disappearing gold

Chapter 6 Missing Xiaofan
  Zhu Lan and Lao Sun returned to the bureau one after another.

Lao Sun asked: "Zhu Lan, how long have you been with Master?"

Zhu Lan felt strange, but still replied: "It's been a year and a half, Master."

"Then why are you so careless? You even left out such important clues as the murder weapon." Lao Sun scolded him with a straight face.

"What murder weapon? Have you found it?" Zhu Lan was confused.

When Lao Sun mentioned the golden switchblade, Zhu Lan broke out in a cold sweat and promised: "Master, I'm sorry, I won't do it next time."

"There's still a next time? It's easy for big things to happen if you handle the case like this, do you know that?" Lao Sun scolded.

In fact, she was originally unwilling to accept an apprentice, but an old friend gave her a call and offered her a little girl, so she accepted a young apprentice like Zhu Lan just before she retired.

Zhu Lan lowered her head and admitted her mistake, "I know I was wrong, Master."

Seeing that her attitude was quite sincere, Lao Sun stopped pursuing it.

"So, Master, that switchblade probably belongs to Song Xiaofan as well?"

"You are not stupid, but there is no conclusive evidence to prove that the knife belongs to him, nor can it be proved that he himself used the murder weapon to commit the murder."

The switchblade did not detect Song Xiaofan's fingerprints, but all current clues pointed to him.

Unexpectedly, after two days of visits, Song Xiaofan was not found at all. Lao Sun went to the monitoring room of the community, but the monitoring also showed that Song Xiaofan had not returned to the Huayuan Community since the incident.

So, where did Song Xiaofan go?

When they were confused, the kind-hearted security guard told them that Song Xiaofan's mother still lived here.

Lao Sun and Zhu Lan walked to Xiaofan's home on the tenth floor of Building C. The corridor here was very bright, with sunlight shining in at the end. However, someone spray-painted the wooden door of this house and the white wall next to it with four eye-catching characters: "I will not die well." To make matters worse, in addition to the large characters, there are also densely packed small characters. If someone with trypophobia sees this, they will definitely feel deeply uncomfortable.

What's going on? Why was Song Xiaofan's family so viciously cursed by others?
  After Zhu Lan knocked hard, there was no response from the door. After knocking lightly for a while, I heard a woman's excited voice coming from inside: "Who is it? Is Fanfan back?"

Zhu Lan and Lao Sun looked at each other with complicated expressions.

"Hello, are you Song Xiaofan's mother? We are from the police station and we need to see him if we have anything." Lao Sun approached the door and explained.

"What? What happened to Fanfan?" the woman asked nervously.

The door didn't open and she was nervous. Although she cares about Xiaofan very much, she is very wary of the police.

"If it's convenient, please open the door and explain in detail." Zhu Lan reminded.

Then, the door opened silently, and a beautiful face was revealed. Her skin is like cream, and her face is sparkling. Her specific age cannot be identified from this face.

In addition, there was a man in the room who was looking at Lao Sun and the others curiously. Lao Sun felt that he looked familiar, so he looked closely for a while and found that this person turned out to be Huang Min's ex-husband Liu Hu!
  Why is Liu Hu here? She smelled a conspiracy.

"Are you Song Xiaofan's mother? What do you call her?" Zhu Lan asked.

"Yes, my surname is Wang. What happened to Xiaofan? I haven't seen him for many days." Her eyes were full of worry.

She continued, "Hello, Ms. Wang, do you know where he went?"

"He didn't say anything at all." Ms. Wang was confused.

"Didn't he call you?"

"No, but I called him, but he didn't get through."

"He said where he was going and when he was going? Or did he say any place names?"

"Yes, a week ago he said he was going to a mysterious place to find something. He also said he would give me a big surprise afterwards! Hey, the child is grown up and sensible! Fanfan -" Ms. Wang was quite pleased. But this was also a matter of moments, and she subconsciously cut off the topic.

"What?" Lao Sun asked.

Ms. Wang said blankly: "He didn't say anything! I just let him go."

Liu Hu on the other side of the sofa also looked over and waited nervously. He was only about 35 years old and had a very handsome face. Master and disciple looked at each other in confusion. Thinking of the gold bars that had fallen on the scene, they vaguely guessed some possibilities. Could the surprise Song Xiaofan said have something to do with gold?
  This made Ms. Wang even more nervous, "Did Fanfan get into trouble?"

Zhu Lan said: "It's not confirmed yet. If he comes back, please notify the police as soon as possible."

"As a word of advice, it is the duty of citizens to cooperate with the police in investigating cases." Lao Sun kindly reminded.

Zhulan felt the curious yet deliberately repressed eyes behind the sofa and blurted out: "Who are you?" In fact, she wanted to say that people who had nothing to do with the case should stay away. Why did she forget to remind her just now?

The man avoided her direct gaze and felt guilty.

Lao Sun glared at Zhu Lan, blaming her for disturbing the situation.

Zhu Lan scratched her head at her master.

"Oh, he is my boyfriend!" Ms. Wang stopped her with a proud tone.

Boy friend? Zhu Lan was stunned.

"That's right, Fanfan's father passed away five years ago." She seemed to deliberately emphasize that she and her boyfriend were in a legitimate relationship and it was a normal relationship.

Upon seeing this, Liu Hu issued an order to expel the guest, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Zhu Lan thought of the note at Zhang Zhen's house, "Did Song Xiaofan tell him who he would take with him before setting off?"

"He said he would take the buddies he had rescued, and he repeatedly assured me that the operation was absolutely safe," Ms. Wang recalled.

"Hasn't he looked for it before?"

"I don't know. Anyway, even if he has clues, he won't tell me." Ms. Wang immediately covered her mouth when she said this. She let it slip.

"What clue?" Zhu Lan caught some sensitive topic.

Ms. Wang shook her head and her expression returned to normal, "It's nothing."

"Does Song Xiaofan have any good friends?"

"There used to be some, but then they disappeared when something happened at home. Haha -" Ms. Wang laughed at herself.

After a long silence, she suddenly slapped her thigh and shouted: "Oh! There is one in my hometown. He helped find Fanfan's job. How could I forget such an important person?"

"Who?" Master and apprentice asked in unison.

"Cheng Fei! He was the only one who could play with Fanfan when he was a kid," Ms. Wang said.

It turns out that Song Xiaofan lived for a period of time at the foot of Kulai Mountain in his hometown when he was a child. The neighbors have lived there for generations, and they have a son named Cheng Fei. The two children were similar in age and had similar temperaments. It didn't take long for them to play together and become buddies. At that time, Ms. Wang got married and lived at the foot of Kulai Mountain with her husband and his parents-in-law. My parents-in-law are hunters and often go to the mountains to hunt pheasants and other things to make ends meet.

The family lived peacefully for seven years. It wasn't until her husband was promoted to an official position that they bought a house in the Huayuan Community in Qingcheng City. So the family moved to a commercial building and transitioned from farming life to urban life.

In the first two years, Cheng Fei would write letters to Song Xiaofan. But at that time, Kulai Mountain was more desolate and primitive, and the courier barely went to collect it once a month. When a letter goes back and forth, the reader often cannot feel the happiness and sadness of the writer. For example, the letter was written in late summer and mentioned the rising water on a rainy day, but it was early autumn when I received the letter, and all I saw was the autumn wind and fallen leaves.

As spring passed and autumn came, Cheng Fei and Song Xiaofan lost contact. The next contact was five years ago when Song Xiaofan's father passed away and Song Xiaofan's life encountered difficulties. This former buddy suddenly showed up, and his small pie face matured into a big pie face, and the pimples on his face became the fillings of the pie.

Song Xiaofan didn't recognize him at first, but after Qi Fei's repeated reminders, he was convinced that the person in front of him was his brother-in-law. Yes, who would have thought that the once handsome boy would grow up to be like this! Other friends were eager to stay away from him, but this buddy was willing to visit him and even helped him find a job. Because of this kind act, Ms. Wang and Song Xiaofan believed that he was the former Cheng Fei, their former good buddy!
  Ms. Wang repeatedly warned: "Police officer, Cheng Fei has been staying with Fanfan in the past few years, maybe he knows where Fanfan is."

"Please help me find Fanfan, I'm very worried about him." She added.

Lao Sun nodded and said goodbye to her.

After leaving Ms. Wang's house, Lao Sun asked Zhu Lan, "Do you feel that Ms. Wang is hiding something from us?"

"Absolutely! She said it was half hidden and half hidden."

Next, Lao Sun decided to ask Cheng Fei in detail about Song Xiaofan and Zhang Zhen.

　Just typing, missed the meal
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)