Chapter 2671 — They Moved Away Long Ago
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Captain Zhang of course knew the ins and outs of the case, but there were details he could not share with Tang Yuqi—Wei Zhao and Zhao Qibing were involved, and it was not his place to say much. "As things stand, Tang Jucheng has moved. I'll have the household registration officer look up his new address for you, and you can go pay him a visit."
"All right, thank you!" Tang Yuqi said hurriedly.
Before long, Tang Jucheng's new address was found. When the family had come to transfer their household registration, they had moved to the new address—Changxiang Garden, the very residential compound that Fatty Lai had developed.
Tang Yuqi wasted no time. He got into the rented car and headed for Changxiang Garden. Following the house number Captain Zhang had given him, he knocked on Tang Jucheng's door.
But though he knocked for a long while, no one came to answer. Just as Tang Yuqi assumed the occupants were out and was about to go wait outside, it was a neighbor he wound up knocking out of his home instead!
"Who are you looking for?" An elderly man came out from the unit next door, eyeing Tang Yuqi warily.
"Hello, sir. Is this Tang Jucheng's home?" Tang Yuqi asked with a smile.
"It is. You're looking for him?" The old neighbor's guard did not drop in the least; at any moment he stood ready to press the doorbell and summon security. "And who might you be?"
"Hello, sir. My name is Tang Yuqi. I come from overseas—I'm Tang Jucheng's nephew. I've just come from the police station; it was the people there who gave me my uncle's address." Tang Yuqi introduced himself.
"Oh, so you're Jucheng's nephew!" Hearing that Tang Yuqi had gotten the address from the police station, the old neighbor relaxed. "Well, you've come too late. Tang Jucheng and his family have already moved away..."
"Moved away? Didn't they just move in not long ago?" Tang Yuqi was puzzled. The Tang family's household registration had been transferred here only recently, and judging by the compound, it had been built not long ago either—there was no reason to move out so soon after moving in!
"They did just move in. But I think they went somewhere out of town—I don't know the details. All I know is that earlier I saw Tang Jucheng and his wife packing up their things, big bundles and small bags, loading them into a car and driving off. They haven't come back since," the old neighbor said.
"Out of town? And never came back?" A feeling of having arrived too late came over Tang Yuqi at once, and he asked urgently.
"That's right. After they left, there was no word of them, and they never came back," the old neighbor said with a nod.
"Then do you know when they left, sir?" Tang Yuqi asked hurriedly.
"Around July or August, I'd say. If you want to find them, you'd better ask someone close to the family. I don't know anything more," the old neighbor said.
"All right, sir. Sorry to trouble you—I'll go back to the police station and ask around..." Tang Yuqi knew no one here; he was completely in the dark. He had no idea whom the Tang family had associated with in their daily life. His only option was to go back to the police station for more information.
Leaving the Changxiang Garden compound, Tang Yuqi returned to the police station, found Captain Zhang, and laid out the trouble he had run into in detail.
"The whole family moved away?" Captain Zhang was taken aback too. He called over the household registration officer to ask a few questions, then said to Tang Yuqi, "We've had no word of it here... They probably haven't relocated; more likely they've gone to stay with relatives or friends?"
"That sounds likely. Captain Zhang, do you know who was close to my uncle's family? They had only just moved into the compound, so they weren't familiar with the neighbors..." Tang Yuqi said.