Chapter 396 Familiar Taste

After working for most of the night, Chen Shu, exhausted and without a drop of water, came out of the kitchen, still without finding any clues.

He first went to the back of the front desk to ask Jiang Hai, who was checking the surveillance, and got the answer that the couple from the rice stall had been in the store from 3 pm to 3 or 4 am in the past few days.

This made Chen Shu feel troubled, because kidnapping cases require continuity, and people like the couple who have to open the door to do business every day would not have the time and space to do anything else.

Besides, they both have legitimate jobs, and the rice stall seems to be doing well, so there is no motive for committing a crime.

Then he went to the small storage room where the owner of the rice stall was temporarily detained, and saw that although the other party looked depressed, he was not panicked. When Chen Shu left, he opened his mouth to ask his wife whether she had settled the bills for all the guests outside.

This thought made Chen Shu dispel many of his doubts about him.

Sitting next to the lady boss in the hall, Chen Shu listened to the other party's nagging after she had recovered her breath, but in his heart he was thinking about how to interrogate the restaurant owner whose suspicion was gradually decreasing when he returned to the office.

Or should he use the old method and bluff?

Or should he just ignore it and let the other party sit there all night to grind his spirit?

Wait until he is too sleepy and his mind is numb before interrogating him suddenly. Even if he wants to make up something, he doesn't have the energy to do so.

For surveillance, perhaps we should start from the surveillance video of the suspect withdrawing money from the bank ATM.

The old-fashioned electric fan above his head was shaking, and Chen Shu was distracted and thinking about it.

"Huh? Brother Shu, why are your shoes and trouser legs all wet? Where did you go just now?" Yan Chenxi looked down and said in surprise.

"Their kitchen is flooded." Chen Shu was stunned, then looked down. Sure enough, his feet were wet and his trouser legs were still dripping.

"Did you turn on my faucet?" The proprietress was a little anxious when she heard it. She stood up and prepared to go to the kitchen.

Chen Shu held the other person's shoulder and shook his head: "It's already turned off."

"Oh, just turn it off. I said you have nothing to do, why do you turn on my faucet? If it leaks into the hall, won't the plastic floor I just laid last year be ruined?"

Chen Shu was in no mood to pay attention, and retorted casually: "The floor drains in your kitchen are all blocked. Find someone to clear them all tomorrow."

"My floor drains are not blocked, it's the sewer outside that is blocked, and the water can't flow through here." The proprietress pointed outside and complained, "Hey, they are all sewers, isn't it just a big point and a small point? Why is the charge outside so much more expensive than inside!"

Chen Shu didn't say anything, but seeing that the proprietress didn't pester him to cry anymore, he gave up the mood to argue with her and let her say it.

My head hurts a little.

This special police officer didn't stay for long, why is he so easily tired when he uses his brain now?

He just wants to wait for the duty team in the team to come and take the person away, go back to the unit to take a shower and then interrogate the owner of the food stall.

Maybe the case can be solved by staying up all night. In any case, the video surveillance of the bank can't be faked.

"Sister, it's better to open this kind of thing early than late. After all, you have to use this sewer every day in the catering business. And this blocked sewer, the meat and vegetables blocked in it will easily deteriorate and stink after a long time, and the smell will rush to your store. Will you still do this business? So this will have to be opened sooner or later. As for the price, just find a few more stores to compare. This money can't be saved, and it can't be saved."

Street cadre Yan Chenxi, out of professional habit, or maybe because he was bored after sitting for a long time, started chatting with the boss lady.

The lady boss said embarrassedly: "Officer, you are right. In fact, the sewer has only been blocked for a few days. We are also planning to wait until the college entrance examination period is over. Once the store is free, we will pay some money to clear the sewer."

Haha, this is treating Yan Chenxi as a policeman.

Wait!

Amidst the lightning and thunder, Chen Shu felt that he had grasped something in his mind. He tried hard to think about what the lady boss had just said, but the opportunity was like a clever little bird flying around and could not be caught.

As if he was under a spell, Chen Shu raised his right hand and hung it in the air. After a long pause, he tilted his ear towards the lady boss and asked: "Tell me again, how many days has the sewer been blocked?"

"Oh?"

"How many days has your sewer been blocked?"

"It was just blocked, just these few days. The day before yesterday? The day before yesterday?"

If you count carefully, Sister Hua left her residence four days ago!

And then lost contact with Gu Xiaoxue!

The time is just right!

Chen Shu jumped up and ran straight to the kitchen. He opened a cabinet in the corner and half-stuck in. He took out his cell phone, turned on the camera light, and carefully looked at the water meter below.

After a while, he found a support that could withstand the force from the side, pried open several floor drains on the ground, and lay on the ground and smelled for a long time, almost fainting from the stench.

Then Chen Shu picked up the pot of meat in the corner of the wall and put it on the table in front of the proprietress in the hall, pointing and asking: "What kind of meat?"

Yan Chenxi took a look and didn't say anything, but she recognized that it was pork.

The proprietress took a closer look, then looked back at the small storage room where her husband was, and said anxiously: "Pork, my husband bought frozen meat at the market some time ago. Officer, we bought it from big stores with storefronts at that time. The meat is a bit cheaper, but we didn't know it was smuggled meat when we bought it. We only bought a little bit, and they were not willing to show us certificates or anything. Who would have thought of it?"

The proprietress poured out the beans from the bamboo tube, shaking out all the things that should and shouldn't be said. At this moment, she was still wiping her tears and complaining about the current difficult business.

She was just short of making it clear that if they didn't buy this cheaper smuggled frozen meat, the whole family of five would starve to death.

Chen Shu was surprised, he really just wanted to ask what kind of meat it was.

Chen Shu, who either ate breakfast, lunch and dinner in the company cafeteria or in a roadside shop, really couldn't tell the types of these meats.

He threw it to the proprietress with the intention of deceiving her.

Knowing that he could not get any more useful information from the middle-aged woman, Chen Shu ran to the well not far from the food stall and stared at the well cover on the ground and walked around for several times.

Yan Chenxi pinched his nose and ran over from the food stall: "Brother Shu, it stinks here, did you find anything?"

Seeing the two of them running out of the food stall at once, Jiang Hai, who was sitting behind the front desk and absent-mindedly looking through the surveillance video, also took the opportunity to run out and stood behind his sister to look around.

Jiang Hai whispered: "Brother Shu, is it possible that the hostage is under the well?"

Chen Shu, who was thinking about the case, had no time to deal with this absurd speculation.

He stood up and looked back at the food stall a few times, and saw the boss lady with her hands tied standing at the door of the store looking at this side with a curious look.

"Jiang Hai, go back and look at the boss lady first."

After sending Jiang Hai away, Chen Shu stared at his back as he left.

Yan Chenxi said nervously: "Brother Shu, what's going on? Xiao Hai is okay, right?"

"Oh, it's okay, Xiao Hai is okay. I just thought of something else." Chen Shu narrowed his eyes, but in his mind he thought of the scene in the kitchen of the food stall where he saw Jiang Hai squatting in the corner and staring at the big plate of meat.

He sniffed hard, and a sour smell that was a little familiar to his memory rushed into his nose.

Perhaps, he knew where Sister Hua was now.