Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

back kitchen.

The boss came in with a worried look on his face. He just lit up his cigarette when he realized there was someone following him. He frowned and stopped him: "Student, you can't come in here."
Lu Shaohui showed his ID, and the boss's face suddenly changed. He looked at the front hall behind the translucent glass door and said in a low voice: "Comrade police, I really didn't use spoiled meat on purpose! I promise to find out what happened!"
"Don't be nervous. I'm not from the Municipal Supervision Bureau." Lu Shaohui put his hand on his shoulder and comforted him. "Can I see the food preparation area?"
The boss had no choice but to take him to the back.

In fact, the reason why he was so nervous was because the so-called "fresh meat is bought at the market every morning" was indeed an exaggerated lie. There were a lot of fresh vegetables piled up in the freezer, all packed and neatly arranged according to type for use, and the meat for the sweet and sour pork had been taken out and thawed and placed in a stainless steel basin beside it for marinating.

Lu Shaohui used chopsticks to fiddle with the diced meat in the bowl. This dish required the meat to be broken up and cut into small pieces before coating them with layers of starch and frying them in a pan. Neither the raw materials nor the finished product had any specific shape, so it was hard to say whether they were genuine pork tenderloins or whether they were fresh.

The people inside came out after hearing the noise, and the boss introduced her, "This is my mother. She usually helps with the food preparation in the store."
The old lady looked at the person coming down, wiped the water off her hands with her apron, and greeted Lu Shaohui timidly.
Lu Shaohui glanced at her and asked, "Auntie, where did you buy this meat?"
"The South City Vegetable Market." The old lady was a little nervous when she saw her son's cautious attitude towards the man next to him.
Lu Shaohui saw her guilty conscience, threw away his chopsticks, and said with a half-smile: "Auntie, let's not beat around the bush. Just now, a student ate your food and found it was spoiled. He is still vomiting. If this problem is not properly resolved, he will go back and spread the word. Will your store in the university town be able to continue to operate?"

This was exactly what the boss was worried about, so he didn't dare to offend the boy just now. He leaned close to the old lady's ear with a serious expression and said something. The old lady was immediately frightened and hurriedly said, "Comrade police, I, I said, the meat in the store is indeed bought from the South City Vegetable Market, but this bag was picked up by me on the roadside last month..."
The boss was so shocked that he forgot to lower his voice: "Picked it up? How did you…"
"I was thinking, why not give it away in vain." The old lady became less and less confident as she spoke.

According to the old lady, she usually does not use the fresh ingredients she buys right away, but puts them in the freezer first, and takes out the ones that have been stored for a long time and are about to go bad to cook, and repeats this cycle over and over again. Because she thinks it is a "disadvantage" to buy and cook immediately, and zombie meat is not a big deal, so she will not easily let fresh meat flow into the dining table.
The boss was horrified when he heard this. He had never known that the old lady had played a trick of replacing one thing with another right under his nose. Fortunately, nothing had happened before, otherwise... The fear made him break out in a cold sweat.

Then, the old lady confessed that when she went out to throw away the garbage last month, she saw a bag of fresh meat in a plastic bag next to the trash can. It weighed about three kilograms, lean and not fat, cut neatly, and had no peculiar smell. She didn't know whether it was thrown away by a merchant or dropped on the road. She thought it would be a pity to throw it away, so she simply picked it up. According to her habit of using old things instead of new things, this bag of fresh meat had to stay in the refrigerator for a long time, so it happened to be taken out to cook and served on the table today.

When Lv Shaohui heard the weight of three kilograms, his heart sank, and he hurriedly asked if there was anything left. The old lady was afraid that he was a policeman, so she naturally turned out all the remaining things. She didn't even replace the packaging bag, which was printed with a familiar convenience store logo, and it was obviously the same source as the bag of body parts found on the construction site.

"I'll take these away first," Lv Shaohui said to the boss while he was cleaning up the meat in the basin. "You can have a good talk with your mother and see if there are any other messy things in the freezer. After all, we are running a restaurant and we can't not pay attention to food safety."
The boss thought that he was really cheated by his own mother this time, and he was going to settle the score with the old lady without him saying anything.

Lu Shaohui took out a few dark-colored plastic bags, packed the things in them and returned to the front hall. Everyone at the table was starving but had no mood to eat. When they saw him come out, they packed up their things and prepared to leave.

The people at Jiang Ke's table had just finished their meal and came over to see what was happening. They saw Lu Shaohui talking in Xie Qingfei's ear.
In fact, these detectives are all young people in their twenties and thirties, and there is no obvious age difference among a group of college students. Now they are playing the game "Reborn as a College Student", and their acting skills are superb. The topic of their casual chat is still which window in the cafeteria has the worst food, which is really not inconsistent.

Jiang Ke put his arm around Lu Zhiheng's shoulder and asked, "Is the man next to sister Xi Ming her boyfriend?"
Lu Zhiheng even reflected on who "Xi Ming's sister" was, and then said, "No, no, her boyfriend is not here."
Unexpectedly, this sentence dispelled Jiang Ke's last worry. He stepped forward and Lu Zhiheng couldn't stop him.
Xie Qingfei saw him coming out of the corner of his eye and stopped the conversation with Lu Shaohui in time.

"Hello, classmate. My name is Jiang Ke, and I'm from the university next door."

Xie Qingfei glanced at him indifferently: "What's wrong?"
Not only is she pretty, but she also has a nice voice. Jiang Ke felt like he was teased again and felt agitated.
"Add WeChat?" He shook his phone.
The phone was the latest model of Apple. Xie Qingfei looked him up and down at the same time. The reason why this boy dared to chase him and ask for his contact information was that he had the capital. He was handsome, wearing well-known trendy brands, and the pair of shoes on his feet alone cost thousands of yuan. It was obvious that he came from a wealthy family. He was just pretending to be rich with vanity.

Xie Qingfei didn't refuse immediately. He deliberately glanced at the hairband on his wrist and said, "Don't you have a girlfriend?"
Jiang Ke was stunned, and his guilty conscience was clearly exposed. He put his hands into his sleeves, and then said calmly: "It is true that some girls have shown interest in me, but I am actually single."
He gave what he thought was a charming smile, not feeling that he would be rejected.

While the other party was looking at him, he actually observed her carefully. Xie Qingfei came here to dig soil. Not only was she dressed simply, but her jacket was also an old windbreaker. She wore no jewelry or makeup. Except for her stunning face, she looked like an ordinary college student in every other way. The men who were traveling with her were not dressed in a trendy way, especially the one who just talked to her. His trouser legs were covered with dust and mud, and they were very rough. People are divided into groups. He judged that her boyfriend was not a big shot, and he could not find any reason for her to reject him.

Unexpectedly, Xie Qingfei glanced at him arrogantly and said with disdain: "But I'm not single, and I don't like you either."

Her voice was neither too loud nor too low, just enough for everyone around to hear. The two boys traveling with Jiang Ke immediately showed a gloating smile. The three of them were roommates, but Jiang Ke was the one who was respected. Just now, when they ordered in the restaurant, it was Jiang Ke who paid the bill out of habit. Later, when the boss came over to return the money, the other two did not react at all. It was obvious that there was no AA process in private.

This was the first time Jiang Ke was rejected so rudely in front of his classmates. After a moment of shock, he immediately became angry and said, "Who do you think you are? I am talking to you because I think highly of you. Do you really think you are a goddess? It's funny!"
"Well, then don't block the way." Xie Qingfei said calmly and made a "please make way" gesture.
Jiang Ke was furious, but with so many people watching, it would be even more embarrassing so he had to move aside.

Lu Zhiheng asked in confusion: "Captain Xie, why did you reject him? If he gets angry, won't our clues be lost?"
Xie Qingfei said: "He will continue to look for you."
"Oh," Lu Zhiheng suddenly understood something, and then warned, "Then don't forget that your name is Xi Ming now, don't let it slip."
Xie Qingfei: “Ah?”

"Ah!"
The genuine Xi Ming sneezed in the wind and hurriedly closed the car door, and then he had time to read the group messages.

"So you found a new bag and you almost ate it?"
As soon as he asked this question, everyone in the car started to feel acid reflux in their stomachs, and they didn't even want to eat the hamburgers they had just bought.

"What's the situation over there?" Xie Qingfei asked on the phone.
Xi Ming: "We have dug almost all of this area, but still haven't found anything. If your bag was picked up from near the trash can, doesn't that mean the remaining part may have been recycled?"
Several people looked serious: "The garbage from a month ago should have been dealt with long ago."
With such a long time span and the efficiency of the transfer station, not to mention human flesh and pork, they would have already undergone physical and chemical reactions and become part of nature.

Lu Shaohui glanced at the plastic bag at his feet and said sadly, "And the two bags we have found don't have any important bones or teeth. If the DNA comparison is inconclusive, we can't even speculate on the appearance of the deceased. What if this is actually a man with long hair? The gender cannot be confirmed, and our city has a population of more than 7 million." After a period of low pressure, Lu Zhiheng said angrily, "What a pervert!"

The two groups of people returned to the police station one after the other, and the newly discovered body parts were sent directly to the laboratory.

Zhao Chongyun and Dai Lin were already waiting in the conference room. After checking within the system, all the information on missing cases reported in the city within three months was screened out, and there were a total of 28 cases that met the criteria with the characteristics of young women with long hair.

"Thank you for your hard work." Xie Qingfei pinched Dai Lin's shoulder when he passed by her.
Dai Lin said, "It's okay. It's very quick to filter by features. But these are all reports from friends' families. If the missing persons we are investigating are not entered into the system, we won't be able to use them as a reference."

Dai Lin usually comes and goes without a trace in the bureau. It's all because she is a rare technical talent, and various task forces need her help, so she has to run around a lot.

Seeing that she remembered something, Lu Zhiheng quickly sent her the URL that Jiang Ke had just given her: "Take a look at this, can you find out the information of the person who built the website?"
Dai Lin frowned as soon as he saw it: "This is... Such detailed personal information, it must have been stolen from the school's intranet database. Where did you find it?"
She checked the source code of the webpage and found that it was not a simple one that could be easily cracked. Even the IP address was hidden.
Lu Zhiheng then told the story.
Xi Ming: "No, why did you bring me along? Why didn't you use Zhao Chongyun's name?"
Lu Zhiheng: "Next time, next time."
Xi Ming waved his hand generously: "Forget it, protecting Master is what I should do."

At this time, Zhao Chongyun suddenly asked: "Isn't this person one of the missing women we screened?"

As soon as he mentioned it, everyone looked at the screen.
After sorting the appearance scores from high to low on the web page provided by Jiang Ke, the girl who appeared second had been missing for a month.

These college students who have not yet graduated, their ID photos were basically taken in high school, when they were still too old to dress up, and the camera angles were not very professional, but Huang Xuyao ​​stood out with her beauty, her skin was extremely white, her bones were slender, her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and she had a kind of fragile beauty. At this moment, everyone discovered the new function of this website, that is, after clicking on a girl's name, in addition to her personal information, there was also an anonymous message area, with all kinds of obscene comments stacked together, all of which were comments and sexual fantasies about the girl, which made people physically uncomfortable.

"Huang Xuyao, from Jinchuan City, Shengzhou City, a junior student in the Japanese Department of Shengke University... Oh my god, how come all of these are listed here?" Zhao Chongyun didn't want to waste time introducing her halfway, and said concisely, "She went out clubbing with her classmates last month, and she never returned to the dormitory. My roommate came to report the case."

Xie Qingfei: "Does her family know?"

Zhao Chongyun: "The counselor did call her home, but her family didn't care much. Huang Xuyao's grades were not good. She was a junior and had to retake two courses. She also loved to go clubbing and drink, so it was common for her to lose contact. Her family thought she must be fooling around somewhere again, and they contacted the police station to close the case because they were tired of the police calling them all the time. Originally, this information was filtered out, but wasn't the place where the body parts were found in the university town? She happened to be a student there. I called her roommate, but she hasn't come back yet. Apart from her counselor who was worried and angry, no one continued to investigate the matter, so I added it in."

Lu Shaohui praised: "Xiao Zhao, you have matured."
Zhao Chongyun touched his cheek embarrassedly.

Xie Qingfei asked: "She is the second, then who is the first?"
Lu Zhiheng returned to the previous page and clicked on the homepage of the girl who ranked first on the beauty ranking.

"Gan Tian, ​​Japanese Department... She and Huang Xuyao ​​are roommates."

The ratings of the two differ by only a few tenths. Gan Tian is a vibrant girl with a strong complexion, which is completely different from Huang Xuyao, a sick beauty. Therefore, there are comments saying "This kind of girl is obviously a playboy, not as interesting as the sick one", and many people agree with her. Someone else replied that it's a pity that she has a boyfriend, but so what if she has a boyfriend? It doesn't affect these people's self-orgasm online, and they even say more dirty words.

"I don't want to watch it anymore. Are these people sick?" Lu Zhiheng was the first to lose patience, and at this moment Jiang Ke sent him another WeChat message.
Lu Zhiheng clicked it and raised his eyebrows.

[J: Don't forget to play basketball tomorrow afternoon. Your school's campus card should be able to enter our school, right? ]

It really aroused his strange desire to conquer. Lu Zhiheng looked at Xie Qingfei with admiration and said, "Who can help me get a campus card for Shenggong University?"
Lu Shaohui: "Do you really think you are a grown-up boy? Go find a school yourself."
Lu Zhiheng snorted, lowered his head and replied "OK" to Jiang Ke.

Soon, the forensic department gave the DNA comparison results. The human tissue found on the construction site and the piece of meat in the restaurant belonged to the same person. However, it did not match the hair DNA of Huang Xuyao ​​collected from the dormitory during the investigation of her disappearance and brought by the police station.

The deceased was not Huang Xuyao.

(End of this chapter)