Chapter 209

Two hours later, Chen Pu and Zhou Yangxin were on a high-speed train bound for Yunnan.

This time, the two did not sit in second class with other colleagues, but in business class. Chen Pu insisted on going and forced to be discharged from the hospital, and Ding Guoqiang had no choice. However, Chen Pu also cherished his life. If his wound worsened, he would have to be hospitalized again, and he would not be able to find Li Qingyao in the first place. So he paid out of his own pocket and booked a business class seat, lying down to let the wound dry the whole time, and he could also ask the team doctor to come and give him an IV. So Zhou Yangxin also took a business class seat.

The train sped along and dusk gradually fell, but Chen Pu was not idle either. He kept reading the messages in the work group and the various materials at hand.

The place they were going to was Pu'er.

At the beginning, Lu Xing smuggled out of the country from Pu'er and handed Li Meiling over to several people he didn't know.

The end point of the highway where the rag doll was found happens to be Pu'er.

What is certain is that Xie Xinrui also went to Pu'er with Li Qingyao.

But Pu'er is a prefecture-level city, no matter how underdeveloped it is, it is still that big. And they haven't tracked down the car that Xie Xinrui was driving.

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Chen Pu held his face with one hand, thinking, how can I find them faster? Where is the breakthrough?
After having no clue for a long time, he suddenly remembered a simple and powerful sentence Ding Guoqiang once said: When you have no ideas or clues, you can try to trace the root of the problem, which can often help you find the answer.

What is the root cause of the current predicament he is facing?
——Looking for Xie Xinrui and Li Qingyao is actually looking for Li Meiling.

To find Li Meiling, where is the root?
Of course, Xiang Siling who is already dead.

Chen Pu frowned, looked up at the scenery passing by outside the window, and suddenly, his mind became active.

A question occurred to him.

A potential problem about Xiang Siling that they had previously ignored, inconspicuous, but contradictory:

Xiang Siling, a native of Xiangcheng, joined the family business as a senior executive after graduating from university. How did she know the local tyrants in Yunnan, how could she help Lu Xing to smuggle, and how could she hide Li Meiling in their hands?
Don't say she met him unintentionally while traveling in Yunnan, that's impossible. This kind of local tyrant belongs to all kinds of people, their circle is secretive, and they may also belong to a criminal group. Ordinary people can't find a way in if they want to knock on the door. In Xiang Siling's more than 20 years of life, it is almost impossible for her to have any intersection with this circle.

So how did she do it?
Chen Pu's brain was working at high speed. He made repeated estimates and speculations, tapping the pen in his hand quickly on the paper.

Don't worry, Chen Pu, think about it slowly. He said to himself, you will definitely figure it out.

There must be some clues or traces that have appeared in this entire case, but were ignored by him and by everyone else.

The detective's intuition told him that there must be one.

Find them.

He always found them.

……

At a certain moment, a ray of light suddenly shone into Chen Pu's mind.

He remembered something.

Lu Xing's confession mentioned that the man who took Li Meiling away in Pu'er was a tall man with a flower-shaped tattoo on his arm. It was dark, and he couldn't see their faces clearly.

But why did Chen Pu feel that the term "man with flowery arm tattoo" had appeared somewhere in this case?

where is it?
Who mentioned this man?

Lu Xing, Li Meiling, Xiang Siling, Luo Hongmin...

Sun Yuanan, Ye Songming...

Ye Songming!
He remembered.

Ye Songming's diary also mentioned a man with a flower-arm tattoo. It was during the days when he left Xiangcheng, hiding the abortion report, and he was in a state of panic and suspicion. But twice, he was followed by the same man. Once at the entrance of the clinic, and once when he was in the park with his girlfriend.

This man with flowery arm tattoos is most likely Luo Hongmin's man. During the sensitive period when Luo Huaizheng was detained, the man stared at Sun Yuanan and Ye Songming and told them not to talk nonsense. Luo Hongmin was a self-made contractor who gradually grew and prospered. Their industry was very complicated and they must have had some shady people under them.

So the question is, could the man with the flowery arm tattoo who hid Li Meiling be the same person that Ye Songming met?

If so, what are the similarities and connections between them?
……

It’s Xiang Siling!

Thinking of Xiang Siling, Chen Pu suddenly remembered another little thing.

As early as when she was trying to overturn Luo Huaizheng's case, Xiang Siling pretended to have post-traumatic stress disorder and didn't remember what happened that night. She also blamed Xiang Wei for the sexual assault on her. At that time, she also gave many reasons why she didn't call the police - because Li Meiling threatened her with nude photos and said that they would smear her for having sex with the gangsters. Xiang Siling also mentioned that if she didn't obey, they threatened to sell her to Southeast Asia. How could a normal person, a pair of Xiangcheng parents, say such a thing, even if it was a threat? Li Meiling and Xiang Wei definitely didn't have the energy to do that.

It’s Luo Hongmin.

This threat was made by Luo Hongmin to Xiang Siling.

In other words, Xiang Siling might be very clear that Luo Hongmin has connections in Yunnan and Southeast Asia.

So, after Luo Hongmin's death, was it possible that this network of contacts was used by Xiang Siling to target Luo Hongmin's wife Li Meiling?
This is really ironic.

Chen Pu realized that this possibility was very high. Because Xiang Siling was best at using all the people around him. After Luo Hongmin's death, Xiang Siling took over all his connections and property, and it was easy for him to bribe a person involved in organized crime.

After all, the vast majority of people involved in organized crime are after financial gain.

Therefore, now as long as we find the man with the flower arm tattoo, we will find Li Meiling, and we will also find Xie Xinrui and Li Qingyao.

Chen Pu simply stopped lying down and sat up, crossed his legs, and kept calculating. Zhou Yangxin next to him shouted, "Hey, ancestor, why are you sitting up?" He ignored him.

It has to be quick. No one knows what else this crazy Xie Xinrui can do.

What is the fastest way to find a man with a flower arm tattoo?

Chen Pu thought of a name - Xue Li.

The skin that Xiang Siling had used before. He thought that with Xiang Siling's caution, she would definitely not use her own mobile phone number to contact the man with the tattoo on his arm. So she would most likely use Xue Li's number.

Chen Pu immediately made a phone call and asked his colleagues in the bureau to screen the mobile phone address books of Luo Hongmin, Xiang Siling and "Xue Li", as well as the communication records of the past two years, to see which numbers were from Yunnan.

When the high-speed train was about to arrive at the station, colleagues’ survey results were fed back.

The result was beyond Chen Pu's expectations.

Xue Li's phone did not have any phone numbers saved in it, nor did it have any communication records with anyone in Yunnan. Chen Pu realized that he had guessed wrong, otherwise the police would have discovered something when they thoroughly investigated "Xue Li".

Luo Hongmin's phone book contains five Yunnan numbers, two of which are local officials, two of which are executives of Huayu Group's Yunnan branch. There is also a number with the name "Quan", whose identity is unknown and has not been contacted in the past two years.

In addition to the mobile phone numbers of the two senior executives of the Yunnan branch, Xiang Siling's mobile phone also contained the contact numbers of six poor students from all over the country who she sponsored. They were all marked, such as XXX, a poor student from a certain province.

One of the poor students was from Yunnan, and the number was registered in Pu'er. The registration data also showed that this number was under the ID card of an 18-year-old boy in a village under Pu'er, Yunnan. Looking at the boy's photo, he looked ordinary.

However, after careful checking, colleagues in the bureau discovered that this number was the same as the number called "Quan" in Luo Hongmin's mobile phone.

But if he was really a poor student sponsored by Xiang Siling, how come his number appeared in Luo Hongmin’s phone several years ago?
Chen Pu stared at the number for a while, suddenly picked up the phone, and dialed the number in Zhou Yangxin's shocked eyes.

After seven or eight rings, the other party finally picked up, and the voice was impatient: "Hello? Who is this?"

It was clearly the voice of an adult man, with a deep and deep voice.

Zhou Yangxin's heart instantly rose to his throat.

Chen Pu held the phone, his eyes were gloomy, his mind was racing. In an instant, he smiled: "Brother Quan, it was President Xiang Siling who asked me to call you to ask if the person has arrived."

There was silence on the other end.

Chen Pu did not speak either, his breath was calm.

The other party then said: "Why doesn't she call herself?"

Chen Pu felt as if a huge rock had fallen from his heart, and he said more naturally, "It's been a tight situation lately, so it's not very convenient."

Brother Quan on the other end laughed and said, "I thought so. Who are you?"

"Of course I work for Mr. Xiang, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten this number."

The other party hummed and said, "Don't worry, President Xie and her assistant have just arrived. They will rest for a night. I will hand the person over to them tomorrow. There will be no mistakes."

This wave of daring operations made Zhou Yangxin dumbfounded.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yangxin called Ding Guoqiang without Chen Pu's instructions. Chen Pu took over and said, "Master, send someone to track and locate a phone number immediately. I found Xie Xinrui, Li Qingyao, and Li Meiling!"

Tomorrow we will enter the final chapter. However, the final chapter has a lot of content, so it will take at least 2 days to write, and at most 3 days to write. So tomorrow you will see the final chapter (I) and (II) updated, don't worry, there will be more later.

Thank you for following me all the way to now. As I write this book today, I actually feel different from before. In the past, when the ending was near, I either felt excited or reluctant. But with this book, I feel like the dust has settled, and dust returns to dust. I wonder if you feel the same way.