"Bribe!"
On the way to Li Jia Village, Li Beini said these two words to Zhao Yu. She then told him her reason, "I'm here.
"In the piano competition, someone might have bribed the girl prodigy, Li Dan, and secretly gave her a large sum of money to get her to withdraw from the finals! That way, without this strong competitor, the briber would naturally be able to take the top spot? "
"Interesting!" Zhao Yu said as he drove, "It's also possible that someone didn't make it to the finals and only placed eleventh, so they bribed Li Dan to withdraw from the competition so they could make it to the finals! If that's the case, then the pregnant girl was in tenth place, could it be … "
"That's not it!" Li Beini said, "Making it to the finals is different from the final ranking. The tenth place contestant could have won in theory!"
"Oh, that means … we have to find out who was the lucky person who made it to the finals from eleventh place?" Zhao Yu pondered.
"No … Senior, we … might be wrong!" Li Beini quickly denied her own speculation, "It's not a bribe! Think about it, the girl prodigy was aiming for the top three. Once she made it to the top three, her fate would change. That's something that can't be bought with any amount of money! If I were the girl prodigy's parent, no matter how much money they offered, I wouldn't go easy on her. After all, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity! "
"That's true … then … could it be a threat?" Zhao Yu clenched his fist and guessed, "Someone threatened the girl prodigy to withdraw from the competition, or else they would kill her entire family!?"
"Huh!" Li Beini pouted, "You make it sound like a bully. Back then, everyone was studying piano. Was there a need to be so vicious?"
"All in all, something must have happened in that year's piano competition! Otherwise, the victims of the Lost Hand Case wouldn't all be in the finals! "
Zhao Yu said seriously as he sped up the car. He really wanted to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible.
But something that made Zhao Yu depressed happened again. After he and Li Beini walked around Li Jia Village for the entire morning, they found very little.
According to the village secretary and the neighbors, Li Dan's family had sold their ancestral home more than 20 years ago and left the Li Family Village. Although they had a few relatives, they didn't have much contact with them. Ever since the piano competition, they hadn't seen them again. No one knew where their family had gone.
Before this, Li Beini had already checked their family's information at the police station, but there was no record of them. He thought that visiting the Li Family Village would be fruitful, but the result was still disappointing.
The girl prodigy's family seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth. Zhao Yu and Li Beini even suspected that something bad had happened to their family. Could it be that before the Lost Hand Case was solved, another murder case had appeared?
In short, if they couldn't find the girl prodigy's family, it meant that the clues were cut off again! This made Zhao Yu extremely depressed. He felt like he was a spring that had been repeatedly stretched and was on the verge of breaking.
Holy sh * t!
Why!?
Why was it so difficult to solve the Lost Hand Case?
Every time they went through untold hardships and finally found some clues, they would all stop abruptly and give up halfway without exception!
Zhao Yu was so angry that he slammed the steering wheel. Li Beini could only try to comfort him. "Since things have come to this, let's not waste any more time and go protect Li Xinhua! Today was the 26th! Please don't let the murderer chop off her hand again! "
"We can't put all our eggs in one basket!" After a short period of depression, Zhao Yu still did not give up. "If there's no other way, I'll go see the three victims. They didn't know that the Lost Hand Case was related to the piano competition. If they think about it, maybe they'll remember something!"
"That's fine! Then we'll split up. "Li Beini seemed to remember something and quickly said," Oh, right! I suddenly remembered that we can continue looking for the girl prodigy! Maybe... we can find 'that person' to help! "
"Which person?" Zhao Yu did not understand.
"You don't know? We have an expert at finding people in our station. If he's willing to help, maybe he can find something! "
"There's such a person?" Zhao Yu was surprised. "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"Cough! Even though this person is weak at investigating cases, he's an expert at finding people. It was said that he had a set of secret methods to find people! Anyone who's been missing for years can be easily found by him. "
"Oh? There's such a talent? "Zhao Yu scratched his head." So, he's in the Missing Persons Department? "
"What! Don't you know better than to play dumb? "Li Beini complained." Zhang Jingfeng?! The one at the desk next to you! "
"What?!" Zhao Yu was confused. "Why him? He... isn't he... "
"Yes! He's investigating a long unsolved case with Liang Huan, a weird team of weird people! " Li Beini explained. "Zhang Jingfeng's popularity in the Missing Persons Department was terrible. Every time a colleague asked him to help find someone, he would ask for something. If they didn't give him something, he would use all sorts of excuses and refuse to do his job. Everyone gave him a nickname, Thief Mudfish!
"Later, the colleagues in the Missing Persons Department couldn't take it anymore and reported him! As a result, his superiors had sent him to the Cold Case Unit! Even though he's in Team A, if you ask him for help, you'd better be prepared to lose money! "
"Interesting!"
Zhao Yu had not expected Zhang Jingfeng to be such a person. He had thought that this guy was lazy and unmotivated. He had not expected him to have such a unique skill.
Before returning to the police station, Zhao Yu gave Zhang Jingfeng a call and explained the situation to him. However, unexpectedly, Zhang Jingfeng didn't reject Zhao Yu's request. He agreed to help Zhao Yu without hesitation. He even smiled and asked Zhao Yu to send him the information so that he could go to the office to check it out for him.
After hanging up, Zhao Yu shrugged at Li Beini as if to say, "What you said doesn't seem right. Wasn't he quite happy about it?
"Sigh!" Li Beini sighed and said to Zhao Yu, "This is his usual trick. On the surface, he agrees to help you, but in reality, he's indifferent. In the end, when you're anxious, he'll ask for something. If you don't agree, then even if you wait another ten months, he won't help you! "
"Is that so?"
Zhao Yu was suspicious. How could there be such a cunning person in the police force? He was not much different from those hooligans who didn't keep their promises!
In the end, when the two of them returned to the police station, Zhang Jingfeng did not appear.
Zhao Yu called him, and Zhang Jingfeng said that he had diarrhea and would be a little late. He asked Zhao Yu to wait in the office.
Zhao Yu urged him, saying that this was a serious matter and was the key to solving the case, so he could not be careless. In the end, Zhang Jingfeng smiled cheekily and promised that he would come as soon as possible.
In the end, there was still no sign of him after twenty minutes. When Zhao Yu called again, he did not even pick up!
"What did I say?" Li Beini smiled proudly. "This kind of person is the most annoying. Just wait and see, if you don't give him benefits, he definitely won't help you!"
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