Chapter 43 1. The corpse in the red raincoat

It has been five years since Zhang Dafu opened a small restaurant in the city, and he has never met such a strange guest. That night, there was only one table of guests in the small restaurant, and they were all workers on the nearby construction site.Zhang Dafu planned to close after sending them away.Just then, two strange people came in one after the other. The person walking in front was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, with dignified faces.The person walking behind was tall and tall, his face was bruised and purple, and he looked at the person walking in front with horror.Zhang Dafu was very strange—how could such a tall and strong man be beaten like this by the people in front?

After ordering, Zhang Dafu hid behind the counter, pretending to settle accounts, and observed them secretly.He is an honest man, abides by the law, pays taxes on time, and is timid and afraid of getting into trouble.He was afraid that these two people would cause trouble in his small restaurant.So, he quietly pressed the three numbers "110" on his mobile phone, and as soon as they made a move, he would immediately call the police. At the beginning, both of them were very reserved and didn't talk much.After a while, they started talking about something.The distance was a bit far, and Zhang Dafu couldn't hear the content of the conversation.

Suddenly, the two people spoke a lot louder, as if they were arguing.Zhang Dafu was nervous for a while.He thought: as soon as they make a move, he will immediately call the police... Strangely, after a few words of quarrel, the two stopped and looked straight at each other.After a while, they suddenly laughed, a strange laugh, like crying.Zhang Dafu felt that these two people did not seem to be fighting, but rather mentally ill. After a few minutes, they checked out and left.Then, a young man wearing a peaked cap walked in.He didn't eat or drink, and gave Zhang Dafu a hundred yuan when he entered the door.

Zhang Dafu stared at him blankly. "What did those two people say just now?" the young man in the peaked cap asked. Zhang Dafu said, "I didn't hear anything." The young man in the peaked cap took out another hundred dollars and handed it to him. "They seemed to be arguing, but they were too far away, and I couldn't hear what they were arguing clearly..." Zhang Dafu felt that his eyes were fierce, and he was frightened, and didn't know whether he should ask for his money. The young man in the peaked cap glared at him, dropped the money on the counter, and walked out.

Zhang Dafu was dumbfounded.That night, he didn't fall asleep. Similarly, Zhu Neng and Niu Tradition did not fall asleep that night— After coming out of the small restaurant, they came to Niu Tradition's house.Along the way, Zhu Neng always felt that someone was following them.He looked back, but saw nothing.He raised his vigilance and walked quickly.Niu Tradition trotted behind, his running appearance was extremely ugly. After arriving home, Niu Chuanli locked the door from the inside, then hurriedly took out a cigarette, made tea, and placed it in front of Zhu Neng. Then he sat down on the sofa with his hands on his knees, looking very restrained.

Zhu Neng looked around, and then said: "It was inconvenient to talk in the small restaurant just now, we didn't explain some things clearly, it was a bit messy... Let's start from the beginning, shall we?" Niu Chuantong nodded quickly. "Speaking from the beginning... By the way, why did you follow me?" After asking, Zhu Neng was a little hesitant seeing Niu Tradition, and said, "Let's not hide it, and tell us everything. I think there may be a relationship between us." Is there any misunderstanding..." "You didn't let me send raw meat to the zoo, so I went to jail, so I want to follow you, looking for a chance to get revenge...and break your bones." Niu Chuanzi said angrily.After saying that, his expression relaxed a lot.After lighting a cigarette, he told Zhu Neng exactly what happened to him these days.

After listening, Zhu Neng took a deep breath.After thinking about it, he also unreservedly told Niu Tradition about his experience. Then, both of them looked suddenly enlightened. "So it's like this... At first, I thought you were with them, and I was scared when I saw you." Zhu Neng said with a wry smile. Niu Chuantong immediately said: "Me too, I want to pee when I see you..." The two smiled wryly at the same time.Suddenly, Zhu Neng raised his head abruptly, and immediately lowered it again. There was a bang in his head, and his whole body seemed to be numb. "What's wrong?" Niu Chuanzhong was taken aback.

"I suddenly thought of one thing...you think I'm with them, I think you're with them, do they think I'm with you?" This passage seemed like a tongue twister, but Niu Chuanyuan obviously didn't understand it, and he looked at a loss. Zhu Neng said again: "Think about it—Sun Kong went to my house to scare me, and you knocked me down when he went out. Lao Yuan, looking for something in my house, you suddenly appeared, he was afraid, and fell from the stairs ,died……" "That's right! They'll think I'm helping you!" Niu Chuanyuan understood and couldn't help interrupting Zhu Neng's words.

Zhu Neng murmured, "I seem to understand a little bit..." "Understand what?" Zhu Neng sorted out his thoughts and said, "Let's guess—you think I'm with them, so you're afraid of me; I think you're with them, so you're afraid of you; do they think I'm with them? You are in a group, so you are afraid of you, or are you afraid of me? So they disappeared from me?" This passage was even more difficult to understand. Niu Chuanzhong scratched his head and thought for a long time before he said: "Sun Kong was hit by a brick, and Lao Yuan fell to his death from upstairs. They got scared, so they left...but , why did that Bai Jingjing come back?"

"Maybe it's because you don't give up." After thinking for a while, Zhu Neng said, "I suddenly remembered something. You said you saw a woman downstairs in my house after Lao Yuan died. Is she Bai Jingjing?" "I don't know what Bai Jingjing looks like." Zhu Neng was startled: "Have you never seen her?" "The first time, I was put into a box by them, and I didn't see anything; the second time I was in the cemetery, where the lights were dark, and I also didn't see anything; the third time I was at the train station, she was wearing a mask; the last time I When I saw her, her hair covered her face, and with her back to the light, it was dark..."

"Then tell me what the woman you saw downstairs in my house looked like." Zhu Neng couldn't help interrupting him. Niu Chuantong recalled for a while and said: "The hair is quite long, the face is very white, and... anyway, he looks really good-looking." He really couldn't describe it, so he said this. Zhu Neng rolled his eyes at him, said nothing, and looked preoccupied. After a while, Niu Chuanqi tentatively said, "Why don't you call the police? They are horrible people." After speaking, he rubbed the corners of his eyes.There was a bruise around the corner of his eye, which hurt when he closed it. Zhu Neng smiled bitterly: "If the police can't catch them for a while, you are not afraid that they will beat you again? Besides, what do you use to call the police? Do you have evidence of their crimes? What do you sue them? Sue them for intentional harm? The person who beat you has been arrested, and he will be detained for a few days at most, and he will come to you after he comes out..." Niu Chuantong was dumbfounded, and paused for a moment before saying, "Why don't you sue them for...fraud? Didn't they want to lie to you about Xuanzang's parietal relic?" "But they didn't succeed. Besides, I don't have any Xuanzang parietal bone relics at all." "That's right! Sue them for murder!" Niu Chuantong slapped his thigh and said, "Didn't you say that Sha Jing was killed in the Ruyi Hotel? They must have done it! Sue them for murder!" Zhu Neng sighed and said, "Murder? What about the corpse? Why would you accuse them of murder without a corpse?" Niu Chuanzhong scratched his head and thought hard for a while, then said, "How about... sue them for bluffing people?" Zhu Neng smiled wryly and said, "Scare people? Is it illegal to wear a red raincoat? Is it illegal to look like a monkey? Is it illegal to show up at a cemetery in the middle of the night? Is it illegal to speak Japanese? Is it illegal to fall from upstairs? By the way, maybe the police will Arrest you—it was you who frightened Lao Yuan and fell from the stairs." Niu Tradition was dumbfounded. Then, neither of them spoke.The atmosphere in the room became solemn, extremely quiet, only the quartz clock on the wall kept ringing—tick, tick, tick. Suddenly, Niu Chuanli stood up excitedly, frantically touching his body. "What are you doing?" Zhu Neng was taken aback. "Mobile phone! There is evidence on the phone!" Niu Chuanchuan was a little incoherent. Soon, he found the mobile phone in his jacket pocket, pressed it a few times trembling, and said with ecstasy: "Look! This is the evidence of their crime! With this, we can go to the police!" On the phone is the text message that the woman sent to Niu Traditional—the text message asking him to kill Zhu Neng. Zhu Neng was also very excited. He looked at the phone for a long time, and then said: "Tomorrow, let's find out who the owner of the number that sent you a text message is. She must be the mastermind." Niu Zhongtong was startled: "Didn't you say that the mastermind was Xu Lan?" Zhu Neng stared straight at Niu Chuanjian, and said with an erratic expression, "Maybe, maybe not...I don't know either." Niu Chuanyuan nodded and said, "I'll check it out tomorrow... By the way, how do I check it?" After a pause, Zhu Neng said, "Have you ever charged your phone bill?" "Of course it has been charged, what's wrong?" Zhu Neng said: "When you recharge your mobile phone, after telling the salesperson the mobile phone number, does she want to ask if the owner of the number is Niu Tradition?" "That's right, she's afraid that I've recharged the wrong number." Niu Chuanzhong suddenly understood, "You mean we'll recharge this number tomorrow?" Zhu Neng nodded slightly. After a while, Niu Zhongzhong said hesitantly: "You said... With these few text messages, will the police arrest her?" Zhu Neng sat quietly on the sofa, as if he was thinking about something, and after a long time he came back to his senses and said, "Maybe... You said, she asked you to kill me at first, but why didn't you kill me later? " Niu Chuanzhong shook his head with a dazed look on his face. "Why did she ask you to give Bai Jingjing a knife again? By the way, are you sure you didn't stab Bai Jingjing with a knife?" Niu Chuantong was anxious: "I really didn't stab her. I put the knife in her arms and ran away. I really didn't stab her." At the end of the speech, his voice was obviously crying. Zhu Neng gasped and said, "That means... Bai Jingjing stabbed herself? She stabbed herself just to cheat my trust?" Niu Chuanchuan shuddered. He never thought that there would be such a cruel woman who would stab himself with a knife.In his impression, women are very timid - they are afraid of mice, cockroaches, and the dark... "There's one thing I can't figure out..." Zhu Neng murmured. "What's up?" "That's what happened at the Ruyi Hotel that night. Who invited me there? Who was the person in the red raincoat who appeared outside the window? Who was the last person to enter the room?" Niu Zhongtong said dejectedly: "If you don't know, I don't even know. To be honest, I haven't figured out what's going on until now?" Zhu Neng ignored him, and said to himself: "Also, what happened that made them so anxious to ask me to find Xuanzang's parietal bone relic? One month... why are they so impatient?" "Are you saying that I should buy a second-hand car, or buy a new car in installments?" Niu Traditionally said irrelevantly. Zhu Neng froze for a moment and said, "Did you listen to me?" "Listen, listen." Niu Chuantong said while stretching. Zhu Neng coughed dryly and said, "Should I sleep with you tonight? Tomorrow morning, let's check the owner of that phone number..." "I'm going too?" Niu Chuanzhong was stunned for a moment and interrupted him. Zhu Neng was also stunned: "Of course you have to go, this is a matter between the two of us." Niu Zhongtong lowered his head and said softly, "They told me to stay away from you... Besides, they want your Xuanzang parietal bone relic, which has nothing to do with me." Zhu Neng's face was heavy, he didn't speak for a long time, and then he said in silence for a long time: "Why doesn't it have anything to do with you? Let's not say that you shot Sun Kong down and scared Lao Yuan to death, so I'll ask you a question—what do you think?" Don’t want to send raw meat to the zoo anymore?” "I want to! Of course I want to! Do you have a solution?" Niu Traditional's eyes were staring like a bull's eye. "This matter must have something to do with the zoo director. As long as we find evidence of their crimes, the director will have to step down, maybe go to jail, then I can go back to work at the zoo. At that time, you send raw meat Something..." At this point, Zhu Neng stopped, and smiled tacitly at Niu Chuanzhong. Niu Chuantong looked at him, and suddenly said: "Let's go early tomorrow! It's getting late, go to bed, and I'll make your bed for you. Do you wash your feet? Do you want hot water or warm water? Oh, by the way, you sleep in the bedroom, I sleep sofa……" That night, Zhu Neng tossed and turned and didn't fall asleep all night.He couldn't wait to know the result. The next day, they had breakfast and went out.After finding a mobile business office, Zhu Neng stopped suddenly and said to Niu Chuantong: "Go in by yourself, I'll watch from outside." "What's wrong?" Niu Chuantian asked. Zhu Neng looked around and said in a low voice: "I always feel that someone is following us..." Niu Chuanjian looked around, but found nothing. He was taken aback for a moment, and then walked into the business hall.A few minutes later, he came out, looking at Zhu Neng with a strange expression. "Did you find out?" Zhu Neng asked anxiously. Niu traditionally nodded with a dull expression. "who is it?" Niu Chuanzhong smiled and said strangely: "This person is very familiar with you..." Zhu Neng was anxious, and asked: "Who is it?" "It's you." "It's me?" Zhu Neng was stunned. After a pause, Niu Chuanli said slowly, "Yes, the mobile phone number that sent me text messages was purchased under your name. Do you think it's strange?" Zhu Neng gave him a blank look and said, "What they do is very strange." Niu Zhongtong lowered his head and said hesitantly, "There is one more thing I have to tell you..." "What's up?" "You have to give me a hundred dollars." Zhu Neng was stunned: "Why should I give you a hundred dollars?" Sighing, Niu Chuantong said: "Didn't you want me to find out who the owner of this mobile phone number is? Just now, I went in to charge the phone bill, and after telling the salesperson my mobile phone number, she asked if the owner of my number was Zhu Neng. She also asked me how much to recharge, but I was too embarrassed to say no, so I gave her a hundred dollars..." Zhu Neng couldn't help shouting: "You charged him a hundred yuan phone bill?" Niu Chuanzhong nodded and said, "You have to pay for this." Without saying anything, Zhu Neng took out one hundred yuan and handed it to Niu Chuanchuan.He is very strange - with such an IQ as Niu Tradition, he still learns from others to engage in conspiracy?Of course, he just thought about it in his heart, and didn't show it on his face. "What should we do now?" Niu's traditional expression made him even more mentally handicapped. "I'm going home first. If I don't go back for a long time, I'm afraid that Bai Jingjing will become suspicious." Zhu Neng thought for a while and said, "Why don't you go and find out for me first?" "Where are you going? What are you looking for?" Zhu Neng said: "Do you still remember the letters I told you about? Go check the address on the envelope first, maybe you can find some clues." Niu Chuanzhong asked, "Why don't you go?" Zhu Neng looked around, lowered his voice and said: "If I leave suddenly, they will definitely become suspicious. I have to attract their attention here, so that you will not be in danger when you go there." Niu Chuanguan immediately acted as if he had suddenly realized, pondered for a moment, and said hesitantly: "I can go, but the travel expenses, accommodation expenses... I have no money, and I have to save my money to buy a car." "I'll pay for travel expenses and accommodation." Zhu Neng said firmly. There was an ATM not far away. Zhu Neng went to withdraw some money and handed it to Niu Traditional. The two discussed the specific details of the operation, and then Zhu Neng went home. The TV was on, but Bai Jingjing was nowhere to be seen. Zhu Neng looked around in every room but couldn't find her.Could it be that she left quietly when she saw that things were revealed? Zhu Neng felt a sense of relief.After a while, he made himself a pot of tea, lit a cigarette, and sat down on the sofa.It's been a long time since I felt so relaxed, Zhu Neng stretched vigorously. There was a woman crying on TV. Zhu Neng glanced at it and was stunned.The scene on the TV was very familiar. After watching it carefully for a while, he found that it was Xitian Film and Television Resort.He couldn't help but widen his eyes.After watching it for a while, Zhu Neng discovered that it was a criminal investigation drama - there was a hotel waitress who was crying and telling the police about the shocking scene she had just seen.Next to it, a forensic doctor was investigating the scene. In the bathtub, lay a dead body, lying face down.What frightened Zhu Neng was that the body was wearing a red raincoat.At this time, the forensic doctor turned the body over, and Zhu Neng immediately froze. The corpse was the young man with the peaked cap and gauze on his head! At this time, the door of the room opened suddenly, and Bai Jingjing appeared in front of the door. She was holding a bag of white things in her hand, which looked like something's brain. "where have you been?" The two asked in unison.