"Looking for me?"

"Yes."

"Pillar - Pillar, come out for a moment." Chen Hongxia shouted towards the inner room.

"Here we are." A man came out of the back room with a teapot in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth.

The man said hello to Director Gu.

"The rest of this, you come to sell, Director Gu will find me to understand the situation."

The man took off the leather apron on Chen Hongxia's body and tied it around his waist; Chen Hongxia invited a few people into the back room. Walk through the back room and there is a small yard at the back.

Chen Hongxia led a few people into a room and asked everyone to sit down.

"Director Gu, please wait a moment, I'll make a few cups of tea."

"No, we just had tea."

Chen Hongxia sat on the chair: "Director Gu, what do you want to ask?" ”

Director Gu glanced at Zhao Zimeng: "This is Captain Zhao of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Captain Zhao, you ask!" ”

Chen Hongxia leaned over and smiled at Zhao Zimeng.

"Sister-in-law, is Chen Hongmei your cousin?" Zhao Zimeng said.

"Chen Hongmei is my cousin, but we hardly interact with each other."

"Why don't you come and go?"

"She-"

"Why don't you come and go?"

"She hasn't studied well." Chen Hongxia blurted out.

"Don't learn well? What do you mean by that? ”

"She didn't have a good life, she was divorced twice, she was messy when she was in the queue, and she broke her body when she was in junior high school."

"Chen Hongmei has been in the queue?"

"Yes, after returning to the city, I will be assigned to work as a warehouse manager in a material company."

"We're here for the case at 157 Impermanence Lane — have you heard about it?"

"I heard this afternoon, does Chen Hongmei have anything to do with this case?"

"While renting at 157 Impermanence Lane, she was in a relationship with a man in his sixties, aged between 56 and 58."

"I don't know about these things, sometimes I meet her on the street, I just say hello, and I don't usually have too much contact - I don't come and go during the New Year's holidays, and when she got married, she didn't invite me to go."

"You should know where she lives now, right?"

"I know that. Her family lives on Phoenix West Street, and looking at her appearance, she is now very nourishing, and last summer, I met her on Zhonghe Street - I met her head-on, and I couldn't get over my face, so I said a few words to her. ”

"She said she bought a small yard, and she told me the address and asked me to come to her house to play, and I knew she was showing off her wealth to me, and in the past, her relatives looked down on her — and I didn't see her very much."

"How many places does his family live on Danfeng West Street?"

"Three hundred and seventy numbers, I can't remember what the exact number is, you will know as soon as you inquire there."

"You should know what his man does!"

"I don't know, I often meet Da Mao on the street - her man's nickname is Da Mao, it seems - there doesn't seem to be any serious business - I will throw a bottom for you, Da Mao has been in prison once."

"Why did you go to jail?"

"I don't know. Da Mao has been chasing red plums since junior high school - because red plums are very beautiful. ”

"What you mean is that although Chen Hongmei has been married twice, she has always maintained that relationship with Da Mao."

"It should be like this - except during the prison period, they have not broken off the correspondence between them, but Hongmei has more than one clue - she is a very capable woman, she is very beautiful, and men will be fascinated when they see her."

Director Gu called a car, Danfeng West Street is in Hexi, the road is relatively far.

Ten minutes later, a car stopped at the intersection of Qixing West Street.

The car drove over the Zhonghanmen Bridge and soon turned onto a relatively narrow stone road. Because the streets are narrow, cars can only move slowly. The houses here are very dense, the population is also very dense, it is past nine o'clock, and there are many people wandering in the streets.

The car came to an intersection and stopped - it was an intersection.

Director Gu jumped out of the car and walked to a cigarette hotel, the owner of the cigarette shop pointed to West Street with his hand, and muttered a few words at the same time.

There was a small square to the south of the intersection, and the driver parked his car in the small square.

The six of them walked towards West Street. Zhao Zimeng looked at his watch, the time was 9:45, and everyone quickened their pace.

After five or six minutes of westward travel, Director Gu stopped in front of a photo studio. The number on the door number of the photo studio is 370. "Three hundred and seventy" should be in this area.

There are several enlarged pictures of women in the window of the photo studio, and there is a noodle shop opposite the photo studio, the lights are on inside the noodle shop, and there are two customers sitting inside, one eating noodles and the other waiting for noodles.

Director Gu walked into the noodle shop.

"Please come in, how many bowls of noodles will I have, what kind of noodles will I order?" The shopkeeper glanced at the six people out of the corner of his eye.

"Boss, what time do you close?" Director Gu took two steps forward.

"When there is no business, when it closes."

"Give us six bowls of noodles, but not now, let's do things first, and then come back to eat after we finish our errands," Zhao Zimeng said as he walked to the price list and looked at it, "Let's go down to six bowls of shredded pork noodles - wait until we come!" ”

The boss was a man with a keen eye, and he saw the uniforms of his comrades clearly, "Excuse me, what do you want to inquire about?" ”

The boss let the six people sit down at another table.

"What's the boss's last name?"

"Don't get your surname Tang."

"Boss Tang, let's ask you about someone."

"Who are you inquiring about?"

"The woman's name is Chen Hongmei, who works in the warehouse of the material company, and her man's nickname is Da Mao."

"You mentioned Da Mao, and I knew it."

"What do you want to know?"

"Where does his family live?"

"Go forward, there is a big gate a hundred meters away, inside the door is a big yard, go inside, the second courtyard gate on the left is Da Mao's house."

"What's the house number?"

"It's- we don't care, so be it! I will lead you there. ”

"Wait a minute, we still want to know something."

"What do you want to ask?"

"What does Da Mao do?"

"Da Mao is idle all day long, and he doesn't do anything for a living. But their days are very nourishing! "Boss Tang has something to say.

Boss Tang's statement is consistent with Director Tao's statement.

"When did they buy the house here?"

"Five or six years ago."

"Do they have children?"

"There's a child, but it's not born to Da Mao's wife – we've heard it's adopted."

"When did you adopt it?"

"When they moved in, they were three people — little girls looked like they were three or four years old."

"It's been five or six years since Chen Hongmei and her husband moved here, do the neighbors have anything to say about the couple?"

"That's not true, although that Da Mao doesn't have a serious business, he has a good reputation in this area, it's just-" Boss Tang wanted to speak and stopped.

"Just what?"

"His wife is dressed very fashionably, she is very beautiful, she works in the warehouse of the material company, and her income is limited, but they buy a house and a motorcycle—" Boss Tang said that the income and consumption of Da Mao and his wife are very disproportionate.

Zhao Zimeng looked at his watch, the time was 9:50, the time was not early, it was not too late to go to Chen Hongmei's house at this time: "Boss Tang, you lead us to recognize the door, and the noodles will be served when we come back." ”

"Ask about something, it's nothing, you don't need to take care of the business of the small shop so much."

"We're not taking care of your business, and we're a little hungry ourselves."

"Go, I'll lead you."

Boss Tang beckoned a guy to take care of the business, and then led everyone towards the west of the street.

After a while, there was a gate on the south side of the street, and the gate was only a wall of gates, and there was no door. On the right wall buttress is a number plate with white letters on a blue background, which reads No. 375-381 Phoenix West Street.

Walking into the gate and walking dozens of steps to the south, Boss Tang stopped in front of the second courtyard gate on the left: "This is it." ”

"Thank you, go get busy!"

Boss Tang walked out of the gate quickly and disappeared outside the gate.

Through the crack in the courtyard gate, you can see the lights in the courtyard, and Chen Hongmei and her husband have not slept yet.

"Knock-knock-knock." Xiao Luhan knocked on the door three times.

There was a quick reaction in the courtyard: "Who? "It was a woman's voice that spoke – very high-pitched.

"Excuse me, is this Chen Hongmei's home?"

"Who are you?"

"I'm Director Gu of the police station." Director Gu stepped forward and said.

"Director Gu of the police station?"

There was a rustling sound in the room, like the sound of getting dressed, like the sound of getting out of bed, and like the sound of two people whispering.

After a while, the sound of the door opening came from the courtyard—the voice was very low: "Director Gu, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

"I'll ask you a little bit about the situation."

"It's so late, I'm already asleep."

"Sleeping?" Chen Hongmei was obviously lying.

"Chen Hongmei, I won't delay you for a long time."

"I'm not feeling well, and it's not convenient for me to meet customers. My man is not at home. Do you think that's going to work? What's the matter, tomorrow morning, I'll go to the police station to look for you. ”

"I'm not alone, so you don't have to worry."

"Not alone?"

"Yes, there are six of us."

There was another sound of the door opening in the courtyard—this time louder, and at the same time, there was a very soft sound of footsteps in the courtyard—the footsteps were cramped, and after a while, another sound of the door was heard, like the sound of the door closing.

All indications show that Chen Hongmei did not welcome the sudden visit of the comrades. Chen Hongmei said that her man was not at home, and just now - Chen Hongmei seemed to be talking to someone, could it be that Chen Hongmei took advantage of the man's absence to steal people, or Da Mao deliberately moved another man's place.

"Chen Hongmei, we won't delay you for too long, please open the courtyard door, okay?" Director Gu said softly.

There was a brief silence in the courtyard.