Chapter 423: Just This

The victim of the kidnapping case, Chen Chen Cangyun, lived in a residential area not far from Hongmen Market.

Although he was a wealthy boss, Chen Chen Cangyun was low-key and didn't have high requirements for his living environment. He and his wife lived in a house of more than 200 square meters, which had been purchased and renovated more than ten years ago.

Chen Chen Cangyun's parents, a younger brother, and a younger sister and their children all lived in the same building in the same residential area, and they were all similar apartment types.

At the same time, the Chen family members all worked in their own frozen goods company, receiving wages and dividends. Chen Chen Cangyun being kidnapped could be said to have shocked the entire company.

Jiang Yuan brought Wang Wang Chuan, as well as Huang Huang Qiangmin and Li Li, and arrived at Chen Chen Cangyun's home in plain clothes.

The four of them didn't look too conspicuous, just like normal residents in the residential area entering normally.

The moment they entered the door and closed the anti-theft door, the Chen family members had already impatiently surrounded Jiang Yuan and the others.

"How is it? Any clues?"

"Do we need to pay the ransom?"

"Can you find the person?"

Everyone had questions, and everyone could ask repetitive questions.

Li Li hurriedly stepped forward to explain. She was somewhat related to the Chen family and had enough logic. In two or three sentences, she explained the identities of Jiang Yuan and the others.

Huang Huang Qiangmin stepped forward at this time and said coldly first: "One person speaks. Who makes the decisions here?"

He was as serious as a police officer, not looking like he was here to help at all.

The Chen family members immediately calmed down, and some people's eyes drifted to the back.

"I'll do it. My name is Chen Chen Cangshan. I am Chen Chen Cangyun's younger brother. You can just call me Old Chen."

Chen Chen Cangshan handed his business card to Huang Huang Qiangmin and others, saying in a low voice: "The company's business has always been managed by my brother, and I manage the outside."

"Logistics, communication with outside companies, are all done by me."

"You are called Old Chen, then what about your brother?" Huang Huang Qiangmin asked casually, establishing the conversation first.

"In the market, he is generally called Boss Chen." Chen Chen Cangshan said: "My brother mainly handles sales in the market. He is familiar with every household in the market, as well as the restaurants and merchants who come to get goods. The calls are all made to him. We have been doing business together for nearly 30 years, and it has always been done very well."

"Tell me about the specific situation of the kidnapping. Did anyone see the specific kidnapping process?" Huang Huang Qiangmin asked.

Chen Chen Cangshan shook his head and said: "We received a package, and then I couldn't get through to my brother's phone, and I couldn't get through to the driver's phone either, so I knew he had been kidnapped."

"Was the driver kidnapped together?" Huang Huang Qiangmin frowned. If so, it meant there was more than one kidnapper, or even more than two.

Chen Chen Cangshan nodded and said: "The driver has also been with my brother for more than ten years, and he is in his 40s this year. This is his son."

Huang Huang Qiangmin looked at where Chen Chen Cangshan was pointing.

It was a young man with a hint of greenness on his face, his eyes red and swollen as if he had cried, looking completely lost.

"What about the package?" Jiang Yuan asked.

At Chen Chen Cangshan's signal, another young man ran quickly to the study and took out a large SF Express courier envelope.

"Can you find the person through the package?" The young man asked expectantly. Huang Huang Qiangmin said first: "Don't think of people too simply, but we definitely have to investigate."

The Chen family members didn't say anything. They had obviously discussed this issue before. But since the other party used a package, they naturally thought of ways to evade it. Otherwise, if a reverse check could find the person, it would be better to make a phone call.

Jiang Yuan put on his gloves and carefully opened the courier envelope. Inside was just a slip of paper with printed handwriting, which read: Exchange 20 kilograms of gold for the person. Do not report to the police, otherwise, the ticket will be torn (hostage killed). You have 24 hours to prepare 20 kilograms of gold, worth 8 million. Perhaps it can only buy two ordinary houses, but it is a cash amount that 20 ordinary families might not be able to scrape together.

It would probably be difficult for the Chen family to scrape it together.

Chen Chen Cangshan said cautiously: "We received an SF Express package. I also left the courier's phone number. Why didn't this person make a phone call? Afraid of being tracked?"

"It's possible." Huang Huang Qiangmin didn't answer directly. The management of mobile phone cards is gradually becoming stricter now. Although there are still loopholes to drill, in terms of security, it is not that safe. Internet calls and the like are actually the same, especially in these years when telecommunications fraud is frequent, the police's investment in communication is unimaginable to ordinary people.

The news of "someone being repeatedly persuaded by the police but still being deceived," if you think about it carefully, actually hides a fact. That is, at the same time someone receives a fraudulent call, the police also know.

This is a systematic early warning, especially the early warning on the server side, which has been done very comprehensively.

However, Huang Huang Qiangmin couldn't explain it in detail to Chen Chen Cangshan, so he glossed over it and said: "There are advantages to using paper slips, such as being a one-way conversation, so it's very difficult for us to bargain with them."

One-way conversation naturally means they cannot ask to speak with Chen Chen Cangyun. From this perspective, the possibility of Chen Chen Cangyun being killed has greatly increased.

"Do you know where the person was kidnapped?" Huang Huang Qiangmin asked.

Chen Chen Cangshan shook his head blankly.

In this way, the risk of the driver committing the crime has increased. To kidnap both the driver and Chen Chen Cangyun requires three or four people, or even more accomplices to do it together. But in this way, there are more people to share the money.

On the contrary, if the driver participates in the kidnapping, the situation is simple. Perhaps only one more kidnapper is needed, or even the driver himself has the means to kidnap Chen Chen Cangyun.

Thinking of this, Huang Huang Qiangmin was already scratching his head. To be honest, he had presided over criminal police work in Ningtai County for so many years, and what big waves hadn't he seen.

But one thing to say, except for those particularly obvious and direct cases, Huang Huang Qiangmin had never felt that solving a case was simple.

He was like a student who could just barely pass the passing line. Only for particularly simple questions, such as after-class exercises, or points given away in the test paper, could he answer stably and correctly. Besides that, he could answer four or five, or even six out of ten. But in the process of answering, he could do ordinary questions, and he might not be able to do them. The only thing that was the same was that they wouldn't make Huang Huang Qiangmin feel that the questions were simple.

Today's kidnapping case, the more he asked, the more powerful he felt it was. No eyewitnesses, no image data, basic information was completely absent, so the opportunity for frontal investigation basically didn't exist.

The rest, in all likelihood, would be to take the ransom and negotiate with the kidnappers.

During the negotiation process, if they could catch the thief, that would be the most perfect. If they couldn't do it, they could only wait for the negotiation to be completed and slowly solve the case. After all, after the negotiation is completed, whether there is Chen Chen Cangyun's confession or Chen Chen Cangyun's corpse, it will be more conducive to solving the case.

"In the current situation, I suggest letting the police intervene." Huang Huang Qiangmin called Li Li over, borrowed her identity in reverse, and said: "We are friends with Li Li, so we won't hide it from you. Judging from the current case, Boss Chen is already very dangerous. Waiting passively for the kidnappers' arrangements carries a great risk. It's better to take action and face it actively." Huang Huang Qiangmin didn't intend to solve the case privately, and now that he understood the case, he urged Chen Chen Cangshan to report it.

The Chen family members actually didn't have much of an opinion, and in two or three sentences, they agreed to report it to the police.

Actually, it had already been reported even if they didn't agree, but after such a turn, the Chen family's cooperation could be a bit higher.

And kidnapping cases inevitably require the cooperation of the victim's family.

Huang Huang Qiangmin stabilized Chen Chen Cangshan and the others, then signaled Wang Wang Chuan to watch them, took out his phone, and dialed Yu Jiangyuan again.

During this period, Jiang Yuan had been using a magnifying glass to look at the slip of paper.

The LV3 skill of document examination was something he had obtained a long time ago, but he hadn't used it much.

Now, this slip of paper was the most direct evidence, and Jiang Yuan's attention was focused here.

If this kidnapping case eventually evolved into a drama of paying ransom, monitoring, squatting, chasing, and finally attempting to arrest and escape, then Jiang Yuan would have no use for his skills. But changing to a slip of paper... even if it was a printed slip of paper, the information inside was also very large.

Soon, Huang Huang Qiangmin finished the call, turned back, and said with an appeasing smile: "Alright, don't worry. The Criminal Police Detachment has experience in kidnapping, and will keep it as confidential as possible. Also, do you have the ability to pay the ransom?"

"Do we need to pay?" Chen Chen Cangshan asked.

"I'll tell the truth. Solving the case is one thing, but bringing the hostage back intact is a greater difficulty. We don't know what kind of people the criminals are or what their personalities are. We can't guess their next moves, so I suggest from the perspective of your family that you make as complete preparations as possible." Huang Huang Qiangmin said as tactfully as possible.

The Chen family members understood and exchanged brief communication with each other, and soon made a decision, sending two people together to raise money and buy gold.

Huang Huang Qiangmin nodded slightly without saying anything more. As a police officer, the kidnapping cases he saw the most were actually those where the ticket was torn (hostage killed). He couldn't say which step this case would progress to, but with the Chen family's background, raising 8 million yuan to buy a chance for Chen Chen Cangyun to survive was necessary. Similarly, no matter what choice the kidnappers make, the process of delivering the ransom will inevitably expose more flaws to the police.

"I'll make a phone call." Jiang Yuan waited for them to finish speaking, took out his phone, and turned on the speakerphone on the spot.

After two rings, Meng Cheng's voice came from the phone.

"Captain Jiang?" Meng Cheng was the only non-young person in Jiang Yuan's cold case special team, and also the most steady.

"Yeah, there's a case. Is everyone on the team there?" Jiang Yuan asked. "Yes."

"Then turn on the speakerphone." Meng Cheng became serious. "I'm also on speakerphone here. The victim's family is here." Jiang Yuan explained a sentence, then briefly described the case, and said: "You do a few things now. First, the lines of the horizontal strokes and the shape of the triangular peaks are very obvious."

"Second, there are burrs on the edge of the ink, and there are scattered powdery ink dots, which should be because third-party toner was used. In addition, this is a low-speed laser printer."

"Third, the paper is 70G low-weight paper. Send it to the laboratory later to see if you can find the specific manufacturer and model."

"Fourth, the printer has a high degree of wear. It is likely not a home printer purchased by oneself, but a printer in a print shop or company. The ransom note is only a small piece torn off, which is more like it was printed in a print shop."

"Combining the above four points, you first run through the print shops in the city, with Hongmen Market as the center, and search outwards. Don't miss any. Find a print shop that uses HP black and white laser printers, use the same Song typeface and font size, print the same paragraph, take a photo, and send the original image to my email. Also, pay attention to asking about their paper types. If they use multiple types of paper, print a few more."

"If the print shop used by the criminal is determined, pay attention to confidentiality, immediately apply for support, and at the same time check the surveillance, get the video inside the shop, and take statements from the staff in the shop. You also don't wear uniforms to avoid stimulating the criminal."

After Jiang Yuan finished his orders, he looked at Huang Huang Qiangmin and said: "Tell Deputy Detachment Chief Yu? Let him send some people to cooperate?"

"Good." Huang Huang Qiangmin picked up the phone and connected to Yu Jiangyuan. He actually wanted to say: My people have solved the case for you again. Just because the family was by his side, Huang Huang Qiangmin said nicely: "Deputy Detachment Chief Yu, we have a bunch of clues here for you." ===== CHAPTER 424 =====

After giving a series of orders, Jiang Yuan looked back at Huang Huang Qiangmin and said, "Should we give the branch deputy a heads-up? Ask him to send some people to cooperate?"

"Good." Huang Huang Qiangmin picked up the phone and got through to Yu Yu Wenshu. He actually really wanted to say: My man has helped you solve another case. But because the family members were right there, Huang Huang Qiangmin spoke in a gentle and polite tone: "Branch Deputy Yu, we have a whole pile of leads here for you."