Chapter 91 Found Zhang Hui!
On the road, Zhou Yi rode the old 28-inch bicycle and pedaled hard.
Lu Xiaoshuang, who was sitting on the backpack rack at the back, carefully grabbed the corner of Zhou Yi's clothes and asked, "Am I too heavy?"
"With your small body..." Although Zhou Yi said this, he found it very difficult to ride the bicycle, mainly because the bicycle was too old.
"This bike was discarded by my uncle. He was originally going to sell it to a scrap dealer, but my aunt thought the money the dealer offered was too little, so she didn't sell it. Later, my grandmother said she could let me ride it."
"Go back... and put some oil on the bike chain." Zhou Yi was almost standing up to pedal as they were approaching an uphill slope.
Suddenly, he felt something light behind him. Turning around, he saw Lu Xiaoshuang jumping out from the back seat.
"Brother Zhou, you go first. I know where it is. It's Donghai Community. I can just walk there slowly. It won't delay you." Lu Xiaoshuang smiled and waved.
"Okay, then I'll wait for you in Donghai Community."
Lu Xiaoshuang looked at Zhou Yi's receding back and suddenly felt that life was full of hope.
Although working was hard and she wore cheap clothes and used cheap things, she also met many people who helped her.
She feels that her life will become better and better.
Just like what she wrote in her composition when she was a child: I want to become a sunflower and face the sun forever.
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Zhou Yi pedaled the broken 28-inch bicycle as fast as he could and rushed straight to the Donghai community.
Even when entering the residential area, he didn't slow down and passed by in a flash.
The security guard was squinting his eyes and swaying his head to the Peking opera on the radio. Suddenly, his eyes blurred and something passed by.
But he just stuck his head out to take a look and then became content again.
Zhou Yi arrived downstairs of Xu Jiaguang's house, stopped his bicycle and went straight upstairs.
He came to Xu Jiaguang's door, but did not knock.
Instead, he was searching in the corridor, looking for the water meter of Xu Jiaguang's house.
The electricity and water meters in residential communities are usually located in the corridor outside, making it convenient for cashiers to read them.
Electricity meters are usually locked, but water meters are not.
Zhou Yi found two water meters at the base of the wall in the corridor. The one on the right belonged to Xu Jiaguang's family.
Zhou Yi recorded the data on the dial and ran to the guard room to borrow a phone. The guard recognized him immediately and after Zhou Yi handed him a cigarette, he readily lent him the phone.
"Hello, is this the waterworks? I'm a police officer from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau. My name is Zhou Yi, and my officer number is 361810. I have a very urgent matter that requires your assistance."
"Okay, okay, thank you very much. I need to check the monthly water usage figures for a water meter. The meter number is..."
As Zhou Yi spoke, he made a writing gesture to the security guard, who immediately understood and brought him paper and pen.
Zhou Yi began to record the numbers. After confirming that the numbers were correct, he hung up the phone and calculated the actual water consumption figures for each month. When he saw the numbers from last month's meter reading and the numbers he had just memorized, his face instantly darkened.
The old man came over and asked, "Young man, don't you work for that food company? How come you changed careers and became a police officer so quickly?"
"Uncle, let me make another call."
"Go ahead and fight."
Zhou Yi dialed the phone number of the Third Brigade office, and the person who answered the phone was Wu Yongcheng.
"Zhou Yi, Chen Yan came back and said you went to the Donghai Residential Area. What happened? Do you have any new leads?"
"Captain Wu, please send the police immediately. I think I know where Zhang Hui is."
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When Lu Xiaoshuang arrived at the Donghai Community, she found that the area outside the community was already crowded with people, with three layers of people surrounding it, making it impossible to get in or out.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know? Suddenly a lot of police showed up."
"Not only the police, but also the sanitation sprinkler truck."
"What kind of sprinkler truck is that? It's used to suck up manure."
"I don't know how long this will last. I can't even go home."
"Could it be related to the disappearance of the woman in this neighborhood a while ago?"
"It's possible. I see that woman's husband hanging out with a missing person sign every day. He's so pitiful."
The crowd of onlookers were talking at once.
Lu Xiaoshuang wanted to squeeze in, but she couldn't. Someone complained, "Why are you pushing? There's a cordon out front. Do you really just want to watch the fun?"
Lu Xiaoshuang turned around and saw Qiao Jiali. She immediately waved and called out, "Officer Qiao."
"Xiao Shuang? Why are you here?"
As soon as Lu Xiaoshuang explained the situation, Qiao Jiali immediately said, "Wait here. I'll ask a colleague to bring your bike out. Then you can go back quickly and don't wait for Zhou Yi here."
"Is Brother Zhou okay?"
Qiao Jiali glanced into the community and said, "I think your big brother Zhou is going to show off his prowess again."
Inside the community, Wu Yongcheng looked at the opened septic tank cover and the machine that was pumping out feces, and said to Zhou Yi beside him.
"I'm making a big move, you'd better be sure."
"Xu Jiaguang's family's monthly water usage is very stable, between seven and eight tons. But this month, with some time left before the end of the month and Zhang Hui missing for a while, the Xu Jiaguang family's water meter shows they've already used twelve tons. This is very abnormal. Where did all this water go?"
"Didn't Xiao Qiao say that his water pipe broke when you guys came over that day?"
"No, it's the sewage pipe that's broken. That's a problem, too. I've asked around, and there's never been a problem with the sewage pipe in this building before."
Wu Yongcheng took a deep breath and said, "Zhou Yi, there hasn't been a dismemberment case in Hongcheng for a long time."
How could Wu Yongcheng, an old detective, not know what Zhou Yi meant?
The abnormally large amount of water used was most likely used to flush the human tissue down the toilet after the body was dismembered.
The sewage pipe may be blocked and backflowing because of body parts being flushed down.
"I have a question." Wu Yongcheng said.
"What?"
"If Xu Jiaguang really killed Zhang Hui and dismembered her body, what would he do with the bones? You can't flush bones down the toilet."
Zhou Yi shook his head. "To be honest, I haven't figured this out either. I originally suspected he might have used some kind of machine to crush the bones before flushing them down. But then I think that's unlikely. After all, this kind of machine has a large target and a large motive, so it would be easy for the neighbors to notice anything unusual."
Zhou Yi squinted his eyes and stared at the septic tank. "Maybe Xu Jiaguang can tell us."
Several policemen wearing masks and raincoats, holding long-handled net bags, stood on the open septic tank truck and kept scooping out feces from the stinking feces. The scene was so disgusting that it was unbearable to watch.
Suddenly, a policeman found that there seemed to be something in his net bag.
He suppressed his nausea and pulled the net bag over with his rubber-gloved hands. He took a closer look and saw that it looked like a piece of meat, but it was highly rotten and covered with a lot of feces and maggots.
He reached out to turn the piece of meat over, and his scalp instantly went numb.
“Found it…found it!”
A loud shout cut through the sky.
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