King Crazy Game

Every city has a rich downtown area, mainly in the city center, and a poor and dilapidated area on the outskirts of the city. Li Yize followed the navigation and operated almost at the edge of the lane to safely pass through the narrow and wide alleys.

There was finally a vacant space between the rows of old tube-shaped buildings and bungalows. As soon as Li Yize parked his car, an old lady ran up to him with a receipt stained with rice grains: "Parking for an hour, eight yuan."

Li Yize remembered that before leaving, Lin Zicheng kindly reminded him to bring more banknotes and change.

Has he been here too?

While pondering, Li Yize climbed three flights of stairs according to the address on the document before arriving at Zhao Wei's house.

The red rusty iron door was covered with various small advertisements. Li Yize knocked on the door for a long time before a little girl about ten years old opened the door tremblingly.

Migrant workers like Zhao Wei have no money to send their children to various interest classes, so they can only keep their children at home to prevent bad things from happening outside.

After Li Yize revealed his identity, Zhao Wei's youngest daughter Zhao Ting opened the door and invited him in.

"Uncle policeman, please have some water." Zhao Ting was quite polite and poured a glass of water for Li Yize. However, she was very shy and refused to look up, with her head down looking at the floor.

Li Yize looked at her for a while before asking, "Do you know why I came?"

Zhao Ting glanced at him quickly and nodded.

Li Yize frowned. Even if children cannot understand the separation of life and death, they will be sad when they know that their loved ones have died. They will even cry when others mention it. But the little girl in front of him just stood quietly aside, numb as if she had no feelings at all.

"Did your father say anything strange to you?" Li Yize asked, slowing down his speech.

Zhao Ting looked at him quickly again and shook her head.

"Have you seen this brother?" Li Yize took out his cell phone and handed the photo of Fang Jingzhou to Zhao Ting, and added, "Have you seen it on your father's phone?"

Zhao Ting pursed her lips tightly and shook her head.

"Good children should not lie to the police. Have you really never seen it?" Li Yize asked patiently again.

Zhao Ting was visibly panicked, then as if she had made up her mind, she ran into the small bedroom and soon walked up to Li Yize with a plastic box of candy.

"This is all my money. Can you please let my family go? We are out of money."

No one knew where Zhao Ting learned how to bribe. When she opened the box, she found only 1.50-yuan and 1.10-yuan bills inside. It looked like the total was less than 100 yuan.

Li Yize: “…”

Seeing that Li Yize didn't answer, Zhao Ting panicked and said repeatedly: "These are all I have. My grandma still needs medicine, so I can't give you her money."

Li Yize sighed, and couldn't help but reach out and touch Zhao Ting's hair to comfort her: "Uncle doesn't want money, uncle just wants to hear you tell the truth."

Zhao Ting held the box tightly in both hands and looked around.

Seeing that she still didn't speak, Li Yize could only use the threats and inducements taught by Lin Zicheng: "If you tell the truth to your uncle, I promise not to ask you to pay a single dollar. But if you don't tell the truth now, your grandmother and you can't even live in the house."

Zhao Ting shrank back for a while before she began to cry uncontrollably.

"Have you ever seen this brother?" Li Yize took advantage of Zhao Ting's giving up resistance and asked.

"See...see...Dad said...said I can't...tell...any...anyone..." Zhao Ting squeezed out these words with difficulty while crying.

Li Yize realized that there must be some kind of deal between Fang Jingzhou and Zhao Wei, so he asked perceptively, "Did your father leave anything for you?"

Zhao Ting cried and shook her head to indicate no.

"Did any strangers come into your house before your father's accident?"

Zhao Ting rubbed her eyes and nodded.

Li Yize thought for a while and saved a number on the only elderly mobile phone in the family.

"Tingting, if you remember your father saying something strange to you, call your uncle. If you have any difficulties, call your uncle."

Zhao Ting held the phone blankly and nodded.

Before Li Yize left, he specifically reminded her: "Don't tell anyone, including your grandma."

After leaving the depressing defeated city, Li Yize first called Lin Zicheng: "We are still a step too late. Fang Jingzhou asked someone to take away the things that Zhao Wei left behind."

"How can you be sure it's Fang Jingzhou?"

"Who else could he be?"

"Zhao Wei is the one who knows best how his sister died. Even if he is stupid, he should know the lesson of the past. He would not exchange his life without seeing the real money. So the things he left at home are definitely not aimed at Fang Jingzhou. As for what they are, please trouble Officer Li to review the case of Zhao Xinyi's suicide by jumping off the building."

Only then did Li Yize understand the purpose of Lin Zicheng asking him to go to Zhao Wei's house in person.

Reviewing cases that have been sealed for a long time requires various cumbersome procedures, but Li Yize is a legitimate "connected person" and no one will obstruct him.

A particularly exquisite Japanese restaurant, you must take off your shoes when entering the door, and you can see a series of exquisite and small private rooms after passing a short corridor. As soon as Lin Zicheng opened the door, Qiu Zeyu rolled his eyes at him in a bad mood.

In the past, Qiu Zeyu either followed other young men, enjoying himself among beauties or racing in the team. It was rare for him to have time like today to wait for Lin Zicheng to arrive. It was even rarer to see a rich young man wearing only a simple kimono today, without even taking care of his hair, looking haggard, as if he was in a hurry to come.

Lin Zicheng smiled at Qiu Zeyu with a slightly apologetic look.

"The character of this store is as bad as you. It's true that a store is like its owner." Qiu Zeyu poured himself another cup of tea with dissatisfaction.

"Let Mu Shen take you to Le Sheng Qian Zai later to make up for your hard work for a week. I'll treat you."

Lin Zicheng wiped his hands with a towel and poured Qiu Zeyu a cup of tea.

"It's rare that a stingy person like you would pluck out a single feather to give me." Qiu Zeyu pretended to be flattered and stared at Lin Zicheng.

It’s a pity that Lin Zicheng has cultivated his skin to be as thick as a city wall, so Qiu Zeyu’s look of deep condemnation is a piece of cake for him.

"Ah... boring." Qiu Zeyu retracted his gaze, reached out to take a small snack and took a bite, "You asked me to investigate the secret history of the Shangguan family. After I accompanied you to drink for five days, I finally got some truth out of you."

Lin Zicheng: "I don't like asking for help."

When Qiu Zeyu heard this, he was secretly angry for a few seconds before speaking: "Shangguan Lingfeng is half of Fang Shanhai's mentor. He often calls Fang Shanhai to his home to study together. As a result, Fang Shanhai and Shangguan Lingfeng's only daughter Shangguan Nianxi have developed feelings for each other. Lingfeng was very opposed at the time, meaning that you can work here, but you can't be the owner of this place."