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    Chapter 169 Edmund Dantes (forty)

    Luo Wenzhou didn't need to check carefully, he could roughly infer who she was from Wei Lan's lawless tone. Fei Du's eyes became more and more rainy. He didn't have a seizure. Shen Sheng asked, "What did you promise her?"

    "Take care of Weiwei."

    Luo Wenzhou immediately asked, "When did you contact her?"

    Fei Du's eyes flashed. If he wanted to talk about this matter, it was a child without a mother, so it was a long story.

    Luo Wenzhou: "Huh?"

    "When I was just discharged from the hospital," Fei Du replied ruefully, and then he didn't know if it was his eyelashes that scratched the glasses or what. With Su Cheng's testimony and photos sent by Zhang Donglai, if you are lucky, you may be able to extradite the person who took over from Su Cheng. Do you think it's okay to apply for Zhang Chunling's arrest based on these conditions?"

    Luo Wenzhou stared at him blankly.

    Fei Du didn't answer the call, raised his hand and fastened a button on his open coat, his eyes swept along the waistline that was hooked out by his clothes, and narrowed his eyes: "Zhang Donglai's status update time was five minutes ago. , I can see it, and Brother Zhang Chunling will see it too, if you don't hurry, it will be too late."

    "I'll settle the account with you when I get back!" Luo Wenzhou picked up the phone, turned around and ran.

    He just listened to the tip of the iceberg, and knew that Fei Du was hiding more than that. Luo Wenzhou vaguely felt that something was wrong, but at this time it was imminent, and he had no time to investigate it carefully.

    Fei Du kept watching Luo Wenzhou's back go away, then he put his hands on the windowsill beside him and let out a long breath.

    After midnight, it was the last day of the Lunar New Year.

    The zodiac jiāo replaces the ban on firecrackers.

    After the investigation team "accidentally" learned from Fei Du that the Zhang Donglai brothers and sisters were secretly leaving the country, they immediately increased the monitoring of the Chūnlai Group and the Zhang family brothers, staring at the Zhang family 24 hours a day, every vehicle entering and leaving. Careful investigations must be made to ensure that brothers Zhang Chunjiu and Zhang Chunling are in the field of vision of the investigation team.

    East Eighth District time, at 1:30 in the morning, a loud noise woke up the night, the calm Zhang family seemed to have exploded, the windows were smashed into slag, and flames like tongues rushed out immediately, and they were ordered to keep an eye on the Zhang family. His "eyes" were stunned, but before he could react and report, he received an order to cooperate with the arrest of the Zhang brothers.

    In a place like Yancheng, even a low-density community has close neighbors. It just so happens that there is wind. The gān astringent wind pushes the strange fire everywhere. In the blink of an eye, it has been out of control, and the screams for help and the sharp fire alarm sound are one after another. , the police and the investigation team that arrived at the same time surrounded the scene.

    There are combustion aids in the fire scene. The more suppressed, the higher the arrogance. The heat almost dissipated the chill of the winter night. The fire brigade kept calling for reinforcements and tried their best. It stopped silently on the perimeter, and heavily armed "firefighters" came in and out, and no one knew when it drove away again.

    It took more than half an hour for the fire to be considered under control. The police couldn't wait to rush in to search, only to see an empty building with people going to the building!

    At this point, Zhang chūn, who was asked to keep communication unblocked, lost contact for a long time and was sure to have absconded.

    The roaring police car drove past. The airport, railway station, road network, and even the surrounding provinces and cities all received notices for the arrest of Zhang Chūnjiu and Zhang Chūnling.

    At the same time, Zhang chūnling, who had already escaped from the shell, stared at "the photo sent by Zhang Donglai", and contacted the person next to the unfortunate son with a very gloomy expression: "Zhang Donglai, that bastard...what!"

    The news of Zhang Donglai's disappearance finally couldn't contain the fire, and it came back from the other side of the ocean.

    At 2:15 in the morning, an abandoned fire truck was found near the Dongba River, and the Skynet system everywhere finally found some clues nearby-monitoring showed that there was a suspected Zhang chūn in a black business car. Jiu and Zhang chūnling's brothers, after crossing the Dongba, were heading southeast out of the city.

    Roadblocks and drones were dispatched. At the same time, the investigation team monitoring the chūnlai group found that a left-behind executive of the chūnlai group silently changed his clothes, dressed as a food delivery man, and left in a car carrying a large bag commonly used by food delivery workers. , but also to the southeast out of the city!

    The investigation team immediately dispatched stalkers and attached the man who thought he was hiding.

    "Chase! Chase immediately!"

    "Wait!" Luo Wenzhou, who had brought people there, just listened to it and felt that something was wrong—there was no basis, just based on Zhang chūn's long-term experience and anti-reconnaissance ability, he shouldn't have been discovered so quickly, "Wait a minute, I It is recommended to carefully check the monitoring near Zhang's house in recent days..."

    "Captain Luo, Zhang chūnjiu's fingerprints were swept in that fire truck."

    "Captain Luo, look at this. This is the on-board surveillance of a nearby private car."

    The police conducted a carpet investigation around the abandoned fire truck. One of the private cars’ on-board surveillance angle was just right, and they captured the scene of people on the fake fire truck abandoning the car and absconding. One of the men walked while wearing the camouflage on his body. Peeling down, the man's walking posture, subtle movements...

    He suddenly turned his face and looked around, and the surveillance camera caught the front face, it was Zhang chūnjiu himself!

    "Is this Zhang Chunjiu? Is that so?" an investigator yelled at Luo Wenzhou, "You've been at the city bureau for so many years, don't you agree? Chase him back at all costs!"

    Like a net, the hunt spreads out in the silent southeast city, waiting for the poisonous insects to collide.

    Fei Du opened the window and waited for Ye Feng, when suddenly the sound of the wheelchair beside him "creaked", without turning his head, he said, "Why don't the wounded rest well?"

    "I can't sleep." Tao Ran pushed the wheelchair and moved slowly to his side.

    Fei Du held onto the armrest of the wheelchair, closed the window with his hand, took off his jacket and put it on him.

    As a fragile mummy, Tao Ran did not refuse to take care of him. He stayed in the dimly lit corridor for a while.

    "I didn't fall asleep when my wife gave me Master's relics. I could memorize every punctuation mark in that suicide note. I think it is more terrifying than any wicked gangster. I read the suicide note to the survivors. One night, the next day I thought I was ready..." Tao Ran lowered his head and smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect the preparation to go in the wrong direction."

    Lao Yang said that "some people have changed," which is really ironic, because now it seems that the culprit is not as corrupted by money and power as they initially speculated. Bad, but the person who kept this suicide note was cut into another shape by the wind sword and frost sword.

    Tao Ran asked in a hoarse voice, "Why is Bureau Zhang? Does he lack money? Does he lack power?"

    "I think it might be because of this." Fei Du took out his phone and handed Tao Ran an old black and white photo.

    It was a group photo. It was quite old. There were more than a dozen children in the photo, ranging from a few years old to teens, all faceless, standing in two rows, surrounded by two men, one of the two men. The suit was straight and the chin was raised, the other was shiny, and thanked, one of them pinched a corner, and together they held a cardboard with the words "Donated by the Patriotic Chinese Business Zhou Group" and so on.

    There was a stark contrast between the vigorous middle-aged men and the lifeless children around them, and upon closer inspection, one could almost see a hint of fear.

    In the corner of the photo, "Yancheng Heng'an Welfare Institute" is written, and the date is about forty years ago.

    "This was just sent by Lu Jia. They found Zhou Yahou's assistant back then."

    The old man Zhou Chao didn't cooperate at first, but he was frightened by the chaser, and learned that his whereabouts had been revealed. If he didn't cooperate, there was only one way to die. Although he was old, he was still afraid of death. Now - the person in the photo who donated money on behalf of the Zhou Group is Zhou Chao.

    "Heng'an Orphanage," Tao Ran took a closer look through the light, "is... the one where Su Hui once lived? Oh, I seem to see who is her."

    "Take a closer look, there are acquaintances above." Fei Du said, "The little boy huddled in the corner, and the boy standing next to the head of the welfare home."

    The little boy was about five or six years old, as thin as a radish head, and tightly clutching the corner of the boy's clothes, his yīn eyes came out of the picture, and the small fist hanging by his side was clenched tightly. At first glance, Tao Ran felt that the boy looked familiar, and he frowned and identified it carefully for a while. He suddenly saw some clues from this black and white photo that had been around for a long time.

    Tao Ran looked up at Fei Du in disbelief: "This...this is..."

    The boy's face without a slap seems to have only a pair of eyes. The life of more than 50 years of fine clothing and food has not been able to take away the thinness that grew up in his bones. Shadow - Tao Ran recalled the photo of them on the desk of Lu Ju who had seen them countless times when they were young: "This can't be Zhang Ju?"

    "The big boss of the chūnlai group doesn't like to show his face, but there are also photos in public." Fei Du used his mobile phone to search for a while, and found pictures of younger chūn on the Internet, and put them next to the boy next to the dean. ,"looks like?"

    "Bureau Zhang... Zhang Chunjiu and Zhang Chunling came out of the Heng'an Orphanage? Orphans?" Tao Ran adjusted his posture with difficulty, "No, wait, I remember you said that this orphanage was a human trafficking den. That……"

    "Lu Jia said that the dean who accepted the donation was named 'Hao Zhenhua', a native of Yancheng, born in May 19XX, with a name, a surname, a place of origin and date of birth, can you find out his whereabouts?"

    "Wait." Tao Ran swept away his decadence, motioned Fei Du to push him into the office, and started calling to check.

    With the specific information, it is much easier to find out. Tao Ran apologized and woke up a bunch of sleepy duty staff. After a while, he actually found someone whose age and name matched.

    "There is such a case - the deceased Hao Zhenhua, male, 46 years old, died of stab wounds. After the murderer knocked on his door, he stabbed the victim three times in the chest and abdomen. Dodging and fleeing for their lives, the bloodstains stretched from the door to the bedroom. The murderer chased in and took the copper vase from the deceased's house, slamming the deceased's head violently, several times in a row, until he died. It was smashed like a rotten watermelon. All valuables and cash in the house were swept away, and the police judged it as a robbery at the time."

    "What happened later?" Fei Du found out a package of instant milk powder from somewhere, soaked it in hot water, added extra sugar, put it next to Tao Ran, and asked, "When did this case of robbery and murder happen? ?"

    "It didn't work out after that. Later, the city concentrated on organizing several anti-gang operations, and destroyed several powerful criminal gangs. Some of them were extremely vicious. Maybe they didn't know how many cases they had done, and they all recognized them in a confused way. Tao Ran took the milk and took a sip. He almost spit it out. He suspected that Fei Du was shaking his hands and poured the whole sugar jar into it. , Team Luo and the others were right that day, this Heng'an Orphanage didn't close because of Zhou Yahou's death... Comrade Fei Du, you don't need this ton of sugar to pickle preserved fruit."

    "Too sweet?" Fei Du raised his eyebrows innocently, reached out to him and said, "Then give me a drink."

    After Tao Ran was three years old, he was embarrassed to give others what he couldn't eat, so he waved his hand quickly, as if to show that he could make do with it, he took another gulp and drank half of the glass: "That is to say, the welfare home The dean is likely to be the first victim. The orphans planned revenge and murdered the dean under the guise of robbery. The criminal investigation methods were not developed at that time, and the family of the deceased did not give up after the incident, so the case was closed in such a confused way. "

    "The family members of Dean Hao Zhenhua probably also know what kind of business he did," Fei Du said. "Even if they knew who the murderer was, they might not dare to hold him accountable. If he died in a burglary, he could win the same qíng. It's not good to tell the truth. It was ruined... They probably tasted the sweetness from then on and started to go down this road - brother, are you sleepy?"

    Maybe it was because the heating in the room was too plentiful, or maybe it was because Fei Du's low and gentle voice was too hypnotic. Tao Ran felt that his nerves should be excited when he heard such a shocking guilt.

    "No," Tao Ran rubbed his eyes vaguely, "Go on."

    Fei Du turned up the volume on the phone and let out Lu Jia's voice.

    Lu Jia said: "At that time, most of the people adopted in the welfare home were girls. Every Christmas, several welfare homes built by Zhou Yahou would send photos of girls between the ages of 12 and 15, and he would choose them. When they are sent abroad, they are charged according to the number of people and paid to the welfare institution in the form of donations. The girls who are sent are usually raised in Zhou Yahou’s villa, and sometimes they also entertain friends who are scumbags like him.”

    "The remaining girls were picked and raised and sold to human traffickers. As for boys - boys were more likely to be adopted at that time, so there were not many healthy boys left in the orphanage, just a few."

    "Girls should be kept for the sponsors, and they must be personal at any rate. The welfare institution will not treat them too much, so those boys who are not wanted by the sponsors will be treated even more severely. As long as Lu Neng If you walk steadily, you can't be idle. After the age of seven or eight, you have to pay for your own rations to the orphanage every month. Whether you work as a child laborer, steal or rob, you will end up miserably if you don't have enough. Beating and scolding is commonplace. and……"

    Lu Jia's voice message was interrupted for a while, and it seemed that he slipped his hand and accidentally sent it out before he finished speaking.

    After a while, the voice behind Lu Jia came: "And those girls who are waiting to be sold must be 'complete', and the rest do not have this problem, so... Mr. Fei, you understand."

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