third missing person

Chen Xing and Xiao Zeyang heard the sound and walked out. Before they could step out, they heard a woman's voice from the living room.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

mom? !

The two of them went out and saw that two women were squeezed into the small living room at this moment. They both had their stomachs upright, their hair was tied up casually, and their faces were unkempt, looking disheveled.

Seeing the two of them coming out of the bedroom, the two pregnant women looked flustered, lowered their heads as if they had done something wrong, and unconsciously took two steps back. Xu Zigui's mother even gave them a fierce look.

Chen Xing was puzzled, coughed lightly and asked, "Who are these two?"

Xu's mother quickly answered, "This is my two daughters, Zigui's older sister."

"Xu Zigui's older sister?" Chen Xing was suspicious, as the information did not say that Xu Zigui had two older sisters.

"They don't live with us, they're married after all." Mother Xu looked sideways at the two daughters and subconsciously wrung her fingers.

"Yes, we usually don't live here, and we come back together when something happens at home."

"Then I just asked you two to find out about the situation." Chen Sheng took out his small notebook again and asked, "Name, age?"

"My name is Xu Zhaodi, the eldest sister, and I am 25 years old."

"My name is Xu Pandi. This year..." My sister lowered her head and thought for a while, then said softly, "I'm 22 this year."

Zhaodi, Pandi, and Zigui, this is a series. Chen Xing wrote down their names in his notebook and asked, "When was the last time I saw Xu Zigui?"

"The day before he disappeared. We had dinner together that day, and he went back to his room after dinner." My sister quickly added as if she had reacted to something: "That day, my mother worked overtime until late at night, and we came to take care of Xu Zigui."

Chen Xing raised his eyebrows. The younger brother with arms and legs has to be taken care of by two pregnant women?

"Is there anything unusual about Xu Zigui that day?"

"No, after dinner that day, he went back to his room to do his homework, and I haven't seen him come out since then."

Chen Sheng nodded, and suddenly asked, "How many months?"

"Ah?" Zhao Di raised her head in a daze, met Chen Sheng's eyes and quickly avoided it in a panic, she seemed to be very nervous when she mentioned this question, her voice trembled slightly: "I am six months old, my sister is a little younger, It's been four months."

Speaking of this, the two sisters frowned slightly, holding their stomachs, their eyes lost in thought.Chen Sheng couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth, stood up and said, "Okay, I'll stop here today, this is my business card, please contact us in time if you think of anything."

After Xu Zi returned home, Chen Xing lit the unlit cigarette in his pocket, took a deep breath and sighed: "There is something wrong with this family."

"No, ever since the two sisters came in, the atmosphere has been weird."

"These two sisters seem to be more afraid of their mother scolding them than they are worried about their younger brother's disappearance."

"Just for this name, these two girls must have been scolded since they were young."

"I asked them how many months they were pregnant, and the two of them were not happy at all. Isn't pregnancy and childbirth something that should be happy?"

"It is estimated that the family she married is not very good, and it seems that life is also very difficult."

"Tsk...Call Ji Xiaojie, don't take the vacation, come back and check what's going on with these two sisters. What does the school say?"

"I made an appointment at 02:30 in the afternoon, and said that I will fully cooperate."

Chen Xing looked at the time, and it was already almost noon: "The other two families let Chen Tingting and Yu Fan run for a while, and let's walk around here and have lunch along the way."

Holding Xu Zigui's photo, the two surrounded the neighborhood to inquire about news.The population in the old urban area is relatively mobile. Either they have never seen it, or they are not familiar with it. After asking around, the result is still "a pretty good kid".

Chen Sheng was holding his notebook, standing under the street lamp, frowning and smoking a cigarette, when suddenly a dog jumped out from under his feet, and barked at him indiscriminately, scaring him almost into a tree on the street.

Looking down, the puppy is not big, and I can't tell what breed it is. It is white and clean, and its milk is fierce.

"Tsk, even the dog came to bully me?"

"Okay, old Chen, I'm afraid you will be able to get rid of the title of Goubuli this year." Xiao Zeyang folded his arms and watched the joke.

"Rolling..." Chen Xing used his notebook to pick at the dog under his feet, but he didn't know who he was talking about.

"Maomao, Maomao!" A middle-aged woman ran out from the other side, she was very rich, she was wearing a padded pajamas, a down jacket, and three or four plastic bags in her hand, she hurried over and hugged Chen Sheng The dog at the foot: "Maomao, don't run around, what if you get hit. Sorry to scare you, it's okay, Maomao doesn't bite people."

Nine and a half out of ten people who raise dogs would say that. Chen Sheng didn't bother to argue with her, so he took out Xu Zigui's photo and asked, "Do you know this kid?"

"Who are you?" The woman was very alert, she took a step back while hugging the dog.

"Police, come and investigate something." He took out the ID in his pocket and showed it to her.

"Oh, the police, did you say he was missing?"

"Do you know each other?" Chen Sheng's patience this morning was exhausted.

"Hey, how do your people's police handle the case? I don't know." The woman also became impatient and wanted to leave with the dog in her arms.

Xiao Zeyang punched Chen Xing back, and quickly stopped her with his signature smile, saying, "Sorry for his temper, don't be as knowledgeable as him."

"Huh, my Mao Mao has a good temper." The woman hugged the dog and patted it twice, put it on the ground and continued: "I know that child, and I am an old neighbor. There are not many people still living in the old city street, so remember I was going to move out, my daughter bought me a house in the new city, but I still feel that living here is more comfortable, after all, I am familiar with it..."

The old woman talked endlessly about how excellent her daughter was and how filial her son-in-law was before she finally returned to the main topic and said: "This family is not easy. The head of the family got into a car accident and left early, and the mother took care of the three children alone. , a family of four squeezed into a two-bedroom room, and the child's mother was still patriarchal, whooping, squeezed in the second bedroom with two daughters, and let the son live in the master bedroom, and the daughter was pregnant, what do you call this? thing."

"The four of them live together?" Xiao Zeyang glanced at Chen Xing, and just said at Xu's house that the two older sisters lived in different places.

"Yeah, I've been living there. These two girls seem to have discussed it. The older one is pregnant and lives in her mother's house every day. I don't know if it's really going back to her mother's house to have a baby, or it's a wild species that I don't know where I'm pregnant. Anyway, I haven't seen it before." Other men come in and out."

"A piece of pregnancy?"

"No, I don't know who I'm married to. This is planning to have two children for three years... The son-in-law also doesn't know how to hurt others. Women can't have children like this. Remember, comrades, you can't let yourself It hurts a lot for my wife to give birth like this... My son-in-law said, I will have one in the future, it is too much for a woman to suffer..."

The old woman was preoccupied again, bragging for a long time that her daughter was well married, and Chen Sheng took the opportunity to write down the key clues in his notebook.

"This family, although they treat their daughters like this, they dote on their sons, but last month they spent 2000 yuan on shoes for their sons, saying it was his son's scholarship. Whoops, people who live here can afford 200 yuan to wear them. Even if Qian’s shoes are extravagant, I guess these shoes are tiring, no, I twisted my feet two days ago, and I’m limping when I walk.”

"A sprained foot?" Xiao Zeyang frowned, the family didn't even mention such a big matter.

"Yes, 2000 yuan shoes are not easy to wear." The old woman changed the plastic bag in her hand and asked: "Comrade police, do you have any other questions? You can go home without me. My grandson is still waiting for me to cook."

"Not for the time being, thank you for your cooperation." Xiao Zeyang showed a killer smile.

The eldest sister's heart melted when she saw it, and she held the little white dog in her arms and said, "My house lives in the building in front of him. If you have any questions, you can ask me again. I am a good citizen and know everything."

Chen Xing watched the eldest sister leave and said sarcastically, "Okay, the prestige is not diminished, you can go up to 99 and down to just go, as long as it is a female, you can't handle it."

Xiao Zeyang pushed him, rolled his eyes and said, "Get lost! How true or false is what that person just said?"

"Although this kind of gossip about neighbors in the neighborhood is embellished, it is probably true. Xu Zigui's two sisters have a lot to say.

"You said Xu Zigui sprained his foot, why didn't the whole family mention it just now?"

"Tell me, if you sprain your foot, can you successfully pretend to be okay in the eyes of your family?"

"You mean that Xu Zigui didn't dare to show it because he was afraid that his family would be worried?"

"Who knows?" Chen Sheng shook his head, "Let's go, eat something, and then go to school."

At 02:30 in the afternoon, the two arrived at Lingying Middle School on time.It is worthy of being an aristocratic school recorded in the data, built a hundred times more magnificent than their city bureau.The huge marble outside the school gate is written with calligraphy that most people can't understand. You can barely distinguish the four characters "Lingying Middle School" from the context.

The car parked in the parking space at the school gate, got out of the car and walked to the guard room to explain the purpose of coming. After waiting for a full 5 minutes, I saw a teacher trotting out of the campus.

He was of medium build, wearing a pair of black trousers, a maroon sweater, a pair of black-rimmed glasses hanging above the bridge of his nose, and his hair neatly standing guard around the bright light above his head. When he saw the two of them, he trotted two steps faster. : "Comrade policeman, I'm sorry for the long wait. I'm the director of the teaching department. Your surname is Ma. Please come with me."

The two of them followed Director Ma into the campus. The school is within the planning scope of Wencheng New Town, and every inch of land is expensive, but obviously they don't spare the land at all. There are large fountains, small gardens, pavilions, waterfalls, and everything. .

Facing the school gate is a five-story library. Behind the library is the office building. Before I can see other facilities, I was led into the gate of the office building.

"The two of you, please"

Chen Sheng looked up, and saw the signboard on the door frame with three big characters "reception room".At this moment, there was already a row of people sitting in the reception room, all of them were not young, and their positions were probably not low. After all, all the dignified directors were sent out to receive them.

Seeing the two of them coming in, everyone stood up one after another and introduced them one by one. Good guy, there are more than ten people from the principal, vice-principal, director, and deputy director. The grades are not good, and what I am most afraid of is seeing the teacher, and now I am so relieved to see so many principals and directors, I am sweating nervously."

"Officer Chen was joking. Cooperating with the police investigation is the responsibility and obligation of every citizen. Schools are places for teaching and educating people. They should set an example and not be neglected."

The person who spoke was the principal of the school. He remembered that his surname was Lu. He was not tall and overweight. He had gray hair and looked at least over 60 years old. He was smiling and very amiable.

As soon as Chen Xing and Xiao Zeyang sat down, they handed over a document. He opened it and saw that it was the missing student's school file, student status, transcript, final review form, teacher comments, student representative comments, and club activity records. And so on, everything is exactly the same as the information received in the email in the morning.

He couldn't help laughing out loud, this school is too well prepared, what a fart to ask.Close the file and ask: "Can I take this file with me?"

"Of course, if you need anything else, please feel free to mention it."

"I'm curious." Chen Sheng flipped through the materials absently and asked, "Our school can be regarded as a middle school for nobles. These three students don't look so noble, how did they get recruited?"

"Thanks to the noble people from the society, but Lingying Middle School has always been adhering to the simple school spirit, and is committed to delivering all-round development talents and quality talents to the society. We are no different from ordinary middle schools, but the number of students in the class is smaller. , Teachers teach in accordance with their aptitude and train individually. There is no so-called aristocratic standard when recruiting students. After all, everyone in our country is equal, and everyone is an ordinary person. How can there be nobility."

Chen Xing nodded. Yes, they are all ordinary people. Ordinary people can afford the tuition fee of 45 yuan per semester, let's talk about ordinary people: "But students like Xu Zigui whose family lives on subsistence allowances may not be able to afford the tuition fee."

"Xu Zigui was No. 1 in the city in the middle school entrance examination that year. Our school paid a lot of money for him. He was free of charge including books, tuition and other miscellaneous fees, and he was awarded a scholarship every year."

"Then the other two have average grades."

"To tell you the truth, Liang Ping's and Zhu Ze's parents are employees of the group, so the entry threshold is lowered, and the tuition fee is also appropriately reduced."

One depends on grades, and the other depends on relationships. They are in different classes and do not meet each other. If there is any connection, it is probably because of the unanimous "discreet personality and poor communication" in the comments. No matter how you look at it, these three people can't be connected together.

"Can we meet with the three of their classmates and their teachers to understand the situation?"

"Of course, the students and teachers are already waiting in the conference room."

Meeting room waiting?Chen Xing and Xiao Zeyang were puzzled, and they didn't understand what they meant until they walked into the first conference room.

There were less than [-] students sitting in the conference room, and there were almost the same number of teachers. It turned out that all the teachers and classmates were brought to them to answer their questions.

Director Ma, who has been following behind and in charge of guiding, explained, "Because it is class time, and the students are not lost in the school, in order not to cause a commotion, it is better for us to be more secretive."

Chen Xing nodded, and glanced around the students, the meeting room was completely silent, the teachers and students were sitting upright, neatly dressed in school uniforms, even their facial expressions and speech skills were neat and tidy.

It's as if it's been discussed, asking is unfamiliar, not understanding, or unclear, and commenting is withdrawn, down-to-earth, not causing trouble, and inconspicuous.

Tsk, it's better not to ask.

He turned around and wrote his phone number on the small whiteboard in the meeting room: "If you think of any details, please contact us in time, it doesn't matter how small it is."

As soon as he finished writing and stepped out of the conference room door, the head teacher immediately wiped off the phone and led the team back to class with a serious face.Chen Sheng has already stepped into the second conference room at this moment, completely unaware of what happened behind him.

The second conference room was still the same, even the speaking skills were exactly the same.

Chen Sheng walked out of the second meeting room and didn't even want to go into the third meeting room. It was a waste of time. He stood at the door of the meeting room and licked his molars impatiently before stepping into the third meeting room .

As soon as the front foot stepped in, he regretted it with the back foot.