Chapter 30 100th night kidnapping

Today I received an unexpected call for help from an old friend of my father who almost watched me grow up. His son also went to the same kindergarten and elementary school as me, but I really don’t like it. This guy, since he failed the college entrance examination, he has never done anything reliable, except for asking his family for money and tossing around under the guise of doing business, so much so that he almost cheated his father's pension Light.I have persuaded him more than once, but who knows that guy actually threatened me viciously to stop meddling in my own business.Whenever my father mentioned this friend, he always sighed.

I wasn't very surprised when I got a call from this uncle because it wasn't the first time.Although the poor father asked the newspaper many times to break away from the father-son relationship, it was just talk after all, so I asked lazily, but my uncle's tone was very flustered. "Huang Xi disappeared. It's been several days. I searched many places, and his friends also said that they haven't seen him for several days. I'm really worried. I don't know if I can post a missing person notice." The poor five People in their teens actually came to ask me in a begging tone, which made me very uncomfortable.I comforted my uncle and decided to visit his house after get off work.Of course, this is what my father often told me. If Uncle Huang asks for something, he must not refuse. After all, when he worked with my father before, he took good care of him.

I've been to Huang's house many times, so the road is naturally very familiar. Along the way, I thought, where did this kid fool around.But he didn't have any source of income. Even if he wasn't afraid to scare his father, he should at least go home to ask for some living expenses. With the speed at which he spent money, he definitely wouldn't go out for more than two days without going home. Speaking of Huang Xi, my uncle has to take some responsibility for falling into today's field.Huang Xi lost his mother since he was a child, and his uncle regarded him as the apple of his eye, so he almost raised his son as a father.Moreover, my uncle has never remarried, which is also very strange. According to him, he was afraid that he would find a stepmother to make Huang Xi suffer.Uncle's salary was not abundant, and Huang Xi's grandmother was sick in bed at the time, and the factory was not profitable for a while. In the most difficult days, even if he was hungry and carried materials in the pharmaceutical factory, uncle had to ensure that Huang Xi was full.His father once wanted to help him, but he was rejected. He has been taking care of his father all this time - he has advanced the factory a year ahead of his father, and has always regarded himself as the big brother.Later, my uncle said that Huang Xi's grandmother found him a relatively easy part-time job, and that's how he survived those days.

When I came to Huang's house, I saw my uncle sitting alone on the yellowed second-hand sofa watching TV. In fact, he didn't care about entertainment at all. He kept pressing the remote control, and the TV screen kept flashing, as if someone was Like blinking. Briefly explaining the purpose of my visit, my uncle was a little relieved when he saw me, but he was not very worried. He said that Huang Xi was very excited the day before his disappearance.He wanted to ask his son, but was pushed back roughly.And early the next morning, Huang Xi got up early uncharacteristically, and left a note to the effect that he would get a lot of money soon and end the hard life of the father and son.But after the note was left, Huang Xi had been missing for six days.

There are indeed some abnormalities.I asked my uncle to take me to Huang Xi's room. There was nothing in it except some martial arts novels, song discs and messy clothes.Just when I felt helpless, the phone at my uncle's house suddenly rang. When my uncle picked up the phone, his demeanor suddenly changed. His hand holding the phone was trembling, and he even started to stutter.Seeing that he was about 1.8 meters tall and curled up, I felt that something was wrong. Sure enough, my uncle put down the phone and told me that Huang Xi had been kidnapped. This is simply a joke. Someone actually kidnapped this kid. He is neither a famous star, nor the son of a rich man, nor an important government official. Could it be that the person who kidnapped him is the most stupid robber in the world?When I couldn't help but laugh, I suddenly remembered that Huang Xi said that he was going to get rich. He has always been outspoken and bragging. Maybe he didn't mean to hear what he said, and someone really kidnapped him to ask for a ransom. .

So I asked about the detailed requirements of the kidnappers, but my uncle raised his head and whispered that the kidnappers wanted five hundred yuan. Five hundred yuan?I almost doubted my ears, and my first reaction was that this was a prank by Huang Xi himself.Maybe this guy's so-called money-making plan has come to naught, or maybe he was cheated by someone, and he is too embarrassed to come back, or maybe he is too full of bullshit, so he had to make a kidnapping case that he directed and acted on himself.Yes, it must be so, there are too many examples of this. I just wanted to expose his poor farce, but I stopped when I got to my mouth.Maybe I just pretended not to know, to make my uncle feel better, because sometimes a lie is more comforting than the truth.

"Besides, he also explained that he must have the old version of RMB, ten yuan a piece." The uncle looked even more frightened, he raised his eyelids to look at me, but quickly pressed down like a child who has made a mistake.He sat hunched over on Huang Xi's bed not far from me, with his hands on his knees in a daze. Looking from above, his head was covered with white hair, much more than my father's. I vaguely remember that today is Father's Day. "Then hurry up and look for it. Although this kind of money is a little less, it should be enough." I comforted my uncle, but he didn't seem to hear.Although he was flustered at the beginning, he calmed down now, as if something had been decided.

"Then did the kidnapper say where to pay the ransom?" I thought it was weird, how could there be such a small ransom of five hundred. My uncle told me that it is not far from the outskirts of the city.I know that place, the factory where my uncle and father used to work was Zhuoyue. Later, for some unknown reason, my uncle insisted on leaving that factory, and actually got two quotas, so he and my father came to the factory where the benefits were not bad at that time. The pharmaceutical factory has been retired until now. "I'm too familiar with that place, Ouyang, you don't have to go, and don't call the police. It's all about losing money and avoiding disaster. My old man can go alone." He rejected my request to go together.Perhaps, he is not confused and has already seen through his son's deception. After all, knowing a son is like a father. He definitely knows Huang Xi better than me. Why should I go with him again and let him make a fool of himself in front of me, an outsider?So I agreed, and only begged him to call me as soon as the matter was resolved, to see if there was anything he could do to help.Uncle was silent for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

After leaving Huang's house, I looked around for the old version of ten yuan notes. It was indeed not easy to deal with, but I still managed to get some of them together. Why did Huang Xi want to do this, and insist on asking for the old version of ten yuan a piece?This makes me wonder, maybe he just wanted to divert the target? When I returned to the newspaper office, I immediately called my uncle’s house, but there was no one at home. Maybe he had already gone to that place. I was somewhat uneasy, so I asked for half a day’s leave in the name of going outside for an interview, and took a car to the old factory on the outskirts of the city. .

The weather is a bit sweltering, and it hasn't rained for more than half a month. The whole city is like a closed can. The roads that haven't eaten rainwater for a long time have become a little violent. In addition, the roads in the outskirts of the city are already very dilapidated. I almost threw up. Finally arrived at the destination, only to find that the place was so dilapidated. At any rate, it used to be a large factory with thousands of people, plus the surrounding staff dormitories, which used to be a lively place full of people, but now you can't even see a wild dog. It really is the best place to complete the kidnapping transaction here.

Looking around, it seems that my uncle has not arrived yet. He has been diligent and thrifty all his life. If he can walk, he will never ride a bicycle. If he can ride a bicycle, he will definitely not waste money on taking the bus. So I want to find that kid Huang Xi quickly before he arrives. Don't let his father suffer anymore. Although I have stayed here for a few years, that was when I was a child.However, relying on the remaining impressions, I slowly groped in. There were two long and almost untenable seals on the blue gate covered with red rust. I went around and found a broken barbed wire. hole, drilled in. The factory is very large, and it is nearly 80 meters straight from the gate to the workshop.I walked forward along the path of the broken but heavy mold in the workshop covered with piles of weeds. While walking, I shouted Huang Xi's name, and my voice echoed throughout the huge workshop.The sky is getting more gloomy, as if it will fall at any time, and I can smell the smell of rain. I don’t know how long I’ve been walking, but I actually heard a faint cry for help, which made me extremely happy, and then the second sound, I hurried towards the source of the sound, and found it in a small warehouse where semi-finished products were originally stored. Huang Xi. He was too thin to be human.What makes me wonder is that he was not beaten or tied up, the warehouse door was not locked, why didn't he escape?When Huang Xi saw me, he didn't express much expression, just nodded and tried to support his body. The blue T-shirt on his body had been rubbed like pickles, his face was blue, his lips were frighteningly purple, and his eyes were dark. With thick dark circles under his eyes, his whole body was leaning against the wall covered with moss and black mildew. When he got closer, he could smell the strong sour smell on his body.I wanted to take him out, and handed him a bottle of water that I brought with me, but Huang Xi shook his head, stretched out his dirty right index finger and middle finger and made a V sign. I understood that he was asking me for cigarettes. . After smoking half a stick, he slowly came back to his senses. "You shouldn't have come." This was the first sentence that came out of his throat bitterly. Instead of being grateful, his eyes seemed to be blaming me for meddling in my own business. "You think I want to come? Your father is going crazy, and now he is rushing here!" I stood up and said angrily. Huang Xi's complexion changed immediately, half of the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground, and his entire face was deformed in horror.I don't know where the strength came from, but he actually grabbed my hands. "What did you say? Is he coming here?" Then, holding his head, he muttered to himself, "Forget it, it's all destined." Looking at his haggard appearance, I was a little worried that he was dehydrated, so I passed the water in my hand, but he didn't seem to see it, and didn't want to drink at all. "Do you know what happened in the past six days?" Huang Xi's words made me very curious, but I didn't ask him, I was waiting for him to say it himself. Huang Xi said expressionlessly what happened to him in the past six days. (The following is Huang Xi's tone.) Maybe my dad told you, six days ago I said I was going to get rich.Indeed, I really thought I was going to get rich at the time, because I decided to do something that could make me rich. Rich people often have dirty hands, and I plan to do it this time, and then use this capital to do legitimate business.Well, didn't the teacher often say that the primitive accumulation of capitalism is full of blood and sweat from every pore. As you may have guessed, I plan to kidnap a child for a sum of money, and I have been looking for it for a long time.You know that there is a high-end elementary school in front of my house, and the children in it are either rich or expensive. Of course, most of the parents of children nowadays will pick them up. It is not easy to tie up a child, but there is always a chance.I stayed in that school for almost half a month, and finally found that there was a kid from a rich family who went home by himself for a few days every month, and there was a very secluded place on his way home. So that day I lay in ambush by the side of the road.I also made a mask, which looked like a Beijing opera mask. After all, I couldn't recognize the face, so I still have room for maneuver.And I also prepared food and a place to hide the child—it was the factory area where the two of us lived before, and the warehouse of the factory was said to be haunted. If we hide the child there, no one will find it. Do you think I am smart?Hahaha! I don't know how long I waited, maybe there was some activity in the elementary school that day, I actually fell asleep, and when I woke up suddenly, I didn't see him coming after dark, I wanted to give up.Just as I was about to leave, I saw a small shadow with a schoolbag in the dark. Without saying a word, I rushed over and wrapped him in a sack, and then threatened him in a low voice not to cry. In fact, at that time and place, even if he shouted Wake up, I am not afraid, the people living there are all timid and timid masters, who would meddle in other people's affairs? The strange thing is that the child didn't cry or make trouble. I was wondering, but I was also happy that things went so smoothly. So I drove a second-hand car I borrowed from my buddy and came to this abandoned factory. When I stopped and dumped the sack containing the children into the warehouse that had been vacated beforehand, I felt vaguely that something was wrong. There seems to be something wrong with the kid, yes, he is so light that I can't feel his weight. (When Huang Xi said this, he made another gesture asking me for a cigarette, so I had no choice but to give him another one. After a while of puffing, his face slowly became blurred in the thin smoke, only his voice still clear.) At that time, I was obsessed with money, so I couldn't manage so much.I know that child's family is very rich, so I don't want too much, only 200,000.Kidnapping is like this, you can't open your mouth like a lion, the demand is not much, people can afford it, and they won't rush to call the police.But when I called the family, the host had a disdainful tone. "Two hundred thousand? Do you want to give you Ming coins? My son stayed by my side, and you actually said you kidnapped him? Are you poor and crazy?" Then, he hung up the phone, and I was in a daze. At that time, I put the sack in the corner behind me and turned my back on the phone, but now I am a little puzzled. Could it be that I tied the wrong person?So I rushed over immediately and opened the bag. Sure enough, I made a mistake, it wasn't that child at all, and the clothes this kid was wearing were very rustic, which simply didn't fit in with the current trend of children, but he was very fair, so white that it was a bit dazzling. Who cares, it's wrong to make mistakes, children nowadays are the darlings of their parents, if they don't have two hundred thousand, if they want seventy or eighty thousand, they will always have it.So I grabbed the kid by the shoulders and asked loudly who his parents were and what their phone number was. I thought he would be scared to cry, but he was very calm, and even reported his father's phone number and work with a smile. It turned out that his father was the workshop director of the factory, and it seems that there will be a lot of money.I feel that the money is at hand. People like this are mostly bullying. Your dad and my dad are both workers. They know what kind of section chiefs, directors, etc. They are very hard to deal with the people below, and something really happened. , but like a headless chicken.I was so happy that I quickly dialed the phone. But I couldn't get through the phone for a long time, and finally answered, but it was the voice of an old woman. I thought it was the child's grandmother or grandma, so I said viciously that I had kidnapped her sweetheart, and told me to get 100,000. redemption. Who knew that the person over there seemed to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease, kept asking what grandson what grandson, and then hung up the phone with a snap.I was a little anxious, thinking that I would pretend to be confused if I didn't give something serious, so I put down the phone and walked in front of the child. "It's because your family members don't care about you very much. If your uncle wants to cut off a finger from you, be good, it won't hurt at all." This is also what I learned from movies and books.Some people thought it was fraud and extortion, so they didn't believe it. Of course, as a kidnapper, you should give them some certificates to show that your relatives are in my hands.When I came, I tied the child tightly to the heating pipe, you see, it is the one behind you. (Huang Xi pointed behind me. I turned around and saw that there was indeed a black heating pipe with the thickness of a bowl. It was originally used by the guards to keep warm and boil water when they stayed up late. The pipe was indeed scattered with some rope, but where did the kid go?) I also prepared medicines and bandages in advance, and also learned emergency dressing, but the child was not scared at all, just smiled at me. "Uncle, take it easy, I'm afraid of pain." He whispered.My heart was a little confused, and the hand holding the knife trembled a little. I secretly scolded myself for being worthless, and I have to be ruthless when I do big things. So I walked around behind the child, so as not to look at his dark eyes without any city, and I couldn't do anything. My knife began to cut towards his little finger, which was as thin and white as an onion. It felt very strange, as if what I cut was not a human finger, but a piece of white candle. Without much effort, I cut it off. His blood flowed very slowly, like the slow motion in the video, very thick.I immediately wrapped it up for him. Although it was a bit messy, the bleeding from my fingers stopped immediately. "It doesn't hurt, does it? Uncle didn't lie, did he?" I sat down pretending to be relaxed and smiled at him, and he smiled too, saying it didn't hurt, and Uncle didn't lie. So I scared him not to try to run out, there are wild dogs and wolves around here.Then I took the amputated finger and walked out, intending to find a box to wrap it up and throw it at the child's door, with a threatening letter attached. But when I walked to the iron gate of the warehouse, the moonlight shone directly on my hands, and I felt a little uncomfortable. What I held in my hands seemed to be another kind of rough thing. I spread out my palm, and what I saw was a severed bone, a completely corrupted black and blue broken little finger bone. I was taken aback and threw it away like an electric shock.I panicked all of a sudden, there was something wrong with that child, I remembered that no other children walked that road, so I thought of this, so I simply wanted to leave. But when I was about to escape, a familiar voice came from behind me. "Uncle, where are you going? I'm afraid." I was terrified, and ran out quickly, but after running for a long time, I tripped over something, hit my head against something hard, and passed out. When I woke up, I found that I was still in this warehouse, and I was tied to the same black heating pipe that had tied the child.But that weird kid stood straight in front of me. "Uncle, why are you running? Don't leave me here alone. Uncle, I'm scared, I'm scared." He yelled, rubbing his head into my arms, and I could clearly smell his body The rancid smell, my head was struggling desperately, but he hugged me tighter and tighter with both hands, almost making me breathless. Ridiculous?I thought about kidnapping others, but I was kidnapped. No, how can that guy be called a human?Then I kept trying to escape, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't escape. In the end, I would return to this warehouse.The child said that there was only him and me in the warehouse, and as long as I left, he would be afraid of being alone, so if no one else came, I would be locked up here forever. Fortunately, I brought some food and water when I came, so I didn't starve to death, but it will be a few days.I'm really going to be a mummy here. After finishing speaking, Huang Xi laughed rather self-deprecatingly.His laughter echoed in the empty warehouse. However, I did not see the child he mentioned. "What about the child? Since you are not tied up, why don't you go back?" I questioned him. "I've just been relieved. I don't have any strength in my body. How do you tell me to go home? And he took my mobile phone away. I guess he used that mobile phone to call my old man. I didn't expect you to go home first." Here you are, you are really unlucky." Huang Xi's words made me puzzled. "Didn't you ask me where that child is? Why don't you look up?" He suddenly laughed loudly, and the features on his face were distorted exaggeratedly. "Thanks to you, thanks to you! I can go! You idiot, no matter if it's you or the old man, as long as anyone steps into this warehouse, I can leave! Hahahaha!" Huang Xi jumped up suddenly, not like It looked so weak just now. I raised my head subconsciously, and there was a triangular support on the top of the warehouse, and there seemed to be a mass of black things lying on it. The thing started to become blurred and bigger, no, I suddenly realized that it wasn't the thing that was blurry, but my glasses. A pair of dirty little hands pressed against my lenses, and I could vaguely see that one of them lacked a little finger. A faint but clear voice came from my ear: "Uncle, don't go, I'm afraid, stay with me, Uncle." "Haha, take your time here and stay with this kid. I can run away quickly. Let me tell you, this kid told me to call. He said that as long as the old man comes, I will be free. Why don't I ask for ten yuan?" I'm really worried that he won't be able to collect the money!" Huang Xi was still smiling strangely, and he opened the iron door of the warehouse to escape. But I just stood still and couldn't move because my feet had no feeling.The child slowly crawled over my neck, and there was a chill on my neck, as if a snake slowly crawled over my back. Here, the warehouse door suddenly opened with a bang, but Huang Xi didn't go out, and his smile seemed to freeze instead. He began to back away slowly. Another person came in through the door. It's Uncle Huang.His face was heavy, and he held an envelope in his hand. He looked at his son, his mouth trembling slightly, as if trying to restrain himself. "Dad, you're here! I'm scared to death. I promise you to be a good person in the future. Dad, take me away!" Huang Xi acted coquettishly, holding Uncle Huang's hand like a child. Feel sick. "Did you tie my son up and asked for five hundred yuan?" He ignored Huang Xi and walked straight to the thing. My neck suddenly loosened, and a child slowly turned behind me. The child's clothes were very plain or unfashionable. As Huang Xi said, they were too rustic, as if they were clothes from decades ago. The child stared blankly at Uncle Huang, then at the envelope, and yelled crisply, "Uncle, you're here." Uncle Huang replied as if expressionless: "Well, I'm here. Although I'm late, I'm still here." Huang Xi suddenly became irritable and shouted to go home, but Uncle Huang turned around abruptly and slapped him in the face with an ear scraper.Huang Xi was stunned by the beating, covering half of his face, unable to speak. Uncle Huang walked up to me and said in a low voice that he was sorry for implicating me and so on.Then he went and hugged the child, tears streaming down his face. "Uncle, I'm sorry, it's Uncle's fault." The child was a little dazed, but suddenly he opened his arms and hugged Uncle Huang's head. "Uncle, don't leave, will you stay with me?" As soon as the words fell, his hands began to strangle Uncle Huang's head tightly, and Uncle Huang's face began to turn iron blue. "Get out! Take... Huang Xi and go!" These were the last words he uttered. The child raised his big black eyes to look at us again, and shouted happily, "Uncle, don't go, stay with me." I had no choice but to drag Huang Xi, who was stunned, to escape from the warehouse.As soon as he left, the warehouse door was locked and could no longer be opened. Huang Xi was stunned, lying on the door of the warehouse.It was raining heavily outside, and the hot flashes in the air subsided a lot, but I felt more chest tightness, and my body felt cold for a while. A day later, Huang Xi and I brought the police to the warehouse and found Uncle Huang's body. His head was stuck firmly in the cracked wall, and even his skull was cracked.In order to get Uncle Huang's hand, the police pushed the wall away, only to find the corpse of a child who had rotted into a skeleton and was carrying an old schoolbag inside. The corpse had only nine fingers, and one little finger was missing. We later found out that Uncle Huang had left a long letter before he came that night. He said that because of his poor family, he had to treat his mother while raising Huang Xi. He was confused and kidnapped the director of the workshop. Son, I want to extort five hundred yuan to tide over the difficulties.At that time, five hundred was not a small number. Uncle Huang had always been respected in the factory. He always felt that borrowing money was a shameful thing. He also wanted to get the five hundred yuan and then slowly return it to the workshop director. Saw his face - the child knew Uncle Huang, and kept calling him Uncle.Uncle Huang had no choice but to strangle the child to death and seal the body in the wall of the warehouse. As a result, the guards of the warehouse often said that there were unclean things when they were on duty at night.The workshop director also fell to his death when Yu Yuzhong went to work because his son was not found, leaving only a half-crazed wife behind.Uncle Huang lived in self-blame all his life. He didn't dare to continue, because he was afraid that if he accidentally said something, if he was imprisoned, no one would take care of his mother and son, so he kept this matter a secret for two days. ten years. "If I put down my face at that time, what about your father, and borrowed some money from everyone, maybe this kind of tragedy would not have happened. Sometimes things are like this, and the seemingly simple addition and subtraction will also be wrong. "This is a sentence left by Uncle Huang. It turned out that when Uncle Huang received the call that day, he already knew the inside story of the so-called kidnapping. Huang Xi has been silent since that incident. He often avoided me later, saying that his mind was not clear in the warehouse that day, so he said so many dirty words, and hoped that I would forgive him.He also said he would work hard to make money.Later I heard that he found the home of the workshop director, accepted the poor half-crazy mother as his godmother, and began to take care of her daily life.Perhaps in this way, Uncle Huang's guilt can be slightly reduced.