"Is it right here?" Qin Shuman said, pointing to the high-end community in front of him and the four words "Xianglong Community" on the huge stone at the door.
"Yes." Lu Chen nodded, and after the two of them finished lunch, they arrived at the Xianglong Community that Liu Xiangying mentioned.
"This, this is too difficult for me." Qin Shuman looked at these buildings with more than 20 floors and couldn't help but sigh. If he checked them all, he would find that they were in the Year of the Monkey and the Horse.
"You don't have an exact address, not even which building you live in." Qin Shuman complained as he faced a huge project.
"If it were that simple, I wouldn't need to ask you for help." Lu Chen also smiled bitterly. Obviously, this huge project also gave him a headache.
"It seems we should go to the property management first." Qin Shuman sighed. He had already promised Lu Chen to help before, but now he could only bite the bullet.
The property management staff did not expect the police to come to the door. Of course, they cooperated with the police comrade's work and retrieved the information of the residents in the community.
Qin Shuman and Lu Chen both knew that the information of these residents was of no use to them at all.
"Have you already filled up your place with people?" Qin Shuman asked the matter clearly before talking.
"No, we are in the first batch of houses for sale now, only the houses in area A are for sale." The person in charge answered Qin Shuman's question seriously.
"Oh, where is Area A?" Qin Shuman asked as he looked at the miniature model displayed in the hall.
"Here, one to twelve buildings are considered area A." The person in charge circled the model with his hand and circled the twelve buildings in the northwest corner and followed Qin Shuman to explain.
"Hiss!" Qin Shuman and Lu Chen took a breath of air-conditioning at the same time, and the users of the twelve buildings were also a huge project.
"Is it all occupied?" Qin Shuman asked again with hope.
"Fifty percent has been sold, and now the real estate industry is not as prosperous as before." The person in charge also sighed. This phase of housing has been sold for a long time, but they are mainly focusing on high-end residents. The housing prices are also on the high side.
, so the sales speed is relatively slow.
"It's okay, it's okay." Qin Shuman patted his chest and said thankfully. Obviously, this reduced the size of their search a lot.
"Most of the residents just paid and did not move in. After all, those who can afford to buy a house here must have more than one property under their name. For them, this is just an investment."
People once again ignited their hope.
"Then can you provide that those houses are already occupied by people?" Qin Shuman felt that this task made him feel a lot more relaxed.
"Well, Comrade Police, please wait a moment." The person in charge readily cooperated with Qin Shuman's work.
With the information in hand, Qin Shuman and Lu Chen quickly started searching without wasting time.
"What's the matter, Comrade Police?" Qin Shuman soon knocked on the first room. The person who opened the door was an old lady with gray hair, speaking in a dialect. Fortunately, Qin Shuman was a local.
This dialect is nothing to her.
"Census." Qin Shuman had already made up his excuse. Judging from the appearance of the old lady, she shouldn't be here.
"Didn't you just do what happened some time ago?" The old lady looked puzzled.
"We are conducting a re-examination. I hope you will cooperate with us, grandma." Qin Shuman smiled awkwardly, but found an excuse again.
The old lady cooperated with Qin Shuman's work, and the investigation was quickly completed.
The entire first building was full, most of them were demolished households, and they were all occupied by old men and women. Naturally, these people were quickly excluded.
The situation of the second and third buildings immediately following is similar. They are basically demolished households, and there is not much problem.
Starting from the fourth house, the residents became scattered. These were the people who bought the house later. Unexpectedly, although there were more than a dozen rooms in a row, everyone checked in, but they couldn't knock the door. They probably all went out.
Doing errands or going to work.
When night fell, Qin Shuman and Lu Chen dragged their exhausted bodies and finally found the last house. Lu Chen and Qin Shuman no longer had any hope.
Even Lu Chen began to suspect that Liu Xiangying's information was wrong and that a girl like Du Xinyue was not brought to this community at all.
Despite this, Qin Shuman still knocked on the door of the last room.
"Who is it?" At this time, a man in a nightgown opened the door and said impatiently.
"Hello, I'm here to do the census." Qin Shuman's standard smile, her face is now completely stiff.
"Didn't we just investigate? Are you annoyed?" The young man seemed a little impatient with Qin Shuman. However, he still cooperated because he was wearing a uniform.
"Husband, who is it?" At this time, a woman's voice came from the room. Lu Chen's heart tightened, could it be Du Xinyue.
Then the sound of footsteps came over, and a middle-aged woman with curly hair and wearing a nightgown walked to the door and stuck her head out to take a look at Qin Shuman and Lu Chen.
Lu Chen looked at the woman and felt disappointed for a while. This was not Du Xinyue.
"Are you husband and wife?" Qin Shuman looked at the young man and a middle-aged woman with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and asked in surprise.
"Can't you?" The woman obviously knew the meaning of Qin Shuman's words and said angrily.
"No, no, I hope you can show me your household registration book so that I can do a good job in the census." Qin Shuman knew that he had gone too far, so he quickly explained.
Lu Chen didn't have time to appreciate this combination of young husband and wife. Obviously there was no trace of Du Xinyue in this house. He couldn't help but start to wonder if Liu Xiangying was really deceiving him.
"There have been a lot of worries lately. The people upstairs are making a big fuss. Here! The household registration book!" The middle-aged woman began to complain, and directly threw the household registration book into Qin Shuman's hands. "Do you want us to show it for marriage?"
Proof?" Obviously still angry about Qin Shuman's doubt just now.
"No need," Qin Shuman felt embarrassed for a while, so he could only record it casually and return the household registration book to the two people.
Bang! Soon the person rudely closed the door tightly.
"It seems that the person you are looking for is no longer here at all. Is your information wrong?" Qin Shuman hammered his shoulder.
"That's probably not the case. She probably won't give me false news." Lu Chen said this, but he couldn't find any excuse to excuse Liu Xiangying.
"By the way, didn't the middle-aged woman just say that it was very noisy upstairs?" Qin Shuman suddenly recalled what he just said. Then he spread out the information given to him by the person in charge. There was no one living upstairs at all.
ah.
"How about we go up and have a look?" Lu Chen felt hopeful again and quickly answered.
"We're already here, it's not too late anyway, let's go up and have a look." Qin Shuman cheered up and accompanied Lu Chen to climb up a floor, just standing directly above the room just now. At this time
The door was closed, but there were indeed some strange noises inside.
Bang bang bang! Qin Shuman knocked on the door again.
However, the two people were greeted with silence, and the original sound in the room suddenly stopped. Instantly, the two people felt that something was wrong.
"Police, open the door." Qin Shuman knocked on the door again, not forgetting to reveal his identity. There was still silence in the room until three minutes later, the door finally opened.
I saw a person wearing work clothes, with large traces of wet paint on the work clothes. He looked at Qin Shuman and Lu Chen at the door with some surprise.
"What do you do?" Qin Shuman frowned slightly, looking at the people who didn't open the door for a long time, and the doubts in his heart were getting bigger and bigger.
"Oh, we were invited by the landlord to decorate." The man looked at Qin Shuman with a smile, and quickly explained to Qin Shuman, but his hands were still on the door frame, and he did not let the two people in at all.
the meaning of.
"Let me go in and take a look." Qin Shuman couldn't help but said as he watched the man blocking the view of the two people and blocking the door.
"No, this room is still being renovated, and the paint on the walls hasn't even dried yet. It'll be bad if it stains your clothes." The man said awkwardly, but his face was extremely ugly.
"Stop talking nonsense." Qin Shuman pushed the man directly and walked into the room first.
When you enter the room, the lights are bright, but as the man said, the house is under renovation, and the paint on the walls has just been painted.
Lu Chen walked into the room immediately, and several people painted with paint on the corners stood up one after another, looking at Qin Shuman and Lu Chen with cold eyes.
"You guys keep working!" Seeing that something was wrong in the atmosphere, the man who opened the door ordered a few people who stood up, "If you don't work, our salary for this month will be wasted again."
After listening to the man's words, several people hesitated for a moment and continued to squat down and start painting the wall.
"Comrade police, we are really working. It's quite dirty here. If anything happens, let's go out and talk." The man smiled and asked Qin Shuman and Lu Chen to look around, but they didn't find anything suspicious.