In the Dark

Chapter 71: Hand in hand, back to back (2)

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It took no time to get it. After investigation, it was found that the red-haired girl in the photo who was selling methamphetamine to Tao Jing was a high school student named Qiu Fei from Shengnuo Girls’ High School. Captain Tao immediately took people to Saint Nuo Girls' High School. The teachers in the girls' classes all said that the six girls all dropped out of class without saying hello.

Peng Yixuan is a popular figure on campus. Her every move has countless pairs of eyes that are both envious and hateful, so when she sees the police, other students start to talk about it. From the mouths of these students, Tao Longyue learned that Peng Yixuan and five girls went out to sea on her family's yacht, and it was supposed to come back after a weekend of play.

The content of Yao Shu's new letter matched half, Tao Longyue thought something was wrong, and went straight to Peng's house with Shen Liufei.

The place where the Peng family lives is a newly developed science and technology park. Outside there is a well-known name called China Silicon Valley. Peng's house is a single-family villa facing the river. It has a complicated and rich Chinese garden design. The towering mountains, the stacked rocks are ingenious, and the bamboo fence is decorated with red double roses. The weather is cloudy today, and the river is smoky. , light ink and light blue are integrated into one, at a glance, it looks like a very charming ink painting.

It just so happened that Young Master Peng was at home today. Listening to Captain Tao's explanation of his intention, the aunt at home opened the door and led people into the study.

Peng Cheng is the only son, his father is the well-known celebrity Jia Peng Hongbin, and his mother is a movie star named Cheng Ya. Luckily, the appearance of this pair of siblings has been completely inherited from their mother. Wearing a pale pink shirt, he sat behind the desk and greeted Tao and Shen as they entered the door.

"Sit down." Peng Cheng greeted the guests to sit down, took a cigar from the cigarette case, and asked, "Do you want one?"

"No." Shen Liufei said, "Gosba has a strong smell and the smoke is too strong."

Young Master Peng's eyes flashed with interest: "Yo? Do you still know how to do it?"

Shen Liufei said lightly: "I have quit."

Hold the tip of the cigar with your fingers and turn it slowly to warm it up and light it.

The cigar was put into his mouth, and the smoke was gushed out, and an elegant and aggressive eldest young master Fan Er came out immediately. Leaning back, Peng Cheng held a cigar and raised his eyebrows on one side, showing a lazy and uninhibited energy: "If you have something to say, just straight to the point, I'm still busy."

Tao Longyue looked at this man, and suddenly had an idea: This young master Peng's temperament is quite similar to Xie Lanshan.

Thinking about it this way, he felt unbelievable. Xie Lanshan was an out-and-out turtle, so simple that it was almost shabby. He also said that Young Master Peng was like him. Isn't it funny

Tao Longyue said: "Your yacht may be involved in a kidnapping case, and we need some information from you."

Peng Cheng raised his eyebrows: "I have three yachts, which one are you talking about?"

Shen Liufei showed Peng Cheng the letter from Yao Shuxin: "Your sister Peng Yixuan sat on the ship that went to sea on Saturday."

Peng Cheng hastily read the letter, and frowned and thought for a while: "That's the Xinghui, and the ship is mine, but Sunday is Yixuan's eighteenth birthday, she couldn't resist me, so I agreed. She went out to sea with her friends."

Tao Longyue was surprised: "A few girls who are all sixteen or seventeen years old, can you rest assured to let them go to sea together?"

Peng Cheng chuckled: "The captain's name is Chang Ming. He is an old friend of our family. He is a good person. There is also a tutor named Xiao Gu who came to help Yixuan with her senior three homework. Yes, there is nothing to worry about." The two brothers and sisters were a whole round in age, and they didn't seem to be very close.

Tao Longyue said: "That is to say, there is another teacher on the yacht. There are eight people on the yacht?"

Peng Cheng glanced at Tao Longyue, and said unceremoniously, "Yes, eight people, if you are bad at math, break your fingers and do the math."

Tao Longyue asked patiently, "So do you have an impression of the name Yao Shuxin?"

Peng Cheng replied simply: "No."

Tao Longyue stared at Peng Cheng, as if he wanted to see the truth of the whole thing in his eyes: "But we found out that he used to work in Xinghui Group, and he resigned after his daughter disappeared. He told you about it. The conflict has even reached the point of calling the police."

"Oh, it seems to be the case." Peng Cheng took another cigar and puffed out the clouds, "That was also a few years ago, I am busy with a business of 10 billion every day, such a small thing really I can't remember, what you wrote in the police record, that's what happened."

Ding Li transferred all Yao Shuxin's information early in the morning. Yao Shuxin didn't lie, at least the identity information he gave didn't lie. After his daughter Yao Dai disappeared, he called the police, and he kept stalking and harassing Peng Yixuan, and even had a fight with Peng Cheng. In the end, the Peng family couldn't bear the harassment and called the police, and the police investigation of Yao Dai's disappearance found that she ran away from home.

In the face of Captain Tao's aggressive questioning, Peng Cheng smiled indifferently, and seemed very disdain to cooperate with the police to get his sister back, he said, "You may not know my sister well, she looks beautiful on the outside. , is actually a girl with a very deformed heart. She has been a troublemaker since she was a child, and likes to attract attention by causing trouble. My father, too, spoiled her uncontrollably, so there is no need for your police to take this letter seriously. Maybe she directed and acted in this kidnapping case."

Shen Liufei suddenly asked, "Then do you know Yao Dai?"

Peng Cheng looked up at Shen Liufei, took a cigar and said, "I don't know."

Tao Longyue still has a problem, but Shen Liufei, who is beside him, got up to leave: "No problem, please excuse me."

When the voice fell, he turned his head and left the study.

Tao Longyue followed and chased out. After leaving Peng's house, he called Shen Liufei: "What are you in a hurry to leave? I haven't finished my question yet."

"He's lying. We only have 168 hours, and 14 hours have passed. There's no need to waste time on someone who deliberately concealed it." Shen Liufei turned his head away and set the next investigation task for Captain Tao who was stunned behind him. , "Now let's go to the yacht club and find out what clues the Xinghui left behind."

Hey, this kid really treats himself as a dish. Shen Liufei strode into the shooting star, never slackening for a moment, Tao Longyue muttered to himself, and quickly chased after him: "Wait, wait for me!"

Captain Tao rushed to the yacht club, and before he could ask the staff who were on duty that day about the situation, he was distracted by a quarrel. The quarrel was a man and a woman, one was scolding Beijing, the other was swearing in Shanghai style, the two people's scolding changed one after another, the man's voice was like a machine gun, the woman's voice was like singing, and the sound was louder than the sound. High-pitched.

A white Hummer was parked behind the man, and beside him stood a beautiful young woman with a golden autumn look and a bunt. The two pushed the middle-aged woman who was arguing with them, surrounded by some good-looking spectators, and the traffic police also came.

Captain Tao showed his police officer card and asked the traffic police comrade who was looking at the twenty-year-old: "What's going on?"

As if seeing a savior, the little traffic policeman said about the situation. The middle-aged woman's sports car occupied the man's parking space. In general, it occupied it. It is not ordinary people who can afford to play yachts. Both sides have great temperaments. The middle-aged woman first swears a swear word, and the man quits it. Relying on his strong hummer, he drives directly into the woman's sports car. The front of the car was deformed, and the engine was exposed.

The man driving the Humvee rushed over after listening to the traffic police explaining the incident. He saw Tao Longyue's complex aura that was a mixture of bandit and heroism, especially the large scar on the brow bone, which was quite impressive, so he grabbed him and asked, "Is it the leader?"

Tao Longyue said, "Captain of the serious crime team."

"That's the leader!" The man was also aggrieved, raised his finger and pointed to his scratched face and said, "It was the stinky 38 who did it first. Look at the leader, my face was scratched by her!"

"Let the wicked sue first!" Not to be outdone, the middle-aged woman grabbed Tao Longyue's other arm, "I caught him because he hit my car!"

"Will I hit your car if you don't spill it? If you spill it again, I'll hit you together!"

"Stop arguing!" Tao Longyue coughed and asked the middle-aged woman, "Why do you park in other people's places? Whether you come here to dock your own yacht or rent someone else's yacht, this kind of membership system should have its own place. parking space?"

The man interrupted, stretched out another finger, and poked the woman's face in the air: "Yeah, that's where this shit stopped me!"

Tao Longyue glared at him and raised his voice: "Please stop arguing, and then go back to the bureau with me!"

The middle-aged woman explained: "My parking space was also occupied. I'm not here to go to sea today, I'm here to do errands. I want to stop at random and leave when I'm done."

Following the traffic police comrade, they went to the woman's parking space, chatting and making noise, and finally found the initiator of the disorderly parking. Captain Tao happened to know the car.

Xie Lanshan's car.

In a farce, no one was injured, and even if the car was smashed, it would not be unaffordable. The little comrades of the traffic police, one man and one woman on the left and right, continued to deal with the accident, while Tao Longyue fell into deep thought. How could Xie Lanshan's car park here

Captain Tao has been very unhappy since he was slumped by Chi Jin of the provincial team, but he was busy investigating the case and had no time to think about his unreliable old friend. However, after thinking about it for a while, Xie Lanshan was unreliable in the past, but he has never been so unreliable. He doesn't answer the phone in a major case and disappears. Now that his car appeared in this place inexplicably, there must be something strange.

Tao Longyue said to Shen Liufei, "There will be nothing wrong with this kid."

"What can happen to a big living person." Shen Liufei's tone was indifferent, but his brows were slightly frowned, "Don't think about it yourself, just ask a staff member to ask and it will be clear."

After a while, a staff member came and explained to Captain Tao that the owner of the car came with a little girl who was injured that day. Because he was a police officer, he let him stop casually, and he might follow the other party later. out to sea together.

"Going to sea with an injured little girl?" Shen Liufei asked, "Do you remember which yacht he was on?"

The staff nodded: "Xinghui, Miss Peng from Xinghui went to sea that day, and we did a detailed inspection the day before."

In order to avoid unnecessary panic, the city bureau urgently notified major traditional media and portal websites to temporarily suppress Yao Shuxin's letter. The news of the six girls being hijacked on the yacht has not yet fermented. Tao Longyue was nervous. Knowing that the situation was not good, he quickly asked the staff of the yacht club: "How can you be sure that the owner of this car went out to sea with the little girls? Is it possible that you remembered it wrong?"

"Is this still a mistake?" The staff also thought that Tao Longyue asked this too much, and said with a smile: "That is the Xinghui, the most luxurious yacht here, who doesn't take a look at it. Besides, the man's captain He is even more eye-catching than a star, and eleven out of ten people have to stare at him, can you remember whether you got on the boat or not?"

After asking a few questions about the Xinghui going to sea that day, Captain Tao let the staff go first.

"Do you think Alan is really on that boat?" Tao Longyue glanced at Shen Liufei, got a positive answer from his dark eyes, took a deep breath and said, "What's this kid's physique? What a deadly case!"

Shen Liufei was expressionless for a while, then frowned, his eyelashes trembled, and said, "Alright, it's not just a group of girls who have been put in such a dangerous situation, there is at least one policeman."

He breathed very lightly, and he couldn't hear his own heartbeat for a moment just now, and now it's a little slower. He couldn't tell whether he was worried or relieved about the current situation.

Yao Dai, the girl who disappeared four years ago, is in the same middle school as the four girls on board. If she hadn't disappeared, she would have gone straight from the junior high school to the senior high school at Saint Nuo Girls' High School, but she probably didn't know Zou Ruoqi and Yu Yangzi, Zou Ruoqi It was only in the second year of high school that she transferred, and Yu Yangzi did not attend the same junior high school as other girls.

They are not in the same class. Peng Yixuan and Yao Dai have little interaction on weekdays. Even the amateur interest classes offered by the school are not together. Most of Peng Yixuan and the others like to dance, while Yao Dai joined the Go Club. She and the members of this small group are in all aspects. They are far apart, just like two groups of people in parallel lines.

Before her daughter disappeared, Yao Shuxin had looked through her daughter's chat records because of her declining grades and even truancy. He found out that her daughter had a close relationship with a boy named "Fan Xiping" on the Internet. The two often opened a chess room on the Internet. words. Yao Shuxin is a big old man who has been engaged in chemical technology for half his life. His wife ran away with others early. It is not easy for him to be a single father to pull a child.

Not long after being beaten by her father, Yao Dai disappeared. The last sentence she left on the Internet before she disappeared:

Fan Xiping, everyone says that I am an earthworm in the mud, only you think that I am a bird in the air, so I will also fly to your side like a free bird.

The police judged that the girl ran away from home because of online dating, because not only did Yao Dai leave this sentence, but also the neighbors skipped class and went home the day they saw her missing, simply packed some luggage and left.

And that Fan Xiping has never appeared on the Internet again. I checked the IP address and found that it was an Internet cafe near my school. The school is called Fulan Middle School. It is a poor school in the traditional sense. It is incomparable to the Shengnuo Girls' Middle School that Yao Dai studied. The boss never checks ID cards in order to make more money from students, and the surveillance is like a decoration.

The police officers who handled the case at that time went to Fulan Middle School to investigate, and also visited companies, factories and even construction sites near Internet cafes. .

Yao Shuxin was very remorseful, and read the chat record between the girl and that Fan Xiping from the beginning, but found another terrible thing - her daughter had been bullied by her classmate Peng Yixuan, and the other party even threatened her. If she dared to tell the teacher and her parents, Her father is unemployed.

After thinking about it carefully, he realized that his daughter often had bruises on her body, but every time she asked her, she hesitated, saying that she accidentally fell during gym class. Cried.

Yao Shuxin believes that it was Peng Yixuan and her small group who bullied his daughter, which made her escape from school and then ran away from home. He even had a pessimistic idea that her daughter might have committed suicide in a place no one knew.

But the dean of the girls at that time rejected Yao Shuxin's view, the reason being that there was no reason.

Yao Dai is a very ordinary girl, neither beautiful nor smart. Except for her speciality in Go, she is not very good at all. On an ordinary face, it seems that she has a pair of big black eyes, but she has shoulder-length hair, her face is covered all day long, her head is lowered, she seems to be lonely, and she is not close to anyone.

But Peng Yixuan is different. She is the arrogant daughter of the stars and the moon. She is beautiful and sweet, and she can sing and dance well. One is the moon in the sky, and the other is the earthworm on the ground. There is no reason why the former should compete with the latter.

Yao Shuxin didn't believe it, maybe because he subconsciously didn't want to believe that he caused his daughter's runaway, so he went to Peng's house to make trouble several times. At first, the police handling the case was sympathetic to his daughter's loss, and focused on persuasion and education, and did not impose heavy penalties, but Yao Shuxin became more and more extreme, more and more crazy, and finally was arrested and sent to the detention center. When he left the detention center, Yao Shuxin uttered harsh words all over his eyes, and he would definitely let the Peng family get retribution.

No more audio after that.

All of this information was transferred from Shen Liufei's old case file. He asked Tao Longyue, "Peng Yixuan's family is rich, is it possible that the dean of education has benefited from the Yao family and deliberately concealed it?"

Tao Longyue replied: "The police who handled the case at the time checked it out. The dean was also the head of the language teaching and research team, and a key teacher in the school. Some parents wanted to send things, but she never received them, and she didn't even make up lessons in private. An honest and good teacher."

Sitting at the desk, staring at the computer data, caught in a long-term thinking.

"Yao Shuxin's letters were delivered by courier. He never showed up. Was he already lurking on the yacht, or did he send a helper to mingle with the eight people on the boat while he quietly observed in the dark of the city? Seeing that Shen Liufei didn't answer, Tao Longyue continued, "The dean's words were an important basis for the police handling the case to judge that Yao Di ran away from home. There was no problem in detaining Yao Shuxin afterward. Cheng obviously concealed something, is there any inside story in this case?"

Shen Liufei rubbed his temples and stood up. He said to Tao Longyue, I will go to Shengnuo Middle School to take a look before get out of class is over.

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No need."

In the dean's office of Shengnuo Middle School, Shen Liufei met the girls' dean, Mei Shumin, as he wished.

Teacher Mei, who is over fifty years old, is dressed in simple clothes and has a meticulous updo, and her face is quite majestic. She was still in the office after school, and she was criticizing a male student. It sounded like he had insulted the school cleaner and deliberately broke the broom in the other's hand.

The male student was very unconvinced: "My dad has money, so I will accompany her to pay for her mental damage! If it doesn't work, I can ask my dad to donate to the school!"

"A person's moral cultivation has nothing to do with money. If your father thinks money can solve everything, I think he needs education more than you." Teacher Mei looked up and saw Shen Liufei standing at the door, and ended the conversation. , "It's worth commending you for being brave enough to take on, but you don't need to donate the money. I will punish you for a month's duty birth. You can only know what respect is when you work and pay."

The boy murmured and walked away, still muttering: "My uncle is the director of the district education bureau, let's see..."

Teacher Mei should have heard it too, but it doesn't matter at all, she raised her head and smiled at Shen Liufei: "Please come in."

Such a teacher's words are indeed very important. Shen Liufei can fully understand why the police handling the case at that time accepted Yao Dai's statement that she ran away from home.

"I work in the Hanhai City Police Department, and I want to ask you about a student." Shen Liufei asked Teacher Mei about Yao Dai's situation.

The other party still remembered this unremarkable girl. She still insisted on her original statement, saying that Yao Dai was addicted to the Internet, skipped classes, missed exams and fell in love early, pretended to be a parent to sign, and once found out, she would be full of lies. She had no doubt that she was really just like an earthworm, and she just burrowed somewhere.

Besides, Peng Yixuan had no reason to bully Yao Dai.

Shen Liufei suddenly asked, "Did Yao Dai tell you about her being bullied by Peng Yixuan's small group before she disappeared?"

"I said it once." Mei Shumin didn't seem to like this question and said impatiently, "But this little girl likes to lie."

"The reason why I ask you this is because I noticed that the main courses in Yao Dai's class are all male teachers, and only the Chinese teacher is you. Although Yao Dai's grades are not good, the Chinese grades, especially the composition, are not bad. Maybe you She is her favorite teacher. I think, if she dares not tell her father what happened in her school, the only person she can talk to is you." Shen Liufei said lightly, "So why are you so sure? In this desperation, I came to you for help. Is the little girl lying?"

"Peng Yixuan is an excellent student in all aspects. There is no need to bully Yao Dai, but Yao Dai lies a lot and says everything in order to play truant." Mei Shumin did not change her judgment, and asked the other party in a cold voice, "You want to say that I accept Yao Dai. It's money, isn't it?"

"No, the problem is that you didn't collect the money, you are a good teacher." Shen Liufei frowned slightly, "Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty, of course, was a good official, but he is also arguing about his appearance, and he would rather Qu Xiaomin instead of the village eunuch. ' It's a stereotype in another sense."

Mei Shumin lowered her face: "You know a lot."

"Thank you, I've finished asking." Before going out, Shen Liufei stopped and asked, "Have you ever wondered for a moment that your judgment was wrong?"

Mei Shumin looked at the young man with a serious expression. After a while, she answered firmly: "I am not wrong, I will not be wrong."

Leaving Shengnuo Middle School, Shen Liufei raised his eyes and saw the sky outside the window was getting late, the setting sun was like brocade, the clouds in the sky were like smeared water, full of magenta, from light to thick, dyed the satin-like sky. Beautiful outside.

He realized that the first day was almost over.

Wearing a helmet and riding a heavy motorcycle, he galloped down the street as the lights gradually climbed, spinning the handlebars and accelerating.

An extremely harsh braking sound pierced this quiet evening. After Shen Liufei stopped the car, he realized that he had unknowingly come to Xie Lanshan's downstairs.

Knowing that no one was there, he looked up at his window like this, his breath slowed for a while, as if it didn't matter, as if his heart was about to be broken.

I ran into the little girl who brought the cat to Xie's house. The little girl came to see the cats with cat food. She knew that Xie Lanshan would not be able to handle the case, so she would come over to see the five milk cats sent last time, help shoveling shit and feed them food.

The little girl took out a key from under the doormat and opened the door neatly to enter the house. Shen Liufei also knew that Xie Lanshan liked to put the keys under the doormat, very casual and confident. He didn't have anything valuable at home, so he was not afraid of thieves. Moreover, everyone in this area knew that he was a policeman, and he didn't dare to come casually.

Five milk cats scrambled to squeeze at the person's feet, and they seemed to be hungry.

While squatting on the ground to add food to the cat bowl, the little girl asked the man standing behind her watching her feeding the cat, "Are you Shen Liufei?"

The last time I just had a quick face-to-face, I haven't introduced myself yet. Shen Liufei said, "How do you know my name?"

The little girl smiled, pointed to the two white cats and said, "Brother Xie said that he likes these two the most, and these two are the ones he wants to beat the most."

The milk cat grows very fast, and I haven't seen it grow bigger in half a month. They are all beautiful and cute, and these two are all snow-white, slender and elegant, and they seem to be a little colder than the others. Shen Liufei remembered the little cow that didn't have time to name it that day, and asked the little girl, "Does this black and white one have a name?"

"This one," the little girl turned her head and smiled sweetly, "this one is called Xiao Ai. I told Brother Xiao Xie that it was a male cat, and it was inappropriate to call it that name, so he refused to listen."

Shen Liufei's eyes moved to the milk cat named Xiao Lan again, and found that it was especially like Xie Lanshan, he would twist his body to squeeze other cats away before eating, and he was very arrogant, but when he was conscious When you stared at it, it turned back and gave you a coquettish meow, very cunning.

Shen Liufei sat down on the sofa and watched the five milk cats eat with a gradually tender look. Scenes of acquaintance with Xie Lanshan flashed before him, as if it happened yesterday. He couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth.

The girl finished feeding the cat and was about to go home. She walked to the door and turned to ask Shen Liufei, "Aren't you going together?"

Shen Liufei shook his head, leaned his head back in the slowly sinking night, and closed his eyes: "I'll sit for a while."