Case Files 013

Liang Mei had to leave with her child under such inconvenient circumstances. There was something certainly wrong with this. All our questions can b answered if we could find Liang Mei, but the crux of the matter was that how to find her in Dongxing City? Where would she have gone? Where did you hide, Liang Mei?

I couldn’t help shaking my head; I forwarded the picture to Gu Chen’s QQ, and at the same time sent a text to him, asking to save the picture and hand the picture to Sister Mary. So, that she could check if she could check the image and see if she can find any use clues from it.

Now that all this has happened, I have no choice but to say, “Okay, Manager Wang, I’ll give a QQ number, which will be available 24 hours a day. If Liang Mei has something to say and has contacted you, you can give her this number, okay? Thank you for your cooperation.”

“It's nothing.” Manager Wang shook his head and said, “This is what we should do, and, to be honest, I am also a little worried about Liang Mei. If you have news about Liang Mei, please inform our company as well.”

I nodded.

After being busy for so long and running around on the road without break, looking at my watch, it was already more than 2:40 in the afternoon. Walking out of the office building, my stomach is already growling with hunger. But seeing how Zhao Mingkun seemed to have endless strength, I couldn't help but say, “Zhao Mingkun, you run for so long every day, and you only drink a little water at night, aren't you hungry?”

Zhao Mingkun shrugged and said, “If you have had the experience of drinking only a glass of water for three days, you will understand how powerful a person's survival instinct is. A day without food is not a big deal for a person at all.”

Looking at Zhao Mingkun's understatement, it seems that drinking only a glass of water for three days is a small thing for her. I just don't know when this happened to Zhao Mingkun. But for people like me who starve if they don't eat a meal, food can't be ignored at all.

I opened my mouth and said, “Since I have experienced this kind of starvation, I should eat as much as I can when I can.”

“Yes.” Zhao Mingkun said.

But now was an awkward time to eat. It was too late for midday lunch, and was too early for dinner. Almost all the restaurants on the streets were closed, and after walking for a long time, I could not find a single place to fill my stomach. At this rate, will I be the first person to ever die of starvation outside a restaurant?

After walking for a while, I saw a small shed someone and set up. It was at the entrance of the alley. A cauldron stood on the side, and it was boiling hot noodles. In the three small pots on the side, there was fried sauce, tomatoes and eggs, brine and so on. On the small table for diners, the green onion-mustard-chili sauce had everything. I was drooling, and my stomach was growling.

I pulled Zhao Mingkun's sleeve and said, “I said, I don't know if any restaurants are still open right now. Let's just eat here, what do you think?”

Zhao Mingkun nodded and said, “Yes, I'm not very picky about what I eat.”

I shouted to the boss from a distance: “Two bowls of noodles!”

“Okay!” The boss nodded and said, “Two bowls.”

Zhao Mingkun hurriedly stopped and said, “No, only a small bowl will be enough for me.”

I opened my mouth and said, “I will eat what you can't finish, but to tell you the truth, I'm hungry now, and feel like I can eat a whole cow."

Zhao Mingkun nodded and did not refute.

The hot boiling water was steaming. The vendor put the pulled noodles into the pot, and watched the noodles tossing in the water like small dragons. After a while, I felt the aroma of noodles coming. In less than a moment, the noodles were cooked through and looked firm.

The boss held the shackle, scooped it clockwise in the hot noodle soup, then turned his left hand around, picked up a bowl with his right hand and covered it up, and the bowl of noodles went into the bowl. The whole technique was experienced and skilled, which was really a kind of enjoyment. And I poured the sauces on the surface by myself, I brought it over and put the pepper in it.

Zhao Mingkun said: “Okay, let's put pepper like this without have a care for money.”

I smiled and said, “I love spicy food.”

While eating, I didn’t care about anything anymore. After taking two or three sips, Zhao Mingkun suddenly looked up. She looked at me as if she was speechless. I kept gobbing it up. Regardless of how uneducated I looked, I continued to suck the noodles aloud.

“This young man eats so well that even I feel like eating a little.” The boss laughed.

I looked up at the boss and smiled. But I didn't expect a piece of noodles to be thrown into the air, and with it also the soup. I only felt my eyes suddenly irritate, and I subconsciously reached out to rub my eyes. I felt my eyes were burning, as if I was going blind.

I closed my eyes and rubbed. The boss happened to see this scene and quickly said, “Don't rub, don't rub, the more you rub, the more painful it will be.”

As he said, the boss handed me a wet towel and said, “Wipe it with this. Ah, it looks like chili oil. This might hurt, ah, sometimes when this happens, I want to pluck out my own eyes. ”

I wiped my eyes, and when I heard the boss's words, my heart throbbed suddenly, and my heart immediately brightened.

I slammed the towel on the table and said, “Boss, you are really amazing.”

The boss smiled and said, “What's the matter? Isn't it because the chili oil got into your eyes? It's a small matter. But eat slowly in the future. Look at what you eat; your eyes are already red and swollen.”

Zhao Mingkun glanced at me and said, “What's the matter, are you okay?”

I blinked, although there was still some pain, but it was much better than the moment before. I didn't expect a drop of chili oil to be so harmful, and what if it was something more powerful? At this moment, my mind had become clear, and the things that have bogged me for several days, … I finally had a perspective on them.

Thinking of this, I felt quite happy, and I soon finished eating with Zhao Mingkun.

I said, “Let's go, let's go to Wang Xin's house to see. Yang Licheng should already be at Wang Xin's house now.”

Zhao Mingkun said: “Okay. The remaining twelve of the thirteen people, although six of them have died, we have met all of these twelve people before, when they were alive, and Wang Xin is the only one left. I don’t know if we can get ahead of the murderer this time.”

I nodded and said, “I already have some conjectures in my heart. However, before the news from Gu Chen's side comes, I still can't draw a conclusion by myself. However, from this point of view, this case is coming to an end, already.”

“Boss, bill!” I said.

Sitting on Zhao Mingkun's motorcycle, I closed my eyes and started thinking about the case. The case has begun to form a complete set of clues in my mind, and now, as long as I can find a few points that I can't explain yet, the truth will come out.

Zhao Mingkun seemed to know what I was thinking and didn't bother me.

After about an hour, we reached Wang Xin's house. The place where Wang Xin lived was not high-end, but the place is very large. It was a duplex building on the second floor, which was different from the suite he borrowed before. We contacted Yang Licheng and found that Yang Licheng had arrived at Wang Xin's house.

Yang Licheng took us into Wang Xin's house and said that Wang Xin was already waiting for us upstairs.

“Wang Xin's home is not bad.” Zhao Mingkun said involuntarily when he looked at the house.

Yang Licheng smiled softly: “This is not Wang Xin's house, this house belongs to someone else, but they went abroad to travel. I am afraid that no one will look at this house, and the antiques, calligraphy and paintings were lost. So I found a friend to lend us this space, but ah, relying on this house, Wang Xin tricked a lot of girls into staying overnight.”

It turns out that this was the case, which was in line with my previous conjecture.

I walked up to the second floor, but two tall, muscular men in suits blocked me.

“This is?” I looked at Yang Licheng.

Yang Licheng smiled and said, “Didn't I tell you before? We asked the bodyguards to watch us two for 24 hours. Now that so many people have died, Wang Xin and I can be considered a hit. No. Four bodyguards have been hired, two here and two in the house. When the murderer is caught, we will be free.”

Yang Licheng said, “It's okay, these two are police officers.”

With that, we came to the second floor.

Outside a door on the second floor, a bodyguard was standing outside. When he saw that Yang Licheng was back, he nodded to us and opened the door behind him.

Yang Licheng knocked on the door with a special knocking method, and it could be seen that the two were still very cautious.

After a while, a bodyguard opened the door, and the three of us walked in.

I looked around and saw a man leaning on a long sofa. This person was none other than Wang Xin. And Wang Xin's hand is now fiddling with something like a censer. He smelled the smell inside, and said to Yang Licheng: “Burning incense and drinking tea, we two play chess here, watch TV, and also have a good time, don't worry, it's so safe here, I don’t think the murderer can get in here.”

I looked around. The space here was quite large. Only this door was could lead in and out of the duplex. The windows were open inside the house, which means that no one can sneak in.

At this time, Wang Xin had already lit the incense burner, looked at us and said, “You two are policemen.”

I nodded and said, “We met at the Royal Garden Hotel.”

Wang Xin patted his forehead and said, “I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot, but ah, we are quite safe here, so you don't need to worry about it. Brother Yang and I, we’ll just wait for you to catch the murderer. Come, brother Yang, sit down and let's play Go. What is this called, it's called Burning Incense Hand Talk, right..."

(End of this chapter)