Chapter Twenty-Eight: Doubts
Listening to the teacher's retelling of the case from that year, I felt a little incredible.
What kind of force can organize such a huge trafficking ring, and after the police arrest their intermediary contacts, the police have no way to continue the case.
But at this time, I still silently raised a few questions in my heart.
First of all, the teacher did not mention the gender ratio of trafficked children. In our initial analysis of the dossier, the vast majority of trafficked children were women!
In any case, this was unlikely for a patriarchal society at the time, and in terms of previous trafficking cases, it should definitely be a boy!
Secondly, why didn't they think of continuing the investigation from the cross-border aspect at that time? Because it's also very strange for a trafficking case.
It stands to reason that the families who buy and sell children are generally Chinese families who cannot have children or have never had a boy, but even if there are Chinese and even foreigners in need of children in foreign countries such as Vietnam, there should be very few! There is no reason to put so much effort into transporting a child abroad......
I didn't put a question mark on my mind. Just like the teacher once said to me, if you want to hide something, then this thing must be very important to you.
At this time, Shi Niang came back with a large bag of dishes. It can be seen that she has just been to the vegetable market.
"Xiaofeng, you can eat here at our place at night, I just went to buy some fresh vegetables, I'll make you a delicious meal later!" As soon as the master entered the door, she looked at me, and her eyes smiled into a slit again.
The teacher looked at her and quipped, "Look, look, she only cooks us something delicious when you come, then if it's usual, maybe it's green pepper fried meat again......"
The teacher slapped the teacher a little shyly.
"Look at how old you are, and you're still joking with me like this in front of Xiao Feng!"
I looked at them and felt extremely friendly in my heart. They are still as loving as ever. Even at this age, I can still see in the eyes of the teacher how much he dotes on his mother.
I didn't think much about it and stayed for dinner. My wife made me my favorite sweet and sour pork ribs and braised fish with rattan pepper. Halfway through eating, the teacher suddenly turned around and took out two bottles of liquor from the cabinet that had not yet been opened.
"Come to Xiaofeng, I haven't seen you for a year, drink two glasses with me."
I looked at the white hair on the teacher's sideburns, my nose was sore, and the wine glass was full of wine.
"Teacher, I'll give you a glass first." As soon as the words fell, a glass of white wine went down.
And just like that, the three of us talked a lot together that night.
talked about how I was ignorant when I first entered the police station, and I was short-tempered and arrested people indiscriminately, causing the real prisoners to escape; talked about how I used to be unconvinced by the teacher and called him Old Man Fang; talked about how I used to learn the techniques of forensic investigation from my teacher; Talking about the first case that the teacher took me to solve......
He also talked about how the teacher and his wife used to be together and fall in love, talked about the children they worked outside, and talked about some very challenging large-scale murder cases that the teacher had broken before. And every time the teacher talked, I could see the teacher listening to him silently, with a sparkle in her eyes.
That night, they kept me down for the night, but I politely refused. As with every visit as usual, I didn't have the experience of spending the night at the teacher's house. One is that he is afraid that he will disturb his life with his teacher, and the other is that he feels that he does not respect his teacher very much.
I told him I would definitely come back to them the next day.
The teacher knew about my problem, so he didn't force it.
After saying goodbye, I put away the smile on my face, carried my backpack, and walked out of the teacher's neighborhood with a heavy heart.
Although I know that tonight's meal makes me feel very happy, the feeling of not seeing my teacher and my wife for a year suddenly erupts again, and the various troubles that have been haunting my heart recently suddenly have a way to vent, so that I can speak.
But the teacher's mood is still a little abnormal compared to the past. I could clearly perceive that beneath his happy exterior was something hidden inside.
I remembered that I had been thinking about the case for a long time, and I forgot to look for the hotel where I was staying. But it doesn't matter, there are still a few hotels nearby. I just found one to live in.
After checking into the room, I washed up briefly, went to bed and opened my laptop.
I logged in to the internal chat software of our police station and saw that Ouyang Qian was still online. Maybe it was because she saw me online, Ouyang Qian immediately came over to find me.
"How about Team Shao, on the first day of investigation today, have you gained anything!" She sent me a message.
"Hmm...... In any case, there is something to be gained, but it is actually similar to what we can understand in the dossier. "I'm back.
"That's right...... By the way, Team Shao, in fact, our people have already made some discoveries here! ”
"Really?! Tell me about it. "I was surprised to see what she had sent.
"Uh-huh. We know from past surveys that since some of the children are trafficked into Vietnam and are transported by trucks, it is certain that not all the children will go deep into Vietnam."
"From this, we deduced that there is a high probability that some of the children were bought by Chinese families living on the border with Vietnam, so what we need to do is to work with the Vietnamese police to investigate the ...... of Chinese families who have been living at the border since 20 years ago or even earlier."
I saw her message and thought about the feasibility of this plan in my mind.
"Xiaoqian, I think this idea is a more feasible way at present."
"That's right. It's just that the workload is relatively large, and in terms of communication with the police over there...... It might also be a bit of a hassle. ”
"Then I'm sorry for you!" Seeing that my teammates who were far away in S City were still working this case, I felt a sense of relief in my heart.
Before leaving, I felt like I suddenly remembered something.
"Xiaoqian, please do me another favor after the investigation!"
"No problem Team Shao, you can say it, I'll try my best to help you." Ouyang Qian quickly sent me back the news.
"Help me get a personal file about Fang Jing, the former director of the Municipal Police Department."
"This ...... But Captain Shao, I haven't turned a regular yet, and I don't have the account password of the police station's electronic archive......"
"It's easy, I'll give you mine. This file can only be found in the police department's internal network, so I'm sorry for you. ”
After that, I entered my account number and password in the police station in the chat box.