"Okay, no problem." The boss was very cooperative and took out a phone number from his mobile phone, handed it to Xia Shi and said, "This is my nephew's contact number." It's just that if you want to find him, you may have to call later. Nowadays, young people like to sleep lazy, and it is estimated that he has not gotten up yet. ”

"What does your nephew do?"

"He's a college student now, and when he's not busy with classes, he comes to me to help out and earn some living expenses."

"What's his name?"

"Zheng Lei."

"Please write his address to me, I really can't get in touch, so we'll go to his place to find him."

"Okay, wait a minute!" The boss walked to the innermost small desk, picked up a voided courier list, quickly wrote an address on it, and handed it to Xia Shi when he came back, "This is the house he shared with his friends outside." ”

"Okay, thank you." Xia Shi said a kind word, and then left this messy small shop with Gu Song.

After going out, Xia Shi tried to call Zheng Lei a few times, and sure enough, as the boss said, the other party's mobile phone had not been turned on yet, and he was probably sleeping lazily at home.

Gu Song took a turn around the vicinity of the express outlet and found that there was very little monitoring on this road, and there were several alleys interspersed with it. If the person sending the courier wants to deliberately avoid the monitoring probe, as long as he has come here in advance to understand the situation, it is not a very difficult thing.

The two of them returned to the car, Xia Shi set a navigation on his mobile phone, and said to Gu Song: "Let's go, let's go directly to the house to find him." ”

After a while, the two of them came to the door of Zheng Lei's house. After knocking on the door for a long time, a shirtless boy in shorts opened the door very unhappily and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"Excuse me, does Zheng Lei live here?" Gu Song looked at the boy in front of him and asked. The latter was probably woken up from a sweet dream, got up more seriously, looked at Gu Song with strange eyes, and asked angrily, "Who are you?" What are you looking for him for? ”

"We're the police, let's get him to know something." Xia Shi showed his ID and said impatiently.

As soon as the boy saw that the police had come to the door, he immediately replied honestly: "Zheng Lei went to the Internet café to play games all night, and he hasn't come back yet." ”

"Which internet café is he, do you know?"

"I know, on the street opposite our house, the one he often goes to is called Xinyuan Internet Cafe."

"Okay, you go back and stay with your girlfriend, we won't bother you." Gu Song said to the boy with a smile. The latter opened his mouth in surprise, his expression a little embarrassed.

Three minutes later, they found the Internet café across the street that Zheng Lei's roommate had said. The Internet café is located on the second floor, the area is not too large, and it is smoky and mixed with all kinds of unpleasant smells. However, at this time of the morning, there are not many people surfing the Internet.

Xia Shi explained the situation to the network administrator and asked him to help check which machine Zheng Lei was using, but before he finished speaking, Gu Song saw a boy in the corner of the Internet café sneakily walking towards a small passage. Gu Song poked Xia Shi with his elbow, "Eh, do you think that person is Zheng Lei?" ”

Xia Shi looked in the direction indicated by Gu Song, nodded and said, "That's right, it's him." After saying that, the two of them quickened their pace and walked towards the small passage in the Internet café. The passage was long and narrow, empty of people, with a stained wall on one side and three bathrooms for two women and one man on the other. At the end of the passage there was a window, just large enough for an adult of normal stature to pass through.

"What's the situation......" Gu Song muttered in his mouth while checking whether there was anyone in the bathroom. When he came to the window and saw that the boy was limping downstairs into the distance, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Damn, what's wrong with these people, why did they run away without their lives when they saw the police?" ”

He climbed onto the windowsill, intending to jump from the second floor to catch Zheng Lei back. However, when he remembered the experience of being rudely ripped off the windowsill by Xia Shi yesterday afternoon and falling all over his body, he couldn't help but look back.

Sure enough, Xia Shi was really standing behind him, but the other party didn't act directly today, but said to him in a consultative tone: "Your injury is not yet healed, so leave the rough work of 'jumping off the building' to me." After speaking, the two quickly switched places, and Xia Shi jumped to the backyard downstairs with quick movements, and shouted to the lame Zheng Lei, "Stop, don't run!" ”

Gu Song immediately returned to the main entrance of the Internet café and anxiously asked the network administrator, "Which street does the backyard of the Internet café lead to?" The network manager pointed out the route to him in confusion, Gu Song said "thank you", and hurriedly rushed out of the Internet café and ran to the street to meet Xia Shi.

A few minutes later, Xia Shi grabbed Zheng Lei and walked out of an alley. As soon as Gu Song saw the boy, he asked in surprise, "What are you running?" We just want to ask you about the situation, can you? ”

"I thought you guys were coming to me for my phone...... Zheng Lei replied aggrievedly, "I knew it wasn't, I wouldn't have run away." You see, I've got a sprained ankle and neck, and I'm fucking unlucky. ”

Gu Song looked at the thin young man in front of him with a hairstyle that killed Matt, and he felt like he couldn't cry or laugh. Anyway, people who don't have ghosts in their hearts will never react like him when they see the police, and anyone who is chased by the police and runs away desperately is because he is a thief.

"Alright, let's put aside the theft of the phone." Xia Shi didn't want to talk about those digressions anymore, so he pulled Zheng Lei back to their car, took out the package box and asked, "You were all helping out in your uncle's store yesterday, right?" ”

"Oh......" Zheng Lei replied unreliably, seemingly reluctant to cooperate with their investigation.

"Do you remember what the person who sent this package looked like?"

Zheng Lei glanced at the package box and said complainingly: "There are so many people who come to the store every day to send packages, how can I remember which person sent what?" You're too embarrassed by that question, isn't it? ”

"I advise you to think again." Gu Song gently put his hand on Zheng Lei's shoulder, looked at him with a smile and said, "After all, our car can send you home directly, or we can send you to the police station." The mobile phone you stole is worth more than $3,000, which already constitutes a 'relatively large' theft crime, and if it is found that you have a separate criminal record, then it will ......"

Zheng Lei looked at Gu Song's eyes with a knife hidden in his smile in horror, and cold sweat had begun to break out on his forehead. Gu Song continued: "So, your fate is in our hands now. I think you're a pretty clever guy too, you know what to do, right? ”

"I, if I say it, you won't hold me accountable for stealing my phone?" Zheng Lei asked suspiciously.

"That depends on the clues you provide. So if you take a good look at this package, can you remember who sent it? ”

Hearing Gu Song say this, Zheng Lei suddenly concentrated, although he usually hangs on his children and has never paid attention to learning, but he is still a "clean body" so far, he doesn't want to ruin his future because of a momentary greed.

He scrutinized the package. The box was not a box in their store, it was packed by the customer himself and brought directly to their store to be sent, and the package was specially marked as a fragile item, and he remembered that this thing was sent by a man not long after the store opened yesterday morning.

"I remember." Zheng Lei replied with a serious face, "Around eight o'clock yesterday morning, a man came to the store with this package. At that time, he had already packed his things very tightly, and even the delivery list had been filled out in advance. I weighed the package and charged him sixteen dollars. Before leaving, he told me that it contained fragile items and told me to be careful. So I still have some impressions of this package. ”

"Are you sure?"

"OK, OK, OK." Zheng Lei nodded again and again, "Don't look at me like this, in fact, my memory is quite good." ”

"Tell us, what does the man who sent the package look like? How is tall, short, fat and thin? What kind of clothes did he wear when he came to the store? What is the accent of the speech, and what is the voice like? ”

Gu Song's series of questions made Zheng Lei a little confused. He smirked, scratched his face and said, "Don't worry, let me think about it...... He was wearing a Nike hat at the time, and his face was not too clear, but there was a lot of beard on his chin, which gave people a feeling of vicissitudes. His height and size......" Zheng Lei looked at Xia Shi, who was sitting in the driver's seat in front of him, and said, "It's probably about the same as this police officer." I can't really remember what to wear, but he speaks the dialect of the area, and he sounds like a native of the locals. Well, the voice sounds quite young, and it doesn't match his appearance. ”

"Can you think of any other details besides that? Like the way he walks, or is there anything that impresses you? ”

"There's nothing special about this."

"Did he give you change or whole money?"

"I took twenty from him and found him four."

"Is the twenty dollars still there?"

"That's not easy to say, you'll have to ask my uncle. I never dared to mess with the money in the store. ”

"Alright, let's go!" Gu Song said to Xia Shi, who immediately started the car.

Not long after the car drove out, Zheng Lei looked out the window and asked in surprise: "Eh, aren't you going to send me home?" Where is this going? ”

"Your uncle's shop, of course!" Gu Song replied.

"But......" Zheng Lei moved his butt in his seat a little overwhelmed, "I ...... about stealing my mobile phone"

"How can you just leave it at that." Gu Song smiled and answered, "At least let your uncle know the truth, right?" Otherwise, how can he explain to the customer who lost something? As for how to solve the rest of the matter, it is a problem between your uncle and nephew. I don't think your uncle will dare to let you help in the store in the future, and if you want to earn living expenses, I'm afraid you'll have to find another way on your own. ”

"You ......" Zheng Lei gritted his teeth angrily and swallowed the word "despicable" into his stomach.

Xia Shi glanced at Zheng Lei in the rearview mirror of the car, and taught him while driving: "It's already very cheap for you not to send you to the police station, you have a better memory." After a while, you go to the store, and you admit your mistake to the boss. After all, he is your own uncle, and if you have a better attitude, he may give you a chance. ”

Back in the store, Gu Song roughly described the incident to the boss. The boss thanked him repeatedly, saying that he would definitely teach his nephew a good lesson, and thanked them for not sending Zheng Lei to the police station.

Gu Song was no longer interested in any of this, and only asked the boss for the twenty yuan bills that might have the fingerprints of the suspect, and then left the messy small shop with Xia Shi again.