Chapter 134

Chinese medicine says that early autumn is warm and dry, while late autumn is cool and dry. In September, the scorching sun still shines brightly on the earth, and the light and shadows are mottled among the green leaves, but the body surface temperature is much more comfortable. However, for criminal police who often run outside, it is inevitable that their mouths are dry. Especially for a man with a strong firepower like Chen Pu, his mouth is peeling.

Before getting off the car, Li Qingyao first picked up the lily, lotus seed and polygonatum water, took a big sip, then picked up another bottle and touched Chen Pu's arm.

This is the medicine and food package prepared by Yuan Ling Clinic according to the season, which moistens the lungs and reduces dryness. Li Qingyao has been making reservations in advance with a small rice cooker every night recently, and brings it in the morning after cooking.

In the past, Chen Pu would have thought that these things were all IQ taxes, and the people who bought them were a little bit stupid... But now, he held the same water cup that Li Qingyao handed him, and felt that it was different with a girlfriend. No one had ever worried about whether he was dry before. Of course, he was still embarrassed to drink this health water that was said to not only hydrate but also have a whitening effect in front of other men in the criminal police team. However, Li Qingyao, who did not plan to make their relationship public for the time being, originally asked him to drink it in private. So he drank happily every time behind his teammates' backs.

After completing the water replenishment process today, the two entered a second-hand car shop without a sign. This place is located in the suburbs, the police are well aware of it, and the transactions are naturally not so standardized.

The criminal police team just found out that a year ago, a van of the same model as the one driven by Lu Xing left this store. Today, Chen Pu and Li Qingyao came to check.

The shop owner was a man in his thirties, a local, and he looked very shrewd and slick. When he heard that they wanted to check a car, the owner opened the computer system at first and said that he could not find it and it was not sold in his shop. But Chen Pu was very good at tricks. He used threats and inducements to point out the non-compliance of some transaction procedures in the store and the possible tax evasion. The shop owner immediately became honest and hesitantly took out another paper sales record.

These are naturally some vehicles that the store purchased through scrapping or other informal channels and then sold.

Chen Pu and Li Qingyao flipped to the corresponding time period and found the sales record of the van, but there was only a signature of the buyer on it, and no specific information, including a copy of the ID card, address, and contact information.

The buyer's name is "Xue Li".

"Do you remember what that person looked like?" Chen Pu asked.

The store owner said he had no recollection of it at all, as it had been too long and the store's surveillance records had long been overwritten and cleaned up regularly.

Li Qingyao asked: "Why didn't the buyer leave any information?"

The shop owner laughed dryly and said, "I must have checked the ID card at the time. I check it for every car buyer. I have to protect my own interests. Those copies...may have been lost."

Chen Pu could guess what was going on - this type of car was originally priced very low, and the transaction was informal, so the buyers mainly paid quickly and were unwilling to leave any information, so the store owner would most likely turn a blind eye.

Li Qingyao picked up the sales record again and stared at it with a frown.

Chen Pu: "What's the problem?"

"Don't you think this handwriting looks familiar?" Li Qingyao took out his cell phone.

During this period, they investigated Xiang Siling a lot. There were many transcripts signed by Xiang Siling in the mobile phone, as well as some important information of Huayu Group, some of which had Xiang Siling's handwriting on them.

Chen Pu took a closer look and compared the two. Even though the names were different, the fonts looked quite similar.

Chen Pu gave Li Qingyao a thumbs up and said, "Your memory is second to none."

Li Qingyao smiled calmly: "It's just a matter of taking a few glances." Chen Pu's heart was slightly moved.

Since they confirmed their relationship that night, they were both assigned to investigate another homicide case in the next two days. Their colleagues took turns to take turns on duty and sleep in the duty room, and they didn't even go home. Until this morning, when that case came to an end and this new clue came up, they were the most suitable to investigate, so they came together.

Seeing his girlfriend's calm and arrogant appearance, Chen Pu wanted to touch her head or pinch her face, but there were people around, so he couldn't touch her. He looked at her deeply again, took out his cell phone, walked aside, and whispered to a colleague in the bureau.

"Help me check for someone named Xue Li. Her age is unknown, and she doesn't have an ID number. That's right... no information at all."

The colleague on the other end of the phone tapped away on the computer for a while and said, "Chen Pu, do you know how many people named Xue Li there are in the entire province? How can I find out? Can I print them all out for you?"

Chen Pu thought for a moment and said, "You can filter according to a few conditions: female, between 20 and 40 years old, with some kind of relationship with Huayu Group, such as employment or business dealings; or with Xiang Siling, such as her classmates or distant relatives. First see if there is anyone named Xue Li within this range."

“That might take 1-2 days.”

"Okay, thank you for your hard work. I'll ask Yan Yong to buy you some milk tea later."

The female colleague on the other end laughed: "Captain Chen, every time you ask me to help you privately, you ask the kids in the team to run errands and deliver some food and drinks. When will the most handsome man in the criminal police team personally deliver it to me? Let me also gain face in front of my colleagues, haha."

Chen Pu smiled and said, "Maybe not. My girlfriend won't let me."

"Ah? When did you have a girlfriend?"

"It's been quite a while. I'm busy now. Chat later. Thanks."

After hanging up the phone, he walked back to Li Qingyao. She was still looking through the store's information. Without even looking up, she said, "Didn't you say it wasn't public? It's only been a few days, and you're already showing off to the lady in the household registration department?"

“She doesn’t know who it is.”

Li Qingyao put the information down and said, "However, I didn't stop you from delivering milk tea to people in person. If you want to, just do it. That's how you express your sincere gratitude."

Chen Pu nudged her shoulder with his arm: "Why, you want to bait me? How can an honest person like me be fooled?"

Li Qingyao smiled, looked at the sales book again, and returned to the case: "Could it be a fake name, and there is no such person at all?"

"Not necessarily. Although Xiang Siling planned carefully, he is not a criminal veteran after all. This is his first time doing this. I believe what the store owner said, he would check the ID card. Xiang Siling has no experience and is afraid of making mistakes, so he may have really used someone else's ID card as a shield."

The two of them left the auto repair shop. It was already evening, and the sky was dotted with red clouds. They had completed all the work they had scheduled for today. After getting in the car, Li Qingyao said, "After dinner, let's continue reading Ye Songming's diary." "Okay."

In the past two days, the two of them took advantage of their free time at work to read through Ye Songming's notebooks, and now there are only two left to read. But disappointingly, Ye Songming mostly recorded things about his medical practice and his life. In the later diaries, there was no more information about Xiang Siling.