Zhou Bo's wife wiped the tears from her face and said calmly, "You have already sent someone to ask this question. Zhou Bo is usually introverted and rarely meets new friends. He has not made any foreign friends. I am very curious why you always ask such a question? Have you found out something?"
I shook my head and said, "This matter is of great importance. I'm sorry we can't tell you, but don't worry, we are here to investigate the cause of your husband's death."
Zhou Bo's wife sneered after hearing this: "Investigating the cause of my husband's death? That sounds good, but I think you want to find the person who killed Director Tang? From yesterday till now, you haven't sent anyone to investigate my husband, but you suddenly came here today. If it's not this reason, what else could it be? Your Director Tang's life is valuable, but my Zhou Bo's life is not valuable!"
We were all stunned when Zhou Bo's wife said this. I hurriedly explained, "That's not the case. It's just that some big things happened these days and our police force is really not enough. But don't worry, since I'm here today, I will treat everyone equally. I will definitely find the murderer in the shortest time and give your husband justice!"
Zhou Bo's wife was still very excited. Although she still looked at us with disgust, she still answered the questions I had just asked her.
"I lost contact with my husband after he went to work the day before yesterday. I waited for him to come back for dinner until very late the afternoon before yesterday. I called him several times but he didn't answer. Yesterday morning, the police came to tell me that my husband was dead. I really don't know anything else."
It seems that Zhou Bo's wife only knows the timeline of Zhou Bo's disappearance, and knows nothing about other things. I was a little disappointed, but I continued to ask: "So, has your family experienced any strange or major events during this period of time? It would be best if it is related to the number 'three'."
After hearing this, Zhou Bo's wife immediately fell into deep thought. Seeing her thinking hard, it seemed that nothing strange had happened, and I began to feel anxious.
The relationship between this anchor and the gangsters is obvious. Bai Qi told me before that Zhou Bo’s live broadcast was not very popular and was even considered a low-end anchor. How did the gangsters find such a person? Even if they found such a suitable anchor by chance, I don’t believe that they are so powerful that they can find out Zhou Bo’s home address or workplace without any contact! They must have contacted Zhou Bo through some method.
Just when I was about to give up, Zhou Bo's wife suddenly seemed to remember something and immediately said, "Oh, right, the night before my husband disappeared, someone gave him a gift of 10,000 yuan in his live broadcast room. Is this a strange thing? But this incident should have nothing to do with 'three'."
After hearing this news, I finally put my heart at ease. Obviously, this is the main reason why the gangsters knew Zhou Bo's information! If they gave Zhou Bo a gift of 10,000 yuan, then asking Zhou Bo for his home address or inviting him out for dinner would be a piece of cake! If this is the case, then it proves that the gangsters' information network is not as scary as I imagined, so they are not as difficult to deal with as I imagined.
"I see. Thank you for the clue. We won't bother you any more. Please continue with your work."
After saying that, I didn't continue to exchange pleasantries with Zhou Bo's wife. I turned around and walked out the door. After I walked out the door, Bai Longfei asked me where I was going. I said I wanted to go to Zhou Bo's workplace first. So Bai Longfei drove us to find Zhou Bo's workplace according to the information given by Bai Qi.
Zhou Bo was still young and had just passed the civil service exam, so he was just a trainee clerk. We went to Zhou Bo's unit and found Zhou Bo's section chief. After we explained our identities and purpose, Zhou Bo's section chief received us warmly.
This section chief is fat and has a fawning smile on his face all the time. When I asked him about Zhou Bo's last visit to work the day before yesterday, he started talking to me about which hotel in Dengfeng City has good food. Just when I was getting angry, Bai Longfei grabbed the section chief by the collar and threatened him in an unfriendly manner. The section chief was so scared that he got back to the point and took us to the monitoring room of their unit. He called several staff members who were in the same office as Zhou Bo and asked us to question them directly.
The two clerks called by the section chief were obviously more knowledgeable than the section chief. They immediately and concisely described the situation at that time. They said that Zhou Bo was preparing to go out for lunch with the two of them after work at noon that day. Suddenly, he seemed to receive a call from someone. Looking at Zhou Bo's smile when he answered the phone, it was estimated that the person who called him was a very important person. After Zhou Bo hung up the phone, his colleague asked him who called. Zhou Bo did not elaborate, but only said that it was a friend he hadn't seen for a long time, who said that he had made an appointment with him for lunch. So he did not eat with the two clerks, and then took a taxi away.
Originally, the two colleagues thought that Zhou Bo was just going out for a meal and would come to work on time in the afternoon. However, the whole afternoon passed and they did not see Zhou Bo. They even talked about Zhou Bo skipping work in the office, saying that it was a good thing that the section chief did not come in the afternoon, otherwise Zhou Bo would be finished. However, one day later, they learned about Zhou Bo's death.
After listening to the accounts of my two colleagues, I thought that everything went very smoothly. Sure enough, it was much easier to follow the clue of Zhou Bo. The call Zhou Bo received at noon the day before yesterday must be from the person who gave him a gift of 10,000 yuan in his live broadcast room, that is, someone in the group of gangsters. When he went to meet the gangsters, he was abducted and detained by the gangsters. After being detained for a night, he was taken to the woods to meet Tang Qingfeng, and then Zhou Bo and Tang Qingfeng were killed together. The news was exposed using Zhou Bo's live broadcast room.
I asked them if they knew the relationship between Zhou Bo and the number "three", and they all said they were not clear about it.
Now is a time when every second counts. I did not continue talking to them, but instead took the opportunity to check the surveillance video of the day Zhou Bo left in the monitoring room. As time was running out, I asked them to increase the speed to the maximum. Judging from Zhou Bo's working status, he did not have any abnormal behavior, but it seemed that Zhou Bo was in a good mood, which seemed to be related to the 10,000 yuan reward he received the day before.
The surveillance footage in the office couldn't reveal anything, so I asked the staff to retrieve the surveillance footage of the time when Zhou Bo took a taxi in front of the office gate. I wanted to see the license plate number of the taxi he took and check where he went for dinner that day.
Fortunately, the monitoring equipment of this public institution was very clear, and we could clearly see the license plate number of the taxi that Zhou Bo took. After I memorized the license plate number in my mind, I took Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue and left the public institution. I called Bai Qi at the door and asked him to investigate where the taxi driver with this license plate number took his people to yesterday at noon.
After the call, we stood at the door of the public institution and waited quietly for Bai Qi's inquiry results. About ten minutes later, Bai Qi called back and said that he had found the taxi company where the taxi driver worked and contacted their company to ask the taxi driver who took Zhou Bo that day to come to us and let us ask ourselves.
Bai Qi hung up the phone after he finished speaking. He seemed to be very busy, but what was he busy with? Could it be that Li Hua from another team had made some discovery, which made Bai Qi pay so much attention to it
Although Li Hua is not very popular, I have to admit that he is very capable. If Bai Qi is really busy with Li Hua's affairs, then Li Hua's progress may be much faster than mine.
Thinking of this, I began to get anxious, pacing back and forth. Bai Longfei said helplessly, "Don't worry, there's no point in being anxious. It's only morning now, and we still have a whole day, which is enough for us to find the restaurant that Zhou Bo went to."
"I'm not worried about this. Besides, our progress today cannot be limited to this. We must at least catch one criminal today!"
After hearing this, Bai Longfei looked at me as if he was looking at a monster and said, "They have been trying to catch someone for a month and still haven't caught any. How can we catch one today? Ji Wen, are you a little too eager to solve the case?"
"Of course not. I know in my mind that if everything goes well, this goal is not impossible to achieve. Besides, we have to solve the case now, time waits for no one."
As I was speaking, I suddenly saw a taxi driving slowly towards us from a distance. When the taxi was a little closer to us, I could see clearly that the license plate of the taxi was exactly the same as the one we saw in the surveillance video. I immediately took three or two steps forward and stopped the taxi, and the taxi stopped.
After the car stopped, a young man with slightly dark skin, who should be about the same age as Bai Longfei, came out from the driver's seat. He was wearing a pair of sunglasses and it seemed that his skin looked like this because of driving a taxi and being exposed to the wind and sun for many years.
"Hello, we are the police. Do you remember where you took a customer here at noon the day before yesterday?"
I asked directly, and the driver didn't waste time talking to us. He said without thinking: "Of course I remember, he went to Taibaiju Hotel!"
The driver answered my question without thinking. Bai Longfei next to him immediately looked at the driver warily and said, "You remember the events of the day before yesterday so clearly? Your memory seems to be a little too good, isn't it?"