Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

When I walked into the outer office, Bu Aiqian suggested that I approach her, and told me: Tang Nuo, Baisha is in a very bad mood. Good for her.I said: When the temperature rises, the toxins in the body can be forced out.Otherwise, I have to send her to the sauna. She is not in the sauna now, she is boiling in the fire. Have you been dealt with? Just looking at me fiercely, Tang Nuo, I'm a little afraid of her.She got two girls from the agency to try it out, but it was not ideal.The last time she wanted to hire someone, she was in a recession.There are too many people, and everyone is fighting for a small position.The opposite is true now.The people who come in have no real skills, but if they don't have a good salary, they don't bother to work.I've seen them work myself, it sucks.

I said: OK, what do I want to see her? Tang Nuo, if you go in now, I guarantee you will have a fight.Conflicting emotions agitated within her. I said: It doesn't matter.Sooner or later we should reorganize here. Tang Nuo, don't, you're doing it for me, aren't you? Not really, Baisha told you to always do the work of two people alone.And most of the ones she sends out for you to type are rubbish in my opinion. This is one of her original working methods.Elsie said: Baisha's theory is that clients come into our office. If they see me reading movie magazines, they must think that our detective agency is too busy and the business is not good, so they will have a bad impression.She made me type like hell whenever anyone came in.

I said: Times have changed a lot since she came up with this method.I passed the outer office and came to Baisha's private office. Betha sat behind her desk, her chin on her chest, breathing heavily, sulking silently.She saw me open the door and enter.She raised her head, a burst of red appeared on her face, she took a deep breath, wanted to say something, but stopped again. I walked over and sat in the client's chair. Betha remained sullen and did not speak for a full fifteen seconds.Suddenly, her chair creaked eight degrees higher, and she leaned forward and yelled at me: Who do you think you are?

I light a cigarette. I've had enough!I've had enough of you.But you're completely nuts right now.How old do you think you are? I puffed out the flue: A girl like Aixi should be paid twice as much in today's market.Ninety percent of the jobs you give her are boring stuff.You just handed it to her, the purpose is to tell her to work hard with the typewriter, in case a client comes in, she can make a better impression. So what, so what.Baisha said shamelessly: We pay her salary.If she doesn't want to do it, she can quit.As long as she does it, it's ours from nine to five.Eight hours a day, sixty minutes an hour, four hundred and eighty minutes, every shit minute is mine, every bastard second is mine.

I shook my head and said: "It's not like this way to use people now."Besides, you don't have to talk about Elsie anymore.From today, she is my personal secretary.You go find a new lady, and you give the job to the new lady.You just tell her to type every shitty second, to impress the customers who come in.Try it out, see if it works. Can it work?Baisha yelled.I can't even find one that can type properly.They have to find out and type each word, just like a typewriter cannibalize people and bite their beautiful fingers. What the hell, I will use my method to manage this office.

I said: If you decide to break up the gang, you don't have to shout so loudly. Bai Sha's face swelled to the color of pig's liver again, and then suddenly the red faded, turning livid.She clenched her fists and breathed heavily.Then she said with all her strength: Tang Nuo, dear, you know that Bai Sha likes you very, very much.But you just don't have a business eye.You are a smart little devil, you can see through the case, you have guts, but office work is different, you don't know anything.You're a born idiot when it comes to spending money.You spend money like water.Speaking of women, Tang Nuo, you are in kindergarten, and I smiled at you, and you stood on tiptoe.You have no immunity to protect yourself.You follow them.You raise your salary now, raise your salary, Bu Aiqian is already getting twice the salary I have been giving her.

I said: We should give her double again. Bai Sha pulled her mouth into a long line, and looked at me angrily. The phone rings.Bai Sha managed to calm herself down, picked up the phone, and said: Hello, yes, I know, of course, both of us are very busy, and Mr. Lai is no, no, not too busy.He's putting the finishing touches on an assignment and it's a big case.He's finishing up. As soon as he's done, he'll be free. Yes, I'll see if I can find him.can i call you backWhat is the number?ok thank you. Baisha wrote down a number on the pad.She said: I will call you back in a few minutes.So I hung up the phone.

She turned her head and smiled at me.You little bastard, she said: I don't even know how you do it.This is your nature, your hand on women.You run into women like this all the time.They are crazy about you. Who is it this time? Tang Nuo.Luo Xiulan.She wants you to go to her apartment right away.She has an important job for us to do.She said she knew we were expensive, but we would work.She said she was sorry she didn't pay you much attention when she first met you.She's really sweet right now. I put out my cigarette and started walking to the door to open it.Tang Nuo, are you going now?

I nod. Baisha's face is now smiling all the way to the end, this is the you I like, Tang Nuo is full of desire to open up new careers.Go ahead and don't worry about the office.Baisha has covered everything for you.There will be a private office for you here, and Bu Aiqian will be your private secretary immediately.You don't have to bother with all this red tape, good man. Bu Aiqian heard Baisha's last speech outside.Her eyes were open like two golf balls.I walked nonchalantly past the outer office, opened the door, and closed it behind me.Baisha kept chasing after her and kept reassuring her, her mouth couldn't close her smile.

I found a pharmacy, and I called Luo Xiulan. I am Lai Tangnuo of the Ke Lai family.Is it you who want to see me? Oh yes, I want to see you.I was wondering if you could come to the apartment. when? The sooner the better. Why don't you come to our office? Sorry, I can't, I promised a guy that I would stay home all day and now I can't get in touch with him.This is a big deal.You see, I'm willing to pay you what you want.In fact, what do I say?to hire you.no, probably should say hire you She laughed nervously. I took the phone and said nothing. are you still there? Yes.

I mean, it's important that I hire you to do something for me.I would rather not discuss the nature of this matter with you on the phone.It should be all right I mean you work for me so you should come to me. I said: I can't come before this afternoon. oh!She looked very disappointed. Can we wait until then?I asked. Of course.I think it's possible, if not impossible. Is your appointment in the morning or in the afternoon? Just vaguely anytime throughout the day.I told my friends that I was home all day. I said: well, I will come anyway this afternoon.I will call you before I come, to give you ample time, so that this gentleman and I do not meet. You and this lady will not meet.Luo Xiulan corrected me mischievously. I see.Never mind, I'll let you know first anyway. I hung up the phone, and I called Ding Hao Body Fusion Welding Sheet Metal Works.The young lady who answered my question spoke in a hesitant and somewhat clumsy manner. Hollow Mandarin please.I said. I can't help that he's not here. Where is he? Who are you? newspaper. I don't know what your last name is? Not a person, I said: this is a newspaper.Newspapers wanted him, wanted to interview him.You go to him.where is he? He went to the passport department. Passport Section? Yes. Why? Go get his passport.They told him it was done.I you can call him. Where is he going abroad? I can't tell you.You'd better call him at the Passport Division yourself. I waited for her to hang up the phone, and I hung up the phone too. I walked out of the pharmacy, drove my company car, and went to the hospital where Mrs. Ge was hospitalized.It was not difficult for me to get her medical records.She was poisoned by copper sulfate.One physician was reluctant to tell me about the patient's condition.But he told me copper sulfate poisoning. Copper sulphate, the physician seemed to be giving a lecture to the interns: it is rarely used as a murder drug in homicide.However, its toxicity is still quite fast and quite serious.Since it causes vomiting almost immediately after entering the stomach, the lethal dose of oral administration has not been determined so far.One of the reasons is that, of course, not only is it impossible to estimate how much you vomit at once, but the degree of vomiting varies greatly from person to person. I kept nodding to show how much I learned from him. In fact, physicians say: five percent copper sulfate is a good immediate emetic.Copper sulfate itself is the best antidote for phosphorus poisoning. It not only makes the phosphorus in the stomach spit out, but also can chemically change with the remaining phosphorus to become a non-toxic substance. Does she also have phosphorus poisoning?I asked. No, no, you misunderstood.This is pure copper sulphate poisoning and the sugar is rigged.After inspection, there is copper sulfate in each one. Since five per cent can cause vomiting, then five per cent will not cause death, right? Let's put it this way, he said: experts are still not sure.In his Forensic Toxicology, Webster specifically pointed out that the lethal dose was 8% according to von Horst.Gong Shaliqi, Fanshang, and Haierping all said that there should be more, but it varies greatly from person to person.The United States Pharmacopoeia states that five per cent is a good immediate emetic agent, and another dose can be given after fifteen minutes, usually no more than two doses together. really interesting.I said: How about our patients? Obviously, after she ate it, she vomited immediately and vomited out the poison.When she was sent here, she was just having a nervous fit, that's all. where is she now discharged from the hospital.In my personal opinion, she didn't need to be hospitalized at all.Hi, I shouldn't be talking to you about patients.I'm only talking to you about copper sulfate. What is copper sulfate used for?I asked: Is there a special purpose? Printing and dyeing of printed cloth is also used as pigment.It is also used in water treatment, as well as copper plating. Can it be bought anywhere? There's nothing particularly hard to come by. Why would someone use it to poison people by putting it in sugar?I asked. He looked at me and shook his head.God knows. I thanked him and drove the company car to the police headquarters. Officer Mi Shanlou happened to be in the office.If he hadn't always thought that my visit was to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and if he hadn't always thought that every time I went, I wanted to get some news from him, he would be much more relaxed.Wouldn't be so careful and keep everything in mind.Baisha and I knew Mi Shanlou when he played a small role in the homicide squad.For a while, I thought he was in love with Kebetha.It's just that Ke Baisha was too masculine and didn't give him a good face. Hello, Tang Nuo, he said: What wind brought you here. just walk around. How is Baisha? same as usual. He stuffed a cigar into the mouth, but did not light it.How about a cigar?he asks. no thanks What do you want me to do for you? As I said, I just walked around casually. I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you a little. I rarely run outside. You used to come to our office often. It's all business. We don't bite. It is strange not to bite people.He said angrily: Before you joined Baisha's company, Baisha was the best.She works hard and earns a living by earning a small profit from her regular job.It was you who stunned her with money. She makes a lot of money, doesn't she? It's true that she makes money, but the superiors here are paying attention to you.Just hearing your name, everyone's eyes are bigger than anything else. that serious?I asked. He nodded and said in frustration: I can't help it, I have to guard my own position.I can maintain friendship with you and hang out with you, but as soon as I have an old habit, play too much, and get caught by the tail, I'm done with you. He bites hard on his cigar. What if others can't catch my tail? Yes, sooner or later, after a long walk at night. If I do not do illegal things. He shrugged. So far I haven't had it have I? Just not caught. It's that I haven't done anything illegal. He said: No, Lai, you are like a boat, running at full speed in the minefield.You know this waterway very well, you know where to go and where not to go.You know the law well.When you're within the law, you're all about playing dangerous games.It takes a microscope to know you're not cheating.One day, you will hit a mine and blow it up.I don't want to touch you. Haven't I been away for a while too?I'm in the military, I'm on vacation. That's right.He said: But you gave Baisha a shot to live a luxurious life.She has an addiction to making big money.I like Baisha.She is hard-hearted and straightforward.Believe it or not, she'd be a great wife if she wanted to stop.No one should lie to her.Tang Nuo, how old is she? I said: I don't know.I have known her for four or five years.Looks like nothing has changed.Thirty-five to forty years old.I look down. Well, not too old either.He said challengingly: I am also in my early forties.I don't think I've ever lost to any young man. It doesn't look like a young man. Hey!There must be a reason for the indiscriminate flattery, what do you want? I said: A man named Melobe was murdered yesterday. Yes, I know both. Foshan police officers are in charge of the case. uh-huh. Melobe is one of two trustees in a will. Who is the other one? Xia Heli. You work for him? We worked for him. Work done? It's all over on my side.He wants us to do something more for him. What's up? It is said to be his bodyguard. Why? I have no idea. Fuck you don't know. I sat there stupidly while Shanlou bit into my cigar.Tang Nuo, you are hiding something.Whoever wants to play with you will die sooner or later. Not for friends.I never betray a friend. He combed his thick, curly hair with his hands, and said: What do you want? I said: Xia Heli is worried. worry about what? I tell you, I don't know. What do you want me to do for you?Split a word, or make a hexagram? I said: Xia Heli and Melobo are the two trustees in Hou Shanshan's will.There is a lot of money in the will.There are two heirs; the female is Luo Xiulan, and the male is Holup. How about it? I said: Both trustees are very kind to Xiulan, and they both think that Raup should be punished lightly.Xiulan originally wanted anything.Raup not, unless the trust is terminated. Mi Shanlou took the cigar out of his mouth and spit into a brass spittoon.He said: You have to know that although the will thing reduces a lot of court troubles, it also increases a lot of police troubles. I said: the trust ends when the two heirs reach a certain age.At that point, the trustee can give them money, or an annuity. uh-huh. I think the two heirs would certainly like to get the money down, and if it were me, I would do the same. No one is asking for your opinion. I said: the trust would also be suspended under another circumstance. What? Both trustees died. He frowned at me.Suddenly he asked: What's the matter? I said: If the two trustees are dead, then the money plus the real estate will be automatically divided into two equal parts, and the two heirs will be equally distributed. How many? About two hundred thousand. The cigar in Mi Shanlou's mouth vibrated and trembled, as if he was going to swallow the cigar. so you came to me?He said. So I come to you. He bit down the wet cigar in his mouth, wiped off the sporadic tobacco dust on his lips with the back of his hand, spit into the spittoon, and looked at the broom-like butt of the cigar in his hand.He said: What do you want? There was something funny about this murder case.I said: Melobo has a crow named Panqiao.Melober was holding a phone in his hand when he was killed.In front of him, on the table, was a .22 revolver.One of the bullets has already been fired.I don't know what he shot. Mi Shanlou shrugged. I said: I was with Xia Heli when he found the body.I've looked left and right, and I can't see where the .22 bullet got stuck.As far as I know the police haven't been able to find it either, have they? Do you think someone ran with a bullet on him? As far as I know this is the reasoning of the police. Mi Shanlou put the cigar back to his mouth and bit it back and forth.He ran another hand through his thick hair.Let me tell you, Tang Nuo can't tell others. What? The trace of the .22 bullet has been found. Did Merobe hit someone and miss? Mi Shanlou shook his head: He shot towards the roof, it seems that he wanted to shoot quickly, but he is not a good shooter. What's the meaning? There is a hole in the top of the attic that crows can fly in and out of. I nod. Mi Shanlou said: My people saw that the gun once fired a bullet. The room was a secret room, and the bullet could not be found. Man, the man took the bullet away. I nod. Mi Shanlou said: No matter who fired the bullet, he aimed at that hole, hoping that the bullet would go into the blue sky.But missed.The bullet was found lodged right next to the edge of the hole. I frowned so tightly that I hoped that Shanlou would know that I was deep in thought.Shanlou waited for me to speak, but I didn't say anything, so he continued: Look, this is the reality.Melobe had a gun, just a .22, but a gun nonetheless.He was killed by a man with a knife.If the gun belonged to Melober, he was pointing at the man with the knife.Then there will be a fight. Why? If he fired the gun, of course it was before the knife was inserted into the body.According to the coroner who performed the autopsy, there was nothing Melober could do after the knife was inserted into the heart from the back.In this lively scene, if Melober provoked with a gun, the one who used the knife might have defended himself. You mean the shot was fired by the murderer? exactly.Shanlou said: This murderer is someone Melobo knows very well.Someone who trusts him a lot.Melober was sitting in a chair on the phone.The murderer stood beside him.Maybe the killer didn't like what he said on the phone, maybe the killer was just waiting for the right moment.But he drew his knife from its sheath and waited until the time was right.Poked into Melobe's back.Melobe overturned the chair, and the guy who had just killed calmly opened the drawer, because he knew that there was Merobe's . , Aimed at the hole prepared for the crow, pulled the trigger, and put the gun on the table.He hoped the bullet would go out of the hole, but it wasn't that accurate. too high?too low?Or on both sides? Taller. Do you think the killer fired it? Of course it could be a woman. female. He looked at me and said: Of course, there are many women involved in the case, who knows if the murderer is a man or a woman. I asked: How do you think the murderer fired the shot? We did the paraffin test on Melobe's hands, which had no gunpowder pellets. What about fingerprints? No. Are there fingerprints on the gun? There are some vague ones. You're saying the gun was wiped. No, I mean the gun wasn't wiped very clean, the killer probably put a handkerchief around the handle of the gun when he fired it.Tang Nuo, what exactly do you want? I said: I'm going to South America. I want to go too. I mean I'm leaving now. What does it have to do with me? I said: You have to get the passport for me. are you crazy? I said: no, I did not.I want you to use the phone, call the passport department of the state department now, just say Lai Tangnuo is a private investigator, he is working on a murder case, say you have a lot of trust, hope they will do everything possible to give me the passport sooner . You are crazy. I shake my head. Even if I want to, I can't do it.Can't help you much. Going the right way will be of great help to us. What did Betha say about this? She didn't know about it. Who paid you to go to South America? Myself. What is there? I have no idea. why did you go I said: Holup is going right away.He is one of the two heirs of Hou Coral.Most of the property in the will is in Colombia. You mean you go down and follow him. I just want to go to Colombia. how about me.I will fetch chestnuts from the fire for you, what next? Then you get a chestnut. The chestnuts were also extremely hot.Shanhu complained. You can wait until it's cold before eating it. How do I know you're not playing tricks? I smiled and said: You confused the two of us.You said that you want to get chestnuts out of the fire, this is no trick. Mi Shanlou said: Tang Nuo, wait a minute, I will lead the charge for you, and then I was caught You won't get caught.Nothing will happen.Would you like me to send you a report of what Holup did in Columbia? There is no need for me. Is there any reason not to want it? If you find something, will you tell me?Will you tell me every word? I smiled and shook my head. I think so too. But if I ever find out who killed Melobe, I'll tell you, and you'll have to deal with it. Just rely on your words? Just take my word for it, I'll leave it to you to handle the murder case. Shanlou hesitated. Actually, I said: You have nothing to lose at all.You and I both know there's no way the police will pay someone to go to South America to follow leads, especially for the mere reason that Holup is going to South America.This is one of the ways you can save money and still stay offline.What's more, you can have an excuse to get out anytime and anywhere, and you will be beneficial and harmless. Shanlou took out his cigar from his mouth and threw it into the spittoon with a sound. I said: Have I lied to you? You played tricks. But I never let you down.You always have an advantage until it's over. Officer Mi sighed and reached for the phone.Who should I talk to? Director of Passport Section, speak seriously and forcefully.