Old Wu was so embarrassed that he waved his hands together and paid his respects to us, and finally said, “My sister is a three-day hottie, she had been watching Old Liu for a day that day, but he didn’t go out at all. Anyway, at least my sister can prove Lao Liu’s innocence.”
We were speechless as we listened, thinking what an amazing woman hero this was.
Old Wu said, “Having said all this, you should be able to believe in my identity, Team Zhang, I’ve checked you out and I hope you can help.”
He was so honest, it was impossible to fake it, so I had to be honest.
“It’s not that I can’t trust you, it’s that I can’t trust the others around you.”
I didn’t specify that it was Yang Bureau; after all, Lao Wu was Yang’s man.
Xia Gehuai said, “Should we call Liu Hao to come and consolidate the information from both sides, we should be able to get more useful ones.”
Zhao Zichen frowned and vetoed, “Don’t, he’s helping us pivot away from the fake Baldy.”
Old Wu looked at me and then at Zhao Zichen before he reacted, “You guys, did you already know about this?”
Zhao Zichen leaned back in his chair with panache and said, “My brother, I can tell the real from the fake with one eye, this video is a fake at first glance for me.”
I took the opportunity to ask, “I was about to ask you how you could tell.”
Zhao Zichen knocked me on the head and said, “The hat. There’s a dirty patch on that hat, and Baldy would rather rub a piece of skin off himself than make this hat a little dirty.”
That was true, he valued the hat more than his life, and in all the time I had known him, I had never seen him take it off a few times.
The hat had been worn for a long time and was a bit old, with some wear on the edges of the beak, but it was definitely not dirty.
It was a pair of hats, one for him and one for Apricot, to keep her from being sad.
Baldy, a kung-fu daredevil, is actually a pure hearted mess when it comes to relationships.
I said, “It’s not too early for us, we’ve only been able to see it for the past two days. Captain Wu, is it convenient for you to let me see your uniform?”
He had a uniform on, but I knew that there wouldn’t be just one set of these uniforms, there must be a change of clothes, and two sets for autumn and winter and spring and summer, and I had just been staring at his uniform.
“Yes, you can, just look.”
A few of us stared at his body like a scanner, buttons, collar buttons, cuffs, not a single one missing.
Of course, if a button was missing from this kind of uniform, it could be replaced, but the degree of newness would be different, and it was obvious from a glance that the buttons on Old Wu’s set were all equally old.
I said, “Can I see the other sets?”
Old Wu said, “Yes, but at home, put at home to change the laundry, you want to see this why?”
We didn’t say anything, so I asked, “Do you have anyone at home? Can you send us the uniform to look at? Or we could come to your house?”
Lao Wu said, “Both are convenient, but it’s too much of a big deal for you to go to my house, you’ll definitely be suspected. I’ll ask my sister to send it over.”
No one has this kind of police uniform and no one has to wear it, so it was unlikely that Lao Wu would temporarily change it with someone else, and even if he did, the official rank on the shoulder patch would not match.
After fifteen minutes, Lao Wu said, “Wait, I’ll go down and get it, so that my sister doesn’t come up and see you, she has a very big mouth, I’m afraid she’ll say something.”
When Old Wu went out, I immediately asked Xia Gehuai to follow me out secretly to see if Old Wu was playing any tricks, while I picked up the documents on his desk and looked through them casually.
Unexpectedly, turning the first page, I froze in my tracks.
I flipped the first page and pulled out a dozen photos, I hurriedly bent down and picked them up, scanned them and looked dumbfounded.
These photos were all stolen photos of Liu Hao’s car, and I recognized Liu Hao’s license plate number.
“Bring it, there are quite a few, hey? These are the ones my sister took.” Old Wu pointed awkwardly and said, “My sister’s car recorder took them at the time, and printed out some for me.”
“Printed out to you for what?”
Old Wu was particularly embarrassed and reluctant to go on, but the photos were really bizarre and there was no way we were going to let him off the hook until he said so.
“Okay, I’ve lost to you guys, I’ll say it.” Lao Wu said, “My sister took it, she brought it to me to analyse whether there was anything wrong with Lao Liu.”
Xia Gehuai said, “Don’t you know it’s illegal? If someone goes to the inspector, you’ll have your skin ripped off.”
Old Wu closed the door, put his finger to his lips and begged, “So I beg you to keep your voice down. I’m not doing my sister any favours. The police uniform you asked for is here, look.”
Zhao Zichen told me to look, he went to the window himself, came back after a while and told me, “There’s a woman, she looks like Lao Wu.”
“You guys are being too careful here, what’s wrong with the clothes?”
I checked each piece of clothing carefully and there was nothing wrong with it, it didn’t look like the buttons were Lao Wu’s.
I put the clothes down, picked up the photo again and asked Lao Wu, “Have you seen this photo?”
“What am I looking at this for? I’m a policeman, I won’t mess around with my sister.”
I said, “Haven’t you noticed that there are other people following Liu Hao besides your sister?”
“Who?”
Lao Wu held the photo over to me and looked at it in disbelief as I spread it out like a poker and then pointed to a purple car in the photo.
“This car, seven photos, four of them came up in seven times. These two don’t show the whole car, but look at this bumper, there’s a very small notch, so you can be sure it’s the same car.”
The old ghost was thunderstruck, this was definitely an inside job, because of that button, we always thought this ghost was within the police, but today we found out that someone had been following Liu Hao.
Old Wu looked and looked, “I really haven’t seen it, I just noticed this car today, I’ll have someone check the plate number now.”
Old Wu picked up the phone and was about to call out when I pressed off the hang-up button.
He asked, “What?”
I made a no-speech gesture to him, then took out my phone and called Meng Meng.
Monk had been tossed around by me last night and still didn’t sound very energetic; he was a little worried about me and spoke carefully.
I said, “Meng Meng, check the license plate number for me.”
Once he heard that I hadn’t mentioned Chu Xiaoxiao, he was overjoyed: “Wait.”
I gave him the license plate number and Meng Meng quickly looked it up and said, “A black Passat.”
I said to Lao Wu, “A set of cars.”
I said, “Meng Meng, help me find a set car and I’ll send you the date and photo right away.”
“It’s difficult.”