Chapter 54: Appointment
The caller was a woman, who was not very old and in her twenties, who claimed to know the person in the missing person notice, and that the person they were looking for was her boyfriend.
The girl who called claimed to be surnamed Wang, and the caller was also a mobile phone number, judging from her attitude, she was really nervous about this matter, and asked her to describe her boyfriend's appearance in her own words, which is indeed similar to the portrait, according to the girl, her boyfriend's name is Luan Shangzhi, 25 years old this year, not a native of City A, and now he has lost contact with her. The girl surnamed Wang also described the other party's dress when she saw her boyfriend Luan Shangzhi for the last time, although Dai Xu and the deceased's shirt was burned and they couldn't find any representative pieces, but the color and brand of the jeans, as well as the brand and style of the sneakers, are very consistent with the description of the girl surnamed Wang, and even the time when she last saw her boyfriend is not much different from the approximate time of death they judged.
This Wang girl was only willing to provide these, and she didn't want to say anything more, there seemed to be something difficult, Dai Xu didn't ask too much, thanked her, hung up the phone, wrote down her mobile phone number, and then began to verify Luan Shangzhi's personal situation according to the information provided by the girl surnamed Wang.
In this investigation, there is really a person named Luan Shangzhi, the situation is not different from what the girl who called to provide clues said, and his home is not City A, but another city about four hours away from City A. However, this Luan Shangzhi has been studying at a key university in City A for four years, and he has had records of moving in and out of his household registration, and the relevant records of his passport application two years ago can also be found from the system.
This Luan Shangzhi's hukou is still in the same place as his parents. His parents are in business, and the family of three has not had any bad records, it seems to be a very decent family, and Luan Shangzhi's own photo is indeed very similar to the simulated restoration portrait, but unfortunately the girl surnamed Wang doesn't know if her boyfriend has ever broken her lower leg, and there is no way to check this for the time being.
After confirming this, Dai Xu did not rush to contact Luan Shangzhi's family. After all, they were in the field, and he felt that the matter had come to this point, after he had a better grasp of Luan Shangzhi's situation. For the sake of insurance, you should first contact this Wang girl who is close to the city, during the previous call, this Wang girl always gave people a feeling that something was difficult to say. It's inconvenient to say it. It seems that there is something hidden in this matter.
So Dai Xu asked Fang Yuan to call this Wang girl again, Fang Yuan is also a girl, it will be easier for the two of them to communicate, even if the other party really has something that he couldn't talk to Dai Xu, a big man before, maybe it would be easier to say it if it was Fang Yuan of the same age of the same sex.
Fang Yuan called the girl surnamed Wang, who looked a little surprised when he received the call, and then asked if the deceased they were looking for was his boyfriend, but Fang Yuan didn't answer her question. Because there is really no way to give a 100% sure answer at the moment, she followed Dai Xu's explanation. I proposed to meet with her and talk about this matter in detail, but what I didn't expect was that when I asked about the identity of the deceased, the girl surnamed Wang was still very positive, but now when I heard that I wanted to meet, she immediately refused. Fang Yuan's persuasion was painstaking, she couldn't listen to the persuasion for a long time, there was no way, Fang Yuan changed a way to scare people a little, and asked her if she wanted to be sure if the deceased was her boyfriend Luan Shangzhi? Could it be that as a girlfriend, she is not worried about her boyfriend's safety at all? But no matter how Fang Yuan persuaded her, this girl surnamed Wang refused to let go even if she was alive or dead, saying that she couldn't go to the Public Security Bureau, and it would not affect her if she was known.
Fang Yuan said that the most repulsive thing for this girl surnamed Wang was not actually dealing with them, but going to the Public Security Bureau, and after determining what the other party really minded, Fang Yuan changed his strategy, no longer persuading the other party to come to the Public Security Bureau for questioning, but did the opposite, asking this Wang girl, if she would like to make an appointment with them to meet and talk to them in a place that she thought was convenient and comfortable.
After changing the method, the effect is indeed much better, the Wang girl reluctantly agreed to their request to meet and talk in detail, and finally discussed, and decided that it would be better to choose a day than to hit the day, and it was set for late afternoon, the girl surnamed Wang reported a famous hotel in City A, and asked them to wait for her in the café on the first floor of the hotel, and they talked there.
Dai Xu has no objection to such an arrangement, anyway, the real focus is on talking, not where to talk.
So estimating that the time was almost up, the two of them set off and drove to the hotel designated by the contact. This hotel is still well-known in City A, because this is the only "seven-star" hotel in City A, the reason is that the owner of the hotel invested very high, and the whole hotel was decorated magnificently, extremely luxurious, and wanted to be rated as a five-star, becoming one of the best high-end hotels in City A. The room area does not meet the requirements of a five-star hotel, can not be rated as a five-star, and the hotel owner is completely in accordance with the five-star standard to build and invest, unwilling to be demoted star, so after the star evaluation, he privately has a confusing five little stars on the surface of the building outside the hotel gate, once made many people in City A think that this hotel is a real five-star hotel, but this small action of course can not be concealed from the judges, the judges are very dissatisfied with their moves, Asked them to dislike the deceptive one more star, the hotel turned a deaf ear to this, still the same, and finally the judges were also angry, simply because of the hotel's violations, canceled the hotel's star rating, this is good. Originally, there were still four stars, but now there are no stars, but the boss also has a set of scoundrel methods. He simply added a striking seven stars to the signboard of his hotel with great fanfare, and created a momentum in the publicity, saying that his hotel configuration has exceeded the existing rating standards, and can bring customers who come here to stay and negotiate with customers who exceed five stars, up to seven stars.
At this moment, the judges can only get angry, and there is no way to do it. People just advertise that their hotels have high configuration and good service, and they don't pull any official certification to fake. There is nothing more that can be done than to despise the shameless propaganda methods of the hotel owner. Of course, the owner of this hotel is not a traditional businessman who runs a hotel, but a halfway monk. Characters with deep pockets. He also doesn't care about the unwritten so-called rules of the hotel industry, and after the rating of the quarrel, simply by the temperament to operate, a few years later, although some business negotiation units are still willing to choose a regular star standard hotel as a venue, but this alternative way of "seven-star" hotel, but has also become a hot choice in the wedding market, after all, the decoration and service here is still remarkable. Even more welcoming than the usual four or five star hotels, the price is much cheaper. So many wallets are more solid people, marrying daughters-in-law, marrying daughters, or giving the elderly half a birthday, are more willing to choose here, anyway, a few stars and not eat and drink, the decoration here is more luxurious and decent, the dishes are good, and the price is also at the same level is more close to the people, so why not do it. Once this reputation was established, it slowly became an icon, and since then, the main source of income for the hotel has basically relied on various large and small celebrations.
When Dai Xu and Fang Yuan arrived there, the sun was already slanting westward, and the location of the café on the first floor of the hotel was just northwest, it was sunny at this time, fortunately, the central air conditioning in the hotel was blowing enough, and the sun didn't feel hot when it was shining, Dai Xu called the girl surnamed Wang, and the other party said that there were still some things at hand that had not been completed, so let them wait for a while, since they had to wait, naturally they couldn't sit in the café with an empty table and wait, so Dai Xu asked Fang Yuan to find a table that he felt comfortable to sit down and wait first, What he chose to drink in the past, Fang Yuan looked around, the café was quite quiet, except for the two or three waiters behind the bar, there was only a foreign old lady sitting in the corner who was reading a newspaper, Fang Yuan considered that he was going to talk about things with the girl surnamed Wang for a while, and the other party seemed to be a little resistant to cooperating with their investigation, so she chose a table that was far away from the floor-to-ceiling windows, away from the bar, and relatively quiet. After two minutes, Dai Xu came back and sat down next to her, followed by the waiter with a tray of two cups of coffee on the tray and two plates each containing a dime of cake, and walked to the table, where the waiter placed the coffee and cake in front of them, nodded and turned away.
The cake is very beautiful, the narrow corner is chocolate-flavored, the cake itself looks relatively soft, and a layer of chocolate cream with a very delicate texture is evenly smeared on it, and the top layer is evenly sprinkled with cocoa powder, as well as a delicate chocolate flower, before he eats it, just in front of him, the rich chocolate fragrance has already penetrated into his nostrils, making Fang Yuan feel that the worms in his stomach have been hooked up all of a sudden.
"Come, try it, this is what they recommended to me, saying that the pastry chef here is the best chocolate mousse cake, if it doesn't taste good, we will complain about the waiter here for cheating." Dai Xu handed the small fork to Fang Yuan and said to her jokingly.
Fang Yuan pursed her lips and smiled, but the fork cut a small tip from her corner of the cake and put it into her mouth, the smooth cream mousse circulated between her lips and tongue, and the sweet taste overflowed the entire mouth, she picked up the cup and took a sip of coffee, only milk and unsweetened coffee revealed a faint bitterness, this slight bitterness, and the sweetness and smoothness of chocolate are intertwined, complementing each other, making people feel comfortable from the stomach to the heart.
"No complaints, it's really delicious." She also joked to Dai Xu with a smile.
Dai Xu smiled more happily, there was some brilliance flashing in her eyes, after Fang Yuan was persuaded by herself, it seemed that she had really let go of the knot that Fang's mother had brought her, she hadn't deliberately starved herself these days, her original appetite was not particularly big, it was definitely not a big stomach king who was overeating, the problem of her figure, it is estimated that genetic factors still accounted for most of it, and now that she had returned to her normal diet, her cheeks, which had been hungry and flattened before, were slightly fuller, but her face had also become much more ruddy from the previous sallow.
After lunch, at this time in the evening, it was just when the stomach was a little hungry, a corner of chocolate mousse cake was in the stomach, Fang Yuan felt very satisfied, and the spirit was more sufficient, the two of them waited for more than forty minutes, the cake was finished, the coffee was also bottomed out, only to see a girl wearing a royal blue waistless sleeveless dress, only this pair of white high heels, hurriedly walked into the café, she looked around, and immediately eliminated the old foreign lady who was reading the newspaper in the corner, He went straight to Dai Xu and Fang Yuan, looked at them, and asked tentatively, "Are you from the Public Security Bureau?" ”
Dai Xu nodded, stretched out his hand and gestured to the empty sofa opposite: "Yes, we are, you are the Ms. Wang who talked to us on the phone before, right?" ”
"My name is Wang Yanya, you can call me Xiao Wang or Yanya." The girl nodded, introduced herself first, and then raised her hand to signal the waiter in the direction of the bar, and snapped her fingers, "Waiter, here, please bring us three glasses of American food for this table." ”
"No need, the two of us drank it when we were just waiting for you, and at this time, it's not good to drink too much coffee." Dai Xu declined Wang Yanya's kindness.
"Waiter, that's a cup of coffee and two cups of watermelon juice." As soon as Wang Yanya heard this, she immediately beckoned the waiter to change the drink she had just ordered, and then said to Dai Xu and Fang Yuan with a little apology, "I'm really embarrassed, I didn't expect to delay for so long just now, I was accompanying a customer above, I thought it would be over soon, but I didn't expect him to have a lot of tricks, and he had to do this and that, and he was tossing until now." (To be continued......)