I'm just a trainee police officer. I don't really want to solve the case.

[Meow, system prompt: The mission countdown is two days.]

Listening to the system prompt sound coming from her ears, Su Xiaoxiao felt a little annoyed. The day just passed like this.

It was almost noon, and there was no movement from Zhao Wei.

There was some movement on Gu Dacheng's side, but it was a bit loud.

Early in the morning, he was dragged here by Liu Lijuan's mother Yang Xiulan to report the case.

When Xu Mo contacted Gu Dacheng yesterday, he insisted that Liu Lijuan was not missing, but had returned to her parents' home out of anger, and he refused to report the case no matter what he said.

Xu Mo asked him to call her family to confirm.

He didn't want to fight at first, but then Xu Mo told him that if he continued to make excuses, he would be held responsible if something really happened to Liu Lijuan, so he'd better think carefully about the consequences.

He was a little scared, and after thinking for a long time, he called Liu Lijuan's mother.

Sure enough, Liu Lijuan did not return to her parents' home. When Yang Xiulan heard that her daughter was missing, she was furious.

Now Gu Dacheng had no choice but to report the case, because Yang Xiulan wanted to report it as she believed that her daughter’s disappearance was related to Gu Dacheng.

The reason was that Gu Dacheng had an affair, which she had seen once, but she endured it and didn't say anything for the sake of her daughter's happiness.

If anything happens to my daughter, it must be Gu Dacheng's fault, and the mistress is also responsible.

The two came to the police station early in the morning and were still arguing. Xu Mo was trying to reason with Yang Xiulan.

"Auntie, we police have procedures for handling cases. Your quarrel here will only delay our time in finding your daughter. As for whether Gu Dacheng is related to Liu Lijuan's disappearance, we will investigate. You have to believe us. We will not wrongly accuse a good person, but we will never let a bad person go."

"Then you should arrest him first. What if he runs away?" Yang Xiulan grabbed Gu Dacheng's clothes.

Gu Dacheng's clothes were wrinkled, his glasses were crooked, and his face was swollen. After being slapped by Yang Xiulan, he felt that he had never been so embarrassed before.

Since Liu Lijuan is not around, there is no one to take care of the child, so he has to bring his mother over. He can't even attend class properly, and now he is pestered by Yang Xiulan.

"I respect you as my elder, but you can't be unreasonable. How could you see that I was having an affair? You are old and yet you are still talking nonsense in front of the police! It's your daughter who is missing, but she is also my wife. I am more worried than you are."

As Gu Dacheng spoke, he tried to take away Yang Xiulan's hand that was grabbing his clothes. Why didn't he know before that this family was so difficult to deal with?

When she wanted to marry her daughter to him, she was very caring and concerned about him, and she also loved his son very much.

If it weren't for the fact that their family treated Taotao well and Liu Lijuan was not quite pretty, he would never have married her.

Is it him as a person that they are attracted to?! They are attracted to his car, house, and well-paid job.

Liu Lijuan lived a life of luxury with him, what else did she want?

Humph, luckily he also guarded against them.

Liu Lijuan was really nice to Taotao at the beginning, otherwise Taotao would not have been so close to her.

But ever since he told her that the house couldn't be registered under her name, she started to change. Although she didn't beat or scold Taotao, she obviously didn't care as much as before.

A few days ago, when she took Taotao out, she almost lost him. It was her neighbor who saw him and reminded her.

This time, the child was kidnapped and she herself disappeared. He didn't even have time to settle the score with her, but Yang Xiulan pointed the finger at him instead. This is too bullying.

"You said I had an affair, but I said it was your daughter who ran away with a strange man!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Yang Xiulan rushed over again and wanted to hit him, but was pulled away by Xu Mo.

At this time, Zhang Qiang walked in from outside.

"That's enough. Stop making a fuss here. If you want to quarrel, go home and don't affect our investigation." He said with a cold face.

When Yang Xiulan saw that it was Zhang Qiang, she felt inexplicably uneasy and subconsciously did not dare to make any more trouble.

"Zhang Qiang, I really let you down in the past. Please help me find my daughter."

"You don't need to tell me that. We will do our best. You guys go back and wait for the news."

Zhang Qiang didn't have time to talk nonsense with her.

They are reviewing surveillance footage and tracing Liu Lijuan's whereabouts after she left the police station.

Su Xiaoxiao also helped to check the surveillance footage. The surveillance footage showed that Liu Lijuan left the police station and stood at the door for a while, seemingly hesitating about where to go. She then walked north along Jianshe Road and stopped a taxi at the intersection.

They have contacted the taxi driver through the taxi company. According to the driver, he dropped Liu Lijuan off near Tuguo Street and saw her walking towards Tuguo Street after getting off the car.

It was raining heavily at the time, and he was kind enough to lend her an umbrella.

However, they checked the surveillance footage near Tuguo Street and found no trace of Liu Lijuan. It is still unclear whether the taxi driver lied, as there was no surveillance footage near the location where the taxi driver said he would get off.

If the taxi driver did not lie, then why did Liu Lijuan go to Tuguo Street? It was not the route to her home, nor was it the route to her mother's home. Then where did she go?

When Zhang Qiang heard that Liu Lijuan was last seen on Tuguo Street, he was stunned for a moment. He was very familiar with Tuguo Street, as it was where he and Liu Lijuan first met.

The name Tuguo Street sounds very rustic, but it is actually a snack street, and earthenware pots are the specialty of this street.

A clay pot is actually similar to a clay pot. Put various ingredients in it and add seasonings to make different delicacies. There are clay pot chicken, clay pot duck, earthen pot fish, earthen pot ribs, earthen pot crayfish, etc. In a word, everything can be cooked in a clay pot.

The entire street is lined with restaurants serving earthenware delicacies, hence the name Earthenware Street.

That night, Liu Lijuan and her bestie had a midnight snack at one of the restaurants. It was summer and the weather was hot, so they sat outside the restaurant, drinking beer and eating crayfish, admiring the stars and the moon, feeling very comfortable.

A drunk man passed by them and saw that the two girls were good-looking. He started to flirt with them, but when the two girls ignored him, he cursed at them, saying "shame on you" and then slapped Liu Lijuan in the face.

The slap was so hard that Liu Lijuan's face was swollen, blood was flowing from her nose, and she was stunned.

The best friend was so scared that she kept screaming for help. The restaurant owner heard the noise and ran out to try to stop her, but the man punched him to the ground and stomped on him several times.

The boss's limbs twitched and he foamed at the mouth.

The people around all stayed away when they saw this. The man was a gangster who had just been released from prison. Everyone on this street was afraid of him.

Zhang Qiang happened to pass by there. When he saw the situation, he rushed over, subdued the drunk man in a few moves, called an ambulance, and sent the boss and Liu Lijuan to the hospital.

It’s a very common hero saving the beauty plot, and this is how they started.

After they got together, he would often take her to Tuguo Street for dinner, firstly as a souvenir, and secondly because the food there was cheap, as he couldn't afford something too expensive.

She left the police station and went to Tuguo Street. Could it be because of him? Zhang Qiang thought of this inexplicably, and then shook his head. This was too self-indulgent. How could it be possible? They had broken up for three years and she had been married to another man for two years.

The surveillance basically ended here, and Liu Lijuan's figure no longer appeared in the surveillance.

Liu Lijuan arrived at Tuguo Street at around nine o'clock in the evening. The restaurants on Tuguo Street were still open at that time, so someone must have seen her.

However, they need to spend a lot of time and energy to visit and investigate, which is too slow. Moreover, the police station cannot waste too much police force on a missing case.

We still have to find the body first. Only a murder case will attract enough attention.

Su Xiaoxiao wondered why her bait was useless. Was she wrong?

Only the three of them knew that this was not an ordinary missing case, but they could not say it out loud. Originally, Xu Mo did not want Su Xiaoxiao to be involved in this matter, but now there were not enough people, so he had to drag her in.

The three were secretly discussing their next move when an SUV drove up and stopped at the door of the police station.

Two people got out of the car, one was Zhao Wei who had been here yesterday, and the other was a middle-aged man in a suit and tie.

The middle-aged man was of medium build, wearing a pair of rimless glasses and carrying a briefcase in his hand, looking very shrewd.

The two walked into the police station together.

The middle-aged man walked up to the police officer on duty and took out his ID.

"Comrade police, we want to report a case."