Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Annual Disappearance Event

It was a night in November, with a cold snap and a sharp drop in temperature.Walking through the street where the cold wind blows, I lead a rustic half-bald old man into the Black Cat Lounge, where the smoky spotlights swirl.In the lounge, hot air blows against the face, rippling with a strong hormonal atmosphere.Walking through the smoky dance floor where dense crowds of demons danced wildly, I danced to a round table with red candles.In the flickering candlelight, I saw a middle-aged man with a fat body and a doughy face. I pointed to the half-bald old man and said to the middle-aged man: "This is Mr. Li. He has several practical patented technologies in his hand, just waiting for investors to see the truth." Then I pointed to the middle-aged man again. The bald old man said: "This is Mr. Chen, with a net worth of over 100 million and countless resources. He is looking forward to finding a good investment project day and night."

The two people looked at each other and smiled, like bastard mung beans met each other's eyes, each handed me a red envelope, and then sat together and whispered.Mr. Chen called the waiter and ordered two glasses of whiskey, which was obviously not for me. I also knew that I should not make light bulbs anymore. Anyway, I had already got the two red envelopes that I should have, so I hurriedly left. By the way, I should still introduce myself. My name is Lan Ruohai, I am thirty-four years old, I am a freelancer, and my business card says I am a professional business planner. I have indeed done well-received business marketing plans for some well-known companies. Some people even call me a marketing wizard and a planning master. However, in the recent period of time, what I have done more is the intermediary industry.I know a lot of elites from all walks of life, but I often don’t know those elites who cross industries, so connecting them has become my specialty, and earning red envelopes from them is also my due reward.Fortunately, most of the elites I know are generous, and my income is considered considerable. Of course, this has a lot to do with the keen vision I have when I match people.

For the business introduced tonight, both parties gave me 5,000 red envelopes each. Of course, compared to their expected future earnings, this is only a small fraction.As for me, the 10,000 yuan received today can at least allow me to live a good life for a few days. After leaving Teacher Li and Mr. Chen, I ordered a glass of soda water at the bar, glanced at the dimly lit booth, and then walked towards a woman who was looking at me with half-closed eyes. The woman was about twenty-eight or nineteen years old, and she wasn't dressed too coquettishly. She didn't look like those women in special industries who lived in feasting and feasting, and was more like a white-collar worker in a company.Perhaps, she just wanted to spend some time in the lounge and find some excitement by the way.

I also know what my strengths are. Today I am wearing an off-white alpaca wool casual suit with shoulder-length hair. I am pointing to two earrings on the pierced ears protruding from the side of the hair. I look gentle but not Woody, even with a bit of artist-like elegance.In all fairness, I still have a certain degree of lethality for a leftover woman in her late twenties. However, just as I was approaching the woman, an unexpected thing happened. I suddenly heard a sharp and hysterical scream from my side. "Damn! There are some women in this world who are slut-faced, some are rich second-generation, and some are mixed-race. Why am I a slut? Why is everyone I fall in love with a slut? Why does every slut end up with a slut? Leave me without saying goodbye?"

The hysterical shouts were followed by sobs. I turned my head and saw a girl in her early twenties holding her head, crying bitterly, pouring a large glass of dark beer down her throat.The girl looked refreshing, and her pretty face had already turned extremely red from drinking too much, her eyelids were a little swollen, and the tears that filled her eyes almost merged into two small rivers. I stopped immediately, turned around and walked quickly towards the crying short-haired girl.When I turned around, the leftover woman who was waiting for me with a glass of wine immediately showed a look that could kill me, "he really is a wretched man who likes young girls".I didn't care about so much, I quickly passed a few wretched men who were also trying to strike up a conversation with the short-haired girl, stood in front of the short-haired girl, put down the soda in my hand, and then pulled her up, holding her tightly She hugged her in her arms.

The girl stared at me in confusion, and then I heard her murmur, "Cousin, why are you here?" An Yueqian, my cousin, is twenty-four years old this year, but petite and exquisite, with a natural baby face, she looks like she is in her early twenties. Xiaoqian works as a resident physician in Xichuan People's Hospital. She leaves early and returns late, and is often on duty all night. I rarely see her.Speaking of which, it's been a month since I last contacted her.At that time, I suddenly found a hard lump the size of a cherry appeared under the skin on the inside of my arm. I was worried that it was a malignant tumor. Well, under her arrangement, I underwent a comprehensive and detailed examination in the hospital, and finally concluded that it was just a lipoma that had no effect on health.

However, I was still not at ease, worried that the doctor would misdiagnose me, so I begged Xiaoqian to arrange two follow-up visits for me. Fortunately, the final result is still benign, except for a small problem in the heart, but there is no need for treatment, as long as you rest well, other organs are fine, and finally the stone hanging in the air fell back. in place.But it did scare me enough, and it cost me two nights in a double room in the inpatient department of the hospital. Xiaoqian has always given me the feeling of Xiaojiabiyu, gentle and quiet, so when I saw her crying and losing her composure in the Black Cat Lounge, I was really shocked. I never thought that she would buy in the lounge alone late at night. drunk.Xiaoqian is ten years younger than me. I almost watched her grow up, so I have always loved her very much. Seeing her cry, I couldn't help feeling anxious.

I dragged Xiaoqian out of the lounge, then hailed a taxi, trying to take her directly to my aunt's house. Before getting in the car, Xiaoqian vomited again. Fortunately, I hid quickly, otherwise the alpaca casual suit I just bought would be ruined by her.After she vomited, she obviously woke up a lot. When she saw the taxi I hired, she laughed at me unabashedly: "Cousin, you are a freelancer with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan. Why do you still take a taxi when you go in and out? Don't want to buy a car?" Every time this little guy sees me, he never forgets to fight with me.

I don't buy a car, of course I have my own reasons.Engaging in marketing planning requires inspiration and divergent thinking. I often lose my mind when I am doing something and turn my mind to the planning proposal.I don't want to lose my mind while driving and cause a disaster, so I haven't learned how to drive. However, I am too lazy to talk to her right now. I pushed her straight into the back seat of the taxi and sat next to her. When I was about to tell the driver to drive the car to Tianwang Square near my cousin’s house, Xiaoqian suddenly He said, "Go to Xiangshan Road!"

I was stunned. I never heard that my aunt bought a house for my cousin before. Why did she let the taxi drive to Xiangshan Road?Besides, even if my aunt is willing to buy a house for my cousin, she shouldn't buy it on Xiangshan Road.Since the period of the Republic of China, Xiangshan Road has been a villa area where rich people gather. The housing prices are extremely expensive, and it is far away from the current city center.Even if there are a few seemingly luxurious residential areas built on Xiangshan Road, they are just defrauding those real estate speculators from other places in the name of "Feng Shui Treasure Land since Liberty"-I am ashamed to say that I worked for those few residential areas at that time. The person who does the marketing planning is right here.

As far as I know, housing prices on Xiangshan Road are still high, and the occupancy rate is extremely low, and the rent is also quite high.No matter how I look at it, I don't think Xiaoqian is like a master who lives in Xiangshan Road. Of course, if she has a boyfriend who lives in Xiangshan Road, that's another matter.But I vaguely remember in the Black Cat Lounge, didn't I hear her yelling at some "slut" who abandoned her without saying goodbye?Is she going to find that bitch again in the middle of the night? At this time, however, it is best for me to remain silent.Sprinkling salt on my cousin's wounds, it's a trivial matter to make her suffer, but if she gets angry and hits my head with her fist, it will be terrible.I have experienced many such things since she was a child. Thinking of this, I can't help but think of this time last year, Xiaoqian also lost her love once, and her boyfriend left without saying goodbye, and suddenly evaporated like a drop of water in the desert.I still remember that I met that man in the inpatient ward of the hospital. At that time Xiaoqian was the doctor in charge of the man. The two fell in love at first sight, and they fell in love at first sight. Before the man disappeared, he showed no signs.A week before his disappearance, he took Xiaoqian to meet the leader of his unit—he told Xiaoqian that he was working in a certain private financial institution, but Xiaoqian found out afterwards that this so-called private financial institution was actually a A black company engaged in loan sharking and non-legal financing business, and when the man disappeared, he also took away a large amount of black money entrusted to the company for money laundering. .If I hadn't reported the case in time, I'm afraid the consequences would be unimaginable. And tonight Xiaoqian once again mentioned "Leave Without Saying Goodbye" in the Black Cat Lounge. What's the situation this time? While I was wondering, the taxi had already stopped in front of an old two-story apartment on Xiangshan Road. After getting out of the car, the night wind was so strong that I couldn't help shivering. However, I remained silent, shrinking my shoulders and saying nothing. Finally, Xiaoqian couldn't help it anymore. She yelled at me: "Why didn't you ask me why I came to Xiangshan Road? Why didn't you ask me if I was dumped by someone again this time?" I had no choice but to stroke the hair on the back of my shoulders, and replied with a smile: "I want to ask, but if you don't want to say, it's useless for me to ask. And I also know that if you want to say, even if I don't ask, you Will tell me too." Xiaoqian was completely speechless with this soft move, she let out a long breath, looked at me with a very haggard and pitiful look, and then said quietly: "Well, let me tell you, this time I am in the supervisor's office again. I met a man in my ward, and it was love at first sight, but, just like the man last time, Xue Junwei also disappeared without any warning." Oh, this time the man's name is Xue Junwei, the name sounds pretty good. The reason why Xiaoqian fell in love with that man, according to her, was because from the bottom of her heart, she felt that Xue Junwei was too similar to her ex-boyfriend, not in appearance, but in conversation and temperament. The last man, except for absconding with the money and leaving without saying goodbye, he can be regarded as a standard lover in other places.Has a sunny smile, good sense of humor, thoughtful generosity, smart and sweet, occasionally naughty side, long eye contact, fiery enthusiasm with girlfriends, decent suits...and, in good shape . Today, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, when Xiaoqian met Xue Junwei in the ward, she had just chatted a few words casually, and found that she had found the feeling of being with the last man, as if going back in time, she fell into and often can't tell whether the man in front of her is Xue Junwei or the man who abandoned her last time.Perhaps, she just regarded Xue Junwei as a substitute for the last man, but in the end, she couldn't extricate herself. It wasn't until a week ago that Xue Junwei suddenly disappeared from the world that Xiaoqian finally realized clearly that she had indeed reached the same goal by different routes, and found the same cheap man as the last man again. Xue Junwei lives in the old two-story building next to Xiangshan Road that we can see now. He rented it. As far as I know, judging from the market situation of Xiangshan Road, the rent will definitely not be low. After Xue Junwei disappeared, Xiaoqian once asked the landlord, and the landlord said that the rent was paid in one lump sum for one year.After learning of Xue Junwei's disappearance, the landlord muttered depressingly: "God knows whether Mr. Xue will still rent in the future! It's hard to find someone as generous as him who is willing to pay the rent for a year at a time!" When we talked about this, Xiaoqian and I had already walked in front of this small two-story building.This building is very old. Judging from the color of the exterior wall and the architectural style of the old building, it should have been built in the 1920s.Although the small building is built in an antique style, and there are several evergreen evergreen plants in front of the door, which are lush and lush, but the anti-theft door at the gate on the first floor and the anti-theft nets outside the windows are more or less nondescript. Xiaoqian glanced at the anti-theft door on the first floor, took out the key, opened the door and entered the house.The light was turned on at the entrance, and the room was bright. Xiaoqian carefully took off her high-heeled shoes and put them in the shoe cabinet by the door. She supervised me to change into a pair of slippers, and then led me into the building. In the old building, the first floor is the kitchen, dining room and living room.The floor is covered with dark laminate flooring, and the table and coffee table are imitation mahogany furniture full of retro taste.Opposite the coffee table is an old-fashioned rear-projection large color TV, and under the color TV is a pile of neatly arranged DVDs.I picked up a few discs at random, and they were basically tasteful foreign art films. Seeing me pay attention to the discs collected by Xue Junwei, Xiaoqian couldn't help but "hummed" and said: "These discs are all deliberately placed under the TV in order to pretend to be tasteful. The discs he really likes are all in the In the bottom drawer of the TV cabinet." After I opened the bottom drawer of the TV cabinet, I immediately saw hundreds of DVDs of horror movies with weird and bloody covers. Violent B-level chapter "The Mountain Has Eyes" series. Ha, I found a good friend, I immediately called out: "I like watching horror movies, this is called tasteful!" For this sentence, the cousin also deeply agrees.I know that she is also an out-and-out fan of horror movies - as a doctor, naturally she will not faint - she especially likes serial murder movies in Europe and America. So hit it off.It's a pity that she didn't introduce me to Xue Junwei earlier, otherwise we would have been able to chat about our favorite movies. I walked into the kitchen to have a look, and opened the refrigerator door. Inside were a few half-cut grilled red sausages, a handful of wilted shallots, a few boxes of milk that had passed the expiration date, and a few tomatoes with white hairs. The freezer contained a lot of dark red meat of unknown origin.After a closer look, most of them are pig heart, beef liver, lamb lung, chicken gizzard and other offal food, and a thin layer of ice and hoarfrost have been covered on it.These things are also my great love, so I said to my cousin with a hippie smile: "Anyway, your ex-boyfriend has evaporated, so it's okay if I take all the meat from the refrigerator? Now I am advocating building savings." Type society, putting an end to it is definitely a virtue.” Unexpectedly, Xiaoqian's eyes widened, and she shouted sharply: "No! I have to keep the room as it is, as if he has been here all the time! Maybe he will come back one day! He must not be seen Something is missing in the house!" "Tch—" I replied heartlessly, "Maybe he came back a long time ago, secretly took away the valuables, and left a pile of uneaten meat in the refrigerator, and you are not allowed to eat it." I picked up the meat..." "Impossible!" Xiaoqian yelled, "It is absolutely impossible for him to sneak back!" "how do you know?" "Because—because every time I leave, I will stick a toothpick on the hinge of the security door at the entrance on the first floor. As long as the door is opened, the toothpick will break. I checked when I entered the door just now, and the toothpick is not broken. .” I was taken aback. The disappearance of her boyfriend actually tortured my cousin so much that she started to lean towards the FBI.It's no wonder that when she entered the door just now, Xiaoqian glanced at the anti-theft door before she took out the key and opened the door. In addition, Xiaoqian also told me that in addition to the keys at the gate, she also sprinkled a thin layer of white ash on the corner of the stairs leading from the ground floor to the upper floor, and wrapped it on the door handles and drawer handles of each room on the second floor. Added a few strands of hair. Xiaoqian and I went upstairs and checked again. There were no footprints on the white ash, and no hair was broken. Sure enough, there was no sign of others breaking in. Xiaoqian sighed in disappointment, and said: "Judging from the signs in the house, Xue Junwei should have disappeared suddenly, and his most expensive suit worth 12,000 is still hanging in the closet. If he had premeditated If you are going to leave me, you will definitely take this suit with you." "That's not necessarily true. If he abandons you because he met a rich woman, he doesn't have to care about such a suit that costs more than 10,000 yuan. The rich woman will buy him more expensive ones." I endured Can't help hitting. My cousin stared at me with contempt and said seriously, "Impossible! He's not that kind of person!" "So what do you think happened? Why did he disappear and evaporate?" I asked. Xiaoqian's eyes dimmed quietly.Said quietly: "I think, he must have been killed by someone!" Xiaoqian's argument was simple. All valuables in the old building were not taken away, and clothes and toiletries were also put in place. After checking Xue Junwei's stock and bank accounts, there was no shortage of funds. Xue Junwei should have disappeared suddenly without any premeditation. However, Xue Junwei did not work.He makes a living by trading in stocks.His investment mind is quite good. Xiaoqian once followed his advice to buy a few stocks, and all of them made several daily limit.But also because of this, after Xue Junwei disappeared, Xiaoqian couldn't find his work unit, and couldn't ask him if he encountered any work problems before his disappearance. It's really unfortunate for Xiaoqian. At this time last year, her boyfriend who worked in a loan shark company disappeared because he absconded with money.This time this year, her current boyfriend also disappeared.Does this annual disappearance show that she is an "attractor for missing men"? The cousin also reported to the police, but no one was alive or dead, and the one who called the police was only a girlfriend who was suspected of being abandoned, so the police didn't seem to put this matter in a very important position.The police knew that Xue Junwei might have traveled there on a temporary basis, or he might have left home to break up with his girlfriend, and he might come back someday, so it's not worth wasting police force to find him. Of course, then again, if a body that may be Xue Junwei's identity is found, I believe the police will still devote themselves to search and solve it. However, if an acquaintance who is a police investigator suddenly disappears.Even if there is no evidence that a crime is involved, the police will definitely search for it. As the saying goes, "There are people in the DPRK who are easy to handle."I know that a real estate tycoon disappeared mysteriously some time ago. The police were as busy as a whip whipping a spinning top for that case. Even where I lived, some policemen came to my door to ask if they had seen any suspicious people. The police must have endured it. A lot of pressure comes from the real estate rich family. Seeing the pitiful appearance of my cousin Lihua still wet with rain and tears, I tried to help her, so I immediately searched in my mind whether there were any acquaintances in the police station.But after all, I was in the business of planning, so it was difficult to interact with police investigators. After thinking for a long time, I finally thought of a person. That guy's name is Zhou Yuanyi, and he seems to be the deputy captain of the Xichuan City Armed Police Brigade. He has a very angular face, is full of muscles, and speaks extremely calmly.I met him in the hospital.When I went to the hospital last month to check the lump under the skin on the inner side of my arm, I stayed in the double ward of the inpatient department for two nights. The patient who collapsed and lived in the same ward was precisely this armed policeman named Zhou Yuanyi. It seems that Zhou Yuanyi didn’t suffer from some serious illness when he was hospitalized. I don’t know exactly what happened. Anyway, we had a good chat in the ward at that time. He told me a lot of inside information about the police’s handling of the case, which made me gain a lot. .Before leaving, he gave me a business card. What I have to do now is to go home quickly, find out that business card, call Zhou Yuanyi, and ask him to say hello and take care of Xue Junwei's missing file. I immediately dragged my cousin Xiaoqian out of this two-story old building, and hailed a passing taxi on Xiangshan Road, driving towards my house. Twenty minutes later, we arrived at my home in the west of the city. I live with my parents, and it was close to midnight when I got home. Usually, my parents have already gone to bed at this time, but it may be because when I was looking for Zhou Yuanyi’s business card in the drawer in the study, my cousin urged me too loudly. My mother Immediately came out of the bedroom - this was the first time she heard a young woman's voice coming from my study.They have been looking forward to grandchildren for many years, but unfortunately I have remained single, which makes them very disappointed. Needless to say, my mother was disappointed when she found out that the person with the young female voice was my cousin Xiaoqian. The old man threw me an express mail envelope with a gloomy face, and said angrily: "It was delivered this afternoon, and I signed for it for you. You are such an old man, you are in your thirties, you should think about yourself." Let your cousin introduce someone to you! There must be a shortage of young nurses in their hospital! I heard that the nurses in their hospital are all wearing pink nurse uniforms, so pretty!" "Come on, all the young nurses in their hospital like surgeons. Those who use the knife will get bonuses and red envelopes, and the job is guaranteed. How can I be a freelancer like me?" I took the express delivery Envelope, before my mother got mad, she quickly closed the door of the study. "Stop talking nonsense! Find your business card!" My mother didn't get mad, but my cousin got mad first. Fortunately, a few seconds later, I found Officer Zhou's business card in the drawer, then took out my mobile phone and dialed the mobile phone number printed on the business card. "It's already midnight, let's call tomorrow." Xiaoqian said worriedly. "It's okay. When Police Officer Zhou and I lived in the same ward, he became energetic at night, and couldn't sleep at all before two o'clock every night. He said it was an occupational disease caused by long-term work in the middle of the night. He said that he My mobile phone is not turned off 24 hours a day, so I should be in good spirits now." While I was talking, the phone connected. The call effect on the other side of the phone seems to be very poor, full of squeaking electric noise, Zhou Yuanyi's slightly magnetic voice seems to be floating from outer space, vague, lacking most of the realism, it sounds ethereal Incomparable. I announced my name aloud, but I don't know if the other end of the phone could hear what I said under the interference of the sound of electricity.I was about to ask to find Xue Junwei, but the call was cut off suddenly. I hurriedly dialed again, but heard an indifferent female voice from the receiver: "Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please dial later." Zhou Yuanyi's mobile phone signal is so weak, I guess he should be performing official duties in a very remote place at the moment.Recently, there was a shopping mall robbery in Xichuan City. The gangsters did not wear masks or gloves, and stole gold, silver, iron and diamonds worth more than 10 million yuan, which turned the entire Xichuan City upside down. After finishing the case, he disappeared without a trace and never appeared again.The police were overwhelmed by this case and the disappearance of a real estate tycoon that happened before. Zhou Yuanyi, as the deputy captain of the criminal police brigade, must not have a good life. Thinking of the disappearance of the gangster who robbed the shopping mall, I couldn't help thinking of Xue Junwei who was also missing, and I couldn't help but "click" in my heart. Forget it, let's call Zhou Yuanyi after dawn tomorrow. Putting this matter aside for a moment, I arranged for my cousin to live in my bedroom, and then I carried a quilt back to the study and opened the simple sofa bed. At this time, I saw the express mail that I threw on the desk more than ten minutes ago.Heh, I almost forgot about this express delivery, maybe there is some new business. As soon as the envelope was opened, a thin card floated out of the envelope and landed on the wooden floor. Looking down, it was a bank card. Who will send me the bank card?What's the use if I don't know the password? I looked inside the envelope again, and there was a piece of A4 printing paper with words written on it. Master Lan Ruohai: Hi. Please forgive me for taking the liberty to write. I have long heard of the master's reputation in the field of commercial marketing planning, and I am eager to have the opportunity to cooperate with the master to participate in the grand event. I am planning to start a commercial investment project in the suburbs of Xichuan City, but I am unable to find a suitable market selling point. I hope that everyone can take the time to come and give us your advice. Attached is a bank card with a meager reward.The mobile phone number attached to the letter will not be turned off for 24 hours.If the master has free time and wants to give advice, please send a text message to this number, and I will reply the bank card password immediately. Looking forward to hearing back. The ancients said that if you have money but don't make money, you will be punished by God. Anyway, the previous intermediary work has come to an end, and I have plenty of free time, so I immediately picked up my phone and sent a text message to the phone number left in the letter, and within a minute, I received a reply. Six Arabic numerals, the password of the bank card. There is an ATM teller machine downstairs. I changed my shoes and went downstairs, inserted my bank card, and entered the password I just received. After reading the machine briefly, a number appeared on the LCD screen: 20000.00 yuan. As soon as I took out my bank card in a happy mood, the mobile phone in my trouser pocket rang loudly. When I took out the mobile phone, the caller ID showed that it was the mobile phone number I just sent to confirm the text message. After connecting, I heard a nice young woman's crisp voice: "Is this Master Lan Ruohai? I'm so happy to have the opportunity to work with you. Hello master, my name is Du Yumei."