Chapter 187

The next morning, Li Qingyao asked Xia Yongze to drive to the welfare home again.

Although Xia Yongze obeyed, he was puzzled: "Why are you still going? Are there any clues we missed?"

"Uh... that's right."

Although Li Qingyao was usually the one asking questions when she was with Chen Pu, she would often understand Chen Pu's intentions after he just started talking or gave her a look. Sometimes it wasn't that she couldn't think of it, but she just didn't have the experience. But now that she was with Xia Yongze, after just a few days, Li Qingyao often felt that he was the only one who was giving advice.

When Ding Guoqiang gave Xia Yongze to her, he looked like she had made a profit, and so had Chen Pu. Now Li Qingyao felt that it was Ding Guoqiang who had made a profit...

However, no matter how much I complain, to be fair, Xia Yongze is still a very good partner. He asks when he doesn't understand something, he is open-minded and never acts like a troublemaker.

What's more, their extraordinary fighting power has not yet had the opportunity to be displayed.

So Li Qingyao gave him a sour plum candy in the car and patiently explained: "Where do you think Liu Tingmei will go next?"

"revenge."

"But she didn't seek revenge. This is a fact we have known for a long time."

"Uh……"

Li Qingyao looked ahead and said in a deep voice: "No matter what her next plan is, she has to find a place to stay, and perhaps hide from those three people. She also needs to have a job to earn money to support herself and buy medicine, otherwise her life will be in danger. So, how many places can she go?

Before being abducted by Liu Huaixin, she had been living in a town and studying at the No. 1 Middle School in the county. She had never been to Xiangcheng and was unfamiliar with the place. So there were three most likely places for her to consider settling down.

First, the county or town, which is the place she is most familiar with. But we have visited her hometown, and no one has seen her. And I believe that she does not want to go back to that place at all. So this option is ruled out.

Then there are two places left, which she is more familiar with. One is Chaoyang Home. Although she has lived there for more than a year, she has very few opportunities to go out, so she is still not familiar with it. And to her, it is like hell. We have also visited roughly, and almost no one has seen her. So I think she will not go back to Chaoyang Home.

The last place she was familiar with was near the welfare home. Although she had only lived there for ten days, Song Hui and other employees treated her very well. She recovered her sanity, and as a handyman, she would often go out to buy groceries with the kitchen staff, and she also went out to buy medicine by herself. It was located in the prosperous old city, the house was old, it was very convenient, the cost of living was low, and there was a sense of security, it was a good choice to settle down. ”

Xia Yongze couldn't help but nod his head. He originally thought that the matter was impossible and like looking for a needle in a haystack, but after Li Qingyao explained it, it became very simple.

"Besides..." Li Qingyao's eyes turned gloomy, "Perhaps there is another reason why she must temporarily live near the welfare home."

"what?"

Li Qingyao said, "It's just a guess. It needs to be verified. I'll tell you when it's confirmed."

There are three or four old residential areas surrounding the welfare home, all of which were residential buildings built decades ago. Li Qingyao looked at the map, found the two residential areas with the cheapest rent, and went there with Xia Yongze.

Chen Pu Youyun, an enthusiastic sister among the masses, is worth half an experienced investigator.

What's even more interesting is that in this kind of old unit community, there are several older women serving as part-time security joint defense supervisors, walking around with red armbands all day, managing this and that. And the staff is extremely stable, the same people ten years ago, and the same people ten years later. So Li Qingyao showed his ID and asked the security guard at the door, and the security guard immediately called the supervisors over.

After hearing Li Qingyao explain his purpose, that he wanted to find a house in this neighborhood that had been rented seven years ago, and that it was to be shared with a woman, preferably a woman, because Li Qingyao thought that Liu Tingmei might not be able to accept sharing a house with a man, the older sisters felt both embarrassed and excited.

"I can't remember the exact year." An older sister said, "It was probably seven, eight, or nine years ago. I have an impression of the houses that were rented out in this area, but it may not be accurate." She named a few building numbers, and Li Qingyao and Xia Yongze immediately wrote them down in their little black notebooks.

Another older sister also recalled quite a few households.

Several people talked about it and verified it with each other. They managed to find more than a dozen households in each of the five buildings. However, they were not sure whether it was a group rental or whether the tenants were female. They could remember so many because most of the people who rented out their houses had been renting out houses for many years without any change.

But this is already amazing. Li Qingyao said a lot of beautiful words of thanks, which made the older sisters smile. Another older sister took her hand and wanted to introduce her to a boyfriend. Li Qingyao hurriedly said that she already had a boyfriend, and the older sister regretfully gave up. Several older sisters did glance at Xia Yongze, but no one mentioned introducing him to a girlfriend. Xia Yongze didn't feel anything at all. After the older sisters left, he enthusiastically advised Li Qingyao: "You and Captain Chen should get the certificate as soon as possible. It's much easier than what I did."

Li Qingyao was drinking water and almost spit it out: "How did you know?"

Xia Yongze was stunned.

Why, is this something he can't know? But the whole criminal police team is going crazy about it? Everyone said that Chen Pu was a bad person, and he usually looked like he didn't care about women and loved his career, but then a beautiful girl came to the criminal police team, and he chased her away in less than a few months.

Li Qingyao saw his expression and guessed what happened. He sighed, patted his shoulder and said, "It's okay. I thought you were here for a short time and didn't hear about it."

"No." Xia Yongze said happily, "I have good relationships with people now. Many people told me about you. Some even asked me when you broke up."

"..."

The two of them followed the addresses given by the older sisters and started to ask door to door. If someone was not at home, they would contact the street office or police station to obtain the contact information of the owner and check one by one.

This work lasted from dawn till dark.

There is only one last building left.

Fortunately, it was time to get off work, and many lights in the building were on, so many people had gone home, making it more convenient.

When he arrived at Room 302 of Unit 301, no one opened the door for a long time. Xia Yongze was about to contact the police station to inquire about his household registration when the door of Room across the street opened and a middle-aged man wearing glasses poked his head out: "Who are you looking for?"

Li Qingyao replied: "Hello, we are from the Public Security Bureau. We are investigating a missing persons case nearby. May I ask who lives across the street? Do you know who it is?"

The middle-aged man smiled kindly: "So you are a policeman. Across the street..." He showed an embarrassed look: "Some nightclub ladies live there. They should all be at work now."

"How long have you lived here?"

"This is the house where my parents work. I've lived here since I was a child."

It turned out that the man was a primary school teacher, teaching at the nearby Danwei Primary School. After his parents passed away, he lived here with his wife and children for easy access to work.

Li Qingyao asked again: "About seven years ago, who lived in the house opposite? Do you still remember?"

Most people would think for a while when asked about what happened seven years ago, but the man immediately answered: "It's still nightclub ladies living there." He gave a wry smile: "The neighbor across the street was originally a colleague of my mother's at work, but later he went into the business of opening nightclubs and KTVs, and became rich. He moved to a villa a long time ago, and he used this house as a staff dormitory. We are old neighbors, so I can't say anything. He even gave me a lot of candy when I was a child. He said his nightclub was quite formal, and he also warned those ladies not to cause trouble or bring people back, so it was relatively quiet to be a neighbor. Some neighbors also complained, but he settled them later. After all, the tenants in this community are already mixed."

Li Qingyao took out a photo of Liu Tingmei and asked, "Have you seen this girl?"

I didn't have high hopes at first, but after the man took a closer look, he nodded and said, "Yes, I have seen her. She used to live across the street for about a few months, but I haven't seen her since."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. She's so pretty, who could mistake her? She was prettier then than in the photo, but her makeup was heavier. She seemed very introverted, and I've never heard her speak."

This is really unexpected, but also reasonable.

For a beautiful girl who has no high education, cannot go home and is in urgent need of money, being a nightclub lady is probably the fastest and easiest way to make money.

But when she thought that this person was Liu Tingmei, Li Qingyao always felt that she couldn't accept it. Those three men must have sexually assaulted her like beasts. Now that she has regained her sanity and has a proud character, how can she still tolerate men's touch and money-for-sex transactions? Has she really been completely destroyed by them, both physically and mentally, and has she fallen into depravity?
Li Qingyao felt that he had to go to the nightclub and take a look before he could draw any conclusions.