old woman trying to take advantage of me. Ugh!"
Ren Shihua kicked him and said, "Stop talking dirty and go to school!"
Ren Shihua's son jumped up and dodged the kick.
"That's right. The old men and women in this area like to take advantage of others. Who asked them to rob my little cat's nest? They are so shameless that they even robbed the cat's nest. Their grandchildren will have no sex in the future!"
Pei Qing and Xu An stood together and saw the tall boy yelling at Ren Shihua.
This kid deserves a beating.
Pei Qing took a step back and decided to take the beating.
Xu An contacted the factory and confirmed Ren Shihua's working hours. He worked in the factory during the day and did not have the conditions to commit the crime.
So who took the express box?
Ren Shihua was in a hurry to go to work. Every day he took off meant he would lose a day's pay. Xu An and Pei Qing did not stop him and let him go to work first.
Ren Shihua's son saw Pei Qing and Xu An standing by the wall and not leaving. He peeled eggs and asked them, "Are you really police officers? Why don't you look like one?"
Pei Qing: "Why not?"
Ren Shihua's son: "Last time a census policeman came to our house, he was already 40 years old, with less hair and dark circles under his eyes. You are different."
Pei Qing said casually: "You are still young, it is not the time for your hair to fall out."
She spoke to him intermittently.
Ren Shihua's son ate a bite of the egg and asked again, "What case are you investigating? Someone died nearby?"
Xu An dragged him home and said, "You don't go to school, how can you care about this?"
Ren Shihua's son: "Hey, don't push me. Aren't you looking for a courier box? I'll help you find it! I've already locked on three stores!"
He hugged the door and shouted to Xu An, "Really! I'm not lying to you!"
He had been thinking about it for several days!
Xu An let him go, hooked his hand around his neck, and asked, "Okay, tell me, which ones?"
Ren Shihua's son: "The one with the ginkgo tree, the one under the electric pole over there, and the one with a dog. There are only these three!"
Pei Qing looked in the direction he pointed and asked him, "Is there anyone who has a truck at home?"
Ren Shihua's son: "Truck."
His eyes moved rapidly, and one could tell at a glance that he was up to no good.
Xu An grabbed his ear.
Ren Shihua's son shouted, "What are you doing?"
Xu An: "Don't have any bad thoughts, otherwise your dad won't be able to beat you up, and the detention center will definitely make you behave yourself."
Ren Shihua's son: "Why did you end up in the detention center? I didn't think much of it."
Under Xu An's gaze, he pointed to the family under the electric pole and said, "Brother Chen has a middle card."
Pei Qing opened his notebook and asked, "What's your brother Chen's name?"
Ren Shihua's son: "Chen Minhui."
Pei Qing: "How old are you?"
Ren Shihua: "How should I know? He is not a local. He rents a house from someone else. I haven't seen him in the past few days."
He approached Pei Qing slyly and asked, "Did he get into trouble? What happened? Tell me about it!"
Pei Qing reached out and moved his head to the right.
"It has nothing to do with you, go to school!"
Ren Shihua's son was very dissatisfied. When Xu An saw the gangster spirit in him, his hands began to itch and he wanted to do it. He pressed Ren Shihua's son's neck again and strangled his vitals: "Where are you going to school? If you don't leave now, then you can just stay with us later. I'll drive you to school."
Ren Shihua's son: "No, no, no."
He was so scared that he ran away. Who wants to ride in a police car? If his father knew about it when he got home, he would beat him with a belt!
Pei Qing saw him running very fast and said to Xu An, "He is definitely not going to school."
Xu An: "Who cares? His father will accept him joining the factory in the future."
The two talked as they walked, and soon arrived at the electric pole.
Pei Qing first noticed the wheel marks on the concrete floor.
It looks like it was left there by a car driving over the cement when it was still wet.
Pei Qing knocked on the door.
An old woman opened the door and saw two young men. She asked, "Are you here to look at my house? Come in, come in. My house is very nice."
As soon as Pei Qing entered, he saw the express boxes piled up neatly in the corner of the yard.
She stopped the old woman and said, "We are not here to rent a house, Grandma, we are here to ask you about someone."
When the old lady heard that the person was not here to rent a house, she was reluctant to talk to him.
"Who is it?"
She asked slowly.
Pei Qing: "Chen Minhui, when did he leave?"
Old woman: "Dahui?"
Apart from a slightly hunched back, she was in good spirits.
She walked to the desk calendar on the first floor and looked at it before saying to Pei Qing, "The 13th left early in the morning."
The 13th, isn’t that the day Zhao Cen’an disappeared?
Pei Qing asked again: "Did you give him a courier box to pack his luggage?"
The old woman said casually, "His bag can't hold any more, so I'll let him pick one himself."
Pei Qing: "What color is his bag?"
The old woman: "Black, never washed, and still doesn't listen to what I say, young people nowadays..." Pei Qing: "Does he have a table like this?"
She drew it lightly with a few strokes and showed it to the old woman, who leaned in to take a closer look.
"Oh yes, there is this. What's the matter?"
It’s confirmed, it’s this Chen Minhui.
Xu An looked at the courier box in the old woman's yard and couldn't help but say, "You really took the courier box at the door of Ren Shihua's house. That's the cat's nest. You're trying to steal it from the cat. You did this..."
At this point, the old woman was very confident: "His cat meows every day like it's in heat, it's so annoying. The little bastards are ignorant, and the old ones are also ignorant. I didn't get enough sleep to begin with, and now there's another cat that's calling for sex. I only took the delivery box and didn't throw the cat away, because Xiao Ren and I have been neighbors for so many years!"
Pei Qing silently put the notebook away. It turned out that you didn't take the express box because it was big. You took it intentionally to take revenge on a cat.
Fortunately, the old lady was very impatient and took a courier box, otherwise Chen Minhui would not have been found.
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