It feels like what Zhou Xiang said makes sense. After all, he is an experienced driver in the mining area. Drivers like Zhou Xiang should be the ones who know best about the troubles in the mining area.
Therefore, Gu Chen also felt that Zhou Xiang's dictation was more credible.
After all, the pancake proprietress is a very good and secretive person, and deliberately gets into trouble with her husband, and then runs away from home.
First, we took a van belonging to our old friend Zou Yaohua and got off near the Dukou Bridge.
Then, we boarded a cargo ship under the ferry bridge and went directly along the channel to the dock to disembark.
You know, this dock is the property of the mining boss.
And all the staff here, or in other words, the businessmen here, are more or less dealing with factories and mines.
Thinking about it this way, the pancake proprietress may have come here to find an acquaintance, and this acquaintance may be the manager Zhao mentioned by the truck driver Zhou Xiang?
Gu Chen quickly asked: "Then do you know what the full name of Manager Zhao is?"
"Full name?" After thinking for a few seconds, Zhou Xiang also said slowly: "It seems to be called... Zhao Deming, yes, it's called Zhao Deming, the 'De' that has both ability and political integrity, and the 'Ming' that is bright."
Zou Yaowen, who had not yet been brought in for investigation and came to help Xiaojia search for the whereabouts of the pancake proprietress, everyone looked at Manager Zhao with strange eyes.
But Manager Zhao panicked...
"So, you originally planned to treat you to a dinner, and then let you have a good rest at the guest house for a day or two, and then go home for a reunion."
"Yes, it wasn't a napkin, just two napkins, which were crumpled into a ball and thrown away outside the trash can."
Under the leadership of Manager Zhao, Xiaojia drove.
However, before making several repeated calls, Manager Zhao also looked at Zhong Bin and the others with a puzzled expression.
Before taking the next puff, Manager Zhao quickly swallowed the smoke and said with a smile:
"Oh, they go down to the seventh floor, and before going down the stairs, keep going to the left and going all the way to the end. This office is not mine."
"Your friend and you are old acquaintances. Moreover, you worked together before, so we are not in the same company."
"Oh." I just heard Manager Zhao say that those are from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch. The middle-aged man at the backstage immediately understood the reason.
Manager Zhao's expression was stunned, and he asked forcefully: "Comrade police, what happened when they came to you?"
"Then what's going on?" Zhou Xiang frowned, feeling that there must be nothing strange out there.
"Comrade policeman, look, you were negligent and forgot the existence of that friend. I guess he would have scolded you a few times when you left. Who knows, after all, the room is still there."
With a heavy sigh, Manager Zhao also said with a wry smile: "You also have a way. Dealing with those complicated and trivial things every day is not enough to make you collapse."
Moreover, the two of them did work for the same company.
Manager Zhao was also confused, but he continued to reply:
Of course, everyone can see these big thoughts of Manager Zhao.
With a faint sigh, Manager Zhao reluctantly said: "So, you guys have some ideas over there. I'm busy with work, so I came up with the idea of taking my friends to visit."
Manager Zhao frowned, seemingly unprepared.
"So, I have so little energy to entertain you, and now they ask you where are you going? Well... you really know."
Zhong Binwei's expression was stunned, and she quickly looked at Zhou Xiang, and said with a look of disbelief: "How did he know?"
"In that case, the garbage was swept, but he looked at the trash can."
So Manager Zhao quickly said: "You know, your friend was only supposed to stay for one night, but he left on the seventh day and has not returned yet."
"The reason is that your husband called the police separately and said that his lover had been missing for a week."
Therefore, Manager Zhao also waved his hand to the male backstage, and said with a serious look:
…
"From the arrangement of clothes in the room, we can't really tell that this man left in a hurry. It seems that he encountered something urgent?"
But Manager Zhao shook his head fiercely and said, "You are talking about male police comrades. You really know that, and it's natural."
The young woman smiled slightly and left.
Manager Zhao thought for a few seconds and quickly replied: "It's tonight. You came there in the morning. I'll treat you to a small dinner tonight and let's chat or something."
"Oh, you are from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch." Officer Wang took the initiative to take out his police card and showed it behind Manager Zhao.
Speaking of the front, the middle-aged man in the background even made an S line with his hand.
Spreading his hands, Manager Zhao added: "That's not true, but you were so busy here that I was so short-circuited that I forgot that you are not a friend outside the guest house."
"They also saw that in that place, there was a small pile of chores and trivial matters at work, and there was very little management to solve them, so they left all the mess to you."
However, according to Zhong Bin's investigation of the room, it seemed that the room had not been broken into.
Manager Zhao looked confused and said in confusion: "It's strange, how come your friend's contact number got through? Is he aware that you are not staying outside the guest house?"
But when he heard that the boss was there, Manager Zhao asked the middle-aged man backstage: "This man you brought here next time, are you still outside the room?"
"After all, everything is left outside the room, which means you will come back."
"Well……"
Everyone knows that the phone number of the pancake proprietress has not been contacted as early as a week later.
"Zhong Binwei?" The young woman was stunned for a moment, but soon came to her senses and said quickly:
After a pause, Zhou Xiang pointed to an area ahead and said, "Did you see that? That's the office area of the mining area. Go to the second floor of that building to find Zhao Deming. You might be able to meet him there."
"Look at that." Zhou Xiang poked at the trash can on the ground with his foot and reminded:
"But, he brought this man here and now he has lost it." Zou Yaohua also reminded again.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Looking up at the window, Manager Zhao also frowned and thought, and then said hurriedly:
"You can't relax here or anything like that if you stay out here."
"Because you can see that my friend came to see you that time to seek refuge with you. He brought all his luggage with him."
"Where's their boss?" Manager Zhao asked after walking back.
"That person, haven't you come to the mining area to look for him in a week?" Yuan Shasha also asked me straightforwardly, in a roundabout way.
"However, it's hard to tell from the messy clothes under the small bed in the room. It's like opening a suitcase and preparing to have a good rest outside."
Worried that the middle-aged male backstage might not understand what he meant, Manager Zhao continued to explain:
"Since that's the case, why don't you ask him to come with you to check on the situation and see if this man is still here?"
"What about now?" Zou Yaohua asked quickly.
"Yes." Faced with Zhou Xiang's question, Manager Zhao also nodded silently, explaining why.
"I know, that's your friend." Zhong Binwei didn't seem very surprised when she saw the person outside the photo.
"After all, your friend also said that you and your husband had a fight, and you are running away from home. You probably want to go out there to relax."
"Have you met? How come you've met?" Upon hearing what the middle-aged man said backstage, Manager Zhao seemed to be full of questions.
Seeing Zhou Xiang and others standing at the door, the middle-aged woman also said a few complicated words to the other end of the phone, then hung up the phone.
So Zhou Xiang and others immediately stopped and continued walking to the seventh floor.
"We don't have Lao Lu Weiwei to lead the way." Seeing this, Zhou Xiang could only remind him casually.
When they came to the door, everyone looked at it casually.
"Does he care about you?" Officer Wang asked.
"You have Minato." As soon as Zhou Xiang finished speaking, Officer Wang also echoed:
However, the people inside the room seemed to ignore it at all and continued to make calls on their watches.
Sighing heavily, fearing that Zhou Xiang's team would be disloyal, Manager Zhao quickly added: "Really, you're never like that."
"Then you just told me that you were working as a low-level manager there, but now, it feels like you want to work in your mine."
Back in the living room, Manager Zhao also looked puzzled: "Do you really know when that friend of yours left?"
With a heavy sigh, Officer Wang added, "What's strange is that his friend seemed to have never come back before he left."
Of course, now the middle-aged male backstage is also treating it as a joke and teasing Manager Zhao.
"Good or bad, I'll go over and see your friend, and apologize to you face to face."
"You just remember that when I saw you coming to the mining area that day, I invited you to dinner. Then I personally drove you to the guest house in your mining area and paid for your room."
Zhou Xiang stretched out his hand to interrupt Manager Zhao's remarks and continued to ask:
Before hanging up the call, Manager Zhao sighed quietly, then smiled at Zhou Xiang and others and said:
"He really knows how to use his imagination." Looking at the situation explained by Manager Zhao, it seemed to be unclear.
"Okay, thank you." Listening to what Zhou Xiang said, Gu Chen now felt that the possibility of the pancake proprietress looking for Zhao Deming was very high.
At this moment, Zhong Bin, Zou Yaohua, Officer Wang, Yuan Shasha and Zhao Deming were all staring at Manager Zhao.
"This is the worst." Listening to the conversation between Manager Zhao and the middle-aged man backstage, Zhou Xiang also felt that if he investigated the room of the pancake proprietress, he might not be able to make any major discoveries.
Manager Zhao, who was relatively stupid, seemed to immediately understand what Zhong Bin and others meant.
He answered the phone leisurely, with a proud smile coming out of his mouth from time to time.
"Really?" Listening to Manager Zhao's words, Yuan Shasha also held a different attitude and said:
"Okay, actually there is no small problem. I am not going to discuss some things about life with you."
But the middle-aged man backstage said seriously: "It's true that I saw it, but you still have your luggage."
"Now? Now you are being vague." Listening to Officer Wang's question, Manager Zhao's answer immediately made Officer Wang less disappointed.
"Wait a minute, why are you becoming more sober the more you listen?" Listening to the middle-aged man's explanation backstage, Manager Zhao clapped his head with both hands and said thoughtfully:
After all, it would be bad if Xiaojia knew about his scandal, but if he told it in front of familiar people, of course there would be trouble.
But now, people are disappearing in their own mining area, and the police are also looking for them.
"The male backstage person said that he checked into the room and did not leave. Therefore, the male backstage person meant that no one was cleaning outside the room. He was even vague about whether there was no one in the room?"
Listening to various professional terms, Xiaojie knew that it was Zhong Binwei communicating with company personnel about work matters.
Looking up at Zhou Xiang, Manager Zhao also had a puzzled look on his face.
"Then I visited a museum in your mining area and then left after visiting it, so you are used to it."
"So, does that matter really have nothing to do with you?"
"Obviously it doesn't matter." Zhou Xiang first said what if, and then quickly said:
"You also listened to his advice, so that's why you didn't clean your room. But the room was empty, but you contacted me. Do you know where you were during those days?"
But the key is, those people are police officers or members of the criminal investigation team.
Following the guidance of the young man just now, Xiaojia slowly reached the outermost area.
"Until today, when you were very busy, you came to see you and said that you had not left home yet and that you had no place to live and that you wanted to stay there for a few days."
Moreover, many buildings in the mining area can see the traces of time. At first glance, they are not this kind of old mining factory.
"Not the man you personally sent to the guest house next week or in the evening."
Manager Zhao is a stupid person, I know what I am going to face?
And in that way, it feels like the pancake proprietress is just one of them.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Where are you coming here? Is it the room where they came together after dinner?"
"You ask him, this evening, and the first evening when his friends came to see him, did they eat at a restaurant far away?"
Manager Zhao cooperated with the work and nodded in agreement.
But Manager Zhao looked panicked and quickly asked: "How did they handle your luggage?"
Seeing that scene, Zhou Xiang still couldn't restore the scene in his mind.
After all, her husband hasn't even called the police yet. If Manager Zhao and the pancake proprietress have been out of touch for too long, they may be investigated as suspects.
As soon as Zhong Bin finished speaking, Manager Zhao immediately checked the situation in the trash can carefully based on the ideas provided by Zhou Xiang.
So Officer Wang quickly asked: "Where are you now?"
And in that building, there were many staff members coming and going, busy with their own affairs.
After all, according to Zhong Binwei, the pancake proprietress was my former lover.
After hearing Manager Zhao's words, Zhou Xiang and others looked at each other, feeling that they had finally found the trace of the pancake proprietress.
As soon as Manager Zhao finished speaking, there were Zhong Bin, Zhong Binwei, Officer Wang, and Yuan Shasha.
"Besides, there are many management relatives there, including the workers, so my family is very used to it."
But Manager Zhao didn't care about that. In his words, he seemed to be trying his best to clear up the relationship between himself and the missing man.
It feels like people just disappear out of thin air, as if nothing is in the past.
"So much so that I came and left in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to take out all the luggage outside the room and throw my clothes under the bed."
"You said, Comrade Police, your friend just came to see you. As for where you are now? That's obvious to you. After all, your legs are under your body."
"After all, you are busy with work and don't have time to really care about your friends."
You know, the pancake proprietress did come over there to look for you, but now, you have to hand him over to the police so that things can turn around for you.
"What do they ask that for?"
"But if you leave, just leave. Even if you say hello, make phone calls, and send text messages, it's just like disappearing from the world."
"So, you guys had a great time eating and chatting, but before I sent you to the guest house and helped you take care of everything, I just focused on my work and put all my energy into it."
As soon as Manager Zhao finished speaking, he picked up his cell phone and dialed a phone number.
A middle-aged man wearing heavy makeup quickly replied backstage: "Yo? So it's Lu Weiwei? Your boss, I have nothing to do today."
At this time, Manager Zhao quickly handed over the cigarettes to Zhong Bin, Officer Wang and Zhao Deming.
That made Xiaojia really feel bad. This was not the pancake proprietress. She was currently living far away from the guest house in the mining area.
Thinking about it that way, it feels like Manager Zhao should be the other girlfriend of the pancake proprietress.
"You and your friend used to work in the same company, and you are also partners."
All conditions seem to be in his favor.
"After all, you're really busy with work there, so it's possible for you to provide good hospitality."
"So, this man has been living outside the guest house in their mining area?" Listening to Zhong Binwei's words, Zou Yaohua felt more and more whether Manager Zhao was telling the truth.
"Moreover, the number of inspections here has been very frequent recently. You also need to cope with inspections and improve your management level."
At this moment, a middle-aged woman with her hair styled into a bun was crossing her legs under the desk, lying under the seat and tilting the seat forward.
"Does he know where his friend is least likely to go?" Zou Yaohua couldn't help but ask.
"It means packing up, which means I just went out to do some important things, but I will be back soon."
It felt like it involved privacy issues, but faced with the mysterious disappearance of his friend, Manager Zhao reluctantly refused before thinking twice:
"What? Did the call go through?" As expected, Zhong Bin also raised his eyebrows and asked me.
"Why did you come to the mining area to find him?" Zou Yaohua felt that there was nothing fishy about it, so he quickly asked.
"Comrade policeman." Looking up at Zhou Xiang, Manager Zhao also asked curiously:
Manager Zhao also looked around and even checked outside the toilet.
At this moment, Zhong Binwei also realized that what the middle-aged man said in the background did not seem appropriate.
So he quickly replied: "This man only stayed here for one day, and then I just met him."
"He's bad. Is he Manager Zhao Lu Weiwei?" Zhong Bin took the lead and walked away, asking straight to the point.
Manager Zhao said something so obvious that it was so clear-cut that Zhong Binwei would certainly be suspicious.
Officer Wang said angrily: "How could he know? Have you ever come to see him?"
"Yes...is it that weird?" Listening to Officer Wang's explanation, Manager Zhao didn't seem a little scared.
"How about it? Just a few napkins?"
The middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows, stood up, and asked hurriedly: "Wrong, you are Manager Zhao, they are..."
Zhou Xiang asked again: "What did they talk about outside the guest house room that evening? Can you elaborate?"
He put those files under the table and paused for a moment before putting them into the folder under the table.
"Haha." Manager Zhao laughed twice, and also smiled at Officer Wang and said:
There was a "Manager's Office" sign hanging at the door. Zhou Xiang heard that no one was talking on the phone, so he knocked heavily on the door.
"When?" Zhou Xiang asked again.
"Come here and tell that friend that you can stay there as long as you want."
"So, let me live outside the guest house in your mining area. This place is quite wrong. It is much different from the hotel suites outside the city."
Manager Zhao smiled and said: "You..."
…
When I was young, Manager Zhao used the room card to open the door, but he saw all kinds of luggage lying around in the room, and there was even a piece of pajamas made of cool material randomly discarded under the bed.
As soon as Manager Zhao finished speaking, a phone call came over.
So Zhou Xiang simply confessed: "That time you came here, you came to see this man."
"But before? But before...but because you are busy with work, you are afraid that the reception will be late."
"By the way, after dinner, you will be back in a while, so I have arranged for you to stay in a guest house in your mining area so that you can stay here and you can't leave whenever you want."
Those words made Zou Yaohua blush.
"Those friends of yours are all from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch. We came here that time to investigate the man living in their guest house."
Zhou Xiang was sitting in the passenger seat of Manager Zhao, and the vehicle drove quickly towards a street.
But the mining area is relatively safe after all. There must be no one who has been waiting there for a long time and suddenly disappeared.
"Does he just need to answer yes or yes?" Yuan Shasha felt that Zhong Binwei was talking nonsense, but Yuan Shasha just wanted to know the result.
With a heavy sigh, Manager Zhao shook his head helplessly: "So that you now know when you will leave?"
"Wrong." After hearing what Zhou Xiang said, Manager Zhao also nodded silently.
So after a while of communication with the middle-aged man backstage, Manager Zhao finally got the key card for this room.
"If there is a problem, he will continue talking." The person who spoke that time was Zhao Deming, who had been following Zhou Xiang's team and was relatively high-profile.
"What are you joking about, comrade police? You have already said that you are usually very busy at work."
You must know that this is a mining area. Although scientific mining methods are used, attention is paid to the details of every link.
"He said that the man's luggage is still there, but the man is here, does that mean?"
"So, he knows everything about the disappearance of that friend?" Zhong Binwei listened to Manager Zhao's words and felt that Manager Zhao didn't tell the truth at all.
So he took Zhong Bin and others all the way to the door of this room.
Seeing that all eight people waved their hands in agreement, Manager Zhao nodded for himself.
But a moment ago, Manager Zhao asked curiously: "Yes, they are here to find you, aren't they here to ask you if you know that person?"
"Does he really know or is he just pretending to know?" Zhou Xiang felt that Zhong Binwei seemed to be speaking in a glib tone, and he was not a smooth guy at first glance.
"Next time? Which time? Not yet. Which man did he bring? Is it the one with yellow hair and a very thin figure? Or this one with short hair and an amazing figure?"
"I hope so." Manager Zhao looked confused, turned to look at Zhou Xiang, and said helplessly:
"It's not as complicated as just reminiscing about old times? There's nothing else, right?" Zou Yaohua is such a fool after all.
"Originally, when bad friends get together, you should accompany them for a walk in the distance, but now it's okay. Now your mining area is paying close attention to natural production."
And there is indeed no guest house outside that. It is named after the mining area, but at first glance it is not a privately contracted hotel.
So before Xiaojia said goodbye to the truck driver Deming, he walked directly along the road behind him to the office area Deming mentioned.
After thinking about it, Zhong Binwei also looked horrified and said: "You should be waiting for you outside the guest house to reminisce about old times, right?"
"Yes." Zhao Dewen's expression felt a little strange, and the middle-aged man backstage also responded quickly.
Manager Zhao grinned and nodded silently: "Yes, you did come to the mining area to look for you."
"But that matter has nothing to do with you."
"It's not bad either." Seeing Yuan Shasha say that, Manager Zhao thought about it again and again and responded:
After all, the person is still found, so it's hard to put Zhou Xiang's heart at ease.
"After all, it is indeed appropriate to leave you outside the guest house in the mining area without contacting you."
"Judging from the situation at the scene, it is not very obvious. Although the missing person disappeared in the room."
Standing up, pulling off his clothes, Manager Zhao also said politely: "Why don't you invite a few police comrades to come with you to see the situation?"
Hearing what Zhou Xiang said, Manager Zhao's heart skipped a beat and he smiled and said:
The office buildings outside seem to be quite old.
"Because a small number of friends come to see you and don't stay there for one or two nights."
"According to your investigation, the man has been to their mining area and is an acquaintance with him. Therefore, you have no reason to suspect that he should know the ins and outs of the whole matter."
Then the idea of the four hexagrams of Xiaojia emerged spontaneously.
But the bad thing is that Manager Zhao doesn't have a mouth that can talk about the taste, and he also tries his best to provide himself with various ways to distance himself from the relationship.
But Manager Zhao was either nervous or quick to say: "Bad friends, just catching up on old times."
After thinking about it, Manager Zhao said with a surprised look on his face:
Manager Zhao didn't feel guilty yet, so he quickly said: "Is it okay?"
"But after all, I came here to relax, and I went through so many ways to get there."
So Zhou Xiang also made a roundabout way with me and continued to ask: "Ask him, if the man comes to see him a week later, is it not as complicated as reciting old memories with him?"
Manager Zhao immediately answered the phone and communicated with the person on the phone.
"Yes, even though reminiscing about old times is so complicated, I still treat you to a meal." Zhong Binwei said.
"It's terrible! What else can we talk about? My parents are foreigners." With a faint sigh, Manager Zhao also said helplessly:
"What else can we do? Everything is put in the room. Besides, did Lu Weiwei say that you can stay in the man's room over there for as long as you want?"
"Come, for some reasons, you are all separated from each other, but you still keep in touch."
Judging from the messy clothes under the bed, it seemed that he was in a hurry when he left and did not have time to clean up.
"Going out?" Manager Zhao seemed to regard the guest house as his personal property.
But after all, Manager Zhao has a low-level experience in the mining area, and he is very good at handling various emergencies. He immediately responded:
"If you use busy work as an excuse to drive people away, what will happen to you?"
But you have to know that Manager Zhao will be like that in the future, sometimes arrogant and domineering, and he and the middle-aged male background should tease each other a lot.
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"What does he think?" Feeling that he hadn't even reminded him yet, Zhou Xiang quickly asked.
"Does he know that person?" Zou Yaohua took a step back, opened the photo album on his mobile phone, and showed the photo of the pancake proprietress behind Manager Zhao.
So Zhou Xiang asked again: "So, what did they talk about this evening?"
"Well……"
With a faint sigh, Manager Zhao also sighed helplessly: "Then if they come here today, you almost forget that your friend is still in the mining area guest house. Maybe he is busy waiting for you, right?"
In other words, after the introduction just now by the truck driver Deming, everyone has a preliminary understanding of Manager Zhao.
"It's bad." Zhou Xiang saw that Manager Zhao himself had stopped panicking, so Zhou Xiang quickly asked again:
"By the way, you all know, has your friend left? It's been such a long time, and you have been busy with work, so you always remember to ask about this friend's specific situation."
Besides that, Manager Zhao didn't seem to feel any guilt himself.
Therefore, Zou Yaohua's first impression of Manager Zhao was not bad.
Zhou Xiang stopped an elderly woman and asked hurriedly: "He is bad. Is Manager Zhao Lu Weiwei outside?"
Then, before disposing of several documents on his watch, Manager Zhao signed his name.
"Thank you." Zhou Xiang also said thank you before learning the specific location of Manager Zhao.
"So, you really have time to take care of this friend of yours."
"I guess I slept that night and left on the seventh day." As soon as Manager Zhao finished speaking, Zhou Xiang said casually.
At this moment, everyone wanted to see Manager Zhao’s reaction.
That gave Zhong Binwei no worries.
It’s not that Manager Zhao is out there. He is indeed very weak and very sociable. There are even rumors that I don’t have 10 men that I don’t like.
It felt like the police officers were trying to get into trouble with him today. Manager Zhao was not convinced and quickly clarified:
Seeing this, Zhou Xiang directly turned on the handle and opened the door heavily.
Shaking his head, Manager Zhao added: "And you are usually very busy and have very few things to deal with."
But at this moment, Zhong Binwei clearly felt that Zhong Binwei in front of Zhou Xiang was more excited.
"Remember, I told you that at the time, and advised you to go back as soon as possible so as not to have any trouble with your husband."
But Manager Zhao was either nervous or quick to say: "You said, Comrade Male Police, bad friends came to visit you. They know that you are doing well there, and they come to talk to you to reminisce about old times. Isn't that right?"
