Chapter 1573

The guitar also broke and cried. Gao Mingyang feels that this is definitely his darkest moment.

The woman in the lyrics is buried in the wilderness, which makes it difficult for him to accept.

It seems that my music dream is like a glass, which suddenly falls to the ground.

Mental collapse is far more painful than physical collapse. Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen can understand the madness of a musician at the moment.

This crazy smashing of your favorite guitar, how much more collapse can you do it?

At least Lu Weiwei feels that this guitar looks very expensive. It is estimated that it will be enough to eat potato chips for half a year.

Gu Chen didn't speak at the moment. He directly helped Gao Mingyang sitting on the ground, pulled him up slowly, then held Gao Mingyang and walked to the room step by step.

Then let Lu Weiwei close the door so that Gao Mingyang can vent his emotions in the closed room.

Three minutes later, Gao Mingyang stopped crying and said reluctantly against his red and swollen eyes:

"Gu Chen, you know what? Xu Xintong is my dream. Now the dream is gone. Living... Seems meaningless."

"Have you been living in someone else's world?" Gu Chen was disappointed at Gao Mingyang's self abandonment.

This is not what you want to see.

As a creative singer, I feel that life is meaningless, which sounds terrible.

Although Gu Chen doesn't contact many singers, he knows that singers have the bad habit of being lofty and living in their own world.

It is often difficult for outsiders to enter their spiritual world.

As a Gao Mingyang who has his own creative attitude and doesn't look up to the secular noisy environment, it seems that Xu Xintong is his spiritual sustenance.

Now that the goal is gone, it seems that life has become stagnant.

Therefore, Gu Chen can understand Gao Mingyang's collapse.

Pour Gao Mingyang a cup of tea and pass it to him. Gu Chen comforted and said, "people can't come back from death. Don't be too sad."

"As for Xu Xintong's death, we will try our best to investigate it, but for now, I need you to tell me the truth."

Hearing Gu Chen's words and Gao Mingyang with red and swollen eyes, he slowly raised his head and asked, "what truth do you want me to tell?"

"Do you have anything else to explain about Xu Xintong?" Gu Chen said.

Gao Mingyang didn't seem to understand Gu Chen's meaning, so he asked, "what are you trying to say?"

"Xu Xintong... Seems to be pregnant. Her lower abdomen has obvious pregnancy characteristics." Lu Weiwei saw that Gao Mingyang couldn't find the direction of the problem, so she simply told him the specific situation.

But hearing this, Gao Mingyang seemed to be confused and looked out of the window. It took him a long time to relax.

"You... You mean, Xu Xintong... She's pregnant?"

"Yes."

Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen both nodded.

Gao Mingyang was stunned again: "well... How is this possible? She's pregnant. Why didn't she mention it to me? Isn't she my best friend?"

"Yes, isn't she your best friend? Why didn't she tell you about her pregnancy?" Lu Weiwei also felt that things were too strange.

After all, the relationship between Gao Mingyang and Xu Xintong is difficult for everyone to understand.

Even if they were in the same room, they discussed the problem until dawn. Even if they slept in the same room, nothing happened.

This shows that Gao Mingyang and Xu Xintong trust each other.

Xu Xintong, a close neighbor, should have nothing to say to Gao Mingyang, but she didn't talk to Gao Mingyang about her pregnancy.

In Lu Weiwei's opinion, this is by no means normal.

Gao Mingyang was foolish when he learned that Xu Xintong was pregnant.

Perhaps Xu Xintong exists like white moonlight in his own eyes.

But now, it seems that this cognition is also broken.

"Gao Mingyang, you haven't answered my question yet." seeing that Gao Mingyang is still in a daze, Gu Chen reminds me in an instant.

"I don't... I don't know. How could she make a boyfriend? Shouldn't she? She... She's busy working every day. Why? Why don't I know?"

"Didn't he tell you?" luweiwei asked.

Gao Mingyang shook his head fiercely: "no, she never told me about it. Why didn't she tell me this? Is it... Is it the leader?"

It seems that he remembered something. Gao Mingyang suddenly was stunned in his eyes and said angrily: "yes, it must be her leader, like Xiao."

"Why are you sure it's her?" seeing that Gao Mingyang seems to point his suspicion at Xiao Zhicheng, Gu Chen hurriedly asked him.

Gao Mingyang stood up in an instant and took a few steps back and forth in front of the two. Then he turned back fiercely. His expression was complex and said, "once, I didn't go out to sing, so I sat at home."

"But I found that Xu Xintong didn't go home at night, and no one answered the phone."

"Later, I remember it was around 1 a.m. when a car suddenly drove into the yard and a man sent Xu Xintong home."

"After the bus left, I asked Xu Xintong who the man was. She said that he led vice president Xiao. They were in Tuan Jian that night and sang very late."

"Later, I went out for supper, and vice president Xiao drove her home."

After thinking about it, Gao Mingyang said, "by the way, vice president Xiao drove her home more than once."

"Xu Xintong said that she has few friends in the company and her education is not high. It has always been vice president Xiao who covered her so that she can get a foothold in the company, so she has always thanked vice president Xiao."

"If so, the man she often contacts must be Xiao, and the child... May be him?"

Looking at Gu Chen's hesitant expression, Gao Mingyang pleaded: "Gu Chen, you are a policeman. You must investigate this Xiao and avenge Xu Xintong. She can't die in vain."

"She's such a good girl. She left her hometown and came here. She just wants to get a foothold in this city. Is she wrong? Why?"

Half said, all kinds of grievances poured into his heart. Gao Mingyang seemed to see his shadow again in Xu Xintong's experience.

That sense of helplessness suddenly came to my mind.

Sad moment countercurrent into a river.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other and seemed to know the specific situation.

Xiao Zhicheng may be the father of the child in Xu Xintong's belly.

But why Xu Xintong was strangled and buried in the wilderness is not clear to Gu Chen.

Xiao Zhicheng's situation must be considered in the long run.

……

……

After leaving osmanthus lane, Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and police officer Ding rushed to Furong Branch overnight.

In the office at this time, he Junchao is sitting with Xiao Hui, the front desk policewoman in the office hall.

They talked and laughed. Xiaohui still held Lu Weiwei's shrimp flavored potato chips in her hand.

Seeing that the crowd suddenly came in, he Junchao immediately recovered his smile. Xiaohui also stood up quickly.

"Lu... Elder martial sister Lu, elder martial brother Gu, elder martial brother Ding."

"Eh? Xiaohui, why are you here?" officer Ding looked curious.

Xiaohui grinned: "I couldn't sleep at night. I went shopping with my colleagues and came back late. Then elder martial brother he asked me to bring him something to eat. He said he was handling a case. I thought I'd bring him a bowl of fried noodles."

"Then... Then elder martial brother he asked me to sit here and chat with him, and invited me to eat potato chips."

"So it is?" Lu Weiwei looked at her shrimp flavored potato chips and instantly became the material of he Junchao's younger sister. She hated her teeth itching.

Seeing this, he Junchao quickly smiled and said, "look at Xiao Hui. I said I was hungry. Let her bring me something to eat. She immediately brought me some fried noodles."

"Think we can't let others do their work in vain? So I invited her to eat potato chips. Hehe, is this... Is it all right?"

"Of course there's nothing wrong, but you also..."

Lu Weiwei said half, but officer Ding patted her on the shoulder.

Lu Weiwei suddenly remembered that he Junchao's appointment was ruined in the office hall during the day.

Think about it as compensation, and don't care about anything. Wave your hand and say, "but you can't just invite people to eat potato chips?"

When she returned to her seat, Lu Weiwei generously opened the drawer, took all kinds of vacuum packaged snacks such as fried chicken legs, quail eggs and roast sausage, and threw them on he Junchao's desk, saying:

"Xiaohui, we are all our own people. He Junchao asked me to buy these snacks for him before. He said that if Xiaohui came to our office, we had to get something to greet others."

"Ah? Elder martial brother he really said that?" hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Xiao Hui also showed a flattered look.

At this time, he Junchao, seeing that Lu Weiwei was giving himself an assist, immediately replied with a smiling face: "of course, I've long wanted to invite Xiaohui to our criminal investigation team's office, or let Xiaohui have a long experience."

"Well, that's great. I've heard that elder martial brother Gu's case handling level is among the best in Jiangnan City."

"Many of our front desk colleagues are very envious and want to find a chance to come to your criminal investigation team office."

He Junchao said he wanted to invite Xiaohui to the office of the criminal investigation team, but Xiaohui mentioned Gu Chen, which made he Junchao quite embarrassed.

Gu Chen also scratched the back of his head and said slowly, "in fact, there's nothing good about handling the case. If Xiaohui is willing to visit, we're welcome at any time, but we're handling a case now, so..."

Seeing Gu Chen's "please" gesture, Xiaohui immediately understood. She took the initiative to pick up her mobile phone, gave up her seat and said, "I understand. I don't disturb your work. I'll sit aside and play with my mobile phone. I'll leave in a while."

"OK." seeing that Xiaohui understood, Gu Chen took the initiative to go to he Junchao and motioned him to take out the monitoring results and let himself see Xiao Zhicheng's recent whereabouts.

Xiaohui sat aside and was very bored. She immediately turned on her mobile phone and began to read online novels.

Lu Weiwei loves her snacks. The original small amount of shrimp flavored potato chips is the last package left, which is still next to Xiao Hui.

So Lu Weiwei pretended to get close, sat down next to Xiao Hui, pretended to ask, took the only bag of shrimp flavored potato chips into her hand, tore off the package and pretended to ask her: "Xiao Hui, what are you looking at?"

"The overbearing president's online novel," Xiaohui said with a smile.

Luweiwei eyebrows a pick: "look at this? Now the domineering president Wen good-looking? Feel like a routine."

"Yes." seeing that Lu Weiwei took the initiative to get close to herself, Xiao Hui grinned and took the initiative to share her reading experience with Lu Weiwei:

"In fact, the homogenization of the current hegemonic president's novels is also quite serious. It can be said that 11 of the current 10 hegemonic president's novels are" 8 not close to women, 7 family marriages, 6 have had a car accident, and 5 must have seen the woman when she was a child, but pretend not to have seen it. "

After a pause, Xiaohui said again, "also, the male owners have four surnames Shen, three surnames Gu, two surnames Fu, and all have a doctor friend."

"The classic line is..."

Looking up at the ceiling, Xiaohui recalled for a few seconds, and then said, "the classic line is... In the middle of the night. What do you call me for?"

"Yes." feeling that Xiaohui said the key points, Lu Weiwei was overjoyed: "it's true, and the male owner usually lives in a big villa and has a housekeeper to serve."

"And there's the housekeeper's words. I haven't seen the young master smile for a long time." Xiaohui added in an instant, feeling that they both got to the point.

As soon as Lu Weiwei heard it, she was immediately happy: "ha ha, it's true. Moreover, the hostess looks ordinary at first glance, but she has a unique temperament as soon as she dresses up. She is very beautiful."

"What's more, the young master brings different girls back every time, except for the female owner."

"Basically, it belongs to that kind. There are eight female owners who must not be favored at home, and the male owner must like the female owner's half sister. Finally, the female owner's sister is a bad person, and she mistook the female owner as a bad person."

"Ha ha, elder martial sister Lu, that's true."

I felt that as soon as I talked with Lu Weiwei about the overbearing president Wen, Xiaohui suddenly had a sense of substitution, and the two immediately drew closer to the topic.

He Junchao glanced at the noisy two and also reminded them, "when is it now? Is this still popular?"

"You don't understand." Lu Wei looked at him and make complaints about it. "Now girls like to watch this, though it's a routine, but it looks cool."

"Ha ha." looking at Lu Weiwei refuting herself there, he Junchao expressed dissatisfaction and immediately retorted back: "but now the voice is falling. Lu Weiwei and Xiaohui stopped talking at the same time and looked at he Junchao with disdainful eyes.

And Ding police is laughing forward, Tucao said: "you don't say, now no matter what grade you are overbearing president, whenever you return, then you have to isolate, make complaints about it, ha ha."

"Well, don't say it." I feel I can't chat with he Junchao. Lu Weiwei simply doesn't care about him and goes directly to Gu Chen.

At this time, Gu Chen is still looking at various monitoring trends about Xiao Zhicheng.

Lu Weiwei didn't watch the whole process, so she asked Gu Chen, "brother Gu, is there any specific trend for Xiao Zhicheng before Xu Xintong disappeared? Including is there any special abnormality after he came home on the night Xu Xintong disappeared?"

"That's for sure." Gu Chen took out one of the monitoring files and clicked it to play. He also explained to the public:

"Xiao Zhicheng, after leaving osmanthus lane the night Xu Xintong disappeared, the whole person's behavior became too strange."

Pointing to the picture of Xiao Zhicheng on the screen, Gu Chen said again: "this should be the picture of him going home. It can be seen from his getting off the bus that he was hammered down on the road and seemed to have been hit by some blows."

"From his walking posture, we can see that Xiao Zhicheng is worried at the moment."

Seeing the picture closed, Gu Chen transferred another monitoring picture prepared by he Junchao for himself and continued to explain: "this is what Xiao Zhicheng looked like at work the next day."

"It can be seen that everything that night seemed to have no impact on him at all. Xu Xintong's disappearance made him too plain. It seemed that nothing had happened."

"In our subsequent investigation of him, he also said that Xu Xintong sent himself a resignation message, but I saw the receiving time of Xiao Zhicheng's message after he left osmanthus lane."

"After leaving osmanthus lane?" hearing Gu Chen's speech, everyone's nerves suddenly became nervous.

Lu Weiwei said, "if Xiao Zhicheng had killed Xu Xintong at that time, how could Xu Xintong send a text message to resign?"

"And I still remember that the text message uncle Zhao received was also after Xiao Zhicheng left osmanthus lane."

The voice fell and the scene became quiet again.

But at this time, Gu Chen questioned: "although Xiao Zhicheng has been near osmanthus lane, he disappeared in the monitoring picture for a short time and returned the same way."

"But we didn't catch the evidence that he did go to osmanthus lane."

"If you go to him so rashly and ask him about the specific situation, he will certainly not admit it."

"That's right." officer Ding nodded silently and agreed, "if he did it, Xiao Zhicheng will deny it."

"Since we have no evidence to prove that he went to osmanthus lane that night, he can not admit it. It will be us who will be passive at that time."

"One more thing." as soon as the Ding police officer's voice fell, Gu Chen raised his hand to remind him: "also, elder martial brother he simulated the traffic jam that night, cut off the specific traffic flow that night, and roughly made a deduction time."

"What elder martial brother he told me at that time was that if I drove to Guihua Lane normally that night, except for the traffic jam, it was only possible to stay in Guihua lane for 20 minutes."

"In other words, if so, it only took Xiao Zhicheng about 20 minutes from the beginning of the crime to burying people in the wilderness."

"There is a contradiction in time, so I think Xiao Zhicheng is very suspicious, but he doesn't seem to have enough time to commit the crime."

"You mean... There's not enough time to commit the crime?" said Lu Weiwei.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "because this is also the estimated time. After all, the road section is under construction, and traffic jams are no longer inevitable."

"Therefore, if you want to suspect Xiao Zhicheng as a murderer, at least he must have enough time to commit the crime."

"If this condition cannot be met, the possibility that he is the murderer is almost zero."

"I see." listening to Gu Chen's explanation, Lu Weiwei suddenly realized: "the most important thing now is that there is not enough time to commit the crime. Then we can simulate it again and see if there can be other shortcuts?"

"HMM." Gu Chen nodded silently, briefly recalled it, and then said, "when Xiao Zhicheng drove to guihuaxiang, it was a working day, and he started again after Xu Xintong left the company by car."

"It means that two people go to osmanthus Lane one before and one after. If according to Gao Mingyang, Xiao Zhicheng has been to osmanthus lane and is familiar with that area, it can save Xiao Zhicheng the time to investigate the terrain."

"And now all sections of the road have been dug up. It's not clear which route Xiao Zhicheng took at that time. Therefore, this has to be investigated on the spot tomorrow. It's best to be able to pinpoint the specific time."

"I agree." officer Ding yawned and couldn't help saying, "now everyone is busy all night and tired. We'd better hurry up and have a rest. We'll go to that road tomorrow morning to see the situation."

"I agree." he Junchao rubbed his eyes and looked tired: "I'm also very sleepy. I'm going to spend my eyes getting so many monitoring documents."

Xiaohui saw that everyone was ready to rest, and she was not good enough to stay here.

So he quickly stood up and said to the people, "since you all want to rest, I'll go back and see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

Everyone echoed in unison and watched Xiaohui leave slowly.

At this time, Lu Weiwei suddenly hooked up with he Junchao.

He Junchao stared: "why?"

"Give me the money," said luweiwei.

He Junchao looked confused and asked, "what do I... What do I give you money for?"

"I'll sell you those snacks at a discount. You can give me 200 or 300 at will." Lu Weiwei said.

He Junchao stood up and said, "what? These things aren't provided for free? I thought you gave them to me?"

"You think too much? Why should I give it to you? You paid for it with me. Take the money quickly." Lu Weiwei continued to hook her fingers, which seemed to have no discussion.

I feel that Lu Weiwei is a little unreasonable, but he Junchao was so happy just now. After all, Lu Weiwei also assisted herself.

Thinking of this, he Junchao took out his mobile phone and wanted to transfer money to Lu Weiwei.

But at this time, he Junchao seemed to relax again, so he immediately covered his mobile phone in his chest:

"Ah, no, just your snacks, can't exceed 100 yuan at most? You asked me for two hundred and three hundred? You profiteer."

"What profiteer? It's so ugly?" Lu Weiwei quit and directly retorted, "I bought it from the store and then shipped it to the office. Is the freight at least an additional cost?"

"Hehe, freight?" he Junchao smiled bitterly and said:

"From the store next to the gate of our Furong Branch, you transported snacks to the office. For goods less than 100 yuan, you asked me for 100 or 200 freight. Did you Lu Weiwei fly to the office by rocket?"

Listening to he Junchao reasoning with her here, Lu Weiwei knew she was wrong, so she quickly changed her tone and replied:

"Then I'm still helping you. I haven't told Xiaohui that you stole my favorite shrimp flavored potato chips to pay her attention. Isn't it too much to give her a service fee of one or two hundred?"

"You." I feel like I'm not luweiwei's opponent at all. Luweiwei's rhythm will be broken in seconds.

He Junchao grabbed officer Ding and complained on his face: "Lao Ding, you judge me. Isn't Lu Weiwei too much? Isn't this blackmail?"

"Ha ha, OK, give her one hundred." "Ding officer is willing to be a peacemaker of two people. He also make complaints about Lu Weiwei:

"Weiwei, he Junchao is not young. It's not easy to have fun with this Xiaohui. Don't be difficult for others."

"All right." seeing Comrade Ding speak, Lu Weiwei doesn't care: "then turn 100. The service fee is free. If you need me to help next time, you can double the service fee."

He Junchao: "

I feel like I don't change to provoke this living treasure.

……

……

The next morning, the sun was shining.

Gu Chen and everyone came to the office early.

As police officer Wang and Yuan Shasha are still on vacation, Gu Chen is not good to disturb them.

After all, just came back from abroad, they all need to accompany their families.

As for handling the case, Gu Chen felt that he had to rely on himself.

With Lu Weiwei, Gu Chen drove to the vicinity of Osmanthus lane.

Then, according to Xiao Zhicheng's driving route before, Gu Chen gradually drove into the blind area of monitoring.

In a construction section, Gu Chen stopped the car to one side and reminded Lu Weiwei, the co pilot, "Xiao Zhicheng lost the monitoring picture here. Let's get off here and see if there are any shortcuts around."

"Yes." Lu Weiwei nodded silently and opened the door directly.

On the side of the road, several road builders are slowly sorting out their tools.

I saw two policemen in police uniforms coming to me, looking left and right, and immediately began to whisper.

Gu Chen drilled into the scope of road construction from a gap in the iron sheet across the road, directly boarded an excavator and stood high to watch.

A man in a hard hat came up and asked, "Comrade police, what are you doing?"

"Do you have a shortcut to osmanthus lane?" Gu Chen asked.

"Short cut? Go to osmanthus lane?" the hard hat man scratched his back brain and briefly recalled for a few seconds. Then he shook his hand and said, "if you go normally, it's a little far. After all, the roads here are separated by us with iron sheets."

"But if it's rush hour, we'll remove one of the iron sheets. If the car goes to a fork in the road, it can save a lot of time."

"What are you talking about? You will remove the partition board during commuting time?" Gu Chen was stunned when he listened to the words of the hard hat man.

These situations are not known to me before.

Seeing Gu Chen so excited, the hard hat man replied with a light smile: "Comrade police, don't be so excited?"

"During the commuting hours, the roads are congested. If we don't open a few openings for diversion, the roads here will be blocked very late. Therefore, the project headquarters asked us to open the partitions at several intersections during the morning and evening rush hours to facilitate the diversion of these vehicles."

"As for the sweet scented osmanthus lane you mentioned, you can turn right at the intersection in front of you. It's just that we have to wait for the time to go to and from work. Now it's time and we've gambled again."

"Is it the intersection ahead?" Gu Chen asked, pointing to a fork in the road not far ahead.

The hard hat man nodded silently: "yes, yes, it's in front."

"Thanks."

Gu Chen jumped down from the excavator, went directly back to Lu Weiwei and reminded him, "let's go ahead and have a look."

After they got on the bus, they drove forward for a while.

At this moment, inside the road maintenance section, only the sound of "Dong Dong Dong" can be heard one after another.

After Gu Chen got off the bus, he directly began to remove the barricade and gently removed the concealed iron partition.

At this moment, a fork in the road leading to osmanthus Lane appears in front of Gu Chen.

Previously, several workers were wondering who was in a barricade partition?

But Gu Chen, wearing a police uniform, didn't dare to say anything again.

Gu Chen went to several workers and asked loudly, "excuse me, will you bring these roadblocks during the morning and evening rush hours of commuting every day in these 10 days?"

"Yes." one of the tall and thin workers also responded loudly because the mechanical noise on the site was too loud:

"The leaders asked us to open the roadblocks in the morning and evening rush hours to divert cars and reduce the pressure of traffic jam."

After a pause, the tall and thin worker asked, "excuse me, comrade police, what are you doing with this?"

"Nothing. Can you open the barricade now? We're going this way," Gu Chen said.

The tall and thin workers wondered. They said that it was not the peak of traffic jam, and it was nothing to detour.

But it's a little difficult to open the barricade and pass the path.

But Gu Chen was a policeman, and the other party didn't dare to say anything. Thinking that there might be something important, he waved to several workmates around him and said, "come here and help the police comrades remove the iron plate."

"Thanks." seeing that the worker was willing to cooperate, Gu Chen patted him on the shoulder and then sat back in the vehicle.

With the iron barrier removed, Gu Chen drove directly to the path.

According to his familiarity with this generation, Gu Chen made several turns and continued to drive to the fork road. It was not long before he came to the periphery of the wilderness of Osmanthus lane.

The car stopped steadily. Gu Chen glanced at the time on the car and said with emotion: "it's only 7 minutes."

"If there is a traffic jam and we drive to Guihua Lane normally, how long will it take us?"

Asked Lu Weiwei, who was sitting in the co pilot's seat.

Gu Chen briefly in his mind, but after analyzing the real-time monitoring picture provided by he Junchao and the traffic jam on the road, he replied:

"If you follow the situation at that time, you need to make a big detour."

"But if it was at the peak of traffic jam, it would take at least longer."

With a faint sigh, Gu Chen also said with emotion: "if Xiao Zhicheng drives from this intersection to osmanthus lane that night, he saves the moment of going back and forth on the road. He has committed a crime in the old house of Osmanthus lane for about an hour."

"So, 20 minutes is not the shortest time?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "plus the big circle that needs to be bypassed in the traffic jam on the road, in fact, Xiao Zhicheng can save about 50 minutes."

"If it's a crime, that's enough, but digging needs tools. Unless Xiao Zhicheng brings his own tools, he has to use ready-made ones."

"Ready made? That's the tool in the yard?" said luweiwei.

Gu Chen nodded slightly: "almost, so in the yard, we have to look for it again."

"Especially around, see if these tools may be abandoned."

"What are you waiting for?" Lu Weiwei seems to have more goals after learning the specific situation from Gu Chen.

They got out of the police car and began to walk to the courtyard.

At this moment, a couple are sitting in the yard, cleaning and classifying the purchased ingredients.

Two barbecue carts are also neatly placed on one side.

When they saw Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei walking into the yard, they became nervous.

The couple must have heard about what happened last night, so they couldn't help muttering when they saw the police coming to the yard.

Gu Chen then glanced at Gao Mingyang's room and was going to knock on the door to call him, but he was directly stopped by the middle-aged woman between the two couples: "the man was not at home and went out early in the morning."

Hearing the speech, Gu Chen turned slowly and asked, "do you know where he has gone?"

"Maybe I went to have breakfast? Or I went to do other things. I don't know the details." another middle-aged man also replied faintly.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, and then they walked slowly to the couple.

Gu Chen pointed to the decorator's room and asked, "what about this man?"

"This man?" the middle-aged woman glanced and shook her head. "I haven't come back for many days. I guess I live on the construction site again."

"Are you here today to investigate the cause of Xu Xintong's death?" the middle-aged man seemed to know the purpose of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, so he asked curiously.

Gu Chen grinned and nodded silently, "yes, we're here to investigate the case. We were here last night, but we didn't meet you two."

"You can't touch us if you come here at night." the middle-aged woman put some prepared fish balls on bamboo sticks and joked:

"Our husband and wife have to go out at 3:30 p.m. and have been busy. They don't go home until about 1 a.m., so you may not be able to find us before 1 a.m."

After a pause, the middle-aged woman said, "but you can also go to the square over there to find us. Our stall is over there."

"OK." seeing that the two husband and wife were still cooperating, Gu chenzhuan actively answered his own questions. "I don't know if you have any digging tools in your yard?"

"Tools for digging?"

As soon as Gu Chen suddenly mentioned this, the two husband and wife spoke with one voice and looked surprised.

Lu Weiwei saw it, and hurriedly reminded him: "it's a hoe for digging, a shovel, something like that."

"Oh, oh, there are a few. They are all brought back from the decoration. They are usually used by our husband and wife to dig and hoe in the nearby open space." the middle-aged man said.

"Digging and hoeing?" Lu Weiwei was stunned and continued to ask, "what are you doing digging and hoeing?"

"Grow vegetables." the middle-aged man smiled and replied directly, "we are food materials. Some of us need to go to the vegetable market to buy, and some of us grow our own."

"Is it still allowed to grow land here?" Lu Weiwei was a little puzzled. After all, it's not clear when the developers will start the construction of that wasteland.

If you plant vegetables rashly, all your efforts will be in vain when the bulldozer comes.

But the middle-aged woman smiled and said, "although the soil over there is fertile, we dare not plant it. After all, I heard that the developers are about to start construction recently. I'm afraid the planted vegetables will be shoveled away."

"So we built a few open spaces and planted some vegetables behind the yard."

The middle-aged woman refers to the back of her living room, which is close to the old house and does not intersect with the wasteland that needs to be developed.

Gu Chen took the lead silently and politely asked, "can you lend us those tools?"

"That's for sure." the middle-aged woman washed her hands in the washbasin, then shook the water stains, and then wiped them on the apron at her waist. Then she asked Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to go with her, and said as she walked:

"Usually we put this tool in the gap between rooms and all kinds of sundry tools. We all like to put it here. Just throw it away."

While talking, the middle-aged woman also took Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to the door of her old house.

Then, the middle-aged woman went to the gap in the corner of the side wall and began to prepare to take out the tools.

But just as the middle-aged woman was ready to take it, the whole person was dull again and looked blankly at the front.

"What's the matter?" seeing that the woman hesitated, Gu Chen asked curiously.

The middle-aged woman replied weakly, "it's strange. It has been put here all the time. Why did it disappear?"

"Is it a tool?" Lu Weiwei stepped forward and asked quickly.

The middle-aged woman nodded silently. "Yes, shovel and hoe. We usually put them here."

"Haven't you used these tools in the past 10 days?" Gu Chen asked again.

"No, I only get tools when new species need to be planted, and when I turn the soil, but now I don't need it for more than 10 days, so I didn't pay attention."

Thinking about it, the middle-aged woman glanced at the busy man, and cried out, "husband, is the hoe and spade here?"

"Yes, what's the matter?" the middle-aged man asked.

"Gone." the middle-aged woman replied loudly.

"Gone? How could it be gone? Didn't it always be there?"

"It's just gone. Do you know who took it?" the middle-aged woman asked loudly.

"I know what this is." why the police are interested in their hammers and shovel, and middle-aged men will put their work on the side for a while, and they will come all the way to the public.

Then he glanced at the gap in the corner of the wall and said with a puzzled look: "eh? The tools are missing? Did the decorator take them back?"

"What does he want this thing for? Besides, isn't it everywhere on the construction site? There's no need to go home to get it?" the middle-aged woman said and immediately denied this possibility.

The middle-aged man hesitated, glanced at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei secretly, and said gently, "Comrade police, if you need tools, why don't I ask my next door neighbor to see if they have this thing over there?"

"No, we don't want to use tools. We're just... Looking for tools to bury Xu Xintong in the wasteland." Gu Chen corrected them when he saw that they had misunderstood.

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