Chapter 35: Lee
According to the address provided by Snow, the Chinatown detective team came to the place where her adoptive father, Lee, worked, and it was the same scrap yard where they had come to look for the seafood market scrap truck that Tang Ren had taken out of the boxes he had brought out from the Songpa workshop.
"Hello, is it Sino's father?"
Chen Nan took out his mobile phone and called Li's phone number written on the note given by Sinuo.
"Who are you?" A deep male voice came from the other end of the line.
"I'm an assistant to Sergeant Kun Tai of the Chinatown Police Department, and we are investigating a case right now, and I need to ask you for some clues. We have been to your home just now, and your daughter Sino has given us the contact information of where you work, and we are now here at the scrapyard where you work. Can you come out now? We have a few simple questions we'd like to ask you. ”
“…… Wait a minute, I'll take care of the urgent matter at hand. ”
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Li's deep voice came again.
"Okay, we'll wait at the scrap yard gate."
In the scrap yard, Li, who was "changing waste to new", did not fully believe what Chen Nan said, and when he heard Chen Nan say that he had been to his house just now, he was worried about Sinuo's safety, so he quickly stopped what he was doing and called home first.
"Hey~"
Si Nuo's steady voice came from the other end of the phone, which made Li feel a little relieved.
"Si Nuo, did the police come to the house just now?"
"Dad, yes, the police came up just now. It was to find out that my classmate was missing, and asked me a few questions, but I didn't know it. Then they asked me for your place of work and your mobile phone number, and I gave it to them...... I'm not bothering you. ”
Li, who knew the ins and outs, made up his mind that as long as Si Nuo was fine, he would be relieved.
"It's okay, Dad is just worried about whether they are liars or not, afraid that they will hurt you. Okay, you study hard at home, and Dad goes back from work to cook for you. ”
"Well, I will, goodbye Dad."
"Goodbye."
Li hung up the phone, calmed down his nervous mood, told his co-workers that someone was looking for him, and went out to see Chen Nan and them.
"Xiao Nan, do you think he will lie to us and run away?"
Miao Miao, who was waiting at the gate of the scrapyard, asked with some concern.
"Probably not, he wonders at most if we are real police. If he really ran away, then he was very suspicious. But there is no need, all the evidence at present can only prove that Uncle Tang is the murderer, and the only connection between Li and Songpa is that the children are classmates in the same school. ”
Chen Nan explained to Miaomiao, and as soon as the words fell, he saw a middle-aged man with dark skin and a slight vicissitudes of life walking out of the scrap yard, looking around as if looking for someone.
Only Chen Nan and Miao Miao were at the door, and Li walked straight towards them.
"Hello, you are Mr. Li. I'm the person who called you just now, just call me Assistant Chen. Kun Sir didn't come over for a while, let me come to you for questioning, this is Kun Sir's certificate. ”
In order to avoid Tang Ren and Qin Feng being exposed, Chen Nan and Miaomiao came forward to deal with Li this time, so they hid not far away and secretly observed.
Chen Nan saw Li coming, said hello to him, and handed the certificate that Tang Ren borrowed from Kun Tai to Li for inspection.
Li took the certificate, opened it and looked at it, it looked like it was real, and believed Chen Nan's words.
"Hello, do you have anything to ask me?"
Li returned the documents to Chen Nan and asked.
"That's right, Kun Sir is investigating a missing case recently, the missing person and your daughter are classmates in the same school, we went to your house after asking other classmates without clues, you are the last students and parents of the students we investigated, so we are a little anxious, I hope you will forgive me."
Chen Nan explained the reason for asking Li for questioning, and then took out a photo of Songpa's son Dan to show Li and asked.
"Have you ever seen this boy, he's the missing student."
Li took the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, then shook his head and returned the photo to Chen Nan.
"I haven't seen it, I have to go to work every day, and when I get home from work, I have to take care of my daughter, and I haven't seen this boy when I only go to work outside and buy groceries and daily necessities."
"So? Do you know this person? He is the father of the missing student, and he is also investigating the disappearance of his son, and we found out that he has been haunting your neighborhood for a while, I don't know if you have noticed. ”
Chen Nan nodded a little "disappointed" when he heard Li's answer, and took out a photo of Songpa and asked him.
Li took the photo, his pupils dilated for a moment and returned to normal, and he also looked at it seriously for a while and replied.
"I've never seen this person either. Didn't you find out that his son was missing? He ......"
Li looked at Chen Nan with some confusion and asked, Chen Nan chuckled and explained to him.
"Oh, yes, he was found murdered last week, and we wonder if he accidentally offended someone when his son went missing, and we found out that he was haunting your neighborhood for a while, so we wanted to ask if you ever saw him have a conflict with someone."
Li Wenyan breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that the police did not suspect him.
"There are a lot of students in our neighborhood who are from the same school as my daughter, maybe he's looking for someone else. I haven't met this person anyway. ”
"So, have there been any strange things happening in your neighborhood recently, or have any strange people appeared in your neighborhood?"
Inevitably, Li found an abnormality after going home and "confessing" to Si Nuo, Chen Nan asked Si Nuo according to Qin Feng and Tang Ren's question, and asked Li again.
Li Luo thought about it: "No, just like usual, it is normal for parents to commute to work and children to go to and from school." ”
"Alright then, that bothers you, have a great day, goodbye."
Chen Nan showed a disappointed expression and said goodbye to Li with a reluctant smile.
Watching the "lost" Chen Nan and Miaomiao leave, Li stood in place and recalled whether he had behaved abnormally just now or said something that should not be said, and after finding out that there was not, he was secretly glad that it was just two "little rookies" who came over today, it seems that the police have not suspected him, so he turned around and went back to the scrapyard to continue working.
"How? Did you find anything? ”
Tang Ren saw Chen Nan and Miaomiao coming, grabbed Chen Nan's arms and asked.
Chen Nan easily shook off Tang Ren's hands: "His answer is the same as Si Nuo, but when he saw Song Pa's photo, his eyes were very abnormal for a moment, and although the answer behind him was very calm, his body was tense and guarded...... At present, he has a great suspicion that he is the real murderer of Songpa, but we have no direct evidence that he is the murderer. ”
Tang Ren showed a fierce expression when he heard this: "Let's go and tie him up and torture him to extract a confession!" ”
Hearing this, Qin Feng patted the back of Tang Ren's head: "Are you crazy?" ”
Tang Ren hugged his head aggrievedly: "But, the murderer is obviously there, I want to prove my innocence~"
Seeing this, Miao Miao suggested, "Why don't we go to the Songpa Workshop to check it out?" Last night was a bit short of time, and it was interrupted by robbers again, now let's go back and find out? ”
"I think I can, maybe I'll be able to find some missing clues."
Of course Chen Nan has no problem, now as long as he goes back to the workshop and gives Qin Feng a little hint, he can "really want to be revealed".
"Then what are you waiting for, go back, it's still early, there's still a lot of time to find evidence today."
Tang Ren urged the three of them to go back to Songpa's workshop to find evidence.