Zhao Yu's question gave him goosebumps!
Miao Ying immediately understood and looked at Zhao Yu in disbelief.
"I don't know!" Cheng Guangming said helplessly, "I think it was in the mid-nineties. This person, in 1994, 1995, maybe … Anyway, it felt like it was quite sudden. This guy came out of nowhere and was very powerful. He opened a few construction material markets and seemed to be able to compete with my family! My dad seemed to have a conflict with him, but I don't remember … "
Zhao Yu turned to look at Miao Ying. Even though he did not speak, the two of them seemed to have a telepathic connection. Miao Ying immediately shook her head.
"No, Hao Gang is from Qinshan. He's from the city, not Mafang Town! Plus … "
Zhao Yu still did not speak, but was deep in thought.
Miao Ying felt her hair stand on end. She quickly shut her mouth and waited for Zhao Yu to think.
After a full two minutes of silence, the two of them exchanged glances and walked out of the interrogation room.
Seeing that there was no one outside, Zhao Yu immediately whispered to Miao Ying, "Looks like I'll have to ask Zhang Jingfeng to work overtime!"
Miao Ying was able to keep up with Zhao Yu's train of thought. She immediately said, "No need, Hao Gang is different from Han Wenjun. He's a public figure. I'll investigate myself! Zhao Yu, I think, since it's an emergency, let's pause our secret mission to investigate Qu Ping's murder tonight! Let's figure out the Mianling Case first … "
"Okay! That's what I was thinking! " Zhao Yu nodded, but he was cursing in his heart. "This cunning Miao Renfeng, still pretending … keep pretending … let's see how long you can pretend!"
The two of them returned to the interrogation room and asked Cheng Guangming a few more questions. When they could not get any more information from him, the two of them left Qinnan Prison and rushed back to the police station.
When they returned to the police station, it was already seven o 'clock at night. By this time, all of the colleagues had gotten off work. The big office seemed very empty.
After Zhao Yu entered the house, he immediately took out a marker and wrote down Han Wenjun and Hao Gang's names on the whiteboard without even taking a sip of water!
"If …" Zhao Yu kept pointing at the two names with a marker and said to himself, "If … If these two people are related, that would be awesome! We have to focus on the investigation … "
As Zhao Yu spoke, Miao Ying pulled up Hao Gang's resume from the computer. Hao Gang was an influential figure in Qinshan's business world. His information could be easily found on the internet.
In the end, the two of them could not help but shiver at the same time after glancing at the resume.
It was clearly written on his resume that Hao Gang had been a soldier when he was young. After he was demobilized, he became a patrol police officer. However, not long after that, he went into business!
Since then, he had started from the building materials business, and later on, he was doing well in real estate development, foreign trade, and logistics. Now, Hao Gang's Rongtian Corporation had become one of Qinshan's leading companies, and was one of the top companies in the country.
He had been a soldier, and he had even been a patrol policeman!?
This was too suspicious!
Miao Ying felt that even though patrol police were different from criminal police, they were in the same system, so it was possible that they could understand some of the police's methods.
Zhao Yu pointed at the time on the resume and said that Hao Gang had started in the mid-nineties and established Jinyang Building Materials Company in 1996. Since then, he had been on the road to glory!
The year 1996 was the fifth year after the Mianling Case. Then … where did Hao Gang's initial capital come from?
As the two of them were discussing, Zhang Jingfeng, Liang Huan, Li Beini, and even Zhang Yaohui, Lan Bo, and the other investigators from Team B all came to the office.
These people were all called by Zhao Yu to help. He knew that the Mianling Case had reached a critical point. The heavy workload was impossible for him and Miao Ying to complete alone.
These people were all Zhao Yu's best friends, and they all knew how serious the Mianling Case was. Thus, none of them refused, and all arrived in time to help Zhao Yu.
Logically, with such a big case and such an important clue, Zhao Yu and Miao Ying should have reported it as soon as possible.
But Zhao Yu thought about it again and again, and decided not to report it to Captain Liu Changhu. He did not even tell Mao Wei or Peng Xin. His conflict with Liu Changhu was secondary. Zhao Yu felt that ever since Mao Wei had returned, the atmosphere in Team A was not quite right.
Even though Mao Wei was always cheerful with everyone, he was very stubborn when it came to investigating and assigning tasks. He did not allow others to give him advice.
Zhao Yu was afraid that if these people found out, they would come out and disrupt his investigation.
Besides, with Miao Ying here to support him, he was not afraid that Liu Changhu and Mao Wei would blame him. If they also offended Miao Ying, that was the result he wanted to see the most!
Right now, only Zhao Yu knew how powerful Miao Ying's background was! As long as he held onto Miao Ying's leg and stood on the same side as the violent female police officer, he would always have nothing to worry about.
On the other hand, Miao Ying was actively assigning tasks to everyone, and did not have any intention of reporting to the higher-ups. It was obvious that Miao Ying did not want to be disturbed by the higher-ups, and only wanted to focus on investigating the case.
Now, as the leader of Team B, Miao Ying was naturally the highest leader on the scene. Under her command, everyone received their tasks and began their investigation.
The main focus of the work was naturally Han Wenjun and Hao Gang. Han Wenjun was slightly better, but when his teammates found out that Hao Gang was also involved in the Mianling Case, they felt that it was unbelievable!
Could it be that such a rich and famous businessman was the kidnapper from back then? If it was true, it would probably be on the national headlines!
At that moment, Zhao Yu was already in his own work mode. He continuously added information to the whiteboard. Whenever he thought of something, he would add it, and when he found something that did not work, he would quickly erase it.
Even so, in less than two hours, Zhao Yu had already filled up two whiteboards!
Looking at Zhao Yu, who was so focused on his work, Miao Ying suddenly had a strange feeling. Even though the two of them had worked together for a short period of time during Jian Wenli's case, she had never seen Zhao Yu so serious before.
"Oh …" Miao Ying understood. "No wonder … this d * mned Zhao Yu could solve so many cases! It turned out that he really had his own methods!
Ha, I can't believe this guy is so stubborn despite his foul mouth!? "
Seeing Zhao Yu's tireless work, the kind Li Beini brought him a freshly brewed coffee, and told Zhao Yu that there were two packets of sugar in the coffee!
Zhao Yu took the coffee, thanked her, and put the cup aside.
He raised his head and looked at the whiteboard that he had written with his own hands, his brain continuously filtering the information on the whiteboard.
Thinking back to the entire case, Zhao Yu felt like it had happened yesterday.
From the moment he found the ransom money in the mine, to every step of the Mianling Case, every new clue, it made the case even more confusing and difficult to understand!
In this twenty-six year long cold case, there seemed to be too many things that did not make sense!
How did the kidnappers get the ransom money so easily?
Why did they kill the hostage?
Why did they take the driver?
Why was the ransom money left under the bones?
Also … why could they not find Liang Sisi's body?
This thirty-three-year-old girl, was she alive or dead?
Ransom money, bones, the van, the driver, the mine … there seemed to be no logical way to link all of this together!
What was the truth of that year?!
Even though the Mianling Case was getting more and more complicated, looking at the whiteboard in front of him, Zhao Yu felt that the long-awaited truth was just around the corner! Plus, the long-awaited truth did not seem complicated at all!
Why?
Why did he feel this way?
Did he neglect something?
Or was it that some of his previous thoughts were correct?
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