"The idiot you are looking for may be this person."
Zhenchuan County Criminal Police Squadron, Captain Zhuo Ligetu handed the investigation photos to the criminal police colleagues who came down from upstairs, and looked at them with a little strange eyes.
In fact, they are different from each other. In this place close to Inner Mongolia, they are actually a Mongolian colleague. Li Yifeng took a few glances at the mule-like thick arms, and then looked back at Zhang Meng, but he felt that the animal brother was much slimmer than him. What he wanted to say, Sun Yi directly pulled him behind him, knowing that this guy couldn't spit ivory out of his mouth, and he would provoke people when he opened his mouth.
Yu Zui looked at a police-style paper and subconsciously read: "Mu Hongtian, aren't you from Zhenchuan County?"
"Our county has a small population, less than 200,000, but when it comes to the market, there are 200,000 people from outsiders alone. It should be him. He is a small celebrity in the Baoerwan market. Many people know this Nickname." Zhuoligtu said, his Mandarin was a bit blunt.
"Celebrity? No Lufeng, right?" Yu Zui said nervously, it was too difficult to find a related person. Zhuo Ligetu shook his head: "No, the market management knows this person... He has been in the market all the time, and everyone who sells livestock knows him."
As he walked, he said that this Mu Hongtian, nicknamed Cao Duzi, was a broker in the livestock market, the kind who pimps between sellers and buyers. Moreover, the nickname "Caoduzi" does not have a very good meaning in the local area, meaning "not like a man". Zhuoligetu's words made the police laugh for a while.
Today was the eighth day of the lunar new year, the weather was fine, and the group who were going to the market to look for the suspect abandoned the police car and set out on the road in a small passenger car with anti-skid. It is difficult to drive in this place. It is clear after the snow, and there is still a layer of slush on the road that has just been cleared. The car skids from time to time, but it is very stable. Zhuo Ligetu saw the worries of the police. The snow on the straight road has been cleared. Zhenchuan is very safe as long as it is not a snowstorm and does not get lost.
It's very safe. Going north out of the county, the endless snowy field is shining with silver light under the rising sun. Occasionally, the biting wind blows, carrying a piece of snow, and there is only one cleared road stretching into the distance in the field of vision. , a lonely road that divides the white snowy field into two halves.
"This place is really open-minded." Dong Shaojun looked at the scenery and said with a smile. Several people in the carriage had smoked, even if they didn't smoke, they exhaled water vapor, like swallowing clouds. The temperature is more than 10 degrees below zero, and being a policeman in this environment, in comparison, I am afraid that everyone here thinks that their previous jobs are heaven.
"Brother Zhuo...is it difficult to catch a suspect in your place?" Sun Yi said. At a glance, there are plains. If it doesn't snow, you can drive with your eyes closed in this place, and you don't need to give directions at all. Zhuoligetu smiled and said, "It's really difficult. Once you get to the provincial border, you'll get out of Bao'er Bay and you'll find the Inner Mongolia prairie. But the most difficult thing is not to catch suspects, but people who travel by car are always running around. If you lose your way, let us come out and look for it, and it will take a few days to find it."
"There are no bad people in this place, right? Even people are rare." Wu Guangyu made a judgment. After walking so far, it is rare to see a few houses.
"Not necessarily, or else I wouldn't know you Captain Shao." Zhuo Ligetu explained with a smile, and had met Shao Wange a few times, so he gave him a thumbs up. It's not that there are no suspects in this place, but there are many suspects who fled. The prairie out of the province, the coal mines, power plants, and herds that have sprung up in the past few years on the prairie, it takes a few days to walk anywhere, which is suitable for the hiding of wanted suspects. Most of them are like Mu Hongtian. , exists only in the form of a nickname.
Speaking of this, it was obvious that Yu Zui's face was a bit worried. Dong Shaojun understands that if the origin of the crime is here, and the environment here is as Captain Zhuoligetu said, it will be much more difficult to arrest.
Halfway through the drive, the little passenger was not very comfortable with the wind leaking from all sides, not only uncomfortable, but also cold. The hospitable captain Zhuo found a water bottle from the car and handed it to his colleagues who came from afar. Li Yifeng took a sip first, and immediately curled his lips because of the heat, it wasn't water, it was wine, high alcohol. Captain Zhuo laughed and passed it to the next person. Everyone took a few sips and couldn't bear the stimulation, but the hot feeling was still effective, at least the coolness was not small.
Dong Shaojun, who was sitting in the back, drank the least. He handed the jug to Captain Zhuo, and asked casually: "Captain Zhuo, is it possible that someone else stole the livestock trade here? I mean, we interrogated you two days ago. There was one suspect who stole livestock and usually brought them here and sold them.”
Zhuoligetu was stunned when he heard this sentence, and seemed a little displeased, but to his surprise, he laughed again immediately, and said with a smile: "You will know in a while, you can see for yourself."
The attitude is not cold or hot, it seems that Mengren has this kind of temperament, he seems to be displeased with the man who is not too bold in drinking, if he can see it, he must be Zhang Meng, and the two sat together, throwing cigarettes at each other, and laughing what to say.
After stumbling and walking for more than two hours, Baoerwan was looking at it, and at a glance, the answer to the entanglement just now was self-evident. The white field has become a sea of livestock again. As far as the eye can see, groups of cattle and sheep are being driven by men on horseback. Dozens of trucks of various colors are waiting in a square formation. Outside the herd of livestock, there are hundreds of thousands of people The team is squirming, and the scene is truly spectacular.
"Every time I go to the market, the herdsmen come here to trade their cattle and sheep. The amount in summer and autumn is even greater. Those who come here to pull cattle and sheep are as far away as the southern provinces. That's all. Look, which flock is like stealing of?" Zhuo Ligetu asked Dong Shaojun with a smile.
They were all dumbfounded, this Nima is much more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack, the suspect still has physical features, can't all these animals be described
The local police parked the car next to the large truck, and it looked like a special vehicle for pulling livestock. The four sides of the fence were welded with steel mesh as high as a person. There was a business deal. When the car turned around, the carriage fell back to a gentle slope. At the same place, the cattle and sheep were driven into the cart.
Dong Shaojun gave Yu Zui a strange look, the two of them were in the same mind, this method was the same as the method of stealing cattle in Yangtouya Township, but it was also unrecognizable, as anyone who pulled cattle would probably be able to.
"Xiaocheng, you will lead a group in a while...Whoever takes the lead, let's divide into several groups, two groups, and ask separately. Don't say anything else, just ask if Cao Duzi is there. Don't ask the herdsmen, just ask those Ask the cattleman. If you want to ask what you are doing, just say you want some fur goods, he has a way."
Captain Zhuo Ligetu arranged, the driver took Sun Yi and Wu Guangyu as a team, Li Yifeng rushed to join Captain Zhuo, Yu Zui and Zhang Meng teamed up, Dong Shaojun had to lead two stupid town policemen . Jumping out of the car, the outside of the car was colder than the inside of the car. A group of people were all wrapped in thick winter clothes and scattered towards the price-negotiating crowd.
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"Hi... Who saw the fool?" Zhuo Ligetu was asking, very bluntly, a group of people gathered around to negotiate the price shook their heads, and automatically ignored it after a glance.
Li Yifeng finally found out that not only are there a lot of animals here, but everyone looks like animals, almost all of them are big-bodied people like Zhuoligetu, who speak in a rough voice, drink spirits, and smoke hand-rolled cigarettes. The smell of that cigarette was stronger than the smell of livestock. He covered his nose from time to time, dodging the cow and sheep dung on the ground, and hurriedly followed Captain Zhuo.
The driver led Sun Yi's Wu Guangyu around in the crowd, but when he spoke occasionally, Sun Yi and Wu Guangyu were confused. It was in Mongolian, and a group of goods wrapped in fur coats said things like "old sheep and lambs talking about love". , Said a group of people laughed. What does it mean? I don’t understand a sentence. Turning around, the driver whispered to the two of them. The people who came here were half Chinese and half Mongolian, and Mandarin was fluent, but Mongolian sounded more friendly. As for the result of the question.
"They said they haven't seen Cao Duzi for a while after the year." The driver said, pouring cold water on Sun Yi and Wu Guangyu again.
The transaction is going on like that, there are always cargo owners with a cart full of cattle and sheep, and there are always cargo owners who drive livestock and drive carts. Occasionally, you can see the shadow of market management, wearing nondescript clothes Uniforms, wandering in the crowd. Dong Shaojun and the two township policemen were dumbfounded after being overwhelmed by the crowd and livestock. Occasionally they asked someone with a photo, but when they saw him like that, they ignored him and shook their heads.
It seems that without the guidance of local people, it is difficult to say a word.
Yu Zui and Zhang Meng walked the farthest, almost to the edge of the market. He took a general look at the situation of the entire market, but the worry on his face deepened.
"Do you think Cao Duzi is hiding among these people?" Zhang Meng asked.
"I don't think so, but I'm sure. This is a good place to mix fish and dragons and hide your tracks. Look at the license plate, the supply of goods is almost delivered to the whole country. If you want to contact the livestock dealers in our province, there is no better place than here." Yu Zui said.
"That would be better, just get him out." Zhang Meng took it for granted.
"Hehe, you think you want to hide in this area, can you find it?" Yu Zui pointed at a few places where herdsmen camped. With this kind of market as the center, several tents like small hills were erected in the wild. , Looking from a distance, you can see more than a dozen in sight, but don't know how many you can't see.
Thinking about the difficulty, Zhang Meng took a breath and swallowed all the big words.
There was no progress from entering the site until noon, so I ate lunch in the site, where there was a special place for truck drivers and traffickers to eat. But this place is the worst place people have ever seen. A box of instant noodles costs 20 yuan, and fried vegetables cost 50 yuan. Mutton is the cheapest here, even cheaper than instant noodles. Captain Zhuo directly ordered half a lamb, but who knew that the lamb was undercooked and brought to your table with blood on it. Except for Captain Zhuo and the driver who ate with gusto, those few couldn't finish their mouths.
"Oh my god, won't you have diarrhea after eating this?" Li Yifeng said nervously as he watched Captain Zhuo tearing away a piece of spine. After looking at the captain's black hand grabbing the bone, he finally gave the bone to Li Daiyi who was beside him: "Daddy, you eat, eat more."
"Uncooked, still raw." Daitou gnawed a couple of bites, pursed his lips and said.
"The air pressure here is low, and the boiling point of the water does not reach 100 degrees. Speaking of which, the taste is pretty good." Dong Shaojun carefully chewed the undercooked mutton, and said that in terms of nutrition, this way of eating is very scientific drop. Zhuo Ligetu just praised it, but found that everyone except Dong Shaojun lowered their heads and remained silent.
That's right, when he said that poop can also be eaten, he also had this expression. Yu Zui smiled and cheered for the Shaojun brothers, filled up the wine one by one, changed the subject, and talked a lot about the beautiful scenery here. Captain Zhuo now also knew that Yu Zui was in the lead, he whispered to Yu Zui while holding the wine glass, "You have been a policeman in one place for a long time, and you won't be in the mood to enjoy the scenery anymore."
He drank it all down, but the listeners looked at each other in blank dismay, maybe they really had scruples, they only cared about seeing if there were any suspects, so they didn't notice the scenery. While eating, he returned to today's task. Captain Zhuo reminded everyone that it is not so easy to find a specific person here, especially for people like Cao Duzi who have money and find a place to eat, drink and gamble. I came here to eat and sleep when I had no money. In the morning, he asked a few people, and they all said that he hadn't seen him for some days.
Yu Zui listened, exchanged glances with Dong Shaojun, and wondered in his heart, maybe the incident in Yicheng had alerted the gang of cattle thieves
But it's not like, now the investigation is limited to the sale of stolen goods, and the crackdown on theft has not yet begun. The idea of Yu Zui is to directly skip the theft and start from the source. In theory, the vigilance of the theft should be implemented, and it should not be noticed here. After all, this news is obtained from the mouth of the prison inmates.
Of course, the most important thing is that it is not yet possible to determine whether the grasshopper Mu Hongtian he is looking for is directly related to the series of cases of theft of large livestock.
A lot of question marks rushed into Yu Zui's mind. After days of traveling and fatigue, he looked more and more embarrassed. After several glasses of wine, he sighed and drank too much. It's quite exciting for other people not to think about these things, but the environment is really bad, and a few groups of people came in while they were eating, and the huge color steel plate simple house was almost full. Those long-distance drivers and herdsmen sitting in a circle, the atmosphere is getting better and better, but the air is getting worse and worse.
A bearded man sitting next to him took off his shoes and put his feet on the edge of the stove not far from him to roast. Ouch, the smell was stronger than a pot full of mutton. The feet are roasted here, the dust and residual snow on the shaking clothes over there, and the grass and livestock dung are all on the ground. When the hand-rolled cigarettes start to smoke after sitting down, the room feels suffocating. up.
"I remembered the living environment of the half-orcs in The Lord of the Rings." Sun Yi held the wine and couldn't drink it anymore.
"This is called entering Zhilan's room. I haven't smelled foot odor for a long time, quack." Wu Guangyu whispered.
The two township policemen didn't think much of it. The sheep herders in the village were just so virtuous, but Li Yifeng relied on his status and stopped eating. The driver saw that the criminal policeman from the city was in shock, and said with a smile: "This environment is like this, don't underestimate such people, everyone is a rich owner, whoever comes here has money in his waist." There are tens of thousands of entanglements."
"Isn't it? How can you live this kind of life if you have money?" Li Yifeng said idiotically.
"I want to earn more money." Captain Zhuoligetu ate the most, and he changed the subject with a smile: "This place has a long history, and Zhaojun left the fortress from here."
"Yes, there is such a song in Guzheng music, it is very sad." Dong Shaojun said, just about to say a few words about the cultivation of a cultural person, but unexpectedly Li Yifeng sniffed his nose and inserted it: "Today I finally understand why the beauty Zhaojun going to commit suicide."
As he spoke, he looked around at the rough men with big arms and thick waists holding a big bowl of wine, that was naturally the reason.
Everyone laughed, and this topic could no longer continue. Captain Zhuo was also amused by this group of young people, so he simply stopped talking about those polite topics, and invited everyone to eat more with wine and meat. However, Li Yifeng asked for instant noodles, and he ate it in a hurry.
People here have two characteristics when eating. One is that there are a lot of them. When the men come in, they can easily eat a catty or two of meat; Afraid of delaying business. While everyone was eating, they had already changed several groups of people, and they hadn't left for a long time, even the boss was not happy, so he asked the guest officials if they wanted some more while adding water.
No more, this table is coming to an end, Yu Zui is embarrassed to ask Captain Zhuo to pay the bill, and rushes to pay the bill. When he was looking for change, he saw that the boss was like this. He must be an old man who knows people from all over the world. Know this person?"
"Why are you looking for him?" The boss twitched his face, as if he was guarding against this group of people.
"What can you do? Ask him to contact you with some bargains." Yu Zui said, that relaxed and indifferent expression, mouth curled up to smoke, bad looks and evil eyes, seemed to be inherently deceptive. The boss took a few glances at him, and most likely regarded Yu Zui as an idiot. He gradually lost his vigilance, nodded and said: "I know, I know everyone here, but I haven't come here for a while."
"How long has it been since you came?" Yu Zui asked.
"Half a month." The boss said.
"Then... Has anyone here seen him? Why can't I even get through to his cell phone number?" Yu Zui lied.
"That calf, he won't meet if he has money, and he will come back when he has no money." The boss said, giving a reason that made Yu Zui extremely depressed. Yu Zui smiled, thinking whether he should leave a phone call for the boss. Just as I was talking, someone came in, a tall man of 1.89 meters, lifted the animal skin curtain, came in with a gust of cold wind, and yelled at the boss: "Hey, old man, cut a leg of lamb...a whole two catties of wine .”
This guy, a half-orc came in again, and the rest of the crimes should be forgotten after thinking about it. The enthusiastic boss responded to the guest and asked a few more words: "Oh, yes, old man, have you seen the grass? Are these brothers looking for it?" What about him?"
"Who's looking for it?" The big man turned his head, and he saw Yu Zui who was stunned and frozen in place, and suddenly felt weird. Looking back, several people were watching in astonishment.
The nickname of Lao Dung is much more important than Cao Duzi. He is directly a person who sells black medicine. Yu Zui was startled by the sudden excitement and his heart beat wildly.
The awe-inspiring look of everyone made the big man suddenly feel that something was wrong. Zhang Meng, who reacted the fastest, pulled back the handcuffs and rushed forward: "Police, you committed a crime!"
Bang, the big man punched back, Zhang Meng was caught off guard, as if hit by a car, stepped back a few steps, and hit the table with a bang. The man turned his head and ran without saying a word. Yu Zui was quick and jumped up to strangle his neck, but he was thrown by the big man casually. He hit the simple counter of the boss. Gululu, he rolled under the counter. .
"Fuck..." Zhang Meng chased him out, holding the stool. Li Yifeng copied the wine bottle and called the policemen to run out. Sun Yi and Wu Guangyu also ran out with the lamb leg bones on the table. Dong Shaojun who was a little slower was pulled by Captain Zhuo. He said hurriedly: " Lao Dung is the main suspect in the theft, and catching him is more important than catching the grass."
This sudden and unexpected excitement disrupted all arrangements, and a group of criminal police rushed out like a gang fight. The boss, who was so frightened and hid in the back kitchen, watched helplessly as a group of people chased after one. The one who rolled under the counter was the last to get out, and the one who crawled out even grabbed a boning knife as he walked away. He was so shocked that he trembled all over, and said to the family in the back kitchen:
"Close the door, close the stall, something will happen today..."