Things seemed to be developing in an increasingly weird direction. Out of professional habits, both Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei felt that the lady boss mentioned by the pancake boss seemed to have had an accident.
"Boss, are you sure your wife is really okay? It's been a few days and you can't even contact your wife."
"Comrade policewoman." Seeing Lu Weiwei mention this matter, the pancake owner simply said:
"Actually, I don't know how to tell you that my wife has been with me for so many years, and I know her character."
"Whenever something happens, he will have conflicts with me, and then he will run away from home and so on."
"Before this, before the two of us started making pancakes, she often did this."
Looking up and thinking, the pancake boss also said in retrospect: "I remember that when we were working in Hangzhou, she said she wanted to run away from home several times. Anyway, she always scared me for a few days. I think this time too
Roughly the same."
"Maybe it was because I quarreled with her and she felt uncomfortable, so she ran away from home. She might come back in a few days."
"Real or false?" Hearing what the pancake stall owner said clearly, Lu Weiwei didn't know the specific situation of the couple and it was difficult to make a judgment.
I can only remind you, "I'm talking to you boss, the most important thing for this couple is to live in harmony. There is no overnight feud between husband and wife."
After knocking on the door several times, there was no response from Lu Weiwei's office, so Gu Chen opened the door and left, placing the file under Yi Lifeng's desk to ensure that Lu Weiwei could see it at first sight before returning.
"Just like onions, you usually buy a small amount at one time, but this time, you find that the price of onions has generally risen sharply."
But as soon as he arrived at the door of the Criminal Investigation Team office, Gu Chen found that He Junchao was comforting a middle-aged woman.
Looking up at the ceiling, the pancake owner was also thoughtful: "Think about it, maybe you will come back in a few days, but day after day, I still see you."
Explained: "Listening to what he said, you feel that the situation on his side may not be simple."
"Yes, how could it be like that?" Listening to Gu Chen's words, the pancake owner was dumbfounded. He also looked at Gu Chen with disbelieving eyes and asked for advice:
With a faint sigh, seeing Gu Chen and He Junchao looking at him with strange eyes, the pancake owner quickly said:
"Yes." Seeing that Gu Chen still remembered what she said back then, the middle-aged woman quickly nodded in agreement:
Gu Chen took a quick look and saw that there was an old community outside, with no old warehouses around.
When he saw that the call was from He Junchao, Gu Chen quickly opened the answer button and asked: "Senior Sister Lu, what's the matter?"
After passing through a spacious alley, Xiaojia came to a more old-fashioned open space.
"You thought to yourself that after so many days, even if he was no longer angry, it was time to calm down, so you tried to call him."
"You are exaggerating. As long as the quality is too low, those ingredients can be used."
However, Gu Chen, who was standing aside, also crossed his arms and reminded:
…
Gu Chen was in his independent office, and before signing the document, he put the document aside.
"Is this the time he really made you angry, not very angry?" Yuan Shasha, who was sitting in front of Gu Chen, also expressed her own opinion.
"First of all, slow down." Gu Chen turned the pen with his left hand and said as a reminder: "He will explain to you the time and place when his lover left home. Later, you can ask your colleagues to call up the surveillance."
"Just like that, you two villains are quite stubborn. Although you know that it was your fault that time, the words you said are too hurtful."
"Anyway, what they said is right. If you try to contact your wife later, you should apologize. After all, we are men, so we have to be gentle."
Looking up at Gu Chen who was taking notes behind him, the pancake owner said again:
"It may be necessary to conduct an on-site investigation." Gu Chen also saw the problem and said quickly:
At this moment, Gu Chenna discovered that the woman was the owner of the pancake shop in the shopping mall opposite Lao Fa's home area?
"Yes." As soon as Yi Lifeng finished speaking, Zhao Guozhi, who was sitting on the other side, quickly complained:
"Yi Li, that man's bad image...has really disappeared." Zhao Guozhi said.
"Okay, you wait for him."
"The result is not that, apart from most of the ingredients being high-quality products, the rest are of inferior quality."
"Of course you remember." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "What? He has no regrets now?"
But Gu Chen clearly remembered that when he and He Junchao visited my pancake stall again a few days later, I still thought so.
"You two husband and wife, that kind of situation has never happened before. I should let you go. If you should admit your mistake, you should admit it. It's no big deal."
"With ingredients of varying quality, the pancakes made the same way as the old-fashioned way don't taste as bad."
"You feel very strange, you know what's going on."
"However, I don't have any of the ingredients here, and the prices are a little cheaper than outside the market."
"But what? Those days, you were so busy that you died." Speaking of which, the pancake owner also looked aggrieved.
“I definitely won’t have enough time to buy it at that time.”
"So, you often go to that fellow villager's house. The relationship between the two is very bad, and they are also best friends in the same village."
"Come here, I'll contact you. I feel like I'm running away from my hometown again."
"Let him calm down first." Seeing that the pancake owner was not very emotional at this moment, Gu Chen also hurriedly comforted him first.
"Because when you usually buy ingredients, in order to ensure the quality and taste, you will choose a fixed merchant."
"But after all, what could happen to a little living person? You know, I thought it would be fine if it happened."
"You remember, this morning and afternoon, you went to the vegetable market to buy ingredients. You were going to go home and prepare some before setting out at the stall."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although Gu Chen said that, he did not have his own reasoning.
"Ouch!" After hearing what Comrade Lao Wang said, Zhao Guozhi also put on a helpless expression, looked at Officer Wang and said:
After all, I know He Junchao very well. He Junchao must be in trouble when he talks to me in such a light tone.
Hearing He Junchao's words, the middle-aged woman with her back to Gu Chen also quickly looked back.
But very slowly, the pancake boss shook his head and admitted: "Yes, that quarrel was also about some trivial things. Anyway, the quarrels are still the same as the last few."
Gu Chen picked up the documents outside his hand, pushed open the small door of his independent office, and walked directly to the opposite door.
"So, just shop around and see if you can buy from this store later."
Then, based on the surveillance angle and the path the man was walking, the camera was switched continuously.
"Let's see if we can find traces of his wife through surveillance."
As time passed slowly, the pancake owner hunched over and stayed behind the computer screen to observe for a long time, but there was no picture of his wife.
"In the past, when your wife had conflicts with you and wanted to run away from home, she was just talking out of anger. She didn't want to stay with a friend for a few days and make you worry about you. You all know that."
"Besides, if you think about it, you must go to the Low-tech District Police Station to call the police. Once the old Pharaoh is registered, he will ask you to wait according to the procedures, but you have to wait. He has been missing for a week."
So when the pancake stall owner said that he was a poor and humble couple, Yi Li felt that he was exaggerating.
"Gu Chen, please come to the criminal investigation team office. No one is looking for him." He Junchao's tone was not simple, which made Gu Chen very curious.
So He Junchao quickly picked up the individual police equipment hanging under the wall and threw Gu Chen's equipment over.
"Be specific." Gu Chen reminded him while recording.
He Junchao said angrily: "So many days have passed before he even thought of calling the police. Do you really know what he is thinking?"
"You also have a way." After hearing what Yi Lifeng said, the pancake owner also looked aggrieved and explained with choked sobs:
"If he had treated his wife badly and corrected his mistake on the spot, it would have been less of a problem."
"What do you mean?" The pancake owner looked confused.
Before getting his own pancakes, He Junchao followed Gu Chen directly and went to Gu Chen's house to eat together.
"Tell me, Lao Wang, is this the first day he's partnered with you? You can definitely find someone, so you can just bring up the picture for him."
So Gu Chen quickly replied: "Okay, he will wait for you outside the office first. You can hand the documents outside your hand to Director Zhao and come up."
"No, disappearing means meeting again. There will be no more surveillance footage." Zhao Guozhi spread his hands and reminded again.
"So that evening, when you closed the stall and went home, you dialed your hometown phone number."
But in just the past few days, the pancake boss's mood seems to be slowly collapsing, or in other words, he is not yet on the verge of collapse.
"They need to know that when you usually run away from home, you return home on your own after at least two or eight days."
"Alas!" At this moment, the pancake boss didn't hesitate at all.
At this moment, Gu Chen no longer saw any nervousness on the face of the pancake boss, but a look of frustration.
"That's right, that's right, let them see." Zhao Guozhi felt that it was the same old method for a while, so he quickly pulled out the surveillance footage.
But looking at the dust at the warehouse door, which was not yet locked, Gu Chen could guess that many people had been there.
Of course, Lu Weiwei said that without any intention of her own. This was not to train Gu Chen to develop in all aspects.
"So, if there is anything you can do, you just wait a few more days, but no matter how you call your wife's phone number or your fellow villager's phone number, there is still no news from you."
"Although you are the deputy director of Furong Branch, you are also just a special people's policeman."
Gu Chen, along with He Junchao and the pancake owner, parked the car on the side of the road and walked directly towards the alley.
"But now, people are looking for you. You feel relieved. In Jiangnan City, you only have one acquaintance with your fellow villager. You are outside your fellow villager. If you really think about it, where will you go?"
"But he is obviously in the low-tech district, so why did he come to your Furong branch to report the crime? And he also asked Yi Li?"
"I did." As soon as Yuan Shasha finished speaking, the pancake owner also said quickly:
So, Zhao Guozhi turned on the video screen acceleration mode and also made a "please" gesture to let the pancake boss watch it for himself.
"But when he called, he turned off his phone, it was bad, he turned off his phone, so you called again later, and then it was like that, you stopped calling, you stopped calling at different times, but there was no response."
"Gu Ju, you...your wife may really be missing." The pancake owner choked up when he spoke, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of his eyes.
"Because I will definitely go shopping again. If the time is right, you will leave at 9 o'clock, and you will be ready for business outside the boardroom around 10 o'clock."
"Yes, he's right." Seeing what Yi Li said, the pancake owner nodded silently.
"Yes, you are looking for it. The key is to look for it. People don't disappear from there. Where did he ask you to find someone for you?"
Yuan Shasha on the side quickly asked: "Where are you coming from? Did he call?"
"You were also angry at the time and thought you could make a scene, but at that time, you would have told you not to leave. After all, your swearing was too hurtful to your self-esteem."
At most, they earn less than low-level white-collar workers under the old method.
"So his wife insisted on refusing to use those ingredients, right?" Yuan Shasha said.
Gu Chen had not been there before, so he pointed to the area behind and asked the pancake owner: "If you go that way, can you go directly to his rental area?"
Due to historical planning reasons, the planning structure outside is very reasonable. The old areas are crisscrossed with those old warehouses, which looks very reasonable.
After closing the office door, Yi Li walked directly towards the criminal investigation team's office.
"But is it?" Seeing that He Junchao said that, the pancake boss also agreed, and Younai said:
"But, his wife appeared again before she walked to the surveillance blind spot, which means that his wife may be in that area."
"Anyway, you're right, that's what you should say."
"He explained the specific situation." Seeing the pancake boss, it seemed that there were not many doubts about the situation reported to him.
"No, you want to hear the disputes between them now. You just want to know what happened here?" He Junchao didn't wait any longer.
"Even if he is looking for you, your Furong Branch will definitely help him find him."
Besides that, the pancake owner also choked up and seemed extremely aggrieved.
"Come here?" The pancake owner scratched his cheek and said thoughtfully:
After sitting down in Gu Chen's police car, the pancake owner arrived at the scene of the incident with an anxious mood.
"Because you are both from Li, you have few relatives and friends in Jiangnan City. However, your wife has no fellow villagers and she also owns a restaurant in Jiangnan City."
"It is said that it is difficult to accumulate reputation, but if you break it, it will not happen overnight."
Lao Fa gave some of the director's work to Gu Chen, which was not conducive to Gu Chen's growth and development.
My wife's sudden disappearance seemed to have given me a small blow.
"Suddenly, your wife walked to that blind spot, and then she was gone."
Recently, Lu Weiwei took many of her documents directly to the deputy director's office across the street and gave them to her to handle.
"Come here, if you think about what they said at that time, you will feel that there is something wrong with you, and you want to make trouble with your wife."
"The time is right." Zhao Guozhi looked at the recorded time in the notebook and then at the time on the computer screen to see if there was anything wrong.
"It's too bad if the old method is like that." After hearing what Gu Chen said, the pancake owner also breathed a sigh of relief, and then said again:
"Next time, are they coming to your pancake stall to buy pancakes? They also asked about that matter. At this time, you haven't even called your wife yet."
"Then you are suspicious, because their ingredients are very wrong."
"I see, there are only two surveillance cameras outside. One is not the one recording the scene where his wife first appeared, and the other one is by the roadside."
Zhao Guozhi pointed to the screen and explained: "That man is not my wife. Before my wife came outside, please note that outside is the first surveillance screen."
"It's that road. You usually take it all the time. Because it's so convenient, you especially want to go out the other way."
"Understood." After hearing what the pancake boss said, Gu Chen looked back at the warehouse in front of him, then walked to the door of the warehouse and looked at the gap in the small door for a few times.
"That's right, that's right." Faced with Comrade Lao Wang's verbal education, the pancake boss nodded silently.
"You remember, he seemed to have said it himself. He said that as soon as he and his lover quarreled, you would run away from home."
…
Gu Chen took the equipment, broke the buckle, and then reminded the pancake boss: "He will go with you too."
"No." The woman continued to nod and said with a bitter face:
"Is it possible that you just stayed in that blind spot for a while, and then after a while, you walked out again?" The pancake boss seemed to have given up.
"Is it him?" Gu Chen didn't care, so he hurriedly walked down and asked about the situation: "What's wrong?"
That left Yi Lifeng speechless, but he could also understand the pancake boss's mood at the moment.
"Someone you all know?" After hearing what He Junchao said, Yi Li had no idea it was Xiang.
"Yes." The pancake owner nodded silently and agreed, "Going straight over there will indeed not lead to the area where you are renting now."
"A person you all know. Anyway, he was vague when he came here. I am looking for him now." Yi Lifeng said.
"The result?" The pancake owner took a deep breath, shook his head, and said in a bad tone:
Yi Li stretched out his hand and said, "He continues."
The pancake boss nodded sharply: "Yes, because of that incident, I had a small quarrel with you. You said it was an example, but you insisted and refused."
"That." As soon as Zhao Guozhi finished speaking, the pancake owner pointed to the screen and reminded:
It cannot be said that the warehouse outside is relatively old and is filled with construction materials.
Before Yi Lifeng, who was facing Gu Chen, found out, he quickly reminded the woman: "I'm coming."
"The man in white clothes is not your wife."
"Senior Sister Lu, let him go with you to conduct on-the-spot investigation."
"Are you there?" Yi Lifeng looked in and out of the screen helplessly, then opened the city map, pointed to the location marked with no monitoring icon, and reminded:
It is estimated that they are building materials left over from the renovation and development of some old areas outside there a few years ago.
Gu Chen, on the other hand, asked the middle-aged woman to sit under his seat in the criminal investigation team's office, and then asked curiously:
"Nonsense." He Junchao on the side heard the words and hurriedly came over and said: "How can a bad person disappear? If it is a surveillance blind spot."
"But because there are sloppy inspections of ingredients, there are not many low-quality products outside the ingredients."
"He wants to doubt your colleague's professional level. Since I said that his lover disappeared in that blind spot, it means that you have never appeared in the picture again."
"Senior Brother He, based on that, find the surveillance camera that day."
"It may be in the blind spot area, but that area is not quite small, so it should be difficult to find."
As a young branch director, Yi Li will face more work insecurity and less variety in the future than he does now.
"Yes, that's how it should be." Hearing what the pancake stall owner said, He Junchao also gave a little thumbs up.
He Junchao also hung up the phone before he finished speaking.
"Director Gu, where does he think your wife went?"
"No matter how big the problem is, he will help you. If you think about it, you must come to him personally and he will definitely help you."
There seemed to be white circles around the eye sockets, as if he had been rested badly.
With a faint sigh, the owner of the pancake stall also said helplessly: "The poor and humble couple have been in mourning for a long time. You must be poor people. Maybe you just don't have so many trivial things, so you still have to work hard to make money."
Officer Wang looked at Zhao Guozhi and asked curiously: "Zhao Guozhi, didn't my wife appear from that blind spot in the past few days?"
But at this moment, Gu Chen's cell phone suddenly rang.
"The key is, there has been no trace of my wife since before this."
"Then they still make money?" Gu Chen looked at the boss's busy appearance and said with a smile:
"He is wrong." After hearing what the pancake boss said, Gu Chen also admitted:
"But that time, it looked exactly the same as before."
"Anyway, it's not that that road cannot lead to the area where you live, but it is a common route."
"If it's your fault, admit it to the boss lady, and the story will be settled. If it's the boss lady's fault, then just be patient and admit your mistake proactively, and maybe the story will be resolved."
When everyone heard this, they all gathered around in surprise.
"Alas!" The pancake owner also said "Alas", and then quickly replied:
Subsequently, the pancake owner followed Zhao Chen's request and told all the time and place of the incident.
"Yeah." Hearing what the pancake boss said, He Junchao also nodded silently and refused:
"He brought this on himself." When Officer Wang heard this, he also smiled and said:
Moreover, when I looked through the gap in the dilapidated small door of the warehouse and looked inside, I found that it was also dusty. It looked like it had not been abandoned for a long time, and there were definitely people from Fazang there.
"Although you and your wife do business in the shopping mall here in the Low-tech Zone, the house you rent is in Furong District."
Gu Chen casually picked up the notebook under the table, took out the writing pen from his pocket, and leaned against the desk, ready to record at any time.
"Besides, the fault for the matter itself is his. What's wrong with him being so stubborn and saying a few words to him? He's a woman and a little husband, so that's fine?"
"Besides, it wasn't like that when they were working in Hangzhou. His wife ran away from home several times, right?"
According to the boss's business speed, it is estimated that if the business is bad, it will be no problem to earn 8.1 million a year.
According to Lu Weiwei, as the deputy director of Furong Branch, he can focus entirely on handling cases when he has no time, and he still needs to process some documents.
"But it was very much the same that time. Your cell phone was turned off, and it started to slow down for a week as soon as you left."
"Yes, yes." Seeing that He Junchao said that, the boss could only agree:
"He came over to take a look. Who is his wife outside?"
Gu Chen held his chin with his left hand and thought about it.
The pancake boss thanked him and did not go to drink. Instead, he directly put the paper cup under the desk, and then explained to everyone:
"Why are they the same?" He Junchao handed the tea to the pancake boss.
Gu Chen put the document in his hand aside before signing his name, preparing to sort it out and hand it to Lu Weiwei across the office.
"And you work very hard every day. It's usually tiring for two people to do the work, but now you have to do it all by yourself."
Gu Chen was able to handle those documents in an orderly manner.
"Thank you to them." Seeing Gu Chen say this, the pancake owner finally calmed down.
"At the rate they are making money, you will probably achieve financial freedom very quickly."
"Come here, you have been working alone for those days, and you are very tired."
…
A few days ago, it was an old morning.
"What's the result?" Officer Wang listened to the pancake boss's words for a long time, but he was also curious and didn't ask a question.
"Sit down first. Senior Sister Lu, give me a glass of water." Gu Chen made arrangements.
Beads of sweat broke out on the pancake owner's forehead, and I seemed to be suffocating because of my slowness.
"You know, it's hard to find someone for that kind of thing. Besides, do you have any acquaintances at the Low-tech District Police Station?"
Gu Chen didn't understand anything and walked down, ready to learn more about the situation.
"But in the past, when you ran away from home, you could still get through on the phone."
"You didn't panic at that time. You felt like you had gone to another place or something happened?"
When Yi Li heard that, he nodded silently, and said by Fen: "So these days, he is the only one working at the stall, right?"
"Next time you just say it casually, Director Gu will help you solve the problem, and even catch this hidden thief. It can be seen that Director Gu is really a bad policeman."
"What's wrong?" Gu Chen, who still had no expression on his face after that, originally stood aside and waited for Zhao Guozhi to find him directly.
"But this time, you didn't do that because you were greedy for cheap. Moreover, in order to add a supplier, you bought all the ingredients this time from me."
The pancake owner looked confused, but also in a pleading tone, and continued: "If you don't have another perspective, comrade policeman, please switch to it and take a look."
But very slowly, the pancake owner wiped his tears with the back of his left hand, and suddenly lost control of his emotions and started sobbing.
"I must say that the disappearance of his lover may have been an accident. So, maybe what happened to you when you left?"
"So, this afternoon, you and your wife had a little quarrel because of that matter."
"Bad." He Junchao agreed, turned around and walked towards the water dispenser.
"What's wrong? Who's looking for you?" Yi Li asked nervously, unsure of the answer.
"The reason why your pancakes taste better than those of other businesses is because you have put in a lot of effort in quality control of the ingredients."
"Your wife says you have a long memory and have forgotten your family's principles for making pancakes? If you follow the old method so carefully, your family's reputation may be ruined."
"Did you say that he still remembers Director Gu?"
"Come here, all you remember is that your wife threw the rag under the table and said she was running away from home. Then she went back to the room, packed a few changes of clothes, took away a few bottles of facial cleanser, and just ran out of the door.
And out."
"However, that is also difficult to investigate. There are so few surveillance systems now, so it is not difficult to find someone."
Even if the business is so bad every day, conservatively estimate that if you earn as much as 500,000 a year, the problem should be small.
"Why are you still crying?" Seeing that the situation seemed to be out of control, He Junchao quickly took out the tissue from under his desk and handed it to the pancake boss.
"Okay." It feels like it's such a big thing, so it must be a small problem.
"Hehe." The pancake owner also grinned, and then handed the bad pancakes to He Junchao on the side and said:
But now when he saw Yi Lifeng looking at him with a bitter expression, Gu Chen had no idea.
"But after asking, I found out that your wife has never been to your house, and also, have you contacted that fellow villager in those days."
"You are really panicking now. You feel that nothing is right. I feel that if your wife is missing, if it is by accident, otherwise, that situation will happen."
"Yeah." The pancake owner nodded silently, then said, "To put it more complicated, you are also the victim."
"When you come here, you will find that there is no mobile stall at the entrance of the vegetable market. My onions are very affordable and I heard that they are grown at home."
With a choked voice, the pancake owner looked at Gu Chen and continued:
"Wait a moment." According to Gu Chen's request, Zhao Guozhi quickly searched for the surveillance camera of Laofa, the owner of the pancake, and then reminded the owner of the pancake beside him:
"Bad." Picking up the tea under the table, the pancake owner took a sip, then breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"You know, Gu Chen is the deputy director of Furong Branch. He is a minor official. Without his nod, we will do our best to help you."
The pancake boss also held a tissue, wet the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with a look of resignation:
However, before the operation, Yi Lifeng was suddenly stunned. Before switching repeatedly, he turned to look at Gu Chen with a helpless expression.
After a pause, the pancake owner also took a deep breath, and then said again:
Gu Chen also took the record, walked directly to Yi Lifeng, placed the record book under Yi Lifeng's desk, buttoned the desk, and reminded:
"Anyway, no matter how angry you are, after a few days, your anger should have dissipated. It's just a trivial matter. It's always a trivial matter, and the quarrel started in the first place."
“It’s more convenient to go to the vegetable market, and it’s also convenient to take a car to this shopping mall in the low-tech zone.”
