"Playing the guitar?" Tao Zhengqing was at a loss, and then he shook the rattle: "I don't know, I don't know anyone who makes music at all!"
Yang Chengdong and Liao Gang looked at each other, then turned back together subconsciously and looked at Wu Yu.
Wu Yu put one arm in front of him and propped up his chin with the other. He looked up at the two of them suspiciously, with a few words clearly written in his eyes: "Why are you looking at me?"
"You don't know this person?" The technical detective on the side asked Tao Zhengqing, picking up a high-definition image of the kidnapper's side.
Tao Zhengqing shook his head even more, and smiled bitterly as he shook it: "I really don't know. If you have a photo of your face, I can think about it again. Who would recognize him except his mother and father!"
The Tao family of five lives in three bedrooms and one living room. The average price of this lot is in the early 20,000s, which is relatively expensive compared to the surrounding area, because there is a key primary school district. According to the survey, this family has a mortgage, a car loan, and no investment house, so it should have emptied the bottom line for the children to go to school in the future.
"My grandson, grandma's sweetheart, where are you!..."
"It's you who cried with that! Cry! You still have the face to cry!" Tao's father snorted with snot and tears from the outside, "It was you who cried on the street and called the police in this room, okay! People are running! Who doesn't run away when they see the police?!"
Tao's mother burst out: "You blame me for calling the police again! Who was reluctant to pay the police first! Who said they couldn't get it back if they didn't call the police!"
"How can I be reluctant to give up money? How can I have it?!"
…
In the early morning, the clamor, scolding, crying, and screaming could be heard clearly in the entire corridor, and the door was crowded with neighbors watching the excitement, and they were talking one after another.
"Let me go, let me go!" The police station stood at the door impatiently to drive away, "Don't talk nonsense on the Internet, don't believe in rumors, and retweet 500 is a crime of slander, tell you!"
"Liao Liao Liao Liao - Brother Liao! Brother Liao!" Zhang Xiaoy rushed into the bedroom from the door, like a big golden retriever with four claws slipping, holding up his mobile phone in one hand, trembling enough to pull it out: "Brother Liao is not good! It is not good! Hurry up, hurry up and look at it!"
Liao Gang is about to twitch as soon as he can't hear three words well: "Shut up! Who the fuck is bad can't be my turn... I'm fucked!"
Liao Gang stared straight at the phone that Zhang Xiaoyu had put in front of his nose, his heartbeat and blood pressure instantly soared by 180, he clutched his chest and said dumbly, "...I'm not well."
Yang Chengdong grabbed the mobile phone and saw that it was ranked 28th on the hot search list, #kidnapps extortion444444#, click on the marketing account of Yiliu video platform:
"Jinhai broke out! I'll show you the news as soon as possible! Yesterday at noon, the aunt knelt down on the street in Wuqiao District, Jinhai City, and cried bitterly, causing the onlookers of the public, and a patrol police came forward to question it. After the lottery, the daughter-in-law and the young grandson were kidnapped, and the amount of extortion by the kidnappers was 444,444 RMB, like a death notice. At present, the reporter has come to the downstairs of the hostage's family to reveal the bizarre extortion figures to the public. Unknown secret, hello, this uncle, are you a neighbor of the kidnapping party..."
"I-fuck-he-mom!" Yang Chengdong grabbed his phone and ran straight out the door, rushing down the stairs in three steps and two steps, only to see a man carrying a camera in the open space in front of the door, a man in a short skirt and high-heeled shoes. The female "reporter" was holding a microphone to conduct a live interview, and the male neighbor in front of him was still talking nonsense: "Yes, I know! He won a five million jackpot at home! Yes, yes, it happened two days ago!"
bang! With a loud bang, Yang Chengdong grabbed the camera and slammed it on the ground, roaring in the screams of the female reporter: "Is human blood steamed buns delicious?! You can get it! Come on! Pull me down! All the interviewees who were interviewed were taken away to sign for security, and the detention was not over for fifteen days, and I don’t fucking have the surname Yang!!”
The open space was immediately filled with scolding, struggling, reprimanding and crying. The well-trained police officers of the Wuqiao Branch were no better than the police in their jurisdiction. in the police car.
Wu Yu retracted his gaze from the upstairs glass window, "This is the second time I've heard Deputy Detachment Yang clamoring for his surname not to be Yang."
Liao Gang smiled bitterly: "Can he not be in a hurry? If this case can't be solved, although he can still be called Deputy Yang Detachment, he can only be Deputy Yang Detachment in his life!"
Wu Yu hesitated for a moment before saying, "... I don't think it's a bad thing that this case is hotly searched."
Liao Gang was stunned: "Why?"
-Because the case has now reached a dead end, why did the kidnapper leave without taking the money, what does it mean to call 'you are waiting', and the most bizarre thing is why the hostage's family has not been contacted for a day and a night after the incident, can it really be said? Don't say to tear up the hostages
No one knew what the kidnappers were waiting for, but the situation was so deadlocked that people couldn't help but yearn for a variable to break the status quo, no matter whether the variable portends illusory hope or deeper terror.
"I just feel that this may stimulate the kidnappers to respond." Wu Yu said vaguely, without explaining further, turned around and leaned against the window sill: "It's pure intuition."
Liao Gang's mind was in a mess, and he could only nod his head dryly: "I hope that the extortion amount is not really a death notice..."
"no."
"what?"
"It's too low-level, and it's unnecessary." Wu Yu stared at the dust floating in the air in front of him, and whispered, "It must have some special meaning... It's just that we haven't thought of it yet."
Wu Yu's side is backlit, the lines outline a full forehead, a straight nose bridge, and slightly delicate lips. Maybe because of the thinning in these few days, the eye sockets appear very deep, and the double eyelids become very obvious.
When he was leaning there quietly like this, his face had an air of special serenity because of his concentration, as if the most real side of this person finally revealed a little clue from the heavy chains.
Liao Gang felt that this person was a little different from when he first came, and felt very strange in his heart, but he seemed to be like this.
"Well?"
"… "
Wu Yu raised his eyes, and Liao Gang said hesitantly, "After that last time... Bureau Xu held a meeting for us."
"Meeting." Wu Yu repeated thoughtfully, and then asked, "What did you say?"
"Ah, don't get me wrong, there aren't many people, only the criminal investigators, technical investigators, and anti-narcotics side have more reliable qualifications and older ones. Bureau Xu said that they didn't announce it before to protect you, but after the darknet bounty came out... I don’t think it’s a problem if everyone doesn’t know it…”
Liao Gang swallowed and finally spit out two words: "... painter."
These two words are like a mechanism, which seals the treasures and the vicious and sinister poisons that the world does not know in the secret room.
Wu Yu nodded inexplicably and didn't say anything. He lowered his head and nodded a cigarette and took two sips before he said calmly: "It's okay, Brother Liao, that's all in the past. I have a lot of things that I don't understand, thanks to everyone's care. , I will ask you and Sister Meng more in the future, anyway, solving the case is the most important thing."
As he said that, he flicked the cigarette ash on the windowsill, "I desperately want to close this kidnapping case, otherwise the suspects in the infantry detachment will always be... hey."
These words are both reasonable and reasonable, smooth and sincere - at this moment, Liao really felt that Wu Yu was indeed different from before.
He is more human than before, but this is precisely because he no longer has to wear that clumsy and cowardly painting skin all the time.
"I know, we all hope that this case will be closed quickly." Liao Gang patted him on the shoulder with confidence, and said, "You don't have any concerns, how do you do it, how do you feel at ease, as long as we can solve the case, what will happen to us internally? It's alright... Hey, let's put it this way, as long as I'm with you and Sister Meng, you'll always be the favorite of our Nancheng Detachment!"
"… "
The two looked at each other, Wu Yu asked suspiciously, "Group pet?"
Liao Gang: "Oh, the word means..."
"Wait," Wu Yu suddenly raised his hand and motioned for him to keep silent: "Phone."
Liao Gang: "?"
Wu Yu suddenly walked out, when the phone rang in the noisy outside!
"Quickly adjust the instrument!" "Don't make a noise! Don't make a noise!" "Is the equipment ready? Is the equipment ready?!"
The entire living room fell into chaos at the moment when the fixed-line bell rang. Yang Chengdong grabbed Tao Zhengqing's shaking shoulders with both hands: "You must have a conversation with your wife and children, try to delay the time, try to delay the time, you know?! Don't the kidnapper say I promise everything at once, don't be afraid to bargain with the other party, calm down! Calm down!"
Tao Zhengqing: "I I I I I..."
The technical detective said loudly: "OK!"
"Pick up pick up pick up!!"
Yang Chengdong personally picked up the phone and handed it over to Tao Zhengqing. The whole noisy living room fell silent in an instant, only listening to Tao's mother and Tao's repressed sobbing and Tao Zhengqing's shivering: "Hello... Hello?"
Yang Chengdong gestured hard, the technical investigator quickly operated the equipment, and everyone around held their breath.
In that dead silence, the opposite side of the microphone clearly heard the mechanical voice change and gritted his teeth:
"—Tao, you actually called the police?!"
Tao Zhengqing's fear burst out like a flood breaking through a levee: "No, no, it's not that we called the police! Where's my son, is my son still alive?! Please don't hurt him! Whatever you want, no matter what As much as you want..."
"You fucking wait for me!"
beep —
The air seemed to be pumped out, the sound had no medium and could not travel, and everyone was floating in a complete vacuum.
I don't know how long it took before the technical detective murmured blankly: "Broken, broken?"
After waiting for the precious phone call all day and night, it took less than ten seconds to hang up like this
Tao Zhengqing seemed to be frozen, Tao's father and Tao's mother were completely paralyzed on the sofa, and suddenly burst out with more desperate and heart-piercing tears: "My precious grandson!!"
It was as if everyone had come back to life from a near-death situation, and there were sighs, discussions, and frightened whispers around them one after another. Liao Gang and Yang Chengdong looked at each other, the two people who were originally tit-for-tat now have the same expression on their faces:
Done.
The two of them have worked together as a police officer for 30 years and have handled many kidnapping cases. They know that the kidnapper's reaction only represents one possibility - they decided to tear up the vote.
But why
Why was there no room for bargaining, why did the two calls mention "you're waiting", and why did you get so irritated this time? !
Wu Yu's mind roared. His intuition for danger had been honed beyond the ordinary in those hard years, and some paradoxical details were showing a sneer to the police from the void, but no one around noticed.
"Tao, you actually called the police?!" "You wait!" "You fucking wait for me!"
…
what exactly is it? he thinks.
What the heck is that peculiar oddity? !
Wu Yu stepped back step by step, as if deliberately keeping a distance from the surrounding world, looking at all this chaos and despair from a distance.
"I'm just the eldest grandson, and my old Tao family has passed it on for three generations! Where are you, grandma's heart and soul..."
"It was all caused by my father's winning the lottery. As long as the family comes back, I can do whatever I want, or go bankrupt!"
"No, the time is too short to track. At most, we can do some noise reduction processing on the kidnapper's voice..."
"I said that I shouldn't call the police! It's good now! It's good now!! What do you feed your policemen for? It's your meddling that killed my grandson! You guys came back early!!"
…
The old man's roar, the old lady's cry, and Tao Zhengqing's dry narration were caught in the roar of the criminal policeman's footsteps and conversation. It was like a torrent of noise, which suddenly drowned out the glimmer of light that had just flashed in Wu Yu's mind.
At this time, he suddenly felt the phone vibrate in his trouser pocket, and it turned out to be Wang Jiuling:
"Hey Xiao Wu, where's Liao Gang? Why doesn't he answer the phone?"
Liao Gang was talking to Tao Zhengqing in the crowded center, and at the same time he was blocked by several subordinates for various reports and requests. From time to time, he would turn around and try to calm down the runaway Yang Chengdong... He couldn't hear the phone even if he rang, and it would be good if his ears weren't deafened. .
Wu Yu briefly described what happened just now and asked, "What are you looking for Brother Liao?"
"Bu Chonghua said that he wants to investigate Peng Wan's social relations, do you know this? The call and chat records transferred from the mobile phone operator and the software provider are all in place. I'm going to send it to Liao Gang, and Liao Gang will take it again. Show Bu Chonghua, the surnamed Bu is already halfway to your place—do you have time now?"
"Why don't you send it directly to the infantry detachment?"
"Hey, you're stupid," Wang Jiuling said. "Who dares to send the case materials related to Wan Changwen directly to Bu Chonghua and wait for the inspection team to come and trouble me? Do you understand the principle of avoidance?"
Only then did Wu Yu react, and he turned his head to look at Liao Gang, whose eyes were hoarse. At the same time, he suddenly saw a tall and straight figure flashing outside the open door of the Tao's house. The familiar eyes passed through the chaotic crowd and met him at the same time. each other.
Wu Yu put his phone against his ear, and the corners of his lips curled up.
"You can send it to me." He said calmly into the microphone, "The Bu detachment has come up, and I just happened to show it to him."
Bu Chonghua should have come directly from home, wearing a dark blue shirt and navy blue trousers. Because of the exquisite tailoring, he looks strong and good-looking. As soon as he came, the aunt couldn't stop looking back.
"You smoke again and don't eat?"
Wu Yu bit the cigarette butt with his canine teeth. He glanced around from the corner of his eye, got closer and said softly, "Isn't this waiting for you?"
The two looked at each other, and at that moment Bu Chonghua saw a hidden hint from Wu Yu's eyes - he wanted to kiss him.
But there are people all around, and there are people running past in the corridor at any time, and there is no place to hide for half a second, so Wu Yu actually did it on purpose.
Bu Chonghua's Adam's apple slid up and down violently, forcing himself to look away, and stuffing the takeaway bag in his hand to him, "Here for you, take it!"
- Bu Chonghua just has the ability to make Wu Yu eat good food, no matter how urgent the case is, no matter how anxious the people are, I can keep running at high intensity without sleep or rest. This is very similar to Cai Lin's parents, but Cai Lin's family made everything by himself, from the Buddha Jumps the Wall lobster porridge to the fried vegetables and lion heads. Although Bu Chonghua has a strong learning ability, he has not yet ignited this skill. , can only be ordered from a five-star hotel, and the box full of prawn dumplings and fresh fish balls is still very hot.
With the cigarette in one hand, Wu Yu opened the new mail zip package just sent by the technical team with the other. Before the other police officers rushed over to help him carry the security tape, he bowed and got out and handed the phone to Bu Chonghua: "That's it. this."
Bu Chonghua took it over and looked Wu Yu up and down.
"What's wrong?"
"Just now, Yang Chengdong's subordinates wanted to run over to carry the security belt for you, did you see it?"
When Wu Yu and Bu Chonghua were together, most of their attention was on Bu Chonghua. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "For me?"
"Not for you or for me?"
- Of course that's impossible. Wuqiao Detachment and Nancheng Detachment are old enemies. In front of Yang Chengdong, his subordinates can't do it. It's not bad if they don't take warning and stumbling over Chonghua's feet.
"I'll get used to it in the future." Bu Chonghua looked at the communication records on his mobile phone without raising his head: "I said that one day you will hold that knife and be looked up to by everyone."
His words were flat, but meaningful, and seemed to have some very strong and hidden emotions.
For some reason, Wu Yu felt a little weird, but he couldn't describe it. After a while, he shook his head and smiled, "Hey, what are you talking about."
Bu Chonghua asked Liao Gang to check Peng Wan's social relations, in fact, to check whether Wan Changwen's people came to her, otherwise a big living person with his son was inexplicably kidnapped, who knows if this is related to her father.
Although according to the development of the case, this possibility has become very small, but the size of the compressed package is still quite considerable. In the past six months, all of Peng Wan's communication, chat, download, and browsing records have been stuffed into it— This must be the fault of the little technicians. If the captain of the detachment receives this thing that does not even have a key point in the bureau, the technical team must have a row of heads.
The two of them stood in the ventilation area of the corridor, browsing the compressed package head-to-head. Wu Yu looked at things very carefully and quickly. It was a special skill that he had trained in his undercover career. Bu Chonghua could watch it twice, and finally came to a conclusion: Peng Wan has no personal hobbies.
The most she goes on is the mother and baby forum, with a lot of browsing records and very few posting records. The only main post is to post her son: "Six jins and nine taels of healthy baby boys are born and happy", and the following replies are basically "Pick up healthy baby boys" In the belly" and "Begging for a woman to turn a man with joy". Her biggest worry recently is the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. She likes and collects a lot of posts on how to deal with mother-in-law robbing children and bravely confronting tricky mother-in-law. In addition, she is also on Xiaohongshu. Judging from the collection list, I really want one recently. The 7,500 yuan Chanel purse, looking for a purchasing agent is afraid of buying fakes, buying high imitations for fear of being seen, and going to the counter and thinking that a wallet is not worth it.
Wu Yu, holding the cigarette butt in his hand, touched the 20-yuan stall in his trousers pocket. He said that it was really not worth it. It's not good to do something for 7,500 yuan...
However, although she hates her mother-in-law very much, her husband and wife relationship with Tao Zhengqing is fairly stable. The two of them have brief phone calls and WeChat chat records every day at work. Most of the content is bland household chores. Wu Yu has seen it since half a year ago, almost always: "Wife, when are you going to send your baby to get a vaccine?"" 4:30" "Okay" "Wife, do you burn this for dinner?" "It's not easy to buy bean sprouts = =" "My cousin's second marriage will give you a red envelope" "? We will give as much as Hanhan gave last time. How much" "Okay, I've died of poverty recently" "Hey, what can I do"...
"There is nothing wrong with the conversation between husband and wife," Bu Chonghua said in a low voice.
Wu Yu nodded and said nothing.
This is indeed the case - half a year ago, four months ago, two months ago, half a month ago, the day before the kidnapping case... Occasionally, there were some arguments between the husband and wife about the attitude of the mother-in-law. Tao Zhengqing, like most men in this world, chose to be with him. Thin mud, other than that, the conversation is as usual: "Wife, our company leaves work early today" "That's great, can you pick up the baby on the way?" "Okay" "Old Tao, don't forget to bring milk powder for the baby when you come back tonight~ ""ok.jpg" "Pick the date to be fresh"…
I can't say how sweet it is, but at least it's very close, which is pretty good compared to many young couples who have flashed marriages and divorced now.
Wu Yu casually put out the cigarette butt on the handrail of the stairs that had accumulated dust for many years, and exhaled tiredly: "Let's go, I can't see anything."
Bu Chonghua couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. He just returned the phone to Wu Yu when he suddenly stopped.
"how?"
"… "
Wu Yu stood there in a daze, and the strangeness just went straight to his heart, and hit his throat with the heartbeat.
He has seen a lot of information in the undercover process for so many years, some are true, some are false, some are true, some are mixed; drug dealers also know that they need to prevent the police from inserting eyeliner in their gangs, so in order to confuse the audience, sometimes One trip can come up with eighteen different joint solutions, and the truth is only hidden between the lines.
Still not, he thought.
There seems to be something wrong between the couple.
Wu Yu motioned to Bu Chonghua to wait a moment, then opened the chat log again, and carefully read the first one half a year ago to the last one two days ago—“The eggs downstairs are not very fresh, tell mom not to steam it for the baby”—issued Four hours after the message, both Peng Wan and his three-year-old son were kidnapped, and their life and death are unknown until now.
"..." Wu Yu turned off his phone, "I see."
"Know what?" Even Bu Chonghua was very surprised.
"I know what's wrong with this couple."
"My wife and I met on a blind date six years ago, and we've been married for four years. Not to mention the fact that we love you to the death, at least we've never blushed." Tao Zhengqing stood in the couple's bedroom with red eyes and pointed to the surroundings. Furnishings and photo frames introduced to the police, "My wife is a very virtuous woman. She looks after her husband and children, and takes care of her family. She has a very good and gentle personality. I really can't think of any enemies we can have..."
Yang Chengdong suppressed his temper and comforted: "Don't worry too much, our police will try our best to find a way."
"It doesn't matter how much it costs, even if you smash the pot and sell the iron." Tao Zhengqing lowered his head and wiped his eyes with his palm, and said hoarsely, "As long as my wife and children can come back, as long as this turmoil can pass, our family can still be intact, really. It's okay to smash the pot and sell the iron..."
knock knock.
Everyone looked around and saw Wu Yu standing at the door of the bedroom, his attitude was quite polite: "Excuse me, Mr. Tao, can you show me your cell phone?"
"...Mobile phone?" Tao Zhengqing was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Is my mobile phone helpful in saving my wife and children?"
Wu Yu said: "Not necessarily, but maybe you can try it."
Tao Zhengqing wiped away his tears, and without hesitation, unlocked the phone and handed it to him: "Then look at me, my little staff member, there is nothing invisible."
Yang Chengdong frowned and stretched his neck, wanting to see what Wu Yu was playing, but he saw Wu Yu opened the homepage of Tao Zhengqing's Moments, and in the blink of an eye - it really seemed that in a blink of an eye, he found what he was looking for. Throwing the phone back to Tao Zhengqing, he calmly looked straight at the man with red eyes:
"Does your wife know about your cheating?"
In an instant, Tao Zhengqing was struck by five thunders, and Yang Chengdong was stunned.
"You, what nonsense are you talking about?!" Tao Zhengqing reacted. He was so angry that he was fighting but couldn't speak. He stretched out his hand and put the phone right in front of Wu Yu. Betrayal?! Betrayal in my dreams?!"