Xue Xinyan and I glanced at each other, panicked instantly, and looked around, except for the artemisia grass under the outer wall of the courtyard gate, and the old furnishings in the yard, there was no trace of the car.

I walked briskly to the street, carefully observed the cars parked on the side of the road, and then looked up at the surveillance with a flashing red light in the corner of the courtyard, and thought to myself, car thieves are really bold enough, since they are committing crimes under surveillance.

Xue Xinyan walked over with a panicked expression and asked anxiously, "What should I do?" ”

"Don't worry, you call your mother and ask if she drove the car away."

I tried my best to suppress my uneasiness and gently tapped her on the shoulder twice.

She opened her purse in a panic, took out her mobile phone, her hand trembled slightly, and after finding the lady's number, she dialed it directly.

"Hey, did you drive me?"

Xue Xinyan's words were hurried, and she was crying when she asked.

I looked up at the surveillance head on the wall again, there was one around the corner of the yard, and one was paved earlier across the street, and if these two monitors were working, they could see the face of the car thief clearly.

"The car is gone, I parked at the gate of the yard this morning."

Xue Xinyan began to sob, and strings of crystal tears hung on her cheeks.

I hurried over and took her into my arms.

On the other side of the phone, the noble lady's unhurried voice of consolation came: "Xinyan, don't be sad, mom will go over immediately." ”

After hanging up the phone, I whispered: "Don't worry, this place has surveillance, and a careful search should be able to determine the appearance of the car thief, I will call the police now to see what the police say." ”

I helped her remove the tears from the corners of her eyes, took out her mobile phone, and called the police.

"Hello, I want to report the crime, my car is lost."

I took her hand and walked towards the yard.

"Where is the address, provide your name and contact information."

After talking about the details, I hung up the phone, and I asked Xue Xinyan to sit on the bench in the courtyard and wait for a while.

At this point, I had no intention of cooking, but my stomach kept rumbling in protest, so I simply picked up my phone and ordered two takeouts.

After waiting for a while, the police car and the takeaway brother appeared at the entrance of the courtyard almost at the same time, two servings of sweet and sour cold noodles, packed in a plastic packing box, I took out a box, put it in front of Xue Xinyan, and persuaded her to eat something first.

She had a sad face, she had no appetite at all, and looked at the policeman who walked into the yard and said: "Comrade police car, my car stopped at the gate of the yard this morning, and it disappeared when I came back at night, woo woo..."

"This lady, don't panic first, we have to take some photos, and then retrieve the nearest surveillance video before we can investigate and file a case."

The police walked out of the yard, took out his mobile phone outside the courtyard gate, took a lot of photos, and he came to the corner of the street, looked up at the surveillance on the wall, turned to Xue Xinyan and said: "There is monitoring here, it was installed by the laundry next door, let's go in and have a look." ”

Xue Xinyan and I, along with a very tall policeman, followed him into the laundry.

The hangers on the west wall of the store are full of all kinds of clothes, such as windbreakers, shirts, coats, suits, etc., and on the east wall hangers are all kinds of bed sheets, sheets, blankets, curtains, etc.

At the back of the store is a black bar with a monitor, a landline phone, and a few bits and pieces.

A middle-aged woman in her mid-forties sat in the back, looking at us with a puzzled look on her face.

"Hello lady, we are the public security police, this lady's car was lost today, I need to call your surveillance video, please cooperate."

The police officers were kind and clear-spoken.

"Uh, okay."

The middle-aged woman, still with a face full of confusion, stood up and dragged her bloated body out of the bar, slamming the monitor back and forth.

The police walked into the bar, took off the hat, put it on the pile of clothes on the side, the middle-aged woman provided the monitoring password, and after logging in, she began to look for the surveillance video of the whole day.

From 6:30 in the morning until Xue Xinyan and I came back from work, about 12 hours of surveillance video was retrieved during the period, and the police clicked the fast forward button, and Xue Xinyan and I stood behind us, carefully looking at the picture on the monitor.

You can't see where the car is parked from this monitoring angle, but you can see the car driving out from here, and the other side of the yard is a dead end, and even if the car thief comes in to steal, he must walk in at this corner.

Time passed little by little, at eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, and the picture was as calm as water, and no one entered.

Xue Xinyan frowned, a trace of sweat oozed from her forehead, her expression was anxious, her eyes were staring at the monitor, and she did not relax at all.

At 13:20 p.m., a man appeared in the surveillance, in which he was short, wearing a white cap, black short-sleeved shorts, white sneakers, a string of accessories on his wrists, plugging his hands, lowering his head, and not seeing his face clearly.

His figure only appeared in the picture for a second, and then he walked into the alley of the courtyard and disappeared.

I hurriedly said, "I don't know this person, even if you look at the back, it's very strange." ”

"Don't worry, I'm looking."

The police stared at the monitor, reminding me not to be impatient.

None of us said anything and continued to look at the surveillance footage.

At thirteen:31, a white Cadillac CT6 quickly drove out of the corner, and the police clicked the pause button and magnified the picture several times, trying to see the thief's appearance from the car window, but the picture was extremely blurry, and the car window was closed, so it was impossible to determine the suspect's face.

"Is there a GPS in the car?"

The policeman turned around and looked at Xue Xinyan with a serious face.

"Installed."

"Then go back with us to prepare a case, recently many citizens' cars in the city have been stolen, this is a professional crime gang, we have set up a special operations team, is investigating this car theft case."

The police took out his mobile phone and took dozens of photos on the monitor, and after doing this, he stood up, picked up the police hat belt next to him, and walked out of the bar.

"Comrade policeman, I saw that there is also a monitoring head in the breakfast shop opposite, we can't see the thief from this angle, maybe we can see it from another angle."

I followed the police and hurriedly provided him with favorable evidence of the arrest.

"Okay, let's go over and have a look."

Our group walked out of the laundry and came to the front of the shop where the morning shop was made, the big blue roller shutter door was tightly locked, the boss had already left work, fortunately I often bought breakfast here, and the boss knew each other, took out my mobile phone, looked at the phone number on the signboard, and dialed it directly.

"Hey, who's that?"

A lazy voice came from the other side of the phone, and the boss seemed to be sleeping.

"I'm really sorry boss, I'm Xiao Wang who often buys breakfast from you."

I hurriedly apologized to him, but he thought for a moment, not remembering who I was.

"Uh, what's wrong?"

I explained the cause to him, and he said very boldly, "Okay, wait for me for a few minutes." ”

After hanging up the phone, I looked at Xue Xinyan, who was pacing back and forth, her face was pale and her expression was extremely agitated.

Ten minutes later, the owner of the breakfast shop arrived on a two-wheeled electric car, walked to the roller shutter door, took out the key, inserted it into the lock hole and twisted it twice, and then pulled the roller shutter door up with force.

When he walked into the store, he smelled a smell of burnt white flour, he turned on the computer, entered the monitoring password, and left his seat to let the police operate.

The police directly set the time for the transfer at 13:20, which was the time when the car thief entered the corner of the yard, and the man appeared in the picture, but the monitoring at this angle still recorded the man's back.

At 11:31, the car drove out, the man sat in the cab, his face was completely photographed by the surveillance, the police clicked the tentative button, and magnified the picture four times, the monitoring equipment of this store is more advanced than that of the laundry, the pixels are very high, and the shooting is extremely clear.

The picture freezes, this is a man in his thirties, with short hair and a long face, his appearance is not good, he is holding a cigarette in his mouth, squinting his eyes, there is a scar of about ten centimeters on his right arm, his face is yellow and thin, like malnutrition caused by long-term drug abuse, his eyebrows are thin, and he has almost fallen out.

The police took out the U disk, copied the entire surveillance video into the U disk, sighed and said: "This person's name is Zuo Ming, not a local, he has a criminal record before, after his release from prison, he colluded with the underworld organization to steal and steal, illegal drug trafficking, on November 20 last year, the police arrested their criminal gang on a large scale, and arrested twelve suspects, but he ran away without a trace, I didn't expect him to return to the city to make waves, so let's go back to the police station with me and register the vehicle information, We'll try to solve this case. ”

The police stood up, unplugged the USB flash drive on the hard disk recorder, and glanced at Xue Xinyan, who was about to collapse.

I helped Xue Xinyan, who was trembling beside me, and nodded to the police.

As soon as the police car stopped in the courtyard of the police station, Xue Xinyan's mobile phone rang, and she took it out weakly to check that it was a noble lady calling.

"Xinyan, where are you?"

I sat beside her, and I could clearly hear the lady's anxious accent.

"I'm at the police station."

Xue Xinyan's voice was hoarse and unusually haggard.

"Wait for me there, Mom will come right over."

After hanging up the phone, Xue Xinyan and I walked into the first floor of the police station, this place I have been to several times and is already very familiar.

The police asked the two of us to sit at a desk, he found a form behind him, handed it to Xue Xinyan, and said softly: "You first register the vehicle information, including the model, license plate number, etc." ”

Xue Xinyan took the form, picked up a pen, and her hand trembled slightly.

She lowered her head for a moment before she heard the sound of impatient footsteps behind her.

I looked back and saw that it was the noble lady and Du Chenyu walking towards me.

She regarded me as air, didn't pay attention to me at all, walked straight to Xue Xinyan's side, and said with a long breath: "Daughter, don't worry, if the car is lost, my mother will buy you another one." ”

She grabbed Xue Xinyan's hand and was extremely sincere.

Du Chenyu stood behind him quietly, looking at me with disdain, and my scalp was numb when I saw it.

At this time, the policeman's mobile phone rang, and he answered it quickly.

"Hey, Xiao Zhou."

He frowned, his expression becoming unusually serious.

"Uh-huh, well, okay, I'll be right over."

He hung up the phone, looked at Xue Xinyan Zhengse, and said, "The car has a clue." ”