Chapter 94
Two hours later, Chen Pu and Zhou Yangxin were on a high-speed train bound for Yunnan.
This time, the two did not sit in second class with other colleagues, but in business class. Chen Pu insisted on going and forced himself to be discharged from the hospital, and Ding Guoqiang had no choice. However, Chen Pu also valued his life. If his wound worsened, he would have to be hospitalized again, and he would not be able to find Li Qingyao in the first place. So he paid out of his own pocket, booked a business class seat, and lay down the entire time to let his wound air out, and he was also able to have the team doctor come over to give him an IV. So Zhou Yangxin also took a business class seat.
The train sped along and dusk gradually fell, but Chen Pu was not idle either. He kept reading the messages in the work group and the various materials at hand.
The place they were going to was Pu'er.
At the beginning, Lu Xing smuggled out of the country from Pu'er and handed Li Meiling over to several people he didn't know.
The end point of the highway where Buwawa was discovered happens to be Pu'er.
What is certain is that Xie Xinrui also went to Pu'er with Li Qingyao.
But Pu'er is a prefecture-level city. No matter how underdeveloped it is, it is still that big. And they haven't tracked down the car that Xie Xinrui was driving.
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Chen Pu supported his face with one hand and kept thinking, how can he find them faster? Where is the breakthrough?
After having no clue for a long time, he suddenly remembered a simple and powerful sentence Ding Guoqiang once said: When you have no ideas or clues, you can try to trace the root of the problem, which can often help you find the answer.
What is the root cause of the current predicament he is facing?
——Looking for Xie Xinrui and Li Qingyao is actually looking for Li Meiling.
To find Li Meiling, where is the root?
Of course, Xiang Siling who is already dead.
Chen Pu frowned, looked up at the scenery passing by outside the window, and suddenly, his mind became active.
He thought of a question.
A potential problem about Xiang Siling that they had previously ignored, inconspicuous, but very contradictory:
Xiang Siling, a native of Xiangcheng, joined the family business as a senior executive after graduating from university. How did she know the local tyrant in Yunnan, so that she could help Lu Xing to smuggle and hide Li Meiling in his hands?
Don't say that she met him by chance while traveling in Yunnan, that's impossible. This kind of local tyrant belongs to all kinds of people, has a secretive circle, and may even belong to a criminal group. Most people want to knock on the door, but can’t find the way in. In Xiang Siling's more than 20 years of life, it is almost impossible for her to have any intersection with this circle.
So how did she do it?
Chen Pu's brain was working at high speed. He made repeated estimates and speculations, tapping the pen in his hand quickly on the paper.
Don’t be in a hurry, Chen Pu, think about it slowly. He said to himself, You must have figured it out.
There must be some clues or traces that have appeared in this entire case, but were ignored by him and by everyone else.
The detective's intuition told him that there must be one.
Find them.
He always found them.
…
At a certain moment, a ray of light suddenly shone into Chen Pu's mind.
He remembered something.
Lu Xing's confession mentioned that the person who took Li Meiling away in Pu'er was a tall man with a floral tattoo on his arm. It was dark and he couldn't see their faces clearly.
But why did Chen Pu feel that the term "man with flowery arm tattoo" had appeared somewhere in this case?
Where is it?
Who mentioned this man?
Lu Xing, Li Meiling, Xiang Siling, Luo Hongmin...
Sun Yuanan, Ye Songming...
Ye Songming!
He remembered.
Ye Songming also mentioned a man with a flowery arm tattoo in his diary. Those were the days when he left Xiangcheng. He was hiding the abortion report and was in a state of panic and suspicion all day long. But twice, he was followed by the same man. Once in front of the clinic, and another time he and his girlfriend were in the park.
This man with the flowery tattoo on his arm is most likely Luo Hongmin's man. During the sensitive period when Luo Huaizheng was detained, the man stared at Master and Apprentice Sun Yuanan and Ye Songming and told them not to talk nonsense. Luo Hongmin is a contractor who started from scratch and gradually grew stronger. Their industry is very complicated and they must have some shady people under them.
So the question is, could the man with the flowery arm tattoo who hid Li Meiling be the same person that Ye Songming met?
If so, what are the similarities and connections between them?
…
It’s Xiang Siling!
Thinking of Xiang Siling, Chen Pu suddenly remembered another little thing.
As early as when she was overturning Luo Huaizheng's case, Xiang Siling pretended to have post-traumatic stress disorder and did not remember what happened that night. She also blamed Xiang Wei for sexually assaulting her. At that time, she also gave many reasons why she did not call the police - because Li Meiling threatened her with nude photos and said that she would smear the fact that she had a relationship with the gangster. Xiang Siling also mentioned at the time that if she didn't obey, they threatened to sell her to Southeast Asia.
How could a normal person, a pair of Xiangcheng parents, say such things even if it was to threaten someone? Li Meiling and Xiang Wei definitely don't have this energy.
It’s Luo Hongmin.
This threat was made by Luo Hongmin to Xiang Siling.
In other words, Xiang Siling might be very clear that Luo Hongmin has connections in Yunnan and Southeast Asia.
So, is it possible that after Luo Hongmin's death, this network of contacts was used by Xiang Siling to target Luo Hongmin's wife Li Meiling?
This is really ironic.
Chen Pu realized that this possibility was very high. Because Xiang Siling is best at making use of all the people around him who can be used. After Luo Hongmin's death, Xiang Siling took over all his connections and property, and it was easy for him to bribe someone involved in organized crime.
After all, the vast majority of people involved in organized crime are after financial gain.
Therefore, now as long as we find the man with the flower arm tattoo, we will find Li Meiling, and we will also find Xie Xinrui and Li Qingyao.
Chen Pu simply stopped lying down. He sat up, crossed his legs, and kept calculating. Zhou Yangxin next to him shouted, "Hey, ancestor, why are you sitting up?" He ignored him.
It has to be fast, it has to be fast. No one knows what else this madman Xie Xinrui can do.
What is the fastest way to find a man with a flower arm tattoo?
Chen Pu thought of a name - Xue Li.
The skin that Xiang Siling once used. He felt that given Xiang Siling's cautiousness, she would definitely not use her own phone number to contact the man with the tattoo on his arm. Then she would most likely use Xue Li's number.
Chen Pu immediately made a phone call and asked his colleagues in the bureau to screen the mobile phone address books of Luo Hongmin, Xiang Siling and "Xue Li", as well as the communication records of the past two years, to see which numbers were from Yunnan.
When the high-speed train was about to arrive at the station, colleagues’ survey results were fed back.
The result was beyond Chen Pu's expectations.
There were no phone numbers saved in Xue Li's mobile phone, nor was there any communication record with anyone in Yunnan. Yes, Chen Pu realized that he had guessed wrong, otherwise he would have discovered something when the police thoroughly investigated "Xue Li" before.
There are five Yunnan numbers in Luo Hongmin’s mobile phone address book, two of which are local officials and two are senior executives of Huayu Group’s Yunnan branch. There is another number, the name is "Quan", the identity is unknown, and there has been no contact in the past two years.
In addition to the mobile phone numbers of the two senior executives of the Yunnan branch, Xiang Siling's mobile phone also stored the contact numbers of six poor students from all over the country whom she sponsored. They were all marked, such as XXX, a poor student from a certain province.
One of the poor students was from Yunnan, and his number was registered in Pu'er. Registration information also shows that this number is on the ID card of an 18-year-old boy in a township under Pu'er, Yunnan. Looking at the boy's photo, he looks unremarkable.
However, after careful checking, colleagues in the bureau discovered that this number was the same as the number called "Quan" in Luo Hongmin's mobile phone.
But if he was really a poor student sponsored by Xiang Siling, how come his number appeared in Luo Hongmin’s phone several years ago?
Chen Pu stared at the number for a while, suddenly picked up the phone, and dialed the number in Zhou Yangxin's shocked eyes.
After seven or eight rings, the other party finally picked up, and the voice was impatient: "Hello? Who is this?"
It was clearly the voice of an adult man, with a deep and deep voice.
Zhou Yangxin's heart instantly rose to his throat.
Chen Pu held the phone, his eyes were heavy, his mind was racing. In an instant, he smiled: "Brother Quan, it was President Xiang Siling who asked me to call you to ask if the person has arrived."
There was silence on the other end.
Chen Pu did not speak either, his breath was calm.
The other party then said: "Why doesn't she call herself?"
Chen Pu felt as if a huge rock had fallen from his heart, and he said more naturally, "It's been a tight situation lately, so it's not very convenient."
Brother Quan on the other end laughed and said, "I thought so. Who are you?"
"Of course I work for Mr. Xiang, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten this number."
The other party hummed and said, "Don't worry, President Xie and her assistant have just arrived. They will rest for a night. I will hand the person over to them tomorrow. There will be no mistakes."
This wave of daring operations made Zhou Yangxin dumbfounded.
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yangxin called Ding Guoqiang without Chen Pu's instructions. Chen Pu took over and said, "Master, send someone to track and locate a phone number immediately. I found Xie Xinrui, Li Qingyao, and Li Meiling!"
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