Chapter 180 Common Points
Everyone discussed it for a while, but no one had any clue.
The two missing women have been found. In fact, all we have to do is ask them where they have been for the past three years and everything will be solved. However, judging from the feedback we have received so far, they are unwilling to show up, and their families have been very secretive about the past three years. If we want to pry them open their mouths, we may have to start from somewhere else.
Sun Xianbing wrote the name Shulan on the whiteboard, and then wrote down her two places of residence in Xing City next to Shulan's name: Shu Yonggang's home and Caixia Hotel.
Xia Mufan walked to the whiteboard and pointed at Mingli Basement and Caixia Hotel. "These two places are where the two girls stayed temporarily. Didn't they find any useful clues?"
Gong Weiguo picked up the file and looked at it again carefully, and replied: "No, the basement of Mingli Community and Caixia Hotel are places with low fees, bad environment, and mixed people. The two girls who lived alone there did not dare to interact with the people around them. They rarely went out, so neither the landlord nor the owner of the family hotel paid much attention to the two girls."
Xia Mufan asked: "Captain Tan, didn't you question them in detail?" Sometimes it is possible that the landlord and the hotel owner choose to remain silent in order to evade responsibility. At this time, the police have to use some interrogation skills.
Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
As soon as the word "Captain Tan" was mentioned, there was a knock on the special operations team's office door, and a tall, middle-aged man with slightly balding hair walked in.
The man raised his head and touched his sparse forehead, then laughed and strode to Xia Mufan and extended his hand: "Hello, Captain Xia, right? I'm Tan Yang."
Xia Mufan raised his hand and shook his. "Captain Tan, you came at the right time. We were discussing the two missing girls cases you took over."
Although Tan Yang looked older due to his thin hair, he had a relaxed look and a hearty laugh. He looked like a person who was easy to get along with. He took the initiative to explain his purpose: "Director Fang just called me and asked me to come to your team. You are new and may not be very familiar with our department. Let's take this case to learn more about it."
It is inevitable to feel a little reserved when arriving at a new unit, but facing such an enthusiastic new colleague, Xia Mufan was in a good mood: "Thank you very much, Captain Tan. Come, let me introduce Captain Tan."
Xia Mufan introduced his team members to Tan Yang, and Tan Yang shook hands with everyone one by one: "Everyone is welcome to come and chat at any time. We are all criminal police officers doing investigation work. It will help solve the case if we communicate with each other, right?"
Gong Weiguo and Sun Xianbing were people who loved to be lively, so they happily chatted with Tan Yang.
Tan Yang told everyone about a case that he had just solved. He was very eloquent and his description was vivid and fascinating. Everyone listened attentively and asked questions from time to time.
A small case instantly brought everyone closer together.
The topic returned to the two missing cases. Gong Weiguo asked Tan Yang: "What was your investigation process like at the time? Why did you close the case in a hurry without finding the person?"
Tan Yang looked up at the words written on the whiteboard and smiled. "Not bad, you are very efficient and analyzed the case so quickly. Let me tell you, there are three main reasons why we haven't found the perpetrators in this case."
Tan Yang walked to the whiteboard, picked up a marker, and began to mark the key points on it.
"First, their roots are shallow. These two girls are from other places, they don't have ID cards, they don't know many people in Xing City, and their social network is very simple. If their families hadn't come to Xing City to look for them, I'm afraid no one would have noticed that they were missing."
"Second, they are ordinary. These two girls are ordinary in appearance, figure, and personality. Few people would notice them if they were very beautiful girls walking on the street. But they are very ordinary and lack recognition, which makes it more difficult for us to find them.
"Third, the report was made too late. The exact time of the disappearance of the two girls was actually two or three months earlier than the time their families reported the case. If they had called the police immediately after they could not be contacted, it would have been relatively easy for us to investigate and collect evidence. However, we only started looking for them after they had been missing for a while, and human memory will be distorted or even completely erased after two or three months."
After writing down these three points, looking at everyone's attentive eyes, Tan Yang suddenly had the urge to say a few more words. It turns out that fresh blood must be injected. If it were in the reconnaissance team, those guys would not want to listen to his long speeches.
"After Fan Lingwei resigned and left, she asked the landlord of the basement for her deposit back. The landlord then cleaned up the room and rented it out again. When we went to find him again three months later, the landlord had almost forgotten the basic information of the previous tenant. He only remembered that she was an honest girl who kept the room clean, rarely troubled him, paid the rent on time, and was a very good tenant. As for what kind of friends Fan Lingwei usually had and where she went after she moved out, the landlord had no idea."
"Caixia Hotel is a small family hotel. Although it is cheap, it costs 20 yuan a day. Shulan didn't have much money with her, and she only stayed for a week. When we went to look for her, the female owner of the hotel had almost forgotten Shulan. It was only when we took out the photos and asked her to recall carefully that she vaguely remembered that there was such a person who didn't have an ID card and lived on the top floor of the hotel. He usually came and went alone, went out in the morning, and hid in the hotel after returning, and didn't go anywhere.
At this point, Tan Yang sighed: "Do you think the clues they provided are useful?"
Gong Weiguo shook his head: "It only proves that they did settle in those two places."
Tan Yang raised his hand and touched his forehead again: "To be honest, our investigation team suffered two setbacks in a row, and I feel very uncomfortable. Two girls from the countryside came all the way to our Xing City to work, but they got lost. This shows that there are still problems with the population management of the Public Security Bureau. What if they were abducted by kidnappers to a remote mountain village, where can we find them?"
"But fortunately, now they are back, and we are relieved. The two girls must have suffered a lot, right? Otherwise, their family members wouldn't be so hesitant and look so weird when talking about those three years. We tried to ask more questions, but their family members refused to say anything. Finally, they cried and begged them not to ask about these details since they had found the people. In the end, we could only respect the family members' wishes and close the case."
"At the end of last year, when the bureau held a meeting, Director Fang put forward some ideas about the police's population management, especially the management of the floating population, based on this case. Therefore, the bureau attaches great importance to these two cases and hopes to conduct follow-up after the new year."
"You are here just in time. The follow-up of the two missing cases of Fan Lingwei and Shu Lan will be handed over to your newly formed special operations team. Director Fang said, Captain Xia, you are the youngest criminal investigation expert in the provincial department and are the best at tracking. I hope that under your leadership, we can investigate the whereabouts of these two girls and provide some help in strengthening the management of the floating population and protecting these migrant workers in the future."
After hearing this, Xia Mufan finally understood Captain Fang's intention of asking her to take over these two cases.
It turned out that the bureau was far-sighted and was thinking not only about finding out the whereabouts of the two girls, but more importantly about how to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.
Yes, little girls like these who come to the city from other rural areas are unfamiliar with the place, timid, and have few relatives or friends. They are easily taken advantage of by bad guys and abducted, deceived, or even exploited.
Only by addressing the problem at the source and strengthening the management of migrant population can we truly prevent similar cases from happening.
Xia Mufan secretly admired Fang Chu's far-sightedness.
The special operations team has just arrived and is not familiar with the organizational structure of the Public Security Bureau and the urban traffic in Star City. If they take over a major case with urgent time requirements, it may delay the investigation of the case, which would be bad. The parties involved in these two missing cases have been found, so there is no urgent time requirement and the investigation can be carried out slowly and in depth.
Xia Mufan's eyes lit up: "Thank you, Captain Tan. Now I know what's going on. From what you said, Fan Lingwei and Shulan's families only said that they went out to work, but they didn't say where they went to work or why they didn't contact their families. If it's not advisable to contact them too early, then where do you think we should start investigating?"
Tan Yang did not hide his secrets. He picked up a marker and walked to the whiteboard, and drew a wavy line under New Hope Housekeeping Company: "I suggest you start your investigation from this company."
Sun Xianbing, who had been standing next to the whiteboard, asked: "Is there something wrong with this company?"
Tan Yang nodded. "We felt that there was something wrong with this company when we investigated it before, but their attitude was very good. They provided us with all the lists including the list of registered workers, the list of trainees, the whereabouts of employees, etc. They answered all our questions and everything was flawless."
Tan Yang gave everyone a brief introduction to the basic background of the company.
New Hope Housekeeping Company was established in 1990. Its original name was Little Sun Agency Service Company. Its main service targets were migrant workers, whom it introduced to work as laborers on construction sites, as cleaners and security guards in property companies, and as caregivers for the elderly and children in some families. The business is just average, neither good nor bad, and I can support myself.
In 1993, the company was bought by Huang Jinfeng and renamed New Hope Housekeeping Company, focusing on the nanny industry and serving only women, more precisely women between the ages of 18 and 40.
Strangely enough, after changing its name and owner, this company became more and more famous in the industry, its service scope became larger and larger, and even people came from other places to ask them for nannies.
Both Fan Lingwei and Shu Lan had connections with New Hope Housekeeping Company. The period when they disappeared was the early stage of the company's transformation. Tan Yang led his team to investigate the company.
"But you have seen the result." Tan Yang shrugged. "On the surface, there is no problem with the company. As long as women who meet their requirements come to the company to find a job, they will first register their information and take a physical examination, and then undergo simple pre-job training. Once someone is willing to find a family nanny, the company will recommend them. We can see the whereabouts of all employees in the employment information list. The company will follow up with the employer every six months. If the other party is not satisfied, they will replace the nanny and strive to maximize the employer's satisfaction. Perhaps it is because of this dedicated service. We have followed up with several families, and every family praised it and said that New Hope's nanny service is the best in the country."
Tan Yang thought for a moment and added some more information: "Oh, by the way, the CEO of that company is a woman, Huang Jinfeng, who is said to be a Hong Kong businessman with a sharp vision. Because New Hope Housekeeping Company has Hong Kong capital injection, the city's policies are very friendly to them and have given them a lot of preferential treatment."
"Initially, we suspected that New Hope Domestic Service Company was a domestic service agency on the surface, but was actually engaged in human trafficking behind the scenes. However, after investigation, we found that the company's management process was very transparent and we could not find any problems at all. Therefore, we later dispelled our suspicion of New Hope Domestic Service Company and thought that we might be overly sensitive. After all, the two girls were migrant workers, so it was reasonable for them to look for a domestic service company."
Gong Weiguo asked: "Then why did you suggest that we investigate this company?"
Tan Yang glanced at him and said, "We initially suspected that the girls were trafficked, but we had no clue. But now the two girls are back, and their families said they were working away from home, which actually confirmed our initial guess. It is not easy for two girls who are unfamiliar with the place to find a job that they can work for three years. If it weren't for the company's introduction, they would never have been able to leave. Therefore, we once again suspected New Hope Housekeeping Company."
Tan Yang's analysis was very logical and well-founded. Xia Mufan nodded without hesitation: "Okay, then we will start the investigation from New Hope Housekeeping Company."
Tan Yang made another suggestion: "I have dealt with Mr. Huang from that company. He is very charismatic and never leaks anything he says. If you want to investigate this company, it's best not to do it in the name of the police."
Xia Mufan frowned slightly: "A private visit in disguise?"
Tan Yang laughed: "It's up to you, Captain Xia, to decide how to do it. I won't interfere with how you approach this company."
Tan Yang's smile had a bit of the flavor of that old fox Fang Yuan.
Xia Mufan understood his subtext. As long as it was legal and compliant, it would be okay to take some small measures.
Xia Mufan smiled faintly: "Okay, I understand."
Tan Yang was a smart man. He stopped at the point, smiled and raised his hand: "Well, I wish you all the best." After that, he said goodbye and left.
As soon as Tan Yang left, the office suddenly became lively again.
Sun Xianbing asked: "Captain Xia, what is our next move?"
Feng Xiaoyu was a little nervous: "Captain Xia, you're not going to ask me to be a babysitter to infiltrate the company, are you? I really have no experience in this matter."
Gong Weiguo looked Feng Xiaoyu up and down and said, "You look like a girl from the county town, not a country girl."
Before Xia Mufan could say anything, Gong Weiguo turned his head and looked at her again: "Although you are a child from the countryside, you can tell at a glance that you are a person with your own ideas and difficult to handle. You are not the honest and decent type they want."
Well, Gong Weiguo quickly foiled Feng Xiaoyu and Xia Mufan's plan to infiltrate the "enemy".
Xia Mufan noticed what Gong Weiguo had just said, raised his eyes and looked at him thoughtfully: "He is honest and easy to control?"
Gong Weiguo said: "Yes, didn't you notice that Fan Lingwei and Shulan are both girls who have many brothers and sisters in their families. They are hardworking, hardworking, and honest children."
Feng Xiaoyu added: "Besides being hardworking, honest, and easy to control, they have another thing in common."
After a pause, Feng Xiaoyu said: "They are both 18 years old and in good health. You can tell from the photos that they have thick eyebrows, big eyes, rosy cheeks, and thick black hair. They look very healthy at first glance."
"Ah!" Yu Jing suddenly shouted.
Everyone turned their eyes to him: "Dayu, what's wrong with you?"
Yu Jing is the oldest member of the special operations team. He is already 27 years old this year. His family has already started arranging blind dates for him and wants to find a good girl to marry in his hometown.
When he went home for the Chinese New Year this year, Yu Jingxiang had kissed several times and had some experience. He pursed his lips and said with some embarrassment the idea that suddenly popped into his mind just now.
"From the perspective of the elderly, the commonality of these two girls can be summed up in one sentence: they are easy to bear children. What do you think? They disappeared for three years, and when they returned home, their family members were unwilling to mention what they did. Were they sold by the housekeeping company to be wives and children for others?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
In ancient times, there was the practice of taking concubines and pawning wives.
If some wealthy families have no children, they will select some girls who are easy to give birth to from the people and spend money to buy them as concubines. The task of these girls is to give birth to children, and they must give birth to boys.
There are also some people who, in order to ensure that the other party can give birth to a boy, specifically look for women from poor families who have already given birth to boys. They spend money to buy her from the woman's husband and then send her back to her original family after she gives birth to a child. This is called pawning a wife.
Have two children in three years, and the time limit for pawning a wife is generally three years.
Hearing this possibility, everyone couldn't help but shudder. It's already a new society, but there are still people who treat women as reproductive tools? It's so abominable!
When she thought of this possibility, Feng Xiaoyu, as a woman, could no longer sit still. Whether it is an infertile couple looking for a girl to be a surrogate mother, or a wretched man keeping a girl to carry on the family line, these are all violations of women's rights and are absolutely not allowed under current laws!
Feng Xiaoyu stood up and said, "How about letting Ye Zhi pretend to look for a job and try out the options there?" It was still winter vacation and Ye Zhi was reviewing his lessons at home. She is honest and hardworking. Since leaving her parents, she has been living with her brother and sister-in-law. She eats well, sleeps well, has a rosy complexion and is in good health. If she goes to New Hope Housekeeping Company to find a job, it might be possible.
Xia Mufan shook his head and rejected Feng Xiaoyu's plan: "Although Ye Zhi's image meets their requirements, the operation is dangerous and it is not appropriate to let outsiders participate."
Feng Xiaoyu was a little anxious: "What should we do? We can't alert the enemy, but we have to conduct an in-depth investigation. This is not easy."
Xia Mufan was confident: "Don't worry, I'll arrange it."
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