Chapter 79 Chapter 79 I can catch people myself, so I don’t need to...
Let’s go back to one day ago.
After saying goodbye to Shi Youhua, Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng walked out of the Baihualou Hotel side by side, tacitly not saying a word.
It was not until they got into the car and closed the door that they began to discuss in low voices.
Comrade Xiao Ji gripped the steering wheel, his face serious. "If Shi Youhua isn't lying, there are a lot of suspicious things about her—"
"I think so too." Lu Zheng sat in the passenger seat, tapping his fingers lightly on the center console. He said in a deep voice, "Look, as a female restaurant owner who flies all over the country, how could you be so impressed by a flight attendant you met six months ago, even remembering her name so clearly?"
Ji Yinhe took over, "That's right. And since she doesn't care about her husband Dong Sihai's love life and just wants to maintain a decent marriage, why did she go to Jiangtan to persuade Xu Yanhong?"
Their eyes met, and they both said in unison: "--Could it be that she wants to help Dong Sihai hide something?"
There was silence in the car for a few seconds. Ji Yinhe took a deep breath. "However, Dong Sihai's car is quite rare. Report it to the traffic brigade, and they should be able to find something soon."
Lu Zheng nodded, took out the recorder from her bag, pressed the button, and fast-forwarded to the last few minutes. Shi Youhua's voice echoed in the car:
"—Mercedes-Benz S320, fully equipped '96 model, black, just picked up at the beginning of the year."
"But there's another point. Rich people usually own several private cars." Lu Zheng put down the recorder and said thoughtfully, "Could this Mercedes be the car that picked up Wu Sijia?"
Ji Yinhe shook his head and clenched his fists. "I don't know, but now we can only follow this car and investigate. As long as we can find out where Dong Sihai went, we will definitely be able to dig out more clues!"
…
After returning to the office, the two reported the situation to Tan Li, then obtained information from relevant departments and assigned personnel to begin an investigation.
Comrade Xiao Ji was shocked by the dealer's price quote. "This Mercedes-Benz costs over one million yuan, and my monthly salary is only 800 yuan... Boss Shi is really generous to this husband!"
Teacher Lu shrugged while holding the teacup, "That's why Shi Youhua's feelings for her husband are so plain."
As it turned out, their predictions were very accurate.
The traffic police department posted a notice looking for the car. More than 20 hours later, someone called to provide a clue, claiming that they had seen Dong Sihai's Mercedes-Benz at the Tonghai Avenue gas station in Jinghai County, east of Jingzhou!
Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng immediately led people over.
The caller, a cashier at the gas station, looked at the police photo and nodded confidently, saying, "I'm sure there's no mistake. The paint is so shiny and good, it's obviously imported! The owner told me to fill up the tank, saying he had plenty of money. I looked down and saw, wow! The license plate number ends in 118. It's a must-have number! It's definitely a popular number for business people!"
Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng looked at each other and thought to themselves, Shi Youhua is just a businessman!
She seized the opportunity to pull out Dong Sihai's photo and asked, "How many people were in the car? Was this the man driving?"
The young man shook his head and said, "I knew it was a man, but I couldn't see his face clearly. There seemed to be someone else in the back seat. You said that I, a gas station attendant, shouldn't be staring at people's privacy in their cars..."
"Okay, then do you remember where the Mercedes went?"
"I remember that!" The young man walked out of the gas station and pointed to the east end of the road. "Look, this Tonghai Avenue, three kilometers ahead there's a dock area. There's nothing much in the middle, just quite desolate. I was wondering why rich people would go there!"
"...Dock?" Ji Yinhe narrowed his eyes and muttered again.
Shi Youhua is a hotel owner, Dong Sihai works in the education industry, Xu Yanhong is a teacher, and Wu Sijia is a flight attendant.
No one has anything to do with the dock...
"Okay, let's go over and take a look." Lu Zheng shook hands with the young man kindly, "Thank you for the clue."
"Well, what's the big deal? I want to serve the people too!"
Here, Ji Yinhe got into the car with several criminal police officers who were assigned to help, and drove towards the direction where Dong Sihai's Mercedes-Benz was last heading.
The young man was right. All along the way there were only tall weeds and billboards rusted by the wind.
Only when you get close to the sea level in the distance can you see the pier surrounding the long white rock beach, and the tattered flags are fluttering in the warm sea breeze.
Tonghai Avenue narrowed down to a narrow lane, the end of which was blocked by an iron gate. A dirty sign with large red ink read: "Do not enter without permission!"
"...Officer Ji, should we still drive in?" The police officer in the driver's seat nervously rubbed his hands. "Or I should go down and negotiate with them. It seems like there aren't many people here..."
"Hold on."
Ji Yinhe jumped out of the car and greeted Lu Zheng who was riding in the Mercedes-Benz behind him.
The two men quietly approached the wire fence, walked back and forth, and looked inside.
There seemed to be few people at this dock. The iron chain on the door was just a decoration, and the copper lock was just hanging loosely and was not locked at all.
After a while, Ji Yinhe approached Lu Zheng and tugged at his sleeve.
"Ten o'clock," she whispered softly. "Doesn't the outline of the car covered in woven cloth look a bit like a Mercedes-Benz? Especially the logo on the hood."
"Yes." Lu Zheng nodded.
"That means this place is not far away. Let's go in and take a look."
As soon as Ji Yinhe finished speaking, he pulled the chain off the bolt without blinking and pushed the door open lightly.
"..." Lu Zheng looked back at the police car waiting in a hidden place far away, with one hand behind his back, tightly gripping the gun tucked into his waistband.
This place is more desolate than I had imagined. The doors of several houses are open and empty. There is even a house in the distance that has been burned down and the entire roof is gone!
Ji Yinhe walked quickly towards the car, lifted a corner of the cover to look at the license plate, and nodded to Lu Zheng, "Yes, it's Dong Sihai's."
——But where is he now?
Officer Xiao Ji pulled the door handle on the main driver's side. With a "bang", the door slid open smoothly, and she quickly waved to Lu Zheng.
"Don't rush back to look for them. We might alert the enemy. Let's search the car first."
However, Lu Zheng only had time to say "OK" before he saw a woman in the window opposite him staring at them in a daze, slowly raising the pliers in her hand.
"Ji Yinhe, squat down!"
Comrade Xiao Ji hadn't realized what was happening yet, but he ducked down as if by reflex! Lu Zheng flew in front of the car and kicked a gray object flying in the air.
There was a loud bang, and Ji Yinhe looked out through the car window and saw a rusty pair of pliers falling to the ground a few steps away.
If it weren't for Lu Zheng's kick, it would have gone straight through the Mercedes-Benz's windshield and hit her head!
"call--"
Ji Yinhe's reaction was faster than a rabbit. While the woman in the house had already walked out and was looking over here, he grabbed the gun and rushed over, directly pressing the other party to the ground.
"You..." Lu Zheng's face turned pale with fright. He went into the house and searched around. Seeing that there were no accomplices, he took a deep breath and walked to Ji Yinhe.
"I'm very good at fighting, Teacher Lu." Comrade Xiao Ji straightened his back. "I can catch people by myself, so I don't need your protection."
“…”
Lu Zheng squatted down and stared at the woman lying on the ground. "Why did you attack us?"
When you get closer, you can see that the other person's hair is already gray, and the twisted skin on his face is not wrinkles, but scars like burns.
"...I was wrong, I was wrong." She looked at Lu Zheng's police ID and banged her head against the ground again and again, "Don't arrest me!"
"Answer us a few questions first." Ji Yinhe took the man into the house, pulled out a small broken wooden stool from under the dirty table, and pushed the man onto it.
He took the handcuffs handed to him by Lu Zheng and handcuffed the woman's wrists to the yellow-stained radiator on the wall.
"What's your name? Why are you the only one here at the dock?"
"Che, Che Xiaozhen..." The woman shuddered, "The dock has been abandoned for a long time, and the boss asked me to stay and look after it..."
"Boss?" Ji Yinhe felt that the other party's accent sounded familiar, but she didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, she focused on the information she revealed, "Is this person Dong Sihai? That Mercedes-Benz outside, is it the one he parked here?"
"I don't know anything. In fact, I've never seen it..." Che Xiaozhen raised her dirty face, her eyes rolling around.
Lu Zheng raised his eyebrows. "How can he give you money if we haven't met?"
"Remittance!" Che Xiaozhen said confidently, "He said he would call me if anything happened, but nothing has happened in all these years... Anyway, don't ask me, I really don't know anything, officer."
“…”
Ji Yinhe pressed his solar plexus. It seemed that Che Xiaozhen was very tight-lipped. It was difficult to get clues about Dong Sihai directly from her. He could only find a roundabout way to save the country.
She raised her chin and asked, "Tell me about yourself first. Do you have a family?"
Che Xiaozhen said "Oh", "Yes, the man and his son are dead."
The handcuffs clanged, and she pointed outside the window at the house half-blackened by the flames. "That's right there, thirteen years ago, they were killed in a fire... Everyone's gone, and I just want to stay here to watch over them. I don't care whether the boss pays me or not..."
She laughed strangely, "It's all my fault anyway."
"..." Ji Yinhe turned her head and glanced, narrowing her amber pupils, "Did you kill your husband's son?"
"Yeah..." Che Xiaozhen sighed, "It's my fault for bringing that girl here and raising her like my own daughter for over a year. If only I had thrown her away back then..."
Thirteen years.
girl.
Plus, the other person's accent that sounded more and more familiar...
Ji Yinhe's heart sank suddenly, and an absurd idea suddenly popped into his mind.
She took a deep breath and asked with a sullen face:
"Che Xiaozhen, thirteen years ago, no, fourteen years ago...did you take a girl named Wu Sijia away from Jiangtan?"
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