After Zhou Shixun agreed, he said to the man, "I'll give you an address. You should deliver the seven large rocks and the jade tripod there tomorrow morning."
The man nodded immediately: "Okay, okay, no problem, find something to write it down for me, I'm afraid I can't remember it because I don't have a good brain."
Zhou Shixun took out a pen and a palm-sized notebook from his pocket, wrote an address and handed it to the man.
The man looked at it carefully for a long time, then smiled a little embarrassedly: "I can't read. I'll show it to someone tomorrow, and then I can ask him to take me there."
Sheng An Ning was speechless for a moment. He didn't know the words but he still read them for a long time.
The man introduced himself again: "My name is Du Rongkuo, and everyone who knows me calls me Lai Ba. These things are all good stuff, and you will know later."
Zuiyou hesitated for a while and said, "Well, you want a lot of things, can you give me a deposit first?"
Zhou Shixun nodded: "Of course, how much do you think is appropriate?"
Du Rongkuo pondered for a while, stretched out his thumb and index finger and twisted them: "Fifty?"
Zhou Shixun frowned and said, "Five dollars. If you are willing, give it to me. If not, forget it. We don't have to buy it."
After saying that, he bent down, picked up Mo Mo, called Sheng An Ning and was about to turn around and leave.
Seeing this, Du Rongkuo smiled flatteringly and said, "Don't worry, don't worry. These can be negotiated. Five dollars is fine, but we have to make it clear that when the time comes, I will take it over. If you don't want it, then the five dollars will not be refunded."
Zhou Shixun then turned around and took out five dollars and gave it to the man named Du.
Looking at Du Rongkuo holding the money, greed flashed across his eyes, and then he returned to his honest appearance.
Sheng An Ning couldn't help but marvel, it turned out that the liar's acting skills were the best.
After coming out of the alley with Zhou Shixun, Sheng Anning asked, "Is there something wrong with the rocks he is carrying?"
Zhou Shixun nodded: "Same as the rock that Dad has."
If the rock was man-made, Du Rong's expansion into the market would mean that there is still a large processing point. However, people nowadays can barely fill their stomachs and their spiritual pursuits are not that high.
How many people would buy rocks to take home for viewing? Besides, real rocks are easy to find and don’t cost money.
Sheng An Ning couldn't understand: "What's the use?"
Zhou Shixun thought for a moment and said, "Maybe there is a link of interest that connects all of these together."
Sheng Anning thought that Zhou Shixun wanted to talk about the industrial chain, but this term did not exist at that time.
The next day, Sheng An Ning went to school. She had no way of waiting for Du Rongkuo to deliver the stone to her house, so she could only take Mo Mo away with her curiosity. She also repeatedly told Zhou Shixun that if there was any progress, he could go to school to find her and tell her so that she wouldn't worry about him the whole morning.
For the whole morning, Zhou Shixun played with Zhou Zhou and An An in the yard, and also took Aurora for a walk by the river.
Until lunch time, Du Rongkuo didn't show up, and no one came to deliver anything.
Zhou Shixun seemed to have expected this. He calmly took the children to eat lunch, and then took them to take a nap. The naughty Zhou Zhou was still a little afraid of his father, but he was very well behaved in front of Zhou Shixun. When he was told to sleep, he would lie still and fall asleep quickly.
An An wanted to play tricks, but her brother was asleep, so she could only crawl on her father for a while. Seeing that her father ignored her, she tossed and turned for a while and then fell asleep on Zhou Shixun's chest.
Zhou Shixun waited until the children fell asleep, then tiptoed out and said goodbye to Zhong Wenqing.
I went straight to find Zhou Luancheng. Du Rongkuo didn't come in the morning, which meant something had happened.
After listening to Zhou Shixun's words, Zhou Luancheng was still a little surprised: "Are you sure that this Du Rongkuo has a connection with Li Ergeng?"
Zhou Shixun nodded: "Maybe he knows the whereabouts of Li Ergeng."
Zhou Luancheng still believed Zhou Shixun's inference: "I also told the comrade in charge of Li Ergeng's case yesterday to pay close attention to the disappearance of homeless people in the city."
If a murder really happened and they didn't know about it, it only means that the missing person has no relatives and no one has found him.
Zhou Shixun described Du Rongkuo's appearance, and Zhou Luancheng asked someone from the Criminal Investigation Technology Section to draw it. By the time Zhou Shixun was satisfied with the design, it was already dark.
Zhou Luancheng sent Zhou Shixun out the door: "I will arrange to investigate tonight and find this person."
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Sheng Anning picked up Momo after school and hurried home, but when she got home Zhou Shixun was not at home.
I haven't heard of anyone coming here.
Zhou Shixun didn't come back until it was almost time for dinner.
Because Zhou Nanguang and Zhong Wenqing were there, Sheng Anning couldn't ask, for fear of making them worry. She ate her meal and took the three children back to the house. She gave each child a cookie and asked them to play by themselves before she quickly chased Zhou Shixun to ask.
Zhou Shixun shook his head: "No one came this morning. I have already told Luancheng about it."
Sheng Anning frowned: "Just because he didn't come this morning, you can conclude that something happened to him? Or maybe he was stuck, maybe he can come tomorrow?"
She felt that it was not appropriate to judge so hastily that something had happened to this person.
Zhou Shixun moved quickly over and stopped Zhou Zhou who was about to snatch Mo Mo's biscuits. He carried the bewildered Mo Mo over and said, "He wouldn't come for no reason. After all, not many people can be fooled."
Such a big customer.
Sheng An Ning didn't have time to study anymore. She went over to pick up Zhou Zhou, took his hand and made him stand at the door as punishment.
The little guy's mouth was still full of biscuits, his cheeks were bulging, and he stood at the door with his hands behind his back, blinking his big eyes, not feeling that he was doing anything wrong.
Sheng An Ning felt that reasoning would not work, so she used force first to teach him a lesson temporarily so that he could learn the lesson later and then reason with him when he was older.
The next morning, just as Sheng An Ning got up, Zhou Luancheng came back in a hurry and whispered with Zhou Shixun under the flower stand in the backyard. Sheng An Ning was queuing up the three children to wash their faces by the pool in the backyard. She could vaguely hear words like "dead" and "the body has been found."
I was shocked. Is Du Rongkuo really dead?
Zhou Luancheng frowned, "We received a call in the early morning that a body was found in Beishan Cemetery. It was Du Rongkuo. He was killed in an extremely cruel way. His chest was ripped open and his internal organs disappeared. His blood also turned black."
Zhou Shixun was silent for a few seconds: "I'll go with you to take a look."
After saying that, he turned around and said something to Sheng An Ning, who nodded quickly: "Okay, you go with Luan Cheng, and after breakfast, I'll take Mo Mo to my dad's place."
Zhou Shixun nodded, and hurried out with Zhou Luancheng.
The scene was some distance away from the city center. Because Zhou Luancheng and his team had already informed the police in each area, they contacted Zhou Luancheng as soon as they found Du Rongkuo.
When they passed by, the body was still there, covered with a tattered sack.
Someone came over, greeted Zhou Luancheng, and began to introduce: "Early this morning, someone came here to cut the grass and found it..."
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