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Jinyuan Bathing Center is a well-known luxury place in Weining City. Ordinary bathing centers sell dog meat under the guise of sheep, and they are doing pornographic business.But Jinyuan Bathing Center is engaged in the bathing business without deceit.The reason why it is different from other bathhouses is that the male and female employees hired by Jinyuan Bathhouse are all handsome men and beautiful women. Everyone can take a picture and appear on the cover of a magazine. They are different from ordinary bath workers. Everyone can chat with customers Two business classics, talk about the stock market, and help customers identify the ball and horse.Jinyuan bathing is the "activity center" of gambling and horse racing in Weining City, which has become an open secret of the upper class in Weining City.

When two plainclothes criminal policemen came to the door, the lobby manager recognized Xia Bingyang, the general manager of a state-owned enterprise who was arrested by the Economic Investigation Team last year for embezzling public funds for gambling.

"Hey! Two two two two!"

The lobby manager, who was like a gourd, trotted towards Xia Bingyang, like a meatball bouncing on the marble.From the welcome desk to the entrance, a short distance of more than ten meters, the lobbyist ran out of sweat, stood in front of Xia Bingyang, took out a handkerchief, wiped his sweat and said with a smile, "Officer Xia? Officer Xia, right? This time I'm- "

He intentionally left a suspenseful voice, and stared back and forth between Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong with his eyes.

Xia Bingyang raised his hand to hook his neck and dragged him to his side, glanced at the nameplate on his chest: "Lobby manager, Xiong...Xiong Dehua?" He said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, Dehua Manager Hua, don't arrest people today, find someone."

The manager didn't dare to relax his vigilance: "Who are you looking for?"

Xia Bingyang took out his mobile phone, found Qin Ping's photo and showed him: "The person in the photo was here on July 7, do you have any impression?"

The manager carefully identified it for a moment, and said: "You are embarrassing me. We have such a large number of customers every day, and I can't remember every customer's face."

Xia Bingyang raised his finger and pointed to the ceiling covered with prismatic crystal lights: "Is the surveillance system on?"

"Open and open."

"Show us the monitoring."

"Okay, let's go to the security room on the second floor."

The manager led them to an internal elevator on the east side, took the elevator to the second floor, walked through a brightly painted corridor, and turned to a large and empty office directly opposite the staircase.

The three security guards inside were playing cards. When they saw the leader push the door in, they immediately stood up from the table.

Manager Xiong pointed them around, wiped the sweat from his neck and said, "All of them, half of the bonus will be deducted."

There was a young security guard sitting in front of the four monitors. He turned his head tremblingly and said with a smile, "Manager, I didn't play cards."

The manager said, "Leave half for you."

"Thank you manager."

Ren Erdong was a little confused, turned his head and asked Xia Bingyang: "Isn't this still deducted in half?"

夏冰洋没搭理他，径直朝年轻保安走过去，脚背勾过去一张椅子在他身边坐下：“把7月26号中午3点15分到5点十分的大堂监控录像调出来。”

The young security guard turned back to ask the leader for advice.

Xia Bingyang said first: "Manager Xiong, I won't bother you from now on."

The manager smiled and said, "Call me anytime you need anything."

Ren Erdong was very puzzled, walked up to Xia Bingyang and asked, "Why is Manager Dehua so polite to you?"

Xia Bingyang looked at the computer screen and said calmly: "It's not being polite to me, it's being polite to my last name."

Ren Erdong reacted quickly, and slapped the security guard on the shoulder: "Do you have cooperation with Wanheng Group here?"

The security guard was very simple and knew everything: "Yes, our boss plans to buy a building on the Bund next year and move the clubhouse there. In the past two days, people from Wanheng have been invited several times."

Ren Erdong suddenly said "oh", then glanced at Xia Bingyang, as if he just realized that Xia Bingyang is an extraordinary rich second generation, he quickly took a glass of water from a disposable paper cup and handed it to Xia Bingyang, he laughed and said: "Master Xia, I didn't expect you to have such face."

The security guard called out the front door and the lobby surveillance system. After checking the time, Xia Bingyang recognized Qin Ping in blue jeans, a black jacket, and a black peaked cap at a glance.

He pushed aside the water glass that Ren Erdong handed over, pointed to a figure in the lobby and said, "Stop, zoom in on this person."

The image suddenly became clear after being processed by the security guards. Standing in front of the welcome desk, Qin Ping only showed his side face. He had a conversation with the receptionist at the front desk, and then took the elevator under the guidance of the receptionist.

Xia Bingyang said: "The monitor in the elevator is tuned out."

The security guard quickly called out the elevator monitor, Xia Bingyang saw Qin Ping took the elevator to the fifth floor, and was led to the changing room by two waiters in bath suits.

Xia Bingyang asked: "Is there still surveillance inside?"

The security guard said, "Where can it be? Inside is the changing room, sauna and bath."

After more than two hours, Qin Ping changed into old clothes and came out of the dressing room, and returned to the surveillance field of view again, with the peaked cap on his head pressed down even lower.The bathroom center tracked him until he walked out of the lobby on the first floor.

Xia Bingyang ordered the security guard: "I will give you an email address, you can capture this video and send it to the email." Then he said to Ren Erdong: "Let the lobby manager report the job of going to work in the sauna room and bathing pool on July 7th. Everyone is called."

Ren Erdong went out to call for someone, and returned 10 minutes later with twenty or so people.

More than [-] staff members in sky-blue uniforms packed the security room to the brim. Xia Bingyang led them out again, and asked them to stand in a line by the wall, and took the photos of Qin Ping that had been printed out in the security room in turn. To identify them, he raised his voice and said: "See clearly, think about it carefully, what did this person do after entering the bathing place, did he call for service, and who had contact with him."

Twenty or so people looked at the photos one by one, and shook their heads and said they had no impression. Only a masseur in his 30s looked suspicious when he saw Qin Ping's photo.

Xia Bingyang caught a glimpse and walked up to her: "What do you want to say?"

The masseur asked cautiously, "Does he have a mole on his left cheek?"

Xia Bingyang found Qin Ping's ID photo on his mobile phone, and handed her the mobile phone directly.

Seeing Qin Ping's ID photo, the masseur said without hesitation, "Yes, yes, that's him."

"Do you have an impression of him?"

"Yes, he soaked in the pool for a while that day, called me over, and asked me if the massage was free. I said that I needed to charge the credit card, and he said forget it, and asked me to pour him a free glass of white water."

"What else did he do?"

"There were so many people, I didn't keep looking at him."

"Then does he have any abnormal behavior?"

"Unusual behavior...he was in the bath for a while, then he just kept walking around like he was looking for someone."

Finally getting to the point, Xia Bingyang asked again: "Did you see someone meeting him?"

"No, I only saw him leave by himself after five o'clock."

Xia Bingyang pondered for a moment, and said to the lobby manager: "I need a list of all the staff and customers on the 26th."

The manager said, "I'll send someone to sort it out now."

About half an hour later, Xia Bingyang got the list and left the bathing center with Ren Erdong.

Standing on the pedestrian street, Ren Erdong looked at the densely packed names of people in bold and small print, and felt dizzy: "Is there a clue here?"

Xia Bingyang stood beside the trash can on the side of the road, lighting a cigarette, stepped on a circle of stones protruding from the edge of the green belt, bent over and patted his dusty trousers, and said, "This place is a high-consumption place. Do you think Qin Ping is capable of spending money here?"

"He can consume a ghost. Didn't the masseuse just say that he dared not even drink a glass of water?"

"Since he doesn't have the ability to spend a lot, there is only one reason for him to come here, to find someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

Xia Bingyang took the list out of his hand, glanced at it briefly, then folded it and put it in Ren Erdong's breast pocket, saying: "It's in here, go back and check slowly."

After speaking, he turned and walked in the direction of parking.

Ren Erdong asked from behind, "Where are you going?"

Xia Bingyang had gone away in a blink of an eye: "Bailu Wetland Park, that school should not be demolished yet."

In the car, he called Lang Xixi: "Xiao Nizi, send me the address of Bailu Town Middle School six years ago."

"okay."

Lang Xixi quickly sent a map from six years ago to his mobile phone.

Xia Bingyang opened the map, and accidentally found a building on the mountainside not far from the middle school, and asked, "Why is there a school halfway up the mountain?"

Lang Xixi knocked on the keyboard a few times, and said, "That's not the school, it's Jinshuiwan Hotel, not far from the school, it's on the hillside of Changling Mountain."

"Is it still there?"

"It's gone. The Jinshuiwan Hotel caught fire six years ago, and the entire building was burned down."

"When did this happen?"

"Well... found it, August 16th, 8."

February 8th?

Xia Bingyang turned on the phone and saw the calendar in the upper right corner. Today is August 8rd, which means that 3 days later six years ago, the Jinshuiwan Hotel will be burned into ruins by a fire.