Chapter 170 Summary of Clues
Liu Jianshe graduated from high school. According to his mother, Liu Jianshe was admitted to a junior college in the college entrance examination that year, but he gave up and did not go because he felt the tuition was too expensive.
At first, I worked in the paper mill in the town. Later, I learned to drive from someone, passed the driving test, and drove a bus in the town.
Originally, his family thought that he would just follow the routine and get married and have children in a small town.
But in the second year of his marriage, he suddenly divorced.
According to his mother, the divorce was caused by his ex-daughter-in-law having an affair with a clothing business owner in their town and cheating on Liu Jianshe.
That year, Liu Jianshe was 24 years old. In a fit of anger, he quit his job at the bus company and went to work in the city. He vowed to make something of himself to show everyone.
Chen Yan discovered that Liu Jianshe's hometown house was rather dilapidated and was sandwiched between two families. Those two families were obviously newly renovated, which showed that Liu Jianshe's family conditions were relatively poor.
Liu's mother said that her second daughter works as a nurse in the county hospital and lives in the hospital dormitory, only coming back during holidays; her youngest son has been working in the town's paper mill since graduating from high school. He is 23 years old this year. Both of her children have not yet started a family, which makes her very worried.
Chen Yan asked some questions about Liu Jianshe's situation in the city, but his mother basically didn't know anything about anything. She didn't know who Liu Jianshe's friends were, where he lived, or who he usually interacted with.
I only know that my eldest son drives for a big boss and lives a very glorious life.
The last time he came back was more than half a month ago. He seemed to be worried, but when his mother asked him about it, he just said, "Don't worry about it."
Fortunately, Liu Jianshe’s younger brother Liu Jianmin just came back from get off work, and Chen Yan got some information from him.
Liu Jianmin said: "My brother told me the last time he came back that he had a girlfriend recently and would bring her back for us to see."
Chen Yan asked: "When exactly?"
"About a month ago, my mom had joint problems and leg pain, so my brother bought her a massager."
"Did he specify his girlfriend's name?"
Liu Jianmin shook his head. "No, he said his girlfriend wasn't from here and was incredibly beautiful. I laughed at him at the time, saying, 'Why would he fall for someone so pretty?' I wondered if he was trying to scam me out of money. But to be honest, I haven't seen my brother this happy since his divorce."
Liu Jianmin asked nervously, "Did something happen to my brother?"
Chen Yan replied very officially, "No, we're just conducting a routine investigation. Why do you think he's in trouble?"
"He came back half a month ago, and I felt he wasn't in a good mood. I asked him what was wrong, and he said he had run into some problems. He also asked me how much money I had. I thought he had lost all his money again."
Chen Yan hurriedly asked, "Does your brother like gambling?"
"He got into mahjong after his divorce. He used to play all the time and lost a lot of money. But in recent years, he said he doesn't want to play anymore. He only plays a few rounds when he comes home during the holidays."
Chen Yan immediately contacted Zhou Yi and asked him to ask Qian Hongxing if Liu Jianshe had a habit of playing mahjong. He replied that during his first year as a driver, he did play mahjong. On one occasion, he delayed Qian Hongxing's work, leading to his fury and the threat of firing him. Liu Jianshe begged for another chance and promised not to play mahjong again. Qian Hongxing relented and forgave him.
As expected, Liu Jianshe never missed work due to playing mahjong again. Qian Hongxing also felt that Xiao Liu was a reliable person who kept his word because of this incident, so he kept using him until now, until Zhou Yi became suspicious of him.
Liu Jianmin gave Chen Yan a phone number, saying it was the phone number of his sister's hospital department. His sister Liu Lili and elder brother Liu Jianshe were in contact more often, so he could ask his sister, maybe there was something he didn't know.
Chen Yan then called Liu Lili, and when she learned that the police wanted to ask about his brother's girlfriend.
The first thing Liu Lili said was, "Comrade police officer, I think there's something wrong with my brother's girlfriend."
According to Liu Lili, her brother's girlfriend is called Nana, but she doesn't know her full name. The two met in a chess and card room. Liu Jianshe said Nana was very beautiful, like a Hong Kong or Taiwan singer.
But Liu Lili was confused when she heard it, because she was also a woman, and she knew very well that someone like her elder brother Liu Jianshe, who had no house or car, was divorced and remarried, was in his early thirties, and had an ordinary appearance, was not a hot commodity in the marriage market.
How could a young and beautiful woman who looks like a celebrity be interested in him?
At that time, she advised him to be careful and not to be a liar.
But Liu Jianshe was obviously too excited to listen to any advice. He felt that his sister was looking down on him and that he was not worthy of marrying a young and beautiful woman.
He also said that Nana truly loved him, was pregnant with his child, and they would get married soon.
Liu Lili said to Chen Yan on the phone, "He's already said so much, what else can I say? Officer, that Nana is definitely a liar. My brother has never been very good at relationships. His previous wife was like that. She had been having an affair for half a year and he didn't even know about it. He just believed everything people said."
This information cheered up Chen Yan, and he felt that the trip was not in vain.
Aligning the information with Jiang Biao gave Jiang Biao, who was visiting chess and card rooms one by one, a clearer goal.
When I found out about the third company, things finally took a turn for the better.
The owner of this chess and card room was very cooperative, saying that her business was completely legal and she was not afraid of the police coming to investigate.
The proprietress had an impression of Liu Jianshe. To be precise, she was not impressed by Liu Jianshe as a person at first, but by the Audi car key hanging on Liu Jianshe's waist.
Some gamblers who make money from gambling are very sensitive to the presence of wealthy people in places like chess and card rooms, because such people can become targets for making money.
Although the boss lady doesn't allow this kind of thing, there are always some gamblers who come here to hang out, mainly looking for targets to set up.
The proprietress had even reminded the young man about this, so he had an impression of it.
He said the young man seemed nice enough and spent most of his time just watching. Since he often gave out good cigarettes to the card players, no one had any objections. When someone asked him to play a couple of rounds, he said he was worried about wasting time and that just watching was enough to satisfy his craving.
Occasionally he would come to the table to play, and when asked, he would say that he was on vacation today.
This is consistent with what Zhou Yi asked Qian Hongxing, which shows that after being fired by Qian Hongxing, he has indeed become more restrained.
The boss lady said that after they got to know each other, some of his friends asked him what he did for a living and how he could drive such a nice car. He didn't shy away from saying that he was just a driver for his boss and that no matter how nice the car was, it wasn't his.
Although I don’t know his name, he is a regular customer.
Then Jiang Biao asked her if she had ever seen a woman with a snake tattoo on her leg. The proprietress nodded firmly and said, "Yes!"
Then he added: "That woman is obviously not a good person. Who would have a snake tattoo on their leg? It's so creepy to look at her."
"Have you seen this woman before?" Jiang Biao asked.
The proprietress immediately shook her head and said, "No, at least we haven't seen this woman in this area before."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, police officer, you have to understand that most of the people who play cards in chess and card rooms are men. Even if there are women, they are mostly middle-aged. If there really is a young girl who hangs out in chess and card rooms and mahjong parlors all day long," the proprietress said, pointing at the people playing cards, "these guys will be swarming around them like flies every day."
Jiang Biao knew that what the proprietress said was true. There might not be any extremely evil people in the chess and card room, but there were certainly people from all walks of life.
"When was the first time you met this woman?"
The proprietress thought for a moment and said, "Oh, then I really don't remember."
A man playing mahjong at the next table interrupted, "It's the beginning of February, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has already passed. This girl was standing next to me watching us play cards. She smelled a sweet scent. When my wife got home, she smelled it on my clothes and thought I was out fooling around, so she had a fight with me. Bang!"
His fellow players laughed at him: "You must have been trying your best to get close to others to get so sexy."
Everyone burst into laughter.
When Jiang Biao saw someone talking to him, he started asking these card-playing friends directly, and finally pieced together some information.
This woman appeared in early February. Some people had seen her in other chess and card rooms. After coming to this chess and card room, she started playing cards.
Her accent wasn't local, but rather southern. Someone who played cards with her said Liu Jianshe was among them. The woman at the card table claimed to be from Haicheng and that her aunt had married here, so she came to play. Someone even teased her, suggesting she marry someone from Hongcheng, and she started flirting with Liu Jianshe.
About a month ago, the woman stopped showing up, and strangely, Liu Jianshe has never appeared in the chess and card room since then.
The proprietress thought that the woman must be a gambler who set up the scam and targeted Liu Jianshe and tricked him away.
Jiang Biao then went to several chess and card rooms and couldn't help but sigh that people here really love playing cards. There are more than a dozen chess and card rooms of all sizes on this street alone, and it is said that there are some private ones in the community, which are hard to find.
Just when he was hesitating whether to continue investigating, Wu Yongcheng called him. After asking about the situation, he asked him to go back to the bureau first to summarize all the clues found in the case and then make the next arrangements.
He also said that Director Jin had completed the investigation and was on his way to the Municipal Bureau.
The most important thing is that Wu Yongcheng has also found some very critical clues, which he not only needs to share with everyone, but also needs to use to force someone.
Because the severity of this kidnapping case has far exceeded their expectations.
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