Chapter 19
According to traditional Chinese medicine, early autumn is warm and dry, while late autumn is cool and dry. In September, the scorching sun still shines brightly on the earth, with light and shadows mottled among the green leaves, but the body surface temperature is much more comfortable. But for criminal police who are often on the road, it is hard not to feel dry and thirsty. Especially a man with a strong temper like Chen Pu, his lips were all chapped.
Before getting off the car, Li Qingyao first picked up the lily, lotus seed and polygonatum water, took a big sip, then picked up another bottle and touched Chen Pu's arm.
This is a medicine and food package prepared by Yuan Ling Clinic according to the season, which moistens the lungs and reduces dryness. Li Qingyao has been making reservations with his small electric rice cooker every night recently and bringing the rice to him in the morning.
In the past, Chen Pu would definitely think that these things were just a waste of money and that the people who bought them were a little bit stupid... But now, as he held the same water cup handed to him by Li Qingyao, he just felt that having a girlfriend was different. In the past, no one cared whether he was dry or not. Of course, he was still too embarrassed to drink this health water, which was said to not only hydrate but also have a whitening effect, in front of the other men in the criminal police team. However, Li Qingyao, who had no intention of making their relationship public for the time being, had originally asked him to drink in private. So he always drank happily behind his teammates' backs.
After completing today's hydration routine together, the two entered a used car shop without a sign. This place is located in the suburbs, the police are well aware of the situation, and the transactions are naturally not so standardized.
The criminal police team has just traced back that a year ago, a van of the same model as the one driven by Lu Xing left this store. Today, Chen Pu and Li Qingyao came to verify.
The shop owner is a man in his thirties, a local, and he looks very shrewd and slick. When they heard that they wanted to check a car, the boss opened the computer system at first and said that he couldn't find anything and it was not sold by his store. But Chen Pu was very familiar with the tactics. He used threats and inducements to point out the non-compliance of some transaction procedures in the store and the possible tax evasion. The store owner immediately became obedient and hesitantly took out another paper sales record.
These are naturally some vehicles that the store purchased through scrapping or other informal channels and then sold.
Chen Pu and Li Qingyao flipped to the corresponding time period and found the sales record of the van, but there was only a signature of the buyer on it, and no specific information, including a copy of the ID card, address, and contact information.
The buyer's name is "Xue Li".
"Do you remember what that person looked like?" Chen Pu asked.
The store owner said he had no recollection of it at all, as it had been too long and the store's surveillance records had long been overwritten and cleaned up regularly.
Li Qingyao asked: "Why didn't the buyer leave any information?"
The shop owner laughed dryly and said, "I must have checked the ID card at the time. I check it for every car buyer. I have to protect my own interests. Those copies...may have been lost."
Chen Pu could guess what was going on - this type of car was originally priced very low, and the transaction was informal, so the buyers mainly paid quickly and were unwilling to leave any information, so the store owner would most likely turn a blind eye.
Li Qingyao picked up the sales record again and stared at it with a frown.
Chen Pu: "What's the problem?"
"Don't you think this handwriting looks familiar?" Li Qingyao took out his cell phone.
During this period, they investigated Xiang Siling a lot. There were many transcripts signed by Xiang Siling in the mobile phone, as well as some important information of Huayu Group, some of which had Xiang Siling's handwriting on them.
Chen Pu took a closer look and compared the two. Although the names were different, the fonts looked quite similar.
Chen Pu gave Li Qingyao a thumbs up and said, "Your memory is second to none."
Li Qingyao smiled calmly: "It's just a matter of taking a few glances."
Chen Pu's heart was slightly moved.
Since their relationship was confirmed that night, both of them were assigned to the team to investigate another homicide case in the next two days. Colleagues took turns on duty and rested, sleeping in the duty room, and the two of them didn't even go home. Until this morning, when the case came to an end and this new clue came up, they thought the two of them were the most suitable to investigate it, so they came here together.
Looking at his girlfriend's calm and arrogant appearance, Chen Pu wanted to touch her head or pinch her face, but there were people around, so he didn't dare to touch her. He looked at her deeply again, took out his cell phone, walked aside, and whispered to a colleague in the bureau.
"Help me check for someone named Xue Li. Her age is unknown, and she doesn't have an ID number. That's right... no information at all."
The colleague on the other end of the phone tapped away on the computer for a while and said, "Chen Pu, do you know how many people named Xue Li there are in the entire province? How can I find out? Can I print them all out for you?"
Chen Pu thought for a moment and said, "You can filter according to a few conditions: female, between 20 and 40 years old, with some kind of relationship with Huayu Group, such as employment or business dealings; or with Xiang Siling, such as her classmates or distant relatives. First see if there is anyone named Xue Li within this range."
“That might take 1-2 days.”
"Okay, thank you for your hard work. I'll ask Yan Yong to buy you some milk tea later."
The female colleague on the other end laughed: "Captain Chen, every time you ask me to help you privately, you ask the kids in the team to run errands and deliver some food and drinks. When will the most handsome man in the criminal police team personally deliver it to me? Let me also gain face in front of my colleagues, haha."
Chen Pu smiled and said, "Maybe not, my girlfriend won't let me." "Ah? When did you get a girlfriend?"
"It's been quite a while. I'm busy now. Chat later. Thanks."
After hanging up the phone, he walked back to Li Qingyao. She was still looking through the store's information. Without even looking up, she said, "Didn't you say it wasn't public? It's only been a few days, and you're already showing off to the lady in the household registration department?"
“She doesn’t know who it is.”
Li Qingyao put the information down and said, "However, I didn't stop you from delivering milk tea to people in person. If you want to, just do it. That's how you express your sincere gratitude."
Chen Pu nudged her shoulder with his arm: "Why, you want to bait me? How can an honest person like me be fooled?"
Li Qingyao smiled, looked at the sales book again, and returned to the case: "Could it be a fake name, and there is no such person at all?"
"Not necessarily. Although Xiang Siling planned carefully, he is not a criminal veteran after all. This is his first time doing this. I believe what the store owner said. He will check the ID card. Xiang Siling has no experience and is afraid of making mistakes. It is very likely that he really used someone else's ID card as a shield."
When the two men came out of the auto repair shop, it was already evening. The sky was filled with red clouds, and all the work they had scheduled for today had been completed. After getting in the car, Li Qingyao said, "After dinner, let's continue reading Ye Songming's diary." "Okay."
In the past two days, the two of them took advantage of their free time at work to read most of Ye Songming's notebooks, and now there are only two left to read. But disappointingly, Ye Songming mostly remembered things about his medical practice and his own life. There was no more information about Xiang Siling in the subsequent diaries.
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