Chapter 27
Chen Pu loosened his hands on her waist without any expression. Li Qingyao got up, and then he got up. She patted the mud off her body and clapped her hands, but he didn't even pat it off. He just stood quietly behind her.
"You have to listen to what I say," he said. "To be a criminal police officer, you must first learn to protect yourself."
Li Qingyao felt a little sour after hearing this, and he rarely refrained from arguing with him, so he said, "I understand."
"Let's wait until they come to explore," he said.
The two stood there quietly waiting for a while. Li Qingyao drew a few circles on the ground with one foot and suddenly said, "Chen Pu, you just hugged me."
Chen Pu's heart skipped a beat.
finally.
Is she finally starting over? Did she forgive him? But he didn't know whether to be happy or distressed...
Li Qingyao looked up at him, his eyes were light and his tone was compassionate: "Twenty-nine years, you hugged a woman, you are not clean anymore, what should I do?"
Chen Pu was stunned for a moment, then he laughed out loud, his tone became lazy: "It's not a big deal, it's work demand, you should understand, I'm a man, if I hug you, I'm taking advantage. But you..." He squinted at her: "You've never been hugged by a man, right? Hey, it happened suddenly and I was anxious to save people, there was nothing I could do, don't cry when you go home tonight."
Li Qingyao smiled: "Who of you and I has ever been in love? How do you know I have never been hugged by anyone? But it's your first time hugging a woman, right? When you get off work and go home, don't be reluctant to wash your hands."
Chen Pu: Damn!
There is no point in continuing this conversation. Li Qingyao is just here to cause trouble. Chen Pu simply turned around and walked aside, calling others to ask why they hadn't arrived yet.
Li Qingyao absolutely could not accept Chen Pu yelling at her. If he dared to say anything harsh, he would be stepping on her line. At this moment, she had regained a point, feeling relaxed both physically and mentally. She turned her head to glance at his back again, her gaze sliding from his broad shoulders to his thin waist, and then to his two straight long legs. She stared at him for a few seconds and quickly looked away.
After Chen Pu finished the call, he looked back and saw Li Qingyao looking down at his phone. The fingers that had been hanging by his side moved, and the soft and delicate touch just now seemed to still be between his fingers. He rubbed his fingers together again and put his hands in his trouser pockets.
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The police took some effort to find the original owner of the van, but he had left Xiangcheng for five years and had left the van on the road outside his former store without taking care of it. He didn't even want the car because it was too old.
Although there were surveillance cameras on that road, the police searched for a month and did not see the car. In other words, you have no idea when the car was lost, nor do you know where the suspect got the car. It is possible that the car changed hands several times during these years before it landed in the hands of the suspect. This workload is so huge that it will take a while to find out the answer.
The clues were completely cut off.
In the past few days, the second team has been participating in a carpet search in accordance with the overall deployment of the Criminal Police Team, visiting every scrap collection station and used car dealership, but no one has seen this van.
That night, Chen Pu and Li Qingyao finished a day's search and returned to the team exhausted. No one else was there and the office was empty.
The two sat for a while, then Chen Pu stood up and walked out. Li Qingyao asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go find my master."
"What's the matter?"
Chen Pu turned around and smiled: "You are quite nosy. Go talk to him. Do you want to follow?"
Li Qingyao followed.
It was late at night, and Ding Guoqiang was sitting in his office, smoking heavily and frowning as he read the investigation progress reports submitted by various groups. Seeing them come in, he put out his cigarette and said, "Sit down."
Chen Pu pulled the chair away for Li Qingyao and then sat down himself. Ding Guoqiang narrowed his eyes slightly and his gaze circled across the two people's faces.
Chen Pu said, "Master, I personally think that the current direction of investigation is wrong. It feels like we are being led by the murderer all the time."
Ding Guoqiang picked up the big teapot, took a sip, and said, "If you want to drink tea, pour it yourself. Don't I know that the investigation is difficult now? But you have also investigated. Luo Hongmin has a harmonious family, no enemies, and no financial or emotional disputes. This car and this person are the only clues we have at the moment."
"That can't be said," Chen Pu said. "Once the surveillance video was discovered, the main police force was focused on this. In fact, only a simple investigation of Luo Hongmin's life background was conducted, and it was not in-depth. At present, it cannot be concluded that the people around him have no motive to kill."
Ding Guoqiang: "So what new ideas do you have?"
During the actual investigation process, Ding Guoqiang was very willing to listen to opinions from below. He himself had come up from the front line, and he knew very well that in many cases, the criminal police under him had more comprehensive and detailed information than their leaders. Some criminal police have strong intuition during the investigation process, which is something that leaders who do not face the front line do not have.
Chen Pu is a policeman with strong intuition and talent.
As for Li Qingyao, Ding Guoqiang looked at the girl who was sitting quietly next to Chen Pu with a clear expression. Ding Guoqiang had never had direct contact with her, but he remembered that in the work summary that Chen Pu submitted every month, he only praised Li Qingyao, either this way or that way.
...Then there should be quite a bit of spiritual energy.
Chen Pu said: "First of all, I think this case was definitely not committed by the wanted criminal Sun Dazhi. The murderer acted too familiar with Xiangcheng, and Sun Dazhi did not have such conditions. The man in the surveillance video was wearing the same clothes as Sun Dazhi, and it was just a feint."
Ding Guoqiang thought for a moment and said, "How can this murderer predict the future? There are so many wanted criminals in the country, and Sun Dazhi is unknown. If it weren't for Zhou Yangxin's genius, we wouldn't have been able to find out where to go in our investigation. How did the murderer know that he would mislead us?"
Chen Pu smiled, leaned back in his chair, put his arms on the armrests, clasped his fingers, and said, "He doesn't know. When playing chess, there is a kind of chess piece called an idle piece. It may be useful or useless if you put it casually. Dressing up as a wanted criminal is an idle piece placed by the murderer. It is good if it can mislead us, but it is no harm if it can't. That's why I think the murderer is a master."
Ding Guoqiang wanted to touch the cigarette again, but he saw Li Qingyao sitting next to him, looking at him with a pair of bright eyes, so he had to hold back and said, "Go on."
"We thought before that the perpetrator of this crime was either a local tyrant or a traitor. But now it seems that this murder could not be arranged in a few days. It took a long time. He calculated every step so accurately and was so scheming. Master, look back at the crime scene. The whole process of robbing money and killing people is very complete, from scouting the location, to breaking the window, to the scars on the body of the deceased to force a confession, to the messy footprints in the room looking for the safe, to the emptied safe. The details of the crime are sufficient and the process of the crime is clear. I want to say, what if even these are deliberately disguised by the murderer?"
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