Originally, I always thought that the carefree Mr. Tang would shut up because of the intimidation from Hu Zongren and me. But who knew that a few days after we received the commission paid by Manager Xiao, Manager Xiao called and said that there was a police investigation on that day.
In the evening, I heard about Hu Zongren's violent behavior, but because we really helped his company solve the problem of haunted toilets, they blocked it for us.
After thanking Manager Xiao and his company, Hu Zongren and I kept a low profile for a few days, but once again received a case transferred from Xuanyuan Society. After the previous four cases, I had gradually realized that Xuanyuan Society was pushing it.
The degree of difficulty does not lie in the length of time, but in the absurdity of its nature. And when Hu Zongren called me and asked me to accompany him out to meet someone, I realized
, we don’t know what kind of difficulties are waiting for us in the remaining twenty cases.
Hu Zongren didn’t explain clearly to me what was going on on the phone, because he couldn’t understand it himself. We found this in a quiet and quiet corner of a fast food restaurant in Jiefangbei.
the client.
The client's surname is Fan. He is a man. He looks about 40 years old. He is not tall but looks very strong. Although the weather has gradually cooled down, he has not yet reached the point of wearing a coat. The fast food restaurant is air-conditioned, and even so
, because of the large flow of people, I still feel a little hot. This Mr. Fan was well-dressed and wore a pair of toad glasses that covered most of his face. When I saw him,
My first reaction was that if this person didn't have an obvious skin disease, he must not want to be recognized.
After Hu Zongren and I sat down, we introduced ourselves. Because it was Hu Zongren’s case, I left the table and ordered carrots and French fries. When I sat back down with the food, I found that they hadn’t had it yet.
We started talking about business, but just casual chatting. After Hu Zongren saw me sitting down, he said to me, this Mr. Fan’s profession is somewhat similar to ours, except that he is not investigating ghosts, but living people.
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I looked at him carefully again and asked him if Mr. Fan was a plainclothes policeman? Because after what happened last time, I felt afraid of the police. Mr. Fan said he was not, he was.
A private investigative practitioner.
The so-called private investigation is just a roundabout way of saying it. In our country's system, non-professional functional departments cannot engage in investigation and case-handling work, so in many cases, they call themselves "private investigations"
", to put it bluntly, it is the so-called private detective. I often see similar small advertisements on some telephone poles or corridors or even on the bodies of tricycles, such as "evidence collection", "marital investigation", "professional debt collection"
Wait. Strictly speaking, people like them are walking in a gray area, because after all, their profession is just like ours, it is not aboveboard, and their methods are not necessarily aboveboard. For example, debt collectors are just using a company name.
Hire a legal advisor, and it's still a gangster thing. It's just that you won't kill people and set fires, it's just appropriate pressure, but the essence is the same.
So when I found out about his real occupation, I completely understood the reason for his unusual dress, and also because we, who are also marginalized people, felt a sense of intimacy. Mr. Fan said that his job is mainly to deal with some marriages.
To investigate inside information, a more common method is to check whether anyone in a couple has come out, and then take photos or record videos as evidence in exchange for commissions. His clients are often one of the couple.
People like him come in handy when basic trust no longer exists. Mr. Fan said this is a sad phenomenon, but it is precisely because of this that he can make money.
Mr. Fan also said that in a more complicated manner, he would also investigate the financial status of the couple, such as whether they have private properties or company accounts, etc. Mr. Fan told us that in general, all his investigations are based on personal relationships.
There is mutual distrust between people, and the evidence collected in the investigation is to help the employer bring down the other. They will not help solve the problem, but will just dig in and dig until the other party is unable to fight back.
I must admit that I actually appreciate this kind of work attitude, but I personally cannot agree with it. At this level, there is still a difference in the professional nature between us. Mr. Fan only needs to find evidence, and even if we have no evidence, we can’t.
We need to help solve the problem. Mr. Fan told us that he received an investigation commission half a month ago. It was the most common type among couples. To put it simply, the wife suspected that her husband was having an affair, so she commissioned an investigation. Fan
The husband said that the family's financial situation is not bad. They have their own ready-made clothing store in the Jiefangbei business district. The husband mainly helps manage the ready-made clothing store, while the wife provides secondary processing and production and opened a clothing factory.
Mainly supply. On the surface, the division of labor between the couple is very reasonable, but in fact, the economy has become independent, which can easily cause distrust between the husband and wife. Mr. Fan told us that the wife’s surname was Yang.
She said that her husband came home very late every night, and the store usually closed at around 6 p.m., and she often smelled perfume on her husband's clothes. At first, she suspected that her husband was having an affair.
So I quietly checked my husband's phone records, but found nothing.
Hu Zongren said, if today's men really want to eat secretly, why would they leave phone records? I know that when he said this, he was thinking about the incident of Mr. Tang some time ago, and he was talking about the same thing.
A man who has paid money is like a cat, how can he guarantee not to steal sex? Mr. Fan went on to say that after that, she also secretly followed her husband, only to find that he locked himself in the store after the store closed.
No one knew what they were doing inside. Ms. Yang told Mr. Fan that the store had a back door, and outside the back door was a small alley with not many people. She suspected that her husband took advantage of the time after the store was closed every day.
, secretly let the woman in through the back door to have an affair. However, she said that if she questioned rashly, she might alert the snake, so she entrusted Mr. Fan to investigate.
Hu Zongren and I didn’t talk because this was not within our professional scope. Mr. Fan went on to say that when he took over this business, he also asked Ms. Yang that besides coming home late at night, her husband had a strange perfume on his body.
Apart from the smell, was there any other abnormal behavior? Ms. Yang said that there was nothing else, and that everything she said was normal, but the relationship between the husband and wife seemed a bit cold. After all, they had been married for more than ten years.
It's just that when she had doubts in her heart, these signs became particularly concrete. After receiving half of the commission, Mr. Fan launched an investigation. He opened his coat and let us see what looked like a Walkman pinned to his clothes.
The same thing, he said it was a secret recorder. After several days of follow-up investigation, he found that this man did not have any abnormal behavior, and as a professional, if it was as Ms. Yang said, her husband was in charge of the case.
If a woman was let in after the store, it would be impossible for her not to notice it. Moreover, among the sounds recorded by the tape recorder, during the period when the store was closed, the only one was the voice of Ms. Yang’s husband, who seemed to be talking to someone.
What he said was indeed very ambiguous, but the woman's voice was not heard at all.
Mr. Fan took out his tape recorder and a pair of earplugs. After plugging them in, he handed the two earplug ports to me and Hu Zongren respectively and asked us to put them on. He said listen carefully to this sound. This is what I am looking for you.
The reason why you two are here.
After Hu Zongren and I put it on, Mr. Fan pressed the play button and turned the sound to the maximum. A man said in a very gentle voice: "Don't be upset, I will stay with you longer today, and I will go back later."
After a while, he said again: "This dress looks great on you, it's so beautiful." After a while, he said again: "I'm fine, I just want to spend more time with you and see you more.
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These words with no preface and follow-up made Hu Zongren and I feel at a loss, so I asked Mr. Fan where did you record this sound? He said that during the day, he would find an opportunity to sneak in when Mr. Fan was about to close the door.
store, and then put the pinhole microphone in a pocket of the rows of clothes closest to the cashier and the back door, and then find an opportunity to get it back the next day. If I were to analyze it, I would think that Ms. Yang’s husband is
I was secretly calling a certain woman after closing the door, otherwise why could I only hear his voice? I told Mr. Fan my guess, and Mr. Fan said that he thought so too at first, and even talked about it privately.
Through my own connections, I retrieved the call records of this gentleman. Although there was no guarantee that he had another mobile phone, the records he obtained showed that he did not make any calls during this period. So for several nights in a row,
Mr. Fan has been analyzing the original recording, and finally he discovered a very scary phenomenon.
When he said this, Mr. Fan rewinded the recorder for tens of seconds, which was almost the length we just heard. Then he repeatedly pressed the noise reduction and frequency modulation buttons. After some tossing, he let us listen again. He pressed
After pressing the play button, I heard that the gentleman's tone in the earphones had become very strange, much like when I was a kid playing a tape and the sound was extremely low and the speaking speed was extremely slow. So I carefully distinguished the tone.
After the gentleman finished his first sentence, a normal female voice with a small but clear voice came: "It's great that you can accompany me, so that I won't be lonely."
Then there was another voice of the gentleman with a changed voice, and then a female voice: "No matter how good-looking it is, I have no chance to wear it." Another segment of the gentleman's voice appeared again, and the female voice appeared again: "Come and hold me, okay?
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Then there was another rustling sound of electricity, and then a woman's voice was heard sneering:
"Humph..." The voice became louder, and it felt like it was close at hand.