Chapter Forty-Six: The Tavern Secrets

On November 19, near lunch, Li Nuo walked into Zheng Guoqiang's office and said: Zheng Ke, I invite you to dinner.

Zheng Guoqiang was about to go to the cafeteria to eat, and when she said this, he quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: What are you inviting me to eat?

Li Nuo said: Sauce pork knuckles, pig ears, stewed donkey meat, do you want to eat?

Zheng Guoqiang said: Then dare to be kind, where is this place you are talking about?

Li Nuo pulled Zheng Guoqiang out of the door and got into the car, and the Jetta drove on Xinhua West Road and went straight to Zhaozhuang. In fact, Zheng Guoqiang understood Li Nuo's intention to invite him to dinner, so he came to push the boat along the river, drove all the way west, turned around Xinhua West Road and drove onto Zhaozhuang Street, and a few minutes later arrived at the "Old Chentou Tavern", and the two got out of the car and walked in to ask for a single room.

Li Nuo said: Section chief, what do you want to eat, just order, I'll treat you.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: Do you really want to invite me? I don't have to pay for it?

Li Nuo said: You don't need to spend money, you can rest assured.

Zheng Guoqiang also politely ordered sauce pig ears, donkey meat, stewed hen, and asked for two glasses of fresh juice and a bottle of beer, he poured a glass of beer and said: I can drink a bottle if I don't drive.

Li Nuo said: I'll open it, you can drink it, a few bottles will do.

Zheng Guoqiang took a sip and said: Say, what do you want me to do?

Li Nuo whispered: Last night, I and the high-end found the surveillance video of the night of November 15th from the "Xiaomei Photo Studio" opposite this tavern, do you want to see it?

Zheng Guoqiang hurriedly asked: There is surveillance in the photo studio, and you two are burglarizing?

Li Nuo said: Being the section chief is smart, it is a high-end sneak into the photo studio, I have the heart to be a thief but not the courage to be a thief, he stole it, I don't care how you punish him, the important thing is that we found a lot of secrets in the tavern, so I asked you to take a look.

After speaking, Li Nuo handed the mobile phone to Zheng Guoqiang, Zheng Guoqiang took it and looked at it and said: You asked me to investigate the case?

Li Nuo said: Yes, I don't want others to know about this matter for the time being, so I asked you to come quietly.

Zheng Guoqiang said: Why don't you let the high-end come?

Li Nuo said: You are a leader, authoritative, what's the matter is also the section chief, let's interrogate the tavern shopkeeper, he must know about the night of the 15th, maybe he can get valuable clues.

Zheng Guoqiang said: Why doesn't this sound good, why do you call me also a section chief? I'm the section chief, and the deputy is not considered the section chief? Yours is the real thing.

Li Nuo waved his hand to stop his words, put on a smile and said: Section Chief, Section Chief Zheng, you will investigate the case now.

Zheng Guoqiang pursed his lips and shouted: The boss is here? Come in for a moment.

A hunchbacked old man in his sixties walked in. He is the owner of the "Lao Chen Tavern", the tavern does not have many customers, the old couple is busy, Lao Chen Tou is in front of the guests, and his wife is steaming rice and stir-frying vegetables in the back kitchen.

Zheng Guoqiang politely asked Lao Chen Tou to sit down and asked: Brother, I am from the Second Criminal Investigation Department of Luancheng, and I specially came to ask you something, how much do you know and how much you say, you can't talk nonsense.

Old Chen was a little scared when he heard this, and his expression became nervous.

Li Nuo said: Uncle, don't be afraid, this matter has nothing to do with you, we just want to know if an old man and a young man have come to eat with you on the night of the 15th?

Old Chen squinted his wrinkled eyes and blinked twice, but did not speak.

Li Nuo said: Uncle, men are in their fifties and wear coats, and women have curly hair in their thirties, think about it.

Old Chen Tou recalled and said: 15th, right? Yes, it's this private room, I don't think they look like the grandfathers.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: What did they order?

Lao Chen Tou recalled and said: There were few dishes, it was the little daughter-in-law who invited the old man, as if she had ordered donkey meat, boiled peanuts, sauce pig ears and a bottle of liquor.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: What kind of wine are you drinking?

Old Chen Tou replied: I don't have any good wine here, Erguotou.

Zheng Guo-Qiang asks: Who drinks more?

Lao Chen replied: I didn't drink much, one cup per person.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: Did you hear what they said?

Old Chen Tou recalled for a moment and replied: It seems to be talking about painting, yes, it's about painting, I didn't hear what painting was talking about.

Li Nuo said: Uncle, you go on.

Lao Chen said: I heard a sentence or two when I was serving them food, but I didn't mean to eavesdrop.

Zheng Guoqiang hurriedly said: At first glance, your brother is an honest and loyal person, and he will definitely not deliberately eavesdrop on others.

Old Chen Tou said: No, by the way, the old man went to the thatched house.

Li Nuo asked: Didn't the little daughter-in-law go?

Lao Chen thought for a while and said: I didn't pay attention to whether she went or not, but there was really something wrong.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: Brother, you can say something slowly.

Old Chen Tou said very mysteriously: When the old man went to the thatched house, another person came in and also entered this room.

When Li Nuo heard this, he asked urgently: Male or female?

Old Chen Tou said: Male.

Li Nuo asked: What are his characteristics?

Old Chen said: He wears a hat with a large brim.

Zheng Guo-Qiang asked: Baseball cap?

Old Chen nodded hurriedly and said: Yes, it's called a baseball cap

Zheng Guoqiang asked: What time do you remember?

Lao Chen said: It was more than 10 o'clock, and I didn't remember the specific time.

Zheng Guo-Keung asked: How long did the man in the baseball cap stay in this house?

Old Chen Tou said: That is, he left in three or four minutes, and the old man came back from the thatched house as soon as he left.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: How long did they drink before leaving?

Lao Chen replied: It takes more than ten minutes for two people to leave, and when they leave, they are brilliant.

Li Nuo asked: What's wrong?

Old Chen Tou smiled and said: The little daughter-in-law hugged the old man and called him dear, and said that she would take him to be chic and chic, but the old man didn't say anything like a fool.

Li Nuo took out his mobile phone for Lao Chen to see, and there was a photo of a man wearing a baseball cap on his phone. Lao Chen recognized it at a glance: yes, it's not him.

Zheng Guoqiang asked: Brother, have you noticed what car is parked north of the store?

Old Chen Tou replied: There were only four or five guests that night, and there were three cars parked in the corner, and the black light blinded me when I didn't see what car it was, by the way, the old man and his little daughter-in-law were sitting in a red car.

Old Chen Tou doesn't care what Li Nuo asks, he knows so much.

Zheng Guoqiang said: Brother, don't tell others what we ask you today.

Old Chen nodded and agreed: Well, I won't tell anyone else.

After asking, the two of them started to eat, and Li Nuo said while eating: Section chief, Huang Kaiyuan and Yu Kexin mentioned the matter of painting, it must be related to Ji Yu's murder, you see, Huang Kaiyuan and Yu Kexin drank wine here, but I don't understand why Yu Kexin asked Huang Kaiyuan to drink? Why did the cap who came in halfway take advantage of Huang Kaiyuan to go to the thatched house, no, he came in only when he went to the toilet, it must not be a coincidence, maybe it's a conspiracy?

Zheng Guoqiang asked: Do you suspect that Yu Kexin made a game for Huang Kaiyuan?

Li Nuo replied: I think so, Zhao Yong told Zhang Kai that Huang Kaiyuan met Sun Guangtang at the "Sister Na Teahouse" on the night of the 15th, and was almost shot to death with a miserable white face, why did Yu Kexin ask him to dinner so coincidentally? How could he have just been frightened and still be able to eat here? Unless Yu Kexin has something that interests him, he won't come.

Zheng Guoqiang drank tea and said: Well, Ji Yu was killed and someone framed Sun Guangtang, Sun Guangtang was in Kexin's sweat steam hall at the time, Shen Xiuxiu, who gave Sun Guangtang physiotherapy, resigned and returned to his hometown the next day, and was killed by Deng Yan within two days, does Yu Kexin know who killed Ji Yu? Or do you know who wants to frame Sun Guangtang?

Li Nuo continued: Section chief, are you saying that someone has made a double-sided game? killed Huang Kaiyuan and didn't let Kexin go, let the two people who knew the secret die together, and made a live broadcast scandal, which is really killing two birds with one stone.

Zheng Guoqiang drank a cup of tea and said: You go on.

Li Nuo said: Look, the miserable white face killed Duan Biao when he was about to speak, and what about Duan Biao? It is related to Ji Yu's killing, and killing Huang Kaiyuan doesn't mean that Huang also knows where Ji Yu saw the half of the painting? Huang Kaiyuan didn't shoot Huang Kaiyuan in the teahouse because Zhao Yong's shot was stirred, maybe... The teahouse is just a pretense, because killing Huang Kaiyuan in the teahouse is a murder case, but if Huang Kaiyuan and Yu Kexin take drugs and make some scandals, it will be different, will all this be designed with a miserable white face, he used drugs to control Huang Kaiyuan and Yu Kexin.

Zheng Guoqiang said: What you said makes sense.

Li Nuo pondered for a moment and said: It's just that I don't understand one thing, why did Yu Kexin jump off the building?

Zheng Guoqiang said: Wait, according to what you said, he planned two steps with a miserable white face, and he didn't really want to shoot Huang Kaiyuan in the teahouse at all, but scared him away, leaving Yu Kexin with a reason to ask Huang Kaiyuan, so Huang Kaiyuan and Yu Kexin came to the tavern to meet, and during the meal, the baseball cap came in and gave Huang Kaiyuan hallucinogens, and then the scandal of the "Deber Hotel" occurred. In this way, Yu Kexin is in the same group as Miserable White Face, but she doesn't know that Miserable White Face also wants her life.

Li Nuo said: Is the baseball cap the same person as the miserable white face?

Liu Guanghui said: Yes, he is the person who set up the bureau, and he is also the person who killed Ji Yu.

Li Nuo said: I'm still old and spicy.

Zheng Guoqiang said: What we analyzed is still conjecture, but we must find the baseball cap, and only by finding him will we get more information, understand?

Li Nuo said: Understood, I'll start checking when I go back.

Zheng Guoqiang smiled and said: Do you still want to use high-end?

Li Nuo also smiled and said: Section chief, why is it still called utilization, this is his business.

Zheng Guoqiang said: Does he often use illegal means to black people, black or not, I don't dare to say no, this kid is too thief, you just use him quietly, but remember to be optimistic about him, don't let him cause trouble.

Li Nuo replied: Oh, section chief, you didn't catch him and he can't talk nonsense, I definitely look at him, you can rest assured.

The two of them ate and drank enough, said goodbye to the "Old Chentou Tavern", and drove back to Corey.