disappearing gold

Chapter 54 The place outside the villa
  On the way to the Archives Office, Zhu Lan took out two walnuts stuffed with dates from her pocket and gave them to Lao Sun, and praised her happily, "Master, the specialty snacks you bought for me are really sweet, and they will make us smarter after eating them." You can solve the case faster!"

Lao Sun shook his head and refused, glanced in the rearview mirror again, and couldn't help but smile, "You're the only one with a sweet mouth, but I did this specifically to suppress your shock. This time you were bitten by a wild dog, and you must have been very frightened." Right? As for growing a brain, it’s just a side effect.”

"Well, I was so scared at the time." This incident indeed left a psychological shadow on Zhu Lan.

Lao Sun reminded, "Wild dogs are crazy, but your reaction is a bit slower. Remember to exercise more when you have time, so that your adaptability will be better!"

"Isn't this also assisted by Master's walnuts and dates? Hehe!" Zhu Lan chewed the walnuts and dates till she made a squeaking sound.

"Why did you come back again?" Old Sun couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Twenty minutes later, the master and apprentice arrived at the archives room at the same time.

Lao Tian was surprised when he saw that the person coming was Lao Sun, "Lao Sun, why are you here again?"

"What? You don't welcome me?" Old Sun Lang smiled happily.

Lao Tian waved his hand, "How dare I stop you from handling the case? Whose file do you want to see this time?"

"It's still Song Hui's case. There was something delayed last time and I didn't finish checking it." Lao Sun said.

The case files were densely packed and stored in wooden cubicles, but the administrator Lao Tian easily found Song Hui's files and handed them to Lao Sun.

The lamp in front of the table was turned on, and the master and apprentice sat down respectively.

Hold a stack of information and check it out.

Zhu Lan didn't know what to look at, "Master, where did you see last time?"

Lao Sun said: "Let's look through Song Hui's real estate disposal. Can we find any clues about the location of the gold that Song Hui left for Song Xiaofan?"

Opening up the file records, Lao Sun pointed at the black words and quickly browsed line by line. Zhu Lan also came over to watch it together. Five minutes later, they finally saw the content.

It turns out that a villa purchased by Song Hui in the Xilangshan Villa Group has been confiscated, and the court has auctioned off the rough parts of the villa.

"This villa is paid in installments and is located in the 1th building in the first row at the foot of the villa mountain!" Lao Sun said.

After Xiao Feng's last inspection, there were no renovated villas in the villa group. Except for Cheng Fei's parents and the old couple, there was no sign of anyone else moving in!
  The buyer of the villa probably also abandoned the villa. Since the real estate developer Lin Zhiqiang who invested in the villa went bankrupt overnight, many people lost all their money, and some even took their own lives. It has also become a desolate landscape of barren mountains and ridges. It is almost painful to look at it, but it is impossible to live in it.

Unless they are elderly people like Cheng Fei's parents who have nowhere to go, only they will reluctantly live in such an extremely inconvenient abandoned villa.

Lao Sun still had a question, "But why would someone like Song Hui buy a villa?"

Zhu Lan couldn't see through her master's thoughts.

"Tell me, how could someone as stingy as Song Hui buy a villa to stay in?"

"Stingy? How do you say that?"

"You can get a glimpse of it from his experience. Although he is extremely greedy, the two cars he bought are very cheap domestic models. In addition to a single-story commercial building, the only real estate is this villa, not Fully purchased villa.”

"So, Song Hui bought the villa for investment?" Zhu Lan guessed.

Lao Sun had no objection to this because she was not sure either.

A series of things about the investigation process flashed through my mind, everyone's smiling faces, what they said, people they met, things they heard...

Why haven't the police found the huge bribe money hidden by Song Hui? Unless the money is hidden in a very hidden place, then, besides your own home, where else in the world is the most hidden place?
  Lao Sun's brows were twitching, and she pinched them hard.

After a while, she suddenly straightened up and said, "Whether it was bought for investment, I can't say for sure. But I feel like there is something fishy about Song Hui buying this villa."

"What's so tricky?" Zhu Lan rubbed her hands. She thought the master had found a clue. Her starry eyes were full of admiration for the master. Lao Sun stopped talking and closed his eyes in deep thought.

This made Zhu Lan anxious and said, "Oh, Master, what on earth do you want to say? Don't lie."

"Do you think someone as smart as Song Hui really doesn't know how to invest? So is it strange that he bought a villa for investment?"

"A little bit. It won't do anything if he bought it anyway. Didn't the villas become unfinished after his death? Even the rough houses have changed owners. Besides, there are at least many villas in that area that even have rough houses. It’s not covered,” Zhu Lan said.

"It's not your own house, so you can't hide anything."

However, under the lamplight, Lao Sun's eyes suddenly shone with a strange light. There is some kind of hidden mystery in it, and Zhu Lan can't tell what it is.

The master and apprentice faced each other like this for a full minute, and time did not spark any sparks in the collision of eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, the area outside the lights seemed to gradually become brighter. Lao Sun's eyes became clearer and clearer, as if he had figured out some logic.

She slowly said, "If you can't hide things at home, can you hide things somewhere other than home?"

"What?" Zhu Lan touched her head, "It should be possible, but I haven't seen it."

Lao Sun asked: "Liu Hu once said that he found that Song Xiaofan bought a lot of agricultural tools. The delivery boy speculated that Song Xiaofan was weird in buying these things. And Ms. Wang..."

"What else?" Zhu Lan's throat tightened.

"She went back to her hometown's storage room to dig around." The words came one after another like squeezing out toothpaste. After finishing speaking, Old Sun blinked.

Zhu Lan scratched his head and seemed to understand something.

After a while, she suddenly shouted, "Master, do you mean that Song Hui may have buried the huge bribe - gold - outside the villa?"

But as soon as she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong, "But isn't there a deep mountain and old forest in Xilang Mountain outside the villa?"

"It should be, or it might be."

"what?"

Zhu Lan asked.

But Lao Sun deliberately kept her secret, or she was not completely sure of her thoughts.

The eyes burst out with shining light, which seemed to break through the rugged road of darkness and reach the smooth road of light.

She tried to find out more about the structure of the villa from the information, but none of the villas had what she was looking for.

This inexplicable behavior made Zhu Lan scratch the back of her head hard, but she just didn't understand, "Master, what are you looking for?"

Lao Sun did not answer. It could be seen that he was still immersed in thinking.

After a while, she closed the file and told Lao Tian goodbye.

They walked out of the file room together and drove back to the police station.

Zhu Lan couldn't understand even more this series of actions by her master.

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  (End of this chapter)