Chapter 11 neighbor with killer

Jimmy is in his fifties this year, but he doesn't look old at all.He has a tall figure and a very healthy body, even comparable to young lads.He is engaged in the securities business, and his career has gone smoothly. Jimmy's wife's name is Mary.Mary was a very charming woman when she was young, but now her figure has become very fat due to gluttony. Although she is only forty years old this year, she looks much older than her actual age.Therefore, Jimmy gradually grew disgusted with Mary. On this day, Mary received a letter, which only had the recipient's address, but not the sender's address. "Maybe this is just an advertising letter?" Mary thought.She opened the envelope casually, but her eyes widened in surprise as she read the contents of the letter.

"My God! How is this possible? It is absolutely not true!" she said in horror. Jimmy, who was reading the morning paper, was startled by her cry. He raised his head, frowned and asked, "What's the matter? What happened?" "Uh... this letter... our neighbor Hewen is mentioned in it, or... it is related to him. What is written here is... hey, you should read it yourself!" After finishing speaking, Mary handed the letter To husband Jimmy. Jimmy took the letter, collected himself, and began to read.He had had a lot of drinks at the country club last night, and his head was still befuddled, so he tried to read the writing on the letter, trying to figure out what it meant.

On the top of the letter paper, there is a line of handwritten characters: Immediately below is a photocopied clipping from a Chicago newspaper three years ago, which reads: A photo was distributed alongside the news report.On it was a white-haired man in a suit and leather shoes, holding a stylishly dressed brunette on his arm.The two apparently just walked out of the elevator, and the police who had already ambushed around them had already surrounded them. Although the copied newspaper clippings were somewhat unclear, Jimmy recognized it at a glance: the man was their neighbor Hevin, and the woman was obviously Hevin's wife.

Attached to the letter was a photocopied newspaper clipping dated a few weeks after the previous report.The headline of the news was "Suspected Murder Case Released for Insufficient Evidence". After reading this, Jimmy threw down the newspaper in panic, and an inexplicable fear came to his heart.I really can't see it, Hewen, who is usually honest and friendly, has something to do with the underworld!If so... Mary interjected from the side: "Look, I told you a long time ago that there must be something wrong with the Hewen family! He is so old, but he has such a young and beautiful wife, and the business he runs is very mysterious. Think about it , how suspicious it all is!"

"No way?" Jimmy said, "Although Hewen has a kind of hooliganism about him, he can do whatever he is asked to do, but if he is an intermediary for a professional killer, he wouldn't kill me believe." Mary frowned, lit a cigarette, and retorted, "Stop talking nonsense! You always say you can see people very well, and since the family moved here, you have enthusiastically introduced him to everyone and recommended him to join us. How about the country club? Have you lured wolves into the house? That guy Hewen, I didn’t like him from the very beginning!” Just then, the phone rang.Mary stood up and staggered over to answer the phone.

"Is it Locke? What? You got it too? The Henry's got it? The Smiths too? Yes, I think so, it's just awful, Jimmy? Yes, he's here, just a minute. " "It's Locke's call." Mary turned around and handed the phone to Jimmy. Locke, a senior banker and former mayor of the village, now chairs the country club committee. "Good morning! Jimmy, it seems that the residents in this area have received this anonymous letter. Should we take some action?" Although Locke spoke slowly, his words clearly contained a firm and Tough taste. "Take action now?" Jimmy replied cautiously. "Is it too early? This anonymous letter may be a false accusation, or a hoax. We must have enough evidence before we can..."

"I understand that," Locke interrupted Jimmy, "so, let's get together to discuss this evening, let the wives come too, everyone will come to my house for dinner, we will discuss while eating, see you at six." Locke hung up the phone.Jimmy knew very well that if he and Mary didn't come to the party tonight, they wouldn't be able to hang out in the country club circle from now on.Since Jimmy is a securities manager, many of his clients come from this circle. After much deliberation, he decided to attend this meeting. When Jimmy and Mary arrived at the Rock's house at six o'clock in the evening, many neighbors had already arrived--they were all local figures.

In fact, Jimmy didn't believe that Hevin was that kind of person at all, and he didn't even want this muddy water at all, but he had to come, so during the party, he took a glass of wine, slipped into a corner and looked after himself. drank up. Jimmy's view is not without reason.He had been on good terms with the Hevins since they moved here.In Jimmy's eyes, Hewen is a person who doesn't care about anything, and lives a very leisurely and unrestrained life; as for Mrs. Hevin, she is a very easy-going woman. She is young, beautiful, talkative, quick-witted, and knowledgeable... They When we were together, we often talked about the topic of stock and bond investment. Not long ago, the Hewens even opened an account in Jimmy's securities company and entrusted Jimmy to help them invest. How could such law-abiding citizens and What about the underworld?

At this time, Locke asked everyone to be quiet, and he said loudly: "Everyone obviously knows about Hewen. We cannot live with this kind of person. We must discuss how to protect ourselves." "My personal opinion is that I can't stand this kind of thing!" Locke said. "If it gets out, it will ruin our reputation here and it will have an immeasurable impact on our real estate here." "It will also have a bad influence on our future generations!" A lady said, "Living with such despicable people, our children will learn to be bad!" "Listen to me, everyone," Jimmy stood up to speak.He just drank some wine and couldn't help himself a little bit. As soon as he said the words, he regretted it, but he had to go on, "If Hewen is really like the one described in the newspaper clippings, then I will be the first to raise my hand In favor of taking action against him, but the question is, if that clipping is fake, aren't we going to wrong a good guy?"

"But," interrupted Locke, "that's unlikely. Don't you all find Hewen suspicious? Since he moved to our place, he hasn't said a word about his past, if he did. The words are vague, and no one knows what he does. If Hewen himself is a clean person, all the rumors will be self-defeating." "He's kind of weird," someone added. "One time, he said we should have a porn book store here, and you see, that's a nasty idea!" "And Mrs. Heving," said a woman, "you see her swimming in a bikini, it's like..." "Okay, okay," Locke interrupted her, "Everyone, it seems that we have reached an agreement. We're going to send a representative to ask Hevin what's going on, and if he still dares to hide , then we must call the police.”

"Of course, if he admits that the contents of the letter are true, we can let him go." Another man said with a heavy face, "but he must move out of here immediately!" "But to be honest, in such a short period of time, no one can move away." The village head who has not said a word said, "The luxurious decoration of his house, even if you are lucky, it will take several weeks or It will take several months to sell, not to mention that it will be even more difficult to sell if something like this happens." "Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter." Locke said, "We all put together money to buy his house, and everyone who attended the meeting tonight will contribute some money, and then we will pay the bank to buy Hewen's house in one fell swoop." The house is bought. Let's drive the Hewen family away first, and then entrust the house to an intermediary to list it for sale. When a new buyer takes over the house, we will get our respective money back, how about it?" "That's a good idea!" said the village chief approvingly, "but who will you send to talk to him?" "In my opinion, this person must be Jimmy!" Locke turned his head and said to Jimmy, "How is it? You have a good relationship with him. You introduced him to us at first, and you also recommended him to join our village. Club. If he really is an accomplice to the underworld, we certainly won't blame you, but only if you go and talk to him." Although Locke said so, his tone implied that he blamed Jimmy. Locke went on to say: "When you see Heven tomorrow, don't go around with him, just ask him whether that matter is true. If it is true, then let him sell the house to us, and then hurry up." Move away; and if he won't, tell him we'll treat him hard..." The next morning, Jimmy went to Heven's house early in the morning. Jimmy was in a terrible mood at the moment.He and his wife, Mary, had been arguing about it until midnight last night.At the beginning, Jimmy complained to his wife that Locke shouldn't force him to go to Heven, but instead of comforting him, Mary laughed at him for being cheated by Hevin, which he asked for.The husband and wife quarreled and quarreled, and finally their relationship was involved. The two blamed each other, even cursed each other, and tossed and tossed all night. Now, Jimmy walked toward Heven's house with very reluctant steps.Because of last night's quarrel, Jimmy was suffocated, and he still feels a pain in his chest. Jimmy had just arrived at the gate of Hevin's house, and before he rang the doorbell, the door opened suddenly, and it turned out that Mrs. Hevin was standing there.Seeing the beautiful and charming Mrs. Hewen, Jimmy's anger immediately subsided, and he even felt a little jealous of Hewen: "I can't think of such a beautiful and beautiful young lady at Hewen's age." .” Mrs. Hewen was not yet thirty years old, with long black hair hanging on her shoulders, and a tight short suit set off her graceful figure to be extremely slender.Mrs. Hewen was carrying a leather bag in her hand. It turned out that she was just about to go out when she met Jimmy who came to visit at the gate. "Oh, I got up so early today!" Mrs. Hewen greeted Jimmy with a smile. "Oh, yes!" Jimmy smiled too. "I came to Heven and wanted to talk to him." "Go straight in and find him, he's basking in the sun. I'm going into town to see my brother, who's just come here from out of town, and we haven't seen each other for years. Just in time, you and Mary are coming to my house for a light meal this evening, It's been a long time since we got together." "Thank you! However, I still have some important things to do when I come to Hewen." Mrs. Hevin walked gracefully across the driveway and got into the car. Jimmy stared intently at her sexy waist at the door. "The figure is so hot..." Hewen thought. Jimmy turned and walked into Hevin's house, he was going to have a good talk with Hevin. At this time, He Wen had already returned to the house from the yard, and was watching TV with a wine glass beside him.Seeing Jimmy coming in, he smiled and said, "You came just in time, let's have a drink together! Seeing how preoccupied you are, I think you may need a drink now." "no thank you!" Jimmy sat on the chair, hesitated for a while before saying: "Hewen, there is indeed something that bothers me, I hope you can clarify it for me." Then, he took out the copy of the letter and the clipping from his pocket and threw them to Hewen, "Who on earth would send this to me?" Hevin turned off the TV and started looking at the copies. After he finished reading, he sat there for a long time. "Damn it!" He Wen finally said, "They still found out!" "They? Who are they?" Jimmy asked. "It's just the police in Chicago! They're staring at me. When we lived in Florida, a similar thing happened before, and then we were forced to move to California, but they found me again. They can't sue me in court, so they use this kind of dirty method to interfere with my life, as long as we settle down in a certain place, they will come to the door like a shadow, it's disgusting..." "What? So, those reports are true?" Jimmy was stunned. "Your real name is Harry? You work for the underworld?" "Yes, the clipping is mostly true, and it looks pretty scary, doesn't it?" Jimmy was so angry that he said angrily: "Damn it! You have made me suffer. I introduced you to the club with good intentions. I was enthusiastic about defending you at the party yesterday. Unexpectedly, you are really like this!" Kind of people, count me wrong! Forget it, you sell the house quickly and move out immediately." "Is this what you mean personally?" "No, this is what we all mean. Locke called a meeting yesterday, and we made a decision together - if you are really an accomplice of the underworld, we will never allow you to continue living here! If you refuse to move, we will also let you You can't live!" "No! This time I will never move!" Hevin said firmly, "My wife and I have been forced to change so many places, from Florida to California, and from California to here, this time I will stick to it, Never move!" "Stop trying to be brave! Don't you know your situation?" "What's the situation? Tell me!" Hewen looked straight at Jimmy, "What else can you do to me? Expell me from the club? Well, I don't really like that kind of environment anyway. Or, you all join forces Ignore me? Or give me harassing calls? " "I advise you not to underestimate us." Jimmy interrupted him, "Yesterday Locke made it very clear that your presence will affect local real estate prices, so we will force you to leave at all costs. You will Constantly receiving harassing phone calls, your house will often be vandalized. Also, did you know that Locke is well connected in the local police circle, even if you call the police, the police will ignore you, and even call For your trouble, continue to follow your couple, as long as you have a slight violation, I will issue you a ticket immediately. Also, Locke will also use his relationship in the local government to let the municipal staff find fault with you, if you If you build illegal buildings, they will impose fines on you, and the cleaners will not collect the garbage for you... If you still don’t move out, then we have to take more extreme measures——on a certain night, a The fire will burn down your house and make you homeless! At that time, I'm afraid it will be too late for you to cry. Although I don't want to see this happen, Hewen, if you still insist, we will have to ..." "Okay," Hewen's tone finally softened, "I'll move, I'll move, but it's very difficult to sell this house, my house is very big, and real estate has been falling recently..." "You don't have to worry about this. We will join forces to buy your house and will never treat you badly, as long as you are willing to move." "That's great!" There was a smile on Hewen's face, "By the way, I have another kind request, can you help me find a new place to live? I want to live in a place where no one knows us .” "This question," Jimmy said coldly, "Since you often match up professional killers in the underworld, haven't you considered your own way out? I'm sorry, I can't help you with this matter!" After finishing speaking, Jimmy stood up to leave. "Wait a minute!" Heven called Jimmy from behind, "Go back and tell those self-righteous guys that I'm not as bad as they think. When I first started that business, my ex-wife was still alive, She is disabled and needs continuous treatment. Her high medical expenses made me bankrupt. Later, even the bank refused to give me any more loans. I had no choice but to borrow a loan shark from the underworld, but I was powerless in the end. repayment, so the underworld suggested to me that if I would work for them, the usury I owed would be written off. That's how I started working as an agency for underworld killers, and I had no choice because my ex-wife needed money for medical treatment .But later, she still passed away, but I have been getting deeper and deeper on this road, and I can't extricate myself." "I can understand that," Jimmy said, "but you're an accomplice to the killer..." "I have no choice. By the time I want to quit, it will be too late. If I quit halfway, they will kill me. Besides, those who hire killers are forced to do nothing." "You're justifying yourself!" Jimmy exclaimed. "Actually, the reports in the newspaper clippings are also false, because the police blamed all the unsolved cases on me, and in the murder cases I handled, the people who were killed were almost all social scum who committed heinous crimes and deserved to die. , their way of doing business is too cruel, only by killing them can others live. However, there is only one exception..." He Wen hesitated to speak, but he finally said: "I only tell you about this matter, I hope you don't tell others. It was a person's wife, she was a shrew, and later her husband really I couldn't bear it anymore, so I turned to me and asked me to contact the killer's manager..." "Agent?" Jimmy looked at him puzzled. "Yes, the killer also has his own agent. I have never met him, but only communicated by phone. Every time I introduce business to the killer, I call his agent, tell him the name of the customer, and then hang up. Make a phone call, and then the agent will directly contact the customer, negotiate the price, collect payment, and arrange for a killer. Generally speaking, the price for killing a person is between 15,000 and 20,000 yuan. In the case of accidental death, an additional five thousand yuan will be required." At this time, Jimmy's eyes fell on a table behind Hevin, and there was a photo frame on it, which contained a photo of Mrs. Hevin standing by the swimming pool in a bikini, with a plump and very attractive figure.Jimmy couldn't help thinking of his fat, clumsy wife, and frowned in disgust. "I remembered something," Jimmy asked slowly, "The phone number of the killer's manager...you should still keep it?" In the evening Mrs. Heving came back from the city.She put down her purse and said to her husband, "No wonder Jimmy looked unusual this morning. It turned out that they had a meeting last night to discuss this matter!" "Ok." He Wen and his wife raised their wine glasses, touched each other, and drank the wine in their glasses respectively. "The effect of these fake newspaper clippings is really immediate!" Hevin said triumphantly, "not only scared the neighbors out of their wits, made them willing to buy our house at a high price, willingly donate a lot of money for us, but also asked me for help To contact the killer, they probably never dreamed of it, I don't know any killer at all in my life." "How many people were fooled?" "Not many, there are only five in total, including Locke and Jimmy." Hevin said, "Lock asked me to help get rid of his boss in order to climb up; Jimmy asked me to help kill his wife. Wait a little bit Days, as soon as our house is sold, we'll get out of here and make two or three hundred thousand. Oh, yes, don't forget to call your brother and ask him to pretend to be the killer's agent, and the bunch of fools Talk to them to keep them safe." "Great idea!" Mrs. Hewen said happily. "By the time those fools realize it, we'll be far away! Even if they realize they've been cheated, they don't dare to say anything. After all, it's not honorable to pay for murder." What's more, they are all local people with status and status." After a pause, she said, "To be honest, I'm not surprised that Locke and others hired murderers to kill people, but Jimmy, a good old man, It's hard for me to understand how you thought about it. How did you tell him?" "I just told him that I helped someone get rid of a shrew before, and he took the bait immediately." Mrs. Hewenchong smiled slyly, "I knew he would take the bait a long time ago. I can see people very accurately. Sure enough, it's not what I expected!"