sneak peek

Mo Wang was on the balcony looking into the distance with the cold wind blowing, and suddenly felt his ass was slapped hard. He turned around and before he could see the person behind him, he was hit indiscriminately by the broom.

"I killed you, a thief, and you dared to sneak into my house. My grandson is a policeman, and you are brave enough to arrest you. I..."

"Grandma! Grandma is me!" Mo Wang hugged his head in embarrassment.

Grandma stopped moving, still holding the broom tightly in her hand, squinting at Mo Wang for a while, and then said in surprise: "Oh, when did you come back? Didn't tell me in advance, I didn't wear it. I can’t see clearly through the glasses! Did it hit you somewhere? Does it hurt?”

Mo Wang shook his head, took the broom in grandma's hand and put it aside, and helped her into the house, "I came back to get some things temporarily, it's late now, I don't want to wake you up."

Grandma groped on the tea table for a long time, took out the glasses case, put on the glasses, and looked at Mo Wang carefully, "Oh, you've lost weight again, your cheeks are sunken, and you don't have any flesh on your body, you must not be well. Have a meal."

"Grandma, I'm not thin, I've gained a little weight."

"Lie," grandma patted Mo Wang's face, "I can't tell if you've lost weight or gained weight? Are you hungry? I'll cook you a midnight snack."

"Grandma, I still have something to do. I have to go back to the bureau."

Grandma, who is selectively deaf, ignored Mo Wang's words and went straight to the kitchen.

The lights in the kitchen flickered on and off, but the grandma who has been in the kitchen for more than 20 years can cook a full banquet with her eyes closed. She randomly fried an egg noodle, took out a small packet of McDonald’s ketchup in the refrigerator and squeezed it Going up, it smells exactly like the ones I used to eat when I was a child.

Looking at the deflated ketchup bag, Mo Wang couldn't laugh or cry, "Grandma, when did you get the ketchup?"

"Oh, didn't you save a few packs of the takeaway you ordered last time when you went home? I put it away for you."

"This..." Mo Wang thought, how long ago did that happen, wouldn't it have expired?

"What is this, you hate what grandma did?"

Mo Wang quickly shook his head and started to eat, hypnotizing himself to forget the source of the ketchup.

"Why did you sneak back tonight?" Grandma poured Mo Wang a glass of milk and asked casually.

"I...I'm investigating a case now," Mo Wang hesitated, but said, "It's related to Dad's undercover operation."

Grandma paused her hand pouring the milk, and asked casually, "It's been so long, what's the matter?"

"This, I can't say for now," Mo Wang bit his chopsticks, "Did Dad contact you when he was undercover?"

"You will say that you are an undercover agent, why would you contact us?"

"What about mom? Have you contacted mom?"

"No, we haven't been able to say a word to him from the beginning of his mission until his death."

"En." Mo Wang lowered his head, stirring the noodles on the plate, a little lost.

"What's wrong?" Grandma patted Mo Wang's head, "What happened?"

"Something happened to a very important friend of mine..."

"What case is it related to?"

"Ah."

"Very important friend?"

"Well, just as important as...family."

"Is it a boy?"

Mo Wang was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Yes. Would grandma mind?"

Grandma smiled, "I brought you up with one hand, how can I not know your little thoughts?"

Mo Wang suddenly felt his nose a little sour. He had never talked about this with his grandma, and although he would not deliberately hide it, he would not show it either.He always thought that grandma didn't know, but he didn't expect...

"When your case is settled, bring him back for dinner, and I'll cook something delicious for you." Grandma clapped Mo Wang's hand.

"En." Mo Wang nodded fiercely.

"Don't worry, I won't give you McDonald's ketchup at that time. I'll buy a bottle of expensive stuff tomorrow and put it in the refrigerator. Hey, I'm sleepy. I'm going to bed. You eat slowly. When you're full, put the plate in the sink , Just wait for me to get up and wash. If you want to work on the case, go do it."

"Ah."

Looking at grandma's staggering back, Mo Wang suddenly felt as if he had been given a shot in the arm.

Will definitely find Gu's soon and bring them home to eat with grandparents.

"Hey, you're back?" Meng Ning rubbed his eyes in front of the computer, his eyeballs were bloodshot.

"How's it going?" Mo Wang took off his coat, pulled out a chair and sat beside him.

"Jade and Li Zi found out one of Zhang Dan's confidantes. He was released a few years ago. He is now working as a janitor in a bar. They went to find out about him. Your old photo is too low-resolution to be used. Compare that to the photo of Curry."

Mo Wang took out the photo, "Can you find out where it was taken?"

Meng Ning glanced at it, "Oh, I know this, I went to this place when I was a child, and I took pictures at the same location~ There are video games, claw machines, and ice skating rinks there, but it's been more than ten years It was demolished before and converted into a shopping mall.”

Mo Wang frowned, "Removed?"

"Yes, it is said that the boss failed to invest and lost a lot of money, so he sold the playground."

"When was it sold, you can check?"

"Emmmm, hey, it was just one month after the drug bandit extermination operation? Don't you think it's too coincidental?"

"Yes," Mo Wang nodded, "Father has a few game coins in his wallet, and the photos were also taken in the amusement park. It is very likely that they often go to this place. I guess the real owner of this playground is the drug bandit." Gangs, they use the playground to launder money. After the extermination operation, their funds went wrong, so they sold the playground.”

"Let me see, the owner of the playground is called Li Dashan, an orphan. He escaped from the orphanage at the age of 14. He didn't know where he went. It was ten years after he appeared in front of people again. He opened this playground. According to newspaper interviews, he earned the money to open the amusement park in the past ten years and started from scratch. Not long after the amusement park was sold, he hanged himself at home.”

"How much money does it cost to open such a large playground? Can a 14-year-old orphan really make up enough money for 10 years? It so happens that a month after the drug gang was wiped out, the playground that was originally well run was sold. Dropped? Then he died? I don't believe there's a relationship between the two things."

"Emmmmmm, according to bank records, before Li Dashan died, he transferred all his money to the bank account of a person named Li Li."

"What's the origin of this Li Li?"

"Uh...it seems to work in a tattoo parlor many years ago, and then it's completely off the record."

"Li Yuan, Li Yuan..." Mo Wang began to mutter to himself, and then suddenly became excited, "Li Yuan, the abbreviation is LZ, which means ZL is reversed! She is Zhang Dan's daughter! Check it out, In Zhang Dan's prison visit records, is there any Li Li?"

"Wait, let me take a look... hey! Yes! That's right! There really is, and I've been there twice!" Meng Ning also began to dance, "Hey hey hey! I finally found you! She The registered address is not far from here, it's only half an hour's drive, let's go and have a look?"

Mo Wang nodded, "Let's go."

The address is in an old-fashioned community, but although it is called a community, it is actually just a few community buildings side by side, without guards, walls, and surveillance.The wall was peeling off badly, and it was crumbling, making one wonder if it might be a dangerous building.

It feels like there are not many residents in the building, only the balconies of two houses are drying clothes, and the others all look as if they are empty.

There is no sensor light in the corridor, and only the light on the first floor is good. Mo Wang took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, and guided the two of them up to the third floor and stopped in front of the door of 302.

The two listened carefully inside, but there was no sound at all, and no light came out from the crack in the door.

Meng Ning asked silently: What should I do?

Mo Wang frowned, and carefully pried open the door.

There was a "squeak" sound from the door, which was particularly ear-piercing in the quiet night, which made the heart beat violently.The two took out the wall and slowly entered the room.

The room was very dark, and the lights couldn't be turned on. It seemed that the whole house was cut off, and the environment could only be vaguely seen by the light from the street lamps outside.On the rocking chair with their backs to them, there was a man lying motionless, whether he was asleep or dead.

Meng Ning looked at Mo Wang in panic, and asked in a low voice, "Could it be..."

Mo Wang shook his head calmly, "It's not Gu."

Meng Ning shouted to the people on the rocking chair, "Raise your hands, stand up!"

The man was unresponsive.

Mo Wang frowned, walked over, put his hand under his nose, "Dead."

Meng Ning picked up the phone and took a photo on the face of the corpse, his eyes widened, "Damn it, why is it him?!"