Chapter 6 Chapter Six

But at this moment, the whole heart of the inspector was completely occupied by surprise, and he secretly wondered: Is this man Hawthorne?Unexpected, but why didn't he say it sooner?When the inspector walked in, he had heard the gangster's screams, but he thought he heard it wrong. Now that he saw the kid and knew the middle-aged man, and called him "Hawthorne", he was sure of it.Suddenly, many thoughts came to his mind.He thought: The actions of famous detectives are special after all, no wonder the meat ticket escaped safely, it was not a fluke.They knew such a big man, and he really had a well-deserved name, and a few thieves were simply not enough for him.We are also considered lucky to have a ready-made success with this big man, and the generous remuneration is stable.I don't understand, the kid said that the deck of cards is not a card, and why do these thieves know that he is Hawthorne?The chief detective quickly thought about it, and he didn't have time to continue to study. His eyes full of surprise suddenly turned into full of admiration. He immediately rushed forward, bowed deeply to the middle-aged man, and said loudly:

"Oh, sir is Mr. Hawthorne? I have admired him for a long time, and admire him!" He was busy talking, and then stretched out his hands. The middle-aged man understood his intention, even said: "Don't dare, dare not", and immediately reached out to shake his hand. There are many indescribable events in the world, and the event in front of you is one of them.When the detective chief shook hands with the so-called Hawthorne, he felt that the joints all over his body were lighter than usual, and there seemed to be many voices coming out of the many sweat pores, saying in unison, "It's an honor, it's an honor."This Hawthorne, seeing this strange accent, couldn't help laughing secretly, took advantage of the situation and approached his ear, and said in a low voice:

"Please tell the inspector and the brothers to go first, because... because I know that there are still many black elders hiding here." At this time, the chief detective didn't dare to disobey the order of the only private detective in China. He couldn't bear the last word, and it came from his ear to his heart, so he turned around and said: "Inspector Cao, please take the brothers and detain the eight male and female thieves, and go back to the office to report first! Because... because I want to interrogate the owner of the oil shop here, whether he is suspected of being a bandit."

The scary-looking person was still guarding blankly.The inspector waited all the way to the place where he had parked before, looking for the car in all directions, but there was no trace of it, thinking that the young man couldn't wait, so he drove back first, so he could only escort the gangsters, and walked slowly as the car Sign back. There are only two people left on the upper floor of the oil workshop.After Hawthorne saw the crowd leaving, he guessed that they had gone far away. He raised his eyes and looked at a brand new six-inch pistol in the hands of the chief detective, and asked slowly:

"Your gun, how many shots did it make, and which country was it made in?" Upon seeing the question, the chief detective hurriedly handed over the gun and said: "This is my brother's new purchase... This is my brother's own... Nine rings and nine rings..." Hawthorne took the gun in his hand and fiddled with it alone for a while, without opening his mouth, with a calm look on his face.The chief detective couldn't bear it, and asked with a smile on his face: "Mr. Huo, didn't you say that there are..." Hawthorne suddenly raised his head, kissed in an extremely cold voice:

"I'm sorry, sir, can you change my brother's name? Brother thinks the word 'Mr. Huo' is very harsh! The great detective whom you are looking forward to will meet one day, but don't worry now." When Hawthorne said that, he continued to play with the gun, his eyes were aggressive and majestic, like a golden armored god.This sudden strange remark made the chief detective completely puzzled, as if entering the fog of London.He only felt that the person who was speaking in front of him had a different expression, as if he had changed completely. He couldn't help but feel a subtle vibration in his heart, and said in a trembling voice:

"you you you you." The person in front imitated his voice playfully, and said: "I... I... I... I, my surname is Lu... Lu-Ping-it-is-me." That last word is really powerful.As soon as the words came out, the detective chief's body felt like a cloud, gradually floating up.The floor of the small building, the dust-covered doors, windows, chairs and tables, everything is spinning in front of my eyes, and at the same time, my body is shaking.The middle-aged man who called himself Lu Ping stepped forward to support him with a smile and said: "Mr. Inspector, don't be afraid. There is no cannibalistic 'short beard' here. Be sober, it's a troublesome thing to summon a soul."

Saying this, the chief detective's eyes were still staring open, his mouth moved slightly, and he made a gesture of speaking, and finally he was speechless.Lu Ping smiled again and said: "Calm down, Mr. Detective, brother, I have something else to ask. Here is a letter, and I will take the trouble to hand it to the old Mr. Huo. Besides, we just promised a kind of reward. Lu Ping is very trustworthy, and here is another one yuan. I would like to extend my respect to a few of our temporary loyal party members, and express a little sympathy." After Lu Ping finished speaking, he took out a letter and a piece of tattered paper money, and forced them into the detective chief's hand. Finally, he put the nine-shot pistol into his other hand, and said:

"This is the original bi, and I respectfully return it to Zhao." Now that the pistol had been returned to its owner, the Inspector felt that half of all the courage he had had for his journey had returned to his body.Courage came, and so did anger. What made him most angry was the sentence "here is still the old man here". He was so happy for a long time for no reason, and he talked about a generous reward, but it turned out to be "rich" Ocean dollar.The more he thought about it, the more he hated him, he clearly deceived this terrible and hateful enemy, he was empty-handed, he didn't have time to take out the small pistol in his pocket, intending to pick his vitals and attack him coldly.Unexpectedly, he caught a glimpse of Lu Ping in one hand, throwing many small things one by one, and throwing them there for fun. The techniques are skillful and graceful, just like the skills of a busker.After gazing carefully, the courage that had just returned home suddenly boarded the train again.It turned out that the falling objects were just a few small bullets, which had been unloaded from his gun at some time.The detective chief tremblingly held the empty gun that was equal to zero, only to hear Lu Ping say wildly:

"Useless Mr. Black Heart, forget it, save some energy, and return to the office to cry! I think it's not easy for us to meet, and we should keep some souvenirs! I'm sorry, these little treasures, brothers worship!" After Lu Ping finished speaking, he stuffed the nine bullets into his bosom, nodded and said "goodbye", hummed the romantic Beijing tune of "I am a casual person", and walked in a cool square step all the way. , Yang Chang walked out. The chief detective was left alone here. After seeing the monster disappear, he stayed there for three to five minutes. He picked up the letter with his fingers like learning to play a lute. When he read it, he saw two words written on it. Row:

Inside are two sheets of eight-line paper, a fluttering regular script, never in accordance with the format of ordinary letters, full of mixed sentences in classical Chinese and vernacular, what is written is: At the end of this letter, there are some small words of "a blurry day's book". The surroundings of this empty small building are really a bit hazy to the dull nerves, like a bizarre dream. It's very complicated, and the description ends here. This new kidnapping case, which has changed due to many misunderstandings, has come to an end.What should be added is that unexpectedly, in the second half of the case, there was another ridiculous misunderstanding: it turned out that Mr. Wang Yuting, the president of the Pearl and Diamond Chamber of Commerce, had never entrusted Hawthorne with this case.Just because his family was in a panic, two rare friends came. The two happened to be wearing suits, and one of them happened to be wearing glasses.They asked about the case, casually referring to Hawthorne, and saying: "If this matter can be handed over to this famous detective, a satisfactory result will be obtained." The two friends, who were just casually saying something, accidentally passed into the ears of Mr. Ah Liu, who had the guts to do it but not the guts to do it. He felt guilty for a while, and mistakenly believed that the person who spoke was the only private detective in China. The recklessness caused panic in himself, until oil dripped from his feet.The poor gangsters he associates with are also a group of daredevils from the crash academy who kidnapped each other. Reckless, they join a troupe, which leads to many reckless and entangled dramas.What's even more ridiculous is that our shrewd old friend followed their misunderstandings and got caught in a small trick, sending a ridiculous letter to Detective Huo Da indiscriminately.It was expected that Hawthorne would be dumbfounded if he had the opportunity to read this letter, as if he were reviewing Zhuo Wuling's poetry anthology. In the meantime, some fresh misunderstandings would arise.Isn't it an absolute ridiculous joke that this kind of contagious misunderstanding spreads everywhere without knowing its direction?What's especially interesting is that Lu Ping took that new subordinate to Xishouli that day, it was for nothing else, it's a coincidence that such a strange thing happened unexpectedly!As for the meat ticket for an upright official, since it was handed over to Lu Ping, the wealthy Wang Yuting was initially prepared to open his mouth and hit him with 500,000 yuan.Because most of the rich man's gold mine contains some impure impurities, it is not a sin to knock him.But then he didn't know what he thought of, and he was so generous to others that he voluntarily gave a 10% discount and let the upright officials go back.So the uproar ended. A week later, Lu Ping chatted with a young party member in their office.There was a question in the young man's eyes, Lu Pingyin asked: "Wu Liu, don't you understand the sparrow's conversation? Well, I have time today, so sit down and listen to me." Lu Ping was holding a special hookah, and in the sound of "snorting", he said: "It's not difficult to solve. As soon as I saw the bird cards in the middle of the table in groups of three and five with 'tube', 'suo' and 'wan' interspersed, I knew that there was a secret code in them. But I thought, this is What kind of code? At first, I thought that the numbers from 1 to 9 of the bird card were used to replace the nine Arabic numerals in the style of Chinese telegraph symbols. But it was wrong, because ordinary people would never use telegraph symbols, Remember each one clearly. Besides, our ordinary electric symbols in China are in groups of four characters as usual, and each group is equal, but the cards on this table are three, three, five, five, and the number is different. So I Because the number of this card varies, I think that what is hidden in it may be English. Because English is the most common in modern society, and there is a clear evidence that you can't see the four 'nines' in the card. Wan', have all been picked out, mixed in the unused 'East', 'South', 'West', and 'North' cards at the corner of the table? All bird cards, picked out 'East', 'South', 'West' There are seven kinds of "fat" and "white" in Bei''zhong', and the remaining three kinds are tube, cable and ten thousand, so there are twenty-seven kinds left, and another ninety thousand are picked, isn't it just twenty-six kinds left? From this, it can be decided that the twenty-six bird cards must represent the twenty-six English letters. But what kind of substitution method? At that time, I speculated that the person who issued the secret number, so it was placed in this way, He must have known that someone was coming to rescue him, but this secret code was issued for the rescuer to see. There must be a fluke mentality, hoping that the rescuer will be able to understand it, but what method can be used to make it clear? Is it easy for the people who rescued him to understand? I think there is only one way, which is to use numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc., and replace them one by one in the order of the twenty-six letters. According to this, one is equal to Love, two equals leather, three equals west, four equals land... and so on. However, there is another small problem, because the number of the three cards of the cylinder, cable, and ten thousand is only up to nine, although three There are twenty-six kinds of combinations, but which one comes first and which one comes after? It took me a few seconds to think, and I couldn't help laughing at myself, because there were obviously three rows of cards on the other part of the table. , horizontally arranged in a three-character shape. The first row is the tube, the second row is the rope, and the third row is the Wanzi. Obviously this is used to indicate the order, and when ordinary people talk about the types of bird cards, they always say that they are tubes... ...Suo... Wan, I never heard Suo, tube, Wan, Wan, Suo, tube, or Wan, tube, Suo. If you don’t understand this again, you will really become a scumbag!" Hearing this quietly, Wu Liu recalled that he had acted as the child's fake uncle for a while, and he still felt that he would never understand the question of the "Tong Suo Wan" and "Wan Tong Suo" until today without an explanation.Looking at it this way, isn't it true that, as the leader said, he has really become an uncle of rice bucket?Thinking like that, he couldn't help but burst out laughing. Lu Ping continued: "According to the method mentioned above, I then put the nine tubes from one to nine to represent the nine English letters in front of A to I, and then connected the nine strings from one to nine to represent J to I. The nine letters of R represent the last eight letters of S to Z with the eight tens of thousands from one to eight. You see, here is a table, and behind the table is the bird card. Mystery, translated into English according to the table." As Lu Ping spoke, he took out a piece of paper, as follows: table style One barrel=A Two barrels=B Three barrels=C Four cylinders=D Five barrels=E Six barrels=F Seven barrels=G Eight barrels=H Nine barrels=I One cord=J Erso=K Three cables=L Four cables=M Five cables=N Six cables=O Seven cords=P Eight cables=Q Nine cables=R 10,000=S 20,000=T Thirty thousand = U Forty thousand=V Fifty thousand = W Sixty thousand = X Seventy thousand=Y Eighty thousand = Z translated into english The first line: dear mr huo sang Line 2: kindly save me in an oilmill The third line: no 268 fu chi road When Wu Liu took the paper and looked at it carefully, Lu Ping said again: "Because this child is a primary school student, the several transliterations in this text must be read according to the sound of Mandarin. The full text is very brief. There is only one title, one sentence, and one most important place name, which are translated into Chinese. Just say 'Dear Mr. Hawthorne, save me mercifully in an oil mill, No. 286 Fuze Road', that's all. It's just the three Wanzi in the second group of the third line, which should have been translated as txz three two letters, but the co-authorship of these three letters is meaningless. Since they are located after the word No, and these three cards are intentionally upside down, there is no need to doubt, of course, they are directly counted by the house number. As for the original text The characters for 'road' and 'number' are all abbreviated, which everyone knows." Lu Ping peeled off the cocoon, layer by layer, explaining meticulously.After explaining, he puffed on the hookah again, and looked at Wu Liudao happily: "As for other things, you are also an important character in the play, so you probably don't need an instruction manual anymore!" At this time, Wu Liuyi understood it wholeheartedly, and his fascination reached the extreme.He said silently: Our leader is more capable than the ancient Gongye Chang!Chang Gongye can only understand the words of live birds, but he can even understand the language of dead sparrows!When he thought about it, he was also very heartbroken towards that smart and upright official.It's just that he has a sense of shame, thinking that a person like himself is not as good as a fourteen-year-old child, isn't it shameful?As a result, his skin was slightly red, and he turned the paper upside down, intending to find a flaw to show that his brain power was not weak.Suddenly he remembered that the second bandit cave was in the small sesame oil workshop, and the secret code only said the word "oil workshop", which was a kind of carelessness, and the whole text felt too...his The motor of thought was still running, but was suddenly interrupted by Lu Ping's voice, and Lu Ping said coldly: "Oh! Wu Liu, you are too confused! Do you think this text is too brief and incomplete? You must know that this is not an article written by an English expert calmly, but a cry for help from a weak heart. No. You have to understand the environment the child was in at that time, and you have to think about his age! The most difficult thing is that in English, the five phonetic letters A, E, I, O, U, in each whole word, They are all useful, but the mahjong cards can only provide him with four of each at most, isn’t it extremely difficult? So, you still want to be demanding, aren’t you too confused?” Wu Liu bowed his head and said nothing. After more than a month, the reporter and Lu Ping met at his apartment.He told the reporter about this latest experience from beginning to end.The reporter listened carefully from the beginning to the end, and of course admired his brain power.But when he saw him talking, he was very proud, so he couldn't help laughing and asked him: "This kind of experience is indeed very novel. It's just one thing. After you came out of Xishouli, you went to report under an impostor early the next morning. In this extremely short time, how did you know that Wang Yuting's family Liu, the servant, is there any conspiracy with bandits?" Lu Ping patted the reporter on the shoulder and said: "Oh, it's amazing, it's amazing! This is really a big leak in the record of the novelist Sun Liaohong's future! But clever fool, you can very well get married with our Mr. Wu Liu As a brother, your eyes are too short-sighted! Do you think that the party members under Lu Ping are as stupid and stupid as your old man? Do you think they can't even find out about this? Sure enough, why does Lu Ping Can become Lu Ping!" His tone was a bit exaggerated and conceited, the reporter said: "Excellent, wonderful, since you can inquire about the Six Bandits, why can't you inquire about Hawthorne's problems, and finally make a joke. What a Lu Ping! What a party member of Lu Ping!" The reporter's black tiger was stealing his heart, but it hit Lu Ping's heart. Seeing that he just coughed and didn't answer, the reporter said again: "No matter what, at last that brother Sixth, the white tiger, has the intention to promote you!" Lu Ping said: "What, pick me? What a joke!" He jumped up and took out several donation receipts from charitable organizations. The total amount of donations was 50,000 yuan, all of which were signed by Anonymous.Lu Ping threw these receipts at the reporter's face with a smile and said: "Look, look!" And said: "According to me, Mr. Ah Liu did promote three kinds of people. First, the family members of the meat ticket, because the meat ticket is in the hands of those idiots, they must be promoted. But for the sake of smart children, I, Volunteering a big price reduction and being extra self-denial, didn’t you reward them? Second, you also know that the fifty thousand yuan was a reward for those poor compatriots.” The reporter asked: "And the third one?" Lupin giggled and said: "The third one? Do you really want to ask? Then, let me tell you, the third one has indeed become a poor little worm attached to a hacker's body, that is, your step! You have obtained this kind of new information, and with your sloppy and sloppy Couldn't the pen and ink with no strength be extended so ferociously and viciously that they could get a very generous and pitiful manuscript fee? In this way, the invisible indirect cooperation between Ah Liu and me not only saves Some of the poor compatriots have relieved your starving famine with immeasurable merits! Therefore, if I change places with you, I must use a loud voice like a dog barking and shout a slogan: "Ah Liu Wan Year old''Long live Lu Ping''Long live Ah Liu''Long live Lu Ping'!"