Just when Ma Xiaotao wanted to reveal his identity, the woman's eyes widened with surprise and she said with a smile:
"Oh my God, Aunt Zhang, you look so young. I saw that your age on the insurance policy is over forty. I didn't expect you to look so young.
Just over thirty years old at most.”
Qin Nan couldn't help laughing after hearing this, because he also knew that Ma Xiaotao was only in her twenties, and this woman actually said that she was in her thirties.
The woman saw Qin Nan giggling, and Zhao Fang also laughed immediately. Unexpectedly, Ma Xiaotao patted the table, blushed and said:
"You are Zhao Fang, Xia Zhi's roommate, right?"
Immediately, Zhao Fang stopped smiling, looked at the two of them nervously with wide eyes, and asked: "Are you..."
"We are the criminal police of the city bureau, and we want to ask you about the summer solstice." Ma Xiaotao said.
"Oh, Xia Zhi, so it's like this..." Zhao Fang breathed a long sigh of relief, and then continued:
"I haven't contacted Xia Zhi for a long time, mainly because I couldn't contact her. Since she met her boyfriend who was a resident singer in the bar, we have rarely contacted each other.
She even asked me to borrow money, but I didn’t borrow it at the time..."
"Borrowing money? When did it happen?" Ma Xiaotao asked doubtfully.
"About the end of July, I don't know exactly when, she called me at that time, and I asked her what was going on.
After I pressed her for a long time, she said that Wei Lai's mother had cancer, and she also lied to his brother about starting a business and borrowed tens of thousands of yuan. In fact, I advised her to just leave Wei Lai at that time.
I feel like he is a liar, he only has a good skin, and we have only known each other for a long time, so he helped his boyfriend borrow money, and he is not married.
But I can also feel that Xia Zhi really likes Wei Lai, and no one says she is useless, so I can only say that I have no money, and by the way, why do you want to know about Xia Zhi?" Zhao Fang said.
Ma Xiaotao and Qin Nan looked at each other, and Ma Xiaotao said: "We cannot reveal the specific details of the case. Do you know which bar Wei Lai was singing in before?"
"Which bar is it... Well, it's the Ug Bar on Ninth Street. I haven't been there for a long time because I'm too busy with work. I don't know if he's still there..." Zhao Fang continued.
"Okay, if you think of anything, please feel free to contact us." Ma Xiaotao and Zhao Fang then exchanged contact information, and the two left the small reception room.
When they walked to the door, at the entrance of the elevator, they happened to see two old ladies being blocked by the man in a suit. They seemed to be quarreling. Qin Nan and the others couldn't care about the specific matter.
Ma Xiaotao drove the police car to the Ug Tavern on Ninth Street. After parking the car, Qin Nan looked at the time and found that it was already around four o'clock in the afternoon.
At this time, the bar was preparing to open the door. After asking all the way, it didn't take long for the two of them to arrive at the gate of UG Bar, which is located on the sixth floor of this building.
There are more than a dozen bars in this building, and each bar is a large bar. Clear bars are among the minority, and clear bars have no place in this building.
However, UG Bar has become a breath of fresh air here and is very popular. I don’t know whether it is because of Wei Lai or because the bar has a certain reputation.
Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao have never been to a place like a bar, and it is very unfamiliar to them.
But at this time, there was a waiter standing at the door of UG Bar. Ma Xiaotao hurriedly stepped forward, showed his police officer ID and said:
"Hello, we are investigating a case. Where is your boss?"
The waiter looked at the two of them in confusion, then led them to the bar and motioned for them to sit in the booth over there for a while.
At this time, the waiters in the bar were busy cleaning and setting up the theme for the night, and they didn't seem to care about their arrival.
Ma Xiaotao also felt a little strange, because most bars would be a little nervous after seeing the police, but this bar seemed not to be afraid of the police investigating anything.
"Hey, why are the people here not nervous at all? Seeing that I am a policeman, they are still doing their own things. Why does it feel so much better than the insurance atmosphere just now? What's the situation?"
Ma Xiaotao looked at the waiters around and spoke to Qin Nan in a low voice.
"If someone is upright and upright, they either have connections or are in a 'regular' bar and are not afraid of investigation." Qin Nan lowered his voice and said.
Not long after, a man wearing sunglasses and a shirt came over not far away.
When he saw Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao, he took off his sunglasses, then walked towards them with a smile, stretched out his right hand and said:
"Hello police officer, I am the boss here, Mo Xiaobin, what can I do for you?"
Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao also stood up and shook hands with him.
Although this person looks very ordinary in appearance, he gives people a very comfortable feeling, just like the first feeling this bar gave them.
"That's right, Mr. Mo, we want to ask you about Wei Lai." Qin Nan said with a smile.
"Wei Lai...he disappeared from our place for no reason a few months ago. I couldn't get through to him when I called him," the boss said with a slight frown.
"Do you remember exactly when this happened?" Qin Nan asked.
"Exactly when...it seems to be at the end of July. I sent him a WeChat message at that time, and I called him but there was no reply." The boss opened the chat history on his phone.
After reading all those conversations to Qin Nan and the others, they were now certain that Wei Lai and Xia Zhi disappeared at the same time.
At this time, a waiter not far away came over, bowed to Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao, and then said:
"Excuse me, I think I know where Wei Lai went..."
[Author's digression]: The event in this chapter is December 11th