Chapter 63: Revisiting Niu Qiang
When Yu Yuqian woke up, there was no trace of Chen Yiyan by her side, and there was a note on the table: You have a good rest today, give you a day off, and I will investigate the case with Ji Ping. Chen Yi stayed.
In Ji Ping's office, the door suddenly opened.
"Why are you alone? What about your assistant? Ji Ping saw that the person who opened the door was Chen Yiyan.
"She's sleeping." Chen Yiyan picked up Ji Ping's water cup and drank it in a big gulp, but Ji Ping didn't stop him.
"Yesterday, you came looking for me?" He put down his glass of water and sat down across from his desk.
Ji Ping hadn't looked at Chen Yiyan with his eyes since he came in, and continued to look at the documents on the table without speaking.
"Hey, hey." Chen Yiyan touched his head and smiled awkwardly, like a child who had done something wrong. "I'll pay attention next time."
Ji Ping still didn't make any moves. "Well, did you ask for any useful information yesterday?" Chen Yiyan asked tentatively.
This time Ji Ping finally put down the Chinese piece in his hand, and he crossed his fingers with both hands and looked at the big boy in front of him. "You told you what you thought yesterday? Are you going to find Niu Qiang alone? ”
"Well, I saw surveillance when I entered the bar before." After saying this, Chen Yiyan stopped.
Ji Ping exhaled deeply, he understood that Chen Yiyan was waiting for him to ask him about the next matter. "And then?"
Chen Yiyan heard Ji Ping's reply and knew that the other party had lost his temper. "I know that the surveillance of the Moonlight Bar will be deleted every day, so the police will not be able to get the tape even if they go to search it, but I am sure that Niu Qiang should have a backup videotape, so I am going to ask him to take a look at the situation of the deceased entering the bar that night."
"The identity of the deceased is known." Ji Ping said.
"Got it? Did you find it? ”
"No, it was Niu Qiang who told me, the deceased's name is Xiaoli."
"Full name?"
Ji Ping pushed the documents on the table to Chen Yiyan. The general content of the document: Song Xiaoli, a person from other provinces, is 23 years old this year, unemployed, has no fixed residence, and has no criminal record.
"Did you find the deceased's friend or something?" Chen Yiyan put down the document in his hand.
"Someone has been sent to inquire."
"By the way, did you find the bag?"
Chen Yiyan asked about the bag again, and Ji Ping's eyes turned to him again. "Nope!"
"By the way, I'm going to go to Niu Qiang again in the afternoon."
"What? Are you still going? ”
"You're with me?"
Ji Ping remembered the situation last night. Regardless of this Niu Qiang's background, just looking at his performance and words last night, he may be able to get more critical evidence from him.
The layout of this entertainment hall is different from Chen Yiyan's imagination, the environment is clean, the floor is tidy, and the occasional smoke will be blown away by the silent exhaust fan overhead. Chen Yiyan and Ji Ping went up to the second floor under the gaze of the people around them.
"Self-drawing!" Before they could see anyone, they heard the bald voice.
"Boss!" A man leaned down and whispered in the ear of a bald head. Turning around, Niu Qiang looked at the two people who walked behind him. "Why is Captain Ping and Detective Chen here? I missed it very much last night, and today I came to my regular entertainment venue to play cards with me, and catch up with the old days? ”
"I was interrupted yesterday, and today I have something to discuss with you. Not as a police officer and adviser. ”
Niu Qiang stared at Ji Ping for a long time, he waved his hand, and the people at the mahjong table withdrew.
"Sit." Niu Qiang pointed to the seat next to him and said.
The two of them sat down, "What do you have to discuss with me?" Niu Qiang touched the gold ring on his hand.
"I'd like to ask if you have any footage of the Moonlight Bar around one o'clock in the morning the day before yesterday." Chen Yiyan said.
Niu Qiang continued to twist the ring. "What's in it for me?"
"I can help you find someone who violates the rules of your bar." Chen Yiyan's words made Ji Ping a little puzzled, not to mention Niu Qiang, who felt that he knew everything about the bar.
"Someone broke the rules at my bar?" Niu Qiang laughed briefly. "How did I not know?"
"Gui Youzhi." Chen Yiyan only said one name.
"Gui Youzhi?" Although Xiaoli's name was asked by his subordinates to check after hearing about it, if Chen Yiyan knew that someone was doing something unsightly in his bar, he would definitely know, but now he couldn't remember who this name was.
"Who is Gui Youzhi?" Niu Qiang asked.
"It's very simple, you just have to show us the video of that day, and you will naturally know who this person is." Chen Yiyan said.
Niu Qiang's eyes were very sharp, as if he wanted to see through everything in Chen Yiyan's mind. "Little Four!" Niu Qiang shouted.
The man who had just bowed down to talk to him went upstairs and came to his side. "Is there a backup of the video from the day before yesterday?" Hearing Niu Qiang's words, Ji Ping glanced at Chen Yiyan, but he didn't expect him to be right.
"Yes, Brother Qiang." The little four in Niu Qiang's mouth replied.
"Okay, you follow me." Niu Qiang got up and walked to the innermost room on the second floor.
The entrance to this room is the same as the design on the second floor of the bar, and the layout inside is similar. It's just that there's an extra row of screens.
Xiao Si was operating in front of the screen, and after a while, there were several pictures on the screen. Chen Yiyan saw that it was the entrance to the bar, the dance floor hall, the private room on the first floor, the bar counter on the first floor, the stairs on the second floor, and the monitoring of the private room on the second floor. Under Xiao Si's operation, the video speed accelerated, and it soon reached about one o'clock in the morning.
Chen Yiyan, Ji Ping and Niu Qiang all stared at these pictures carefully. Soon, a woman appeared at the entrance of the bar, dressed the same as the deceased, but with an extra bag in her hand.
"That's her." Ji Ping said.
The woman enters the bar from the entrance of the bar, where she is talking to the bartender at the bar, moving her feet outward, and the bartender leaning forward, as if the woman is letting the bartender look at her shoes. The woman finished her drink and entered the dance floor hall, but instead of dancing, she came to the periphery of the dance floor hall. There was a man in a loose T-shirt, and the woman walked straight to him, as if she knew each other. The two met and began to communicate. The next picture made Niu Qiang clench his fists. The woman took out a stack of cash from her bag, and the man took out four packets of powdered items from his pocket, and the two of them handed over the money and delivered the goods in the other. The woman checks out at the bar and exits the bar, while the man continues to wander around the dance floor.
"He's Gui Youzhi?" Niu Qiang stared at the man in the picture and said.
"Yes, he is Gui Youzhi." Chen Yiyan replied.
"Can we take this video back with us?" Chen Yiyan made another request.
Niu Qiang seemed to be thinking about something, and he didn't answer Chen Yiyan's words for the first time.
"Okay, little four, you give them this paragraph." After speaking, Niu Qiang turned to look at Chen Yiyan. "I owe you a favor this time."
"This favor is offset by my friend's favor." On the way here, Ji Ping told Chen Yiyan what happened last night, and he said so in the end. "This Niu Qiang is still a little interesting, when I left, I told him that I owe him a favor this time."
"Okay!" Niu Qiang agreed.
"Okay, then what happened last night and today, let's treat it as if it didn't happen." Chen Yiyan stood up, and Ji Ping agreed on the side.
Niu Qiang saw the two of them go out of the gate and get into the police car from the window on the second floor. He asked Xiao Si on the side: "Who is this Gui Youzhi?" Who allowed him to sell in our bar? ”
"This, I don't know about this." Xiao Si is Niu Qiang's confidant and the person he trusts the most.
"You help me find out this person's figure, I want to take a good look at who is so bold as to dare to sell goods in my bar."
In the police car, Ji Ping looked at Chen Yiyan who was holding a videotape in the passenger seat. "How do you know he doesn't know about Gui Youzhi?"
"Do you remember what the plainclothes of the two anti-narcotics teams said?" Without waiting for Ji Ping to speak, Chen Yiyan continued: "They said that this Niu Qiang seemed to know that they were going to do something to him, and they didn't find any evidence in that week. Then this shows that Niu Qiang must have instructed his subordinates not to sell goods in bars. And this Gui Youzhi sold four packs of goods to the deceased in the bar, do you think he will know. ”
"Isn't that what I asked you?" Ji Ping continued to drive.
"You've seen Niu Qiang, let's not talk about whether he is a show for us, but the contact in the past two days has let me know that this person is a very righteous person, and he is definitely not the kind of low-level boss."
"It's not that the boss is coarse, I can really see it from the decoration of the bar and the entertainment room, as well as his style, but righteous? How can you see righteousness? ”
"Didn't you say that Niu forced you to come in to find me? I think this should be because he thinks that you are a very righteous person and his taste. Another point, this Niu Qiang is very strong everywhere, but he doesn't know about the video backup, which is obviously because he trusts the little four next to him. Chen Yiyan said some points, and Ji Ping glanced at him and stopped talking.
Back at the police station, Ji Ping held another meeting and asked a group of police officers to watch the video to see if they could get some information from it.
"You go back first, the one in your house should still be waiting for you." At the end of the meeting, Ji Ping said to Chen Yiyan.
Chen Yiyan, who wanted to stay and watch the video together, remembered Yu Yuqian's face, and he didn't refuse.
"Knock knock." There was a knock on Yu Yuqian's door.
The door opened, and Chen Yiyan stood outside hers.
"I'm back." He said.
"Hmm!" She said
"I didn't talk nonsense last night, did I?"
"Nope." Yu Yuqian shook her head.
"Okay."
Yu Yuqian's pupils had Chen Yiyan's reflection, and he took out the hand behind his back, and in his hand, there was a bouquet of flowers.