Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen

After the patrol car arrived and everything in the house was settled, we stood by the side of the road, and I whispered to Shanlou: I think when you ask Ha Xuewei, take me with you, I can help you Be busy. help me what?he asks. Ask Ha Xuewei.I whispered. He threw his head back and laughed, and he said, Listen, little one, stop being smart, your partner, Kebetha, keeps saying you're a brainy bastard in order to win business, when in fact it's just a stunt , don't let the propaganda go to your head. You mean you don't need me anymore? I don't need any part of you anymore, fuck you, go home No, I have better suggestions.

What?I asked. I'm going to give you my best advice, he said: Do you know of any places that still have a pharmacy open? Of course, even though it was late, there were of course pharmacies that were open 24 hours a day everywhere. Well, he said: Go to a pharmacy and buy two packs of bath alum. so what? Go home, put the alum in the washbasin, soak it in hot water, and soak your head in it until you can see it.He himself laughed out loud at what he said. Just like that, Shanlou took two steps to face Ha Xuewei, and he was in a surprisingly good mood.All right, girl.He said: let's go.

He climbed into the driver's seat by himself, opened the door on the right side of the front seat from the car, and signaled Xuewei to go around the front of the car and sit in the front seat. Xuewei closed the door before Shanlou knocked the door on his side.get out!Get away, little one.He said. I had seen a gas station three blocks away, and I walked in that direction, and the action was painful, and I used my company credit card to exchange a few coins with the gas station clerk to call Betha. Where are you dead?Baisha asked. I'm at 5800 Carlton Road, a gas station, Baisha. What are you doing there?

Difficulties. You always look for difficulties by yourself, what's wrong this time? Two crooks stole the company car. What do you mean they stole the company car? That's what it means. Someone wants this car, what's the use? They don't want the car, they want me to be immobilized, I need the car, I still have places to go, I'm pretty badly repaired. Repaired again? Yes. You said you were there? Carlton Road and Fifty-eighth Street. Well, Bai Sha said: I will come. I have a lot of blood on my body.I said: I always have a spare suitcase in the office, if you bring the suitcase along, I'll have a change of clothes.

Well, Bai Sha said unhappily: I'll stop by once and bring it to you, Tang Nuo, if there is a theory of reincarnation in the world, you must have played football in your last life. Maybe it's the reincarnation of the boxing bag.I said, hang up the phone. I called Huangfu Feili and said: The police will find you right away and ask you to identify a Jade Bodhisattva. Is it the one that was stolen that night? Wait for me, just say I've called to say I'm on my way, don't forget to tell them that. After the police leave, don't go out for whatever reason, stay at home and wait for me no matter how late I come, you wait.

I hung up the phone as soon as I finished speaking without waiting for her to ask questions or argue. Half an hour later, Ke Baisha arrived. She said: God, look what you look like. I told you, did you bring the box? have. do you have money What's the meaning? I said: mine was taken away. Tang Nuo, Baisha said: You have the right to carry a gun. Your license allows you to carry a gun. Why don't you carry a gun and let others fix you? Guns, I said: sixty to seventy-five dollars for a good gun that I think can be worn. Why don't you go and buy one?But you must not think that you can spend with public funds. This is for your personal protection. You can borrow public funds to buy first.

I said: I bought a gun and took it away every time someone repaired it. Just buying a gun made me bankrupt. Not bad at all.Bai Sha agreed, without any sympathy: Now you want a car, how do I get back to my apartment? There is a phone here, and I said: I'll go change right away, and you can call a taxi. Call a taxi!who do you think i am I called a taxi, and I said: put it on Mrs. Huangfu's account. If you don't call, I can call you for you, and I can pay you the taxi fare, but I need some money. Bai Sha took out her purse, counted out five yuan miserly, and said, "These can sustain you until tomorrow morning without any problems. How did you come up with this idea? You took me as your driver and drove around in the middle of the night. The company What about the car?

The police will surely find it tomorrow morning.I said: Maybe sooner, they'll ask me what I mean by parking in front of a fire hydrant. You think they'll park in front of a fire hydrant?she asked. absolute. You can do weird things.Betha grunted and squeezed herself into the phone booth with great reluctance to make a call. I took the suitcase into the bathroom, changed, wiped the dried blood off my face, and looked at my swollen face in the crooked mirror. When I came out after changing my clothes, Baisha had already taken a taxi and left.The gas station attendant took great care of me.You must have been in a car accident.he asks.

Yes. what happened to your car All crashed.I said. I checked the gas tank of the Betha, it was half full. I drove back to Carlton Road, and when I passed Zimomou's house, I looked out of the car, and there was a police car parked in front of the house. I believe that the police were still guarding Qimomou, waiting for police officer Mi to examine Jade Bodhisattva. Bring a search warrant to search this place. I walked forward for half a block and parked the car. When I think about it, I can see that when I was talking to Zimmer, he was only pretending to hear the phone ringing in the house behind him. What really happened was that he called his two thugs to come. deal with me.

In this case, the two people he commanded must live nearby, and the time does not allow them to come from further away. I imagined that they must pay attention to changes in things and keep observing the house, so I passed each car through Write down the license plate numbers of Carlton Road cars, and prepare to find duplicates. A car came and slowed down as he passed in front of Qi Momou's house. I drove the car off the side of the road, followed it, and approached it after four streets. It was a new car with the license plate number NEE799. There were two people in the front seat, both of them were big men, sitting behind the steering wheel. I'm sure it was the orangutan that I caught by the calf when I kicked me in the ribs and tripped him to the ground.

They turned right at Fifty-fourth Street, and I followed, right at Fifty-third Street, and immediately turned back, quickly back to where I had parked, parked, and waited. Five minutes later, the same car drove past and I followed it again, this time they pulled into a gas station and stopped, and the gorilla got out and went into a phone booth. I parked the car half a street away. Two minutes later the big man came out of the phone booth and jumped into the car. The two of them drove away quickly, and I followed behind, taking a risk and getting as close as possible. They turned right three times in a row, and then came to Carlton Road, where they turned left toward Sixty-first Street, where they turned left into a private driveway. I remembered where it was, went down Ertiao Street along Sixty-first Street, turned the car around, and came back along Sixty-first Street. Their car was still on the driveway, and the two of them were in front of the door of a bungalow. After less than half a minute, the two of them entered the bungalow, and the lights in the house were turned on. I parked the car and sneaked up to the car parked in the driveway. I put on my gloves and tried the door, it didn't lock. I use a pen torch to look inside the car. The registered owner's name is Feng Laili, and his address is 9611 Sixty-first Street. I opened the glove box and there was a bottle of whiskey in it, a third full. I grabbed the bottle by the neck with my gloved hand, took the bottle out, closed the glove box, closed the car door gently, walked to Baisha's car, and poured all the remaining wine in the bottle into the drain , put the empty wine bottle very carefully on the car seat, I tied a piece of string to the mouth of the bottle so I could carry it around without messing with any fingerprints if there were any, and I drove back to my apartment. Holding the rope tied to the neck of the bottle, I walked into my apartment and started to mess up the apartment I lived in. I pulled out all the drawers, dumped the contents of the drawers on the floor, threw all the contents of the cabinet, and took the clothes from the hangers. After getting down, pockets turned out, bedspread pulled off, sheet ripped, mattress turned over, and the place completely unrecognizable, I drove to a pharmacy near Huangfu's apartment. I called Huangfu Feili.Arrange the elevator to the rooftop apartment so that I can go up by myself, I said: I don't want the apartment clerk to see me coming in, I will slip past him, please make sure I can change the elevator by myself as soon as I come up, get everything ready , I will come. I came to the apartment building and waited nearby. A group of people who seemed to live in the building came home from the outside. I calculated the time and followed them when they entered the door. The last man who walked saw me wanting to go in and took my place. hold the door. I thanked him, fished out a cigarette, borrowed a light from him, and followed him to the elevator, hiding myself on the other side of his body, trying not to let the night counter clerk see my face. These people got out of the elevator on the fifteenth floor, and I went to the twentieth floor. The door of the reception room of Huangfu's house on the twentieth floor was open. I press the hidden button, and the elevator lowers from the upper floor, taking me up to the rooftop apartment. Philly is waiting for me. Is there anyone else here besides you?I asked. Only me, she said: Tang Nuo!What happened to you? I had an accident. What kind of accident? Some people thought I was football.I said: It took a lot of time to convince them I wasn't. Tang Nuo, you should go to the hospital for emergency treatment. The ER doctor should live in my house.I tried to smile at what I said, but couldn't because my face was so swollen. what time is itI asked. She checked her watch: twelve twenty. I shake my head. What's the matter?she asked. Eleven twenty.I said. Tang Nuo, what's the matter? I said: Your watch is fast, it is eleven twenty. Tang Nuo, it's impossible, I've been watching TV and I know I'm not fast. It was eleven twenty when I came in.I said. She stared at my face, then smiled and said: Well, tell me now, how did you get your face like this? I think we've made progress.I said. That aspect? I think the police are close to cracking the case. police? Of course the police.I said: When have you ever seen a policeman admit that someone else solved a case on his behalf? In our business, this motto must be kept in mind. Has anyone called me here? No. My partner, Ke Baisha, didn't call me here either? She shook her head. I think we finally got the phone ringing. I nodded to Philly. What should I do if someone is looking for you?she asked. Just say I'm here. She answered the phone, turned to me and said: It is Mrs. Ke, your partner, she wants you to answer the phone immediately, she said it is urgent. I went over to pick up the phone, Baisha said: Tang Nuo, Mi Shanlou will see you soon. over there? Headquarters, he wants you to call him immediately, and asks me to find you and report to him immediately. I said: OK, Baisha, I'll do it. Baisha said: I hope you know what you are doing, Tang Nuo, Shanlou seems a little excited, as if he has found something new. This is his old problem.I told her: I'll find him right away. I hung up the phone and said to Fei Li: Now the police are really looking for me.I dialed the police headquarters. I asked the switchboard to answer the homicide team, and it was Mi Shanlou who answered the call. Shanlou said: Tang Nuo, where are you? Visiting my client in Huangfu apartment. How long have you been there? About an hour.I said: What's the matter? I want you. You want to pass me.I said: You told me to go, remember?So I'm off. Now I'm looking for you again. I'm here.I said. OK, I'll come.Shanlou said: Tell the woman surnamed Huangfu to put the elevator down and wait for me downstairs, don't come to the boring thing, or I will level the place. I think you have played another trick, little one, if this is the case, I personally promise to rip you to shreds and teach you a lesson you will never forget. I said solemnly: If it weren't for the two villains who repaired me so badly, would you dare to threaten me like this? Shanlou stopped talking, as if being choked by a telephone wire. I hang up the phone. Huangfu Feili has been listening to our dialogue, looking at me nervously.What's the matter, Tang Nuo?She asked: The police didn't treat you well? I've always had trouble with the police.I told her: This is natural and chronic. Mi Shanlou will come here soon. Someone may come with him. He has to come up directly. There is no hindrance. You'd better tell the counter downstairs not to ask questions, and please Send a younger brother downstairs to accompany him up, so as not to be troubled by the elevator. Tang Nuo, if they want to come here in the middle of the night, do I have to see them? See you tonight.I said. Tang Nuo, I have some ready-made witch hazel branches here. I just decided to soak some hot water for your face as a hot compress. I don't want anyone to disturb you at this time. great.I told her: This concept is good, get some more towels out, it seems that you have been covering my face for an hour, and when you have a chance, you might as well criticize Shanlou, saying that the police are really useless. A tax-paying citizen is wounded beyond protection. Will he become angry? Of course, I said: He will be very angry with you, and the more we make him angry, the less he can focus on any one of us. He's mad at you for something now, isn't he? There is one thing to be angry about.I said: But this time he was really angry with me personally.