Chapter 188: Try not to alert the enemy
When Tian Guoqiang's magnetic and deep voice came, Deng Xiuzhen's panicked heart calmed down.
She described the incident in detail and carefully analyzed the unusual behavior of the two policemen, from wrongly accusing Tan Yanlin of assaulting the police to secretly following her downstairs and their strong sense of crisis.
Tian Guoqiang didn't interrupt much until Deng Xiuzhen finished speaking, then he asked, "What kind of crisis do you feel? Are you in danger, or do you think someone else is in danger?"
Deng Xiuzhen calmed down, thought for a moment and replied: "It will probably affect the safety of me and Tan Yanlin."
"Well, then don't do anything for now. Wait until tomorrow to report the case as usual. Try not to alert the enemy." Tian Guoqiang instructed.
"But I have a vague feeling that Liu Youzhen has been in trouble. But it's just a feeling, it may not be accurate."
"Something happened? What could it be?" Tian Guoqiang asked.
“I can’t explain it, I just feel very uneasy.”
"Is there anyone around you?" Tian Guoqiang asked suddenly.
"No, I'm alone. Yanlin is cleaning outside."
"That's good. I'm in Shenzhen now, here to hunt down a member of a trafficking gang. But after I got here, I found that it was not that simple. Not only was it trafficking, but it was also related to organized crime, and there was a protective umbrella for them within the police...
The Liu Youzhen you mentioned might have been captured by them. Zhang Bin and Cai Bang had already been corrupted, so they did that.
Remember, don't do anything, don't show anything, report the case if necessary, and there will be a result soon. "Tian Guoqiang repeatedly reminded.
Deng Xiuzhen nodded repeatedly in agreement.
After hanging up the phone, Deng Xiuzhen deleted the call records immediately.
The next day, Deng Xiuzhen and Tan Yanlin took Zhang Liuying to the police station again. This time the report went smoothly. However, the specific circumstances had to wait for the police station to investigate.
"Boss, do you think something has happened to Xiuzhen?" Zhang Liuying looked a little haggard. These past two nights, Liu Youzhen's child wanted to be called by his mother, crying and making a fuss, which kept her from sleeping well.
"Who knows? I hope the police station can find out the result as soon as possible. Oh, I'm so panicked!" Deng Xiuzhen said with a sigh.
"Youzhen has never offended anyone before. How could something happen to her? Was she kidnapped by human traffickers?" Zhang Liuying said to himself.
Neither Deng Xiuzhen nor Tan Yanlin responded.
Tan Yanlin rarely participates in employee topics.
Deng Xiuzhen felt that Zhang Liuying guessed right, but she couldn't say it because she had to keep it a secret.
"But this doesn't make sense. If the human traffickers wanted to kidnap Youzhen, why didn't they just send her a text message? If they had sent me a text message, I would have gone too?..." Zhang Liuying continued to speculate.
Deng Xiuzhen was stunned and looked at Zhang Liuying. She discovered a problem: Zhang Liuying was younger than Liu Youzhen and more attractive than Liu Youzhen.
If he was a human trafficker, why would he go around in circles looking for Liu Youzhen? Wouldn't it be better to just kidnap Zhang Liuying directly?
Deng Xiuzhen realized that her thinking was biased: Liu Youzhen might not have been abducted by human traffickers, and other problems might have occurred.
"What you said makes sense. Let's go back and report this to the police station!" Deng Xiuzhen said, and asked Qin Yanlin to go back to the company first while she and Zhang Liuying went to the police station again.
"How long have you known Liu Youzhen? Do you know who she has a conflict with?" the police asked after listening to them.
Deng Xiuzhen and Zhang Liuying respectively described their experiences of meeting and getting along with Liu Youzhen. As for the people who had conflicts with Liu Youzhen, they both agreed that they only knew about Li Xiaomei, and did not know about the others.
After all, they had only known each other for so long and didn't know much about each other's personal matters.
The police recorded their words and asked them to go home and wait for news.
Deng Xiuzhen made the excuse that she had something to do and secretly called Tian Guoqiang when she got home. She wanted to tell Tian Guoqiang about the situation.
However, the call did not go through and the other party’s phone was turned off.
Unable to contact Tian Guoqiang, she had to go to the company first.
Liu Youzhen’s disappearance did not affect the company’s business and there are still many orders.
When Deng Xiuzhen arrived at the company, almost all the employees had gone to work. Only three people remained in the company: Zhang Liuying, Yan Wenying, and Tan Yanlin.
At this moment, the old man in the alley of West Street called and asked them to send someone to clean, buy groceries and cook.
Yan Wenying still has a steel plate embedded in her leg and cannot go to work.
Because of Liu Youzhen’s disappearance, Zhang Liuying didn’t dare to go to work for the old man alone.
Thinking of the eerie alley, Tan Yanlin was worried about Zhang Liuying and Deng Xiuzhen going, and he was even more worried about Deng Xiuzhen going alone.
So Qin Yanlin and Deng Xiuzhen set off with their tools.
It’s a sunny day today, and the chill in the alley has dissipated a lot.
The two first took down the old man's quilt and put it in the washing machine to wash. Then Deng Xiuzhen tidied the old man's room while Tan Yanlin went to buy groceries.
"Don't buy meat, buy some appetizers. I don't know what's going on these past two days. The meat has been pressed day and night and it's all gone." The old man reminded Qin Yanlin.
Tan Yanlin agreed and left.
The old man was still muttering to himself that the person who cooked the meat was not good at living. How could you eat meat every day? And he always used a pressure cooker to cook it. Wouldn't it be better to just stir-fry it?
Deng Xiuzhen just smiled without saying anything and continued doing her work silently.
After Qin Yanlin came back from shopping, the two of them made a steamed fish with chopped pepper, fried eggs with tomatoes, and a vegetable for the old man.
The old man kept saying it was delicious and that it finally whetted his appetite and he didn’t feel so greasy anymore.
When Deng Xiuzhen left, the old man said that her cooking was delicious and left her phone number.
A few days passed, and there was still no news from Liu Youzhen.
People from the police station said that they investigated Li Xiaomei but did not find any clues.
Except for Liu Youzhen's children, everyone else has gotten used to being without Liu Youzhen.
"Ding-ling-ling, ding-ling-ling" Deng Xiuzhen's phone rang. When she saw it was Tian Guoqiang's number, she hurried to a secluded place to answer it.
"Those people have all been arrested, and the women and children who were abducted recently have all been rescued!" Tian Guoqiang's voice was filled with excitement and pride.
"Is there someone named Liu Youzhen?" Deng Xiuzhen asked.
"Wait a moment, I'll ask!" Tian Guoqiang agreed and hung up the phone.
A few minutes later, the phone rang again, and Tian Guoqiang told Deng Xiuzhen: There is no one named Liu Youzhen.
"Director Tian, can you help me ask about the progress of the investigation into Liu Youzhen's case? I always feel that they didn't investigate it properly." Deng Xiuzhen expressed her feelings.
"Okay, I'll call you after saying hello." Tian Guoqiang hung up the phone.
Deng Xiuzhen recalled the messy scene inside the police station when she went there today, and she sighed and shook her head.
Two days later, Tian Guoqiang told Deng Xiuzhen that they had carefully searched for Liu Youzhen's whereabouts during the past two days: there was no record of him taking a train or bus, nor was there any record of him taking a taxi.
There was too little surveillance in the city, and Liu Youzhen was only seen on the way to West Street Alley, and then she disappeared.
Tian Guoqiang told her not to worry, he would get to the bottom of the case and to tell him if anything happened.
As soon as Deng Xiuzhen hung up the phone, the old man in the alley on West Street called her directly on her cell phone.
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