Police Chen Shu

Working most of the night, Chen Shu, exhausted and without a drop of water, retreated from the kitchen, but still found no clues.

He first went to the back of the front desk to ask Jiang Hai, who was looking through the surveillance, and the answer he got was that the restaurant couple had been in the shop from three o'clock in the afternoon until three or four o'clock in the morning.

Now Chen Shu was in a difficult position, because a kidnapping case required continuity, and it was impossible for people like the restaurant couple who had to open the door to do business every day to have the time and space to engage in another kidnapping.

Besides, both of them are people with legitimate jobs, and the food stall seems to be doing good business, so they don't have any motive for committing crimes at all.

Then he went to the small storage room where the owner of the food stall was temporarily detained, and saw that although the owner of the food stall looked sluggish, he was not flustered. When Chen Shu was leaving, he opened his mouth to ask his mother-in-law if they had settled all the guests outside.

This thought made Chen Shu dispel a lot of doubts about him.

Going back to the lobby and sitting next to the proprietress, Chen Shu listened to the other party's relieved nagging, but he was thinking about how to interrogate the restaurant owner who was gradually becoming less suspicious when he returned to the work unit.

Or the old way, bluffing?

Or should we deal with it coldly and let the other party sit for a night for nothing to sharpen his spirit?

When he was too sleepy and his mind was numb, he would conduct a surprise interrogation. Even if he wanted to make up something, he didn't have the energy.

Surveillance, perhaps still have to start from the surveillance video of the suspect withdrawing money at the bank ATM.

The old-fashioned electric fan above his head creaked and shook, and Chen Shu was distracted and thinking wildly.

"Huh? Brother Shu, why are your shoes and trousers full of water? Where did you go just now?" Yan Chenxi looked down and asked in surprise.

"Their kitchen is flooded." Chen Shu was taken aback for a moment, then looked down, and sure enough, his feet were wet, and his trousers were still dripping out.

"Did you turn on my faucet or not?" The proprietress was a little anxious when she heard that, she stood up and was about to go into the kitchen.

Chen Shu pressed the other person's shoulder and shook his head: "It's closed."

"Oh, just close it. I said you have nothing to do, why did you turn on my faucet? If it seeps into the hall, wouldn't my plastic floor just laid last year be ruined?"

Chen Shu was not in the mood to respond, and retorted casually: "The floor drains in your kitchen are all blocked, let's find someone to clean them up early tomorrow."

"I'm not blocked here, but the sewer outside is blocked, and I can't even get water from here." The proprietress pointed to the outside and complained, "Hey, they are also connected to the sewer, isn't it just a big spot and a small spot? ? Why is the charge outside so much more expensive than inside!"

Chen Shu didn't answer, but seeing that the proprietress didn't pester him any more crying, he stopped arguing with her and let her go.

My brain hurts a bit.

The special police didn't stay for long, why did he get tired so easily when he used his brain now.

I just want to wait for the on-duty team in the team to come and take him away, go back to the unit to take a shower, and then interrogate the restaurant owner.

Maybe just stay up all night and the case will be handled. In any case, the bank's video surveillance cannot be faked.

"Sister, it's better to do this kind of thing late than early. After all, you have to use this sewer every day for catering. And this blocked sewer, the meat and vegetables in it are easy to deteriorate and stink after a long time. If the smell rises, it will all rush to your store. Are you still doing business? So sooner or later, it will be clear. As for the price, just find a few more stores to compare. This money can’t be saved, and it can’t be saved. .”

Yan Chenxi, the street cadre, was out of professional habits, or maybe he was bored after sitting for a long time, so he chatted with the proprietress now.

The proprietress said awkwardly: "Officer, you are right. In fact, the sewer has just been blocked for a few days. We are also planning to wait for the period of the college entrance examination to pass. Once the store is free, we will pay some money to unblock the sewer."

Heh, this is treating Yan Chenxi as a policeman.

etc!

At the moment of lightning and thunder, Chen Shu felt that something was caught in his mind. He tried hard to think about what the proprietress said just now, but the opportunity was like a nimble bird flying around and couldn't catch it.

As if under a spell, Chen Shu raised his right hand and hung it in the air. He paused for a long time, and then turned his ear to the proprietress and asked, "Tell me again, how many days has this sewer been blocked?"

"oh?"

"How many days has your sewer been blocked?"

"...Just blocked, it's only a few days. The day before yesterday? The day before yesterday?"

Seriously, Sister Hua left the residence four days ago!

And then lost contact with Gu Xiaoxue!

The time is right on the card!

Chen Shu jumped up, ran straight to the kitchen, opened a cabinet in the corner, got halfway in, took out his phone, turned on the camera light, and carefully looked at the water meter below.

After a while, I found a support from the side that could withstand strength, and pried open several floor drains on the ground, lying on the ground and smelling it for a long time, almost fainting from the stench.

Then Chen Shu picked up the big pot of meat from the corner of the wall and put it on the table in front of the proprietress in the hall, pointing to it and asked, "What meat?"

Yan Chenxi glanced at it and said nothing, but she recognized it was pork.

The proprietress took a closer look, then looked back at the small storage room where her husband was staying, and said anxiously: "Pork, the frozen meat my husband bought at the market a while ago. Officer, at that time we were looking for all the people who were open. I bought it from a big store. Well, the meat is a bit cheaper, but we didn’t know it was smuggled meat when we bought it. We only bought a small amount, and they were not willing to show us the certificate or something. Who would have thought ah"

The proprietress poured beans into the bamboo tube, shaking out what should be said and what should not be said. At this moment, she is still wiping her tears while pouring out the bitterness of the difficulty in doing business now.

It just made it clear that if they didn't buy the cheaper smuggled frozen meat, the whole family of five would starve to death.

Chen Shu was surprised, he really just wanted to ask what kind of meat it was.

Chen Shu, who had breakfast, lunch and dinner, was either in the canteen of the unit or in a small roadside shop. He really couldn't tell the type of meat.

He threw it to the proprietress, but also with the intention of cheating.

Knowing that he couldn't get any more useful information from the middle-aged woman, Chen Shu ran to the well not far from the restaurant again, staring at the well cover that was well covered on the ground and circled around several times.

Yan Chenxi ran over from the food stall holding his nose: "Brother Shu, this place stinks, did you find anything?"

Seeing the two of them running out of the food stall at once, Jiang Hai, who was sitting behind the front desk absent-mindedly looking at the surveillance video, also took the opportunity to run out, standing behind his sister and poking his head.

Jiang Hai whispered: "Brother Shu, could it be that this hostage is at the bottom of this well?"

Chen Shu, who was full of thinking about the case, had no time to pay attention to this absurd speculation.

He straightened up and looked back at the food stall, and saw the lady proprietress with her hands bound, also looking curiously at the door of the store, looking this way.

"Jiang Hai, go back and look at the proprietress first."

After sending Jiang Hai away, Chen Shu watched him leave in a daze.

Yan Chenxi said nervously: "Brother Shu, what's going on? Xiao Hai will be fine, right?"

"Oh, it's okay, Xiao Hai is fine. I just thought of something else." Chen Shu narrowed his eyes, but he thought of the scene when he saw Jiang Hai squatting in the corner staring at the plate of big meat in the kitchen of the restaurant before. .

He sniffed hard, and a bad sour smell that was somewhat familiar from his memory flooded into his nasal cavity.

Perhaps, he knew where Sister Hua was now.