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Chapter 21 Mysterious Numbers
When the lights came on at night, the "Qin couple" in the rickshaw finally finished their day's investigation, and they looked very tired.

"A secret room again?" Xiaoman was surprised.

"Yes, the three death threats all appeared in the secret room." Luo Fei said with his eyes closed.

"Then do you see any clues?"

Luo Fei smiled and shook his head: "Not yet. What about you? What have you gained?"

"The finance team of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce is like an icehouse, everyone is terribly indifferent, but their leader finally secretly gave me a note." Xiaoman complained.

"What did you write?" Luo Fei tilted his head.

"It's a number, 720900, and an address. I checked, it's a western restaurant." Xiaoman took out Lu Xiangdong's note.

"720900, do you remember, the deceased Han Weiwei also wrote this number in her notepad?"

Qin Xiaoman straightened up suddenly: "By the way, the person who gave me the note is called Lu Xiangdong. I remember that there is a word Dong on that notepad. Could it be such a coincidence?"

Luo Fei immediately opened his eyes: "Let's go! Go to this western restaurant! Master, please turn around!"

15 minutes later, a rickshaw stopped on the side of the road.The shops and restaurants in front of me were all dark.

"It's all waiting for you, look, it's already closed." Xiaoman complained.

"It's okay, you will meet Lu Xiangdong again tomorrow," Luo Fei said.

"Tomorrow? Isn't tomorrow the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce's fundraising event?" Xiaoman leaned weakly on the back of the seat.

"There are so many people, it's easier for you to talk to Lu Xiangdong. Remember, you must ask clearly what the number 720900 means. I guess he knows some inside information, but not much."

"Then we... go back now?" Xiaoman asked.

Luo Fei thought for a while: "Don't worry, let's take a detour to Han Weiwei's apartment."

Xiaoman refused: "Ah? Why?"

"The time when Han Weiwei was killed yesterday is almost at this time. It's a good time to observe the last part of the way the deceased walked."

"It's quite scary, you... aren't afraid?" Xiaoman gasped.

Luo Fei glanced at Xiaoman, coughed and said, "Master, please, turn into the intersection ahead and walk slowly."

After a while, the rickshaw came to an empty alley, and a few street lights flickered on and off.

When passing through a relatively dark fork, Luo Fei stepped into and shouted, "Stop!"

follow closely!Luo Fei got out of the rickshaw.Seeing this, Qin Xiaoman paid the fare and immediately followed out.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Man chased after him and asked.

"This is the fork closest to Han Weiwei's apartment, and it is also the one with the dimmest lights. If I were the murderer, I would choose to hide here and ambush Han Weiwei." Luo Fei said.

"What do you mean? You mean, the apartment wasn't the first crime scene?"

"The apartment is the first murder scene, but not necessarily the place where the deceased met the murderer."

"Luo...Luo Fei, you...Look, why is the light in Han Weiwei's apartment still on?" Xiaoman pointed at a window above Han Weiwei's apartment with a trembling voice.

"Could it be that Benjamin hasn't left yet?" Luo Fei wasn't afraid at all.

Xiao Man shook her head again and again: "Impossible, Benjamin will transport the body back to the patrol room in the afternoon."

Luo Fei immediately walked forward: "Go, let's take a look."

When Xiaoman and Luo Fei came to the door of the apartment, an even weirder scene appeared.

In the apartment, a woman's crying could be heard intermittently.Qin Xiaoman made a stop gesture, swallowed, and then took out his gun.

"Did you hear that there is a woman crying inside? Go and have a look," Luo Fei said in a low voice, and gently pushed Xiaoman.

"You're a man, can you be a little gentleman?" Xiaoman glared at Luo Fei.

Luo Fei taunted: "Hey, Qin Xiaoman, who claims to be a hot female police detective, now is the time for you to show off your abilities."

"It's you. If you have nothing to do, you have to come to the murder scene at this time. It's really scary to cry in the middle of the night."

Luo Fei pretended to be serious and said, "Could it be the ghost of the dead?"

"Damn you, how dare you scare me with feudal superstitions. Go in and have a look!"

Afterwards, Luo Fei followed Qin Xiaoman and walked over.

With a bang, the door was kicked open.

Qin Xiaoman and Luo Fei rushed in with all their might.

Qin Xiaoman closed his eyes and shouted loudly: "Police! Don't move!"

Luo Fei put down the gun and looked back at Xiaoman: "Don't hide behind, it was a human being who was crying just now, not a ghost."

Qin Xiaoman poked his head out from behind Luo Fei, and slowly opened his eyes.

I saw two young girls sitting at the desk.One of the eyes is very red.

"Are you the one crying just now?" Xiao Man asked.

The red-eyed girl nodded.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Xiaoman asked.

"You...?" The two girls also seemed to be taken aback, still in shock.

Qin Xiaoman took out his ID: "We are police officers from the patrol room."

The red-eyed girl said, "My name is Chen Huiyan, and her name is Zhao Su. We are both Han Weiwei's colleagues."

Qin Xiaoman frowned: "Colleagues? I haven't seen you at the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce today."

At this time, Chen Huiyan said: "We are not from the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, we are the reporters who declared."

"Then Han Weiwei is also the reporting reporter?" Xiaoman asked.

Chen Huiyan nodded: "That's right, Wei Wei was originally the editor of the supplementary magazine, and she was just transferred to the main magazine as a reporter two months ago. She is very kind and motivated. I didn't expect her to be so young..."

"Sister Weiwei promised to come to the newspaper office for a meeting today, but she never showed up, so we came to find her after get off work. I didn't expect her to be murdered. Many colleagues came here just now. Huiyan and I wanted to give Wei Sister Wei stayed on watch, so she stayed," Zhao Su said.

"No wonder there are excerpts of news newspapers from various countries in the bookcase." Xiaoman said and looked at Luo Fei, "Luo Fei, didn't you say that the deceased was in financial work? This time the difference is too outrageous, right?"

Luo Fei frowned and stroked his beard: "Reporter? How is it possible? Then why did she teach herself so many financial books?"

Chen Huiyan explained: "Wei Wei told us that she was going to tell a big news, and expose a big scandal that caused a sensation in Shanghai, but she never revealed the specifics to anyone."

"In order to grab the exclusive?"

Zhao Su shook her head: "No, Sister Weiwei said that the news she followed this time would be dangerous, so she didn't tell us to protect our safety."

"How long has she been away from the newspaper?" Luo Fei asked.

"About one and a half months." Zhao Su said.

Luo Fei smiled at Xiaoman: "Xiaoman, I'm not wrong, Han Weiwei has been doing financial work for the past one and a half months, or more precisely, underground work."

When Zhao Su heard Luo Fei's reasoning, she seemed to understand a little bit: "During this time, no one in the newspaper office knew what Miss Weiwei was doing. Yesterday she suddenly called the newspaper office, saying that she was going to hold an editorial meeting and prepare to serialize news."

"Does she have a boyfriend? Luo Fei suddenly asked."

Chen Huiyan looked blank: "I've never heard of it."

Luo Fei sneezed twice in a row.

Qin Xiaoman walked up to Luo Fei, and said with concern: "You have such a bad cold? How about this, you stay here to watch the night, and we won't bother you."

Chen Huiyan looked at Xiaoman earnestly: "If the murderer who killed Weiwei is found, you must tell us."

Qin Xiaoman smiled and nodded: "Of course, of course."

Afterwards, Qin Xiaoman pushed Luo Fei out the door.

"It would be great if there were clues about her boyfriend." Luo Fei said while leaning in the rickshaw.

"I've already figured it out. The scandal that Han Weiwei is going to expose should be related to the Jin Chamber of Commerce's Yellow River disaster relief, so she applied to work in the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce to collect relevant evidence. But when she collected the evidence and was about to publish it in the newspaper, It was silenced by the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce." Qin Xiaoman reasoned.

"You can't say that." Luo Fei closed his eyes and said.

Qin Xiaoman frowned: "What's wrong?"

"There is no evidence to deny the entire Shanxi Chamber of Commerce. Perhaps some people in the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce killed Han Weiwei because of their interests."

Xiaoman suddenly thought of something: "Then do you plan to continue donating money?"

"Of course I donate. I don't donate to the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce. I donate to the disaster victims. Cough..." Luo Fei coughed again.

"Your cold is getting worse, go back and have a good rest." Xiaoman said.

In the corridor of Sullivan's apartment, Luo Fei and Qin Xiaoman opened the door and walked in.And the light in Wang Susu's room was still on.

"It seems that I can't rest for the time being." Luo Fei sighed.

Wang Susu came out of the room at this time, leaning against the door frame, with an angry expression on her face: "Luo Fei! You are finally back, I am waiting so anxiously! Where is my ring?"

"Your dog Da Wang must have pooped a lot today." Luo Fei laughed.

"how do you know?"

"Your gold ring is in those shit." Wang Susu's face changed drastically.

"You don't believe me either?" Luo Fei said.

Wang Susu was skeptical: "It's really in shit?"

"This is what happened. So many children came to your house. When they were playing and playing, they bumped into the dressing table. The gold ring on the dressing table was knocked off. Under your dressing table is a lamp full of The bowl of dog food, the ring must have been swallowed by the dog after it fell into the bowl. So this morning your big dog was not feeling well and kept shouting."

Wang Susu complained, "then why don't you tell me directly?"

Luo Fei sighed: "I know you love Da Wang more than your own son, would you be willing to feed him crotons?"

"Of course I don't want to, so...you dare to use crotons to harm my big dog?!" Wang Susu stared at Luo Fei.

"So, I asked a child to help me mix croton into dog food while you were not paying attention."

Wang Susu suddenly realized: "That's what you whispered to the child at the time? Let him release crotons to hurt my big dog?" Luo Fei suppressed a smile: "Anyway, your ring is in the big dog's poop, you can do whatever you want."

Wang Susu suddenly became sad.

Luo Fei was surprised: "What's wrong with you?"

The sadness on Wang Susu's face gradually turned into heartache: "I cleaned up Dawang's poop and threw it all away." After finishing speaking, Wang Susu covered her face and rushed back into the room.

"Didn't I tell you not to take out the trash before going out in the morning?" Luo Fei said helplessly.

Wang Susu's cry came from the room: "I didn't treat Dawang's bento as garbage!"

Luo Fei and Qin Xiaoman looked at each other and shook their heads.

In room 203, Luo Fei was staying up all night drawing pictures at the desk.

He sneezed suddenly, took out Luo Fei's handkerchief, was stunned for a moment, and then wiped the sneeze off the drawing with the handkerchief.

At this time Qin Xiaoman came to the open door and looked at Luo Fei.

"You have such a bad cold, why don't you rest?"

Luo Fei rarely showed a simple and honest smile: "The letter from the secret room made me so excited that I couldn't sleep."

Luo Fei sneezed again, immediately wiped it with a handkerchief, stopped suddenly, and hid the handkerchief behind his back: "You...you want something from me?"

Qin Xiaoman lowered his head and snickered: "I wanted to get my handkerchief back, but now it seems that it is unnecessary."

After a long time, Qin Xiaoman walked back to Room 203 again, and gently came to Luo Fei's side.Luo Fei in front of the table was already sound asleep lying on the table.Qin Xiaoman looked at the handkerchief in Luo Fei's hand, smiled and shook his head.

(End of this chapter)