fool.

Xiaoman opened his eyes, the room was very bright, he turned the electronic clock on the bedside table and looked, it was ten past four - he lay on the bed with his eyes closed for two hours.It was still dark, and the curtains of the whole row of French windows in the room were all drawn, and he could hear the sound of the waves hitting the shore, one after another, as if it would never stop.

The lights in the room were all on, Xiao Man sat up, lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and looked at the clock, only 2 minutes had passed, 48:[-].Two hours and [-] minutes until seven o'clock.The sky does not know when it will be bright.He got out of bed, went to the bar with bare feet, poured a bottle of mineral water into the electric kettle, and pressed the switch to boil the water.

He turned on the TV, and the room became lively. The satellite TV station was rebroadcasting a variety show, with actors and actresses acting ugly and dirty, and laughter continued.Xiao Man went to the desk and pushed the mouse on the external connection of the laptop. The computer screen lit up. He entered the user password and pressed Enter. As soon as he entered the operation interface, he saw a map with a red dot located on Yancheng Dongshi Road. Sijichun Express Hotel at No. 58.The red dot was motionless.

Four past sixteen.

Xiao Man sat down, found a folder named "Records" and opened it. There was only one audio file in it, titled "20180814 Yancheng Public Security Bureau".He clicked on the audio, and a woman's voice sounded first. The woman sounded modest and her tone was unhurried: "Xiao Zhao, what about you, don't think too much, we really don't want you to be interrogated as a prisoner. I plan to interrogate you, so I will take you to the new building. In fact, I am working and handling cases in the new building..."

Xiaoman dragged the progress bar and jumped to 1 minute later, Zhao You's voice sounded.His attitude is also very modest, he said: "I understand, I definitely understand. If you have anything you want to ask, just ask, I will definitely tell you everything."

Xiaoman turned up the volume of the computer, leaned back to watch the TV, listened to the audio, and smoked.There is also a man in this audio who can also say a few words. This man Xiao Man has seen before and recognizes his voice. The man is Hang Fengnian from the Yancheng Public Security Bureau who is engaged in criminal investigation.Both Hang Fengnian and Zhao You called the woman "Gao Dui".Xiaoman bit her cigarette and clicked on an open webpage, which was the encyclopedia information page of a policewoman named "Gao Changqing".There is only one female captain named Gao in the Yancheng Public Security Bureau, and her official title is the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment.

The water boiled, and Xiaoman went to make a cup of tea.Twenty past four.

He was smoking, drinking tea, and browsing the web at the desk. Gao Changqing’s encyclopedia page only listed some of her personal information. She is a native of Yancheng, born in 74. She graduated from the Provincial Police Academy with a bachelor’s degree in investigative studies and a master’s degree in criminal law. He has written many papers on criminal psychology and investigation and interrogation. He is the backbone of criminal investigation in Yancheng Public Security Bureau. He has traveled to other provinces and cities to study and give lectures many times.There is no other information on the Internet except some excerpts of papers she has published and photos of some symposiums she participated in.

Xiao Man clicked on several other tab pages one after another. There were search results about "How Island Studio" given by the search engine. A question on "Must Answer", an anonymous user sent a question in August 2015, "Does anyone know how to build an elite training course at Island Studio?"

No one answered, and the click-through rate was not low.

Apart from this question, the other things found were either "travel tips for ten islands around Yancheng" or "how to survive on a deserted island".Xiaoman drank half a cup of tea, opened WeChat, and found Xiaojing.The last message Xiaojing sent him was: "I checked and found that either the training class was very confidential, or the person who made the video made it up. There is no such studio at all. He just made it up."

The other is: "The man was not killed by Zhao You, so they should ask him for questioning, and they won't do anything to him, right?"

Xiaoman fell into deep thought, watching TV and smoking a cigarette, the variety show was still full of laughter and weird sound effects, after a while, his eyes fell on the laptop again.The red dot in Four Seasons Spring has still not moved.Xiaoman found a tab page that read "A female executive from a foreign company mysteriously disappeared after attending an elite training class, and the murderer was her husband 20 years older than her?" and clicked on it. It was a page of a video website. But the player popped up a prompt: Dear Youyou, this video has been taken down.

Xiao Man refreshed the page, and the entire page disappeared.Xiaoman immediately sat up straight, and WeChat Xiaojing: Yesterday's video was taken down, can it be restored?

He searched for the last episode on the video website again, but couldn't find it.

After a long time, there was no movement from Xiao Jing. Xiao Man clicked his tongue and refreshed the search interface with the search keyword "Yan Mingming". Her information was much richer than that of Gao Changqing. Born in Qingdao in 1971, he studied advertising and started his career in hotel management in Hong Kong Island. He joined Ximeihua Hotel Management Group in 00. At that time, Ximeihua, a high-end hotel run by a Chinese, was under the siege of foreign capital pouring into the Chinese market. As the sun was declining, it was Yan Mingming who saved Ximeihua by himself. Bao Zhonghua, the founder of Ximeihua, accepted her as his adopted daughter. When Bao Zhonghua passed away in 2012, Yan Mingming carried her coffin. before children.

As for her personal life, people have always talked about her. Some people say that she is actually Bao Zhonghua's mistress, while others say that she is Boss Bao's illegitimate daughter. Others say that she is still unmarried and has a long-term relationship with one of her managers. lover relationship.It was also reported on gossip forums that she married an old man old enough to be her father in 2013.Recently, Zhou Sichang surrendered himself to the Public Security Bureau and killed his wife. This revelation was once again discovered by good netizens. Many people asked for details, but the person who broke the news has not appeared again until today, and has not made any response.

Zhou Sichang was indeed old enough to be Yan Mingming's father, and there wasn't much information about him on the Internet, so Xiao Man contacted Yan Boyuan to learn a thing or two.Zhou Sichang used to be a criminal police officer in the North District Police Station of the capital. He graduated from university and majored in psychology. After becoming a criminal police officer, he handled many cases. After one year as a criminal police officer, he retired to the second line due to injury. While working as a logistics officer, he took a master's degree in procedural law from the People's Public Security University. His main research direction was investigative science. That is to say, Zhao You and Yan Boyuan graduated from the school as lecturers.

The rebroadcast of the variety show is over, and the potions for nourishing the kidney, the pills for nourishing the brain, and the pills for nourishing the heart appear in turn.The sound of the sea tide was still very clear, and after finishing one cigarette, Xiao Man lit another.

Someone knocked on the door, Xiaoman got up and opened the door, and Yin Miaozai came in with two sun hats.The sun hats are huge, one is blue and the other is purple. Yin Miaozai is wearing a chiffon top with a blue and purple pattern, paired with denim hot pants, and the phone is stuck in the trouser pocket, protruding a lot.She asked Xiaoman: "Which one do you think is more suitable?"

Xiao Man said, "It should be blue."

Yin Miaozai stood in front of the mirror in the entrance to try on the blue hat, and she glanced at Xiaoman: "Don't worry, what can happen to Zhao You? He didn't kill him, and he hasn't contacted that old Zhou for a long time." La."

Xiao Man said, "I'm not worried about him."

"Aren't you worried about him?" Yin Miaozai turned to look at him and clicked her tongue.

Xiaoman laughed, and Yin Miaozai changed the purple hat to try it on. She leaned in front of the mirror, pointed to her lips and said, "Let me change the color of the lipstick. Is this color too heavy? It's not suitable for the beach. ?”

As soon as she finished speaking, two cell phone ringtones rang in the room at the same time.She exclaimed: "Scared to death."

Xiao Man went to take a look at the phone, and Xiao Jing sent a video call invitation to come over.Over there, Yin Miaozai walked into the room holding the mobile phone, pointed to the desk and said, "Put it there."

She dragged a chair to the desk and sat with Xiaoman. The two put two mobile phones in front of the laptop. They both received invitations for video calls. Yin Miaozai was facing Xing Tianxiang.

Xiaojing and Xing Tianxiang almost appeared together in the video screen. Xiaojing was wearing a pair of large headphones, facing the camera sideways, staring at two computer screens, his mobile phone seemed to be on a shelf, and the picture was very stable.Xing Tianxiang was sitting on the sofa with his mobile phone in his hand, the camera shaking a little.

Xiao Jing asked indifferently: "What are your plans for today? Diving or horseback riding?"

"Riding a horse?" Xiaoman said, "Riding a horse on the beach?"

Yin Miaozai took a menu and said, "Should we order room service? The buffet breakfast is not open yet." She looked down at the menu, "There is horse riding, horse riding on the beach, and riding into the rainforest Well, isn’t there a rainforest behind the hotel?”

Yin Miaozai also said: "I signed up for the diving class, and we have to leave at seven o'clock. We have to pad our stomachs."

"Us?" Xiao Man said.

Yin Miaozai arched Gong Xiaoman: "Yes, I also reported it to you. You said that if you come to Yancheng, maybe you can get a diving certificate and go back."

Xiaoman propped his cheeks to look at the menu, and said, "I have a diving certificate."

"Ah?" Yin Miaozai looked up at Xiaoman.

Xiao Jing said again: "The video can't be restored, it looks like the person who uploaded it took it down by himself, hey, I said Detective Xiao, don't worry about it, what can Zhao You do... Damn, boss k886 Are you a goddamn fool!!" Xiao Jing slammed the mouse and jumped up from the computer chair.

Xing Tianxiang turned his head to look aside, and said, "Can you keep your voice down, your mother is still sleeping."

Yin Miaozai and Xiaoman looked at each other, Yin Miaozai burst out laughing, stuck out his tongue, and continued to look at the menu, Xiaoman shook his head helplessly and also smiled.In the video, Xiao Jing ate a big mouthful of jelly candy and complained to Xiaoman: "What are you watching early in the morning? It's so noisy, can you not play any background music during the meeting? What about the sound? Does someone have to sing??”

Xiao Man turned off the TV, but Xiao Jing was still not satisfied: "You said you, Zhao You didn't do anything against the law and discipline, just asked him to understand the situation, and you still followed him to Yancheng, he would How old are you..." He squinted, looked at his computer and said, "Hey, if you are so worried, why don't you go to this Sijichun and open a room? Follow closely and observe closely."

Yin Miaozai's eyes widened: "You don't know how difficult it is to book a room on the Gold Coast during the summer vacation, right? I still have two sea view rooms, and I made several phone calls to the gold card housekeeper, plus I'm an Intercontinental Only regular customers of ours got it.”

"I'll go, it's the eldest lady who's here for vacation, right?" Xiao Jing disagrees, "What's so difficult about it, I'll write a program to get you the order in minutes."

"Yeah, come on vacation, can't you come to Yancheng to see the most beautiful coastline in China? National Geographic is one of the [-] must-see places in your life."

Xiaoman looked at Xing Tianxiang and said, "I don't know, I always feel that something is wrong. Is the Yancheng police force a little too tight?"

Xing Tianxiang nodded, and said: "I checked, and there was a similar case in Yancheng three months ago. A man said that he drank too much and killed his wife. He turned himself in to the police station. After checking the corpse, I found out that the man's wife hid at a friend's house because the man drank too much and domestically abused her. The police mediated and released the man. After a few days, the man took his wife Also, the father-in-law and mother-in-law were killed, and they committed suicide. As soon as this case came out, the public opinion was in an uproar, and the Yancheng Public Security Bureau became the target of public criticism. Maybe this is the case. They are so nervous this time. Zhou Sichang and Zhao Youfei are not relatives. , A thousand miles away, he went to the Public Security Bureau to surrender. The first person he wanted to see was not a lawyer, not a relative, but Zhao You. If there is a mistake, it is estimated that some people will lose their black hats."

Yin Miaozai suddenly took the two sun hats and asked Xiao Jing: "Do you think the blue one looks better, or the purple one?"

Xiao Jing stared: "No, you still need to wear a sun hat when you go diving?"

"Didn't I just jump out of the hotel and jump into the sea directly, without going to the pier, or sitting on the boat and waiting for the boat to go to a place where I can dive?"

"How many steps is that?"

Xiaoman took a sip of the cold tea, Xing Tianxiang said again: "One more thing, Zhou Sichang is from the Central Police Academy, and most of the policemen in Yancheng are graduates from the Police Academy of Hai Province."

Xiaojing glanced at the camera, and said sarcastically, "Our script has changed from criminal investigation to official fight?"

Yin Miaozai looked down at the hat, and said hesitantly, "Otherwise, it's purple... This blue doesn't seem to match the blue on me." She then said, "Is it seafood porridge or western style? Continental breakfast? French spit manage?"

Xing Tianxiang said: "But Geng Xinru, the second in command of their Yancheng Procuratorate, and Zhou Sichang are masters brought out by the same mentor."

Xiao Jing said: "My mother will wake up in half an hour, shouldn't you go out and buy soy milk and fried dough sticks?"

Xing Tianxiang looked down at his watch: "Then what do you want to eat?"

"I'll go to sleep after playing one more game." Xiao Jing put on the earphones again, chewing the soft candy and said.

"Aren't you walking auspiciously today?"

"I?"

"You told it yourself yesterday."

Yin Miaozai looked at the phone for a while, and the menu for a while, and said to Xiaoman: "I think this continental breakfast seems to be okay. Take a look at the photos everyone took, is it okay?"

Xiaoman glanced at the photos on her phone, and before she was about to say something, there was a "beep" sound from the laptop on the table, followed by the sound of water and some slight noises.Xing Tianxiang frowned and asked, "What's the sound?"

Xiaojing yawned and said, "Then I'll play another game, Lao Xing, wait for me to go downstairs with you."

Yin Miaozai pointed to the dishes on the menu and said: "This French toast uses maple syrup imported from Canada, and the butter is..."

Zhao You's voice sounded: "Hang team, good morning."

Xing Tianxiang's eyebrows twitched, he grabbed his phone and stood up, saying: "You installed a bug on Zhao You??" He strode to a wooden door and knocked on it.

Yin Miaozai and Xiaoman's cell phones both rang the door, and Xiao Jing yelled, "Can you calm down?"

Xing Tianxiang said: "If this is discovered by the Yancheng police, how can Zhao You make it clear? You can't tell! This is against the law! Do you know that it obstructs justice?"

Xiaojing argued: "I didn't install a bug on him! I just opened a back door through a coupon link. Once the link is opened, the microphone of Zhao You's phone will be activated automatically. It is absolutely impossible to be found!"

"You open the door!"

The sound of dog barking cut in.

"Keep your voice down!"

"You open the door! Hurry up!"

"auspicious!"

Yin Miaozai slipped away and went to call the room service: "Hello, I would like a French toast breakfast and a bowl of seafood porridge."

Zhao You asked, "Then shall we go to the detention center now?"

Xing Tianxiang said, "Can you drive it?"

Xiaojing clacked and tapped on the keyboard: "Come on, let me take you away!"

Hang Fengnian suggested: "Let's have breakfast downstairs, it's self-service, and it's included in the room rate."

Zhao You asked him, "Have you eaten?"

"I have already eaten."

"Then I won't let it go. Just buy a coffee on the way. Go early and come back early, so there will be no delay."

Hearing this, Xiaoman let out a "shh", and everyone fell silent instantly.

"Woof!" The dog barked again, and Xing Tianxiang picked up a puppy and gently stroked its neck.

Yin Miaozai hung up the phone and came back, Xiaojing took off the earphones, the puppy was quiet, Xing Tianxiang raised the phone, looked at the camera, and swallowed.

Another wave rushed in, and the blue sky shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Xing Tianxiang opened his mouth first: "Is there something wrong?"

Xiao Jing rubbed his chin, his eyes and voice sank, and said: "Something is wrong, is he implying something to us?" He recalled: "Last night, someone invited him to supper, but if he didn't go, I I thought he was too tired, why did he only buy coffee this morning?"

Yin Miaozai's expression also became serious: "It's not right, you think..." She looked at Xiaoman, "He fell asleep after entering the hotel last night, right?"

"Later, I woke up once, and then fell asleep again." Xiaoman said.

"Did he sleep a little too much?" Yin Miaozai questioned.

Xiaoman smiled bitterly: "It's okay, he usually works like a normal person."

"It's not normal now. What's the situation now? His teacher turned himself in, saying that he had killed someone, and he would only speak when he saw him. He was controlled by the police and interrogated for a long time."

Xiao Jing said: "Is it possible that he is afraid that someone will poison him? Damn," he slapped his thigh, "Could it be that someone killed Yan Mingming because of some business war, and then blamed Zhou Sichang, Zhou Sichang Chang is an old detective. He must have felt that something was wrong, so he hid in the Public Security Bureau. If a person died in the Public Security Bureau, the police would not be able to tell. He was seeking asylum! Zhao You must have sensed something. What's the matter, just in case, a drop of water from Yancheng, a mouthful of food from Yancheng, he dare not drink or eat!"

Xiao Man laughed: "Isn't that a bit exaggerated?"

Xiao Jing seriously criticized him: "You can still laugh, are you still joking around here? I'm not joking with you, there must be something wrong with the current situation!"

Xiaoman rubbed his temples, and Yin Miaozai said: "I think Xiaojing's analysis is very possible! Old Zhou is hiding in the police station to save his life. He is not looking for Zhao You because his father is a member of the Disciplinary Committee. Old Zhou has mastered it." What important clues does he want to disclose to his father through Zhao You? Maybe there are also those bad guys in the Yancheng judicial system, and he is afraid to go directly to the Disciplinary Committee to scare the snake away!"

Xiao Man said: "You can find out Zhao You's background files with a little search, his parents' jobs..."

Xing Tianxiang stood against the wall without saying a word.Xiao Jing rolled his eyes, and said, "I remembered, he said twice yesterday how to do it! Have you ever seen him talking to himself? He must have known that we monitored his cell phone. He said on purpose He told us about the Hedao Studio, he must have thought there was something wrong with that place, and hinted that we should check it out!"

As he spoke, Xiao Jing slid away from the camera while sitting on the computer chair.

Xiaoman asked Xing Tianxiang: "You said just now that most of the policemen here in Yancheng are graduates of the Police Academy in Haizhou, right?"

Xing Tianxiang said: "Who do you know?"

Yin Miaozai patted Xiaoman's arm, and said eagerly: "You just say that you are a private detective now, and we are here to investigate the case, Lao Xing, has there been any famous cold case in Yancheng?" Your new business card will come in handy!"

At this time, Hang Fengnian asked Zhao You: "How many days have you asked for leave?"

"Three days, it's okay. I'm not a backbone. I must stay here first to help you solve the case. Don't worry about Qingshi." Zhao You said, "Wait, Hangzhou team, I have a question for the front desk."