Chapter X
It stands to reason that there shouldn't be so many people on Sunday buses. But Jonan was still unlucky, squeezing out a sweat in the comfortable morning after the rain.
It's time to talk to her father about buying herself a car, Jonan thought happily, so that he can drive to and from work in the future, and he can also take Shane out to play.
The bus stop is right in front of the police station. Qiao Nan, who didn't have breakfast, didn't go to the police station, but walked directly past the police station and walked to the alley on the right side of the building to buy soy milk fritters.
This is the resident food stall, and this is the best place for police officers to eat three meals a day.
The proprietress was still beating soy milk into a plastic bag. Behind the soy milk stall is a commissary. Qiao Nan noticed a homeless man, squatting at the entrance of the commissary.
The shopkeeper of the commissary had a broom in his hand and an ugly expression trying to drive away the homeless. The broom waved on the homeless man, but the homeless man never reacted.
Qiao Nan remembered the homeless man yesterday, who was also wearing a green military coat.
Qiao Nan walked over and was surprised to find that it was indeed him.
He ran two steps forward and asked, "Uncle, why are you here?" Have you eaten breakfast? Well? Seeing that the old man ignored him, he went back to the stall to pay for the soy milk fritters and came back, Qiao Nan continued to ask, and put the soy milk fritters in his hand in the old man's hand.
"Leave quickly, it's not good for you to get in the way of the shopkeeper's business. Why don't you go to the police station and take a break? Qiao Nan was waiting for the old man to respond, and then he gradually felt that the old man was trembling.
"Are you alright, uncle?" Qiao Nan put his hand on the old man's shoulder, trying to give some comfort.
"I saw them, I saw them." The old man stared at him faintly, his eyes full of horror.
Qiao Nan senses that something is wrong and decides to take the old man back to the police station.
The police officers in the hall all cast glances at Qiao Nan, but they only glanced at them, and they were busy with their own business. Qiao Nan knew that those guys must be saying in their hearts that their feelings were overflowing again.
After seeing the old man sitting on the sofa, Qiao Nan quickly poured a glass of water and put it in front of the old man.
His intuition told him that the old man must bring him some information!
"Who do you see?" Qiao Nan approached the old man, and the smell of the old man's body entered his nose, and he couldn't help coughing twice.
"That's them, the girl in the red dress, and a boy."
When the old man spoke, his eyes turned to the left, reminiscing.
"The man ran out of that alley. It didn't take long to run back again. Something else in his hand. The old man held the cup, as if warming up, and his whole body gradually shrunk into a ball.
This old man is not only the discoverer, but also an eyewitness at the time of the crime! Qiao Nan stared at the old man, expecting him to say something more. But his hand waved in mid-air, signaling to someone to come.
Seeing Uncle Zhang running over, he hurriedly shouted, "Go and call Old Qiao!"
"Uncle, thank you so much, you gave us a very important clue!" At present, the clues of the old man, although they only confirm his conjecture, are at least one step closer to the truth.
Next, it's up to my father to ask for clues.
Sure enough, he has been the captain for many years, and his face is always calm. Qiao Nan looked at his father and praised. At this moment, I am the only one who is blindly excited.
"You! Don't be afraid! Just tell us everything you know and see! The father took the old man's hand in his own hands.
"Last night, I slept near Snack Street. Then it rained, so I looked for a place to hide! As soon as I hid, there was a sudden thunderstorm! At that time, there were a lot of people running and hiding from the rain, and suddenly I remembered, that night I saw someone running in a daze, and I thought it was to hide from the rain! Now that I think about it, I'm really scared! I, I'm not going back to that place again! ”
The old man's eyes fluttered, and the more he spoke, the more his body trembled. Seeing this, Qiao Nan sat next to the old man, put his hand on the old man's shoulder and patted it, trying to comfort him.
"Can you describe the boy to us?"
"White shoes, the first time I saw the shoes on his feet, I thought ah, I also have such clean shoes!"
It was only a moment before the refreshing air became stuffy again.
Qiao Nan stared at the staggering black figure who was leaving, and remembered his father's many exclamations.
Too many witnesses fear reprisals for providing their leads, leading to the escape or inability to convict prisoners.
In fact, the old man could also choose to be unknown, but he chose to come over and provide clues.
Pooh was right when he said that cowardly animals always walk in herds, and only lions roam alone in the wilderness.
The phone rang, it was Uncle Ren Huashan.
"Hey, uncle." Jonan leaned against the glass window.
There was a laugh on the other end of the phone: "Xiao Nan?" Uncle has something to do here, and I want to ask you for a favor. ”