Volume 1 Entertainment Circle Chapter 30 Clues of a Murder Case

  "Let's go to the study room and talk." Tan Jianyan's face wasn't very good when Guan Yao came again, he pushed away a meeting at the municipal bureau and came directly.

  "No need, Xiaotang also listens." Guan Yao didn't avoid Tongtang, took out a file bag from the public affairs package on one side, pulled out the documents inside and handed them to Tan Jieyan on one side. The opening was in a normal tone, "Today, Cheng Tian Nan and Xiao Tang met."

  When he heard the name Cheng Tian Nan, Tan Jie's face sank and his facial lines tightened, his fingers crossed on his knees. On top of Xi Xia Mountain, there was a Xi Xia Villa, an upscale leisure resort that combined accommodation, food, and tourism. However, Tan Jie knew that it was just like the recently sealed off Tiān Shàng Rén Jiān (Heavenly World), with a similar nature.

  "Ji Yan, I'm sorry, but now the only way to ensure Xiaotang's safety is to get to the bottom of this case." Guan Yao apologetically glanced at Tongtang beside him, who had been dragged into this unexpectedly.

  It was probably the Liu family who sent some thugs to surround Xiaotang, and in less than three days, today Cheng Tian Nan deliberately bumped into Xiaotang again. The clues are still unclear, but Guan Yao understood that whether it's the Liu family or Cheng Tian Nan, they might have all misunderstood Xiaotang, so to truly ensure Xiaotang's safety, the case must be thoroughly investigated.

  "What's going on with this case?" Tan Jieyan finally spoke up, his deep phoenix eyes gazing at Guan Yao. His voice didn't have any fluctuations, but it gave off an air of awe-inspiring majesty.

  "A month ago, we set up an ambush at the west railway station to catch a murderer who had been on the run for many years. The man's name was Li Guo. At that time, he came from his hometown in Henan to Beijing and was robbed and stabbed by someone just after getting off the train. The murderer also arrived around the same time. I ordered all police officers not to move until we had sealed off all possible escape routes for the murderer. Only then did I give the order to apprehend the murderer and rescue Li Guo. Fortunately, the stab wound was not fatal; otherwise, I would have really caused the death of an innocent person."

  Guanyao put Li Guo's photo on the coffee table, followed by a photo of Zhongdao taken in the hospital at that time. Because at the train station, the robbers mixed into the crowd and have not been caught to this day. "Li Guo is also an honest person, he didn't file a complaint against us, he just asked us to help him find his missing daughter Li Lanan for a year. She came to Beijing to work several years ago and would call back every week. The last time she contacted her father Li Guo, she told him that she had found a good job at Xixia Mountain Villa, then lost contact."

  "Li Guo was robbed at the train station, and it's not a coincidence that you met him." Tan Jieyan's sharp opening words were like a knife to the heart, his icy gaze lingering on Li Guo in the photo, who was short and dark-skinned. It seemed likely that someone had intentionally set this trap for Guan Yao to investigate.

  "We also think so, but Li Lanzhi has indeed gone missing. I've checked all the train stations, bus stations and even airports, and Li Lanzhi hasn't left Beijing at all. This disappearance is likely to be a homicide case already. The Xigou Mountain Villa is the most suspicious place." Guan Yao was also a sharp person and naturally felt that something was not quite right.

  But Li Guo and his daughter Li Lantian were not a problem, and Li Lantian had indeed gone missing. So no matter what sinister forces were at work behind the scenes, Guan Yao still made the missing, possibly already murdered, Li Lantian the target of his investigation.

  "How did the father and son of Liu Yuanhai get involved?" Tan Jieyan flipped through the case files, but there was no substantial progress in the case. It's possible that Cheng Tianan or the opponent of the Liu family intentionally set a trap, using Guan Yao to investigate Xixia Mountain, and then pull down either Cheng Tianan or the Liu family.

  I had someone show Li Lianlan's photo around Xiqiao Mountain and ask a large number of people, a cleaner remembered that at the time a girl who looked like Li Lianlan came down from the mountain, but was later picked up by a car going back up the mountain. The car happened to be Liu Kang's Hummer, with a license plate number of 588, which the cleaner had memorized at a glance.

  But this is also the only clue at present. After investigating to this point, Guan Yao knew that Li Lanlan's death and Liu Kang, this official second generation, and Xi Xiaoshan Zhuang Cheng Tian Nan must have a relationship. As for what kind of relationship it is, it can't be investigated yet.

  After eating a few oranges, Tong Jiang felt a bit cool in her stomach. She casually picked up the cup on the tea table without realizing it was Tan Jieyan's, warming her hands while taking a few sips of hot tea. Her stomach finally felt comfortable, but Tong Jiang's gaze was fixed on the photo of Li Guo's gunshot wound on the tea table.

  Tan Jieyan took a glance at Tong Jiang's dazed expression and languid demeanor, and for an instant, a smile flickered in the depths of his normally cold and gloomy eyes. However, when he looked again, Tan Jieyan returned to his usual introverted silence.

  "Xiao Tong, is there something wrong with this photo?" Guan Yao didn't notice Tan Jieyan's expression just now, but felt that Tong Tong had been staring at the photo for too long, so he asked casually.

  "The dagger that stabbed Li Guo and the one that injured me yesterday are the same." Tong Jing slowly opened her mouth, with some hesitation in her heart, but this was a matter of life and death after all, and now she had also been implicated.

  "What? How did you figure it out?" Guan Yao's eyes behind his glasses were sharp as a thorn, sizing up Tong Dang with an even gaze. Although Guan Yao had also felt that he was being pulled into a trap since the unexpected encounter with Li Guo at the train station, there was no concrete evidence.

  "On the record: approximately 9 cm long, about 2.6 cm wide, and 2 mm thick, with writing on it that the murder weapon might be a Swiss Army knife's Hunter model." Tong Jing put down her teacup, pointing at the confession about Li Guo's stabbing, "This type of Swiss Army knife is generally used by people who like to camp outdoors. The one that scratched my hand was also a Hunter model from a Swiss Army knife."

  Although there are many types of Swiss Army knives, anyone can buy them at supermarkets, knife shops, or online, but they all involve the Xi Gou case. The same model of murder weapon cannot be just a coincidence, so the person who stabbed Li Guo and the one who ambushed Tong Tang were from the same group, and they even used the same murder weapon.

  Guan Yao's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out his phone to dial Xiong Hua's number. "It's me," he said. "Immediately go and bring back those people we caught last time to the bureau. Remember to find that Swiss Army knife that injured Tong Ying, and have the forensic lab compare it with the wound from when Li Guo was stabbed to see if they match."

  Digression

  During the Spring Festival, I saw that my classmates and friends' children can already make soy sauce. Suddenly, I realized that I'm really old, rushing to thirty! Waaah... I want to find someone to get married, which one of you is single? Remember to leave your address and phone number, I'll come running over.