41. Where is the unforgettable love

Tang and Mei came to the "Come In" small restaurant. [No pop-ups. They deliberately went around 8 p.m. because it would give Maddie a taste of what mood Maddie was feeling at the time.

A proprietress who looked like a young woman greeted her.

"Please sit down and have some ...... to eat"

"We're the police." Tang said.

The proprietress was stunned.

"Comrade policeman...... Our small shop is always legal. ”

Mei said on the side: "We are not looking for trouble with your hotel, we want to investigate a few problems with you." It's about a man. ”

The proprietress breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time, the boss also came out of the kitchen, and the man was wearing a white apron. It seems that the owner himself is the chef.

"Do you know this person?" Tang shows the proprietress a picture of Maddie.

The proprietress took the photo and looked at it.

"This man...... It looks like I had dinner at our shop last night......" she handed the picture to her husband. "Look at it again, I don't look sloppy."

The boss took the photo and looked at it.

"It's that person, he asked for four dishes by himself, ate for a long time, drank sullenly at Er'er, and we all closed the board before he remembered to go."

Tang and Mei exchanged glances, and they understood what each other meant: Maddie had her "last supper" at the small restaurant.

"Do you have a menu for that male customer's dinner that night?" Tang asked.

"Yes, because we have to settle accounts, we will keep a copy."

The hostess went looking for the menu.

Mei asked Yu, "Does this work?"

"It worked. Compare the results of the autopsy with the technical department. ”

"You doubt the results of the dissection in the technical department?"

"No, if the menu is the same as the food found in Maddie's stomach, it proves that Maddie was indeed the last meal she had at this small restaurant that night."

"Is that possible?"

Before the soup could be answered, the proprietress came over with the menu.

"Let's read the menu."

The soup looks at the greasy menu, which is boiled with shutters, fried lamb's blood, tofu and cucumbers, and half a catty of bulk liquor.

The autopsy on the menu and technical department turned out to be exactly the same, and it seems that this "fast in" restaurant is really the place where Maddie eats the "Last Supper".

"Is he eating alone?" After reading the menu soup and asking.

"It's a person." The hostess replied.

"Do you deal in foreign liquor here?"

"What?" The proprietress didn't seem to hear clearly.

"Foreign liquor, such as Remy Martin, whiskey, etc., ......"

The proprietress understood this time, and she smiled, and the young woman looked good when she smiled.

"How can I run this little shop?"

"What time did he leave?"

"It's about 9 o'clock."

Tang turned back to Mei and said, "It was 11 o'clock when he died, and there is a time difference of 2 hours here, and after deducting half an hour on the road, where was he in that hour and a half?"

"Stay in your own home." May seemed to answer in Maddie's place. "If he drinks too much, why won't he go home? Besides, didn't Maddie commit suicide by falling from a building at home?"

"Yes, yes, it's a simple reason." Tang said: "In the absence of any other clues, I can't refute you." ”

Tang turned his face and continued to ask the proprietress about it.

"In which direction did he go out after eating?"

"This ...... I don't know because I was cleaning up the dishes. ”

"Who was outside the hotel at the time?"

"An old man selling roasted sweet potatoes."

"Is the old man outside the door now?"

"Yes."

"Thank you for your cooperation."

Tang and Mei came to the door of the rancid shop together, the alley at night was more lively than during the day, and a spontaneous night market had been formed, selling mutton skewers, chicken soup and tofu skewers, selling large bowls of noodles, and selling fried chestnuts with sugar...... The furnace was blazing, shouting and shouting. At the entrance of the restaurant, there was an old man selling roasted sweet potatoes. A round iron bucket roast with white mist and the sweet smell of roasted sweet potatoes wafting from the oven.

Tang approached the old man with roasted sweet potatoes and said to Mei, "Guy, you must be willing to eat sweet potatoes?"

"How do you know?"

"Girls are generally willing to eat sweets."

"You know a lot about girls' ......"

When Tang said this, the old man who sold sweet potatoes stared at the two customers with his eyes.

Tang said to the old man, "Come on two older ones." ”

"Here we go!" The old man was pleased.

When the old man weighed the sweet potato, Tang asked; "Old man, you were also selling roasted sweet potatoes here last night?"

"Last night?" The old man who sold roasted sweet potatoes said: "Of course, of course, I also sold sweet potatoes here last night last night, my surname is Wang, and everyone calls me the king of sweet potatoes." It's been 8 years, I've been selling roasted sweet potatoes here for 8 years, and the owners of this small restaurant have changed four. ”

"Have you ever seen a man come out of a restaurant after eating?"

"There are so many people that I see that everyone who eats has to come out of the restaurant."

"It's this person......" Tang pulled out a picture of Maddie.

The old man took the photo, left the oven, came to the glass window of the hotel, and squinted at the photo by the light of the two fluorescent lamps, one red and one green.

"You're the police?" After seeing the photo, the old man asked vigilantly.

"Sort of."

"I've seen this guy, he's drunk too much...... Walking straight under the feet of the thorn slippery...... I'm going to help him, but he doesn't need it, and his mouth isn't clean......"

"Which way did he go?"

"From here, all the way west, take a taxi at the street lamp......"

"Strange, west is not the direction of his house." May said.

Tang didn't show any attitude, and paid the old man for sweet potatoes.

"Let's go, let's fight."

Tang and Mei came together under the street lamp that the old man said. It was a lotus-shaped street lamp, and the five lampshades on the pole emitted red, green, yellow, blue, and white colors of light at the same time. Tang and Mei stood there for a while, as if to get a sense of how Maddie felt when she stood there after drinking too much on the night of the accident.

At that time, Tang thought to himself: from the investigation just now, it was found that Maddie did not go home when he came out of the "Come In" restaurant that night, but took a "taxi" and went to the opposite place. Where did he go? Did the place he went to have anything to do with the foreign liquor and stimulants he found in his stomach?

Maybe he went to a big restaurant or a nightclub where foreign liquor was available. So which hotel is it?

At this time, a "taxi" came on the road, Tang waved his hand to block it, and pulled Mei into the car.

"Where?" The driver asked.

"Keep driving west."

"Where to the west?"

"Stop wherever you want."

The driver glanced at the soup and seemed to say that there was something wrong with this guy. But still drive west.

"Man, you want to see where Maddie can go that night, do you?" May said.

"You're so smart, but, now don't talk, keep an eye out of the car, you look left, I'll look right, and watch out where Maddie might go...... Driver, drive slower. ”

The "taxi" drove slowly.

Outside the car window, large neon lights flashed on both sides of the road. Tang remembered a punchline he had seen somewhere: neon lights are the eyes of the city.

Great Wall Hotel.

Jade Emperor Hotel.

Kamikaze nightclub.

There are constantly flashing neon lights of large dining and entertainment venues flashing outside the car. These catering establishments all deal in foreign liquor, and Maddie may come, but because there is no clue, there is no way to find out which entertainment venue Maddie went to.

The "taxi" moved on.

Fortune Billiards Stadium.

Aimei Gym.

Disco Ballroom.

Maddie may also come to these entertainment venues. Tang thought again: If Maddie had been to these places, what would he do? Is it to meet a friend? Or is there something else going on?

Half an hour later, the "taxi" was approaching the suburbs.

"Driver, drive back." Tang said.

"Not looking for it?" May asked.

Tang didn't answer. There is no point in driving any further. Maddie came out of the small restaurant for two hours until he died, and after deducting the time he drank foreign alcohol and took stimulants somewhere, he couldn't have gone far. Besides, there is no place in the suburbs where you can drink foreign liquor.

On the way back, Tang stopped talking.

He was a little frustrated.

There are a lot of clues now, but this case is even more confusing.

- Two anonymous letters are found in the safe in Maddie's office, unraveling the motive for Maddie's suicide, but who is the author of the letters? How did I get an anonymous letter to Maddie?

- Of the keys found on Maddie's body, five of the seven have found locks, and two keys have not found the locks to be opened, where are these two locks?

- From the "Come In" hotel, Maddie's basic activities on the night before his death have been ascertained, but Maddie has not returned home since coming out of the small hotel, so where did he go?

- The Technical Department has found stimulants and foreign liquor in Maddie's stomach, which is a valuable discovery. But where did he take these things?

Tang Yangtian sighed: "Maddie is also a character, and even his own death is so confusing...... ”

Yan Yu was chased back by the company's manager Xu's phone call.

She was in her room at the White Crane Hotel in Shenyang.

Manager Xu only said one sentence on the phone: Come back quickly, something happened to your family.

Yan Yu understood: the plan was successful.

Putting down the phone, Yan Yu didn't have joy or sadness in her heart, she just felt a kind of relief, yes, she didn't have to worry about being murdered anymore. However, there is another feeling mixed in with this relaxation, as if it is a kind of prostration, the whole body is limp and the legs are weak.

The colleagues who were on a business trip together had not finished their work, so they discussed with each other, leaving two people to continue to do things, and sending another person to accompany Yan Yu back.

I rented a "taxi" at Shenyang North Railway Station.

The "taxi" drove along the Harbin-Dalian highway, and the road outside the car window was a snowy field on both sides of the road.

During the car, Yan Yu was very conflicted, looking forward to getting home soon, but also afraid of getting home. Because she wanted to know how it happened sooner. I'm afraid that I won't be able to cope with that kind of scene - although everything was planned by herself, the plan is imagination after all, and she has never experienced it after all.

She didn't know if the police were involved, and she didn't know what evidence the police had? After all, it's a bit weak-hearted.

At that time, Yan Yu had a deep experience of that sentence: I didn't do anything wrong, and I wasn't afraid of ghosts calling the door.

When I got home, the scene of the accident had already been cleaned up.

Several colleagues were waiting for her at home.

directly pulled her to the technical department of the Public Security Bureau. Maddie's body rests there.

In the car, Yan Yu learned what happened from her colleague's mouth.

Yan Yu saw her husband for the last time in the cold room of the technical department of the Public Security Bureau.

It was a huge freezer with one drawer after another, and one of the drawers had a tag on the front with Maddie's name on it. Pull the drawer open, revealing Maddie's upper body. Maddie lay in the boxy, cold box, covered with a white sheet.

Yan Yu opened the white cloth sheet and saw the familiar face again: as handsome as before, but lifeless, and there was white frost on her eyebrows and head: it seemed to be much older all of a sudden.

Although he slept peacefully, his face was so pale that he wondered about the pain of the deceased.

Looking at Maddie's face, Yan Yu felt that everything in the past was like a dream: was he lying on the cement platform the man he once loved so deeply? How have the last 7 years* been spent? Could it be that in those 7 years, I co-created so many stories with this lifeless man? Could it be that in the past 7 years, I have had so many soul-destroying nights with this cold corpse? Where was that unforgettable love back then?

The colleagues who accompanied Yan Yu all stood behind her.

Yan Yu knew that she should cry at this moment, howling and crying, beating her chest and feet, crying with snot and tears, crying in pain...... At the very least, she should have choked some tears - this is for others to see, because in the eyes of others, she and Maddie are a loving couple, and the wife should show a kind of pain when her husband dies. However, Yan Yu had no tears, and she didn't even have wet eye sockets. She was astonished at her coldness and indifference. Usually, she is a sentimental woman, and she will accompany her colleagues and friends to shed tears when someone dies.

And today, she couldn't be sad at all. She knew in her heart what was the root of this callousness and ruthlessness? A woman can forgive her husband for gambling, stealing, being dirty, stupid and incompetent...... But I can't forgive my husband for my infidelity. Since Yan Yu learned about her husband's affair, her love for her husband suddenly turned into hate, a kind of unforgettable hatred of a woman.

The drawer is closed.

Maddie disappeared from Yan Yu's life forever. It was her own hands that caused this disappearance.

Now, Yan Yu no longer thinks about her husband. She's going to focus all her energy on the police. She doesn't think the police will easily conclude that they are "suicidal". She also expected that the police would look for her, and even if they did not suspect her, they should have questioned her according to normal procedures.

When walking out of the small building of the technical department, Yan Yu met a female policeman.

The policewoman was obviously waiting for her.

"I'm police officer Mei, please come with me." The policewoman said, "We have something to ask you about the death of your husband Maddie......

Yan Yu knew that she would have to meet with the police sooner or later, but she didn't expect it to be so soon, it seemed that the police were in a hurry to find her - this rush also explained the problem itself. Yan Yu sent away the colleague who accompanied her, and followed the policewoman to the main building of the Public Security Bureau and to an office on the third floor.

There was also a male policeman waiting for her in the office, and the male policeman introduced himself as Tang.

Let's sit. Pour the water.

Although the two policemen, a man and a woman, were very polite, Yan Yu still felt a little stunned in her heart.

Yan Yu had never dealt with the police, so she hadn't paid attention to the police's demeanor before. Now she felt that there was a deterrent power in the police, their eyes may be careless, but that carelessness is definitely to confuse and paralyze the other party, just like a cheetah will yawn in front of its prey, and before a yawn is finished, the cheetah will jump up and capture the unvigilant prey in the palm of its hand.