Gu Xiaofan walked around the car as she was told, carefully checking the body to see if she could find other scratches. The white frost on the surface of the car made it difficult for her to see clearly, so Gu Xiaofan was even more careful, fearing that she would miss something. As a result, she stared at the car for a long time, and except for the scratch from the key and the scratch near the rear of the car, there were indeed no other scratches.
"There are indeed only those two, nothing else. Is there any inevitable connection between this and the scratch being caused after Ren Xuefeng disappeared?" Gu Xiaofan walked around and returned to Zhong Han, asking in confusion.
"Do you still remember how long Ren Xuefeng has been driving this car?" Zhong Han asked instead of answering.
Gu Xiaofan recalled: "I remember the previous records seem to say that he has been driving this car for more than four years, right?"
"Driving for more than four years, nearly five years, such a long time, the whole car body has only two scratches?" Zhong Han asked Gu Xiaofan, but this time he did not expect her to answer him, but continued, "I have repeatedly seen the photos of the car when it was found in the waterside community. The body is well maintained, and there is not much mud except for the dust left by the car parked there for a while. Think about it, the season before Ren Xuefeng disappeared was the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, with frequent rainfall and a lot of sewage on the ground. At that time, the body of the car was maintained like this, and there were no obvious scratches, indicating that the owner himself is the type who cherishes his car and cleans and maintains his car more frequently. You can also see this from the degree of wear on Ren Xuefeng's tires. Of course, I can't guarantee whether the wheels are because he just changed new tires before he disappeared."Gu Xiaofan squatted down to check the tires and found that the wear of the tires was indeed not high."What you said sounds quite reasonable, but isn't it a bit... forced to conclude that Ren Xuefeng's car was scratched after he disappeared?" Gu Xiaofan didn't disagree with Zhong Han's words. She just felt that it would be a bit hasty to conclude so. Since she found out that the person in the surveillance video found earlier was not Ren Xuefeng, she became more careful, fearing that similar mistakes would occur again.Zhong Han nodded: "You are right. Of course, it is impossible to make a conclusion based on such an inference, so let's go to the repair shop where Ren Xuefeng used to repair and maintain his car to ask and see whether my conclusion is verified or overturned."During the time they were looking for Ren Xuefeng's car, they had gone to a repair shop that Ren Xuefeng had been patronizing to understand the situation, so this time there was no need to waste time and drove directly to find it.The owner of the repair shop received them. Ren Xuefeng was his old customer and a big customer, so every time Ren Xuefeng came during his lifetime, as long as he was there, he would greet him personally."You know, this world is so unpredictable. Sometimes when I see a car exactly the same as Boss Ren's coming to our place, I still have an illusion that Boss Ren has come back. But then I turn around and find that he is gone. It would be so scary if he could come again." The owner of the repair shop shook his head. Po was a little emotional, "I used to take business very seriously, but since I knew that Boss Ren had an accident, I decided to change. I won't always focus on business here. I'd rather spend more time with my wife and children. Money is something that you can't bring with you when you are born and can't take with you when you die. I've figured it out.""Yes, things are unpredictable, so cherish what you have," Zhong Han nodded, expressing his understanding of his emotion, and asked, "Ren Xuefeng used to have his car serviced here quite frequently, right?""Yes, Boss Ren cherishes his life more. He said that he would rather spend more money to maintain the car than have something happen on the road at a critical moment because of a minor problem with the car. So even if there is a little noise or the fault light flashes, he will immediately drive over to let us check and adjust it, and replace parts or something. They all want original parts, and never save money. "When answering Zhong Han's question, the repair shop owner did not forget to popularize common sense to the two young people, "I see you also drove here, let me tell you, these parts are cheap and expensive, many people say our repair shop is shady, the expensive ones are actually just the cost, so they always choose cheap ones, or go to those small workshops with no three names to change. We are definitely doing business to make money, it is true that there is profit, but in some places, the cheap parts are all removed from scrapped cars and refurbished and reused, that stuff is not safe!""In addition to frequent inspections, what about Ren Xuefeng's car beauty? For example, if it is accidentally bumped or scratched with other cars, does he care?" Zhong Han took advantage of the gap when the repair shop owner paused and continued to ask."He cares! He really cares! Let's put it this way, among our customers, if he is the second one who cares about these things, I guess others would not have the face to be the first!" The owner of the repair shop immediately gave a positive answer, "After I got to know him, I asked him why he drove a car worth more than 300,000 yuan, but he was more careful than others who drove cars worth more than 100,000 yuan. He also laughed at me for looking at the problem in the wrong way, saying that the car doesn't have to be good, but it must be kept beautiful. This is like wearing clothes that don't necessarily have to be high-end goods worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan, but they must be clean and neat. The car is a man's face, and unshaven beards are not good-looking, so they must be shaved clean.""Is there any record in this regard? Can we take a look?" Zhong Han askedThe owner of the repair shop asked with a little bit of caution: "Officer, let me ask you a question in private. Does this matter... have anything to do with Mr. Ren's car? Did someone do something to his car and cause him to have a car accident?""No, we want to know something else." Zhong Han shook his head and denied."Oh, okay, then I'll go get you his customer file!" The owner of the repair shop heard his answer and breathed a sigh of relief. He left them in the office and went to get Ren Xuefeng's customer file in person.After a while, he brought a file box and handed it to Zhong Han: "Please take a look. From the file created when he first came to us to apply for a card, to the record of his last car maintenance before the accident, it is all here. Although Boss Ren is dead, I thought at the time that since you police officers were involved, this must be a big deal. In case it is useful, I did not let the employees deal with Boss Ren's file. Now it seems that this is the right thing to do!"Zhong Han thanked him and browsed the maintenance and repair records in the file box with Gu Xiaofan.The owner of the repair shop was not exaggerating before. Ren Xuefeng came to inspect and maintain the car more frequently. Zhong Han himself is also a driver. He feels that the energy he puts into the car is probably not even one-third of Ren Xuefeng's. In addition, Ren Xuefeng is really keen on car beauty. He has repainted a small area many times, which is exactly the same as Zhong Han's previous judgment.Gu Xiaofan also noticed this. Ren Xuefeng had just come here to repair two scratches on the car body two days before he disappeared."That is to say, when Ren Xuefeng came here for the last time, he couldn't fix all the flaws on the car body, right? Didn't he leave any?" Gu Xiaofan asked the owner of the repair shop."Of course, he has always been like this. I can answer your question without recalling it! Those things are not deposits. There is no interest in saving them. What's the point of keeping them, and they don't look good!" The owner of the repair shop replied with a smile.After a trip to the repair shop, Zhong Han's speculation was confirmed. When the two were leaving, the owner of the repair shop was very business-savvy and stuffed Zhong Han with a few coupons and a business card, saying that he was a police officer who investigated his old customers and had made contributions and hard work. If he came to his place to apply for a card in the future, he could enjoy a super low discount. Zhong Han smiled and thanked him, and drove away with Gu Xiaofan."It looks like what you said, but is it possible that it was scratched by someone while it was parked in the waterside community? Let's not make the wrong investigation direction because of mistakes this time. You see, the surveillance video incident was because we made a mistake. We thought that Ren Xuefeng had been active in the east of the city the night before he disappeared. It turned out that the person was not Ren Xuefeng at all. We can't be sure whether Ren Xuefeng went to the east of the city that night, or whether he was in the north of the city like the car. If we make a mistake about the car again, the price will be too high!" Gu Xiaofan was still a little unsure."It's good to learn from the lessons, but it's not worth it to throw the baby out with the bathwater because of a mistake. I'm sure that the scratch was definitely not caused in the parking space of the Waterside People's Community." Zhong Han was confident about this question, "Recall where the car was parked at the time. The left side on the outside was scratched by the child's key, and there was a row of bushes next to the right side. Who would park a car in the bushes?"Gu Xiaofan carefully recalled the situation in the Waterside People's Community and patted his head: "That's right! It really can't scratch that side! Look at my stupid brain! What should we do next?""Next? What we are going to do next is very interesting. I guarantee you will find it very exciting!" Zhong Han said to Gu Xiaofan mysteriously.Gu Xiaofan was curious when he heard it: "How to do it?""Finding a needle in a haystack." Zhong Han raised his eyebrows and spit out four words.