Chapter 39 shooting incident

The Shuangshi incident was hardly published in the newspapers.I suppose it wasn't a big news like a movie star being shot, but it was a clever shooting, so clever that the police didn't even know it was a murder. I know because I am Sally's lover.Of course, for a long time, I had no idea what he was planning.He always said to me, "Dede, it would be great if I could get rid of old Raymond, eh? Then the store is mine, and I don't have to split the bills." Sully always called him "Old Raymond."Raymond is the shareholder of the "Shuangshi" store. I had the impression that he was a very old man, but when I first met Raymond, I was quite shocked, because Raymond was about the same age as Sally. There is a pair of bright black eyes, as black as two Wang Qiushui.The first time he saw me, he noticed my hair color—blonde—and complimented it.

Sally never cared, neither did he when I cut my hair.Sally was simple-minded, thin and a little nervous.He likes to bet on horses and often loses.But it's fun to hang out with him in nightclubs, fancy restaurants, and racetracks. I got together with Sally and he bought me clothes and some jewelry.When I met him, I had almost nothing, you know what I mean, a girl has to have some clothes and jewelry.Then he got me a nice apartment, and he was there almost every night. Sometimes he is also in a bad mood, and he will tell me that his distress is mostly because of Raymond.Raymond restrained him, and Sally wanted to expand the business, but Raymond was very conservative, and he always insisted on doing as much as he had capital.

They had a fairly successful shop with two clerks and a large stock, and behind the shop was a store room and two offices with a back door they never locked.It's an iron gate, and it's latched from the inside. Zhu Sally explained to me that no one can get in through the alley, they only use the back door to unload. A few times I've been in the store and I've seen Sally and Raymond yelling at each other, and Sally says Raymond's money is tight, and Raymond says it's a good thing someone does that. Raymond always noticed my clothes and said they were beautiful, and I also saw him looking at my legs, admiring them.I don't understand why Sully called him old Raymond.

I often ask Sally why he didn't break up with Raymond.In that case, he said, a lot of tax money would be lost or something.But the two of them were at odds, and every time Sally had a few drinks, he would go on and on about how great it would be if he could kick old Raymond away. I got so tired of hearing it that once I said, "Oh, I don't think Raymond is bad..." Sally jumped up when he heard that, and yelled how Raymond always came to the store at the same time every morning, and how he opened letters with the same expression. If someone left for a while, or misplaced his pencil, he would will notice.

He used to say bad things about Raymond out loud, so when he marked a piece of paper one night instead of yelling, I knew it was an exception.He didn't tell me why, but he said, "Old Raymond always stays up late in the office on Friday nights. He keeps the books." I already knew this.One thing he'd tell me a thousand times, how Raymond was always counting everything in the store. Sally complained that Raymond was stingy, but he wasn't necessarily generous himself.I've never been able to save a dollar privately, and I've had no problem getting an apartment and clothes, but I've never had money advances, and he's only giving me money to pay rent, food, drink, and that's it.He was also well aware of current prices, and always put the money in a Chinese vase, saying, "Here is the rent." Like a game, whenever he was gone, I would grab the vase and see how much he could give me. .

Never more. Anyway, for months, I heard Sully keep saying, "I wish I could kill old Raymond!" Then, one day, I felt like he hadn't said that for a week.That was unusual, so I looked at him, and he seemed very absent-minded, yes, he was on his mind. A few days later I happened to find a gun in his coat pocket, a small nickel-plated pistol with a pearl-inlaid handle.I didn't touch it, and I didn't tell Sally I'd seen it. So I wasn't surprised when Sally asked me to throw a dance party on Friday night, and when I asked him if Raymond was coming, he just laughed out loud.

"Ramon only likes his own parties," he told me. He was on the guest list himself, and I think he had every drunkard in town.Because he put some extra money in that Chinese vase.It wasn't hard to guess that his party was a cover, an alibi for the shooting.It takes only ten minutes to drive to the store. Afterwards, I found other details, and you know how he would have planned it.Sally was a real cunning man, and he had a very elaborate plan to make it easier for the police to think that the gangsters entered through the back door.The door was bolted, with a wedge that wedged the crossbar.Before leaving get off work on Friday night, he removed the wedges.I saw Sully's car parked in the alley with the engine running.These, I saw in the photos taken by the police.

In short, he passed the point of his knife through the crack of the door, raised the latch, and opened the back door of the shop. At that moment, Raymond shot, right through Sally's heart. Two days later, after the police came to tell me that Sally tried to kill his shareholders and was killed instead, Raymond came to my apartment and we drank the wine that Sally left behind. The glass looks at me. "I told the police I thought I heard a thief at the back door, how would I know it was Sally? It was as dark as hell in there. "I said, 'Yeah, it sucks' Then he told me, "They found Sally with a gun in his hand by the door, and more than a dozen people told the police that Sally went around saying he wanted to get rid of me," Raymond said, shrugging.

"Yeah, I think so." I agreed with him. "If you hadn't told me beforehand, I might be in hell right now," Raymond said. "It's nothing, the company belongs to both of us now." I smiled. "I hope you can treat me better, not like Sally." ?