Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

The next morning, I drove to the office. I walked slowly in circles to see if anyone was following me. I found that there was only one car following me. It was a police car. I knew it was just part of their regular work. Just one. At nine o'clock, I called Ma Xuewei, a slope construction committee member who was unwilling to cooperate with the police. Mr. Ma, I'm Lai Tangnuo.I said. What can I do for you?he asks. I want to inquire about the inside story of the suburban slope construction project that you are in charge of. No, I've already talked a little too fast, I can't say any more.

I don't want the traditional materials.I said: I want something different. What's the difference? What I want is your personal opinion of Lawyer Fei. Who are you, reporter? No, I'm a suspect. a what?he asked, raising his voice. a suspect. What suspect? I wish to know myself.I said: The police are looking for trouble for me. Do you know Lawyer Fei? Not at all, but I'm trying to get to know him better now. The other party kept silent for a while carefully, and then he said: Why do you want to find me? I want to talk to you for fifteen minutes. I don't like people who think they're smart.

I'm not pretending to be smart.I said: I only ask for a fifteen-minute interview.You don't have to say what you don't want to say; you don't have to answer what you don't want to answer.The police haven't fully charged you yet, they just want me to be the number one suspect right now.We can say we are on the same page.Aren't you also under suspicion? After a while of silence, the other party said: I will give you fifteen minutes.You come to me, how long will it take you to come. Ten minutes will do. Well, come here in ten minutes, you only have fifteen minutes, then I ask you to walk.If you can't get on the road, maybe within fifteen minutes, I will ask you to go.

Fair and fair.I said. In fact, Ma Xuewei's office is only two streets away from where I called.I went over and told the reception lady my name. She looked at me curiously.She said: Mr. Lai, please come in, he is waiting for you. Ma Xuewei is a typical sports player.He had broad shoulders, a triangular shape, a fleshy neck, thick arched eyebrows, a short nose, a square jaw, and large hands. He looked at me from head to toe with gray eyes. Lai, you sit down and talk.He said. I sit down. What do you want to know, Lai?he asks. I said: You are a member of the board of directors, and your company is about to invite tenders.Attorney Fei is your lawyer.Is it necessary for Lawyer Fei to show you all the files in advance?

Of course, that is certain.We make a big deal.We need to know who the bidders are, and I also need to know what prices others are willing to bid. Have you already set a time for his report? His thick fingers were drumming on the table, as he was about to hold a meeting.He said. Who will hold it. By Fee Attorney. when? He said that there are still some subscripts that have not been fixed.It is also the most important part, the convening of this meeting is actually a bit late, but it should be held soon, Lai, I have told the police in detail about this. You didn't tell them where you were when the murder happened?

You bastard, of course I didn't!Where I am is none of your business!Besides, how much cooperation does the police give you when cooperating with the police? ! They asked here and there, and then they turned around and told the reporter what I answered in exchange for the reporter's cooperation.As a result, your own private affairs will be read in the newspaper! I said: Do you mean that your right to privacy was given to the reporter by them? Whatever you say, what are you doing here? I am a private investigator. not like. I'm working on a bigamy case entrusted by a woman.When she learned that her husband had a married wife in Los Angeles, he took her life savings and left her.

I managed to track him down to Los Angeles.I want justice. I try to keep my clients out of the public eye.For reasons that are not available to say at the moment, the police believe that she may be the woman who was in Fei's house when Lawyer Fei was murdered, or she may be the woman who left the scene shortly after Lawyer Fei was killed. From what you have said, it seems that there were two women present. I say so. Ma Xuewei tapped his fingers on the table again.His fingers showed tension, but his face was as unresponsive as a plaster cast. After a while, he asked: What else? I said: The last thing the police like is when a private investigator has information and doesn't tell them.I can't divulge anything to them at the moment.I can't get my client to come forward.The police stared at my ass and bit me hard.The best way at present is to find some reliable clues, throw them to them, divert their attention, let them run to another road, and let myself take a breath.

That's why you came to me? Yes. Because the police must be following you.Seeing you coming to me, I don't know why, so the police started to stare at me. They will think you have any news I want. Do they know you're here? That's for sure, a tail has obviously followed me for a long time. I don't want to draw their attention.He said: "I have personal reasons and don't want them to follow me. He is a thick-necked and broad-chested type of person, not at all like the kind of person who has a golden house outside his family. He looked at me and I didn't speak.

Private reasons that have nothing to do with others, he emphasized: I will not tell the police, nor will I tell you, and I do not want this kind of private incident to be reported. I know.I said: I ask one thing. What? Do you have any doubts that although Lawyer Fei has an outstanding reputation, secretly he is an ambitious, selfish two-headed snake, colluding with businessmen for profit? He asked me a question, which made his mind very clear.What do you say? I think so. He thought about it.He said: Please don't ask me for opinions, just tell me your opinions.In other words, since you are here, you say what you want, and my side is up to me.

no. Why? If you don't tell me your news, I can't play my cards. no.He said: I can't say.But I have my way, and I don't mind hiring a smart private eye. I said: If your reserve price is photocopied, notify the later Mr. Zhang San.Zhang San will know your real reserve price. How much is this move worth? About five hundred thousand to one million.It depends on whether the materials include all auxiliary projects, our practices, calculation methods, etc. But this is a huge pile of documents, too many to copy, calculate, or read. I said: If you have an hour, I have something interesting to show you.

What do you ask in return? In case I get involved, I want your reputation to back me up. I don't know you well, I can't vouch for that. I leave it up to you. He reaches for his hat: how long?he asks. One hour is enough.I said: You have to pay attention to one thing, I am being followed.We have to shake off our tails to get to our destination. can you do it Stalking is my food skill, I said: I know how to stalk, of course I know how to get rid of people who stalk me. I would like to learn it. The first is to pretend to be completely unaware that you are being followed before launching any action.This time, I'm having a friendly conversation with you.You are a resident of this building, and you are on the ninth floor. You can call the security guard downstairs to say that you have something to do and you want to go out secretly, so ask him to prepare an elevator to stop on the seventh floor. We headed for the elevator, and the people who followed us probably only watched the front door.Perhaps another follower was on the ninth-floor walkway.We enter the elevator on the ninth floor; we exit the elevator on the seventh floor, and we quickly enter the elevator waiting for us; ask the administrator to take us straight down to the basement, and we go out from the back alley; first find a store with a back door that opens to the alley , enter through the back door and exit from the front; we find a taxi to take us to the car rental company, and we rent a car to go to the destination. It takes so much effort to shake off a tail. It does take so much effort to shake off a capable tail. Must be useful? In the imagination of the people in the aisle on the ninth floor, the people at the gate downstairs will definitely see us.As long as we keep ourselves from acting like we already know someone is following us, chances are we can succeed. Ma Xuewei picked up the phone.He said to the secretary: Bring the chief of the building guard to me.After a while, he said: I am Ma Xuewei on the ninth floor.I want you to send someone to drive an elevator to the seventh floor, yes, the seventh floor, I'm going to use it to get away.I asked him to open the door and wait on the seventh floor.Wait until I get in the elevator, I'll use it in two minutes. He listened and grinned, showing his teeth.Thanks.He said.Hang up the phone. We waited two minutes.The phone rings.Mr. Ma answered.He said to me: The elevator is ready. let's go.I said. We walked out of the office side by side.Go down the hallway and into the elevator. A man who was by the drinking fountain walked nonchalantly to a real estate company on the ninth floor. The elevator door closed, Ma Xuewei said: Go to the seventh floor. The gentleman who drove the elevator stopped the elevator on the seventh floor.Ma Xuewei took the lead, but there was no one in the aisle, so we walked into another elevator waiting there. A Swedish elevator driver asked curiously: Sir, what's the matter, is there anything abnormal?Would you like me to do something for you, Mr. Ma? nothing.Ma Xuewei said.While giving him five yuan.We went all the way down to the basement. Yes, he said, the elevator went all the way down to the basement. Ma Xuewei looked at me, his teeth bared.You know, Lai, he said: I'm starting to like you.I think you can do anything. Thanks.I told him. We came out into a back alley and found a sports equipment store with the front and back doors open.We entered, and the two talked to each other, as if we were discussing something enthusiastically, ignoring everything around us.We walked past a group of clerks who all wanted to ask us what supplies we were looking for, but were too embarrassed to interrupt.We walked out the front door, onto the sidewalk, into a taxi, picked up a car from a rental car company, and drove to 1369 Hammy Street. I parked the car, took the key out of my pocket, and opened the door. What the hell is in here, Lai?Ma Xuewei asked. Actually, I said: It is better for you to tell me. I lead the way into the restaurant. The restaurant was empty and empty. ?Ma Xuewei looked at me. I turned and ran back to lead the way, come on, I said. What are you doing here?he asks. I was going to show you something. What about things? gone. where it goes? I want to find out. tell me what is it first A batch of things. What the hell. A series of photocopiers placed here, a total of five groups.I said: It's all the latest quick type. He looked at me, rolled his eyelids, and after a while, he said: What do you mean? I said: Are you a frequent visitor to Lawyer Fei's house? Of course, there are a lot of official business, he likes to do it at home.I have too many contacts with Lawyer Fei. How far is Fei Zhai from this place?I asked. He raised his eyes to estimate the surrounding area, and said, "It's four streets away." I didn't say anything, just led the way out of the house.Our footsteps echoed in this spacious living room, the hall. I locked the gate and walked to the neighbors on the east side. May I ask you, when did the moving car come to the family next door to move things?I asked. Ask me the right person.The woman who opened the door to receive us said: It's exactly two thirty in the morning. You don't happen to see which moving company painted the car, do you? Won't.I wouldn't get up at 2:30 in the middle of the night to see what the neighbors are doing? Isn't the voice low? No one spoke.But big trucks crawled here, and people ran in and out, carrying things in their hands.This house should be vacant.I tell you, they used blankets hanging from the roof to cover up where the names were. 2:30 in the morning? Yes, she said: Tell me, why do you want to know about this? I said: I might buy this house, I hope everything in it has really been moved out. I think it must have been emptied.One big carriage was full.It's not the kind of cargo that can be stacked high, but there is nothing wrong with a full compartment. I don't know how to thank you.I said. I turned to Ma Xuewei, okay, I said: We will go back to the car rental company to return the car, and take a taxi back to your company.We went back from the alley and went upstairs with the Swede's elevator, and the cops thought we hadn't left the building. Ma Xuewei said: Lai, I gradually understand what you want to tell me. That's fine. Although you didn't say it directly, it is indeed very interesting that it is already interesting. I just hope it works for you. It works for me, but I don't know how to use it. We took the elevator to the ninth floor according to the method we designed.The man next to the drinking fountain who later joined a real estate company was not in the corridor on the ninth floor. Where is your car parked, Lai?Ma Xuewei asked. In the parking lot two streets away, I came over. Do you think someone is following you?he asks. There is no doubt about it. Ma Xuewei asked: Lai, how can I find you when I need you? I gave him a company card. He looked at me and said thoughtfully: You are much smarter than you look on the outside. After a while, he added another sentence: In fact, you are already smart on the outside. He laughed to himself.For the first time since seeing him, I started seeing his teeth. He squeezed mine with his big hand.Lai, I want to thank you, he said: I think the end of the matter will be successful.You and I are in the same boat.In order not to cause the police to ask me where I was when the murder happened, I really should provide them with some evidence, so that they can be busy for a while and have no time to come out. Where were you when the murder happened, do you know it yourself? Of course I know where I am!He said: There is only one other person who knows, and I just don't want to drag that person out together so that everyone can know. Well, I said: Anyway, when you need it, you can find me. I went back to the elevator and gave five yuan to the elevator operator, and I said: The basement. The elevator takes me to the basement.I waved to the elevator driver and casually walked out the back door, just like walking with Ma Xuewei just now. I went to the rental car company again, rented another car, turned left and right to make sure no one was following me, then went to see Godafin at my spare apartment. I gracefully inserted the key into the keyhole, and suddenly my sixth sense told me that something had gone wrong. I gently pushed the door open a crack, and a guest came.I said. When there was no reply, I took a step in. The entire apartment seemed to be blown by a typhoon.The bedspread was lifted and thrown to the ground.The mattress was turned upside down in a corner of the room, all the drawers were pulled out, and all the clothes in the closet were pulled out and scattered casually on the ground. I heard a sound from the kitchenette, and a pot fell to the floor. I opened the kitchen door at once. Li Seling was in the kitchen, standing in front of a small cabinet, throwing out the pots and pots inside, and shining a flashlight on the four corners of the cabinet. I stood at the door of the kitchen. All of a sudden she saw me, gasped, and straightened up stiffly. Hello, Liseling.I said. It's you!There was a look of real surprise on his face. Who do you think it will be?I asked. How did you come here? I smiled at her, I followed you here.I said. Impossible, absolutely impossible, impossible for someone to come with me. You have never been a detective.You don't know that there are many talented people everywhere.I said: Did you find what you were looking for? You, she said: Don't mind your own business, get out early, you are a murderer! Tell you, I said: Don't forget, now only you and I are together! Suddenly, she understood the threat I was giving her.Fear is on the surface. I move one step forward.She leaned her back against the wall and moved slowly towards the back door, then suddenly ran out and down the attendant's escalator behind. I rushed out the front door, not bothering to close the door behind me.I can't wait to take the slow, wobbly elevator.I took the escalator for residents two steps at a time, came to the sidewalk, and watched the cars parked in front of the door. The license plate on the steering wheel shaft of the third car indicated that the car belonged to Li Serling. I stood beside the car, took out my .38 caliber revolver, and fired two shots at the car body, one on the rear of the car near the top of the fuel tank, and the other on the car body, leaving a nearly visible line on the rear door. Not visible scratches. I put the gun back in the holster, ran to the rental car, and got in hastily.Some curious pedestrians gathered and looked east and west.They heard voices, but it was difficult to determine whether it was a gunshot or a car backfiring.I drive away.