Chapter 55: Mysterious Beauty

"Oh!" Even someone like him who had seen the world was startled when he suddenly saw a dead person's face! After a gasp, he picked up the photo and examined it carefully for a while, saying: "It should be Xiao Fang. This kid clearly looked good. Sigh! What a pity!"

Gu Changzheng ignored his sigh and asked: "I heard this Xiao Fang is working for you. Tell me about his situation!"

When Chang Huaqiang heard this, he dropped the photo as if he had been electrocuted: "Officer Gu, that's not the case. This kid is just a 'rice-bowl-eater' (living off women), he doesn't work for me. Everyone knows this. His death has nothing to do with me!"

Hu Jinquan on the side sneered: "We didn't say it had anything to do with you, what are you afraid of? We don't want to pursue the little things he did here today. Let's open the skylight and speak clearly. Tell us everything about this kid's situation, and we won't make things difficult for you!"

Gu Changzheng knew Hu Jinquan was bluffing him, and immediately added: "We are only responsible for criminal cases. Today we just want to understand Xiao Fang's social relationships. Tell us everything about his affairs here."

Hearing this, Chang Huaqiang felt relieved. He only did some "edge-ball" business, and he thought the criminal police wouldn't be interested. So he told about Xiao Fang hanging around girls and tricking them into being hostesses. As for Xiao Fang's economic income, he avoided the heavy and took the light, only saying that the girls he brought had a commission on the hostess fee. Gu and Hu didn't want to ask about the details of the distribution, directly understanding the time Xiao Fang last appeared in the dance hall, the last person he contacted, and whether he would go to other dance halls.

Gu Changzheng understood that this Xiao Fang lived off women. He asked: "How many hostesses does he have here? We want to see all of them!" Chang Huaqiang looked at the time and saw that it was not yet the peak of guests, so he called the foreman Xiao Jiang.

Before long, 5 women dressed in flashy clothes and exuding cheap perfume entered. Gu Changzheng frowned and said to Xiao Jiang: "Leave one first, and take the others to wait outside."

The two questioned Xiao Fang's situation in Chang Huaqiang's office. After all 5 girls were questioned, they felt a bit of a headache. No one knew Xiao Fang's real name. Maybe "Fang" wasn't his surname, just a code name he made up! His true identity remained to be investigated!

Gu Changzheng asked who he was with when he was last seen. The girls all said they didn't notice. Just when the two were disappointed, foreman Xiao Jiang said an important piece of information.

Xiao Jiang was a foreman and didn't have to serve guests personally. He spent his work time walking around the dance hall, and when he encountered guests who were generous, he would go up to greet them. According to him, a female guest came to the dance hall that night. Their dance hall didn't charge young women for tickets, so many female guests came to dance. Of course, they didn't care about the specific purpose. Anyway, the more beautiful women came, the better! Only then could they attract more men.

In Xiao Jiang's impression, on the night Xiao Fang was last seen in the dance hall, there was a very beautiful young girl in the dance hall. Xiao Jiang noticed her for a long time, mainly because the girl didn't look like someone who came to "hook" a "sugar daddy" at all! Later, he saw Xiao Fang go over to chat with the girl, and the two became more and more compatible. They even danced a few dances together. Later, he went to the bathroom and found that the two were gone after returning to the dance hall. He looked at his watch, and it was nearly 11 o'clock.

After Xiao Jiang finished speaking, he added that the girl came again a few days ago, and it seemed like she had also "gone to sea" (started working in the entertainment industry). Speaking of this, he felt quite a pity!

This was a major harvest!

Gu and Hu stood up, almost simultaneously asking: "Where is that girl? Did she come today?"

Xiao Jiang was startled, shrank his neck and said: "Haven't seen her, she didn't come today, she only came twice."

The huge hope that had just ignited in the hearts of the two was extinguished by his words! Gu Changzheng said: "In this case, you go to the Jiangdong Branch Criminal Police Brigade tomorrow to cooperate with our work. Don't mention what you said today and what we asked to anyone!"

He also said to Chang Huaqiang: "Boss Chang, we are going to borrow your place today!"

Chang Huaqiang understood that they were going to squat there to wait for the girl, so naturally, he had no objections and fully cooperated.

After instructing Xiao Jiang again, the two prepared to go out and find a booth in the dance hall to guard.

The whole process took about two hours, and the dance hall was already full of people.

It's just that the girl Xiao Jiang mentioned didn't appear all night. Seeing the dance hall playing "Happy Tonight" to end business, the two had to drag their exhausted bodies to leave.

When leaving the dance hall, Boss Chang Huaqiang insisted on stuffing each of them with a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes, which scared the two into hurriedly declining and leaving. It's just that none of them expected that this Chang Huaqiang would later write a heavy stroke in their police careers!

After the two left the dance hall, it was already 1:00 AM, and the outside was already a different scene. The two remembered that they hadn't eaten dinner yet and were just about to find a small stall to deal with it, when they heard Gu Changzheng's pager "beep-beep" ringing.

Picking it up, they saw a row of messages on it: "You two haven't eaten dinner, come home quickly, there are dumplings! Lu"

The two looked at each other and smiled. Hu Jinquan teased: "Old Gu, Master is still biased toward you, why didn't he page me?"

Gu Changzheng laughed and scolded: "Get lost! Why don't you change to a Chinese one first!"

"Hahahaha!" The two laughed! They both graduated from a police academy, were assigned to Zizhen City together, and were both from out of town, so their relationship had long been as good as biological brothers!

In Lu Haoxuan's small room, Wei Jie, who had squinted for a while, had already served the boiled pork and green onion dumplings. Lu Haoxuan had also just finished his work and hadn't eaten. At this moment, the master and the two apprentices ate dumplings with garlic, chatting while eating.

Lu Haoxuan brought them a new piece of news: the 1.10 dismemberment case and the 1.16 dismemberment case in their hands had been combined. The general commander of the special case team was Deputy Bureau Chief Guo Shuqing of the Municipal Bureau, he and the Jiangnan District Criminal Police Brigade Captain were deputy team leaders, and the team leader was Criminal Police Detachment Chief Wang Feihong. The special case team code name was "Exorcist"!

And the two of them, under Lu Haoxuan's recommendation, also entered the special case team. For their teacher's painstaking efforts, the two naturally knew it well. This time, basically all the elites of the Zizhen City public security front were gathered. For them, this was a rare learning opportunity, and even more, their master was paving the way for their future!

While grateful, the two reported the situation of Xiao Fang they learned today to Lu Haoxuan.

Lu Haoxuan said: "That girl is a key figure. Find her again tomorrow after the portrait is out. If she doesn't show up, then she might have a great relationship with Xiao Fang's death!" ===== CHAPTER 56 =====