Chapter 1003 The truth!
"Can I come and have a look?"
The old policeman retired and had nothing to do, and the missing child was a thorn in his heart that he couldn't let go of for many years.
Although I know the possibility is low, what if these people really find the answer?
Gu Qingqiu stared at the old policeman for a few minutes before nodding in agreement: "Come up!"
The black man drove everyone to the vegetable market.
“Which of the vegetable stalls you investigated is still open now?”
Gu Qingqiu asked casually.
“There are more than a dozen, right?”
The old policeman recalled:
Lin Baici raised his eyebrows.
The fact that the old policeman could talk about it immediately shows that he is still paying attention to those people.
"How are they doing?"
Xia Hongyao asked, holding a small notebook to record.
“After so many years, some can’t continue without making money, some have changed careers, and some are old and have no one to take over!”
The old policeman would go to the vegetable market at least once every month: "The remaining dozen or so are either prosperous shops or have skills and can make money, so they are still doing it!"
"Do you think there are any suspects among these stall owners?"
Rules Pollution asked.
The old policeman was silent. It was not good to suspect someone for no reason. Moreover, he said it himself, these people would definitely go to each other to investigate.
The old policeman glanced at these people. From the temperament point of view, except for this big bear girl, the others were not easy to mess with, giving him a powerful aura of a wolf in sheep's clothing.
"Little loach, what do you think?"
Xia Hongyao had no hope of asking anything from this old policeman, he still had to rely on his two trump cards.
As long as this old policeman is smart enough, this disappearance case will not become a long-standing case.
“It’s hard to say!”
Gu Qingqiu recalled those transcripts: “You have to read it to know!”
It was 4pm when everyone arrived at the Kwun Tong wet market.
It’s almost time to get off work, and the streets are a little congested, with many people buying groceries.
Gu Qingqiu did not go directly to the stall owners to inquire, but observed them from a distance, even pretending to be guests and bargaining for food.
After walking around like this, an hour passed.
“Alumni, what do you think?”
Gu Qingqiu wanted to hear Lin Baici's opinion.
“I don’t see anything unusual!”
Lin Baici told the truth.
Gu Qingqiu smiled and turned to look at Hoffman and his party: "Don't follow, there are so many people, they will scare them!"
"No!"< br>
Hoffman refused.
"Then you can ask again after I finish asking!"
Gu Qingqiu looked at Hoffman: "If you want to leave here early, don't cause trouble!"
< br>Phew!
The cowboy sister and the black man whistled because what Gu Qingqiu said was very rude.
Hoffman's face was gloomy, but he didn't speak, which was regarded as acquiescence.
After all, he is also a famous and veteran dragon-level boss. Silence is already the biggest concession. He can't just say, 'Okay, I won't go. ’
Don’t lose face?
Others have no objection, because judging from their short time together, this Hong Kong girl and Lin Shen should be the two with the best IQs among this group of people.
“Can I continue to follow?”
The old policeman wanted to go.
“Okay!”
Gu Qingqiu started from the east end of the vegetable market and found a barbecue restaurant.
Before everyone entered the store, the smell of braised pork penetrated their noses.
“Lao Cai?”
The boss was an old man in his fifties, wearing a white vest. When he saw Cai Yonghao, he took the initiative to say hello.
Xia Hongyao looked at Cai Yonghao with doubt in his eyes.
“I came here several times before to investigate, and then I thought their roast goose and barbecued pork were good, so I often bought them to eat!”
Cai Yonghao explained.
"These are..."
The boss is a little confused.
"Hello, I am a reporter from the TV station, and these are my colleagues. We are currently working on a show!"
Gu Qingqiu smiled and made up an identity.
“Oh!”
The boss believed him, mainly because Gu Qingqiu spoke authentic Hong Kong Islander, plus his good looks, which was a bonus.
As long as you are a man, it is difficult not to have a crush on Gu Qingqiu.
Gu Qingqiu extended a friendly hand.
The boss immediately took it.
“Do you remember that a child disappeared in the wet market more than 20 years ago?”
Gu Qingqiu went straight to the topic: “We want to make a program on this topic!”
"Remember!"
The boss glanced at Cai Yonghao: "Lao Cai has asked me several times."
"Did you talk about it later?"
" Well, but there is no way, this is life, who let that child meet?"
The boss shrugged.
Gu Qingqiu smiled and let go of the boss's hand: "Bring me a pound of roast pork!"
Several people came out of the shop with a white lunch box in their hands.
“You only asked these few questions?”
The old policeman frowned and looked at Gu Qingqiu suspiciously, feeling that this woman was not reliable.
This is too fast!
"No need to ask, just an ordinary person!"
Gu Qingqiu was very sure.
"Don't worry about it. Little Loach says it's no problem, it's no problem!"
Xia Hongyao took the chopsticks and stuffed two mouthfuls of goose meat while it was hot.
“……”
Cai Yonghao still doesn't trust it.
Gu Qingqiu took out a pack of disinfectant paper towels, took one, and wiped his hands carefully.
She was holding her boss's hand just now, and her index finger was on the pulse of his wrist.
This is called cold reading.
When Gu Qingqiu asked, the boss had no response, no sympathy, and didn't even have the mentality of a spectator.
To put it bluntly, he is the kind of person who, I heard, would be fine with it if a child disappeared nearby, and would not have any other unnecessary thoughts.
Next, Gu Qingqiu visited three more houses.
A fruit stall, a cold dish seller, and a food stall.
They are all old stores that have been in business for more than 30 years.
The owner of the fruit stall was not easy to talk to and ignored Gu Qingqiu at all. After being asked a few questions, he started to drive them away.
"Is this person suspicious?"
Xia Hongyao felt that there was something wrong with the fruit stall owner.
"He is not suspicious, he is just sick, and there must be a problem at home."
Gu Qingqiu explained.
“……”
The old policeman thought the girl was too arrogant.
“That fruit shop is considered a prosperous shop, but look at the boss’s clothes, which are too simple, and there are unwashed dishes and leftovers on the table, which shows that he is not living a good life and there is no one around. Take care of him!”
Gu Qingqiu talked eloquently: "All traces prove that he has no wife, and his children are most likely unfilial!"
The most important thing is that when Gu Qingqiu mentioned the disappearance case, the old store had An obvious daze.
It means he has forgotten it.
Through cold reading, Gu Qingqiu judged that the other party was not pretending.
The fifth store is a shop selling aquatic products. It is not small in area, and the location it occupies has a lot of customers, making it a prosperous shop.
It can be said that one shop has been passed down for three generations.
"Lao Cai, are you here to buy fish again?"
The boss knows the old policeman.
"Accompany some friends!"
Cai Yonghao turned his head and motioned to Gu Qingqiu and the others behind him with his eyes.
The aquatic product boss looked over.
"Who are you..."
The aquatic product boss is in his fifties, wearing a leather brown apron. There is a recliner in the store, and there is a radio next to it. A broadcast.
"We are from a TV station, and we plan to do a program."
Gu Qingqiu stretched out her hand, and when the other party took it, she still said what she said before: "Do you remember that more than 20 years ago, there was a child here The market is missing?”
"Ah?"
The boss was startled, seeming to be reminiscing, and then quickly seemed to remember it, with a look of sudden realization: "That's what happened!"
"That The child was found?”
"No!"
Gu Qingqiu sighed: "After all these years, he must have died long ago, right?"
"Oh, the missing child must have been abducted by human traffickers, right? He will definitely not die! ”
The boss let go of Gu Qingqiu’s hand.
“Do you understand the situation at that time?”
Gu Qingqiu asked: "We want to use the disappearance case as the theme, and I hope you can add some details!"
"Don't worry, your work will not be in vain!"
Gu Qingqiu took out something A wad of money.
"This is not a matter of money. I am just a fish seller and I don't know about this kind of disappearance case!"
The boss smiled bitterly.
"It's okay, just tell me what you know and I'll make a note of it!"
Gu Qingqiu asked.
“I don’t know anything!”
The aquatic product owner saw a customer coming in and immediately greeted: “Sister, are you buying fish? They all just arrived today!”
Gu Qingqiu came out, walked more than ten meters, and stood still, wiping his hands with a disinfectant paper towel while looking at the store.
"Is there a problem?"
Xia Hongyao looked happy.
"Let's go, you're all here, let's finish visiting the remaining stores!"
Gu Qingqiu raised his fingers towards Xia Hongyao and Lin Baici.
Go over immediately with high ponytail.
"Alumni, you and Hongyao go check the life trajectory of the aquatic product store owner."
Gu Qingqiu arranged.
"Is there something wrong with him?"
The old policeman asked immediately.
“You’ll find out tonight!”
After Gu Qingqiu finished checking out the remaining stores, the time came to six o'clock in the evening.
By the time Gu Qingqiu came back, Hoffman's patience was almost exhausted: "Have you found anything?"
"Sister Cowboy, go find a remote place nearby!"
Gu Qingqiu ordered: "Don't be too far away!"
"What are you doing?"
The black brother was very excited: "Kill people and bury corpses?"
"Alumni, take the red medicine and the black brother and go guard outside the store, prepare to arrest people!"
Gu Qingqiu Continue to arrange.
Hoffman looked surprised.
No way?
Did she really find a clue?
A bit fast!
……
At 8 o’clock in the evening, the owner of the aquatic product store packed up and prepared to close the store.
In the distance, the MPV was parked on the side of the road, and there was a van next to it.
"He's leaving!"
The voice of the black man came from the walkie-talkie that Gu Qingqiu bought at night.
Gu Qingqiu glanced at his watch: "Action!"
The van started.
Xia Hongyao drove it to the front of the aquatic product store and suddenly braked. The black man behind him grabbed the door handle and pulled hard.
Wow!
The car door was opened.
The cowboy girl and the black man jumped down and went straight to the aquatic product store owner.
The owner of the aquatic product store noticed something was wrong, looked panicked and wanted to run away, but it was too late.
Django moved very quickly, grabbed his arm, then twisted and grabbed him, holding him down.
The cowboy sister put a hood prepared in advance on his head, and then two people escorted him and pushed him into the van.
Xia Hongyao started the car and headed to the location that the cowboy girl had found earlier.
“Let’s go too!”
Gu Qingqiu motioned to the Korean girl to drive.
“For a stinky fish seller to have us ‘entertain’ him with a group of dragons, it’s a big honor!”
On the intercom, it was Django teasing.
Gu Qingqiu asked Xia Hongyao to take a detour on the road for a while, and waited until it got completely dark before driving to the construction site.
In a building that had not yet been topped off, the fishery boss was escorted to the top floor.
“Who are you?”
“What are you going to do?”
"I'm just a fish seller, I have no money!"
The boss kept begging for mercy and deprecating himself. Judging from his tone, he was panicked and should be frightened.
“We are not seeking wealth, only revenge!”
Gu Qingqiu said: “Let him kneel down to the edge of the building!”
“Revenge?”
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The boss yelled at Qu: "Do you want that prosperous shop? I'll sell it! I'll sell it! Please let me go!"
"Stop pretending, you killed someone, don't you know?"
Gu Qingqiu snorted coldly.
“I didn’t kill anyone, don’t talk nonsense!”
“You killed a child!”
"You're talking nonsense!"
The boss firmly denied it: "You said I killed someone, why don't you show the evidence?"
No one would admit this kind of thing.
Hoffman looked at Gu Qingqiu, wondering how she could identify the murderer.
“Okay, let me ask you a few questions!”
Gu Qingqiu was very calm: "Why did you close so early today?"
"I asked, you usually close at 9:30!"
This is obviously because the boss heard about the missing child topic, upset.
“I’m hungry and want to go home early for dinner!”
The boss explained.
"But there are a lot of snacks in your store!"
"Who stipulates that you can't eat after eating snacks?"
Dad quibbled.
Gu Qingqiu smiled and did not continue to dwell on the topic: "When I mentioned the missing child, you showed that you thought for a moment before remembering who it was!"
"But your pulse, the moment I mentioned this child, your heartbeat accelerated."
"Can you tell me the reason?"
It was also the first time that the cowboy girl heard Gu Qingqiu say this, and she immediately reacted: "Why is he acting? It means there is something wrong!"
"..."
The boss couldn't think of an excuse for a while.
“Boss, you took the initiative to let go of my hand!”
Gu Qingqiu smiled: "It's not that I'm arrogant, any man who shakes my hand will keep holding it as long as I don't take the initiative to let go!"
"Don't tell me you are a gentleman. ?”
“One listens to late-night radio, How can a man who often goes to nightclubs and shampoo rooms and looks at the legs and bears of passers-by on the street be a gentleman?"
Xia Hongyao nodded, Gu Qingqiu is very charming, especially the Devouring Divine Power, which strengthens it. After my body was cured and I was no longer sick, my temperament was astonishing.
“You are slandering!”
The boss is anxious.
"When I said that the child was dead, you opened your mouth and said he was not dead. Do you know? This is your self-protection mechanism operating!"
Gu Qingqiu suddenly tore it off Boss's hood: "This is the answer given by your instinct!"
"You don't want people to think about that child's death!"
Gudu!
The aquatic product owner swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and now his head and face were covered with sweat.
"I still have evidence, do you still want to listen?"
Gu Qingqiu asked with a smile.
“Yes!”
Xia Hongyao raised his hand.
"While we were here, when the guests came in, you went to greet them directly!"
Gu Qingqiu looked into the boss's eyes.
“Is this wrong?”
The black man scratched his scalp and couldn’t understand.
“The way the female customer is dressed and looks at the fish, she doesn’t look like someone who eats fish regularly. As a boss who has been selling fish for more than 30 years, you can’t tell that, right?”
Gu Qingqiu's expression was calm: "But you still left the TV reporter and went to greet you!"
"Don't say you cherish every customer."
"I observed it later. Yes, you are not very enthusiastic about some guests. Furthermore, given your family conditions, you are not that bad. The income of a fish!"
"So to sum up, you are instinctively 'dislike' me and want to escape."
In fact, there is no need for the boss to answer, this guy's psychological quality is not good, just. The people present could also see the clues in his sweaty and panicky look.
"He is the murderer and he didn't run away!"
Xia Hongyao was sure.
I thought the child was abducted by traffickers, but I didn’t expect that he was killed.
"I believe you would not kill a child for no reason. There must be a hidden secret in it!"
Gu Qingqiu put his hand on the boss's shoulder: "Tell me!"
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"..."
The boss was silent.
"We are not the police, and we don't want to seek justice. We just want to know the whereabouts of that child."
Gu Qingqiu comforted: "You tell us, and you can go home!"
The boss doesn’t believe it.
"If you don't tell me now, I will torture you. When the time comes, you will have to bear the blame!"
Hoffman's patience is gone.
“…”
The boss is still silent, everyone is an adult,
Who are you kidding?
"What if I tell you that the child is not dead?"
Gu Qingqiu suddenly spoke.
“Huh?”
“What?”
“WHAT?”
Gu Qingqiu's words shocked the cowboy sisters and others.
Gu Qingqiu glanced out of the corner of his eyes. Except for Lin Baici, everyone else looked confused.
As expected of my alumnus, he is very considerate.
“What did you say?”
The boss was stunned.
"You were taken advantage of!"
Gu Qingqiu smiled faintly: "If my guess is correct, you thought the child was dead, so you threw the 'body' into the sea, right?"
“…”
The boss’s lips were trembling.
“Say it, tell it, and you will be freed. Let me catch the real ‘man behind the scenes’!”
Gu Qingqiu was good at tempting: "He made you think that you had committed a murder, blamed yourself, felt guilty, and been frightened for twenty-seven years. Are you willing to do it?"
"You don't want her to be punished?"
The aquatic product owner was shaken, raised his head, and looked at Gu Qingqiu: "Are you really sure that the child is not dead?"
Everyone present, including Xia Hongyao, who had D-level intelligence, laughed.
“Haha!”
Hoffman couldn't help it and laughed out loud.
Because of the aquatic product owner’s words, the subtext has already admitted that he committed murder.
“I’m sure!”
Actually, Gu Qingqiu wasn’t very sure either. She still needed to see the testimony of the fishery boss.
“That night, I was going to the dock to pull goods. In the evening, I had a few more drinks and started a little late, so I hurried on. When I arrived at the dock, I opened the cold storage of the truck. I saw a child inside, frozen to death.”
The fishery boss slumped his shoulders and recalled the past. Even after twenty-seven years, the events of that night were still vivid in his mind.
There is no way, that is murder and dumping the body, even if you don’t want to remember it.
“I was so frightened that I threw the child into the sea out of instinct.”
“I really didn’t mean it!”
“Wait until I think about it. By the time we got him back, it was too late! ”
"Really!" "I jumped down to look for him, but I couldn't find him!"