Avenue Huaxing is diagonally opposite the Champs Bar, a short street, and number 15 is quickly found.

This is a small restaurant downstairs, and a simple two-story building with several families living upstairs.

When Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen arrived, they were just in time for lunch, and there were only three tables of guests in the restaurant, and business was not very good.

The waitress at the restaurant saw them come in and hurriedly greeted them.

"This beauty, we're not here for dinner, we're going up to the second floor to find someone. Meng Xingchen said.

"Who are you looking for?" the waitress immediately sank when she heard this.

"Xia Xiaohong. Meng Xingchen said.

"Who are you, what are you looking for her?" asked a plump middle-aged woman sitting behind the cash register at the counter.

"This must be the proprietress of the proprietor, right? We are friends of Xia Xiaohong. Shui Bingyu said with a smile.

"Xia Xiaohong's friends, I haven't heard of any friends from her?" The woman did not refute the title of the proprietress of the proprietress of this small restaurant, and said coldly.

"Boss, we are really Xia Xiaohong's friends, you see, we still have the key to her room!" Shui Bingyu said and took out the key.

The proprietress looked at it, seemed to recognize the key, and still said coldly: "She's not here." ”

"We knew she wasn't there, and she gave us the keys, just for us to go to her house and get something for her. Shui Bingyu replied.

The proprietress looked at Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen carefully, and then said, "She lives in the innermost room on the second floor. ”

After Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen thanked the proprietress, they hurried up to the second floor.

They walked to the innermost room, opened the door, and Xia Ling's residence suddenly appeared in front of them.

The room is about 10 square meters and has very simple furniture, only a single bed, an old desk, a dresser and a large old wardrobe.

Several empty drink bottles and boxes of instant noodles were thrown on the ground. The bedding on the bed was not folded, but was scattered on the bed. There was a pile of newspapers piled up on the desk, disorganized.

Shui Bingyu opened the large wardrobe, there were only a few old dresses hanging in it, and if you looked closely, there were all shabby clothes, obviously they were all wanted.

Then open the three drawers of the desk, the two small drawers on both sides are empty, and a large file bag is placed in the middle drawer, Shui Bingyu opened the file bag and found that there was a stack of color photos inside.

She quickly went through all the photos, there were photos of different people, photos of different scenes, photos of different places, and behind each photo was a line of small notes written on the back, which seemed to be the various materials she had collected and planned to use when writing the column.

The pile of newspapers on the desk, Shui Bingyu found that all of them were "Kyoto Story" newspapers, and there was a small pair of scissors in the newspaper, Shui Bingyu thought to herself, did she want to make newspaper clippings?

Shui Bingyu fumbled and soon found the place where the scissors fell out, it turned out to be an interview with a character, and to her surprise, it was Zhang Manzhen who was interviewed.

She flipped through the pile of newspapers again, and found that at the bottom, there was a notebook, and when she opened it, it was all news from newspapers and magazines cut out by Xia Xiaohong.

Shui Bingyu became more and more frightened, and hurriedly said loudly: "Team Meng, come and take a look." ”

Meng Xingchen heard that he immediately walked over, he looked at it fixedly, and said in surprise: "Isn't this all news about Zhang Manzhen? What is she going to do when she cuts this?"

"She has always paid so much attention to Zhang Manzhen, she must have some special relationship with Zhang Manzhen!" Shui Bingyu said.

"But, Zhang Manzhen said that she didn't know Xia Qing, could she be lying?" Meng Xingchen said puzzled.

"Judging from the current situation, Xia Ling is packing her things and planning to go somewhere. Otherwise, it wouldn't be like this in the house, and there was hardly anything useful left. But, strangely, I didn't see her carrying any luggage that night, could it be that she had already found another place to stay and put her luggage there?" Shui Bingyu was also confused.

"Let's go downstairs and ask the proprietress downstairs what else she knows. Meng Xingchen said.

Shui Bingyu then took the newspaper clipping and followed Meng Xingchen downstairs.

"Boss, we are the police, I want to find you to know about Xia Xiaohong, please cooperate with our work. Meng Xingchen took out his work card and said while showing it to the proprietress .

Shui Bingyu knew that this proprietress didn't seem to be a person who could answer other people's questions casually, and Xia Ling had also been missing for 48 hours, which had already constituted the conditions for filing a case for investigation, so Meng Xingchen took out her work card, so that this woman could speak.

Sure enough, as soon as the proprietress looked at the work card, the expression on her face immediately changed 180 degrees, and she hurriedly stood up, with a smile on her face, beckoning Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen to sit down, and asked the waitress to pour them two cups of tea.

"Comrade police officer, if you have any questions, I will actively cooperate. The proprietress said flatteringly with a smile on her face.

"Xia Xiaohong is missing, do you know any way to find her?" Meng Xingchen asked with a serious face.

"She's missing? No wonder I said I haven't seen that girl these days! Comrade police officer, she rents my house, and I only take care of the money, and I don't care where she goes? Besides, aren't these women all running around? Who knows where she has gone?" said the proprietress .

"How long has she been living with you?" asked Shui Bingyu.

"It's been about half a year. The proprietress thought for a moment and replied.

"Does she live here by herself? has anyone else come to look for her, or live with her?" Shui Bingyu asked again.

"That girl is a stranger! I don't see anyone coming to her all day long, or I wouldn't believe you just saying it's her friend!" said the proprietress .

"What does she often do here when she's not working?" Shui Bingyu asked again.

"Well, she likes to take pictures, she sits at the window, clicks, I have seen her many times. The proprietress replied.

"What does she like to shoot?" Shui Bingyu continued.

"It's all mess, everything! Once, she took a picture of a man walking out of the nightclub across the street and asked me, "You always say you can look at people, do you think this person is a good person or a bad person?" replied the proprietress .

"What kind of man is it?" Shui Bingyu hurriedly asked.

"He is young, his facial features and eyebrows are good, and he looks like a talented person. But I knew I wasn't a good guy when I looked at it. Hehe, I have seen a lot of people, this kind of man looks like the kind of little white face that eats soft rice. The proprietress said.

Could it be Li Mingyu?

Shui Bingyu immediately took out her mobile phone and searched for a photo of Zhang Manzhen and Li Mingyu on the Internet.

"Do you think it's this person?" asked Shui Bingyu holding her phone and pointing to the man in the photo.

"Hmph, that's it. I'm really with an old woman!I'll just say I'm pretty accurate!," the proprietress said with a smug face.

"You've only seen his picture once, how can you be so sure?" Shui Bingyu asked.

"Who said I had only seen his picture once? I was very impressed by this man's face, he was often around for a while, but I haven't seen him for nearly half a year. The proprietress thought for a moment and said.

"When did Xia Xiaohong take pictures of him?" Meng Xingchen asked.

"She just moved in not long ago. The boss wolf thought for a moment and said.

"When was the last time you saw Xia Xiaohong?" asked Shui Bingyu.

"It was probably last weekend night. The proprietress said.

"What was she doing when you saw her?" asked Shui Bingyu.

"Hey, don't mention it, she found a man's old suit out of nowhere, and she had two motoises on her face, like a monster! And ask me how I look?" The proprietress looked disgusted.

"Did she tell you where she was going, and why was she dressed like that?" Meng Xingchen asked.

"She said she was going to a masquerade and that she was going to dress up as a man. The proprietress said.

"Did she say where she was going to the masquerade?" Meng Xingchen then asked.

She didn't say. The proprietress replied.

"Did she tell you anything about her family, or what she had done before?" asked Shui Bingyu.

"Comrade officer, I've told you all. Xia Xiaohong's girl is a weirdo! Usually a loner and doesn't like to talk to others very much, how can she talk to me about her family?"

"Did she tell you that she doesn't plan to live here? I see that the things in her room are gone, did she take them all away?" Shui Bingyu asked again.

"Nope. She walked away with two boxes. I asked her, and she said she was going out of town. The proprietress said.

"Did she say when she would be back?" Meng Xingchen asked.

"I didn't say it. The proprietress replied.

"She said she was going to another place, so did she mention where she was going?" asked Shui Bingyu.

"I didn't say it. The proprietress replied.

"Alright then, that's all for today. Thank you for your cooperation. I'll leave you a call, if Xia Xiaohong comes back, or contacts you, you can call and tell me. Meng Xingchen took out a business card and handed it to the proprietress .

"Meng Xingchen, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Kyoto City Police Department. The proprietress read the words on the business card, and then, with a smile on her face, said, "Captain Meng, okay, I know, I will definitely inform you when the time comes." By the way, I just rented the house to her, if she broke the law, it would have nothing to do with me!" The proprietress was afraid that Xia Xiaohong would do something illegal and criminal, so she quickly cleared up the relationship with herself.

"Don't worry, we know that. But, boss, you can't rent out the house blindly, you have to check your ID card, otherwise someone is really engaged in illegal and criminal things in your house, then you won't be able to get out of it!" Meng Xingchen warned coldly.

"Yes, yes. The proprietress nodded a little weakly.

According to the restaurant proprietress said that Xia Xiaohong probably carried two large boxes to other places.

But, is she really gone?