There is a small groove on the back cover of some old watches, even without professional tools, the back cover can be pulled off with a fingernail.
At the beginning, Jiang Chijing was able to complete the difficult operation of opening the back cover with bare hands without tools, because his old clocks were of this style.
Confused, he handed the watch to Zheng Mingyi, and then saw Zheng Mingyi skillfully open the back cover and take out a black memory card from it.
The memory card should have been pressing the clockwork for a long time. As soon as it was taken out, the parts in the watch would bounce around, and a good watch would lose its timing function in an instant.
As the owner of the watch, Jiang Chijing had no intention of pursuing Zheng Mingyi for breaking his watch. He looked at the memory card, then at Zheng Mingyi, and asked dumbly, "Why is this thing in my watch?"
"Why?" Zheng Mingyi said, "I let it go."
"When?" Jiang Chijing immediately thought of the last time Zheng Mingyi came to his house.
"This is a long story." Zheng Mingyi did not answer immediately, but handed the memory card to Yu Guang and said, "There is a video I marked as 'spare', and I will upload this video to the Internet as soon as possible. The more people see, the better.”
"Received!" Yu Guang seemed to want to hear the ins and outs of the matter, but seeing Zheng Mingyi calling him as soon as possible, he rushed to the infirmary opposite.
"You said before that the clue is not in your hands." Jiang Chijing gradually recovered, took a deep breath, and calmed down the shock in his heart.
"It's not in my hands." Zheng Mingyi shrugged, "It's always in your hands."
It's really in Jiang Chijing's hands.
Jiang Chijing didn't know what to say anymore, he only felt that the longest road he had traveled in his life was Zheng Mingyi's thousand-layer routine.
"Do you remember, I said I investigated you before?" Zheng Mingyi asked.
"After you disappear." Jiang Chijing said.
After Zheng Mingyi was attacked by the men in black, he seemed to disappear out of thin air. At first Jiang Chijing thought he was going to the house of relatives and friends for help, but then Zheng Mingyi told him that he was investigating his background.
"I was also thinking during that time, where would it be safer to hide the clues." Zheng Mingyi said.
Without Zheng Mingyi's reminder, Jiang Chijing was already thinking about it in his mind.
The situation at that time was that Zheng Mingyi suspected that there was a ghost inside the police, and he did not rule out that the ghost was Guan Wei.
Guan Wei can obtain all his interpersonal information, so no matter which acquaintance he puts the clue into, it may be found by Guan Wei. Considering the worst-case scenario, the acquaintances who are delivered may also encounter black hands, so Zheng Mingyi will not give clues to acquaintances around him.
What about hiding in himself
First of all, this clue must not be brought into prison, because there will be very strict inspections before entering prison. Even if the clue is hidden in his belongings, Guan Wei can completely take all his belongings away on the grounds of investigating the case.
Apart from prison, the easiest place to think of is to hide at home, but this way is also risky.
Because after Zheng Mingyi was imprisoned, the small house was vacant. No matter if he hid the clues in the floor or the ceiling, the other party would have a lot of time to turn his house upside down, even if the soil in the courtyard was turned upside down. Once again, it's not a problem at all.
Is it possible to hide in other familiar places
In this era of widespread surveillance, it is easy for the police to find out where Zheng Mingyi has been. As long as you follow the route he has traveled again, and check all the places one by one, it will not be difficult to find what he is hiding.
The reason why all of the above paths do not work is because of one key word - known.
This is like a game of hide-and-seek. From the beginning, a known range is defined for ghosts. Within this range, it is only a matter of time before ghosts find people.
Whether it is an acquaintance, a family, or the custody department of a prison, these are the "known ranges" that the other party can deduce.
Therefore, if Zheng Mingyi wants to hide the clues seamlessly, he can only hide them in the "unknown range" that the other party cannot deduce.
How about finding a green belt on the side of the road
Without a necessary connection, the other party can't deduce it of course, but on the other hand, this is also unknown to Zheng Mingyi.
What if the municipality reroutes
What if there is a car accident and the green belt is damaged
What if you change plant species and renovate the soil
In short, there are too many uncertain factors, Zheng Mingyi is in prison, and it is impossible to fully control these things.
Then after eliminating all the impossible, there is only one possibility - Jiang Chijing.
He is not in the scope of Zheng Mingyi's interpersonal communication, and no one would think that Zheng Mingyi hid things with him.
There is no blemish on his body, his family is not short of money, and he will not have shady transactions with each other.
He is helpful, friendly to his neighbors, knows right from wrong, and is a dependable person.
Most importantly, he was a guard at the Southern Prison and was in and out of the prison every day.
From another point of view, prisoners cannot bring things into prison. This major premise is doomed that the clue must not be in Zheng Mingyi.
No matter how secretly he hides, as long as the clue is not on him, there may be unexpected situations that he cannot grasp.
However, if the clues were placed with Jiang Chijing, the situation would be completely different.
Jiang Chijing wears an old clock to work in the prison every day, which means that the clues are always in front of Zheng Mingyi's eyes. Even if there is any unexpected situation, Zheng Mingyi can know it at the first time, and take corresponding countermeasures, so that people will not be in prison and have no idea what the clues are.
After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Chijing found that he was not Zheng Mingyi's "last choice".
His accidental appearance instead allowed Zheng Mingyi to find an excellent hiding place. So many other paths and so many options were not perfect for him.
"Is it the time I repaired the watch?" Jiang Chijing asked calmly.
Getting used to Zheng Mingyi's style, Jiang Chijing didn't feel resentful. Although the process of reasoning up to this point is extremely brain-burning, at least this time, Zheng Mingyi doesn't need to take him to make a mind map. He just pondered for a moment and then sorted out the whole story.
"Yes." Zheng Mingyi said truthfully, "I opened your courier without permission."
Community couriers are usually placed outside the door of the resident's courtyard. Everyone, with good consciousness, does not touch other people's couriers.
This kind of behavior of Zheng Mingyi is naturally undesirable, but he was in a dangerous situation at the time. Looking back now, Jiang Chijing is not incomprehensible.
Of course, understanding is understanding, and scolding is still scolding.
"Perverted." Jiang Chijing scolded in a flat tone, "I am a voyeur with a moral bottom line, what are you?"
"I'm sorry, Jiang Jiang." Zheng Mingyi sincerely apologized, "I can't break into your house without you, and it's not convenient for me to hide clues in your courtyard - considering that you may renovate the courtyard, so When I saw three couriers standing in front of your house, I wanted to open it and see if I could find any new ideas."
It's not just a new idea, it's simply finding the best solution.
The only thing Jiang Chijing brought to his post every day was this old clock.
Speaking of which, if it hadn't suddenly broken down, Jiang Chijing wouldn't have slept in the middle of the night and occasionally helped Zheng Mingyi. If Jiang Chijing hadn't sent it back to the factory for repair, Zheng Mingyi wouldn't have had the chance to use it to hide clues.
"How can you be sure that I will wear this watch in the prison?" Jiang Chijing asked, "This old watch might just be a collection after it has been repaired."
"I used to wear it when I saw you go to the supermarket." Zheng Mingyi said, "In the days before the courier came back, you didn't wear a watch, which means you don't have a spare watch."
Indeed it is.
As long as Zheng Mingyi observes carefully, he can find that this old clock is Jiang Chijing's commonly used watch.
"You also know that I don't have a spare watch." Jiang Chijing raised his chin and pointed to the miserable old clock on the table, "You made my watch like this, how can I still wear it?"
"Didn't I give you my watch?" Zheng Mingyi said, "You can wear it first, it's my favorite watch."
"So you..." Jiang Chijing was slightly startled, "You know that you might break my watch, so you left your watch for me first?"
"Well." Zheng Mingyi said, "I have no confidence in my watch repairing skills."
Jiang Chijing put his hands behind his neck and let out a long breath.
He had thought before that, with Zheng Mingyi's style of doing things, he shouldn't be so careless and leave his watch in his house.
He guessed many strange reasons. For example, Zheng Mingyi wanted to give him a gift, and Zheng Mingyi didn't want to hand over such an expensive watch to the prison custody department.
In short, he thought about it, and finally came back to the original point - maybe Zheng Mingyi was not careful, after all, the day was too relaxed, and he might have lost his watch.
But now it seems that Jiang Chijing's initial intuition is indeed correct. Zheng Mingyi, an old fox, can't be careless. Everything he does has his purpose.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jiang Chijing put down his hands and asked indifferently. He had guessed the reason for the most part, but he was too lazy to reason again.
"In the beginning, I didn't want to involve you." Zheng Mingyi said, "The more insiders, the greater the risk."
"Indeed." Jiang Chijing agreed with this, "What about later?"
"I didn't want to trouble you later." Zheng Mingyi said, "It won't affect you if you don't know about it."
"I think you're afraid that I'm curious to dismantle the watch." Jiang Chijing said quietly, to be honest, if he knew that there was a memory card in the watch, he wasn't sure if he could pretend that he didn't know anything.
Zheng Mingyi smiled softly, raised his hand and pinched Jiang Chijing's cheek and said, "I found that you are getting smarter, Jiang Jiang."
"Don't come." Jiang Chijing patted Zheng Mingyi's hand, "What is the video you let Yu Guangfa make?"
"I'll know soon." Zheng Mingyi said.