Five days later, a freezing factory in Kunyang City.
"Director Niu," Miao Ying asked the director of the freezing plant in the small and messy office, "as far as we know, your freezing plant is one of the few in Kunyang City that has been operating for decades. Old factory, right?”
"Yeah," Director Niu tidied the table and said, "I don't know, what are these police officers doing?"
"Oh, it's okay, I just want to ask you about freezing issues!" Miao Ying said, "I see that you are not very old. Is this factory your family business?"
"You're 40, aren't you old enough?" The director of the cattle factory smiled awkwardly and replied, "It can be considered a family business! Why does it sound so noble
"Actually, the factory belongs to my uncle. My uncle and aunt had no children, so after my uncle passed away, he passed the factory to me. I didn't go to school well when I was young, and I always worked in the factory, so... I'm relatively familiar with the business. Well!"
"Do you still know when your factory was founded?" Miao Ying asked again.
"Well... I was already there at that time," Factory Director Niu recalled, "It was probably around 1983 or 1984, right? However, at that time, it was just a small workshop. There were a few small bungalows on Sile Street, and it couldn't be built. It’s so good, I can only make some cream popsicles…”
"Oh..." Miao Ying thought for a while and then asked, "So, when did the freezing plant expand its scale?"
"Probably... the year Xiangjiang returned, right? In 1997, at that time, I had been an apprentice for a long time, and I did it with my uncle. It is what you see now... "
"Oh... that's it!" Miao Ying and Zhao Yu exchanged a look and asked, "Director Niu, around 1986, did your freezing plant have a cold storage?"
"Cold storage?" The director of the cattle factory was startled and said, "Cold storage seems to be more luxurious for us at that time, right? But... if you talk about 1986, I was only 6 years old at that time!
"Me, I heard my uncle say that we were all small workshops at that time, and we only had things like small refrigerators. The cold storage didn't exist until the mid-1990s.
"As far as I know, cold storage was rare at that time. It seems that only state-owned ones existed later, such as the Far East Cold Storage and the wholesale market cold storage, which specialized in fresh food and aquatic products... "
"Oh..." Miao Ying glanced at Zhao Yu, then took out a photo of Su Ruohua and asked, "So... have you seen this person?"
The director of the cattle factory carefully identified it, shook his head and said, "I've never seen him before. Who is this person? Does he have anything to do with our factory?"
"Director Niu," Zhao Yu said, "I want to ask you another professional question. In the 1980s, do you know of any other private companies in Kunyang that had advanced refrigeration technology
"Like, a freezing factory like yours is bigger than yours?"
"Oh, well..." the cattle factory manager shook his head and said, "I can't say for sure. As far as I know, it seems that there is no more!
"To be honest, although my equipment is relatively primitive, in those days, being able to make cream popsicles was pretty good!"
"Then..." Miao Ying asked again, "Do you know about hydroxyethyl substances? Or other food additives, preservatives, etc.?"
"This... police officer, you have a conscience!" Director Niu misunderstood and quickly clarified, "There are absolutely no additives or preservatives in the products we produce!
"And that substance you just mentioned, I have never heard of it. I... I didn't even graduate from elementary school..."
While talking, the door of the office opened, and Cui Lizhu, who was responsible for checking the cold storage, stood outside the door and signaled.
Zhao Yu and Miao Ying realized that Cui Lizhu had not noticed anything unusual.
So, Zhao and Yu bid farewell to the director of the cattle factory and left the refrigeration factory.
After returning to the car, Cui Lizhu hurriedly said: "Boss, I just saw that people are coming and going in this popsicle factory, and people are coming in and out of the cold storage. It's quite difficult to freeze a big living person!"
"Zeng Ke has also checked," Miao Ying looked at her mobile phone and said, "The uncle of the cattle factory director has nothing to do with Su Ruohua..."
"Boss," Cui Lizhu applied to Zhao Yu, "How about we conduct a secret search? See if this factory has a private cold storage?"
"No need!" Zhao Yu waved his hand and said, "I think we should change our thinking!"
The reason why Zhao Yu was so sure was because he suddenly discovered that his double-gen mutation hexagram had ended!
He achieved 1001% completion, obtained 60 props of various levels, and gained more than 50,000 adventure points...
However, although he gained a lot, Zhao Yu knew clearly that it was all due to his solving the first two cases.
The end of Shuanggen's mutated hexagram undoubtedly indicates that he has gone in the wrong direction in solving the case of the frozen female corpse!
It can be said that Zhao Yu has mixed feelings. He has indeed been silent for too long and has not received any decent props.
This time, it was a big profit. Aircraft, invisibility cloaks, translators, power shielding devices, etc. were all made.
However, after the adventure is over, the hexagram text will be frozen for 20 days, and it will not be possible to open the hexagram in the short term.
Therefore, Zhao Yu has returned to a specific starting point and can only rely on his own ability to solve the case.
Of course, today, Zhao Yu has full confidence in himself. He believes that even without the guidance of the hexagram, he can rely on his own efforts to find clues to solve the case.
"Boss, what should we do next?" Cui Lizhu asked in the car.
Um…
Zhao Yu fell into deep thought. For five days, they investigated many places non-stop, but they still found no useful clues.
First, they investigated the ships that passed on the Jingjiang River during the time when the female body was found, but found no suspicious ones.
Secondly, they searched for teachers who taught animal husbandry and fishery in vocational middle schools. However, these teachers either died of illness or went abroad, and they were not found either.
Moreover, they also found through investigation that although freezing technology is an item in the livestock and fishery profession, it is almost useless. No one studies it at all, and even the exam is passed in one pass.
All in all, the situation in vocational high schools at that time was all about teaching courses, and no one was doing scientific research at all.
Therefore, Zhao Yu and others could only turn their attention to refrigeration factories like Niu Factory Director to see if there might be any relationship with these small factories...
"If this continues," Miao Ying shook her head and said, "We seem to be looking for a needle in a haystack! Both the Far East Cold Storage and the Wholesale Market Cold Storage were built in the mid-to-late 1990s and have been relocated many times. Obviously, they have little to do with them...
"So...Su Ruohua, who was frozen by someone?"
At this point, Miao Ying and Cui Lizhu both looked at Zhao Yu in unison, because every time at critical moments, Detective Zhao can always come up with some novel investigation ideas!
However, after the two women looked at him for a long time, Zhao Yu sighed heavily and said, "Okay! It seems that I can only use a trick!"
(End of chapter)