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Li Qiang, a small trader, was one of the witnesses on the day the girl disappeared. He had been selling dried fruits and roasted seeds and nuts in the market for many years. At that time, two girls were seen buying melon seeds at his small stall.He also had conversations with two girls. After the girl disappeared, the public security agency focused on investigating him, and found that he and his wife were very old, but neither had a son and a half daughter. During the investigation and evidence collection, they also got information Said: Li Qiang once revealed to others the idea of ​​wanting to buy a child.But it has never been realized. Ji Yan once took Li Qiang back to talk, but he failed several times. He said that he had talked with the two girls about the business normally, and firmly denied that he had ever said that he wanted to buy a child.

When Ji Yan and Zu Tianyang arrived, the big market was about to disperse. Li Qiang and his wife were hunched over and picking up unsold dried fruits. Ji Yan stepped forward and said hello. Li Qiang saw him, She shrank her neck involuntarily, and her expression was slightly stiff. The woman beside her threw the basket angrily, and turned to enter the temporary shack.

Li Qiang rubbed his face to cheer himself up, and called out in a low voice, "Police Ji."

Ji Yan nodded: "Li Qiang, we're here to find out about the situation."

Hearing this, Li Qiang wiped his hands on his trousers, walked out of the booth, and waited anxiously for their questioning.

Zu Tianyang silently sized Li Qiang up and down behind Ji Yan. He looked to be in his forties, not tall, and ordinary in appearance. Judging from his clothes and behavior, he should be regarded as a simple and honest man. People, but his wife who slammed the door in seemed to have a strong personality, and she could tell that she was the one who was in charge.

Zu Tianyang looked at the dilapidated shack they rented again, there was no trace of renovation, it was a small square house built of bricks, the walls were blackened by the fire, and there was a boiler for frying melon seeds next to it.It's about as tall as a person, with the word "hot" crookedly written on it.Li Qiang folded his sleeves and stared at them nervously with his small eyes. Seeing Zu Tianyang looking at the boiler, he quickly said, "Comrade policeman, this is for frying melon seeds at my house." He casually grabbed a handful of melon seeds and handed them to them. : "Comrade policeman, the newly fired guy this morning is very fragrant, give it a shot."

Ji Yan shook his head and pulled Zu Tianyang over: "Li Qiang, this is the comrade who assisted in the investigation of the 10.6 case, please tell us what happened that day again."

Li Qiang sighed, with some helplessness: "I saw two kids buying melon seeds that day, it's normal."

Zu Tianyang smiled at him: "Don't be nervous, what do we have to say, solve the case earlier, you should be at ease sooner, right? Did they talk at that time?"

Li Qiang scratched his head: "That's what I said, that is, I want melon seeds."

Zu Tianyang asked again: "I just bought melon seeds? Were the two girls carrying other things at that time? Everything they eat and use is counted."

"It seems that there are no more. I bought melon seeds and left."

"Do you have your schoolbag?"

"No."

"Did they talk about anything else?"

"So many people, I didn't pay much attention."

Zu Tianyang narrowed his eyes, thought for a while and asked again: "Li Qiang, how many people are there in the family?"

Li Qiang said: "My wife and I are just two of us here."

Zu Tianyang said: "According to the accent, are you from Sichuan? Are you from Sichuan?"

Li Qiang said, "It's funny."

Zu Tianyang said: "What about the child?"

Ji Yan's pen paused for a moment, and Li Qiang's lips twitched: "I didn't get a baby."

Zu Tianyang said: "I heard that you told someone that you wanted to buy a child."

Li Qiang was so frightened that his face turned pale: "Don't worry about it. I'm a square-headed person and I don't want to buy dolls. If you have one, you don't have a doll. If you're a rumor-monger, you don't have anything to do! Buying dolls is illegal, I know it." !"

Zu Tianyang nodded and walked to the converter. It was a seemingly ordinary stove for frying melon seeds. There was a large stirring rod in the middle. When frying melon seeds, the boiler would rotate back and forth, a bit like a mixer. The stirring rod in the middle was in the Turning in the middle to prevent the melon seeds from being heated evenly, Zu Tianyang stretched out his hand to knock on that thing, Li Qiang yelled from the side: "Don't move! It's very hot!"

Zu Tianyang withdrew his hand and looked inside. It was dark inside, but there was no heat coming out. Li Qiang explained: "This thing has a big belly and looks fine from the outside, but it's still very hot inside."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the paper shell: "It's written!"

Zu Tianyang looked at the paper shell: "When was this written?"

Li Qiang said: "I wrote it long ago, for fear of burning someone!"

At this moment, Li Qiang's wife rushed out from the shack. She raised her head, her face full of anger: "What are you talking about? We didn't do this. If I do this kind of thing, I will die. I am Mo De Doll, what’s wrong with Mo De Doll? In this world, Mo De Doll is the same as everyone else, everyone wants to steal other people’s dolls? Besides, even if you want a doll, you need a milk doll. These two The girl is so big, how can I raise it? Such a big baby is about to get married, what am I going to do? After this happened, I won’t be able to do business anymore, and no one dares to touch me Come here to buy sunflower seeds. If you can’t find someone who will tie the dolls, I will stop doing my business. It’s almost the Chinese New Year, and the business is not as prosperous as it used to be...God, why are you picking honest people to bully me? Look down on me, now I'm both to blame for losing a cat and a dog..."

Li Qiang's wife was half a head taller than him, and her voice was loud. When she yelled like this, people nearby gathered around to watch the excitement.Li Qiang's wife scolded and cried, and everyone around them talked about it, some sympathized with the couple, and some doubted them.Ji Yan frowned slightly, and Zu Tianyang said: "Sister-in-law, don't get excited, we either suspect you, or look for clues from here, whether you have children or not, it's all fate, it's not something shameful." Said to the people around: "Everyone, let's go."

The people around didn't disperse, they stretched their necks to explore every possibility, and couldn't wait to find some topics after dinner.

Li Qiang lowered his head and sighed, while his woman stared at Ji Yan and Zu Tianyang with scarlet eyes, as if they were a group of vicious bandits, Zu Tianyang narrowed his eyes slightly, watching Ji Yan evacuate passers-by to no avail. Inquiries from outside are such a troublesome thing, even trivial things will be rumored, but this Li Qiang has already summoned him several times, and there is no evidence, so it may be even more troublesome to bring him back.

People around were talking more and more loudly, and commented on this foreign couple, as if they were really black hands who kidnapped young girls. The women in a nearby dried fruit shop probably disliked them for a long time, and now they finally have With a punching bag, he pinched his waist and said in a sharp voice: "I want to say, these outsiders did it. When they didn't come, our town was poor or poor, but where did so many right and wrong come from? Everyone Did you say that? Has anyone lost a child? It’s all right now..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Li Qiang's wife picked up the weighing weight and threw it towards her. Ji Yan was startled, and quickly pushed her arm.

The woman was startled and shouted: "Oh my God, have you seen that this is going to kill me in broad daylight? Is there any law for this? Comrades are going to commit murder in front of the police. !"

Ji Yan frowned: "Okay! Stop it!"

The woman yelled at her shop: "Don't worry about it, you guys! Those Sichuan guys are going to smash me to death!"

Before the words were finished, two men from the north came out from there, a head taller than Li Qiang, and rushed towards him: "Which bastard bullied my mother-in-law!"

Li Qiang's eyes flickered, the other party had already raised his fist, Ji Yan stood in front of Li Qiang, and just about to stop him, he saw the man's face turned pale, Zu Tianyang reached out and grabbed his wrist: "Calm down, calm down, what are you doing?" What is this?"

The man ouched twice: "What are you doing? Let me go! Let go, ouch, let go!"

The woman tilted her head and reached out to grab Zu Tianyang: "Hey, comrade policeman, what are you doing? You caught him wrong! Let him go!"

Zu Tianyang let go of the man's wrist, and the smile that was always on his face was wiped clean, and Ji Yan's face was serious like never before: "You all think this is a theater, right? Have you seen enough?" ? When you’ve seen enough, do whatever you want! Do you still want to fight, right? Neighbors live in the street, you can’t see them when you look up, and you can fight if you want to. Come on, follow me to the police station.

The woman let out two sharp breaths, twisted her neck to the side and stopped making a sound.Zu Tianyang casually picked up the weight and threw it on the melon seed stall. The weight hit the weighing pan and made a loud bang, which scared the people around them into silence. Zu Tianyang narrowed his eyes: "We We are just here to investigate the situation. We are not sure who the murderer is. If you know something, you must not cover up the criminal. But if there is no evidence, don’t magnify your personal conflicts. At this time, everyone should unite rather than add insult to injury. It just makes it harder for the police to judge."

The people around stopped talking, and Li Qiang, who had been standing silently behind Ji Yan, poked his head out slightly and said, "We didn't do it, God knows we were wronged..."

Zu Tianyang said: "No one said you did it, asking you to ask is not to suspect you..."

Li Qiang's wife at the side suddenly burst into tears: "Why do you bully us like this? We both worked so hard to sell some melon seeds, so why bother us endlessly, those two melon sons came to buy melon seeds , but you can’t just rely on us! You police can’t solve the case, and if you can’t find it, you are useless! Why bully us!”

She was crying as she talked, the tone of her hometown was in the crying, which was like a sad national tune. This crying seemed to have infected the people who were talking about them just now. What Zu Tianyang said just now was too shocking. Big, offended these people all of a sudden, their tone changed immediately, and the topic of discussion changed from suspicion of Li Qiang and his wife to sympathy, and even some dissatisfaction with the police handling the case.

Although their voices were not loud, they still reached the ears of the two.

"How long has it been? What are these policemen doing?"

"Isn't it? Just bully honest people."

"If you lose a living person, you can't find it. It's not as good as a dog. If you let a dog look for it, you can find it after so many days."

"You can't say that. The outsiders are just hateful. We haven't seen this kind of thing before. It's because they came that it caused chaos."

"Who knows, the case hasn't been solved for so long, who knows what's going on."

……

Li Qiang drooped his head, the woman's howling sound tore a huge hole in the cold air, and the cold wind kept pouring in, but it couldn't block the discussions of the people around.