Chapter 4 Four spring rains, continuous drizzle

After leaving the hospital, Shao Changshui immediately returned to the small hotel and checked out in a hurry. He wanted to leave this small border town immediately and rush back to the provincial capital that night.However, the car went out of the city and ran for more than ten kilometers like flying, but it couldn't go any further.His whole body was hot, his breathing was short, his hands and feet were sore and weak, his mind was blank, he couldn't see the road conditions clearly, and he couldn't pay attention to the conditions of those big trucks roaring past.When passing through a section of broken road, he barely took any action. The whole car was thrown into the air by a big pothole, his head hit the roof of the car, and his chest was squeezed heavily by the steering wheel.Seeing the out-of-control car slanting towards the concrete guardrail on the side of the road, he suddenly woke up. In a panic, he instinctively tapped the brakes twice, and then turned halfway back.The car almost rubbed against the concrete guardrail, and slid forward for dozens of meters before slowly coming to a stop.

There was a humming pain in the head, and a dull pain in the chest.I don't know when, it started to rain lightly outside the car.Hearing the rustle of light rain evenly hitting the windshield and the roof of the car, it took a long time for him, who had been tense all the time, to slowly relax.With the help of the strong light of the headlights, he carefully observed the situation in front, back, left, and right.It was found that there was an exit not far from the left front of the road, and a gravel road that was not too wide was connected to the exit.In the dark, it is hard to see where this gravel road leads to, but a row of tall poplar trees are planted on both sides of the gravel road. In the dark night, these old trees with thick trunks and huge crowns make the road It was well concealed.At this time, he needed a quieter place where he would not be disturbed, so he stopped the car and allowed himself to carefully evaluate what happened before and after.So I released the handbrake, put it in first gear, slowly drove the car into the gravel intersection, and walked another 20 to 30 meters, then stopped the car completely, turned off the lights, turned off the ignition, and let go of the seat belt Button, let out a long breath, leaned back on the seat, endured the swelling pain in the head, and carefully checked the situation he was facing.

First of all, he was sure that it would be very unwise for him to leave this small town in a hurry after the incident happened.If Mr. Lao was indeed "murdered" as he said, then the "murderer" must have targeted Mr. Lao long ago, so he must have grasped Shao Changshui's movements.It can even be inferred that the "murderer" decided to attack Master Lao today, which probably has something to do with their meeting today. (Is there some internal relationship with the latest decision of the Supreme People's Court?) The "murderer", or the people behind the "murderer", don't want Mr. Lao to hand over his investigation and understanding in recent months to Shao Changshui , so before the two of them talked in detail, they "killed" and "silenced".If this judgment is true, shortly after the incident, he suddenly "disappeared" and left this small town. This group of people can only think that he has learned something from Mr. Lao, and they will track him openly or secretly. Come here, pester him, control him, and even when necessary, you may not "kill him" in order to "silence".For this reason, now he had to appear in front of them in the normal posture of an ordinary person, so as to make them mistakenly think that he didn't get anything from Mr. Lao.

What if it wasn't murder?Then there is no need for him to "flee away" from here in such a hurry.He has the obligation to stay and help take care of Lord Lao's funeral. In short, whether it was murder or not, it was the only proper course to remain calm and stay for a while.Stay, take a look, maybe you can still see some tricks?What are you panicking about! Thinking of this, he gasped, stabilized his emotions, took out his mobile phone, and called the front desk of the small hotel, explaining that he was the guest who checked out just now, and revealed his identity as a criminal police officer of the Provincial Public Security Bureau. I came here to handle the case; and asked, did anyone inquire about me during the time I checked out?When the front desk clerk answered no, he breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately informed him that because of work needs, he had to come back immediately and stay in the original room, and asked them to delete the check-out record from the computer.

He hurried back to the small hotel, he was afraid that someone was watching the place, so instead of entering the parking space at the entrance of the small hotel from the front, he walked around to the back door and parked the car in the backyard. In a quiet corner.He didn't go directly to the front desk to get the door key, nor did he take the elevator upstairs, but took the safe passage and climbed up to the floor he lived in; when he reached the door of the room, he called the front desk clerk to hand over the door key. sent to him.Before taking the key, he took out the criminal police card with the metal police badge and showed it to the front desk clerk, and then invited him to his room and told him that no matter who came to inquire, he could not talk to them. Said, he just checked out. "This is the need to solve the case. Don't give me second or fifth glances. Huh?" He emphasized again.The waiter nodded hurriedly and asked: "If someone comes to you, can you let me see you?" He said: "Except for not revealing that I have checked out, what should I do? If someone comes to me, you have to Ask for the person's name and unit, and call my room first to report."

After sending the waiter away, he locked the door, closed the curtains, turned off the headlights, and turned on only one desk lamp. Putting on his gloves, he eagerly and carefully took out the two things Mr. Lao stuffed in from his handbag.One is a small pocket notepad, and the other is a key with a rather weird shape.These two things are now stained with Lord Lao's blood.The small pocket notepad is very delicately made. On the cover of imitation sheepskin, several uneven Russian letters "HEPKA" are branded, and the edges of the pages are plated with gold powder.There is also a lively fish printed on the title page. (Later, Shao Changshui found out that this fish was red trout produced in the famous Lena River in central Russia, and the word "HEPKA" means "red trout" in Russian.) Open the note This, most of the pages are blank.Only the beginning and the end, each with a few pages written.The first few pages are all written in English letters.Shao Changshui knew a little English, and based on his knowledge of English words and English spelling, he concluded that these English letters were listed together out of order.Or it can be said that it is a "password language" (?) designed by Lord Lao himself by borrowing English letters.On the last few pages of the notepad, it is quite clear to people. There is a table of radicals in Wubi typeface.It seems that after going to sea, in order to adapt himself to the needs of his new position, Mr. Lao learned to use the Wubi input method on the computer for text entry.The Wubi input method has its advantages, but its difficulty lies in the fact that a large number of radical symbols must be memorized at the beginning of learning.Many young people are afraid of learning this "five strokes".Compared with an old man in his fifties or sixties, it is even more difficult.It seems that he did not learn it easily, so he carefully copied these radicals in a notepad and carried them with him for reference at any time and for easy memory. "Oh, this old fashionista..." Shao Changshui sighed softly.And that key has a square head, flat, narrow and long, and the gaps are all squares of different sizes.It specifies that it is not the kind of key that hits the lock on the common old-fashioned door, nor the polygonal key on the fashionable anti-theft door.Could it be the door key to the apartment that Mr. Lao himself lived in this small town?He was a sensitive and wary man, and he might change the lock on his door for some new type of lock.But Shao Changshui thought again, if it was the key on his door, it should be a frequently used key. Normally, it should be chained together with other frequently used keys, which should be a large bunch. "Car accident" is sudden.It was impossible for him to have planned in advance that something would happen, so he took the key off the keychain in advance and prepared to hand it to Shao Changshui.When Master Lao took the key out of his handbag, it was neither possible nor did he take it from the key chain.Shao Changshui remembered this very clearly, Lord Lao took it out right away.That is to say, it has been stored separately in Master Lao's handbag.In other words, because of its particularity, Master Lao took it off and put it in his handbag before the car accident.So where is its particularity?Could it be a key to what lock?When Master Lao had a premonition that the source of his life would not continue, he actually regarded it and those pages of "messy" English letters as "urgent" and "very important" things, and left them for the only thing he thought at that moment. The trustworthy Shao Changshui.What does he want to do?What is he trying to tell him?What does he want him to find?save what?avoid what? ...

What is the answer to this series of mysteries?Why did he consider his death a "murder"? Shao Changshui looked at the key carefully.A key fob made of genuine leather is attached to the square hole at the end of the key.This is an oval piece of leather.The edge of the leather is rolled neatly into a zigzag pattern.The whole piece of skin was about the size of a flattened egg.On the rough surface of the leather, a few English letters can be vaguely written in a ballpoint pen: "GWTYOAG".Also an inexplicable combination of letters.Shao Changshui tried his best to separate them to explain.If it's just "GW", it's a guided weapon "Guided

The abbreviation of "Weapon". The "TY" at the end is the abbreviation of "Total Yield" in English. If you add the following letters, it is meaningless. Could it be that this key can open some kind of guidance The secret of the total output of weapons? This explanation is not only far-fetched, but also absurd. Looking at it separately, the first three capital letters "G, W, T" plus a letter "W" are the This is the English abbreviation of the famous popular novel or the original famous "Gone With the Wind". But here after "G, W, T", there is no "W", plus the following But the five letters "T, Y, O, A, G" in the book can't read any meaning. So what does the arrangement of these seven letters mean?

It took so much effort to explain these seven letters, and it was even more difficult to decipher the unordered English letter combinations on several pages. What is this old boy playing with? While hesitating, the phone in the room rang suddenly.In the silence of the night rain in the small border town, the ringtone of the old-fashioned dial-up telephone sounds particularly thrilling, and the scalp will feel numb for a while.Shao Changshui jumped up instinctively, quickly covered the two things on the table with his handbag, and then turned to answer the phone.The call was from the front desk clerk.He told him that someone called just now to ask if a passenger named Shao Changshui had checked out?

"What did you tell him?" Shao Changshui asked hurriedly. "Just as you ordered. I said, I'll check it on the computer for you. Then, after a short delay on purpose, I called him back and said that you didn't check out. Am I right?" "You didn't ask the person who called, who is he?" "Yes..." "How did he answer?" "That guy was so vicious, he grabbed me viciously and said, why are you bothering with so much business? After finishing speaking, he slapped the phone and dropped the phone." "Oh...thank you..." Putting down the phone, Shao Changshui became a little nervous.If, before this, he was not so sure that the car accident that caused Lord Lao's death was a "murder", then now he can almost 100% believe that it was a murder.

If it wasn't for "murder", no one would specifically call to ask him where he was going.No matter in the provincial capital or in this border town, except for a few people like Li Minfen, no one knows that Shao Changshui came here to talk to Mr. Lao, let alone that he lives in this small hotel .Even Li Minfen didn't know he lived here.In this small town, he only told Mr. Lao about his residence.They called here to inquire about his whereabouts and whereabouts, which only showed that they were indeed closely monitoring Mr. Lao's every move. Through this monitoring, they also got hold of his Shao Changshui's residence.It was this group of guys who had been closely monitoring Mr. Lao that caused this "car accident".Master Lao had a premonition of this, and also intuitively felt this. At this time, Shao Changshui realized that his decision to return was indeed a "wise" decision.He immediately went back to the hospital, and went to the Shengtang company where Master Lao worked, appeared in front of everyone as a normal person, and asked about the handling of the "traffic accident" and the handling of Master Lao's body.Then he called Li Minfen to report the situation.He told people from Shengtang Company that the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Provincial Department will hold a training course for investigators in the near future.He came to invite Master Lao to give a lecture.It's a pity that such a thing happened... The next day, Master Lao's wife and daughter rushed to the small border town of Taoligan.The provincial government also sent people to take part in taking care of Mr. Lao's funeral.Shao Changshui quietly evacuated from Taoligen amidst the continuous drizzle... Back in the provincial capital, the same rain was still falling.It is really rare for a drizzle to fall on such a large area and for such a long time in this high-latitude northern China.In the eyes of ordinary people, this should be a good rain.Winter in cities in high latitudes is always dirty.Countless coal stoves for heating protrude from countless rusty iron chimney pipes, and the dust and slag they produce will blacken the snow.People always wait for the spring rain to wash the earth and give them a clean world.But in Shao Changshui's view, the rain in front of him was just like his mood at this moment, dark and clammy. "Help me...help me..." No matter what, he couldn't stop Mr. Lao's pleading from repeating in his ears, and he couldn't stop the scene of Mr. Lao asking to be transferred to another hospital for treatment.The expression of utter despair, utter fear, and utter helplessness that appeared on Mr. Lao's face when he was pushed into the operating room appeared again and again.He didn't understand, what kind of specific situation and specific force would drive such a capable and seasoned person to such a state?Shao Changshui felt that only at the moment when a person was engulfed by the huge vortex that came from the top would he show such an expression of complete despair, complete fear and complete helplessness.He was convinced that if it was just a contusion on the body, even if it was a very serious contusion, it would be impossible for someone like Mr. Lao to have such a kind of "despair" and "fear".After working in the police force for so many years, it was certainly not the first time Lao was injured, let alone the first time he was involved in a car accident.Although his wife said that he liked to hum when he was injured, it was at home, in front of his wife.Even then, it will certainly not be boring to the point of "helplessness" and "fear", let alone whine of "despair" and pleading words such as "help me".Lord Lao has always been a man of self-confidence.But this time, he completely lost his confidence.He didn't want to die.But at this moment, he is clearly struggling with the irresistibility of death... For this reason, does he regret everything he has done?From the eyelids he tried to open, from his trembling lips, from the tip of his twitching brows, from his hands that were unwilling to let go but had to let go, Shao Changshui felt that there was something called "" The shadow of "regret" has gradually covered his whole body... What kind of power actually can cause such a huge "distortion" in the mentality of a person like Mr. Lao?It deeply shocked Shao Changshui, which was a kind of "shock" that he had never felt in his life.Speaking of it, it's a bit like the shock a child feels when he suddenly sees his most revered father handcuffed and put in a prison car... On the way back to the provincial capital, Shao Changshui drove very carefully.Li Minfen reminded him again and again on the phone: "Be sure to pay attention to my safety. If it doesn't work, you just leave the car in the yard of the Municipal Bureau, forget about it, and come back by plane. Tao Ligan has a car every day. The flight directly flies to the provincial capital, and it is not the peak tourist season, so the air tickets are still easy to buy, and the discounts are quite strong. Don’t save me this money!” However, Shao Changshui still didn’t take the plane.It's not because he was reluctant to pay for the air ticket, but because he was reluctant to leave the 70% to 80% new Toyota cross-country in the yard of the city bureau, and asked the comrades of the city bureau to keep it temporarily.He knows too well the "virtue" of the young boys at the county and city bureaus at the grassroots level.If you want to hand over a high-end imported car to them for safekeeping, it is equivalent to entrusting a group of "hungry wolves" to keep a piece of "fresh pork belly with blood".But "safety" is indeed something to pay attention to.When he came here, Shao Changshui walked for about eight or nine hours.This time, he walked for fourteen or five hours.Not only did he slow down the driving speed according to Li Minfen's "instructions", but more importantly, he did not take the original national highway and expressway at all.Especially on high speeds, under normal circumstances, almost every day there will be several car accidents, hit several cars, and kill many people.If someone intends to harm you on the highway, and something happens, it will really make people unable to understand the truth.Therefore, on certain road sections, not only did Shao Changshui not take the expressway and the national highway, he even dared not take the provincial road. Whereabouts, can not find his whereabouts.When it was dark, you watched him turn into the small restaurant "Sister Flower" on the side of the road, ordered a large plate of "killed pig dishes" and "hand-pulled meat", and ordered the local 62-degree liquor steamed with pure sorghum, while drinking While eating, he was joking with the 20-year-old "sisters", as if they were definitely going to stay in the "residence department" built with prefabricated cement panels in the backyard of the small restaurant that night. , or it is possible to achieve a "good thing" with that pair of "sisters".But if you look at it tomorrow morning, he has already left.I ate a lot of meat, and basically didn't drink wine.When it was dark, the "Karaoke Hall" next to the restaurant was lit up with red, green and green string lights, and the dilapidated subwoofer continued to emit a forgetful roar, he quietly set off on the road.After driving slowly for a mile or two in the dark, he turned on the lights and stepped up the accelerator. He didn't turn suddenly onto the highway until he was still a hundred kilometers away from the provincial capital. At a speed of 140 to 50 yards, Flying straight to the provincial capital, straight to Li Min's separation.Knocking on the door of Li Minfen's small courtyard, Li Minfen, who hadn't slept all night, asked anxiously, why did he walk for so long?Why did you turn off your phone?Are you going to die in a hurry? ! !Shao Changshui didn't say anything, just rubbed his sore and painful waist, and sat down on the small dark brown matte leather sofa, his eyes were bloodshot, pointed at the thermos bottle and water cup, and said in a hoarse voice One sentence: "Pour me a glass of water first, will you?"