Chapter XXXVI: Missing Witnesses
After Shi Cunyi learned that Li was also the head of the Investigation Section of the Special Management Bureau, his attitude towards Li Ye instantly took a 180-degree turn, and he welcomed Li Ye and Han Ziyu into the house very enthusiastically.
As soon as he entered the door, Li Ye saw a woman in pajamas in the living room half-lying on the sofa, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
The woman had a good face, an elegant temperament, and a rather plump figure, so although the woman looked about forty years old, she still looked charming.
However, the face of this half-aged woman is very ugly at the moment, and her eyes are red and swollen, obviously she just cried not long ago.
This woman who looks a little lost is Ding Huiqian, the mother of Shi Cunyi's wife Shi Lei.
Since the disappearance of her son Shi Lei, Ding Huiqian has been washing her face with tears every day, and her mental state is also extremely unstable.
"Huiqian has a guest here. Shi Cunyi saw Li Ye and Han Ziyu walking into the living room, but his wife was still sitting there in a daze, and hurriedly coughed lightly to Ding Huiqian.
"Ahh
"Hui Qian, you ......"
Shi Cunyi originally wanted his wife to pour a cup of tea for Li Ye and the others, but seeing his wife's sluggish expression, he felt distressed in his heart, so he swallowed the words back from his mouth.
"Huiqian, lawyer Han, you have seen it, she brought a friend from the Special Administration Bureau to help us find our son today. Shi Cunyi, who cherished his wife, changed his words.
"Really?" Ding Huiqian didn't know as much about the Special Administration Bureau as her husband Shi Cunyi, so after she glanced at Li Ye, she still had a sad look and a very low tone.
"Officer Li, don't be surprised!" Shi Cunyi saw that his wife was acting so sluggish, for fear that it would make Li unhappy, so he hurriedly said apologetically to Li Ye.
Now Shi Cunyi regards Li Ye, the head of the Special Management Bureau, as a lifesaver who can find his son.
"It doesn't matter. Li Ye shook his head and didn't care, he could understand the sadness and hesitation when he lost his loved ones, because Li Ye had also had this experience when Li Ye's mother died.
"You two sit down casually, and I'll pour you a drink. Shi Cunyi said and turned around and walked to the kitchen.
After a while, when Shi Cunyi returned to the living room, he already had two more cups of orange juice in his hand, and after handing the orange juice in his hand to Li Ye and Han Ziyu, who were already sitting at the coffee table in the living room, Shi Cunyi sat opposite the two.
"Officer Li, I don't know how you plan to help us find Xiao Lei!" Shi Cunyi's ass had just touched the sofa, so he couldn't wait to ask.
Although Li Ye had not been in contact with many disappearance cases in the past, he still knew some basic ways to handle cases, so Li Ye said: "Mr. Shi, I want to know more about the situation before and after your son's disappearance. ”
"Okay, whatever you want to ask, just ask, as long as I know, I'll tell you. Shi Cunyi nodded.
"Okay, I want to ask Mr. Shi, did you and your wife go to the police station to report the case after your son disappeared?"
"Yes, of course. ”
"What did the police at the police station say about your son's disappearance?"
"What else can I say, the police officer in charge asked us two words, and then told us to wait for news, but five days have passed, and we call every day to ask, but the answer we get has always been that it is still under investigation, so let's wait patiently. Shi Cunyi became more and more angry the more he talked, and finally slammed his fist on the sofa.
Later, in a conversation with Shi Cunyi, Li also learned in detail about the situation before and after Shi Lei's disappearance.
Not long ago, Shi Lei took the college entrance examination, but the results of the exam were not ideal, although with the economic conditions of Shi Lei's family, the college entrance examination is actually not so important to Shi Lei, Shi Cunyi once said to Shi Lei that as long as Shi Lei is willing, he can send him to study abroad at any time.
From childhood to adulthood, Shi Lei's grades have always been very good, which makes Shi Lei have always had high requirements for himself, so Shi Lei's abnormal performance in the college entrance examination this time has never been able to let go, and he has always been obsessed.
This has also led to the fact that in the past month, Shi Lei has not stepped out of the door, and he has either played games at home all day long until late at night, or watched TV in a daze, and his life has been decadent to the extreme.
It wasn't until a week ago that one of Shi Lei's high school classmates and best friend Wei Zilong called Shi Lei and invited Shi Lei to his house to play, and Shi Lei walked out of the house for the first time after a full month of the college entrance examination.
In fact, Shi Lei was not in the mood to go, but due to the repeated persuasion and affection of his friends, Shi Lei finally agreed.
Originally, Shi Lei told Shi Cunyi and his wife that he would go home at about nine o'clock in the evening, but Shi Cunyi and Ding Huiqian waited until more than one o'clock in the evening, but they still didn't see their son come back.
This made the couple anxious, so they called Shi Lei, but Shi Lei's mobile phone was turned off, and the call did not get through.
Originally, Shi Cunyi and his wife still had the idea that their son's mobile phone happened to be out of battery, so they found Wei Zilong's number in Shi Lei's phone book and called Wei Zilong's house.
But as a result, Wei Zilong told them that Shi Lei had left at nine o'clock in the evening.
At this time, Shi Cunyi and his wife finally knew that the situation was not good, and immediately went out to look for their son, and after searching for some places that Shi Lei used to go to to no avail, the anxious couple could only go to the police station to report the case.
According to the regulations on the declaration of missing persons, the original missing person must be missing for more than 24 hours before the police station can open a case for investigation.
However, fortunately, there was a policeman on duty at the police station that day who was more enthusiastic, so after listening to Shi Cunyi and his wife explain the situation, the policeman on duty helped to retrieve the surveillance to find Shi Lei's traces.
But when the policeman on duty watched all the surveillance videos near about nine o'clock, his eyes were bloodshot, but he only found that Shi Lei's last appearance was at the mouth of an alley not far from Wei Zilong's house, and then Shi Lei disappeared as if out of thin air, and never appeared in any surveillance screen again.
In the face of this situation, the policeman on duty was also powerless, so he could only tell Shi Cunyi and his wife to let them go back and wait, maybe Shi Lei would come back soon, if Shi Lei still didn't go home after 24 hours, then come to the police station to report the case at that time.
However, as Shi Cunyi said, five days have passed, and Shi Lei is still not heard from, and the police at the police station have not been able to find Shi Lei.
On the contrary, two days ago, the criminal police and Han Ziyu from the Tianning Public Security Bureau came to the door one after another and told Shi Cunyi and his wife that Shi Lei might be involved in a murder case.
After chatting with Shi Cunyi, Li also put forward a request to go to Shi Lei's room to have a look, which Shi Cunyi certainly did not refuse.
Pushing open the door of Shi Lei's bedroom, Li also looked around and found that the stationery and textbooks on the desk were placed in an orderly manner, the quilts on the bed were folded squarely, and everything looked quite neat.
A boy's room was so clean, Li Ye raised his eyebrows, thinking of his messy room like a dog kennel, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.
But then again, ashamed to be ashamed, Li also had no urge to tidy up the house after going back, because Li also felt that his house was a little messy, but it was orderly in chaos, no matter what it was, he could roughly remember where to put it, so if the house was really placed as tidy as Shi Lei's room, Li also felt that it was not "warm" enough.
"Uncle, Xiao Lei is very talented in sports!" Li Ye came to a row of bookshelves by the wall, and glanced at the several trophies standing on the shelves, and found that most of these trophies were sports, and they included a variety of them, such as high jump, swimming, football, and so on.
"It's okay! It's not about any talent, it's better than his peers!" Although Shi Cunyi said very modestly, from Shi Cunyi's slightly smug tone and demeanor, he could still feel that he was quite proud of his son Shi Lei's achievements in sports.
"Mr. Shi, I don't know what your son Shi Lei brought with him the day he left home?" Li Ye asked as he walked to Shi Lei's desk and cast his eyes on a photo frame placed on his side.
There are a total of three people in the photo in the frame, in addition to Shi Cunyi and Han Huiqian, there is also a young man with a strong body and a sunny appearance, judging from the actions and expressions of Shi Cunyi and his wife and the young man, the relationship between the three is very intimate, and Li also guessed that this young man should be Shi Lei.
He brought a mobile phone, not even a wallet. Shi Cunyi didn't understand what Li Ye meant by asking, but he still replied.
"That's it!" Li also habitually lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, his eyes thoughtful.
Ten minutes later, after Li Ye asked Shi Cunyi a few more questions, he didn't have anything more to ask, so he took Han Ziyu to say goodbye to Shi Cunyi and his wife.
Leaving Shi Lei's house, Li also decided to go to the Huaiyang Road Police Station, because it was there that Shi Cunyi and his wife reported their disappearance.
On the way, Han Ziyu saw that Li Ye was only driving with his head bored, and couldn't help but ask: "Li Ye, what do you think about Shi Lei's disappearance!"
"Well, how do you say that?" Li also heard Han Ziyu, muttered slightly, and then said: "Judging from this stage, Shi Lei's disappearance is nothing more than three reasons. ”
"Three reasons, so many?" Han Ziyu asked in surprise as he turned his head to look at Li Ye.
"Yes, the first is that Shi Lei chose to run away from home in a depressed mood because of his unsatisfactory results in the college entrance examination; the second is that he witnessed the whole process of your client Zheng Jixiong killing Chen Hao, and was finally killed and hid his body; third, someone wanted to make money, so he kidnapped Shi Lei in order to blackmail Shi Cunyi and his wife. ”
After Li also said his thoughts, he added: "Judging from the fact that Shi Lei didn't bring much with him when he went out, and he did go to his classmates that day, the first thing I said, that is, the possibility of running away from home, should not be very likely. ”
"It's more likely that that's the third option. As soon as Li Ye finished speaking, Han Ziyu asked a little anxiously.
Although Han Ziyu used an inquiring tone, Li Ye saw the hopeful look on her pretty face, and understood that Han Ziyu asked this, obviously hoping to get a positive answer from herself, because in that way, she could prove her client innocent in disguise.
However, although Li also wanted to answer according to Han Ziyu's meaning, he was not willing to lie about the case.
So Li also shook his head and said, "Maybe! I can't be sure about this yet, I need more clues." ”
Hearing Li Ye's ambiguous answer, Han Ziyu pursed her lips and was slightly disappointed.
In the interval between Li Ye and Han Ziyu talking, they had already come to the Huaiyang Police Station.
The Huaiyang police station is located in a small three-story building with a small area of space, and in front of the building there is a narrow courtyard packed with four or five bicycles and two police cars.
After walking through the courtyard and entering the police station, Han Ziyu asked the police sitting at the window of the hall after some questioning, Han Ziyu and Li Ye learned that Shi Lei's disappearance case is currently in charge of Xing Daorong, the deputy director in charge of public security in the Huaiyang Police Station.
Later, after Han Ziyu explained his intentions and showed his documents separately with Li Ye, the policeman sitting at the window called Xing Daorong, and then took Li Ye and the others to meet Xing Daorong.
With fluffy hair, rough and dark skin, and a chin full of beards, Li Ye and Han Ziyu looked at Xing Daorong, who was more than 1.9 meters in front of them, and they were all surprised, they couldn't believe that the raunchy man in front of them was actually the deputy director of a police station.
It is not difficult to see from Xing Daorong's rough appearance that Xing Daorong is a person who does not like to go around and around very directly, so after a brief greeting, Xing Daorong immediately went straight to the point and asked: "Two, listen to Xiao Liu, you are here for Shi Lei's disappearance?"
"Yes, because the missing Shi Lei is an important eyewitness in a homicide case that I am in charge of, we would like to ask Deputy Director Xing about the investigation of Shi Lei's disappearance. Han Ziyu nodded and replied.
"Oh, I know, it's the murder that happened on Kaiyuan Road, right?" Xing Daorong slapped his thigh and said with a big grin.
"That's right!" Han Ziyu nodded again, "I don't know if Deputy Director Xing has found out where Shi Lei is now?"
Recently, the patrol police of our police station have searched for all the neighborhoods, and they have also visited the shops and vendors on the street, but there is still no news of Shi Lei for the time being. Xing Daorong spread his hands, slightly helpless.
"Deputy Director Xing, have you considered the possibility that Shi Lei's disappearance was kidnapped?" Li Ye, who had not squeaked on the side, suddenly asked at this time.
"Kidnapping?" Xing Daorong heard this, and a strange look suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"Probably not! Our Jiangning District, especially our area, has always had good public order, so how could there be such a thing as kidnapping. ”
"This is not necessarily!" Li also shook his head, extremely disagreeing with Xing Daorong's assumed way of thinking.
Immediately, Li also made another request to Xing Daorong: "Deputy Director Xing, I want to take a look at the road monitoring near the day of Shi Lei's disappearance, I don't know if it's okay?"
"This-" Xing Daorong showed a look of hesitation on his face, and then his eyes blinked twice quickly, and he said with some embarrassment: "Comrade Li, this is really unfortunate, two days ago, we didn't know why the computer in the institute was infected with a virus, although it has been repaired today, but it still lost a lot of data, including the recent surveillance video." ”
"Medium virus!" Li Ye looked straight at Xing Daorong, frowned and asked, "Is it so unfortunate?"
Maybe Li Ye's gaze, which seemed to be able to perceive everything, was too sharp, which made Xing Daorong unconsciously look away, but Xing Daorong finally nodded and said, "Yes-yes-yes!"
"Then it seems that neither we nor Shi Lei have very good luck! Especially Shi Lei!" Li also said with a smile.
"Yes, yes!" Xing Daorong echoed again and again, and didn't seem to notice that there was a deep meaning in Li Ye's words.
Seeing this, Li Ye retracted his compelling gaze, and asked instead: "I don't know which alley the surveillance that last photographed Shi Lei was at the mouth of the alley, does Deputy Director Xing remember?"
"Remember, it's Sycamore Lane. ”
The loss of the surveillance video of the Huaiyang Road Police Station cast a thick shadow on the prospect of Li Ye and Han Ziyu finding Shi Lei.
But Li Ye and the others finally got the place name "Wutong Lane" from the mouth of Deputy Director Xing, and after the two left the Huaiyang Road Police Station, they immediately rushed to Wutong Lane non-stop.