Chapter 60: The Corpse Dismemberment Case (V)
After Han Jianye and Ye Bai returned to the car, they prepared to rush to Zhunan No. 2 Middle School to find Yuan Qiqi.
This time it was Han Jianye who was driving. He held the steering wheel with one hand and the other hand casually rested on the car window. His relaxed attitude seemed to be one with the car, showing unparalleled confidence and charm.
"How about I drive it?" Ye Bai said to Han Jianye.
Han Jianye glanced at him, holding the steering wheel with both hands, "Why, you've never ridden in a car I've driven?"
"no."
"Then why are you driving? Haven't you ridden in my car before? Can I take you flying?"
Ye Bai explained: "I just want to remind you to drive with both hands."
Han Jianye snorted coldly, "I am driving with both hands, aren't I? I thought you thought I was not a good driver."
After all, he took the driving test at the age of 19 and was already an experienced driver.
Ye Bai couldn't argue with him, so he remained silent. He turned his head to look out the window, feeling that their topic was getting further and further off topic.
"Why aren't you talking?"
Ye Bai said calmly: "I want to open the car window."
Han Jianye asked him, "Why open the window?"
"I want to jump out of the car."
"...Not really. I can't get over it after hearing a few words from you."
Ye Bai: “…(￣︿￣)”
After a moment, Ye Bai decided to change the subject. He felt that Han Jianye would be easier to communicate with if they were discussing serious matters. "I didn't expect that the deceased was not Zheng Juan."
It was a bit of a waste of excitement.
Han Jianye was calm. After all, he had been involved in many cases and his mentality was balanced. "Since it has come, just make the best of it."
The two arrived at Zhunan No. 2 Middle School and sat in the car to observe the situation in the breakfast shop.
What puzzled them was that, as Zheng Juan said, they did see a woman with long hair and a melon-shaped face in the breakfast shop.
"Captain Han, that person should be Yuan Qiqi."
Han Jianye also noticed it, "It looks a lot like the Yuan Qiqi described by Zheng Juan."
Ye Bai frowned, "If she is Yuan Qiqi, then the deceased must be someone else."
As the store was very busy, they sat in the car for a long time. It was not until they saw the woman playing with her mobile phone on the chair that Han Jianye and Ye Bai got out of the car and walked over to ask.
Han Jianye revealed his identity to her, "Hello, we are from the public security department. We have something to ask you. Please cooperate with us."
The woman stood there in a daze, a little overwhelmed, but still nodded, "Okay...Okay."
"Excuse me, are you Yuan Qiqi?"
"I am Yuan Qiqi." the woman replied.
Han Jianye asked her, "Zheng Juan is your friend, right?"
Yuan Qiqi nodded, "Yes."
"Did she sell you a coat for 680 this June?"
Yuan Qiqi nodded doubtfully, "Yes, yes, is there any problem?"
Ye Bai asked her: "Do you still have that coat?
When Yuan Qiqi heard this, she was furious. "It's long gone. I bought it secretly from Ajuan. You don't even know how pissed I am. After I closed the store, I hung the bag of coats on the front of my electric bike. I parked outside the market and went in to buy half a chicken. When I came back, the bag was gone. I was so angry that I asked the person in charge of the market to check the surveillance, and I found out that it was the woman on the electric bike parked next to me. When she left, she took my bag."
Ye Bai asked, "What happened next? Did you call the police?"
"I spent hundreds of dollars on that coat but never wore it. I didn't dare to call the police because my husband would scold me if he knew. I was so angry that I would wake up at night. I also kept the surveillance video. During that time, I went to the market to wait for the female thief. I guess she was too guilty to come. I haven't seen her since then."
When Han Jianye heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Do you still have that video?"
"Of course there is. I often go to that market to buy vegetables. I just want to catch that female thief and make her pay for it." As she said that, she began to flip through the photo album on her phone, looking for the surveillance video she had saved.
Han Jianye and Ye Bai smiled with relief, thinking that it would be better for them to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. If Yuan Qiqi had not kept the surveillance video in advance, the surveillance in the market would have been covered long ago, and there would have been nothing to investigate at that time.
"Found it." Yuan Qiqi handed the phone to Han Jianye and said excitedly, "It's this woman. She was dressed like a decent person, but she stole the coat in broad daylight. Police comrades, this person must be a repeat offender. You must help me catch her. I want her to pay compensation."
Han Jianye took the phone and examined the surveillance footage with a keen gaze. The woman in the video is about 158 cm tall and weighs about 110 catties. She has long hair that reaches her shoulders. She is wearing a floral dress and riding an unlicensed electric bike. Her face behind the black-framed glasses is slightly blurred due to the distance.
Despite this, he decided to ask Yuan Qiqi for the surveillance video, intending to give it to Dong Yu, who was good at portrait painting, so that he could draw a clear facial portrait.
On the way back, Ye Bai raised his doubts: "Don't you think this is strange? Why was the receipt for the coat taken away in June not found until now?"
Han Jianye pondered for a moment and said, "This question is actually not difficult to explain. The person who took the coat probably didn't check it carefully, and the receipt may have been casually stuffed deep in the pocket or at the bottom of the bag.
Or maybe the coat was taken home and kept hidden, never opened. After all, the coat has a clear brand logo on the bag, so you can tell it’s new at a glance.
Only on the day of the accident would she take it out to check, and in the process, some accidents might have happened, causing her to subconsciously swallow the receipt. ”
"Only after two months?" Ye Bai still found it unbelievable.
As soon as Han Jianye and Ye Bai returned to the police station, they went straight to Dong Yu's studio.
As the image quality of the surveillance video was not clear, Han Jianye felt somewhat uneasy, unsure whether Dong Yu could draw a simulated portrait of the mysterious woman based solely on the blurry figure in the video.
However, Dong Yu's answer was firm and powerful: "Yes, but it will take some time."
This sentence was like a stabilizing force, instantly dispelling Han Jianye's uneasiness, and replaced by full confidence.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Teacher Dong."
Dong Yu humbly said: "It's not hard, we all want to uncover the truth of the case as soon as possible."
Just then, new news came from Suwan.
They found a suspicious white car on a street upstream of Wangnan Bridge.
The car mysteriously drove towards the center of the river at 4 a.m. on August 15, and its round trip took more than an hour.
This discovery undoubtedly brings new clues to the investigation of the case.
Su Wan reported: "The license plate number has been checked. The owner is Zhang Xiannan, male, 28 years old. We have summoned him for questioning."
Han Jianye flipped through the surveillance screenshots. "He appeared on the river surface of Wangnan Bridge in the early morning without sleeping. There was an hour gap between them. It is indeed suspicious."