The guitar was smashed and he cried. Gao Mingyang felt at this moment that this was definitely his darkest moment.
The woman in the lyrics was buried in the wilderness, which was hard for me to accept.
It seemed that my musical dream was like a glass that suddenly broke to the ground with a "bang".
A mental breakdown is far more torturous than a physical breakdown. Only at this moment can Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen understand the madness of a musician.
This kind of crazily smashing one's beloved guitar, how much more broken must one have to be to do it?
At least Lu Weiwei feels that this guitar looks very expensive, which can be converted into potato chips for half a year.
Gu Chen didn't say anything at this moment. He directly supported Gao Mingyang who was lying on the ground, slowly pulled him up, then held Gao Mingyang and walked to the room step by step.
Then she asked Lu Weiwei to close the door so that Gao Mingyang could vent his emotions in the closed room.
Three minutes later, Gao Mingyang stopped crying and said unwillingly with his red and swollen eyes:
"Gu Chen, do you know? Xu Xintong was my dream. Now that the dream is gone, living... seems to have no meaning."
"Are you just living in someone else's world?" Gu Chen was a little disappointed with Gao Mingyang's self-abasement.
This is not what I want to see.
As a singer-songwriter, it sounds terrible to feel that life is meaningless.
Although Gu Chen didn't come into contact with many singers, he knew that singers all had the bad habit of being aloof and living in their own world.
It is often difficult for outsiders to enter their spiritual world.
As a Gao Mingyang who has his own creative attitude and disdains the noisy worldly environment, it seems that Xu Xintong is his spiritual sustenance.
Now that there is no goal, life seems to have become stagnant.
Therefore, Gu Chen can understand Gao Mingyang's collapse.
After pouring a cup of tea for Gao Mingyang and handing it to him, Gu Chen comforted him and said, "There is no resurrection after death, so don't be too sad."
"As for Xu Xintong's death, we will do our best to investigate clearly, but for now, I need you to tell me the truth."
After hearing Gu Chen's words, Gao Mingyang, with red and swollen eyes, slowly raised his head and asked, "What truth do you want me to tell you?"
"Is there anything else you haven't explained clearly about Xu Xintong?" Gu Chen said.
Gao Mingyang didn't seem to understand what Gu Chen meant, so he asked again: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"Xu Xintong... seems to be pregnant. Her lower abdomen has obvious signs of pregnancy." Lu Weiwei saw that Gao Mingyang couldn't seem to find the direction of the problem, so she simply informed him of the specific situation.
But after hearing this, Gao Mingyang seemed to be completely stunned. He looked out the window blankly, and it took him a long time to regain his composure.
"You...you are saying that Xu Xintong...she is pregnant?"
"Um."
Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen both nodded.
Gao Mingyang was stunned again: "This...how is this possible? She is pregnant, why didn't she mention it to me? She...isn't she my best friend?"
"Yes, isn't she your best friend? Why didn't she tell you about her pregnancy?" Lu Weiwei also felt that things were too strange.
After all, the relationship between Gao Mingyang and Xu Xintong is difficult for everyone to understand.
Even if the two of them were in the same room, discussing the problem until dawn, and even if they slept in the same room, nothing happened.
This shows that Gao Mingyang and Xu Xintong trust each other.
As a pair of neighbors with such a close relationship, Xu Xintong should talk about everything to Gao Mingyang, but she did not mention her pregnancy to Gao Mingyang.
In Lu Weiwei's opinion, this is definitely not normal.
After Gao Mingyang learned the news that Xu Xintong was pregnant, he was dumbfounded.
Perhaps Xu Xintong exists like white moonlight in his own eyes.
But now, it seems that this understanding has also been shattered.
"Gao Mingyang, you haven't answered my question yet." Seeing Gao Mingyang still in a daze, Gu Chen reminded him immediately.
"No...I don't know, how could she have a boyfriend? She shouldn't? She...she is busy at work every day, how could it be? How could I not know?"
"Didn't he tell you about it?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Gao Mingyang shook his head hard: "No, she never told me about it. Why didn't she tell me this? Could it be... could it be that leader?"
As if he was remembering something, Gao Mingyang suddenly stared blankly and said angrily: "Yes, it must be her leader, his surname seems to be Xiao."
"Why are you sure she is the leader?" Seeing that Gao Mingyang also seemed to be targeting Xiao Zhicheng with suspicion, Gu Chen quickly asked him.
Gao Mingyang instantly stood up and walked a few steps back and forth in front of the two of them. Then he turned back sharply and said with a complicated expression: "One time, I didn't go out to perform, so I just sat at home."
"But I found that Xu Xintong didn't go home at night, and no one answered the phone."
"Later, I think it was around 1 a.m., a car suddenly drove into the yard, and a man took Xu Xintong home."
"After the vehicle left, I asked Xu Xintong who the man was? She said he was the leader of Vice President Xiao. They were in team building that night and sang until late."
"Later, she went out for a late-night snack, and then Vice President Xiao drove her home."
After thinking for a while, Gao Mingyang added: "By the way, that Vice President Xiao also drove her home more than once."
"Xu Xintong said that she has few friends in the company and her education is not high. It has been Vice President Xiao who has been protecting her and allowed her to gain a foothold in the company, so she has always been very grateful to Vice President Xiao."
"If that's the case, then the man she often comes into contact with must be the one named Xiao, and that child...maybe it is his?"
Seeing Gu Chen's hesitant expression, Gao Mingyang pleaded: "Gu Chen, you are the police. You must investigate this person named Xiao and avenge Xu Xintong. She cannot die in vain."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "She is such a good girl, she left her hometown and came here. She just wants to establish herself in this city. Is she wrong? Why is this happening?"
Halfway through the words, all kinds of grievances flooded into his heart, and Gao Mingyang seemed to see his own shadow again in Xu Xintong's experience.
That feeling of helplessness suddenly came to my mind.
Sadness instantly turns into a river.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other and seemed to understand the specific situation.
Xiao Zhicheng may be the father of the child in Xu Xintong's belly.
But why was Xu Xintong strangled to death and buried in the wilderness? Gu Chen is not sure yet.
Whatever happens to Xiao Zhicheng, I must take a long-term approach.
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After leaving Osmanthus Alley, Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Officer Ding rushed to Furong Branch overnight.
At this time, in the office, He Junchao was sitting with Xiao Hui, the policewoman at the front desk of the service hall.
The two were talking and laughing, and Xiaohui was holding Lu Weiwei's shrimp-flavored potato chips in her hand.
Seeing everyone suddenly coming in, He Jun's expression was stunned, and he instantly retracted his smile.
"Eh? Xiaohui, why are you here?" Officer Ding also looked curious when he saw this.
Xiaohui grinned: "I couldn't sleep at night, so I came back late from shopping with my colleagues. Then Senior Brother He asked me to bring him some food, saying that he was working on a case, so I thought about it and brought him a bowl of fried noodles.
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"Then... then Senior Brother He asked me to sit here and chat with him, and he also invited me to eat potato chips."
"So that's what it is?" Lu Weiwei looked at her shrimp-flavored potato chips, which instantly became He Junchao's tool to flirt with girls, and her teeth itched with hatred.
When He Junchao saw this, he quickly smiled and said, "Look at how kind Xiaohui is. I told her I was hungry and asked her to bring me some food, and she immediately brought me some fried noodles."
"I think we can't let her work in vain, right? So, I invited her to eat potato chips, haha, this...is there nothing wrong with it?"
"Of course there's nothing wrong with you, but you also..."
Lu Weiwei was halfway through speaking when she was patted on the shoulder by Officer Ding.
Lu Weiwei suddenly remembered that she ruined He Junchao's date in the office hall during the day.
Thinking about it, he regarded it as compensation, so he didn't care about anything. He waved his hand and said, "But you can't just treat people to potato chips?"
Walking back to her seat, Lu Weiwei opened the drawer generously, took a handful of vacuum-packed fried chicken legs, quail eggs, grilled hot sausages and other snacks, and threw them on He Junchao's desk, saying:
"Xiao Hui, we are all our own people. He Junchao asked me to buy these snacks for him before. He said that if Xiao Hui comes to our office, we must get something to greet them."
"Ah? Senior Brother He really said that?" Xiaohui also looked flattered after hearing Lu Weiwei's words.
At this time, He Junchao, seeing Lu Weiwei assisting him, immediately replied with a smile: "Of course, I have long wanted to invite Xiaohui to sit in the office of our criminal investigation team, so that Xiaohui can grow up."
experience."
"Well, that's great. I've long heard that Senior Brother Gu's case handling skills are among the best in the entire Jiangnan City."
"Many of our colleagues at the front desk are envious and would like to find an opportunity to visit your criminal investigation team office."
Here, He Junchao said that he wanted to invite Xiaohui to visit the Criminal Investigation Team office, but Xiaohui mentioned Gu Chen, which made He Junchao quite embarrassed.
Gu Chen also scratched the back of his head and said slowly: "Actually, there is nothing interesting about working on a case. If Xiaohui is willing to visit, we are always welcome, but we are currently handling a case, so..."
Seeing Gu Chen stretch out his hand to make a "please" gesture, Xiaohui immediately understood, took the initiative to pick up the phone, gave up her seat and said: "I understand, I won't disturb your work, I will sit aside and play with my phone, and I will leave after a while.
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"Okay." Seeing that Xiaohui understood, Gu Chen took the initiative to walk to He Junchao and motioned to He Junchao to retrieve the surveillance files so that he could see Xiao Zhicheng's recent whereabouts.
Sitting aside, Xiaohui was also bored. She immediately turned on her phone and started reading online novels.
Lu Weiwei felt sorry for her snacks. The originally small quantity of shrimp-flavored potato chips was reduced to the last pack, which was still placed next to Xiaohui.
So Lu Weiwei pretended to be close, and instantly sat next to Xiaohui, pretending to ask, and took the only remaining bag of shrimp-flavored potato chips in her hand, and also tore open the package and pretended to ask her: "Xiaohui, what are you looking at?"
"It's an online novel about a domineering president." Xiaohui said with a smile.
Lu Weiwei raised her eyebrows: "Look at this? Do the current domineering presidents' articles look good? It seems like they are all in the same routine."
"Yes." Seeing Lu Weiwei taking the initiative to get close to her, Xiaohui also grinned and took the initiative to share her reading experience with Lu Weiwei:
"In fact, the homogeneity of the current overbearing president novels is quite serious. It can be said that 11 out of 10 novels about overbearing presidents have the first chapter of returning to China, and 9 business giants."
"Eight of them are not close to women, 7 of them are married into families, 6 of them have been in car accidents, and 5 of them must have met the heroine when they were children, but they pretended not to."
After a pause, Xiaohui added: "Moreover, four of the male protagonists' surnames are Shen, three are Gu, and two are Fu, and they all have a doctor friend."
"The classic line is..."
Looking up at the ceiling, Xiaohui thought about it for a few seconds, and then said: "The classic line is...in the middle of the night, why do you call me for this minor illness?"
"That's right." Feeling that Xiaohui had hit the point, Lu Weiwei was immediately overjoyed: "That's really the case, and the male protagonist's family usually lives in a big villa and has a butler to serve him."
"And what the butler said, I haven't seen the young master smile for a long time." Xiao Hui also added instantly, feeling that both of them got the key point.
When Lu Weiwei heard this, she immediately became happy: "Haha, it's really like this, and the heroine may seem ordinary at first glance, but when she dresses up, she has a unique temperament and is very beautiful."
"Also, the young master brings back a different girl every time, but he treats the heroine differently."
"Basically, there are 8 books where the heroine must not be favored at home, and the hero must like the heroine's half-sister. In the end, the heroine's sister is a bad guy, and he mistakenly believes that the heroine is a bad guy."
"Haha, Senior Sister Lu, this is really the case."
It felt like when Xiaohui and Lu Weiwei talked about the domineering president's article, Xiaohui instantly felt a sense of involvement, and the two of them instantly narrowed the topic.
He Junchao glanced at the two noisy people and said as a reminder: "What time is it now? Is this still popular?"
"You don't understand." Lu Weiwei glanced at him and complained: "Girls love to watch this now. Although it's a bit cliched, it's fun to watch."
"Haha." Seeing Lu Weiwei refuting him, He Junchao expressed dissatisfaction and immediately retorted: "But now is the first chapter to return to the country, and the second chapter... to be isolated."
After the words fell, Lu Weiwei and Xiao Hui stopped talking at the same time, and both looked at He Junchao with contempt.
Officer Ding, on the other hand, laughed so hard that he laughed and complained: "Don't mention it, no matter what level of domineering CEO you are now, as soon as you return to the country, you have to be quarantined first. There is nothing wrong with that, haha."
"Okay, let's not talk anymore." Feeling that it was impossible to chat with He Junchao, Lu Weiwei simply ignored him and walked directly to Gu Chen.
At this time, Gu Chen was still looking through various surveillance updates about Xiao Zhicheng.
Lu Weiwei did not watch the whole process, so she asked Gu Chen: "Junior Brother Gu, did this Xiao Zhicheng have any specific movements before Xu Xintong disappeared? Including whether he had any special abnormalities after returning home on the night Xu Xintong disappeared?"
"That's for sure." Gu Chen pulled out one of the surveillance files, clicked on it to play it, and explained to everyone:
"This Xiao Zhicheng, from the night Xu Xintong disappeared, after leaving Osmanthus Alley, his behavior became too weird."
Pointing to the picture of Xiao Zhicheng on the screen, Gu Chen added: "This should be the picture of him going home. From the way he got off the car, it can be seen that he was dejected on the road, as if he had been hit by some kind of blow."
"And it can be seen from the way he walks that Xiao Zhicheng is very preoccupied at the moment."
Turning off the screen, Gu Chen called up another surveillance screen that He Junchao had prepared for him, and continued to explain: "This is what Xiao Zhicheng looked like when he went to work the next day."
"It can be seen that everything that night seemed to have no impact on him at all. Xu Xintong's disappearance made him behave too calmly, as if nothing happened."
"In our subsequent investigation of him, he himself said that Xu Xintong sent him a resignation text message, but I saw the time when Xiao Zhicheng's text message was received, after he left Osmanthus Alley."
"After leaving Osmanthus Alley?" After hearing Gu Chen's words, everyone's nerves suddenly became tense.
Lu Weiwei said: "If Xiao Zhicheng had already killed Xu Xintong at that time, how could Xu Xintong send a text message to resign?"
"And I still remember that the text message Uncle Zhao received was also after Xiao Zhicheng left Osmanthus Alley."
After the words fell, the scene became quiet again.
But at this time, Gu Chen questioned again: "Although Xiao Zhicheng had been near Osmanthus Alley, he disappeared from the surveillance screen and then returned the same way."
"But we didn't capture evidence that he had indeed been to Osmanthus Alley."
"If you just go to him rashly and ask him about the specific situation, he will definitely not admit it."
"That's right." After hearing this, Officer Ding nodded silently and agreed, "If it was really him who did it, then Xiao Zhicheng will definitely deny it."
"Since we have no evidence to prove that he went to Osmanthus Alley that night, then he doesn't have to admit it at all. Then we will be the ones who are passive."
"One more thing." As soon as Officer Ding finished speaking, Gu Chen raised his hand to remind: "One more thing is that Senior Brother He simulated the traffic jam situation that night, and eliminated the specific traffic flow that night, and made a rough deduction time.
"
"What Senior Brother He told me at that time was that if we drove to Osmanthus Alley normally that night, excluding the traffic jam on the road, we would only be able to stay in Osmanthus Alley for 20 minutes."
"In other words, if this is the case, then it only took Xiao Zhicheng about 20 minutes from committing the crime to burying the person in the wilderness."
"There is a contradiction in time, so I think that although Xiao Zhicheng is very suspicious, he does not seem to have sufficient time to commit the crime."
"You mean... there isn't enough time to commit the crime?" Lu Weiwei said.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "Because this is also the estimated time. After all, that section of the road is under construction, and traffic jams are inevitable."
"So, if you want to suspect Xiao Zhicheng as the murderer, then at least he must have enough time to commit the crime."
"If this condition cannot be met, then the possibility of him being the murderer is almost zero."
"I understand." After listening to Gu Chen's explanation, Lu Weiwei suddenly realized: "The most important thing now is that there is not enough time to commit the crime. Then we can simulate it again and see if there are other shortcuts?"
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently, thought about it briefly, and then said: "When Xiao Zhicheng drove to Osmanthus Alley, it was a working day, and he set off after Xu Xintong left the company by car."
"It means that the two of them went to Osmanthus Alley in tandem. If according to Gao Mingyang, Xiao Zhicheng has been to Osmanthus Alley before and is familiar with that area, it can save Xiao Zhicheng the time to survey the terrain."
"Moreover, every section of the road has been dug into potholes. It is not clear which route Xiao Zhicheng took at that time. Therefore, we have to conduct an on-site investigation tomorrow. It is best to be able to accurately determine the specific time."
"I agree." Officer Ding yawned and couldn't help but said: "Now that we have been busy all night and are tired, we should seize the time to take a rest and go to that road to check the situation again early tomorrow morning."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I agree." He Junchao rubbed his eyes with a tired look on his face: "I am also very sleepy. My eyes are almost blurred after retrieving so many surveillance files."
Xiaohui saw that everyone was getting ready to take a rest, but she couldn't stay here any longer.
So he quickly stood up, said goodbye to everyone, and said, "Since you all want to rest, I will go back quickly. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
Everyone echoed in unison and watched Xiaohui slowly leave.
At this moment, Lu Weiwei suddenly hooked her hand at He Junchao.
He Junchao's eyes were blank: "What are you doing?"
"Give me money." Lu Weiwei said.
He Junchao looked confused and asked again: "I...why should I give you money?"
"I'll sell those snacks to you at a discount. Just give me two hundred or three hundred, just show your kindness." Lu Weiwei said.
When He Junchao heard this, he stood up and said: "What? These things are not provided by you for free? I thought you gave them to me?"
"Are you thinking too much? Why should I give it to you? These are all things you bought with me, so hurry up and get the money." Lu Weiwei continued to flex her fingers, as if there was no need to discuss.
Lu Weiwei felt a little unreasonable, but after making Xiaohui so happy just now, He Junchao thought about it and let it go. After all, Lu Weiwei was still assisting him.
Thinking of this, He Junchao took out his mobile phone and was about to transfer money to Lu Weiwei.
But at this moment, He Junchao seemed to have calmed down again, so he immediately held the phone to his chest again:
"Oh, that's not right. The snacks you have can't exceed a hundred yuan at most, right? You actually want two hundred or three hundred from me? You're a profiteer."
"What profiteer? It sounds so ugly?" Lu Weiwei stopped listening and retorted directly: "I bought this from the store and transported it to the office. The freight is considered an additional cost after all, right?"
"Haha, shipping cost?" Upon hearing Lu Weiwei's crooked talk, He Junchao smiled bitterly and said again:
"From the store next to the entrance of our Furong branch, transport snacks to the office. For products that cost less than 100 yuan, you actually asked me for 1200 yuan for shipping. You, Lu Weiwei, flew to the office on a rocket.
ah?"
Listening to He Junchao reasoning with her, Lu Weiwei also knew that she was wrong, so she quickly changed her tone and replied:
"Then I'm still helping you with assists. I haven't told Xiaohui yet that you stole my favorite shrimp-flavored potato chips to show her courtesy. The service fee is one or two hundred, isn't that excessive?"
"You, you, you." I felt like I was no match for Lu Weiwei in the quarrel, and was about to be reduced to rubbish by Lu Weiwei in an instant.
He Junchao grabbed Officer Ding and complained with a look on his face: "Old Ding, you are here to judge. Isn't this Lu Weiwei going too far? Isn't this blackmail?"
"Haha, okay, just give her a hundred." Officer Ding was willing to be the peacemaker between the two of them, and complained to Lu Weiwei:
"Weiwei, He Junchao is not young anymore, and he finally has some fun with this Xiaohui. Don't make things difficult for me."
"Okay." Seeing Comrade Lao Ding speak, Lu Weiwei didn't care: "Then transfer one hundred. The service fee is considered free. Next time you need me to assist, the service fee will be doubled."
He Junchao: "..."
I feel like I shouldn't mess with this living treasure.
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The next morning, the sun shone brightly.
Gu Chen and everyone came to the office early.
Since Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha were still on vacation, it was not easy for Gu Chen to disturb them.
After all, I just came back from abroad and I need to spend time with my family.
As for handling this case, Gu Chen felt that he had to rely on himself.
Taking Lu Weiwei with him, Gu Chen drove to the vicinity of Osmanthus Alley.
Subsequently, based on Xiao Zhicheng's previous driving route, Gu Chen gradually drove into the surveillance blind spot.
At a construction section, Gu Chen parked the car aside and reminded Lu Weiwei in the co-pilot: "Xiao Zhicheng lost the surveillance picture here. Let's get off the car here and see if there are any others around."
shortcut."
"Okay." Lu Weiwei nodded silently and opened the car door directly.
Beside the highway, several road construction workers were slowly sorting out their tools.
Seeing two policemen in police uniforms approaching, they looked left and right, and immediately started talking in low voices.
Gu Chen got into the road construction area through a gap in the iron sheet, boarded an excavator directly, and stood on a high place to look around.
A man wearing a safety helmet stepped forward and asked: "Comrade police, are you okay?"
"Do you have a shortcut to Osmanthus Alley?" Gu Chen asked.
"Shortcut? To Osmanthus Alley?" The man in the helmet scratched the back of his head and briefly thought about it for a few seconds before he waved his hand and said, "If we walk normally, it's a bit far. After all, the roads here are separated by iron sheets.
opened."
"But if it's commuting time, we will remove one of the iron sheets. If the car passes by the fork in the road, it can save a lot of time."
"What did you say? Will you move the partitions away during commuting time?" Gu Chen couldn't help but be stunned when he heard what the man in the helmet said.
These situations were something I had not grasped before.
Seeing how excited Gu Chen was, the man in the helmet smiled lightly and replied: "Comrade police, you don't have to be so excited, right?"
"The roads are congested during commuting hours. If we don't open a few openings to divert traffic, the roads here will be blocked until very late. Therefore, the engineering headquarters asked us to clear the partitions at several forks during the morning and evening rush hours.
Open it to facilitate the diversion of these vehicles."
"As for the Osmanthus Alley you mentioned, you can turn right at the intersection in front of you, but you have to wait until you are commuting. Now that the time has passed, we have already taken the gamble again."
"Is it the intersection ahead?" Gu Chen asked, pointing to the fork in the road not far ahead.
The man in the helmet nodded silently: "Yes, yes, right in front."
"Thanks."
Gu Chen jumped off the excavator and returned directly to Lu Weiwei, reminding him: "Let's go and have a look in front."
After the two got in the car, they drove forward for a while.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, inside the road maintenance section, only the sound of "dong dong dong dong" can be heard one after another.
After Gu Chen got out of the car, he immediately started to remove the roadblock and gently moved the iron partition that was ajar.
At this moment, a fork in the road leading to Osmanthus Alley appeared in front of Gu Chen.
Earlier, several workers were wondering who was on the roadblock partition?
But when he saw Gu Chen in police uniform, he immediately didn't dare to say anything.
Gu Chen walked up to several workers and asked loudly: "Excuse me, in the past 10 days, will you remove these roadblocks during the morning and evening rush hours every day when commuting?"
"Yes." Because the mechanical noise at the site was too loud, one of the tall and thin workers also responded loudly:
"The leaders asked us to open roadblocks during the morning and evening rush hours to divert cars and reduce the pressure of traffic jams."
After a pause, the tall and thin worker asked again: "Excuse me, comrade police, why are you asking this?"
"Nothing, can you help open the roadblock now? We have to go this way." Gu Chen said.
The tall and thin worker was a little puzzled, thinking that it was not the peak traffic jam period, so it would be okay to take a detour.
But it feels a bit overwhelming to open the roadblock and pass through the small road.
But Gu Chen was a policeman, so the other party didn't dare to say anything. Thinking that maybe there was something important, he waved and said to several workers around him: "Come over here and help the police comrades move the iron plate."
"Thank you." Seeing that the worker was willing to cooperate, Gu Chen patted him on the shoulder and then got back into the vehicle.
As the iron road barrier was removed, Gu Chen drove directly towards the path.
Based on his familiarity with this area, Gu Chen made several turns and continued driving towards the fork in the road. It didn't take long before he arrived at the outskirts of the Osmanthus Alley Wilderness.
After the car stopped steadily, Gu Chen glanced at the time on the car and couldn't help but sigh: "It's only seven minutes."
"Then if there is a traffic jam, how long will it take us to drive towards Osmanthus Alley normally?"
Lu Weiwei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked.
Gu Chen briefly analyzed in his mind based on the real-time surveillance footage provided by He Junchao and the traffic jam on the road, and then replied:
"If the situation prevailed at that time, it would have taken a long detour."
"But if it was during the peak traffic jam period, it would take at least longer."
With a faint sigh, Gu Chen also said with emotion: "After calculation, if Xiao Zhicheng drives from this intersection to Guihua Lane that night, he will have about an hour to spend in Osmanthus Alley without having to go back and forth on the road.
The crime was committed in the old house on the alley."
"So, 20 minutes is not the minimum time?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "Including the traffic jam and the large detour, Xiao Zhicheng can actually save about 50 minutes."
"If it's a crime, that's enough, but tools are needed for digging. Unless Xiao Zhicheng brings the tools himself, he has to use ready-made tools."
"Ready-made? Are they the tools that come with the yard?" Lu Weiwei said.
Gu Chen nodded slightly: "Absolutely, so we have to search for it in the yard again."
"Especially look around to see if these tools may have been abandoned."
"Then what are you waiting for?" After learning the specific situation from Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei seemed to have more goals.
The two of them got out of the police car together and started walking towards the small courtyard.
At this moment, a couple was sitting in the yard, cleaning and sorting the ingredients they bought.
Two barbecue carts are also neatly placed on one side.
When the two of them saw Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei walking into the yard, they suddenly became nervous.
The couple must have heard about what happened last night, so when they saw the police coming to the yard, they couldn't help but murmur in their hearts.
Gu Chen then glanced at Gao Mingyang's room and was about to go over and knock on the door to call him, but was stopped by the middle-aged woman in the couple: "That man is not at home. He went out early in the morning."
Hearing this, Gu Chen turned around slowly and asked again: "Then do you know where he went?"
"Maybe he went to have breakfast? Or he went to do other things. I'm not sure about the details." Another middle-aged man replied calmly.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, and then they slowly walked to the two couples.
Gu Chen pointed to the decoration worker's room and asked, "What about this person?"
"This person?" The middle-aged woman glanced at him and shook her head: "He hasn't been back for several days. He probably lives at the construction site again."
"Are you here today to investigate the cause of Xu Xintong's death?" The middle-aged man seemed to know the purpose of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's visit, so he asked curiously.
Gu Chen grinned and nodded silently: "Yes, we are here to investigate the case. We were here last night, but we didn't meet you two."
"If you come here at night, you won't be able to touch us." The middle-aged woman put some prepared fish balls directly on bamboo sticks and said jokingly:
"We, a couple, have to go out to the stall at 3:30 in the afternoon, and we don't go home until around early in the morning, so you may not be able to find us before 1 in the morning."
After a pause, the middle-aged woman added: "But you can also go to the square over there to find us, our stall is over there."
"Okay." Seeing that the two couples were quite cooperative and actively answered his questions, Gu Chen turned around and asked, "I wonder if you have any digging tools in your courtyard?"
"Tools for digging?"
When Gu Chen suddenly mentioned this, the couple said in unison and looked surprised.
Seeing this, Lu Weiwei quickly reminded: "It's just a hoe, shovel, etc. used for digging soil."
"Oh, there are a few of them. They were brought back by the one who was doing the decoration. They are usually used by us and my wife when we go digging and hoeing in the nearby vacant land." said the middle-aged man.
"Digging and hoeing the ground?" Lu Weiwei's expression was stunned, but she continued to ask: "What are you digging and hoeing the ground for?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Grow vegetables." The middle-aged man smiled and replied directly: "Part of our ingredients are bought at the market, and some are grown by ourselves.
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"Is farming still allowed here?" Lu Weiwei was a little confused. After all, it was still unclear when the developer would start construction on that wasteland.
If you plant vegetables rashly, all your efforts will be in vain when the bulldozers come.
But the middle-aged woman smiled and said: "Although the soil in that wasteland over there is relatively fertile, we don't dare to plant it. After all, we heard that the developer will start construction soon, and we are afraid that the vegetables we have planted will be shoveled away."
"So we made some open space at the back of the yard and planted some vegetables."
The direction the middle-aged woman pointed was behind the room where she lived, which was close to the old house and had no intersection with the wasteland that needed to be developed.
Gu Chen nodded silently and asked politely: "Can you lend us those tools?"
"Of course." The middle-aged woman washed her hands in the basin, then shook off the water stains, and wiped it on the apron around her waist a few times, then she asked Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to follow her, also walking as they did.
explain:
"We usually put this tool in the gap between rooms. Anyway, we like to put all kinds of miscellaneous tools here. Just throw it away."
While talking, the middle-aged woman also brought Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to the door of the old house where she lived.
Then, the middle-aged woman walked to the gap in the side corner and started to take out the tools.
But just as the middle-aged woman was about to take it, her whole body froze for a moment, and her eyes stared blankly ahead.
"What's wrong?" Seeing the woman's hesitation, Gu Chen also asked curiously.
The middle-aged woman replied weakly: "It's strange, it was always kept here, why is it missing?"
"Is it a tool?" Lu Weiwei took a step forward and asked quickly.
The middle-aged woman nodded silently: "Yes, it's the shovel and hoe. We usually keep them here."
"Then you haven't used these tools in the past 10 days?" Gu Chen asked again.
"No, I only get tools when new species need to be planted, and when I turn the soil, but now I don't need them for the past ten days, so I don't pay attention."
After thinking for a while, the middle-aged woman glanced at the busy man and shouted, "Husband, are the hoe and shovel placed here?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" the middle-aged man asked.
"Gone." The middle-aged woman replied loudly.
"It's gone? How come it's gone? Wasn't it always there?"
"It's just missing. Do you know who took it?" the middle-aged woman asked loudly.
"How do I know this?" Why should the police be interested in his own hoe and shovel? The middle-aged man put aside his work for a while and walked all the way to the crowd.
Then he glanced at the gap in the corner of the wall and said with a confused look: "Huh? The tools are missing? Did the decoration worker take them back?"
"What does he want this thing for? Besides, isn't it everywhere on the construction site? There's no need to go home to get it, right?" The middle-aged woman said, and immediately denied this possibility.
The middle-aged man hesitated, glanced at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei secretly, and said in a gentle tone: "Comrade police, if you need tools, how about I ask the neighbors next door to see if they have such a thing?"
"No, we are not using tools, we are just... looking for tools to bury Xu Xintong in the wasteland." Seeing that the two of them had misunderstood, Gu Chen also corrected him.
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