Chapter 52: The Missing Boss

In the report hall of the Shizijie Police Station in Jiangnan District, a middle-aged woman with a wealthy appearance wearing a mink coat was crying and saying something to the police officer on duty. A tall, thin man wearing a scarlet down jacket who came with her was persuading the woman on the side while occasionally adding a sentence. The woman's crying mixed with the man's occasional additions made the police officer confused!

Just as he was helpless, he saw the station chief, Gao Jianjun, come in. He glanced at the man and woman, frowned, and walked over: "Xiao Zhang, what's going on?"

Police officer Xiao Zhang hurriedly stood up and said: "Chief Gao, these are two reporters. They said something about a husband, a brother-in-law, etc., who went out to play and didn't come home. This, this is a bit unclear!" Xiao Zhang looked at the middle-aged woman with snot and tears and said helplessly.

"Comrade! Come, you come over here and talk. Xiao Zhang, you help this big sister go to the side and rest for a while." Gao Jianjun beckoned to the man in the scarlet down jacket while instructing Xiao Zhang.

This pair of man and woman were Wu Yuxian and Wu Yuhe, sister and brother. Since Wu Yuhe's words reminded Wu Yuxian, Wu Yuxian became more anxious. The more she thought about it at home, the more afraid she became, so she took her brother to the police station near her home to report the case.

Wu Yuhe, who was pulled to the side by Gao Jianjun, was no longer disturbed by his sister. He told Gao Jianjun about his brother-in-law not coming home for two days and two nights and his mobile phone being turned off. He didn't forget to say that the two of them had asked all the hotels of all sizes in Zizhen City, but there was no news of his brother-in-law.

After Gao Jianjun listened to him, he first asked if Wang Heshan had anything unusual during this period, if he had offended anyone in business, and if any of his personal belongings were missing from home or the shop.

After getting Wu Yuhe's denial one by one, Gao Jianjun asked if this Boss Wang was a bit complicated in his relationship with men and women? Wu Yuhe hesitated. Gao Jianjun immediately smiled: "Does he have any close female friends? You can try to contact them!"

He said this very tactfully, and the meaning was very clear. In his view, this Boss Wang might have been stuck in a "gentle village" for the past few days. Seeing Wu Yuhe's expression, his relationship with his brother-in-law was not ordinary, so he was even more convinced that his speculation was correct. At this time, a sentence from Wu Yuhe made him feel that something was wrong!

After Wu Yuhe was seen through by Gao Jianjun, he continued: "Leader, my brother-in-law, although he likes to play a bit, he would never stay out overnight without saying hello. He has never done that in all these years. This is also the bottom line between him and my sister. And this time, even his phone is turned off. I also feel that things are not simple. He must have encountered something!"

Gao Jianjun said: "Xiao Zhang, you register according to the procedure." After finishing, he said to Wu Yuhe: "Please rest assured, we will immediately launch a search. Well, you write down my phone number. If there are any new discoveries or anything you forgot and remembered, contact me in time! Also, settle your sister well and send her home. Leave other things to us police, ah, okay! After registering, go home!" Gao Jianjun remembered that there was a meeting to attend, so he arranged for Xiao Zhang to register for them and comforted Wu Yuhe and his sister a few words before getting up and walking inside.

On this side, police officer Xiao Zhang finished the registration, and Wu Yuhe took his sister away from the police station.

It was January 16th, and it would be the Lunar New Year in half a month!

At the entrance of Limin Lane, two streets away from the Shizijie Police Station, a sewer cleaning truck was parked at the intersection, making the already narrow lane entrance even more crowded.

It was the peak hour for getting off work in the afternoon. The bustling pedestrians were walking, riding bicycles, or riding motorcycles, and there were occasional small cars. Various noisy sounds, bicycle bells, and car horns were mixed together, playing a piece of music for the winter dusk.

In this bustling crowd, the cleaning worker Li Yongjun endured the stench of the sewer and used a long-handled iron ladle to reach into the sewer well. Groups of black and gray silt and filth that smelled sour were dug up and poured into the garbage truck next to it. In the mid-90s, Zizhen City had not yet popularized professional cleaning trucks, and most of them still relied on manual cleaning.

Suddenly, another large ladle of filth was fished out. Li Yongjun saw that this time it was a black bag with a tightly tied mouth. He was cursing in his heart about what kind of person had no quality to throw garbage in bags into the sewer! But unexpectedly, when he poured it into the garbage truck, he accidentally hit the side of the carriage, and the bag fell from the large ladle to the ground!

His co-worker hurriedly went over to clean it up, but saw that the bag fell to the ground and split open, and a large piece of pale white meat fell out! I don't know if it had been soaked in the sewer for too long or if it had rotted, but the smell of the meat that fell out was particularly nauseating!

The co-worker endured the stench and prepared to use a large iron shovel to shovel it into the truck, but he didn't expect that he, who was bending over to shovel, screamed in fright: "Ah! It's human meat!"

This shout was like a thunderclap on the ground, overwhelming all the noisy sounds. At this moment, time seemed to stand still, and the people around stopped their actions! Those who were bold looked toward the garbage truck, only to see that the black plastic bag had split a huge opening, and a short, fat, wrinkled, pale white human hand fell from the crack onto the black asphalt road!

In an instant! The bold pioneers spread the extremely horrific scene they saw to others with different screams: "Ah! There is a dead person's hand in the sewer!"

"Ugh!"

"There is a dismembered body here!"

"Call the police quickly!"

As the number of people who saw the severed hand increased, various shouts came one after another!

Finally, someone thought of calling the police. There was a public telephone in the grocery store at the corner of the intersection, which was immediately grabbed by a man in his 30s. After a while, the phone was connected, and the man shouted: "Quick, someone is dead here, no! A human hand was found, a dead person's hand! Where am I? Oh, right, I'm at the entrance of Limin Lane, the intersection leading to Wangjiang Road!"

Finally, the place was explained clearly!

The police from the Shizijie Police Station who received the report rushed to the scene under the leadership of Chief Gao Jianjun! ===== CHAPTER 53 =====