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Chapter 37 The Longtan Island Massacre (8)
What surprised Yao and Shun was not the drawing skills of the painter, because even elementary school students could draw such an extremely rough drawing, but what surprised him was the content of the painting. It is exactly the same as the jade "Qin Niangzi" that was robbed in the jewelry robbery case he had checked before, and even the position of the pearls inlaid on it is the same.

But although he was very surprised in his heart, Yao and Shun still looked very calm on the surface. After confirming that the pattern on the paper was the jade "Lady Qin", he calmly asked, "What do you think this painting refers to?"

"It seems to me that I just drew a morning glory. After studying for a long time, I didn't find any way."

"Then do you know this thing?" Yao Shun took out the photo of the jade "Lady Qin" and handed it to Li Zhiqiang.

"I know, why don't you know me! The jade piece 'Qin Niangzi' is said to be priceless! Back then, the auction house did a good job of promoting it, but it was a pity that it was robbed by someone, and that robbery was also a sensation. The price of this thing on the black market has now doubled compared to that of the past, but since the robbery, its whereabouts have always been a mystery."

"You kid is quite concerned about these things!"

"Hehe, the main reason is that I like this stuff, so I pay attention to it more or less. As the saying goes, do what you do, love what you do!" Li Zhi said emphatically, "Brother Yao, let me tell you, it's just this 'qin lady'. Speaking of how valuable that piece of suet jade is, it is quite valuable to pick out any pearl inlaid on it and sell it, because the pearls are all carefully selected from natural pearls, and each one has no price. No flaws, and all of the same size, it can be said to be the best among pearls!"

When Li Zhiqiang mentioned "Qin Niangzi", he immediately spit and talked endlessly, as if it was an object passed down from his family.

"It seems that you have been coveting this jade article for a long time!"

"It's true, but Brother Yao, I didn't participate in the robbery that year! In this regard, I can guarantee my head, so you can rest assured. No matter how much I covet this jade , and it is impossible to find someone to rob it. Firstly, the robbery of jewelry is a big case, and I don’t want to spend my next life in prison; secondly, jade is fragile. That would be worth the candle.”

"It's best if it's not."

"However, Brother Yao, once you mentioned this matter, I will study it carefully. The picture on this treasure prompt is really similar to 'Mistress Qin'. Could it be that 'Mistress Qin' is this time? Treasure from a treasure hunt?"

Li Zhiqiang took the reminder paper of the treasure hunting activity and the photo of "Miss Qin" carefully examined it for a moment, then his eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly.

"I didn't say that. I came to you to find out about the murder case. But if you dare to spread the words just now and affect the police's handling of the case, you should know how serious the consequences will be."

"Don't dare, I'm so tight-lipped. I don't even have time to keep this kind of thing a secret, how can I spread it to the outside world?" Li Zhiqiang said with a sly smile.

"Let me ask you, when you were still engaged in cultural relics smuggling, did you really not hear about the sale of 'Mrs. Qin'?"

"To tell you the truth, Brother Yao, the robbery of the 'Miss Qin' caused an uproar in the Tao. Many wealthy buyers asked people to inquire about the news. Most of them were foreign buyers. After all, the 'Qin Lady' After the lady was robbed, it became stolen goods. Few domestic buyers really dared to take over, and no one was afraid of getting into trouble. Those foreign buyers even paid a lot of money to ask private detectives to find them. They also threatened that as long as they could If you find it, you don’t care how much you pay, but unfortunately, from the beginning to the end, I haven’t received any news of anyone offering this item for sale.”

"Is it true that there is no one, or did you not report it?" Yao Shun asked with a serious expression.

"Brother Yao, if I lie to you, this is me."

While Li Zhiqiang was speaking, he drew a "bastard" shape with his hands.

"You said just now that foreign buyers were hired by private detectives. Has any private detective found any clues? For example, who did the robbery?"

"Brother Yao, your police haven't found anything, so how can those private investigators find any clues? They are good at catching traitors and investigating third parties. If you expect them to handle any criminal cases, it's really 'fishing from the shore. Month—wasting effort’. There are also some big buyers who have hired some people in the road to investigate. After all, not everyone dares to do such a big case, but after many investigations, they can’t find out the slightest clue, otherwise This thing will not rise to 6000 million now. Judging from the current situation, I guess this is a conservative price. After all, the whereabouts of "Qin Niangzi" are still unknown. Before seeing the real thing, no one would dare to say goodbye to it The valuation is too high, I believe that if "Qin Niangzi" appears, then its real transaction price must be far more than this, and it may be several times this price!"

"6000 million is just a conservative price? How many times can the transaction price be? It's true that some people don't take money as money. Is it worth spending so much money on such a thing?"

"Brother Yao, you don't understand now! These things are priceless in the eyes of those who like him, especially those rich people who like to collect, let alone 6000 million, you just ask him to pay 6 million , he never blinks his eyes. As the saying goes, it is hard to buy a heart! Besides, buyers who are willing to spend money on these things don’t care about money at all. No problem."

"What you said is indeed the truth." Yaoshun agreed, and then said: "My colleague should have asked you with the photos of the three people who were killed! Do you have any impression of those three people?"

Hearing this, Li Zhiqiang immediately lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "Brother Yao, you also know that I can be regarded as a good man now, and I can avoid mentioning people and things on the road, just to avoid suspicion! When they came to ask, I would just perfunctory, if Brother Yao hadn't asked you about it, I would never have said it."

"You kid is doing me a favor!"

"That's not true, Brother Yao, you are the person I admire the most." Li Zhiqiang smiled obsequiously.

"Okay, give me less poverty, and tell me everything you know." Yaoshun urged.

"It's like this. Didn't I go to the treasure hunt that day to buy this broken reminder? Didn't I meet you brother Yao at that time? After you left, I waited in the parking lot for a while. I wanted to see if I could meet someone I knew. People of the same path, at least one person can come up with advice! As a result, I met He Yaoyang. That kid suddenly disappeared ten years ago, and now he reappeared, which surprised me. After all, I had a relationship with this kid After socializing, I went up to say hello. At that time, the boy was on the phone, and I patted him on the shoulder from behind, which shocked him. Then I hung up the phone, and I asked him 'do you still know me? Is it? Where have you been running around all these years, and there is no news at all', but I didn't expect him to stare at me and scold me as a 'crazy', and then he got into the car and ran away. Brother Yao, you said this kid is It’s not that it’s too fucking dishonest, when I was a gangster, I was a dog who ran errands and worked hard for others, but now it’s good, if I haven’t seen you for a few years, I don’t know people.” Li Zhiqiang said angrily.

"Aside from him, was there anyone else with him at the time?"

Yao Shun has no interest in He Yaoyang's character at all, he only wants to know clues that are directly related to solving the case.

"No, he's alone."

"Then did you hear what he said on the phone?"

"I just heard one sentence, he said 'the thing has been obtained, and someone already knew about it', and then I patted him on the shoulder, and he hung up the phone."

"Then do you know He Yaoyang well? Who has he been closest to?"

"It's just that I know him, but I can't say that I know him well. When I met him, he was still an ordinary little gangster, but he was black and bold. If you don't beat people to death, you can't finish a fight, so he is also considered in the way. He is a little famous, but because of his ambition, he has never been valued by those big brothers. Those big brothers are also afraid that if they give this kid a chance, they will threaten their own status, and they may be usurped by him, so those big brothers I only look for him when I have something to do, and I don’t answer him when I have nothing to do. To put it bluntly, he is just a thug, and he will do things for whoever pays. Once I went to buy a batch of unearthed cultural relics with a big brother on the road. , the elder brother was worried that the other party would be cheated, so he took He Yaoyang with him. I also met him at that time. As for who walked closest to him, I think there is only one person. I remember one night When I went to eat at a food stall, I saw him eating supper at a table with someone else, so I went up to say hello, and chatted a little bit. He told me that the person was called 'Douzi', and he was my childhood friend. At that time, when I saw the appearance of 'Douzi', I knew it was a white flour sucker."

"'Douzi' should be a nickname! Does it have a real name?"

Li Zhiqiang shook his head and said, "No, we just met by chance at that time, and we chatted casually, how could we ask in detail!"

Part of what Li Zhiqiang said coincides with Gao Dalong's understanding of He Yaoyang. It can be seen that this He Yaoyang is indeed not a kind person. If there is really something wrong with him, it is not surprising at all.

The clue of 'beans' is much more important in comparison, and the person who contacted He Yaoyang on the day of the treasure hunt is also suspicious.

So Yao and Shun decided to divide their forces into two groups, one to investigate "Douzi" through the clue of drug use, and the other to focus on He Yaoyang's phone records on the day of the treasure hunt, especially focusing on the investigation of incoming and outgoing calls during the time period mentioned by Li Zhiqiang. Phone records, in order to find the breakthrough of the case as soon as possible.

At the same time, the large-scale investigation work on the island has also achieved preliminary results. Out of consideration for personal safety, many tourists chose to leave the island temporarily under the persuasion of the police.

After only one day, the tourist attractions on Longtan Island became empty, as if it was the off-season of tourism.

Compared with the deserted tourist attractions, the pier of Dejima is crowded with people, which is a busy scene. However, because they don't want to leave out of their original intention, the word "helpless" is written on every tourist's face, almost All the people will look back at the moment they board the boat, with a look of reluctance.

Zhao Guangjun stood at the pier, looked at the crowd waiting to leave the island, and asked Yao Shun who was at the side with some anxiety: "Captain Yao, do you think those two people who may become the murderer's next target will be in the crowd?"

"I don't know. If they are not afraid of death, they may still be on the island, but if they are afraid of death, I believe they will choose to leave." Yao Shun frowned and replied, his heart was also a little flustered at this time of.

After most of the tourists left smoothly, Yao and Shun boarded the last ferry and left Longtan Island. Now what he wants to know most is why the travel agency wants to organize such a treasure hunt?And the pattern of the treasure hunt reminder is exactly the same as the jade "Qin Niangzi" that was robbed back then. Is this a coincidence, or was it done deliberately?
The reason why he focused on the treasure hunt was because of the fragment of the coloring page of the treasure hunt held tightly in He Yaoyang's hand. If it wasn't for the fragment of the coloring page, he would never have gone to Li Zhiqiang , so that in the reminder of the treasure hunt, it was found that the pattern drawn above was exactly the same as the jade "Qin Niangzi" that was robbed in the jewelry robbery that year.He believed that it might be an important clue left by He Yaoyang before his death, because judging from the poisoning speed of potassium cyanide, when He Yaoyang knew that he was poisoned, all he could do was the few seconds of dying. , it should be impossible to have extra actions, that is to say, if the promotional coloring page is not important, it is impossible for him to rush up and grab it in the dying seconds, and his behavior Apparently even the murderer didn't expect it, otherwise, judging from He Yaoyang's situation at the time, the murderer was fully capable of stopping it immediately, and there was no need to passively grab the promotional coloring page from his hands afterwards.

Both He Yaoyang and the murderer seemed to regard this promotional coloring page as very important. If it wasn't because He Yaoyang had written some important clues on this coloring page, it would mean that this coloring page itself was a clue.

All the clues seem to be fragmented, but they seem to be inextricably linked.

In the reception room of the police station, Yao Shun met Liu Chenglin, the head of the Wonderful Time Travel Agency who organized the treasure hunt.

"Manager Liu, I'm very sorry that I invited you here late at night, but I can't help it. I have to find you to understand the situation of a case." Yao Shun said.

"Where is it, it is right to cooperate with the police, but I don't know what I can do to help you?" Liu Chenglin asked.

"This activity is organized by your travel agency!"

Yao and Shun pushed the promotional coloring pages of the treasure hunt in front of Liu Chenglin.

Liu Chenglin glanced at it and said, "Yes, this is organized by my travel agency, and I am responsible for it. Is there any problem?"

"Is this activity real? Is there really a treasure?"

Yao and Shun stared at Liu Chenglin suspiciously, his tone full of distrust.

"Officer, do you suspect that I'm cheating? Although my travel agency is small, it is a regular travel agency, and all my certificates are complete." Liu Chenglin argued.

"You don't need to be nervous. Of course I don't mean that. Seeing how big your propaganda is, if it's really a lie, then wouldn't it be a blow to your own brand?"

"Of course, if I lied to others, I wouldn't be so ostentatious, and I would still advertise in newspapers."

"I'm mainly not questioning the authenticity of the activity, but I want to know what is going on with this treasure hunting activity? What exactly is the treasure?"

"This..." Liu Chenglin hesitated, as if he didn't want to say it.

"Don't worry, what you said, our police will keep it secret for you, to ensure that our conversation today will not be leaked, and will not affect the fairness of your activities." Yao Shun said seriously.

"Actually, it's not that I don't want to say it, but because I don't have an answer to your question." Liu Chenglin said in a difficult way.

"You don't have an answer? You don't know what the treasure is?" Yaoshun asked in surprise.

"Yes, yes." Liu Chenglin replied awkwardly.

"These are the most basic questions, and you don't even know, so why isn't the treasure hunt fake?" Yao Shun asked.

"this…"

Facing the questioning, Liu Chenglin was momentarily at a loss for words. Although he wanted to defend himself, he really couldn't find any reasonable reason.

"Since you don't know what the treasure is, how dare you hold such an event."

"Actually...I...Actually...this..."

Liu Chenglin began to get nervous, and his speech was a little incoherent, not knowing what to do.

"If you have anything to say, just say it directly. There is nothing to hide here. If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, then I can only force you to suspend this treasure hunting activity. And the relationship between us The conversation will also be held in the interrogation room." Yao Shun said seriously.

"Don't, don't, I said, I said."

Liu Chenglin took out a handkerchief with slightly trembling hands and wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead due to nervousness. After a moment of silence, he said, "Actually, I really don't know what the treasure is. I don't even know where the treasure is." I'm not sure if there are any treasures, but they have given me money, and I don't need to take any risks, so I agreed."

"Who paid you to do this?"

"That's the man."

Liu Chenglin took out a piece of paper with an ID card from his wallet and handed it to Yao and Shun.

The name "Luo Hao" was written on the ID card. Seeing this, Yao Shun immediately asked the police officer to take this piece of paper to investigate.

"Then have you seen this Luo Hao himself?"

"No, he took the initiative to contact me."

"You tell me all the circumstances in which he started contacting you in detail."

"About a month ago, this person called the travel agency and said he was looking for the person in charge, and my colleague transferred the call to me. The person said that he wanted to cooperate with me on a project that could help my travel agency increase Customer source. To be honest, the scale of my travel agency is not large, and the business is not very good at ordinary times. After deducting the expenses from the monthly income, it can only barely have a little surplus. If there are no means to attract customers, then closing Sooner or later, although I have done advertising and publicity, it was useless, because the project has no characteristics, and there is no advantage in price, so the effect is very small, and the advertising cost is so high, I can't do it all day long. I can’t take it anymore. Before, I was still worrying about how to attract business, but now that someone offered to send it to my door and said that it would help me increase the source of customers and make money, of course I would be happy, so why would I refuse!”

"By projects he's referring to treasure hunts, right?"

"Well, when he told me on the phone, I thought he was just joking. These days, how can there be so many treasures, and he didn't make TV movies, but he said he could give me 50 yuan. It includes the deposit and advertising costs, and it is guaranteed that there are treasures, and those who participate in the event do not need to pay a penny. Finding the treasure depends on personal ability, and it has nothing to do with travel agencies. Travel agencies only provide They are just such a platform. I thought about it carefully. It is summer vacation and the peak tourist season. Through such activities, I can increase the popularity of the travel agency, and I don’t need to pay a penny for publicity, and I won’t If you get into any trouble, you can make a profit without losing money. If you don’t do it, you won’t do it for nothing.”

"He and you are not related, and he gave you 50 yuan to engage in this activity, so that your travel agency can increase popularity and make you money, but what about him? What benefits does he have? Haven't you thought about it, didn't ask Have you been?" Yaoshun asked.

(End of this chapter)