Chapter 52: Peeling Back the Cocoon (2)

Li Weiyi's heart was excited and nervous, and her intuition told her that the person who won the lottery was her father! But why didn't he claim his prize for a month, until the night before the lottery expired, and suddenly disappeared with strange whereabouts?

She knows her father's character very well, and after a little thought, she has a guess -

My father never bought lottery tickets, maybe after picking up her note at home, looking at the strings of numbers, he probably didn't think of what it was at first; Or maybe I thought about it and didn't take it seriously. Until one day, on a whim, I went to buy a lottery ticket for April 8th. With his old scalper temperament who is busy all day long, he forgot about it afterwards.

That makes sense.

It wasn't until almost 1 month later, on the evening of May 8th, he went home, maybe he noticed the winning information of the lottery shop on the road, maybe he heard people talking about the explosive news that someone in the city won the jackpot but did not redeem it, and it expired immediately, and then he realized that he had won the lottery. My father did a small business and carried a small waist bag every day, so it was very likely that he would buy a lottery ticket and take it with him.

But why did he go to the riverside lottery shop again?

Yes, he bought his ticket there, maybe he wanted to check it out, or maybe he thought he was going to claim his prize at that lottery shop.

However, the two-color ball jackpot is to be redeemed in Xiangcheng, the provincial capital.

He must have heard the news in the lottery station.

Li Weiyi's heart shook: That's right! It must be so.

The alley where my father was last seen, no one knew where he wanted to go. It was neither the direction of home nor the direction of the store.

Because that's the direction to the bus station. The lottery expires the next day, and he wants to catch the last night bus to Xiangcheng!

Father bought a lottery ticket for the first time,I didn't know that the Xiangcheng Lottery Center would get off work at night,And was dizzy by 5 million,I didn't bring a mobile phone and couldn't discuss it with my family。 He must have wanted to rush to Xiangcheng as soon as possible to settle down and explain to his family.

All the doubts make sense.

Li Weiyi sat down on the road and muttered: "But, did my dad disappear in this city, or did he disappear in Xiangcheng?" ”

She raised her head and met Zhang Jingchan's gaze. His hands were in his trouser pockets, thoughtful. Li Weiyi then remembered that he didn't know anything, and hurriedly explained: "Here's the thing......"

"No need to explain, I can probably guess - your dad wants to go to the bus station to take the night bus and go to Xiangcheng to redeem the jackpot?"

Li Weiyi: "...... Depend on! You're so smart! ”

Zhang Jingchan smiled faintly, and said in his heart, your little brain is not slow.

"What now? Do you want to check the bus station surveillance? The case suddenly became clear, and Li Weiyi's mood was excited and worried.

Zhang Jingchan said: "We don't need to check it ourselves, call Ding Shenmo to inform him." I think he's still quite capable, he can use it, and he should be able to find out. ”

After speaking, Zhang Jingchan also sat down on the road and took out his mobile phone: "Team Ding, I think of an important clue." ”

Zhang Jingchan said the lottery in a clear and concise manner, and Li Weiyi listened to what he said almost exactly as he thought, but omitted the details of the note she left for the winning number. This really convinced her, this person's insight is so sharp, does the president's brain look like this?

Ding Shenmo on the other side also felt that it made sense when he heard it. An old criminal policeman like him has a very strong intuition, and he immediately feels that this is the key to solving the case. However, he said: "There is no need to check the monitoring of the bus station, because yesterday I sent someone to check all the bus stations, highways, and docks monitoring - my father did not leave Huaicheng." Li Weiyi, you go home first, don't wander around anymore, and don't leak this speculation to anyone, even if it's a good acquaintance. I will immediately mobilize the police to track down this line, you can rest assured. ”

As soon as he hung up the phone, Zhang Jingchan said: "Team D suspects that someone they know committed the crime. ”

Li Weiyi was stunned and understood.

Zhang Jingchan muttered: "Let's go to the alley where your father disappeared and see what we can find." ”

It is a very narrow alley with high walls on both sides, and there are only a few houses, and the doors are closed during the day. There is a small store at the entrance of the alley.

Because it is a short road, there are many people coming and going in the alley during the day. Li Weiyi remembers that at night, the alley was dark, and the vegetable market on the other end was closed, so there were very few people.

The alley is not long, only three or four hundred meters. A surveillance on the main road captured Li Zhongheng entering the alley, which was also the last picture he left.

The two walked along the alley, and sure enough, they found nothing. One family knocked on the door and no one answered, and two families said they had never seen Li Zhongheng. The owner of the shop at the entrance of the alley said that there was no business at night, and the store closed at 7 or 8 o'clock.

But both of them believe that it is unlikely that Li Zhongheng has disappeared in this alley, and he should go out.

Out of the alley, there is a road that is not very wide, and next to it is the vegetable market. There are also primary schools, unit dormitories, many self-built houses, and storefronts around, extending in all directions, and the interpersonal relationships are mixed.

It was from here that the police began to lose the trace of Li Zhongheng.

Zhang Jingchan accompanied Li Weiyi and found the afternoon from the morning. The two of them sneaked into the school and looked around the remote equipment room, storage room, and laboratory. I entered the dormitories of the two surrounding units, inquired with the doorman, inquired with passers-by, and turned every corner around, and no one had seen Li Zhongheng. There is also the vegetable market, they also looked inside and out.

The rest is the self-built houses of different shapes. These houses are more difficult to investigate, and the police have already searched once, and it is impossible to search the house, but they must have been roughly investigated.

The two of them didn't eat lunch, and they sat down at a wonton stall hungry. Li Wei suggested that Zhang Jingchan took off her school uniform jacket and only wore a short-sleeved T-shirt, her forehead was full of fine sweat, and she couldn't help but pull a tissue and wipe it for him.

Zhang Jingchan raised her eyes to look at her.

Li Weiyi didn't know why she made such a move, probably because her own forehead was too fair, and the sweat looked too eye-catching. She put down the paper and said, "It's not good to look like a girl is sweating, you have to pay attention to maintaining my image." ”

She threw the paper into the trash and said with a grin: "I am a good man who cherishes the jade." ”

This mocked him with what he said on the plane after another crossing.

Zhang Jingchan stood up, sat down on a bench with her, put one arm on the table, and pulled a piece of tissue. Li Weiyi's back stiffened slightly, he had wiped the sweat off her forehead with a tissue, and his eyes were dark and lazy.

Li Weiyi said, "I'll come by myself." Trying to snatch the tissue from his hand, he raised his hand, dodged it, lost it, changed it again, wiped her cheek, and said, "Okay?" ”

"Okay, okay! Sit back. Li Weiyi hurriedly said, "I was wrong, I don't dare to do anything to you again." ”

Zhang Jingchan paused, threw the paper into the trash can, sat back in his chair, and said, "I didn't say that you did anything wrong." ”

This sound weird, Li Weiyi subconsciously skipped not thinking deeply, and instead said: "Thank you today, accompany me to find it all day, what if...... If we can't find it tomorrow morning, we will go to your father first and do Fu Ming's beforehand. It is one that can save one. ”

He said, "We'll talk about it then." ”

It's sunset, and the golden sunlight is scattered over the surrounding buildings. The two were eating wontons side by side, and Li Weiyi suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of his eye, walking into a courtyard. She looked at it, it was a woman, thin and tall, wearing light makeup, high cheekbones and red lips, wearing a peach-colored short skirt, stepping on high heels, and something familiar.

Li Weiyi looked up again, and the courtyard she entered was clearly a restaurant, with a signboard of "Song Ji Food Garden" hanging at the door. There are several houses in it, and the area is not small. But it was already dinner time, but there was no one in or out of the gate, and at a glance, it was deserted, and it could be seen that there was no business.

Li Weiyi put down his chopsticks.

Zhang Jingchan: "What's wrong?" ”

Li Weiyi frowned: "I know that woman." ”

(End of chapter)