Chapter 21 Chapter 6 Meeting Gift

"Yes", Spilling slammed the lock and turned on the light, followed by a voice: "Huh!" "Ha, Mr. Vader, I'm sorry, when I came here, the protagonist happened to be doing the 'clearing' work. Because it was cold outside, I sat in the room and waited for you without waiting for the master's permission." steel arm sofa. Wade didn't open his mouth. He reached into the overcoat hanging behind the door, pulled out a pistol leisurely, and pointed at Ping Fan: "Lu Ping, let's do our own thing. You come to my house at night. , What do you want to do? Be sensible, go quickly, and stop meddling in your own business."

Lu Ping laughed loudly: "Lu Ping? Haha, children know Lu Ping too!" He laughed loudly, coughed dryly, pulled out a cigarette case from his bosom, calmly took out a cigarette, and smoked his cigarette as if nothing had happened. Cigarettes, "Since you know Lu Ping, you still don't put down your toys. What kind of tricks are you playing? This kind of thing is bought by children from the Town God's Temple during the New Year, and you actually use it seriously, haha, what a joke!" Vader gritted his teeth and pointed at the half-open door: "Go, go! Otherwise, I'll make you look good!"

"Good-looking? What is good-looking? Let me describe it to you. When you grab the pistol, there is a 'snap', and a beacon of smoke comes out of the muzzle, and a black date goes into Lu Ping's forehead. Lu Ping lies down with a scarf on his face. Black Blood, it’s over, isn’t it good?” He laughed again, “Since I know it’s Lu Ping, will Lu Ping have a live ammunition gun left for you to play with? Hey, what a joke!” He almost murmured to himself. Hearing what he said, Wade pulled out the barrel of the gun to see that it was indeed empty. The hand holding the gun hung down, and he closed the door casually. inside.

"How about it, child?" Lu Ping jokingly said, and at the same time opened his cigarette case and handed it to him, "Don't worry, we have a lot to talk about!" Wade took the cigarette and smoked: "What is your purpose for coming?" "Don't ask me yet, how do you know I'm Lu Ping?" "Look at the marking on your left ear." "Yeah." He reached out to touch the mole covered by the sticking plaster. "The first time you saw me, you asked me if I was from the south. I thought it was strange, so I immediately paid attention to you. Later, I went outside to inquire carefully and matched your shape. Who is it not Lu Ping?"

"What a good boy!" The conversation between these two people didn't look like they were facing each other just now, they were simply good friends. "What's so strange about it? Your face is completely different from the color in your neck. This is the mark of your time in the tropics." "Mister's purpose—is——" Vader was no longer as stubborn as before. "What is your purpose? Is this your purpose? Do you want to be free, or do you want to exchange the watch you took out of the big incense burner just now?" "What! You just..."

"Yes, I was one step ahead of you. I saw him bite you, and I saw you hit him on the forehead with that big flashlight. I went down when you were dusting off the incense ash. You are going up four floors, and the stairs are difficult to walk. , walk slowly. I went out the back door, entered the back door, and walked fast, so I arrived before you and emptied your gun. After a while, you came back." "What if I don't leave it to you?" Vader said childishly, "You... are Lupin..." "Yes, a great thief, a great thief can prove that a murderer is deprived of liberty."

"You wronged someone, what evidence do you have?" "The wrist you bitten, the blood on his quilt, and the soft ladder, the wooden ladder on your wall, and the footprints on the fourth-floor roof, all of which can put you in jail!" Vader sat dejectedly, kicking the steel feet of the round glass table with his toes. "Here you are," he took out a string of gold chains from his bosom, under which was tied a purple-red watch the size of a longan, an emerald watch chain, and a rose ruby ​​pendant. "The watch is for you, but can you tell me, how do you know I'm going to look for it?"

"Yes, yes, but at the same time, I want you to explain the past in detail first. How did this situation arise?" "You probably already know the history of the watch. I was young when my father lost the bet on the watch. Later, when my father died, my mother urged me to redeem the watch. What she meant seemed to be My uncle used despicable means to drive my father to lose the gamble. After the uncle redeemed it, my mother wanted to redeem it from my uncle. The uncle told her that it was better to keep it with him so that he would not gamble away in the future. Unexpectedly, after the death of my first father, he still If not, the first mother asked him, and he stared and said, if there was no him at that time, it would have been something in other people's pockets, and it is all thanks to him that he can still keep it in Yan's house. The first mother died unhappy , told me to get it back when she was dying, she will die with peace!" Wade looked pained when he said that, and continued:

"After the death of my first mother, I lived in their house. Zhendong is very generous, but my uncle is stingy and selfish. I once told Zhendong that I would redeem this watch, and he agreed to it in front of his uncle. Acting as a lobbyist. It was on this night, the night when the accident happened, that night I happened to be at a dance hall with some friends—I never set foot in this kind of place, it was too late, and it was inconvenient to go back to school, so I walked home— I have the key to the back door, and when I saw that they were all asleep, I crept up to the third floor. I used to sleep in the back room of my uncle, which is now the room where they stock up—seeing that there was a fire in his room, and there was I heard Zhendong's voice, and was about to open the door to enter, but I heard Zhendong talking about my wanting to redeem the watch. I felt that it would be inconvenient to open the door immediately, so I stood outside and listened to what my uncle had to say."

Vader spoke very tiredly, lying on the back of the sofa chair, resting his feet on the glass round table. "I heard my uncle refuse to agree, and said, what if I also have my father's genetic inheritance, what should I do if I gamble away the watch? It's better not to return it to me now, but pass it on to Zhendong in the future, and pass it on to the descendants of the Yan surname forever. Anyway, He can't return it to me now. At that time, I hated it very much. I had to find a way to get rid of this selfish person. I was at a loss when I heard Zhendong say that I was going to sleep, so I hid in the bathroom. Wait for Zhendong to go down. Afterwards, I sat silently in the room, thinking about it more and more. You know, I was studying in the Department of Chemistry. At that time, I thought of a way, just to scare him and vent my anger."

His foot moved and he fell over the water glass on the round table. He quickly picked up the glass, and continued: "I took a bottle of phosphorus and a brush, and drew a grimace with phosphorus on the top of the stairs. There is a way to get him to come out and see the grimace on the wall. I went downstairs and closed the arson door - at this time there was no fire in Zhendong's room, only he smoked with the light on. After the main gate was closed, he shouted "Catch the thief" in a high-pitched voice outside the back door. I thought he would come out to call for someone after the fire dimmed, so that he could see the grimace. Unexpectedly, the old man would fall if he couldn't stand the scare. At that time, as soon as I heard that I had caused trouble, I hurried to open the main door, slipped out quietly, stayed at a friend's house overnight, and didn't come home until Saturday. I saw that my uncle was frightened and Li Zibiao disappeared. I felt very sad. Regretted, I left for Xiamen with my friends before graduation.” After he finished speaking, he looked at Lu Ping's face.Lu Ping closed his eyes, as if he was falling asleep, but the cigarette in his mouth, with a red ring of fire marks, was trying to burn upwards. No one spoke, and the room was silent. "I came back from Xiamen last month. I saw that Zhendong's business is flourishing, and my uncle's madness is better than when I went there. I feel relieved. After a long time, I still don't want to die for that watch. It just so happens that I On the third floor of the roof, there is also a hole like that side. I saw the electric lightmaker go up the hole on the other side, and I followed suit. I only know that it leads to the neighbor’s house, but I don’t know that the roofs of the six houses can be passed through. ——Once I borrowed a ladder from a friend, climbed up, and came to my uncle's corridor, and saw him circling in the room. So I went to get a soft ladder and made a mask, which was still painted Phosphorus, in the morning light at two o'clock in the middle of the night, hangs down from the hole and frightens him outside the glass window. I thought he must have hidden that watch himself, pretending to be crazy to deceive people." After he finished speaking, he took it out of his pocket. Take out a cloth mask and a big flashlight. "Since I met you for the first time, there is an unconscious sign in my soul, and I feel that I should do it earlier and leave here earlier." Lu Pingyou opened his eyes, and a ray of light shot out. Vader's eyes met, and they hung down like a defeated rooster. "Mr. Lu Ping, could you please tell your story?" "En." Lu Ping bowed his body. "I was in the hospital, and I heard someone calling 'catch a thief' every night. I felt very strange. Later, Dr. Zhang told me this story, which aroused my curiosity. The first time I checked, it could be said that I had no clue. The next day It was not until the third day that I discovered a strange thing in the corridor. It turned out that the board covered in the shelf above the corridor had a round wooden center. I clearly remembered that it was long and horizontal across the north and south ends yesterday. Yes, but the center of the circle turned east and west that day. So I silently remembered that after a day, the center of the circle turned north and south again. Hey, I know someone must have come down from above.” There was a sound of wheels blowing in the distance, breaking through the silence of the night. "I sent people to investigate the neighboring houses, and I thought you were the most suspect. I also pretended to investigate the air defense, and went to inspect each house. Of the six houses, only the first and the last house had such a hole, so I concluded that you were the one who came from it." Mischief. As soon as I heard what Zhendong said, I concluded that the watch was not stolen. It must have been put in some secret place in a hurry by Qi Zhai. In his room, I hope he will reveal some omens unconsciously. Because a mentally ill person is completely unconscious, but his partial expression sometimes reveals his movements. I poured two potions of the potion I took into my cup. When you came, the potion had passed, so I took a bite of it." He felt his throat dry and coughed slightly. "When you were searching on the hanger, I thought to myself, fortunately I slipped out early, otherwise it would be inconvenient for you to touch it."