Chapter Forty-Eight: Fate is Impermanent

"Brother-in-law, are you sure it's the address?"

"Well, I guess that's right here, that's what the file says." As he spoke, Wu Shaodong handed Chen Xinying the note with the words No. 23 of Imperial Villa written on it.

Chen Xinying didn't answer, looked at the villa and said, "It seems to be quite rich, this villa should be over 10 million." ”

"It's almost more than 10 million, and I didn't expect that I could buy this kind of house as a teacher in the Academy of Fine Arts." Wu Shaodong said with some doubts.

Chen Xinying glanced at Wu Shaodong and said, "Cut, I heard Li Rusong say that the person's house is more than 20 million, what's so strange." ”

"You are talking about Cheng Cheng, right? That's different, his house was bought in exchange for his life. Performing tasks abroad, rewarded by the state. ”

"Don't mention him, I'm upset when I think of him!" Chen Xinying shook her head in disgust.

Wu Shaodong glanced at Chen Xinying, and continued to look back to observe this 3-story villa of more than 300 square meters.

The location of the villa belongs to the more famous rich area in the suburbs of Shanghai, and in this villa area called "Imperial Villa", many well-known people in Shanghai have lived. The villa of Zhou Mengdie's family is on the low side of the price in this area, and it is said that the most expensive set here has a price of more than 100 million.

Wu Shaodong took a step forward and knocked on the door, but no one answered the door, and then knocked again and shouted, "Is anyone at home?" He frowned and waited for a while, but no one answered, and then prepared to knock on the door for the third time.

"Brother-in-law, don't knock. There should be no one in the house, didn't Li Rusong say that the old goblin was in that house? The man and the child disappeared a month ago. Chen Xinying took Wu Shaodong's hand and told him not to waste his efforts in vain.

"What nonsense, what an old goblin!"

Chen Xinying pouted and said dissatisfiedly, "Why not, Li Rusong said that the old goblin is almost 30 years old, and he is still pretending to be a little girl." ”

"Then it can't be said that they are old goblins, let's go to the security guard and ask about the situation." Wu Shaodong smiled helplessly at Chen Xinying and signaled to go to the security team to understand the situation.

20 minutes later, Imperial Hills Security Team

Wu Shaodong was sitting on the reception sofa in the security captain's office, holding the materials of Zhou Mengdie's villa in his hand and frowning and studying carefully.

"Captain Hu, can't you really let us go to Zhou Mengdie's house to have a look?" Chen Xinying continued to work hard and persuaded Captain Hu to take them to Zhou Mengdie's villa.

The security captain's surname is Hu, after the army retired, he joined the Imperial Villa security team, after the old captain left 2 years ago, the boss of the property company saw that he was conscientious and conscientious, and he was an old man in the security team, so he brought him up.

Captain Hu belongs to the kind of person who does things with a straight eye and can't mix sand in his eyes, so he refused once.

"No! Officer Chen, it's not that I don't want to cooperate with you, unless you have a search warrant! ”

Chen Xinying rolled her eyes, thinking to herself that I have a search warrant and want to find you, a stinky security guard?

"Okay, Xiaoying, don't embarrass Captain Hu." Wu Shaodong signaled to Chen Xinying, there was no need to say more.

"By the way, Captain Hu, Liu Jie and Liu Shiqi's father and daughter, do you have any impression?"

"I can't talk about the impression, we belong to the upscale community here, and the leaders require us to remember every resident resident, so I can only say that I am familiar with them."

"Didn't you have any contact?" Wu Shaodong asked suspiciously.

"There have been a few times, once to repair water pipes, and another time to pay property fees."

Wu Shaodong also felt a little tired of talking with this kind of one-by-one conversation, and he didn't want to go around in circles, so he directly took out a photo of Zhou Mengdie and handed it to Captain Hu, "Does this person have an impression?" ”

Captain Hu took the photo and looked at it carefully and said, "I know this, my name is Zhou Mengdie, and she is the hostess of Villa 23." ”

"Oh? Do you seem familiar with her? ”

"It's not familiar, it's just that this woman is quite famous in our security team, almost 30 years old, she looks like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, and she is good-looking, so the security guards in the team call him an old goblin in private."

When Chen Xinying heard the three words of the old goblin, she couldn't help but sneer, and looked at Wu Shaodong with a smile, meaning, I'm not wrong, right? This is an old goblin.

Wu Shaodong coughed deliberately, and then asked Captain Hu, "Is there something wrong with her style?" That's what you call her! ”

Captain Hu hurriedly waved his hand and denied, "No, no, it's just shouting and playing in private." ”

"So what else do you know about this household?"

"Nothing else, the residents of this community are either rich or expensive, they pay attention to privacy, and the property has rules that do not allow us to inquire about the residents."

Wu Shaodong has a sense of powerlessness, but he also knows that those rich people have more or less things that can't be put on the table in private, and he can understand Captain Hu's ignorance.

"Then don't you know about Liu Jie, Liu Shiqi's father and daughter's disappearance?"

Hearing this question, Captain Hu sighed, slapped his thigh heavily and said, "Alas! Officer Wu, I'll just say it directly. You don't have to look at this neighborhood full of cameras, and there are dozens of security guards on duty 24 hours a day. In fact, we just ensure the security outside the door of each villa, inside the door of the villa, I really don't know. The disappearance of the two fathers and daughters you mentioned was only discovered when the police station came to investigate a while ago, and I was fined half a year for this! ”

Chen Xinying was a little incomprehensible, and asked incredulously, "You do this security work?" ”

"Those rich people are most afraid of being spied on, and we can't help it, if we keep an eye on it, no one will come to buy a house. I'm from the army, and I know it's not good, but, alas, ......," Captain Hu replied guiltily.

The subsequent questioning basically did not get any valuable clues, and Wu Shaodong and Chen Xinying drove directly back to the city bureau after saying goodbye.

On the way, Chen Xinying asked, "Brother-in-law, why don't you go to investigate Liu Jie and Zhou Mengdie's unit tomorrow?" ”

"Let's talk about it tomorrow, whether it is Liu Jie's father and daughter, or Zhou Mengdie's amnesia, it is not a major case, and it can't reach our hands. And the missing father and daughter have been investigated by the police station for less than a month. ”

Chen Xinying said with some dissatisfaction, "Brother-in-law, that's not to check?" ”

"What haven't you investigated yet? So far, it's just a few of our interests. Wu Shaodong had some helpless explanations.

There was nothing to say all the way, after returning to the city bureau, the two of them chatted with Li Rusong a little and went home, and when they left the city bureau, Chen Xinying was still angry, and rarely let Wu Shaodong send it.

After the two left, Li Rusong called me because he was not worried about my side, and told me about Wu Shaodong's investigation. I thought about it, after all, I didn't know Zhou Mengdie, and I was worried that something would happen at night, so I asked him to come and stay with me at night.

After Li Rusong arrived at my house, a few of us ate noodles indiscriminately and had dinner time. Until 9 o'clock in the evening, Jiang Lina didn't see Li Rusong leaving, and secretly asked me if I had something to hide from her. I couldn't say it clearly, so I explained to her that I was here to protect the "girl" and live at home today.

Half an hour later, I sent Jiang Lina back to the room to sleep, and then arranged Zhou Mengdie to the room next to the living room, while Li Rusong and I stared directly at the sofa in the living room.

The reason why this has to be arranged is that Zhou Mengdie's room is separated from Jiang Lina's room by a small living room, which is relatively safe. The second is that Li Rusong and I are keeping vigil in the living room, her door is facing us, this is the 18th floor, unless Zhou Mengdie jumps off the building, it is impossible to leave this house quietly.

After arranging the two of us, I took out a few cans of Baker and 2 packs of drunkard peanuts from the small bar and put them on the coffee table, and then we chatted without saying a word about beer.

"Lao Li, you are actually a good person, although your mouth is broken, but you are enough friends." Watching Li Rusong accompany me to keep vigil, I was still quite moved. So he picked up the can and shook it at him, motioning for him to take a sip.

Because of the vigil, Li Rusong didn't dare to drink too fast, took a shallow sip, grabbed a peanut and threw it into his mouth, blinked and said, "Lao Cheng, you're welcome!" It's not interesting to say that. ”

"By the way, I'm going to buy a computer in the next few days, how is your relationship with Huang Xiaosong? Say hello to me and let him take me on a run. ”

"You can just go to him for this, this person can, but he doesn't know how to socialize with people."

"Okay, I'll look for him in two days. By the way, Lao Li, Wu Shaodong is a bit interesting, tell me about him. ”

Li Rusong smiled, took out a cigarette and lit it to himself, "Okay, I'll tell you about Boss Wu." ”

Boss Wu was the captain of the second detachment of the Jiangnan Provincial Criminal Police Corps before he came to the 13th Branch, don't look at his age, no one dares to be unconvinced by his ability.

His graduation from the police academy, all subjects were the first in that class, and he suddenly became the fragrant bun of the public security system in various places, he was really high-spirited at that time, unlike me who went undercover as soon as I came out of the police academy.

The Jiangnan Provincial Criminal Police Corps was very sincere back then, and the conditions for him were also the most superior, plus he was from Shanghai, and it was only a 2-hour drive away from home, so it was logical to join the Jiangnan Provincial Public Security System.

When he was 30 years old, he became the deputy head of a team of the Jiangnan Provincial Criminal Police Corps. The reason why he rose so quickly was that he was strong in his own ability, and secondly, it was deliberately cultivated by the Criminal Police Corps.

That year, he met Chen Xinyi, who was 8 years younger than him and came to the document office of the Jiangnan Provincial Department for an internship, which was Chen Xinying's sister. One day, Wu Shaodong went to the provincial department early in the morning to check the files of a case, and because the materials that needed to be checked were complicated, he stayed in the archives until noon. Just when he was immersed in the pile of information to check, suddenly a small cake appeared in front of him, Wu Shaodong raised his head suspiciously, and saw a gentle girl holding a cake and smiling at him and said, "I see that you came early in the morning, and you haven't eaten yet, this small cake is made by myself, so I'll give it to you!" ”

Wu Shaodong looked at the girl's big eyes full of aura, revealing two cute little dimples, and smiling sweetly at him, and he was stunned all of a sudden. immediately asked the girl's name, and the girl naughtily stuck out her little tongue to Wu Shaodong, and said to him with a smile in a voice like a silver bell, "Strange uncle, are you going to chase me?" With that, he turned and left. Just when Wu Shaodong was a little disappointed, the girl suddenly stopped, turned her head and tilted her little head, and said to him sweetly, "Strange uncle, my name is Chen Xinyi!" Then he turned and ran away.

On this day, Wu Shaodong found out that he was in love, and just like that, the two came together. After a few more years, Wu Shaodong has been transferred from the first team to the second team as the captain of the detachment, and Chen Xinyi is also 25 years old. Her parents urged them to get married when they saw that Wu Shaodong had achieved success in his career and that their daughter was getting older. After the parents of both sides met, they settled down smoothly and planned to hold a banquet next year.

The next year, a week before the wedding ceremony, Wu Shaodong and Chen Xinyi originally planned to go to the bank to withdraw money to take wedding photos. But suddenly received a call from the Jiangnan Provincial Criminal Police Bureau, there was an urgent task for him to support, and in desperation, he could only ask Chen Xinyi and her sister Chen Xinying to go to the bank to withdraw money. But coincidentally, when the two sisters were withdrawing money, they met robbers and were taken hostage by gangsters. Just when Wu Shaodong arrived, the shootout had already begun, and Chen Xinyi was hit in the heart by the robber's stray bullet and died on the spot.

After listening to Wu Shaodong's story, I was a little embarrassed, and asked Li Rusong what was going on between Wu Shaodong and Chen Xinying now.

Li Rusong said, "That was a misunderstanding, that is, at the time of the robbery, there was actually a bullet fired at Chen Xinying." However, at that time, a soldier pounced on him and blocked the gun's hole, and later heard that the soldier was not lightly injured and lay in the hospital for more than a month. ”

"But at that time, Chen Xinying was already stunned when she saw the bullet fired at her, and she didn't see the soldier brother who blocked her gun's eye, but when she woke up, she found herself lying in Wu Shaodong's arms, so she thought that Wu Shaodong saved her, and you know what happened later."

When I heard this, I subconsciously touched the gunshot wound on my chest and sighed, it was really impermanent.