This result once again strengthened the persuasiveness of Li Xiangnian's bold idea that he still dared not express easily.
The excitement passed quickly, and Li Xiangnian's face was instantly covered with a layer of gloom, because the final result of this clue was not what he or Lu Tao's mother wanted to see. The surveillance content was recorded, and he said nothing.
He walked back to the car. It was noon, and the sidewalk was full of students walking together. He stared through the car window for a long time, feeling a little lost.
The back figures and the smiles were those of his daughter who had been close to him many years ago, Lu Tao who was carrying the burden in silence, and Zhang Yichi who was still elusive.
"Ahem!" Li Xiangnian's expression changed and he coughed violently. He held his chest to suppress the discomfort while reaching out to fumble for the medicine bottle.
For him, he is like struggling in an hourglass. When will the sand finish flowing out and when will it swallow him up? When will it be the day of his death? The scary thing is that he can already see with his naked eyes that the sand above his head is flowing fast.
It's over.
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In the afternoon, Li Xiangnian personally simulated the entire process based on the assumption that he couldn't let go. He came out of a certain unit in a building, went all the way to the vicinity of Yonghe Community, entered the woods to change clothes, and then took a detour back to the community to avoid surveillance.
, enter another unit in the same building, and return to your original starting location through the basement.
This is another attempt that he already knew the answer but still chose to do it. There is still no direct evidence to prove that things are really what he guessed, but the information he has now is enough to perfectly deduce his hypothesis.
Now there is no other direction, and it seems that the only ending left for Li Xiangnian is this.
He would try to find some witnesses to reconstruct the events, causes and consequences.
"Dong dong dong." He knocked on the door of the resident opposite Zhang Yichi's house. It was already past three o'clock, and Zhang Yichi had already gone to class, so there was no need to worry about alerting the enemy.
The door opened and a man poked his head out: "Is something wrong?"
The man looked a little wary, so Li Xiangnian showed him his police officer certificate. The man immediately relaxed, but he was also confused as to why the police came to him: "Come in and sit down, come in and sit down, I didn't break the law, did you?
yes……"
"Don't be nervous." Li Xiangnian just walked in and stood at the door, closing the door without going any further. "I just want to ask you something."
"Oh... you said."
"A few days ago - last weekend, was there anything unusual in the house opposite your house?" Li Xiangnian asked.
The man smiled: "I wasn't here last weekend. As you saw, this house was still being renovated. Only the decoration workers were there last weekend. Speaking of which, you were lucky. I just came to check if there is anything.
It’s a place where corners are cut. If you choose another time, you can save everything.”
"Ah...then you mean, the decoration workers were there last weekend?" Li Xiangnian did not give up easily, and held on to this clue to investigate further.
"Yes." The man recalled, "They should have been busy painting the wall last weekend."
"You should still have their contact information, right?"
"Are you looking for them?"
"Um."
"Okay, I have a mobile phone number here, please remember it..."
After getting the mobile phone number, Li Xiangnian quickly dialed it and learned that the decoration team was currently carrying out decoration work on another building in this community. Li Xiangnian did not waste time and rushed there immediately.
After arriving at the decoration site where the decoration team was located, Li Xiangnian met the three workers who worked opposite Zhang Yichi's house last weekend.
After these workers learned that the visitor was a criminal police officer, they told everything about what happened last weekend. Li Xiangnian was quite surprised. He did not expect that these workers had actually come into contact with Zhang Yichi. He was originally a
Didn't have much expectations.
After some conversation, Li Xiangnian learned about what happened last Sunday. Last Sunday, Zhang Yichi gave the decoration workers money and asked them to help paint the walls of his home. The time of painting the walls basically coincided with the time when Lu Tao disappeared. This
Li Xiangnian, who had already roughly guessed the true nature of the case, had to wonder if there was any connection.
Li Xiangnian asked the decoration workers to carefully recall whether they had seen anything suspicious during this period. After some recollection, the worker in charge of painting the walls mentioned that when Zhang Yichi asked the decoration workers, he said that there were splashes on the walls at home.
It was covered with ink, but it’s hard to imagine how the wall at the corner of the living room and kitchen was splashed with ink. The most important thing is that the ink didn’t look like it was splashed on, but more like it was smeared.
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Xiangnian found the courier who had delivered the express to Zhang Yichi last Saturday night, and he also gained a lot. According to the courier, what happened that day was still very impressive to him, because he went to Zhang Yichi
The Zhang family knocked on the door for a long time and made phone calls for a long time, but no one came out. When he went downstairs and was about to leave, Zhang Yichi suddenly called him back, saying that he had just fallen asleep and didn't hear the phone ringing, and took the initiative to call him.
I picked up the express delivery from the building.
On that unknown weekend, the decoration workers and couriers were people who had direct contact with Zhang Yichi. Each of them recalled some unusual places during their contact with Zhang Yichi. If these places were just a single
If you take it out and look at it, there may not be much of a problem, but if you incorporate it into Li Xiangnian's speculation, the terrible truth will emerge bit by bit.
After finding a random noodle shop, Li Xiangnian ate a bowl of noodles and returned to the car. After taking the medicine, he glanced at the time and saw it was early six o'clock. Today was Friday, and students got off school much earlier in the afternoon.
After careful consideration, he drove to the downstairs of Zhang Yichi's house, and not long after waiting, he met Zhang Yichi who was returning home from school. Zhang Yichi also recognized that this was Li Xiangnian's car, and did not pretend to ignore it, but walked straight up.
Go.
"Get in the car." Li Xiangnian rolled down the window and said.
Zhang Yichi paused for a moment, opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat without asking anything.
"Have you eaten? Do you want to take you to have something to eat first?" Li Xiangnian said, holding the steering wheel and looking ahead.
Zhang Yichi fastened his seat belt: "I ate in the school cafeteria."
"Okay. It's the weekend off, right? I'll take you for a drive." Li Xiangnian said and started the car.
"Why are you thinking about this today? Aren't you going to find Lu Tao?" Zhang Yichi glanced at Li Xiangnian, who was looking at the front intently.
"Found it." Li Xiangnian replied.
Zhang Yichi's eyes flickered, and after a few seconds he turned his head: "...Where is it?"
"You should know, right?" Li Xiangnian still didn't look at Zhang Yichi, and drove out of the community, driving on the busy road.
"Me? How do I know?" Zhang Yichi laughed.
"Actually, we all know." Li Xiangnian's face was expressionless. The neon lights outside shone on him, and his eyes were still dim.