Chapter 465 The Whole Story

The next morning, Lan Feng's visit and investigation in Longfeng Garden Community was basically completed.

As Chen Yan had expected before, there was no particularly big gain.

Commercial communities like Longfeng Garden are not like the community where Chen Yan grew up with unit-funded housing.

Most of the people in the community where Chen Yan grew up were colleagues of Chen Jianguo, and they all knew each other at work.

They are very familiar with each other, and the relationship between neighbors will naturally be better.

However, in commercial communities, especially those developed in recent years, there are many young people and many people from out of town. There is no interaction with each other. Once you enter the house, you can live your own life.

In addition, life is fast-paced and stressful, and neighbors do not have time to communicate and get to know each other.

"In addition to the investigation, we focused on the owners who live in Building 9."

Lan Feng began to report the situation.

"There are 4 units in Building 9, and a total of 56 households live in this building."

"No one knows Han Long, but there are two retired old people in units 1 and 2 who know Zhang Yao."

"Know Zhang Yao?"

"Yes, they are Zhang Fengqin who lives in Room 102 of Unit 1 and Li Guifang who lives in Room 303 of Unit 2."

"The two of them are about the same age. They are both in their 50s. They have just retired and are from Sichuan Province. They came to Yinglu City to join their children."

"I happen to be renting in Longfeng Garden Community."

"According to the information they provided, Zhang Yao has lived here for two years."

"Because we are both from Sichuan Province, we usually go shopping together, but I haven't seen Zhang Yao since two months ago."

"Are there any special circumstances?"

"I haven't found any special circumstances, but Zhang Fengqin probably heard Zhang Yao mention it more than two months ago that she might have to move out of this community."

Move away?

"Did Zhang Yao tell her why?"

"Zhang Fengqin doesn't know the specific reason. She only knows that Zhang Yao is getting married, but because her family objects, she is afraid that they will come after her, so she wants to move away."

Does your family object?

Zhang Yao ran away from home three years ago because her family arranged an arranged marriage for her.

But it's been three years, how come her family still opposes her getting married?

Moreover, Zhang Yao and Han Long live together, so it is obvious that her marriage partner is Han Long.

Given Han Long's economic conditions, why would Zhang Yao's family object?

And, are you moving because of this?

"Does Zhang Fengqin know who is coming to find Zhang Yao?"

"Zhang Fengqin doesn't know much about this. Zhang Yao rarely talks to them about family matters."

"I only mentioned it occasionally."

More than two months ago…

This time point was just before Han Long and Zhang Yao were killed.

"Team Chen," Hu Xueying walked into the conference room just as Lan Feng finished his report: "The cooperative investigation report from Sichuan Province has been sent."

oh?

"Tell me the specific situation."

The situation in the report is very detailed.

Regarding Zhang Yao's running away from home three years ago, Chen Yan learned about it from the registration information in the missing persons system, and the information was relatively rough.

It turns out that Zhang Yao's family and Han Long's family are neighbors. Zhang Yao and Han Long grew up together and can be said to be childhood sweethearts.

Han Long had a secret love with Zhang Yao before he came to work in Yinglu City.

However, Han Long could not marry Zhang Yao at that time.

Because he couldn't afford the gift money.

In Han Long's hometown, the price of a wedding gift ranges from hundreds of thousands to as much as two hundred thousand.

Zhang Yao's parents asked Han Long's family for a gift of 180,000 yuan.

This amount of money is on the high side among local betrothal gifts.

But Zhang Yao is beautiful, one of the few beautiful girls in the village, and everyone in the village knows that Zhang Yao has a good temper, has been docile and reasonable since she was a child, and can still work.

Although 180,000 yuan is a lot of money, this amount of gift is actually reasonable in the local area.

However, Han Long's family's economic conditions are average. His parents have saved only 80,000 yuan throughout their lives.

There is a difference of 100,000 yuan from the betrothal gift requested by the Zhang family.

In front of the projector, Hu Xueying began to introduce the contents of the collaborative investigation.

"Originally, Zhang Yao and Han Long grew up together. They were childhood sweethearts and secretly in love. The amount of betrothal gifts was more or less, but it didn't actually affect their marriage."

"But Zhang Yao also has an older brother who is also engaged, and the gift he wants is even higher, 250,000."

"Also, Zhang Yao's brother doesn't speak fluently and has a bit of a stutter, so it's not easy to find a partner."

"This girl who wants 250,000 yuan was found by the matchmaker after many connections."

It turns out that Zhang Yao’s parents naturally couldn’t have 250,000 yuan in savings to give to the woman’s family, so they could only find ways to provide Zhang Yao with a betrothal gift.

Han Long had no choice but to go out to work, so he came to Yinglu City that year.

But even if I work part-time, I can't make that much money.

Han Long initially worked as a coolie at Paul Foreign Trade Company, earning only 3,000 yuan a month.

After working for two years, I only saved a total of 40,000 yuan.

Zhang Yao can wait for Han Long, but Zhang Yao's brother cannot wait.

"So, three years ago, Zhang Yao's parents had no choice but to find another family and betrothed Zhang Yao to a young man from a neighboring village."

"This young man from a neighboring village, Wang Hongfei, was Zhang Yao's classmate when he was a child. He also likes Zhang Yao very much. His family's financial situation is not bad."

"Back then, Wang Hongfei's family directly gave Zhang Yao's family a gift of 250,000 yuan. In this way, Zhang Yao's brother's wedding gift was enough."

"But Zhang Yao refused to die and secretly ran away from home the day before her wedding and came to Yinglu City. That's what happened next..."

"etc!"

While reading the information, Hu Xueying suddenly interrupted Hu Xueying's words while listening to her introduction.

"What did you call the young man from the neighboring village?"

"My name is..." Hu Xueying looked through the information: "My name is Wang Hongfei, 26 years old..."

"Wang Hongfei?!"

Chen Yan immediately looked at Lan Feng, who was standing aside: "Lan Feng, when you interrogated the owner of Hongyun Sichuan Restaurant last night, what was the name of the chef he said he fired?"

ah?

Lan Feng was slightly startled: "Well... let me check the transcript."

Lan Feng had some vague impression of the name Wang Hongfei, but he was not sure.

However, after listening to Chen Yan's prompts, I seemed to be more impressed.

The cook Zhang Xu mentioned who was fired three months ago seemed to have the surname Wang.

Standing up, Lan Feng immediately went to check the transcript.

"etc!"

"Call the owner of Hongyun Sichuan Restaurant and ask the chef what he stole at that time."

Lan Feng's pupils shrank, as if he had thought of something, and he replied while running out: "Okay, I'll ask right now!"

five minutes later.

Lan Feng returned to the conference room panting.

Facing Chen Yan's solemn and expectant gaze, Lan Feng had no time to calm down his chaotic breathing.

Blushing, he said eagerly: "Captain Chen, it's indeed...confirmed!"

"That helper... the cook... is called Wang Hongfei."

"He stole the packing box and sesame oil!"

Gan!

"Immediately conduct a comprehensive investigation into Wang Hongfei's situation!"

Many cases are solved by inadvertently discovering important clues.

For example, in the last serial disappearance case that Chen Yan solved in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, the most important clue was actually the piece of tinfoil found under the bookshelf that had been smoked with contraband.

There is a saying that success or failure is determined by the details. It may not be completely correct, but when solving crimes, it is most of the time a wise saying.

The name Wang Hongfei did not leave a deep impression on Chen Yan.