Chapter 179 Missing
The parrot case was finally solved, and Xiaoxiao also had Mei Yudong who could take care of her for the rest of her life. Xia Mufan told Han Ying the news, and Han Ying cried excitedly, holding Qi Xiaoman's hand and saying, "That's great, we saved Xiaoxiao, and that poor child is loved by someone now."
After hearing the stories of Liu Qin and Mei Yudong, Qi Xiaoman locked herself in the room and thought for a long time.
Liuqin endured in silence, and she died;
Mei Yudong resisted bravely and gained a new life.
Kindness must have an edge, otherwise it will be like the old saying that good people are often bullied.
If you do not resist bravely when facing an evil person, it will only encourage his arrogance and make him bully honest people even more.
After realizing this, Qi Xiaoman walked out of the hut, looked at Han Ying, who was worried, with tears in her big eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Sister, please help me, I want to call the police!"
Qi Xiaoman bravely stood up and went to the Xing City Public Security Bureau to report the crime with Han Ying, telling the police about her experience of being abused and sexually assaulted by her stepfather when she was young.
The police attached great importance to the case and immediately opened an investigation and arrested Qi Xiaoman's stepfather.
Seeing her once arrogant stepfather bow his head in front of the police, the shadow that had been weighing on Qi Xiaoman's heart finally dissipated.
When he received the news, Xia Mufan was in the process of going through the transfer procedures.
The Xing City Public Security Bureau officially issued a transfer letter, and Xia Mufan and the original members of the Serious Crime Unit 7 went to Xing City together. The organizational relationship and household registration files were handled relatively smoothly, but the move took some time.
Gu Shaoqi also received a transfer order from his superiors to serve as the director of the Forensic Pathology Department of the Criminal Investigation Technology Center of the Provincial Public Security Department. Before taking up the position, he had to go to the Kyoto Public Security Bureau for exchange and study for half a year. Gu Shaoqi handed the two little grass tortoises to Xia Mufan, asking her to take them away and raise them, and bring them home after he returned in September.
In the rush, the Spring Festival of 1997 arrived.
The Xing City Public Security Bureau prepared dormitories for the five members of the special operations team.
Sun Xianbing and Yu Jing each have a single dormitory.
Gong Weiguo and Feng Xiaoyu were assigned to the Mandarin Duck Room, which was a transitional room specially prepared by the Public Security Bureau for young couples. It had one bedroom and one living room with a bathroom and a kitchen. Although the house was not big, it was fully equipped. Gong Weiguo and Feng Xiaoyu were both very satisfied with it.
Xia Mufan was assigned a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, but it was difficult to find the first-floor apartment with a yard that she had requested at the beginning. In order to make it easier for her to keep a pet, she chose the second floor, which is a low floor.
Under Yue Yuan's reluctant gaze, Xia Mufan moved with his mother, Coal Ash, Ice Cream and myna Fa Cai.
There is a large balcony on the south side of Xia Muchan's house. The winter sun shines through, filling the room with warmth. Xu Shumei likes this balcony very much. Now that she can’t grow vegetables, she planted a lot of flowers and plants on the balcony.
Xia Mufan specially installed a cat climbing frame on the balcony, and Coal Ash jumped up and down, looking very happy.
The rich cage was hanging at the other end of the cat rack. Even though she hid in the cage, she could not escape the clutches of coal dust and screamed in fear.
Ice cream's doghouse is on the balcony. She is always quiet. She squats under the balcony, watching Meihui and Fa Cai playing the game of catch, her eyes full of kindness. It's also strange. Although Ice Cream is the smallest, it looks at Coal Ash and Fa Cai with tolerance like an elder.
The two grass tortoises, Xiao Hei and Xiao Jin, were paddling lovingly in their love nest, ignoring the excitement outside.
After everything was settled, it was already the tenth day of the first lunar month.
The special operations team officially took up its post.
The office faces south, is spacious and bright. There is a pot of thriving green ivy on the five brand new desks, and everything seems so full of vitality.
The five people wearing brand new uniforms smiled at each other, full of anticipation for their new jobs and new lives.
despair! despair! despair!
There were footsteps outside the corridor and someone knocked on the door.
Fang Yuan walked in with a uniformed female police officer. The female police officer smiled and nodded at everyone, and placed two files on Xia Mufan's desk.
Fang Yuan looked at Xia Mufan with a big smile on his face: "Xiao Xia, welcome. This is Jia Wenbi, the deputy director of the Archives Department. She currently has two cases of missing girls on her hands, and would like to ask your special operations team to investigate."
Xia Mufan looked at Jia Wenbi: "Hello, Chief Jia, when did these two cases of missing girls occur?" If it was a fresh case, it would not have been brought up by colleagues from the archives department. It seems to be an old case.
Jia Wenbi is a civilian police officer. She is good-looking and gentle. She speaks calmly, "Captain Xia, both of these disappearances happened three years ago. At that time, our colleagues in the investigation team spent several months investigating, but ultimately did not find any trace of them. You can take a look at the files for the specific situation. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me."
Xia Muchan pondered in silence.
The division of functions of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Xing City Public Security Bureau is somewhat different from that of the Hui City Criminal Investigation Brigade. It does not have a serious crime squad, but instead has investigation teams, each with five people, for a total of seven investigation teams.
In the case three years ago, the investigation team spent several months without finding the person. Now, three years have passed and a lot of evidence is difficult to collect. Xia Mufan wants to take over, but it is very difficult to solve the case.
Seeing Xia Mufan remained silent, Fang Yuan's smile deepened: "Don't worry, there is no need to issue a military order for this case. I just want you to get familiar with the various departments and adapt to the new environment."
Xia Mufan didn't understand what Fang Yuan meant, so he looked up at him and said, "Director Fang, this case is not urgent?"
Fang Yuan nodded, put his hands behind his back, and said leisurely: "Yes, no hurry, not at all."
Xia Mufan narrowed his eyes but said nothing, waiting for Fang Yuan to continue.
When Fang Yuan saw that he had cast the hook but Xia Mufan didn't take the bait, he couldn't help but laugh. He didn't expect that Xia Mufan was more patient than her master Yue Yuan.
Fang Yuan did not keep the mystery going and directly revealed the answer: "A few days ago, the families of the two missing girls came to the Public Security Bureau to close the case. They said that the girls had been found and returned home before the New Year."
Xia Mufan said "Oh", raised his eyebrows, and expressed his doubts: "Since the person has been found and the case has been closed, what else do we need to investigate?"
Fang Yuan looked at Jia Wenbi.
Jia Wenbi took over the conversation with understanding: "We found some problems during the investigation. First, the two missing women were not present, and their families investigated. Second, when we asked them where they had been in the past three years, their families hesitated and only said that they were working outside. Third, both families mentioned the name of a housekeeping company in Xing City. This company is very famous in the industry, but in just four years, its business has spread all over the country."
Fang Yuan asked Xia Mufan, "Are you interested in investigating these two cases? Although the missing persons have been found, there is something fishy going on. We think it is necessary to conduct an in-depth investigation. It just so happens that your special operations team has just been established. Take this opportunity to communicate with the investigation team, archives department, and information intelligence department."
After figuring out Fang Yuan's intention, Xia Mufan straightened his back and answered loudly, "Yes!"
Fang Yuan was very satisfied with Xia Mufan's attitude: "Very good. For the Archives Department, go find Jia Wenbi. I have brought the person here. For the Information and Intelligence Department, go find Xiao Yuanfeng. He was involved in Ou Qingguo's case last time. You know him. For the Investigation Team, go directly to Tan Yang, the captain of Investigation Team 1. They are responsible for both missing cases."
Xia Mufan knew that Fang Yuan was trying to help him adapt to the new environment, so he nodded and said, "Okay. Let's get familiar with the files first. If you need to understand the case, go find Captain Tan. If you need to go out and investigate, go find Xiao Yuanfeng. If there is any unclear file information, you'll have to trouble Chief Jia."
At the end of his speech, Xia Mufan turned his gaze to Jia Wenbi and smiled friendly.
As a fellow policewoman, Jia Wenbi had a good impression of the capable and dashing Xia Mufan. She smiled faintly: "Well, the Archives Department is on the third floor. I'm in Room 306. You're always welcome."
After a few pleasantries, Fang Yuan and Jia Wenbi left.
Xia Mufan picked up the file and waved it at everyone: "Brothers, here comes the work!"
Gong Weiguo stood up excitedly: "Come on, let's study it together."
Sun Xianbing pushed out the mobile whiteboard in the office, took out a black marker, and was ready to analyze clues at any time.
Feng Xiaoyu immediately opened his notebook and prepared to take notes of the meeting.
Yu Jing poured everyone a cup of hot tea and sat at the conference table: "Captain Xia, let's get started."
Gong Weiguo was the first to open a file.
Three years ago, time of reporting: May 1996.
The missing girl is named Fan Lingwei. She lives in a small mountain village in western Hunan. She is 18 years old. In March 1995, she came to Xing City to work with girls from the same village. She received training at a housekeeping company called New Hope, and was later introduced by the company to work as a cleaner in Ronghua Office Building.
After working for a year, Fan Lingwei sent more than a thousand yuan to her family. Her family was poor, and she had two younger brothers and three younger sisters. She relied on the money she earned from working to support her younger brothers and sisters in school. But by March 1996, she stopped sending money and writing letters home, which made her family very worried.
In May, Fan Lingwei's second sister Fan Lingjuan was really worried about her elder sister, so she borrowed money and took a bus to Xing City. She found Wu Chuntao, a girl from the same village who worked with Fan Lingwei, and went to the New Hope Housekeeping Company to inquire. However, she was told that Fan Lingwei had resigned from her previous job. She panicked.
Fan Lingjuan was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child at the time. It was her first time to leave her small mountain village and arrive in a bustling metropolis where she was unfamiliar with the place. She was so scared that she burst into tears. It was a kind-hearted passerby who helped her call the police.
The Municipal Public Security Bureau attached great importance to the case of the missing girl and immediately opened an investigation, which was put under the charge of the First Investigation Team.
Captain Tan Yang led his team to investigate Fan Lingjuan, Wu Chuntao, the person in charge of New Hope Housekeeping Company, and the person in charge of Ronghua Office Building Property Company. They learned that Fan Lingwei was a hardworking girl. When she resigned from the property company at the end of 1995, the manager wanted to retain her, but Fan Lingwei seemed to have found a better place and was very determined.
New Hope Housekeeping Company said that they only gave Fan Lingwei a simple one-month training and then recommended her to Ronghua Office Building, charging her half a month's salary as an agency fee. They were not aware of her resignation afterwards and had no idea what kind of job she had found.
During the time that Fan Lingwei worked as a cleaner, she did not interact much with her colleagues and rented a basement nearby. Neither her colleagues nor the landlord knew where she went.
A girl from a small mountain village just disappeared like that, as if she had never been to Xing City.
Sun Xianbing wrote the name Fan Lingwei on the whiteboard and marked several of her places of stay in Xing City: New Hope Housekeeping Company, Ronghua Office Building, and the basement of Mingli Community.
Gong Weiguo opened the second file.
The time of reporting the case was still three years ago: September 1996.
The missing girl is named Shulan. She lives in a village in Yuanyan County, a well-known poor county in eastern Hunan. She is also eighteen years old.
In March 1994, Shu Lan, who was only sixteen years old at the time, was taken to Xing City by her distant uncle Shu Yonggang to work as a nanny. Shu Yonggang and Shu Lan are from the same village. He made some money doing business in Xing City a few years ago. After divorcing his original wife, he married a young wife and had a son. He loved the son very much and thought of hiring an honest girl from his hometown to be a nanny to do housework and take care of the child.
Shu Lan is the third child in the family. She is simple and hardworking. In addition, she has attended junior high school and is also pretty. So she was spotted by Shu Yonggang who came back to his hometown to visit his relatives and was brought to Xing City.
By 1996, Shulan's family could no longer contact her and no longer received the money she sent back. They became anxious and sent Shulan's elder brother Shu Yuanchang to find Shu Yonggang.
Shu Yonggang said that in May 1996, his wife suspected Shu Lan of stealing money and they had an argument. Shu Lan left home in anger and they have never seen each other since then.
Shu Yuanchang made a big scene at Shu Yonggang's house, and Shu Yonggang called the police, which led to the filing of a missing persons case.
Tan Yang took over the case and investigated further. The last person who knew Shu Lan's whereabouts was the nanny from Shu Yonggang's neighbor's house. She said that Shu Lan had mentioned New Hope Housekeeping Company and might have gone there to find a job.
However, when Tan Yang led a team to New Hope Housekeeping Company to investigate, the other party said that Shulan had indeed come to their company and wanted to find a job as a nanny to take care of children. After the company registered her, she was asked to go back and wait for notification. However, since Shulan had neither a pager nor a telephone, they finally agreed to come over every other day to ask about the news. The company didn't have much business at that time, so Shulan came a few times and never came again.
The news about Shulan finally ended here.
Shu Lan has been in Xing City for two years, helping Shu Yonggang's family take care of the children and do housework. She seldom goes out and is not familiar with the surrounding environment. She has no close friends here.
After she disappeared, no trace of her could be found.
It is said that Shu Yonggang later compensated Shu Lan's parents with some money. After all, they were all fellow villagers. He brought someone else's daughter to the big city, but forced her to run away alone. Shu Yonggang could not shirk his responsibility.
After understanding the general circumstances of the case, Xia Mufan and his team members began a heated discussion.
"We need to find out where Fan Lingwei and Shu Lan have been during these three years. Why are their family members hesitating? Did they go to someplace shameful?"
"Yes, they were both 18 years old when they disappeared. They should have had ID cards, right? They had always taken the initiative to write letters and send money to their families before, so why was there no news at all in those three years? Did they go out to work? They are both rural children with little experience. What kind of jobs could they find?"
"I think this is all caused by the New Hope Housekeeping Company! Maybe they were sold out by this company."
"But if it was the housekeeping company that sold them, where did they go? Why did they let them return home three years later?"
“That’s very strange.”
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