【2nd Update】

Zhong Han also felt that this matter was a little strange, in his concept, a person who did not have the space and conditions to raise birds or other pets, suddenly bought a lot of birds for no reason, and was still betrayed by his boyfriend, and his mood was the most depressed and depressed stage, and he suddenly did this kind of thing, I am afraid that the purpose of buying birds is either out of the good deeds that the parties themselves think - release, otherwise, it is not a good thing.

After hearing this, Dai Xu also felt that his worries were justified, so he decided to inquire about the two flowers, birds, fish and insect markets in City A, as soon as this decision was made, Lin Feige asked with a bitter face if she could not go, she said that when she was a child, she was taken by adults to the house of relatives in her hometown, and was chased and pecked by a few free-range chickens on the side of the road for a long time, although she was not really pecked, but since then there has been a shadow in her heart, not only chickens, Including all the other birds with feathers, wings and claws, they have palpitations, and when they see it, they feel fury in their hearts, and they feel uncomfortable when they get closer.

Although when she said this reason, Ma Kai couldn't help but laugh so hard that he couldn't stand up straight, and Dai Xu also felt a little crying and laughing, but everyone has something that they are more afraid of in their hearts, which is still understandable, so he didn't force it, and told Lin Feige to stay, and try to collect relevant reports on Wan Huijie's case on the Internet, Dai Xu believes that different industries perform their own duties, in order to better complete their work goals, the focus is different, and the central purpose of the local public security organs is to solve the case. The second is to maintain social order, they don't want any case to cause social panic, so they don't want to publicize it, and their focus is also on clues related to solving the case, while the news media is different, what they need is to attract people's attention to sensational news, and if they can't get the first-hand information of the public security department, they will try their best to get through the victim's family, the victim's teachers and classmates, these other ways to collect some trivial information as much as possible, Although those things may not have helped solve the case at that time, after such a long time has passed, and similar cases have occurred, looking back at those reports, maybe there will be some enlightening gains. Since Lin Feige was afraid of birds and didn't dare to go to the flower, bird, fish and insect market, then this job would be handed over to her.

It can be seen that Lin Feige is really afraid of birds, after listening to Dai Xu's arrangement, she almost wanted to jump up and give Dai Xu a hug, and immediately happily accepted her task, Dai Xu took Ma Kai and Fang Yuan and set off, and drove straight to a relatively large flower, bird, fish and insect market in City A.

When she arrived at the flower, bird, fish and insect market, Fang Yuan was also a little in a trance, not that she was also as afraid of birds as Lin Feige, but this flower, bird, fish and insect market, she had been brought by her father once many years ago, but she didn't expect that after so many years, except for the people who bought things here may have changed a little, there was basically no obvious change, it seemed to be the same as in her memory. When she was young, she especially wanted to be able to raise a puppy or kitten, but because her parents were very busy with work, they didn't have time to take care of the child and have the energy to play with a small animal, so after begging for coquettishness These methods have been tried and all of them have failed, Fang's father promised to take her to the flower, bird, fish and insect market to have a look, and when her parents and Fang Yuan have the energy to raise small animals, they will buy it for her. As a result, this promise was left behind in a blink of an eye, only Fang Yuan still remembered it, and later the changes in the family made the promise even more empty.

Oh, in fact, it's not exactly empty talk, it's just fulfilled on someone else's body. Before Fang's father remarried, in order to please his remarried wife's daughter, he took the initiative to buy a snow-white curly-haired puppy for the girl who was two or three years younger than Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan's only visit to his father's new home saw the dog, which was the breed he had always wanted to raise, and the stepmother's daughter also specially emphasized that this dog was a gift from Fang's father, when Fang Yuan teased the puppy and had a good time with the puppy, the girl suddenly came over and kicked the puppy hard, and cursed:" Can't tell who's the owner and who's an outsider, what a dog thing! ”

At that moment, Fang Yuan felt as if something had broken in his heart, Father Fang didn't stop his stepmother's daughter or say anything, she didn't say a word, and soon left with an excuse to leave, she had been deliberately forgetting these things, but as soon as she came to this flower, bird, fish and insect market, the memories of the past came back.

Ma Kai didn't notice Fang Yuan's strange appearance at first, while following Dai Xu all the way to find the shop that sold birds, while also looking here and there, and when he encountered a cage at the door, he couldn't help but come to the front to take a few more looks, only to find out after a while that Dai Xu was focused on looking for a bird shop in the middle of the chaotic shop pù and stalls, while Fang Yuan followed behind Dai Xu with an absent-minded look, from beginning to end, it seemed that the only person who was looking at the small animals by the way was himself.

"Fang Yuan, don't you like kittens and puppies? I thought you little girls were all good at this! He leaned over to Fang Yuan and pointed to a Shar Pei lying in the dog cage of a stall next to him, "Aren't you girls like you've lost your soul when you see this kind of kitten and puppy, you're not really interested." ”

Fang Yuan smiled bitterly, and prevaricated: "If you like it, you have to have capital, I still have a problem even supporting myself now, how can I have the energy to take care of other small animals, raise dogs and inject dog food, why don't you spend money." ”

"What's the matter, when I go back to work after I finish my job, won't I have a salary, if the salary is high or low, there must be no problem with raising a dog." Ma Kai waved his hand indifferently, and then suddenly said on a whim, "If you don't think it's good, let's have a dog together!" Usually buy dog food, walk the dog, you leave it to me, you don't have to worry about it, you want to play with me, or I'll take it out for you! ”

"Forget it, can't I take advantage of you in this way?" Fang Yuan hurriedly refused with a smile.

Ma Kai waved his hand: "What kind of advantage is this, I don't care." ”

"But I care." Fang Yuan replied very simply, not giving Ma Kai any room to continue to discuss.

Seeing that she refused so happily, Ma Kai couldn't say anything more, and pouted a little reluctantly.

Dai Xu didn't know whether he didn't hear the conversation between the two people, or he wasn't interested in hearing it, so he didn't react, he walked in the front, never looked back, and with the advantage of his height, he looked for his target in the more mixed flower and bird market. The situation mentioned by Zhong Han on the phone before was that Cao Yueting was bumped into holding a lot of birds, not three or two, otherwise it would not make the people who met her feel so surprised, so Dai Xu had already explained to Fang Yuan and Ma Kai on the way here, what they were looking for was a stall or shop with a certain scale of operation, and it was definitely not the kind of small vendor who squatted on the roadside of the market with a few birds in a cage or net pocket, and now he was also looking for a matching stall shop pù according to his own speculation.

Probably for the sake of ease of management, although the area selling birds is next to the part where cats and dogs are sold, it is not mixed together, and it is only after passing through the area dedicated to selling small animals that there are gradually stalls and shops selling birds. Dai Xu took Cao Yueting's photo, and began to ask one stall by another, asking the stall owner or shopkeeper to help remember whether she had seen the person in the photo, and whether she had bought any kind of bird here.

At the beginning, the stalls I was asked about had no impression of Cao Yueting, and when I asked about the fourth or fifth store, someone recognized Cao Yueting's photo for the first time in a fixed store.

"I've seen this little girl, she's come to my shop to buy birds." The owner, a man in his sixties, with short, sparse black and white hair, sat on the innermost chair of the shop, with a miniature television set next to it, and the image on the TV was unclear and I don't know what kind of TV drama was playing. After he looked at the photo, he recognized Cao Yueting almost without hesitation, and answered very firmly.

"When was it?" Dai Xu asked.

The old man thought for a while, counted the days on his fingers, and said, "Yo, that's been a while, a few months?" It's been at least three or four months, and it's cold at that time, and there's snow outside! ”

"It's been so long, do you remember it so clearly?" Ma Kai asked, somewhat surprised.

The old man glanced at him with a little dissatisfaction, with a posture that he thought he was young and couldn't speak, and said to Dai Xu: "You are a little older, I guess you are a sensible person, let me tell you, lest you not understand." This little girl came to me to buy this bird, but I didn't buy it, I didn't sell it to her, so I was very impressed, I was a trader, I didn't let customers come to send money and I pushed it out, but that little girl was wrong, so I didn't want to do her business, so I didn't sell it to her. You know, I'm doing business, but I'm not the same thing as the tofu seller in the market! What they sell is 'something', what I sell is 'living thing', don't look at the little bird that grows small, no matter how small it is, it's a life, we can't think that other birds deserve to be cheap, buy it back and raise it well, that's a matter of ability and level, I can only sell it when I tell it, and when I look back, people don't remember it, I don't care if I listen to me. But if you don't have a good idea when you come to me, and you have been holding back the bad from the beginning, then it won't work, and if I sell live birds to that kind of person, I will be tantamount to making a loss, and that is a lack of morality. ”R1152