The return boat left at 5 p.m. Lin Shuyue returned to her residence and quickly changed her clothes before heading out. Li Weisheng and the other two also started heading out.
The three of them split into two groups and went to the same mall to go shopping.
Coming to Hong Kong is not a difficult task for Lin Shuyue and her friends. It is also easy to get a pass, which can be obtained in a few days.
But if you have nothing better to do, no one would think of coming here. But now that they're here, they have to go shopping and buy what they need to buy.
Especially for clothes and skin care products, the prices are very different when buying them in Hong Kong and in the mainland.
Lin Shuyue also knew that someone would follow them, so she had already made arrangements with Li Weisheng and Li Mingfang. They also needed a place where they could communicate with peace of mind.
It is obviously not appropriate to stay in the hotel until five in the afternoon. This does not fit their identity and personality.
Lin Shuyue was better off, as she played the role of a shrew who endured humiliation. Li Mingfang and Li Weisheng had a hard time sleeping last night.
Li Mingfang started complaining from the moment she entered the room, and even got up in the middle of her sleep to get angry. Li Weisheng had to endure the pain in his legs and act with Li Mingfang.
Arriving at the mall, the two groups began browsing luxury stores, while Lin Shuyue began shopping for her family. The girls were all carrying bags, large and small, in various colors and shapes, and at all different prices.
After buying a large bag of clothes, the two went to different stores to buy clothes. While trying on clothes, Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang kept communicating.
In the end, after both parties spent nearly 100,000 RMB, they returned home satisfied.
At half past four, Er Wuzi arrived, and Lin Shuyue and the other two followed him onto the boat, still in the same cabin as before.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, facing the sunset, Lin Shuyue and the other two set out on their journey back to Pengcheng.
Li Mingfang took a nap along the way.
After waking up, the three of them followed the crowd off the boat.
In order to put on a complete show, Huang Qiang provided logistical support for the three of them and rented a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in his own community for Lin Shuyue and the other two. Huang Qiang's wife also had a mission and found the group of people with they have connections with in the community and leaked the information they had fabricated.
Er Wuzi and others who came back after Lin Shuyue and the other two went to the community to inquire about the news. What they found out was all told by Huang Qiang's wife and had been artistically processed.
Er Wuzi and his companions even went to the construction site provided by Li Weisheng. The construction site was contracted by Li Weisheng's cousin, who had a good relationship with Li Weisheng and fully cooperated with Li Weisheng's work.
Er Wuzi and others went back to report with peace of mind.
As night fell, Huang Qiang arrived at the rental house.
"Ah Yue, are you sure there is something wrong with this Feng Shui company?" Huang Qiang received a text message from Lin Shuyue yesterday afternoon.
Although he felt that what Lin Shuyue sent him was a bit nonsense, he still took quick action after thinking about it.
As the head of Lin Shuyue's department and her master, he must cooperate with Lin Shuyue and do the logistical work behind Lin Shuyue's secret visit for both moral and personal reasons.
"There's an eighty percent chance." Lin Shuyue had already sent a message to Ye Xueyu: "Master, if you're worried, I'll take you to see it tonight."
Huang Qiang was indeed worried. Li Mingfang brought out food from the kitchen and said, "Come and eat."
The house is fully furnished with appliances and you can move in right away. Huang Qiang bought pots and pans, rice, flour, grain and oil when he got home from get off work last night.
As soon as Li Mingfang came back, she went into the kitchen and stewed pig's trotter and soybean soup for Li Weisheng.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Lin Shuyue drove Huang Qiang, Li Weisheng and Li Mingfang to Xiasha Village.
Ye Xueyu stood in front of a car with a cigarette in her hand.
Lin Shuyue looked over after getting off the car: "You do smoke now?" Lin Shuyue was a little surprised.
When Lin Shuyue had been in contact with Ye Xueyu before, she had often heard her complain about the heavy smokers in the team.
Ye Xueyu took out the cigarette in her hand and waved it in front of Lin Shuyue, then put it in her mouth and chewed it: "It's a cigarette-shaped chewing gum. I snatched it from my brother before leaving."
"I thought he had learned to smoke. I even called my parents before leaving. He must still be getting beaten now." Ye Xueyu didn't care about this at all. After all, it was nothing for a boy to get beaten.
"Have you come to any conclusion regarding Taotao's disappearance?"
Speaking of business, Ye Xueyu's expression was serious. "We have checked the surveillance cameras along the way from the convenience store to the furniture store. We saw Taotao's back on the surveillance camera of a hotel. But outside of this camera, Taotao disappeared."
"This also proves that Wu Xiulian wasn't lying. She and Taotao did play together in front of the convenience store before separating. It's just that she was too careless as a mother. She didn't send the child back, but chose to let him walk back by himself."
"We now suspect that Taotao was either abducted or murdered. The search has now expanded to the entire city. Jiangzhou is still watching the surveillance." Ye Xueyu said.
"Have you checked Taotao's biological father and stepmother?"
"We checked and found that they had indeed drunk a lot of alcohol with their friends that day. They had been sleeping in the store the whole time and had not gone out."
The door of the Hu family furniture store faces the building materials city opposite. The surveillance footage of the building materials city shows that Hu Jiaxiang and his second wife have not gone out since the afternoon. They went out again at seven o'clock the next morning to open the store.
Lin Shuyue also walked around Hu Jiaxiang's furniture store.
His house was a shop in front and a residence in the back. Lin Shuyue vaguely remembered that there was a large window at the back of their house without any protective measures.
Ye Xueyu was obviously aware of this: "This evening, we saw a footprint on the windowsill at the back door of his house. We have sent it for trace identification."
Ye Xueyu had a hunch that the footprint on the windowsill would be a major breakthrough in the case.
Lin Shuyue waited for her to finish speaking, then told Ye Xueyu what she knew. Ye Xueyu waited until she finished speaking before asking any questions.
"So you mean, burying a living person inside the foundation?" The first time Ye Xueyu heard about this kind of thing was in an ancient detective novel. (TL's Note: I was actually contemplating whether I should used the Chinese phrase: '打活桩' (dǎ huó zhuāng) here or use the translated meaning here, and as you can see, I used the translated one as it was easier to understand. The Chinese phrase meaning for that will be further explain in the Author's Thought, you may read it if you want.)
According to legend, before building a bridge in ancient times, a boy and a girl were captured alive. The boy was buried alive in the pier at the head of the bridge, while the girl was buried alive in the pier at the tail of the bridge. When the bridge was completed, they would become the patron saints of the bridge.
Later, the custom of "dǎ huó zhuāng" developed, and before many projects began, living people would be sacrificed. After the reform and opening up, this bad habit of "dǎ huó zhuāng" was strictly prohibited, but some people still do it secretly.
"Yes, but perhaps more serious."
As soon as Lin Shuyue finished speaking, Luo Zhengjun came over on a motorcycle, followed by a slightly plump man in a black suit.
"Ah Yue, this is Boss Fu." Boss Fu, whom Luo Zhengjun brought, is the owner of the construction site in front of him, and is also the final destination of the two bottles in Hu Jiaxiang's shop.
It is a coincidence to a certain extent. Boss Fu and Luo Zhengjun are from the same hometown and often come to Luo Zhengjun's place for dinner.
Lin Shuyue called him in the afternoon to ask about the situation at the construction site, and Luo Zhengjun told her casually with a face full of praise.
Lin Shuyue turned on the good and evil radar immediately.
[ Name: Fu Sanbao, Sin Value: 12%, Good Value: 40%, Gray Area: 12, Overall Evaluation: Just an ordinary, but kind person~ ]
Lin Shuyue believed in the good and evil discrimination system. She turned off the system. Ye Xueyu on the other end had already shown her ID to Fu Sanbao.
Fu Sanbao had already met Ye Xueyu that morning, and sweat dripped down his face when he saw him. "Officer, is there anything illegal happening on our construction site? Officer, I swear to God, I'm not guilty! Ask around. For any project I work on, no matter how big or small, I always provide the best materials within the employer's budget."
"I pay my employees' salaries on time and they have never been late!" Fu Sanbao was very nervous.
He came from a small place and initially worked as a laborer. Because he was loyal and trustworthy, he gradually gathered around him a group of migrant workers who came to the city to work in construction.
After decades of hard work, Fu Sanbao has become a contractor. He has invested most of his fortune in his current project, which is to build a ten-story building.
Fu Sanbao attached great importance to this project. He followed the advice of his most trusted brother and spent a lot of money to go to Hong Kong to have his fortune told and to consult a feng shui master.
Those Feng Shui vases were the two that Ye Xueyu and the others stopped to check in the morning.
Fu Sanbao had a bitter face. He originally thought that the wave of inspections in the morning was over, but who knew there would be another one in the evening!
He really didn't do anything!
"How much did it cost you to buy that pair of vases in Hong Kong?" Lin Shuyue asked.
Fu Sanbao saw that Lin Shuyue and the others even knew about his trip to Hong Kong, so he didn't dare to hide it: "I spent three hundred thousand."
His heart couldn't help but sink. The police came twice, one in the morning and one late at night, and they only questioned Aquarius. Maybe there really was something wrong with that Aquarius couple.
As soon as he finished speaking, he said, "Comrade police officer, it was my brother who suggested I hire a Feng Shui master. Apart from spending the money and going to Hong Kong, he took care of everything else. If there really is any problem, it's none of my business."
Ye Xueyu asked, "Did they bury anything on your construction site?"
"Yes, yes." Although Fu Sanbao was only responsible for paying the money, he did not leave everything alone.
He knew that people from Hong Kong had buried things at his construction site.
He came to see it at that time.
Under the leadership of Fu Sanbao, Lin Shuyue and others came to the northwest corner of the construction site.
There are no traces of the groundbreaking that was made a few days ago, and construction supplies are everywhere.
After Fu Sanbao told him the approximate location, Lin Shuyue handed the shovel she took out of the trunk to Huang Qiang, and Ye Xueyu also took one.
The three of them began to dig around that spot. Luo Zhengjun and his friends didn't have shovels, so they used a bucket to scoop up the soil.
Fu Sanbao couldn't just stand there and watch. He was afraid that something really might happen, so he was very proactive and came up to help.
An hour later, Ye Xueyu's shovel hit something hard: "Found it."
Everyone gathered around. It was a square box with the same pattern as the vase Fu Sanbao had requested.
But when Fu Sanbao saw the box, his face changed.
His grandfather passed away last year, and he was the one who arranged the funeral and chose the urn. This box is basically an urn!
Ye Xueyu put on gloves, opened the lid and inspected it, then turned her head to look at Fu Sanbao: "This is an urn, Mr. Fu, please come with us."