Lu Cheng called some of his subordinates to go to the school to investigate, and sure enough, the teachers and classmates reported that Zhou Haoxuan had not come to school in the past two days, and there was a class he was going to take today, so he was supposed to show it in class.

He didn't ask the teacher for leave, which was a bit of an anomaly, and he was usually a very well-behaved student. When I called him, no one answered.

He can't have some accidents, right? This was Lu Cheng's first reaction.

Fortunately, his roommate provided a message.

"Zhou Haoxuan's family lives locally, and sometimes he goes home to live. I don't know if he's at home. ”

Teacher Chen also tried to contact his parents, but for unknown reasons, the contact number he left for the parents at the school could not be reached.

"Hey, Zhou Haoxuan has always been excellent, there are few things to worry about, and we haven't contacted his parents. I didn't expect this phone number to be unreachable. Teacher Chen began to sigh again.

Lu Cheng immediately decided: "It seems that the situation is special now, we have to go directly to his house." ”

Lu Cheng was about to call Xiaomei and the fat man, and before finally deciding the number of people to set off, Lu Cheng hesitated, then took out his mobile phone and dialed Shen Ran's phone.

"There are new circumstances in the case."

"Oh? What's the situation? Whether he thought Shen Ran wanted to help him before, or for whatever reason, Lu Cheng could see that he was concerned about this case.

"Zhou Haoxuan is gone, I'm going to go to his house to find him."

"What? It's gone? ”

"Hmm. I want to invite you along, I don't know if you have ......"

"When am I going?" So far, Shen Ran has never rejected him in matters of work.

"I'll pick you up in a minute." Lucheng Road.

He has become more and more accustomed to taking Shen Ran with him when he goes out on a mission, as long as it is not a dangerous task, Shen Ran is next to him to give him ideas.

Whether it was because Shen Ran wanted to understand the facts of the case, so he was willing to take the initiative to inform him, or more out of a certain mood that he wanted to take him, Lu Cheng couldn't tell the difference.

He didn't want to tell the difference.

He was just used to waiting for Shen Ran to appear in front of him again after hanging up the phone.

He sent a few more police officers to take another car, and he went to pick up Shen Ran alone.

Zhou Haoxuan's home is in Shencheng City, a certain distance from the central area, about 20 kilometers away from the school, which belongs to a less central, but not remote, eastern part of the city.

"No. 5 Shucheng Road, his address is near here."

Lu Cheng drove along the road to observe the road signs, and at the same time dialed the fat man's phone to see if he had driven to their destination.

The houses in this neighborhood are not hard to find, and they are a row of neatly planned townhouses.

Zhou Haoxuan's home is in one of the two-story villas.

Although this kind of two-story villa is not as luxurious as a single-family multi-storey villa, it is enough to live in such a two-story villa within the urban area of Shenshi, which is enough to show that Zhou Haoxuan's family is well-off and his living conditions are very good.

Mr. Chen once introduced to Lu Cheng that Zhou Haoxuan's family conditions are good, it is said that his father is a businessman who makes a lot of money, and Haoxuan's family bought a house locally just after he went to college.

Finally, at the door of a small courtyard, several people found a vacant seat and parked the car.

The fat man walked through the courtyard first, walked up to the red lacquered gate, knocked a few times, and rang the doorbell a few times.

The doorbell rang, and everyone waited for the door.

After a while, no one answered the door, and the fat man stepped forward and rang the doorbell a few more times.

Just when Lu Cheng was thinking about whether to break in violently, there was finally movement in the door.

The door slowly opened from the inside.

Lu Cheng and his party also slowly stepped forward, ready to take out the documents in their pockets to show their identity.

Unexpectedly, after opening the door, the first person they saw was Zhou Haoxuan.

He stood in the doorway, staring at each other.

Because they had all met before, Lu Cheng's hand holding the document slowly lowered again.

"Zhou Haoxuan?"

Everyone didn't expect that Zhou Haoxuan, who made the school teachers and classmates easy to find for a while, stayed at home like this, and he was fine, and he was fine.

So why didn't he answer the phone? What about his family?

The doubts in Lu Cheng's heart arose again.

"Ah, it's Officer Lu, I'm really sorry, come in." Zhou Haoxuan generously invited everyone into the house to rest, and Lu Cheng still had questions to ask, so he entered the gate naturally without refusal.

After entering the house, Zhou Haoxuan immediately invited all the guests to sit down one by one.

The decoration and furnishings in the room are not the same as Lu Cheng's imagination.

From the outside, the house is the same as the villa next door, with a modern and European-style look.

However, when you enter the house, you will be greeted by a full set of mahogany furniture and crimson wooden floors.

It seems that the owner of the house prefers a Chinese-style home.

The coffee table was covered by a red flannel, Zhou Haoxuan walked over and lifted the flannel, and Lu Cheng saw clearly that this was a Chinese-style tea table carved from logs.

It is filled with exquisite tea utensils for people to use for tea tasting.

Zhou Haoxuan beckoned a few people to sit down on the mahogany sofa and make them tea.

Lu Cheng said that there was no need to bother, and continued to observe the environment in the house.

Shen Ran didn't speak all the time.

Zhou Haoxuan responded politely and said that it was not troublesome, and he was unhurriedly making tea.

It's hard to imagine that such a well-mannered and good student would be absent from school for no reason.

Lu Cheng found that although most of the furniture in the room was red, the stucco on the walls revealed a faint green, and the whole space appeared harmonious and elegant under the subtle contrasting colors. At the same time, there seems to be a cold, indescribable quiet atmosphere.

yes, it's quiet.

This big house, except for Zhou Haoxuan, I didn't see anyone else, and I didn't even invite a cleaner to clean the house?

"Is there no one else at home?" Lu Cheng became curious about this question before asking the main question.

Shen Ran picked up the teacup in front of him and also waited with bated breath for Zhou Haoxuan's answer.

"Oh, it's really me. My father rarely comes home, he works outside, and he just came back in the past two days, he was so tired that he had just fallen asleep in his room, and I didn't want to disturb his rest, so I didn't let him come out. ”

"Oh, understood." Although it is normal for the police to come to the house, all the members of the family should come out to see each other. But there is no explicit provision that they have to meet all the members, and now that they have met Zhou Haoxuan, the purpose of this trip seems to have been achieved.

However, Xiaomei recorded his words in accordance with the rules, and Zhou Haoxuan didn't care when he saw it.

"You just talked about your father, but what about your mother?" Lu Cheng remembered that when the counselor, Mr. Chen, introduced his family situation, he only heard that his father was a businessman, but did not mention his mother.

Hearing this question, Zhou Haoxuan held the teapot's hand, paused, then lowered his head slightly, and said politely and with a smile: "Mom left a long time ago, and she doesn't live with us. ”

"Oh, sorry, we didn't know about it before." Lu Cheng also replied politely, but he also wanted to know more: "When you say leave, do you mean that you divorced your father and didn't live together?" ”

Zhou Haoxuan still kept his head down and smiled, but his voice was lowered: "Well, we don't live together anymore." ”

Although Zhou Haoxuan's attitude had always been courteous and thoughtful, Lu Cheng could feel that he didn't want to talk about this topic anymore.

Lu Cheng simply didn't ask about this and cut straight to the point.

"Why have you been absent from school for the past few days? Teachers and classmates can't find you. ”

At this time, Zhou Haoxuan raised his head and looked at Lu Cheng with the same surprise: "I didn't skip school, Officer Lu." I didn't want to go to school, I just forgot. ”

"Forgot?" Everyone including Lu Cheng stared at him with puzzled eyes, perhaps seeing that his answer not only did not alleviate everyone's confusion, but also aggravated Zhou Haoxuan added: "My family is special, my father rarely comes back, he just came back in the past two days, I want to accompany him well, no, I forgot about the class." I'll make up for these lessons later. ”

It sounded like he and his father had only seen each other for a long time, and he cared a lot about his father.

"Then why didn't the teacher answer your call?"

"Oh, I didn't look at my phone when I was with my father, I put it aside, and I don't have it with me now, I forgot where I put it, I'll look for it later. My father's mobile phone changed its number a long time ago, and it was no longer in use, and the teacher may have called Dad's previous mobile phone number, so it didn't get through. ”

How many people don't feel a little reluctant to explain how many young people don't have the habit of holding their mobile phones all the time? But that's not for sure, maybe he's an exception. Without other credentials, Lu Cheng is not easy to question anything at will.

Later, Lu Cheng asked him a few more questions about Wang Tao and the disappearance.

"Wang Tao said that he saw you on the day he was arrested, and you stared at him from the side, and we also saw you in the surveillance video."

Lu Cheng's body leaned forward slightly, staring at Zhou Haoxuan's eyes, wanting to put a little pressure on him.

"Ah, did Wang Tao see the wrong person? How could I stare at him, what do I see him doing? Surveillance footage...... I really don't remember, I can't say for sure if I moved in that place that day, I didn't deliberately remember it, maybe I went to the supermarket to buy something, and I passed by that neighborhood, so I can't tell. He spread his hands and made a helpless gesture: "You said you saw me in the surveillance...... No way. Is it wrong? ”

This time, Zhou Haoxuan looked at Lu Cheng.

His tone was breezy and unhurried. Hearing that someone was following Wang Tao didn't show any special surprise, or a weak heart. just cleared up his suspicions in an orderly manner at the first time.

To be honest, Lu Cheng really can't be sure that the figure that appears in the surveillance is Zhou Haoxuan.

All of them just say like him.

Even Wang Tao did not clearly identify Zhou Haoxuan, although Wang Tao said that there was a man in black who followed him more than once, looked at him, and even frightened him, but he couldn't say for sure that person was Zhou Haoxuan. It's just that he thinks so in his heart.

So when Zhou Haoxuan looked at Lu Cheng so calmly, Lu Cheng had nothing to say.

Zhou Haoxuan really has nothing to do with this matter?

There is not enough evidence to point to, so on the face of it it looks like this.

However, intuition made Lu Cheng keep an eye on him even more.

Maybe it's because of his years of work experience, or maybe it's because of Shen Ran's influence, he now pays more attention to the tone and demeanor of the speaker.

Is it normal to hear the police say that there is a figure in the surveillance video, but they do not show panic and surprise?

Of course, there is an explanation that he is open-minded and does not have the slightest self-doubt about what he has not done. But another possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, he knew in advance.

He knew in advance that he might appear in the surveillance, or even if he didn't know that he was photographed in the surveillance, he also knew that it was impossible for others to see him clearly from the surveillance.

To speculate further on this logic, it is not that he does not remember whether he passed there that day, but on the contrary, he clearly remembers that he was wearing a black hooded suit and knew the location of the surveillance very well, so he can be sure that the police could not see what he was doing there.