The sun and moon alternate, and time soon enters November. The trees have lost their former green, and their withered yellow leaves are swaying in the wind, as if they are ready to fall at any time.
The dark blue sky gradually became lighter, and the early winter sun slowly climbed up the treetops, bringing a little life to Xiao Su's scenery.
"Get up, it's seven o'clock, brush your teeth, wash your face, eat, get ready for school..."
A child's voice sounded along with the music, and a pale arm stretched out from the quilt and accurately grabbed the cell phone that was still singing.
"Hey, brother, there won't be another case, right?"
Today is Sunday, and Duanmo had already planned to sleep in and stay at home for another day. Who would have thought that before seven o'clock, Lu Wuchuan's phone call came.
The little girl's barely awake voice was a little hoarse, sounding like an underage girl acting coquettishly.
The corners of Lu Wuchuan's lips curled up unconsciously: "Do you remember Cui Yinghua? That female detective in Erdaogou, Jishan."
"What's wrong with Sister Yinghua?" Duanmo certainly remembered the cold-faced and warm-hearted sister, and he stood up and leaned on the bed.
"She and her colleagues are on their way to Liancheng. We have asked our team to receive them after the end of the game. Are you going? If you don't want to go, I'll ask Mu Yang and the others to come over."
"Go, go, I'll get up right now."
Lu Wuchuan laughed out loud this time: "Don't worry, they still have at least an hour and a half to get to Liancheng, and it will take two hours before they get to the bureau."
"If you have time, let's go to the train station to pick her up."
Last time in Erdaogou, Cui Yinghua took good care of them, especially Duan Mo. Now that they have arrived in their own territory, they have to go and pick them up, right?
"Okay, you wash up first, I'll buy breakfast and go find you." Lu Wuchuan said good-naturedly.
More than forty minutes later, the two finished breakfast and drove to the train station.
After waiting at the pick-up gate for almost twenty minutes, as another train arrived, the exit that had just been quiet for a while became busy again.
"Sister Yinghua! This way!" Duanmo saw Cui Yinghua in the crowd and waved his arms vigorously towards her.
Cui Yinghua was very surprised by the appearance of the two people. She walked over the hurried passengers and strode over: "Liu Lu, Xiao Mo, why are you here?"
Duan Mo said angrily: "The Army called me this morning. I didn't know you were coming until I knew you were coming, and you didn't even tell me in advance."
She and Cui Yinghua occasionally chatted on WeChat. Although not often, they did not lose contact.
Cui Yinghua smiled: "I didn't know until we were on the way that your team was assisting us."
"Team Lu, Officer Xiaoduan, do you still remember me?" The man who came with Cui Yinghua tilted his head and said.
"Of course I remember, Ji Yu." Lu Wuchuan nodded slightly, "Let's go, let's talk slowly on the way."
Duanmo rolled his eyes: "I have to thank you for what happened last time, and that classmate of yours. She arranged for us to stay in the conductor's rest car, which saved us a lot of trouble."
The four of them walked to the parking lot. Cui Yinghua said: "Now I am not just a classmate, I will soon be my wife."
"Ah? The progress is so rapid!" Duan Mo said in surprise.
It was December last year when she and Lu Wuchuan went to Erdaogou, Jishan. In less than a year, they were about to get married.
Ji Yu touched his nose sheepishly: "Next May, it's still early."
"Congratulations in advance." It was rare for Lu Wuchuan to say such words to someone he didn't know well, so Duan Mo gave him a strange look.
It happened that he also looked over, and at that glance, she clearly saw a complicated look in his eyes. Three parts of envy, five parts of expectation, and the remaining two parts of helplessness.
Duanmo looked away and changed the topic. The little expert went online: "Um...Sister Yinghua, why are you and Ji Yu here together?"
Ji Yu and Lao Jin are partners and both belong to the Jishan Municipal Bureau, while Cui Yinghua works from the Erdaogou Branch under Jishan.
"I was seconded to the Jishan City Bureau. Just two months ago, I was specifically focused on smuggling cases. This is why I came here this time."
The four people got in the car, and Cui Yinghua gave an overview of the situation.
The Jishan area has always been a place where smuggling is rampant, especially Erdaogou, which is close to the national border.
Two months ago, Jishan police focused on a smuggling gang. The leader of this gang is very mysterious, and all the people who come out to operate are small figures in the gang. His true identity has not been figured out until now.
We got a tip the day before yesterday that the leader's girlfriend had appeared in Chenglian recently, and Cui Yinghua and Ji Yu came to investigate the matter.
The black off-road vehicle drove into the gate of the Municipal Bureau, and Lu Wuchuan and Duanmo took them directly to the office.
As soon as Ji Yu entered the room, he started to look around, and then asked Duan Mo: "How many people are in your team?"
"Six." Duanmo took the water and put it on the conference table.
Ji Yu smacked his tongue after hearing this: "This is the first time I've seen such a fully equipped office. There are only six people. It's awesome! This is a top-notch match! Look at us, fifteen people. Apart from broken desks and broken computers, there's nothing else.
None."
Cui Ying rolled her eyes at him: "Don't be like a country bumpkin. Just because the conditions are good, why don't you think about six people doing the work of fifteen people?"
After she finished speaking, she took out a USB flash drive from her bag: "Lijun Lu, there is a photo of that woman in it."
Duanmo turned on the computer and projector and plugged in the USB flash drive.
The photos were quickly displayed. They should have been taken secretly. The quality of several consecutive photos was not high. There was only the back and profile of a woman, wearing a long windbreaker, short hair and sunglasses. It was impossible to see what she looked like. The last one was a certificate.
The photo may have taken a long time, but the photo clearly shows a girl who is not yet twenty years old. If I didn't tell you, it would be hard to imagine that she is the same person as the previous photos.
Cui Yinghua introduced the basic situation of this woman: "Lu Yishuang, 28 years old, from Jishan, once studied at a university in the south. In her senior year, she interned in a company and was retained as secretary of the market development department. She returned to Jishan four years ago and is unemployed.
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"That's all?" Duan Mo asked.
Cui Yinghua nodded.
There is so little information that searching like this is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Duan Mo, where do you see this?" Lu Wuchuan zoomed in on one of the photos. The woman was walking towards a gate. Although the picture quality was not high, it could be seen that it was a gate.
Duan Mo looked at it carefully and couldn't help but be surprised: "This gate looks like Jiye!"
"It doesn't look like that, it's just..." Lu Wuchuan changed the photo, "Look at this person in the corner."
In the corner of the photo, there is a person, faceless and only half of his body, getting out of the driver's seat of a car. He is wearing a patterned dress - the uniform of the valet parking guy at midnight.
"Do you know this place?" Ji Yu asked.
Duan Mo nodded: "It's a private club. No outsiders are allowed unless there are members with them."
Ji Yu immediately laughed when he heard this: "Oh? Doesn't this narrow the scope?"
Duanmo was not so optimistic: "The scope has been narrowed, but the difficulty has become greater. Jiye is not an ordinary place, and it is not easy to search for people there."