Du Wei and Li Hu returned to their private investigation office. Li Hu said,""This case seems easy, but it's actually difficult. Zheng Xiaomei left Guangzhou but didn't go home. It was obvious that she had gone out of town. The territory of the Celestial Empire is so vast. Hiding a person is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Without any clues, where are we going to find him?”"When a thief wants to commit a crime, he always leaves some clues," Dewey said. Tomorrow, we'll make another trip to the South Hill Villa and investigate carefully to see if we can find any clues. For example, the footprints on the ground and the fingerprints on the door lock; There was also the security guard on the outer gate. Although he was only guarding the outer gate and his workplace was not in the inner court, and he did not care about the matters in the inner court, it could not be ruled out that he was in contact with the people in the inner court and the thieves.”"We don't have a target now, so we can only expand the search area."”Therefore, Dewey called Zhang Jingye.""Mr. Stanley, tomorrow, we'll be going to the Southhill Villa to do a further detailed investigation. We'll also look at the scene and talk to the relevant people to find clues to solve the case. Please inform the villa staff to cooperate with us.”"Alright, I'll inform them now. I hope that you can quickly investigate and solve the case as soon as possible to find my son.”"No need to explain," Dewey said."We'll solve the case as soon as possible.”Zhang Jingye immediately called Auntie Li and told her that Dewey and Li Hu would be coming to the villa tomorrow to investigate the situation. He told her to inform Wang Dasheng and Sister Liu to cooperate with their work and not to resist.
The next day, Du Wei and Li Hu came to South Hill Villa. As Auntie Li had informed them beforehand, Wang Dasheng quickly opened the door as soon as they arrived. Auntie Li also opened the inner door and came out to welcome them. Dewey said," Auntie Li, you should be doing your job. You don't have to accompany us. We know the locations of the crime scenes. We can go by ourselves. You just have to tell them to open the door and not leave the villa. We'll find whoever we need to talk to ourselves."”"Do you still need to take out the two steel bars and the hacksaw?" Auntie Li asked. If you need it, I'll open the cabinet and get it.”Dewey said," Just take it out and put it on the coffee table in the hall. When we need to check it, we'll go and look at it ourselves. After we've finished looking, just put it on the coffee table. After we leave, you can put it away."”Auntie Li agreed and went to open the door of the building. She took out two steel bars and a small hacksaw from the cabinet and placed them on the coffee table. She then went up to the second floor to inform Sister Liu to open the bedroom door. She went to the outer guard room to inform Wang Dasheng and told them to wait for Dewey and Li Hu to talk to him.
Dewey and Li Hu went to the guardrail below the hole in the inner and outer walls to take a closer look. They found several fresh handprints on the steel bars of the guardrail, but they could not extract any fingerprints. "It seems that the thief was wearing gloves when he committed the crime, so he didn't leave any fingerprints on the guardrail," Li Hu said. From the looks of it, the thief seemed to be an experienced thief. However, from the tools used, it was obvious that he was an amateur. What do you think?" Dewey said," The tools used by the thief explained everything. He was a layman, a newbie. He was just more meticulous and thoughtful. Think about it, if a thief had an electric silent cutter, would he go to the store to buy a small ordinary hacksaw? It was time-consuming and laborious, and it was easy to make a sound. As for wearing gloves without leaving fingerprints, this was common sense. It was often shown in detective movies, and anyone with a little culture knew it.”Dewey pointed at the footprints on the ground and said,""Look at these footprints again. Although they are new, they are blurry. From these footprints, one could only tell that there were two thieves, one tall and one short, one heavy and one light. However, it was impossible to tell what size shoes they were wearing. Therefore, it was impossible to determine the height of the thief or whether it was a man or a woman. It was obvious that the thief was wearing shoe covers. All of these showed that the thief was very careful and had planned carefully before committing the crime.”
Unable to find any useful clues at the guardrail, Dewey and Li Hu went to the lobby of the building. They found three people's fingerprints on the door of the hall. After testing and comparing them, they were Auntie Li's, Zheng Xiaomei's, and Sister Liu's. They were the three women who often came here, and there was nothing unusual. He then checked the lock, the steel bar, and the hacksaw on the coffee table. It was the same as yesterday. There was nothing new. So they decided to talk to Sister Liu and Wang Dasheng.
They first went to Sister Liu's bedroom and asked about what happened that night and the next morning. Sister Liu still looked very nervous and scared, but the questions she answered were basically the same as yesterday. There was no big difference.
The two of them walked out of the hall to the garden. Li Hu said,"Sister Liu said that on the night of the crime, she slept very soundly. She didn't even know how the thief came in or how he stole the child. She didn't know until dawn when she woke up to find that the child was gone. Is this true or made up?"
Dewey analyzed," If it's fabricated, then it means that Sister Liu is the mole. She took advantage of the fact that Auntie Li was not in the inner courtyard on Sunday and Wang Dasheng could not enter the inner courtyard. She carried the child herself, quietly opened the door, and gave it to Zheng Xiaomei. If that was really the case, it proved that she and Zheng Xiaomei were accomplices. Or perhaps they had already discussed it beforehand. Sister Liu stole the child for Zheng Xiaomei, and Zheng Xiaomei gave all the 400,000 yuan she got from Mr. Stanley to Sister Liu. Think about it. If that's really the case, why didn't Sister Liu escape with Zheng Xiaomei after getting the money? Why did she wait for us to investigate her? I don't think Sister Liu and Zheng Xiaomei have such a relationship. They are both from the countryside. One is from Northern Jiangsu, and the other is from Northern Wan. They didn't know each other before, and they just met each other. It's impossible for them to have such a relationship.”
"If what Sis Liu said is true, then why is she sleeping so soundly? She did not know anything for the entire night. Moreover, according to her, this had never happened before. She had to feed the child once or twice every night.”"This can only mean that before the thief broke in, he sprayed a knockout powder spray into Sister Liu's bedroom, causing Sister Liu to be unconscious for the entire night.”
"Mr. Stanley suspects that someone put sleeping pills in Sister Liu's dinner, so she slept like a log at night. However, the dishes she had used had been washed by the restaurant, so there was no way to verify it.”
"This is just Chairman Zhang's conjecture, but it's impossible in reality. Who do you think put the sleeping pills in? Zheng Xiaomei had no chance at all. The restaurant and Wang Dasheng, firstly, couldn't get the money, and secondly, they didn't want a child, so why did they put sleeping pills? It didn't make sense. When I was a criminal police officer, I had solved cases of burglars. The thieves would first spray knockout powder into the room to make the owner unconscious. Then, they would easily break into the room. Even if they made a little noise, the owner would not be able to hear it. Who would still use sleeping pills now? That would be so troublesome! Moreover, the food was directly given to Wang Dasheng by the restaurant, and Wang Dasheng directly gave it to Sister Liu. Zheng Xiaomei had no chance to drug him.”
"Even a newbie knows how to use knockout powder?" Li Hu was still suspicious of the thief's use of knockout powder.
"Nowadays, knockout drugs are no longer rare. Take a look at the streets. There are small advertisements selling knockout drugs everywhere. Since the thief in this case was so meticulous and thoughtful, there were two living people in the bedroom, one old and one young. The old one woke up easily, and the young one cried easily. He would definitely think of using knockout powder in the bedroom.”Dewey still insisted on his opinion.
Seeing that his uncle's words were reasonable, Li Hu did not want to argue anymore. He said,"What's the point of arguing about knockout drugs and sleeping pills now? The most important thing was to find Zheng Xiaomei as soon as possible and get Mr. Stanley's son back and get the 450,000 yuan reward.”"Yes, the key is to find Zheng Xiaomei as soon as possible. If we find her, we can find the child and solve the case.”Dewey agreed with Li Hu that the key to solving the case was to find Zheng Xiaomei.
The two of them bid farewell to Auntie Li and went to the guard room outside the door. They chatted with Wang Dasheng for a while and asked about what happened that night. Unexpectedly, Wang Dasheng shook his head and didn't know anything about what happened that night. He only explained in detail what happened the next morning. It was roughly the same as what Chairman Zhang and Sister Liu had said. Seeing that they couldn't get any new information or find any new clues, they could only leave.
The two of them sat in Dewey's BMW and returned to the office. Li Hu sighed and said,""Another wasted trip! Where was the clue? Where do we start?" Dewey said,"Why did you run for nothing? As the saying goes, investigation is the beginning of solving a problem. We'll figure out the relevant situation and investigate the relevant people. Then, we'll naturally know where to start solving the case. Do you feel it? This Wang Dasheng's attitude towards us is cold, as if he's against investigating this case.”Hu Li said," He's against Mrs. Lewis because he thinks she's too strict with her management. Or he's against Mr. Stanley because he doesn't get paid enough." If he was the mole, the thief would have entered through the main door instead of using so much effort to cut the steel bars of the two guardrails.”
Dewey said,"It goes like this. I just feel that he's different from Auntie Li and Sister Liu. Auntie Li welcomes us and hopes that we can solve the case as soon as possible and find the child. Sister Liu is afraid that we will go. She is afraid that we will find out about her and be in big trouble. This Wang Dasheng seems to be suspicious of us. Is he doubting our ability to solve the case? Or was he afraid that it would be traced back to him? It's hard to guess." Li Hu said," The case happened in the inner court. He's on duty in the outer court. Mr. Zhang has stipulated that field personnel are not allowed to enter the inner court. He doesn't understand the internal situation and doesn't know how we investigate. It's normal for him to be suspicious. I thought that the villa was no longer important. The important thing was to find Zheng Xiaomei and get Mr. Stanley's son back. Where do you think she's hiding now?”
Du Wei thought for a moment and said," Mr. Zhang said that he sent reliable people to Zheng Xiaomei's house to investigate. He also visited her in-laws 'families and neighbors. They all said that Zheng Xiaomei hasn't been home for more than a year. It seems that she's really not at home." Zheng Xiaomei stole the child and didn't go home. Where could she hide? I think she might still be in Guangzhou, because the most dangerous place is also the safest place.”"I think so too," Li Hu said."Although rabbits don't eat the grass near their nests, they won't go too far from their nests." But Guangzhou is so big and the staff is so complicated. Where can we find her?”Dewey recalled that Section Chief Song seemed to have told him that Zheng Xiaomei had a classmate who was doing business under Chairman Zhang. She was the one who introduced Zheng Xiaomei to Guangzhou to give birth to Chairman Zhang's child. It was impossible for her not to know that Zheng Xiaomei was staying in Guangzhou. Li Hu felt the same. Therefore, he dialed Mr. Stanley's phone number to explain his suspicions and asked Zheng Xiaomei, a classmate from the same hometown, about her work unit and home address in Guangzhou.
Zhang Jingye told Dewey that he knew that Zheng Xiaomei's only classmate in Guangzhou was called Jin Yuying. She opened a direct sales store of Zhang's company on the street where his company was located. She lived in Room 1005, Unit 1, Building 2, Yuehai Garden, on the outskirts of Guangzhou. Jin Yuying was very greedy. He had once suspected that she had something to do with Zheng Xiaomei stealing the child. However, Jin Yuying relied on his company to do business. She was the one who introduced Zheng Xiaomei to him and even investigated Zheng Xiaomei for him. He felt that she would not be involved in this matter. Dewey said," The more you think it's impossible, the more likely it is. You can't let go of any clues when investigating a case.”He asked Zhang Jingye for Jin Yuying and Zheng Xiaomei's photos and decided to follow Jin Yuying.
Dewey and Li Hu started to follow Jin Yuying. They soon found out that Jin Yuying had a wide social circle. Sometimes she went to the outlet store to check on the work of the salespeople, and sometimes she went to the Zhang Corporation to report to Mr. Zhang about the operation of the outlet store. He asked for help, sometimes went to dance halls and nightclubs to sing and dance, drank and chatted with his friends, and almost every day, he would return to Yuehai Garden in the suburbs after twelve o'clock. After returning home, he would quickly turn off the lights and rest. They found that she sometimes went to a university, sometimes spent the night there; They found it strange. Could it be that she came here to study and wanted to get a university degree? After some investigation, they found out that she was dating a teacher from this university. They were in the middle of a passionate relationship and were about to get married soon. Having a wide network meant that she had to spend a lot of money, which meant that Jin Yuying needed a lot of money. However, after more than a month of follow-up investigation, he found that her business was booming. The monthly net profit was no less than 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, and she was not short of money. She didn't find out that she went to look for Zheng Xiaomei, and Zheng Xiaomei didn't appear at the place she went. Dewey and Li Hu were suspicious,"Could it be that Zheng Xiaomei's theft of the child has nothing to do with Jin Yuying?" Zheng Xiaomei was not in Guangzhou at all?
They did a further analysis based on all the information they had on Zheng Xiaomei. Zheng Xiaomei was a rural woman from northern Jiangsu. It was her first time in Guangzhou. She entered Mr. Stanley's Nanshan Villa two days after she arrived and almost never left the villa for more than a year. She was in Guangzhou, and she didn't know anyone else except Jin Yuying. If she wasn't with Jin Yuying, the biggest possibility was that she had gone home. In order to avoid being investigated, she might not live with her wife's family but with relatives, classmates, or friends, but she would never lose contact with her family. After some research, they decided to go to Zheng Xiaomei's hometown for a secret investigation. After arriving, they stayed in the county hostel at night and dressed up as different characters during the day to visit Zheng Xiaomei's family, relatives, classmates, friends, and neighbors. After half a month, the interviewees all said the same thing. They all said that Zheng Xiaomei had not returned home for more than a year and did not know about her recent situation. It was exactly the same as what Chairman Zhang said. They were disappointed that they could not find any clues in the two places where it was easiest to find clues.
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