The path in front of the Star Dream Store has been in disrepair for a long time. One of the floor tiles has disappeared, exposing the dirt underneath. It has rained a lot recently. If you don't pay attention, you will be stained with mud from the sole of your shoe when you step on it.

Gan Qing saw that in addition to the dried mud fingerprints on the stone steps, there was also a footprint in the mud - not the whole sole of the foot, but the heel of the foot, which went very deep.

Whether it is the strength of the footprints or the angle at which the soil is turned up, it does not look like a passerby crushed it with his heels. It looks like someone was dragged to the ground and dragged along, and kicked hard with his feet while struggling.

After they came out, Gan Qing's eyes turned to the mud fingerprints on the stone steps - the person who was dragged away may have found that struggling was useless, so he subconsciously reached out to grab something next to him. He first scratched the ground, failed to grab it, and then grabbed the stone.

level, and then left fingerprints.

If you look closely, there seems to be a little blood on the finger prints on the stone steps.

Gan Qing lowered his head and groped around for a while, and found a button in the corner with thread wrapped around it, as if it had been pulled off violently.

"Uncle Meng," Gan Qing turned around and said to Meng Tianyi who was preparing ingredients next door, "What time did you pick up the food last night?"

"Yesterday, we harvested early. Since the temperature has dropped in the past two days, there are fewer customers," Meng Tianyi said, "It won't be until ten o'clock."

Gan Qing asked again: "Did anyone fight here yesterday?"

"No, it's been a pretty peaceful day. What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Gan Qing walked around the footprints and fingerprints on the ground, suspecting that he was suspicious - or maybe a drunk fell down here and couldn't stand up after a long time.

She opened the door and reached out to turn over the "resting" wooden sign at the door. Unexpectedly, as soon as she touched it, the wooden sign fell down and split into two pieces.

Meng Tianyi heard the commotion and came over, picked up the cracked wooden sign and took a look at it, then frowned: "Chopped by hand - what does this mean? Kicking the hall? Or is someone trying to trouble you?"

Gan Qing was confused: "Kicked... the trinket shop? Do you think it was the grocery store next door that did it?"

"Screw you, you're dishonest." Meng Tianyi didn't smile, his face darkened, and he stared at her, "Have you made a move with someone recently?"

"How is it possible? If I don't have any cash on me when I meet someone from Jie Dao on the street, I will take the initiative to transfer money to someone's mobile phone. Grandma Zhang chants Buddha's name every day when she sees me." Gan Qing helplessly spread his hands and took the wooden sign that was divided into two.

, worried about how this thing sticks together, "Which hero is drunk and punching a tortoise? Trouble me - you see me like this, what sense of achievement can I get from troubling me?"

Meng Tianyi glanced at her and felt that this was true.

The two of them pondered for a while, but had no clue, so they had to set up their own stalls to work. At this moment, several policemen walked over in a hurry, holding up photos and asking questions to everyone they met, followed by Yu Lanchuan.

Meng Tianyi raised his head: "Hey, Mr. Xiao Yu, Officer Yu?"

Yu Yan took off his hat, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and ran over panting: "Boss Meng, it's great to have you here."

"What happened again?"

"Don't mention it, he's still the unlucky kid from last time." Yu Yan said, taking out Liu Zhongqi's photo, "This kid had a tantrum with his family yesterday and ran away from home. The location of his cell phone was around here. Have you seen him?

?”

Meng Tianyi leaned over, took a closer look, and shook his head: "No, Yansheng, wait until I ask you - Gan'er!"

Gan Qing was putting contact lenses in her eyes, and she accidentally lost an eyelash in it. The foreign body sensation made her cry. When she heard Boss Meng calling her, she poked her head out with tears in her eyes: "Huh?"

Before she had time to put on that non-mainstream makeup, her lips were extremely light in color, her face was extremely white, and a little bit of blood was concentrated around her eyes. It was very conspicuous on the plain white background, reminding her of unexpected flowers blooming in the snow.

For some reason, Yu Lanchuan's eyes met hers and he subconsciously looked away.

"Please take a look at this child," Yu Yan quickly handed over the photo, "Do you have any impressions?"

Gan Qing looked at it for a long time: "This is not that..."

Yu Yan: "Yes, that's right, it's the one who was raped here last time. You helped call the police, Liu Zhongqi! Have you seen him around?"

Gan Qing shook his head.

Yu sighed heavily.

Just when he turned around to find the next person to ask, Gan Qing suddenly stopped him hesitantly: "What did you say his name was just now?"

"Liu Zhongqi, the 'Zhong' of Bo Zhong and Shu Ji, Qi is..."

Gan Qing took out her mobile phone and pulled out the newly added word "Is it Zhong or not Qi": "Is it these two characters?"

There is no surveillance in the back alley of Nitang. We can only judge from the WeChat chat records. Liu Zhongqi's child came here around 10:30 the night before. There were several ominous marks at the door of the store. A button - Yu Lanchuan, I don't know what the use of this is.

Brother, after looking at it for five minutes, I still can’t be sure whether this button belongs to his brother.

If it is still not possible to conclude that the child did not leave voluntarily, then the mobile phone they found in the trash can an hour later can explain the problem.

The phone was violently smashed to the ground, the screen was cracked into pieces, and the body fell apart.

The alarm was escalated, and the incident of teenagers running away from home in anger turned into a kidnapping case.

So we didn't have to open the store or cook the dishes. The area in front of Star Dream was cordoned off, and a bunch of police officers were busy coming in and out.

Gan Qing handed over the chat records to the police and was questioned. After the questioning, she found that she had nothing to do here, so she said goodbye to Boss Meng and was about to go home. When she walked to the intersection, she saw Yu Lanchuan typing.

Telephone.

The first impression Yu Lanchuan left on her was that of his open-minded virtue that day. His eyelids were drooped, as if they were followed by a row of cameras, waiting to capture him posing and posing.

He is a handsome young man.

But the "young master" looked at the phone in a polite and reserved manner, which was in sharp contrast to the hustle and bustle around him. Gan Qing heard him say: "...I'm really sorry, I really have something going on at home right now, and I can't leave...

"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the person on the other end of the phone. A few steps away, Gan Qing saw Yu Lanchuan angrily take off his glasses, throw them on the roof of the police car, and repeatedly rub the bridge of his nose with an expression as if he wanted to

He was cutting people, but he still spoke politely and calmly, as if his mouth had left his body and came out to do it alone: ​​"I understand...Yes, I understand, do you think this is okay? When I return to the company, I promise to do it as soon as possible..."

The person on the other end of the phone started barking endlessly.

Yu Lanchuan fell silent, raised his head expressionlessly, and squinted at the burning sunny sky.

After listening to the other party's words word for word, he took a deep breath: "...Okay, I'll contact someone in my department to handle it. Please wait a moment."

Then, he started to make phone calls, remotely control the department, and direct his subordinates to work, asking one to revise materials and another to attend meetings for him. Gan Qing saw him leaning on the police car, eyes half closed, and explaining the key points of the meeting to his colleagues in detail.

, his fingers have been rubbing the temples of his glasses.

After finishing his long speech, Yu Lanchuan's mouth went dry. He recalled it again to make sure that he had not missed anything, and then he said to his colleague: "Okay, that's it. Thank you for your hard work. You can go ahead."

The colleague asked politely: "Mr. Yu, what's going on at home? Are you okay?"

Yu Lanchuan: "I..."

My brother is missing and is suspected to have been kidnapped.

There was a crisp "pop" sound, and Yu Lanchuan lost control of his hand and broke off the temple of his glasses.

"...It's not a big deal," so he swallowed those words again, "I will go back to the company after handling it and keep in touch at any time."

There is nothing to say, let alone losing a middle brother, even if the biological mother died, what would happen?

My colleagues would say "sorry" in a sweet tone, and at most they would politely say "please speak to me if you need anything". I would have to mutter in my heart - why does his family become more busy as he gets more busy? His boss is dead, what's wrong with us?

Do I still need to express my feelings? Alas, the red and white events always come at the end of the month, so there is nothing to worry about.

The whole world is spinning at high speed, and everyone has to work hard.

Other people's natural and man-made disasters, birth, old age, illness and death are all uninvited guests who add to the chaos.

Yu Lanchuan put down the phone, spotted Gan Qing a few steps away, and nodded to her: "Trouble."

Gan Qing somehow impulsively blurted out: "You can ask Uncle Yang for help."

Yu Lanchuan looked at her in surprise.

After she reminded him, Yu Lanchuan remembered it. It is said that before liberation, the ever-sticking Uncle Yang was the leader of the Beggar Clan. Later, society changed and those gangs were no longer in favor. Everyone should find a job.

It's time to retire and retire. Nowadays, the old people in the beggar gang usually only leave a few patches on their clothes, which can be regarded as maintaining the tradition. They usually live an ordinary life, and occasionally carry out publicity and education activities of "civilized begging and boycotting subway begging during morning and evening rush hours".

Or intervene and mediate when beggars have conflicts over territorial divisions.

But with this pervasive network of relationships, they are all well-informed.

The question is, how did she know?

As soon as Gan Qing finished speaking, she regretted so much that she almost bit her tongue, smiled quickly, rubbed oil on her feet, and slipped away.

Driving into the alley of the mud pond, Gan Qing suddenly stopped in her steps and thought of the bald man who followed her in this area that day - no wonder she didn't think of it immediately, it had been almost a month since it happened.

At that time, I was busy trying to make a living, and my mind was full of rent, so I didn't pay attention to these trivial matters.

She took out the two halves of the wooden sign from her bag and thought to herself: You are not really coming for me, are you?

The bald man she was talking about was squatting in the corner, holding his big hung-over head, like a big soaked mushroom.

His accomplice Scarface was circling around like a donkey, sighing. At this time, the cripple ran in, and before he could catch his breath, he saw someone tied up in the corner.

Liu Zhongqi was so huddled that his other foot almost sprained.

The lame man was filled with smoke. He strode up to the bald head, raised his palm, and slapped his head and face: "Are you crazy! Did you drink fake wine yesterday? Did you urinate your brains out!"

The bald man hugged his head and ran away: "Second senior brother, hey, senior brother, don't fight, I was wrong..."

"Master's wife is so old. She has been serving senior brother in the hospital all day long. She is so tired that she can't even straighten her waist. You are useless. Forget it. You still go out to drink and cause trouble. I will beat you to death, you are a troublemaker!"

After their group was cleared of the rental house, they came to a village in the city to settle down.

This village in the city has long been said to be demolished. There are a few high-profile households who are raising prices for their land. Compensation has not been negotiated and they are still living there. The other residents who have received compensation have almost moved out, and they will not see this place for a while.

They couldn't demolish it, so they secretly collected money and rented the dilapidated bungalow to outsiders.

The bald man is addicted to alcohol, so when he went back to block Ganqing, he just drank. He was watched by his senior brother and his wife a while ago, so he calmed down. Last night, those two people were not here. He felt itchy for a while, so he couldn't control himself and went out.

I got very drunk, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was a coward in the back alley of the mud pond last time.

Being drunk and cowardly, the bald man ignored the old lady's instructions and went to the restaurant in a drunken state, but in the end he was in vain - the store had been closed long ago.

The bald man was so frustrated that he smashed the wooden sign hanging at the door of the store with an "ouch". When he was about to smash the glass, he heard someone next to him saying: "What are you going to do? I'm calling the police!"

The upright classmate Liu Zhongqi obviously didn't learn the lesson from last time and didn't learn to "don't mind your own business and be a careful person", so he became an angry rice dumpling, tied up, gagged and thrown in the corner, trying to use his eyes to "
Chapter completed!