disappearing gold

Chapter 75 Similar Gold

Lao Sun was not in a hurry: he thought for a while and said, "It doesn't matter, we still have a way."

Zhu Lan was surprised when she heard it. Her mind was spinning and she was helpless. She frowned slightly and said, "Master, tell me!"

"No, it's boring to say it now!" She deliberately let it slip and walked to the printer.

After calling up Song Xiaofan's profile picture, she printed out the photo.

Then she walked to the official car outside the police station, opened the door and sat in the driver's seat. Before she could sit firmly, Zhu Lan opened the car door from the other side and jumped in.

She glanced at her and said, "Master is driving today."

Zhu Lan rubbed her hands happily, "Master is so kind, I can take the opportunity to be lazy again."

"Haha!" Old Sun laughed as he drove out.

The official car headed towards the road and finally stopped in front of the nearest brand gold shop. She walked straight to the counter. A girl thought they were here to buy gold jewelry. She nodded and bowed and said in a sweet voice: "Welcome to the store, you two beauties. Do you need any help?"

"Oh!" This girl has a sweet voice and looks very sweet.

But Lao Sun still refused ruthlessly, "We are not here to shop."

The girl's expression changed, "Then you are?"

She immediately showed her ID and said, "Let's investigate a case. Where is your manager?"

The girl looked back, pointed at a tall woman and said, "She is our store manager."

Lao Sun walked over and greeted the store manager, "Hello store manager, we are the police. Have you ever seen this man come to your store to exchange gold for cash?"

The store manager was wearing high heels and was very tall, so he took the piece of paper and looked at it. After a while, he shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it before."

"Has anyone else seen it?"

"Hey, you guys come here." The scene waved to the other three girls.

The three girls, together with the girl just now, swarmed over and asked what happened.

"Crow Zui, look at the people on this piece of paper. Do you know anyone?" the store manager said angrily and then greeted.

"No."

"I have not seen."

"So handsome! It's a pity that I haven't seen him before." The last sentence was said by the girl just now.

The store manager regretfully handed the piece of paper back to Lao Sun.

After leaving the gold shop, Zhu Lan was also very sorry, "Master, it turns out that you came to find Song Xiaofan's whereabouts."

"Not only that, we also need to confirm the whereabouts of the bribe money and see if the gold bars Song Xiaofan used to cash out are the same as the gold bars at the murder scene. And you think, he can't just change the gold bars once or twice. Maybe we can find it if we wait and wait. Him." It was rare for Lao Sun to be so patient.

At the next smaller gold shop, they also took out photos and asked the store manager to identify him, but the female store manager also shook her head and said she had never seen this person before.

So they found the next gold shop, which was a smaller gold shop. There was only one shopkeeper in the narrow shop, and he was lying on his back on a recliner, sound asleep.

In front of the lounge chair is a small glass cabinet with some handmade gold chains.

Lao Sun asked the same question, and the boss smiled and looked regretful, "It would be great if someone brought gold bars! I will definitely be able to earn more at once."

I said goodbye to my boss and looked for more gold shops, but unfortunately there were none.

They were walking on the road.

No one spoke, no one broke the silence.

Suddenly, Lao Sun turned a corner and returned to the car. As she opened the door, she urged Zhu Lan, "Hurry up!"

"Master, have you found another gold shop?"

Lao Sun increased the speed of the car to 110 yards without saying a word.

After a long time, she finally stopped in the old town of Qingcheng City. After getting off the car, she walked along an alley and turned around. Not long after, we finally stopped in front of a very dilapidated gold shop.

This gold shop is opened by an old woman, who is wearing reading glasses and mending clothes inside. The open doorway of the store was surrounded by a glass cabinet containing a gold bracelet.

Lao Sun handed the photo to the grandmother and asked her to identify it.

The old woman was stunned for a while, then picked up the piece of paper and shook her head, "In my gold shop, a young man came to exchange for gold in March. But the man didn't look like this at all. His face was a little out of shape and felt weird. ."    Lao Sun and Zhu Lan looked at each other and were both surprised.

"So what does he look like?"

"It can't be Spider-Man or Superman, right?"

The old lady looked very regretful, "The face is very white and the skin is very good. But the facial features are really hard to describe. The nose and chin are as sharp as an awl. Alas, such a good seedling has grown crooked."

There was silence for a while.

"How much gold did he exchange for?" the old detective continued to ask.

"5 pieces! Each piece has 100 grams!"

"Does he want cash?"

"Yes, how do you know?" The old lady put her reading glasses on the bridge of her nose. "I said I wanted to scan the QR code to pay, but he refused to scan the QR code and said he didn't have a mobile phone. I was stunned for a moment. Okay, do you think there are any young people who don’t use mobile phones these days? The old man can understand, but he is obviously a young man."

Lao Sun was heartbroken.

After a pause, she asked again: "Do you remember what day it was? Is there surveillance at your home? I need to check."

"Yes, I forgot. Now that I'm older, I can't tell whether it was last week or this week." The old lady replied.

Then, she called her daughter downstairs and asked her to take the master and apprentice to see the surveillance video.

Lao Sun started investigating after the incident, but when the computer monitoring was turned on, it only showed this week's monitoring.

Zhu Lan also looked at the old lady with doubts.

The old woman's daughter suddenly realized, "Oh, I set up all the surveillance cameras and they will be cleared automatically once a week."

In other words, this week's camera resources are still there, but all the videos before this week are gone.

Lao Sun could only reluctantly check the surveillance videos from four days this week. After half a day, he still didn't see Song Xiaofan.

"Master, it seems there isn't one," Zhu Lan said.

"Hey! I should have come earlier." She clapped her head vigorously in annoyance, "Oh!"

Zhu Lan couldn't help feeling sorry for her master for a few seconds, "Master, I can't blame you. After all, you are too busy. It is normal for you to forget these important things when you are busy!"

Lao Sun couldn't help but pat her shoulder, "Stop making excuses for me. I was careless."

But she thought of another possibility, "Is the gold that that person exchanged for still in your store? Can you take a look at it for me?"

The old woman’s daughter was a little wary.

But the old lady knew it was the police and smiled at her daughter, "It's okay, I'll show you a piece."

She staggered into the inner room, and after a long time, she staggered out again. She handed the gold bar to Lao Sun, "Now, see for yourself!"

The gold bars emitted yellow-orange light, seeming to light up the room all of a sudden. It is a cuboid, the long section is a rectangle, and the short section is a square.

There is no mark on the gold bar, or the mark on it has been deliberately melted away with a high-pressure gun. Furthermore, she could see no other distinctive markings identifying the manufacturer.

Zhu Lan opened her eyes wide and became more and more surprised.

Old Sun returned the gold bar to the old lady, "Thank you for your trust, thank you very much. Let's go first."

The old lady smiled and said, "It's my luck to be able to help the police officer." However, she changed the subject, "The young man didn't break the law, right? Although he doesn't look good, his tone of voice is still very stable."

The implication of the old lady's words was that the young man had a stable character and did not look like someone who did bad things.

Why doesn't Lao Sun want to do this? But human nature is really too complicated. Who can guarantee that a person with a kind face will have a kind heart?

"The other gold bars have the same shape.?"

"The burned areas are slightly different, and the pits are different. But the grams are the same."

Sure enough, the gold bar was similar to the gold bar left at the murder scene. However, there is currently no evidence that they are from the same batch and from the same person. Therefore, it is impossible for the police to directly escort the gold back to the police station.

It is even more impossible to remind the old lady not to sell the gold bars yet. In this way, wouldn't it just alert the enemy?

(End of this chapter)