readx; It was a very particular Japanese restaurant, you had to take off your shoes when you entered the door, there was no lobby, there was a miniature small private room inside, Fei Du was invited to walk in alone, and when he pushed the door, he almost didn't recognize Zhou Huaijin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The official heir of the Zhou clan wore a simple stone-colored coat, his hair was not covered with the hair wax he used in the past, and his huge suitcase stood against the wall, looking dusty. His face is quite good-looking, but the whole person has lost weight, and he is somewhat out of shape, and his short hair and temples are very neatly trimmed, and his temples are pale, and he looks a little older.

If Zhou Huaijin used to be like a wealthy son, at this time, as soon as his hair was gray and his dress changed, he almost became a middle-aged man who had vicissitudes of life.

"I'm a young bald head, my hair is gray in my twenties, I used to bake and dye, and I haven't been in the mood to toss recently, which makes Mr. Fei smile." Zhou Huaijin smiled at Fei Du, "Please take a seat, this restaurant was opened privately with a friend many years ago, and even my family doesn't know about it, so it's safe to speak." ”

Fei Du's gaze swept over an oil painting on the wall, painting the afterglow of the sunset, the subject matter is somewhat commonplace, and the painting is also decent, not necessarily any brilliance, but the color is full and warm, although it does not have any artistic value, but it is very in line with the public aesthetics.

Fei Du politely and casually praised: "Very tasteful." ”

"It was painted by Wai Xin, and I said he would paint me a few landscapes that I could hang in my living room and bedroom, and he said he wasn't from the renovation team...... But in the end, he pinched his nose and drew a few pictures for me...... It's a pity he hasn't been here. Zhou Huaijin followed his gaze, his eyes darkened, "Tea?" Or a little sake? ”

"Tea is fine, my family won't let me drink."

Zhou Huaijin wiped his hands clean and poured a cup of tea for Fei Du: "Please-at that time, I just wanted to leave the Zhou family one day, to leave a way out for myself, the plan was very good, I wanted to open a small restaurant in a deep alley that only receives a few tables of guests every day, there are not many guests, and the store should be quiet and quiet." But ah, it's so beautiful to think about, how can it be so easy to make a living? Since the opening of this store, it has never made a penny, and I have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to barely support it. ”

Fei Du smiled, he didn't say anything, even if Zhou Huaijin is a "little pitiful" who doesn't love his uncle and doesn't love him, he is also a "little pitiful" who wears gold and silver, and the mushrooms in the corner of the Zhou family's villa are bigger than other people's umbrellas.

"For so many years, I hate the Zhou family, and I can't give up fame and fortune, the two ends of the first rat are not things - Mr. Fei, the huge family business, if it were you, would you be willing to do it?"

"Brother Zhou," Fei Du glanced at his watch, "If you have something to say, you should say it directly, if you are not prepared, you will not come to me." ”

Zhou Huaijin met his gaze, silently looked at Fei Du for a moment, he nodded, and said a little lonely: "Seeing wealth and nobility as floating clouds, if I can let go like you, Huaixin will not be gone early." I took the liberty of asking you to come over because I found out something after I went back. Although the Zhou family is discredited in China, it can still be supported overseas, but if I say these words today, I am afraid that I will have to start from scratch in the future. ”

Fei Du: "I'm listening. ”

"When my mom died, there was a box of expired pills left in the safe, do you remember? You were the one who brought my attention to it. ”

Fei Du nodded - Zhou Huaijin's mother, that is, Mrs. Zhou, who murdered her husband, is still a scum after changing her husband, listening to Zhou Huaijin's description, the shelf life of her second marriage is not as long as the ready-to-drink soy milk.

It's just that the relationship between husband and wife can be dissolved casually, but the alliance that seeks money and kills people does not dare to be so capricious, so in addition to the common equity, Mrs. Zhou must have something in her hands to deter Zhou Junmao. But when she died, Zhou Huaijin opened the safe she had locked all her life, only to find that there was only a box of expired heart medicine inside.

"After I went back, I went back and studied the box of medicine over and over again for a long time, and I really couldn't figure out what this thing could do, and I once whimsically thought that this might be evidence that Zhou Junmao murdered Zhou Yahou, and even asked someone to identify whether there were blood stains and DNA residues on it, but there was nothing on it."

"Even if there is, it can't be used as evidence, the blood stains stuck to the carton may be smeared by anyone on any occasion, if it was at the time of the crime, the evidence collected by the police at the scene still has some research value, but when Zhou Yahou's bones are cold, and then take this thing as physical evidence, it will be too unrigorous."

"Yes, I even suspect that my mother left such a thing purely to scare Zhou Junmao - until I accidentally saw the barcode on the pill box." Zhou Huaijin took out his mobile phone, opened the picture, and opened the mysterious pill box to Fei Du, "This is it." ”

"I don't know if you did that kind of training when you were a child, that is, reciting Tang poems and Song lyrics, pi and other things that children don't understand, to exercise mechanical memory ability. When I was a child, my mom made me memorize barcode numbers. You know that the barcode of a product is generally ENA, where the first three digits refer to the country of origin. Mr. Fei, you see, the origin of this box of medicine is in the United States, but the first three digits of the corresponding barcode are '480'. ”

"480 is not an American code?"

"It's the Philippines."

Fei Du zoomed in on the photo and looked at it carefully for a moment: "But this barcode is not 13 digits, and there is a small space in the middle when printing, so I guess it should not have been torn from some Filipino product." ”

"No," Zhou said, "'480' followed by four digits, and then a small space — four digits, what do you think of?" ”

Fei Duyi frowned: "Anything that can be coded...... What are the digits of their domestic zip code? ”

"You guessed it, the zip code in the Philippines is exactly four digits." Zhou Huaijin couldn't help but lower his voice, "Further back, these numbers do not correspond to the corresponding latitude and longitude in the Philippines, so I guess it is likely to refer to the streets and sects in the postal area, that is, this is not a commodity barcode, but an address." ”

"I followed the address – it wasn't easy, after all, decades later, the streets had been demolished, changed, and three guides had been replaced, and it took a lot of effort to find out where the people who lived at the address had moved. My mother's assumption was that as soon as she passed away, Zhou Junmao would probably be unfavorable to me, and I should be able to get what she left me, but she didn't expect that Zhou Junmao didn't attack me, and for so many years, I have been messing around in the Zhou family, and I have made no achievements, and I am full of demons and demons, and I haven't even looked at her relics carefully. Zhou Huaijin sighed, "But this time I'm lucky, the old man is over eighty years old, still alive, and not confused, I remember what happened back then." ”

Fei Du immediately asked, "Who is the person you found along this address?" ”

"She," Zhou Huaijin flipped through the photo album on his mobile phone and showed Fei Du a photo of him and an old lady, "It's this old lady, I have a vague impression of her, when she was very young, she worked as a housekeeper in my house, and then suddenly disappeared one day." When I found her, I realized that it was my mother who sent her away. ”

"What does she have there?"

When Zhou Yahou had a heart attack, music was playing on the tape recorder at home, and he pressed the record key by mistake in the struggle to record the conversation between Zhou Junmao and Zheng Kaifeng, who came later. My mom secretly put away the cassette tape and asked someone to keep it, the original is in the bag, and you can listen to the audio first. ”

As he spoke, he pulled up the recorded audio from his phone.

There was a chaotic sound in the recording, and when you heard the sound, you could feel how violently the people inside were struggling, vague and thrilling, and it took a long time to calm down - it should be that Zhou Yahou was dead, and after a while, footsteps came, and a man's voice said: "It's dead, don't worry." ”

Zhou Huaijin: "This is Zheng Kaifeng." ”

In the recording, Zheng Kaifeng sneered thirty-eight years ago: "Mr. Zhou, when it comes to a critical moment, you will shrink back, Zhou Yahou, this kid is dead, and the family business and beauty in the future, aren't they all yours?" Why do you have such a solemn expression? ”

Another male voice said with some hesitation: "Think about what is missing, if you get suspicious, it will not be good to recruit the police to investigate." ”

"What's missing? My sister-in-law went to the movies, the nannies at home were on vacation, and as for the two of us - we went fishing together this afternoon, forgot? Pack up and let's go! Zheng Kaifeng laughed frantically, "As soon as I think that these will be mine in the future, I will ...... Ha! This is my life...... Hey, Brother Zhou, it doesn't matter if anything else, you have to give me his little villa. ”

The footsteps in the recording go away.

Fei Du turned his head sideways: "Small villa? Is there any implication? ”

"Zhou Yahou has a secret private villa," Zhou Huaijin put down her phone, "I spent more than a week grinding with her, and finally let her open her mouth and tell the truth that my mother couldn't bear Zhou Yahou's cheating." ”

Fei Du raised his eyebrows slightly: "I don't think this truth will sound pleasant." ”

"Zhou Yahou likes underage girls." Zhou Huaijin lowered his voice with difficulty and said, "Especially...... Especially thirteen or fourteen-year-old Oriental girls. Zhou Yahou has a villa dedicated to these ...... These ......"

Fei Du asked, "Where did the girl come from?" ”

Zhou Huaijin was silent for a while: "From the welfare home, Zhou Yahou was also very 'enthusiastic about charity' before his death, and in the East Asian generation, he funded several welfare homes at designated points, and there are also in China, so as to pick the girl he likes." ”

"Is there any evidence?"

"Yes." Zhou Huaijin opened the suitcase next to him and took out a brown paper bag from it, and there were a dozen old photos in the paper bag.

The old photos were spread out on the quaint and clean table, the chic flower arrangements lowered their heads from the vase, and the shadows of the flowers fell on those distorted old photos together with Fei Du's gaze - they were four or five bust photos of young girls, all beautiful, somewhat malnourished and immature, wearing old-fashioned sexy fashion that looked a little kitsch with today's aesthetic eyes, with makeup, indescribably weird.

"If you want to give it to the police, you can do it anyway - the back of the photo is the girl's information, these are Chinese, there are also Koreans and Japanese, all in the box." The old woman's job back then was to help Zhou Yahou take care of the girls in the villa, and the girls were raised until they were about sixteen years old, and when they were about the same size as adults, he would lose interest, abandon them, and send people to those underground population markets, and usually, usually quickly, they would die quickly......"

Zhou Huaijin couldn't say anything, looked away, covered his mouth with one hand, and said for a while: "I'm sorry...... I once thought that Zhou Yahou was my biological father, and when the Zhou family was in the most difficult time, I used to regard him as a spiritual idol...... Ahem, a little nauseous. ”

"There has been no Internet in China for more than 40 years, and the population files and materials are definitely impossible to trace now, and these girls are orphans in the first place, so it is difficult to ......," Fei Du said casually as he flipped through the photos, and suddenly, he didn't know what he saw, sat up straight, and picked out a photo from the middle.

The back of the photo reads "Su Hui, Heng'an Welfare Institute, fifteen years old."

The date is thirty-eight years ago.

Fei Du hurriedly turned over the photo, looked carefully at the girl's face, and vaguely saw a familiar shadow from the outline of his facial features, and he immediately took out his mobile phone to take the photo.

Luo Wenzhou was not far from the small restaurant they met, the car was parked on the side of the road, just lit a cigarette, and received a photo from Fei Du, he was stunned after seeing the content, and immediately transferred it to his colleagues, and his colleagues in the criminal investigation team were also extremely efficient, and ten minutes later, they gave him a reply.

"Team Luo, where did you find this photo? Yes, this should be the grandmother of Su Hui, the suspect in the girl abduction and trafficking case, Su Luozhan, who has been doing this for three generations of the Su family, and it started with her. Su Hui's file shows that she is indeed an orphan, but the welfare home where she was a child has long been scattered, and after so many years, people are almost dead, which welfare home is it, I'm afraid it's not easy to check, I do have the experience of going abroad, but I came back a year later. The facial features match, but there is a slight error in the age, and the age registered on her ID card is two years older than the one marked on the photo, and the possibility of lying about her age cannot be ruled out. ”

In the restaurant, Fei Du pressed Su Hui's photo and asked Zhou Huaijin, "Can you tell me about this girl?" ”

"Yes, this girl is very important," Zhou Huaijin clicked on the date behind the photo, "This is the last girl, you see, the date marked is April, and Zhou Yahou died in June of that year." The old woman recalled that the girl later lived in the villa for a while, following Zheng Kaifeng. ”

Fei Du frowned: "Literally? ”

"Literally." Zhou Huaijin said in a deep voice, "Later, my mother found out, she felt very disgusting, and forcibly ordered Zheng Kaifeng to send the girl back to China, and the old woman who worked in the villa also returned to the main house." ”

Fei Du wanted to sigh inexplicably - Later, this lonely victim grew up, and finally swam to the upper reaches of this evil "industrial chain" as he wished, and became the perpetrator.

She is like a human girl who was first embraced by a vampire in Western legends, forgetting the murderer and becoming a murderer.

"The last time we said goodbye, you said to me that the tragedy of our family lies in the question of who my father is, about this, the old woman said that I may be Zhou Yahou's orphan, and the rumor spread among the helpers after Su Hui was forcibly sent away. This may sound like a conspiracy theory, but according to what I know about Zheng Kaifeng, this person is yin, greedy, and small-bellied, and can do anything. ”

"What do you mean is that because Mrs. Zhou sent Su Hui away, Zheng Kaifeng had a grudge, so he maliciously slandered you, saying that you were not Zhou Junmao's biological son." Fei Du asked, "Is there any basis for this?" ”

"Yes, you know that related fields abroad started relatively early, if Zhou Junmao had doubts about my ancestry, why didn't he do a paternity test later? It is child's play to be convinced by speculation alone. ”

Fei Du said slowly: "It's really unreasonable. ”

Zhou Huaijin said in a low voice: "Zhou Junmao made a will abroad before his death, and in the appendix on the ownership of assets under his name, there is a paternity test that explains why I am not the heir to his estate, and the appraisal certificate more than 20 years ago is exactly the opposite of the conclusion of your police. ”

Fei Du: "You mean, more than 20 years ago, when you were a teenager, Zhou Junmao did a paternity test, but the result was manipulated?" ”

"Sounds familiar, right? It's exactly the same as my method of rectifying Yang Bo," Zhou Huaijin smiled bitterly, "It's really ironic, I spent a lot of trouble finding the person from the appraisal company back then, and this appraisal was done by Zhou Junmao and Zheng Kaifeng." ”

This is not a glorious thing, the tabloids want to report some wealthy scandals all day long, of course Zhou Junmao will not go to the test with great fanfare, if he wants to do this appraisal, he must find his cronies to do it privately.

This cronie is Zheng Kaifeng, who has killed people with him. But obviously, he and Zheng Kaifeng kissed a bit of wishful thinking.

"I told you last time, there was a time when I was scared, I felt that Zhou Junmao wanted my life, and I had to take Huaixin to my house every day before I dared to sleep with my eyes closed, I always thought it was because my mother was dying, and Zhou Junmao endured enough - until I saw the date of the appraisal report, which was that time."

It should have been twenty-one years ago, Zhou Huaixin was still young, Zhou Huaijin was terrified, and at the same time, it was also the time for Zhou's high-profile return to China.

In order to pave the way for himself, Zheng Kaifeng artificially caused a car accident and killed his competitor......

Fei Du's fingers tapped the rim of the teacup back and forth.

Zhou Junmao rarely returns to China, and domestic affairs are mainly managed by Zheng Kaifeng, and Zheng Kaifeng caught up with "those people" as soon as he returned to China...... Could it be that since then, Zheng Kaifeng, a pretending tame Zhongshan wolf, has already begun to plan to include the Zhou family in the future?

Fei Du actually thought about how a financier like Zhou, whose roots are abroad, got on the boat of those people?

In this way, it turns out that there is still a connection between Su Hui and Su Hui.

Su Hui used her daughter Su Xiaolan to abduct the girl, murdered and abandoned the body after buying and selling, who helped their orphans and widows dispose of the corpses?

Did she work with those people before the mass-dumping ground on the waterfront was built?

Many years later, Zheng Kaifeng returned to China and found Su Hui, who was already an old man, did he become her "client" instead, so as to meet the person who handled the corpse?

The hidden thread connects the fragmented events through a long period of time, and there is a vague context.

But there is still a missing link in the middle, and Fei Du vaguely feels that it will be a very critical link.

"What about Yang Bo?" He suddenly asked, "Have you found out the relationship between Zheng Kaifeng and Yang Bo?" ”

"Checked, Yang Bo's father died thirteen years ago and was the perpetrator of a car accident......

Before Zhou Huaijin finished speaking, Fei Du's mobile phone suddenly shook uneasily.

Fei Du immediately picked it up: "Hey? ”

"Hospital," Luo Wenzhou said quickly, "something happened to Yin Ping!"