Chapter 179

[We have started screening every household, and this work is expected to be completed in two days. I hope we can have some luck this time.]

[Let nature take its course. Solving a case is a process of finding light in the darkness. You never know at which step the black cloth covering your eyes will suddenly fall off.]

[That's a good sentence. You should also be careful. I miss you.]

【I want to hold you.】

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Li Qingyao and Xia Yongze asked the local police for support and began to conduct door-to-door inquiries.

At 8 p.m. on the first day, when the work came to an end, they had found nothing. No one had any impression of Liu Tingmei or Li Jincheng.

The next morning, they started the same meticulous work again.

It was a good thing that Li Qingyao was in charge of this job. The situation of the residents in each building was very complicated and even chaotic. Some were the owners, some rented to groups, some rented to others to open studios, and some moved out and left the houses vacant. So he had to interrogate them carefully one by one: Was it you who lived here seven years ago? If not you, where did the original person move to? Do you have contact information? No contact information? Who did you rent the house from? Give me the contact information and I will ask him again... With so much redundant and messy information, Li Qingyao made a super large information statistics table for each building. He had to use A0 paper to print it out, and marked each item with different colored pens to ensure that no household was missed.

Such meticulous and patient work paid off at 3 p.m. the next day.

When they knocked on the door of Room 15 on the top floor of Building 603, a short, thin, pointed-faced man in his s stared at them and asked impatiently, "Who are you? What are you doing?"

After Li Qingyao and Xia Yongze showed their police IDs, his attitude improved. Li Qingyao handed him Liu Tingmei's photo first. He frowned and looked at it carefully, then said, "I have seen this girl before, probably seven or eight years ago. She lived in Building 17 or 18, right?"

Li Qingyao was delighted and asked, "Where did you see her? What was she doing?"

The man showed a curious look: "Why are you looking for her? Was she arrested for committing a crime?"

Xia Yongze: "We are investigating a case. Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask!"

The man was not afraid and even glanced at Xia Yongze.

Li Qingyao saw at a glance that this elder brother had a stubborn temper and would not take any hard words, so he hurriedly said, "Brother, it's really inconvenient to tell you. You see, the two of us are also carrying out the mission from above. If you have seen her and can provide clues, that would be a great help. Can you tell us about the situation?"

The man smiled and said in a pretentious tone, "Assisting the police in solving cases is the duty of every citizen. I am usually very enthusiastic about the affairs of the community. I have a good memory, to be honest. I have seen that girl twice, and each time she was hanging around downstairs from us. There was a young man with her."

"Do you remember what that man looked like?"

"I don't remember, but he should be quite handsome."

"Is he tall?"

"Tall, tall and thin."

Li Qingyao took out Li Jincheng's photo, and the photo almost fell from his hand: "Is it him?"

The man squinted his eyes and thought for a while: "It seems so, but I can't remember clearly." "What are they doing downstairs?"

The man sighed and said, "It's really immoral to talk about it. Once, that girl... I'm embarrassed to say it out loud."

Li Qingyao was stunned for a moment: "Just tell me, it's all for solving the case and helping us."

"She was riding on the boy, and they were kissing each other, oblivious to the people around them! It was in broad daylight, in front of everyone! But then the boy pushed the girl to the ground, maybe they were having an argument."

Because Li Qingyao successfully gained the favor of this big brother, they were allowed to enter his house and look downstairs to the place where it used to be. Li Qingyao saw an old tree that was who knows how many years old, and a wooden bench under the tree, broken in half. The wind gently blew the branches, and the sunlight shone through the gaps between the leaves, leaving only silence and brokenness.

When Li Qingyao turned his gaze to the other side, the second intersection behind the building was Yuan'an Clinic.

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This is a gain that is not a gain.

According to the general situation described by the man, Li Qingyao believed that these two people were most likely her brother and Liu Tingmei. As for why the two had intimate actions, Li Qingyao guessed that there must be something behind it. Li Jincheng has never been a frivolous man. Moreover, didn't the man say that her brother pushed Liu Tingmei to the ground? With her brother's temperament, even if he quarreled with a woman, he would never fight - unless he was scared or to protect himself - maybe he was scared by Liu Tingmei's kiss.

But how could Liu Tingmei kiss her brother? We can only figure it out later.

The man also said that the two people only stayed downstairs for more than ten minutes each time before they went their separate ways. So Li Qingyao estimated that this happened a few days before the night the two disappeared.

Li Qingyao could only lead the team to continue looking for new witnesses, especially those who witnessed the incident that night, even though the hope was slim.

However, at around 8 o'clock that evening, they made an unexpected major breakthrough.

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Tang Botao was born and raised in Xiangcheng. He moved to Chaoyang Home with his parents when he was a few years old and has lived here for nearly 20 years. Many of his relatives also moved to Chaoyang Home. Unlike many families who moved to Chaoyang Home due to financial difficulties, his family has developed feelings for this place and feels that it is convenient for transportation and life. Although they are a bit old, the neighbors are all familiar to them. So later when they got other houses in the city, they were reluctant to move away.

Tang Botao had poor academic performance and was taciturn since childhood, but he was not a bad person. He failed to get into high school and went to a vocational school. After graduation, he worked in a 24-hour convenience store near his home. Now, at the age of 26, he is an experienced courier at the nearby express delivery stations.

When Li Qingyao and Xia Yongze asked about his family, his mother looked at the photo and said, "Wow, this little girl is really pretty. If we had met her, we would definitely have an impression of her." "Husband, have you seen her?" His father shook his head: "No impression."

Just when Li Qingyao thought she was going to return empty-handed again, Tang Botao just came back from get off work. When he walked into the house and saw someone at home, he was depressed and didn't say hello. But when his eyes swept across Li Qingyao's face, he paused for a moment, and then naturally fell on the photo in her hand.

Li Qingyao had seen this kind of look many times. It was the look of a young boy who was distracted by a girl's appearance. It was a little dull, but there was no malice in it, and it was even a little cowardly.

"I've seen this woman." Tang Botao said.

Li Qingyao's heart pounded, and she suddenly had a strange and irresistible premonition. She felt that she might find Liu Tingmei.

"When and where did you meet her?"

Tang Botao put his hands in his trouser pockets, stared at the ceiling and thought for a while, then said, "June 2017, 6, the time was... around 1:12 in the evening, so it should be the 2nd. I just got off work from the convenience store and saw her lying on the road with gauze wrapped around her head. I went over to her and she woke up and got up. I asked her if she needed help, but she didn't say anything. She was so beautiful, I was afraid something might happen if I left her there in the middle of the night. I thought she must be from someone nearby, and I didn't know what to do, so I sent her to my aunt's place."