After working for most of the night, Chen Shu didn't drink any water. He was exhausted and walked out of the kitchen. He still didn't find any clues.
He first went to the front desk to ask Jiang Hai, who was checking the surveillance system, and the answer he got was that the rice stall couple had been in the store from three o'clock in the afternoon until three or four o'clock in the morning in the past few days.
This suddenly put Chen Shu in a difficult situation, because a case like kidnapping requires continuity. People like the restaurant couple who have to open their doors every day to do business cannot have the time and space to engage in kidnappings.
Besides, both of them are people with legitimate professions, and the food stall seems to be doing well, so there is no motive for committing the crime at all.
Then he went to the small storage room where the food stall owner was temporarily imprisoned, and saw that although the other party looked depressed, he was not panicked. When Chen Shu left, he even opened his mouth to ask his mother-in-law if she had settled the accounts of all the guests outside.
This thought made Chen Shu's doubts about him disappear a lot.
Returning to the hall and sitting next to the proprietress, Chen Shu listened to the other party's nagging as he regained his breath, but in his heart he was thinking about how to interrogate the restaurant owner, whose suspicion was gradually becoming smaller when he returned to the work.
Or is it the same old trick, bluffing?
Or should we deal with it coldly first and let the other party sit there for a whole night to sharpen his energy?
Wait until he is so sleepy and his brain is numb to suddenly interrogate him. Even if he wants to make something up, he doesn't have the energy.
For surveillance, perhaps we still have to start with the surveillance video of the suspect withdrawing money from a bank ATM.
The old-fashioned electric fan above his head was creaking and shaking, and Chen Shu was distracted and thinking wildly.
"Eh? Brother Shu, why are your shoes and trousers full of water? Where did you go just now?" Yan Chenxi looked down and said in surprise.
"There's water in their kitchen." Chen Shu was stunned for a moment, and then he looked down. Sure enough, his feet were wet, and water was still dripping from his trousers.
"Did you turn on my faucet?" The landlady was a little anxious when she heard that. She stood up and prepared to walk into the kitchen.
Chen Shu held the other party's shoulders and shook his head: "It's already closed."
"Oh, just turn it off. I said you have nothing to do, so why open my faucet? If this leaks into the hall, won't the plastic floor I just laid last year be destroyed?"
Chen Shu was not in the mood to answer, and retorted casually: "A few of the floor drains in your kitchen are blocked. Find someone to clear them out early tomorrow."
"My place is not blocked, it's the sewer outside that is blocked, and I can't get the water to my place." The landlady pointed to the outside and complained, "Hey, the sewers are all connected to the same sewer, just a bigger one and a smaller one.
?Why are the charges outside so much higher than inside!”
Chen Shu didn't say anything, but when he saw that the landlady didn't bother him anymore and cried, he stopped arguing with her and let her go.
My head hurts a little.
This special police officer hasn't been here for long, so why does he get tired so easily when he uses his brain?
I just want to wait for the duty team in the team to come and take the person away, go back to the work, take a shower, and then interrogate the restaurant owner.
Maybe the case can be solved by staying up all night. In any case, the bank's video surveillance cannot be faked.
"Sister, it's better to clear this kind of thing early than late. After all, you caterers have to use this sewer every day. There is also this blocked sewer. Over time, the meat and vegetables blocked in it will easily deteriorate and smell.
If the smell comes up, it will be rushed into your store. Are you still doing business? So sooner or later, this will have to be solved. As for the price, just find a few more stores to compare. You can't save this money, and you can't save it.
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Street cadre Yan Chenxi, out of professional habits, or maybe because he was bored after sitting for a long time, got chatting with the landlady.
The landlady said coquettishly: "Officer, you are right. In fact, the sewer has just been blocked for a few days. We are also planning to wait for the college entrance examination period to pass. As soon as the store has some free time, we will spend some money to unblock the sewer."
Oh, this is treating Yan Chenxi as a policeman.
etc!
As the lightning flashed and thundered, Chen Shu felt like he had caught something in his mind. He tried hard to think about what the landlady had just said, but the opportunity was like a nimble bird flying around and he couldn't catch it.
As if being cast a spell, Chen Shu raised his right hand and hung it in the air. He paused for a long time, 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?"
"...The traffic has just been blocked, so it will only last a few days. The day before yesterday? The day before yesterday?"
Seriously, Sister Hua left her residence four days ago!
Then lost contact with Gu Xiaoxue!
The time is right!
Chen Shu jumped up, ran straight to the kitchen, opened a cabinet in the corner and got half in. He took out his mobile phone and turned on the camera light to carefully examine the water meter underneath.
After a while, I found a strong support from the side and pried open several floor drains on the ground. I lay on the ground and smelled it for a long time and almost fainted from the stench.
Then Chen Shu picked up the big pot of meat in the corner and placed it on the table in front of the proprietress in the hall. He pointed at it and asked, "What kind of meat?"
Yan Chenxi glanced at it and said nothing, but she recognized that it was pork.
The proprietress looked carefully for a few times, then looked back at the small storage room where her husband was staying, and said anxiously: "Pork, my husband went to the market to buy frozen meat some time ago. Officer, the ones we were looking for at that time were all open.
I bought it from a big store. Well... this meat is a bit cheap, 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 certificates or anything like that.
Who would have thought..."
The proprietress poured the beans into the bamboo tube and shook out all the things that should be said and should not be said. She was still wiping her tears while pouring out the bitterness of the difficulty of doing business nowadays.
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 this was.
Chen Shu, who had breakfast, lunch and dinner either in the work canteen or at a roadside shop, really couldn't tell the types of meat.
He threw it to the landlady with the intention of deceiving him.
Knowing that he would get no more useful information from the middle-aged woman, Chen Shu ran to the well not far from the restaurant, staring at the well cover that was well covered on the ground and circling it several times.
Yan Chenxi pinched her nose and ran over from the food stall: "Brother Shu, it smells so bad here. Did you notice something?"
Seeing the two of them running out of the food stall, Jiang Hai, who was sitting behind the front desk absentmindedly looking at the surveillance video, also took the opportunity to run out and stood behind his sister, looking around.
Jiang Hai whispered: "Brother Shu, could it be that the hostage is under this well?"
Chen Shu, who was busy thinking about the case, had no time to deal with this ridiculous speculation.
He straightened up and looked back at the food stall a few times, and saw the proprietress with her hands tied standing at the door of the shop with the same curious expression, looking this way.
"Jiang Hai, go back and watch the landlady first."
After sending Jiang Hai away, Chen Shu watched his back in trance as he left.
Yan Chenxi said nervously: "Brother Shu, what's going on? Will Xiaohai be fine?"
"Oh, it's okay, Xiaohai is okay. I just thought of something else." Chen Shu squinted his eyes, but he thought of the scene in the kitchen of the food stall where he bumped into Jiang Hai squatting in the corner and staring at the plate of meat.
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He sniffed hard, and a sour smell that was slightly familiar from his memory poured into his nostrils.