Walking to the innermost row of bungalows in the coal yard, he saw a dusty pickup truck parked in the open space in front of him. Zhou Zhongping asked:
"How many pickup trucks do you have in your factory?"
"It's just this one. I haven't driven it for a long time. You see a whole car full of dust."
Song Qing stretched his head to look into the compartment behind the pickup truck and saw a centimeter-thick layer of coal ash falling inside. He thought that if this kind of vehicle was used to transport corpses, the whole body would be covered in coal ash.
The office doors were all locked. Ding Sheng called Old Man Jin over again and opened the office doors one by one. Song Qing and the others checked the kitchen and found that there was only a double-door refrigerator in the kitchen. In this way, the refrigerator could be used regardless of the situation.
There was no way two bodies could be crammed into it.
After looking around and finding no clues, Zhou Zhongping asked about Dingli Coal Washing Plant.
"I heard that the factory below belongs to your brother Ding Li?"
"Yes, the factory is right next door to me." Ding Sheng pointed to the back of the row of offices and said.
"It's right next door? Aren't there some distance between the two gates?" Zhou Zhongping looked behind the square row and saw nothing except weeds as tall as one person.
"The gate is separated by some distance, but our two factories are connected. My brother's factory hasn't started work for a long time, and the equipment has been sold. There is no one to take care of the factory, and the grass has grown taller than people. Come and see
,The house over there is my brother’s office.”
Ding Sheng led Zhou Zhongping to a pile of gangue covered with grass and looked behind the square. Sure enough, there was another row of bungalows behind this row of bungalows.
"Director Ding, does your brother's factory also have pickup trucks?" Song Qing asked.
"Yes, he has a pickup truck exactly like mine. We two brothers bought it together at the time."
"Is the car still there?"
"Yes, I should be. When I was selling equipment, I thought about driving the car over for my own use, so I asked him to keep the car. Who knew that my business would not be good later, so I
It has been left untouched in his factory."
"Then can you contact your brother? We want to go there and have a look," Zhou Zhongping said.
"If you just take a look, it's easy. I just ask Lao Jintou to open the door. He has the key there." Ding Sheng said cheerfully.
The three of them returned to the guard room. Ding Sheng did not enter the room, but stood at the door and shouted:
"Lao Jin, bring me the key to the factory down there. I'll take the police to take a look."
"Oh, I got it."
Lao Jin agreed from inside, and the sound of opening a drawer was heard in the room. However, the three of them waited outside for three minutes, and Lao Jintou was still inside rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for the key.
"What are you doing, Lao Jin, get the key quickly."
At this time, Lao Jintou appeared tremblingly at the door of the guard room, and said with an embarrassed look:
"Boss, the key can't be found."
"What? I can't find the key. What do you do for food? Didn't I ask you to check it every day? Did you go or not?"
"I went to the boss. I went there this morning. I couldn't remember where I put the key."
"You are such an old fool. What use are you to me?"
Ding Sheng shook his head angrily, lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying to Zhou Zhongping:
"It's okay, officer. I have tools in the car. Let's just pick the lock. Come on, I'll take you there."
When he came to the door of the coal washing plant at the bottom, a rusty iron lock was hung on the two iron gates. Ding Sheng took out two wrenches from his car and used them to unlock the lock.
The buckle and the body of the lock were jammed separately, and then he crossed his hands and exerted force. The lock body of the iron lock was immediately crushed by the buckle, and a large lock was opened instantly.
"Okay, Boss Ding, he looks like an expert." Zhou Zhongping said jokingly.
"Officer, don't think too much. I used to work in a mine as a maintenance worker, and this lock is just child's play for me."
"Haha, I didn't think much about it, just kidding."
After the big iron gate was opened, Zhou Zhongping was shocked by the sight in front of him. Except for the area at the gate, the entire yard was covered with weeds as tall as a person. In the middle of the evenly growing weeds, there were two lines of weeds.
There were obvious signs of being crushed, as if a car had driven over it.
"Officer, how about we drive in? It's quite difficult to walk in like this." Ding Sheng opened the door and turned around to drive.
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Zhou Zhongping alertly stopped Ding Sheng and came to the overturned weeds. He found that most of the weeds had fallen toward the depths of the yard. Judging from the traces, these grasses should have been overturned by cars entering the yard.
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"Boss Ding, are there cars often coming in and out of this yard?" Zhou Zhongping stood up and asked.
"No way, this yard has been abandoned for more than a year, and no one has come at all. Only the old Jintou has the key, and he can't drive. Besides, who would drive to this place with overgrown weeds?" Ding Sheng
answer.
"But why are there traces of wheels crushing weeds here?"
"I don't know about this." Ding Sheng shook his head in confusion.
"Let's go in and take a look."
The three of them walked inside along the weeds crushed by the wheels. After walking for more than ten meters, they felt a somewhat depressing atmosphere, because the weeds blocked the wind blowing from a distance, making people feel stuffy and nervous. When they came to the row
When we were in front of the bungalow, we discovered a large area of weeds that had been crushed by wheels. It looked like a car had parked or turned around here.
"Do you know where your brother's pickup truck is parked?" Song Qing asked.
"Under the shed here, I saw that if it was left out in the wind and sun, it would easily gather dust, so I drove it here. Eh..."
Ding Sheng, who walked to the shed, suddenly stopped talking and stared blankly inside the shed. Zhou Zhongping and Song Qing hurried over and saw that the shed was empty. There was no pickup truck.
After discovering the problem, Zhou Zhongping and Song Qing immediately took out their gloves and put them on, and told Ding Sheng to stand where they were and not to move. Ding Sheng saw the two men's actions and already felt the seriousness of the matter, and his face was serious.
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Zhou Zhongping and Song Qing searched along a row of bungalows one by one. When they came to the kitchen at the end, they found that the kitchen was in a mess, with square tables and stools lying on the ground, broken porcelain pieces and buckled wooden boards all over the floor.
The pots on the ground indicated that there had been a fight here.
There was a long freezer in the corner of the kitchen. The freezer made a buzzing sound, the plug was plugged into the wall socket, and the indicator light on the freezer panel was still on.
When she opened the freezer, a blast of cold air hit her face. There was nothing inside the freezer. Song Qing turned on the bright flashlight she carried with her and shined it into the freezer, and found a few stray hairs at the bottom of the freezer.