It can be seen that Yang Jie was helpless. He was directly involved in this unknown action for 20,000 yuan.
But in fact, Yang Jie was not innocent at all. When he chose to accept the reward of 20,000 yuan, it also meant selling his soul.
When is it easiest for a person to accept things that he was unwilling to accept at the beginning, it must be when that person is at his most depressed.
Yang Jie is this kind of person. Someone caught his weakness and successfully took advantage of it.
Yang Jie also chose to surrender...
In this way, both parties actually reached a tacit agreement.
On the surface, Yang Jie feels that he will not do anything too outrageous, but in fact, Yang Jie is very clear that he has already gone down a certain criminal path and will never return.
Perhaps Yang Jie also enjoyed the pleasure brought to him by this unknown fear, but this time he ran into the police.
His weak psychological defense was quickly broken by Gu Chen.
It can be seen that Yang Jie's psychological quality is still too poor, and he has almost no counter-reconnaissance ability in front of professionals.
Of course, Gu Chen also believed that Yang Jie might be a pawn being used, but the first thing he had to face was to figure out the clues to the eagle totem.
"You said that on the third call, the other party asked you to put back the button of the eagle totem, so you still have to find the button first?" Gu Chen said.
"Yes." Yang Jie took a deep breath, raised his head and said:
"I just execute it, and the other party will remind me what to do for the rest."
"Actually, I am just a chess piece being manipulated. I feel like I have to complete this damn task quickly. In fact, only by doing it do I realize that 20,000 yuan is far from easy to earn."
"I even had to suffer a lot of mental torture, which is really a big loss for someone like me who loves to suffer from insomnia."
"Don't talk about this yet." Lu Weiwei didn't have much of a good impression of Yang Jie, so she said straightforwardly:
"Tell me first, how did you get back the button of the eagle totem?"
"It's very simple." Yang Jie didn't want to hide anything. He explained straightforwardly:
"The man called me and told me to pick up the red bag from my old place."
"You mean, you retrieved it from the previous place, right?" Officer Wang asked.
"Yes." Yang Jie nodded and replied directly:
"Perhaps the other party asked me to go directly back to where I put the red bag for my convenience."
After thinking for a while, Yang Jie quickly explained: "Oh, by the way, it's the trash can from before."
"I seem to have reached some kind of tacit understanding with him, and we all do it to facilitate each other."
"Then did you get anything?" Yuan Shasha asked.
"When I got it, it was packed in a red bag. The button with the eagle totem is inside."
"Then what did you do next?" Gu Chen asked.
"I...I just, I'm still the same as before, sneaking into the old man's shop while he was leaving."
"Then, just find that familiar box and put the things in it."
"I don't need to worry about the rest. Anyway, I don't know what will happen next."
"Where is the time?" Gu Chen continued to ask.
"Just what happened in the past few days." Yang Jie said.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the room was surprisingly awkward.
Everyone seems to know that there seems to be an expert behind Yang Jie giving guidance.
However, this mysterious employer's target has always been the white-haired old man in the shop opposite.
Moreover, the target object is the button of the eagle totem.
Of course Gu Chen knew that the reason why this person wanted to take away the buttons was probably to imitate some similar ones.
For example, in the demolition area, we found that the small processing factory had received an order for 500 eagle totem buttons.
If it were normal times, that would be fine, but the time was rather sensitive, and it happened to be the time when Yang Jie stole the eagle totem button.
From this, Gu Chen felt that the person who took the red bag from the trash can might be Zhang Zhiqiang who disappeared.
There may be some kind of connection between these two people.
In other words, Zhang Zhiqiang may have been ordered by that mysterious employer to work for that employer.
However, Zhang Zhiqiang also has many doubts.
For example, could Zhang Zhiqiang be the mysterious employer?
Of course, Gu Chen had also thought about this, but when he thought about it again, he felt that it was not very logical.
As a project leader, Zhang Zhiqiang is responsible for concert security.
Moreover, we have cooperative relationships with many brand organizers.
There is no need for him to play missing at this juncture.
His trouble will not only affect a little bit, but will affect all aspects.
Therefore, Gu Chen felt that there was no need for Zhang Zhiqiang to do something that was not worth the gain.
Thinking about it this way, Zhang Zhiqiang may be a figure similar to Yang Jie, taking orders from someone.
"But Yang Jie started doing this kind of thing because he was impoverished and had no other choice. So what is Zhang Zhiqiang doing?"
"Zhang Zhiqiang has a rich family, so he wouldn't do this just for that little money, right? But if it's not for money? Then what is it for?"
After Gu Chen thought for a short time, a possibility suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Could it be that Zhang Zhiqiang has something in the opponent's hands? Is he passively accepting these tasks out of helplessness?"
Thinking of this, Gu Chen looked at Yang Jie again and asked: "Yang Jie, let me ask you, when the other party called you, did you record it?"
"Yes." Seeing Gu Chen suddenly ask, Yang Jie quickly took out his mobile phone and expressed his loyalty to Gu Chen:
"I also know that I may be unlucky sometimes and I may get involved in a lawsuit."
"I want to reduce my guilt when the time comes, so I will still record."
After he finished speaking, Yang Jie found the recording file on his phone and handed it directly to Gu Chen:
"This is the real-time recording I turned on when I made the third call."
Gu Chen took Yang Jie's phone, looked around, and then directly clicked the play button on the first file.
As the voice files played, Gu Chen discovered that these sounds had been specially processed and were not the original voices of the other party.
Moreover, the situation explained to Yang Jie seems to be basically true.
A few people spent a lot of time listening to three recordings.
Lu Weiwei sighed softly and said angrily: "You are still a bit smart, but if you do such a thing for 20,000 yuan, haven't you thought about the consequences?"
"Harmful!" After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Yang Jie said helplessly:
"I am a desperate person. Do I care about this?"
"If you say I'm going to carry it this year, it's true. It's going to be all kinds of troubles."
"I just want to make more money now. Anyway, if money comes to my door, I have to make more."
"Have you never thought about what if this is a criminal activity?" Officer Wang said.
But Yang Jie waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. I'm a loser anyway. I can't do anything, so I might as well make some money to make it more practical."
With a faint sigh, Yang Jie continued: "Of course, I have always felt that the other party may be that kind of private detective organization, asking me to help collect some things."
"Of course, he's definitely not a spy. In this case, at most it's like stealing things out of someone's house. At most, it's considered stealing."
After thinking about it, Yang Jie said helplessly: "It's not unacceptable."
"Haha, you are so open-minded." Listening to Yang Jie's nonsense, Officer Wang snorted coldly, as if saying:
"Also, since you came here, have you noticed that some people look at you wrong?"
"Who looks at me wrong?" After hearing Officer Wang's words, Yang Jie frowned and turned on the recall mode.
But after a while, Yang Jie sighed helplessly: "Comrade police, it's really hard to say this."
"Because I live in a room in a haunted house, so everyone here looks at me wrong."
"In their eyes, maybe I am a good man, but I dare to live in a haunted house just to save some rent."
After a pause, Yang Jie tried to calm down and continued:
"I rarely communicate with people here because I am from out of town, I am not familiar with the place, and I don't have many friends here."
"Besides, living in this haunted house every day, to be honest, I am also scared. I often suffer from insomnia at night and tend to have nightmares."
"But, that mysterious employer gave me the identity of a liquor salesman, so I can't stay in the haunted house every day, right? So, I have to go out from time to time."
"When I meet some people here, especially the administrator of this place, I will tell them that I am going to investigate the market or something, but he doesn't know anything about it anyway."
With a sigh, Yang Jie continued: "In this way, I have gained the trust of everyone here. Coupled with some liquor knowledge I learned online, I can handle all kinds of questions from these people."
"Everyone naturally believed that I was a liquor salesperson."
"Did these people say they wanted to buy your wine?" Yuan Shasha asked.
Yang Jie paused for a few seconds, nodded silently, and proactively admitted:
"There are, but I always mention a brand randomly, and they don't know if it's true anyway?"
"Also, I said that I live in a haunted house, so I usually don't put products in the room."
"Anyway, I told them that we have a special dealer warehouse and told them the brand of the drink."
"Of course, that brand of liquor exists, or is it a big brand, but am I a salesperson? They don't know, and that liquor is expensive. Most of the people who live here come to work and don't have much money.
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"Therefore, there are very few people who buy my wine, and I try to minimize communication with them."
"Okay." Listening to Yang Jie's explanation, Gu Chen felt more and more that people in this place seemed to have their own complicated relationships.
Gu Chen couldn't tell for the time being which people were similar to Yang Jie.
Of course, Gu Chen did not know the identity of that mysterious employer for the time being.
Since Yang Jie was captured, Gu Chen felt that it was necessary to take him back to the police station for investigation.
After finding Yang Jie, Gu Chen notified Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha to come from the opposite store to provide support.
Therefore, this time Gu Chen contacted Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong again and asked them to temporarily bring Yang Jie back to Furong Branch.
And I have to follow the team members and continue to the store to have a good chat with the white-haired old man.
After experiencing the visits of Gu Chen and others, the old man was also told not to leave for the time being.
Therefore, when Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong sent Yang Jie away, it was already late at night.
At this moment, few shops were open on the entire street, but the shop of the white-haired old man kept the lights on, which was very different from usual.
Gu Chen also knew that since Yang Jie knew that he had been here, then the mysterious employer was probably also very aware of his visit to the white-haired old man.
Of course Gu Chen was not afraid that the other party would know this, but he was afraid that he would not be able to find the other party.
Pushing open the door, Gu Chen had experience this time and did not walk in directly. Instead, he paused, then tilted his head, bypassed the soul-calling bell arranged by the white-haired old man, and came directly to the white-haired old man.
At this moment, the white-haired old man was holding his civet cat, sitting on a sofa chair, quietly waiting for Gu Chen and others to arrive again.
"You are finally here?" After yawning, the white-haired old man asked curiously:
"When can I go back?"
"We still have questions to ask you." Gu Chen replied directly and came to sit in front of the white-haired old man.
Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also sat down casually.
After Gu Chen adjusted the law enforcement recorder, he sighed and said:
"Uncle, did you know? The eagle totem button you placed in the exquisite wooden box on the second floor was once taken away."
"Has it been taken away?" After hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man hesitated:
"How to say?"
"Just now, we found a person on the third floor of the building opposite who has been monitoring your store, and that person also admitted that he sneaked into your store twice while you were out shopping for groceries."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "And, secretly went to the second floor and took away the eagle totem button in the wooden box. The last time, he returned the hole.
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Hearing Gu Chen's explanation, the white-haired old man was a little confused, but he still asked Gu Chen hesitantly:
"What does he want buttons for?"
"We don't know yet." Gu Chen shook his head and continued:
"Anyway, why does that light in your house turn on? We have solved this mystery for you."
"Then why did the civet cat in your hand attack me? We also solved the mystery for you." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Officer Wang couldn't wait to say.
The white-haired old man looked hesitantly and continued to ask: "What's going on?"
"It's all thanks to that person." Lu Weiwei said.
"You mean, the thief who sneaked into my house?" the white-haired old man asked.
Lu Weiwei nodded silently and said slowly: "That guy was instructed by someone to turn on the light at the stairwell of your house, then went to the second floor and found the button."
Glancing at the civet cat in the white-haired old man's hand, Lu Weiwei continued: "Of course, there is also the civet cat that kicked and injured your family."
"This is why your civet cat suddenly became hostile to strangers."
"So that's it?" Listening to Lu Weiwei's explanation, the white-haired old man's heart skipped a beat, as if he hadn't recovered from this state yet.
At this moment, Gu Chen continued to ask: "Old man, I have one more thing to ask you."
"Ah?" The white-haired old man who reacted slowly quickly asked Gu Chen, "What do you want to ask?"
"That is, your son died in love. Have you seen the body in person?" Gu Chen said.
The white-haired old man was stunned and said slowly: "Yes, I have personally seen my son's body. What's wrong?"
"That's right." After confirming that the old man's son had indeed died in love, Gu Chen said again:
"Didn't you tell me before? Only your son and you know about the hidden light switch hidden under the corridor?"
"Then if that's the case, why does anyone still know the location of this switch?"
"You mean, someone knows the location of my switch? Is it the person you found?" the white-haired old man asked.
Gu Chen nodded slightly: "Yes, he found it, but he received the employer's request on the phone at that time."
"To be precise, the employer already knew the location of the switch and asked him to turn it on."
"Is that so?" Feeling that something was a little strange, the white-haired old man frowned and said with a puzzled look on his face:
"No? How many people know about this secret switch?"
Thinking of this, the white-haired old man immediately put down the civet cat in his hand, stood up and walked directly towards the corridor.
When Gu Chen and others saw this, they all gathered around.
Everyone immediately surrounded the white-haired old man.
The white-haired old man also opened the buttons hanging on the wall, and then pressed the light switch.
In an instant, the light at the entrance of the stairs came on, still flickering.
Looking at the flickering lights, the white-haired old man fell into deep thought and seemed unable to figure it out.
"What? You don't know. Does anyone else know about this switch?" Lu Weiwei asked.
The white-haired old man shook his head: "No one knows about the switch in this place. How could anyone know about it?"
Turning to look at Gu Chen, the white-haired old man continued: "My son is dead. Maybe he told his friends before?"
"That means that the mysterious employer who arranged for people to monitor your store may be your son's friend?" Officer Wang also followed the old man's line of thinking and asked.
The white-haired old man was really confused now. He held his head in his hands and looked anxious.
Seeing this situation, Gu Chen didn't want to irritate the old man anymore, so he just asked casually:
"Who do you think would arrange for personnel to monitor your store? Also, who would be interested in your son's relic, the button of the eagle totem? Who is the most likely person?"
"Who is the most likely person? Who could it be?" Listening to Gu Chen's words, the white-haired old man was also stunned.
Gu Chen could tell that he also wanted to know the answer and was trying to recall everything.
But after all, so much time has passed, and it may be difficult for this white-haired old man to remember it again.
Gu Chen didn't want to force him, so he could only comfort him and said: "You should think about it slowly, don't be in a hurry."
"That's right." Just when Gu Chen finished speaking, the white-haired old man's eyes suddenly lit up and he looked at Gu Chen and said:
"I think of someone."
"Who is it?" everyone asked in unison.
"My son's ex-girlfriend was the woman who abandoned him and eventually led him to die in love." The white-haired old man said with a determined expression.
"Your son's ex-girlfriend? Is she the woman who married the elite family of Wall Street investment banks?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"Yes." The white-haired old man nodded fiercely: "That's her. Only she knows all the secrets about my son."
"Why are you so sure?" Yuan Shasha also asked curiously.
The white-haired old man calmed down, and then quickly explained: "Haha, how can I be so sure? Because my son said almost everything to her."
"I will tell her all the details about my family, including my family."
"Because the two of them can be regarded as life-and-death friends. When we were demonstrating on Wall Street, if it hadn't been for that woman, my son might have been arrested by the American police."
"Anyway, since then, my son has said almost everything to her, including my son telling her that he has his own little world in this place, which is this button shop."
With a faint sigh, the white-haired old man said helplessly:
"Sometimes, I really can't figure it out, what is the artistic value of these broken buttons?"
"I know, I'm just an old antique who doesn't understand anything. I can't understand my son's artistic talent."
"But one thing I am sure of is that my son will tell that woman everything about this place."
Sighing softly, the white-haired old man regained his emotions, tried to calm down, and then said slowly:
"So, most people definitely don't know how secretive this light switch is, and they can't find it at all."
"Who do you want to ask for clarity? Besides my son and me, there is only that woman."
"But isn't she in the United States?" Lu Weiwei said.
But the white-haired old man shook his head: "No, although she also lives in the United States, her family is from the Magic City, and sometimes she will live in her home in the Magic City."
Shaking his head and sighing, the white-haired old man said helplessly: "Maybe, asking that person to spy on me and steal the buttons I put on the second floor is what my son's ex-girlfriend meant, right?"
"Are you saying that this mysterious person may be your son's ex-girlfriend?" Gu Chen looked at the white-haired old man with sharp eyes.
The white-haired old man frowned, and after a brief reflection, he still chose to nod and admit:
"Yes, I think it's her."
"But why?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled and quickly asked:
"Why did she do this? Isn't this button of the eagle totem a token of love that she gave to your son?"
"Now that your son is gone, even if she wants to get back the button of the eagle totem, there's no need to go to all the trouble of sending someone to steal it?"
"Can't she just come and ask for it from you?"
"Haha." Listening to Lu Weiwei's narration, the white-haired old man also laughed twice and said involuntarily:
"Comrade policewoman, maybe you don't understand at all. Does she still have the nerve to come here?"
"My son died because of her. If she came to me, wouldn't she be afraid that I would drive her out with a broom?"
Sighing heavily, the white-haired old man also had a bad temper and couldn't help but say:
"Don't tell me, if she really dares to come here, I really dare to kick her out and ask for my son's relics? Haha, I'm dreaming, bah!"
Looking at the fierceness of the white-haired old man when he mentioned his son's ex-girlfriend, everyone knew that this woman had hurt his son a lot.
The white-haired old man only had anger and hatred for that woman at this moment.
But thinking about it this way, Gu Chen felt right.
The woman did not dare to come to the old man and ask for the relic, so she arranged for someone to do the work for her and maybe stole the relic.
But what is the value of this kind of thing? Gu Chen felt that it seemed to be an ordinary button.
Gu Chen even followed Zhang Zhiqiang's traces and found the small processing factory.
And we learned in the factory that Zhang Zhiqiang ordered 500 buttons of the same style.
This made Gu Chen feel more and more that the situation seemed a bit complicated.
"Uncle." Gu Chen calmed down his emotions and then asked him quickly:
"What's that woman's name? Do you have any specific information?"
"I know her even when she turns into ashes." When mentioning this woman, the white-haired old man's eyes and tone were filled with anger, and he said angrily:
"This woman's name is Hu Shirley, and her family lives on the bank of the Huangpu River."
"Their family is in Wall Street, a famous investment bank. Her parents both work there, and her current husband is a foreigner."
"He is the manager of another large investment bank on Wall Street, and his background is also quite profound."
With a faint sigh, the white-haired old man continued: "The relationships in their circle are all complicated, but this woman seemed to want to return to China for development, so she received a domestic project from an investment bank and was responsible for it.
Main business."
"Are you saying that this woman named Hu Xueli is currently in Shanghai?" After hearing what the white-haired old man said, Gu Chen also felt that the situation seemed to be getting clearer.
The white-haired old man nodded silently: "It seems so, right? When she left my son and married that foreigner, the wedding was held in the magical city."
"At that time, many relatives and friends from Shanghai were invited to attend the wedding. But on the day of her wedding, my son committed suicide by jumping into the river while wearing the eagle-patterned button she gave him."
When he said this, the white-haired old man's eyes became moist again, and he choked and said:
"I don't understand, since my son is gone, what does she want with this eagle-pattern button?"
"What meaning does this thing have to her?"
"This may be the issue we want to investigate." Gu Chen hesitated for a few seconds, then asked the white-haired old man:
"Uncle, do you still have the contact information for this Hu Xueli?"
"Well……"
Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man was stunned.
"Is there any?" Lu Weiwei also quickly asked.
At this moment, the white-haired old man seemed to be thinking, and then he said slowly:
"I remember that she called me to inform me that my son committed suicide by jumping into the river. I seem to have her contact information saved in my phone."
"But, after all, this was a phone number from a few years ago. I don't know if she still uses it now?"
"It's okay, you can find it quickly." Yuan Shasha quickly agreed after hearing this.
"Okay, please wait a moment." After the words fell, the white-haired old man quickly took out his mobile phone and began to search for the woman's contact information in his mobile address book.
After a while, the old man raised his head and looked at Gu Chen.
Gu Chen quickly asked: "Have you found it?"
"I found it, this is it." After finishing his words, the white-haired old man directly handed the phone to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen also took advantage of the situation and dialed directly using his mobile phone according to the contact information in the address book.
Not long after, Gu Chen's cell phone rang with a standby sound, indicating that the call was connected.
Gu Chen also breathed a sigh of relief and just wanted to wait quietly.
However, the long wait did not result in the other party answering.
The phone also hung up naturally.
Gu Chen didn't give up, so he continued to call.
This time, it only took five seconds for the other party to answer the call.
"Hello, who is this?" There was a woman's voice on the phone.
Gu Chen quickly asked: "Are you Hu Shirley?"
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There was a brief pause on the phone for a few seconds. It seemed that the other party was also stunned by Gu Chen's question. He paused for a few seconds before replying.
road:
"That's right, I'm Hu Xueli, where are you?"
"Oh, I'm from the Furong Branch of the Jiangnan City Public Security Bureau. I want to know something about something from you."
"Jiangnan City Furong Branch?" Hearing the name of Gu Chen's unit, the woman on the other end of the phone obviously became alert.
Gu Chen looked back at the white-haired old man and asked, "What is your son's name?"
"Nie Ping." The white-haired old man said.
Gu Chen nodded silently, then quickly said into the phone: "Do you know Nie Ping?"
After the words fell, the other end of the phone became silent again. Gu Chen continued to ask: "Hey, are you listening? Do you know Nie Ping?"
"I know... I know you." I felt a little confused, and the woman on the other end of the phone also stammered in her reply.
So Gu Chen quickly asked: "Then did you give Nie Ping an eagle totem button?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" After hearing what Gu Chen said, Hu Xueli on the other end of the phone seemed to become nervous.
"Very good." Gu Chen paused and continued to ask, "I want to know, what's so special about that button with the eagle pattern?"
"No... nothing special. It's just an ordinary button."
Hu Shirley on the phone also responded in a hurried tone.
Gu Chen also paused briefly for a few seconds, and then asked again: "What about between you and Nie Ping..."
"That's my ex-boyfriend." Before Gu Chen could finish speaking, Hu Xueli on the other end of the phone quickly responded:
"Nie Ping is my ex-boyfriend, but he is no longer here. He has drowned."
Having said this, Gu Chen could clearly feel Hu Xueli's sadness from the phone call.
So Gu Chen asked again: "Then how did Nie Ping die?"
"It's all because of me." Faced with Gu Chen's question, Hu Shirley on the phone seemed to respond without hesitation:
"I broke up with him because of family reasons. Later, I married someone else, and he came to my city on my wedding day."
"Maybe it was because he was deeply shocked? So he chose the most extreme way to end his life."
"What's wrong with him?" Gu Chen asked knowingly.
"He...he committed suicide by jumping into the river. Wearing my token of love, we jumped into the river and committed suicide together."
When he said this, Gu Chen could clearly hear a heavy nasal sound on the other end of the phone.
