"Is there a mole?" Zhao Xian was thoughtful and touched the tip of his eyebrow, "You mean here?"
"No, it's here." Chen Yu pointed again.
Zhao Xian patted his thigh: "What a coincidence, the nameless person who was knocked unconscious also has a mole here, and the others match it. How about you go and have a look?"
When Chen Yu heard there was a clue, he immediately agreed.
"He is in the hospital of Huanghua Temple outside the city. I will accompany you there tomorrow morning!"
It was getting late at this time, and Huanghua Temple was at the northern foot of Yuexiu Mountain outside the Great North Gate. It was a remote place with few people in the daytime, not to mention that the city gates were probably closed when I got there.
Early the next morning, Chen Yu and Zhao Xian walked out of the Great North Gate and looked at Huanghua Temple along the way. After the plague was over, Mayor Liu made some improvements to the environment inside and outside the city. In particular, he cleaned up the large number of free graves and temples outside the Dabei Gate and the temples where coffins were stored. They were all dismantled, and all the corpses and coffins cleared from the cemetery and the cemetery were buried in the newly built cemetery. Although it is still deserted outside the Great North Gate, it no longer has the gloomy feeling of the "land of the dead" in the past.
The cleared land is currently managed by a city-owned company affiliated with the Guangzhou Municipal Government and leased to farmers in the suburbs as vegetable gardens. Most of the wasteland that was once filled with tombs has been fenced and planted with vegetables.
The two of them walked along the newly built road to Huanghua Temple - now called the "Guangdong Provincial Temporary Shelter". In addition to continuing to support the elderly and orphans, it is also responsible for accepting people taken in by the police during patrols and "catching waves" operations. They will be identified and registered here and then relocated.
There is a free health clinic here. The unlucky guy who was injured in a fight a few days ago and fell unconscious was sent here for treatment as usual because he didn't know his identity.
Because it is located outside the city, the orphanage has always been guarded by the National Army. Recently, the security environment has improved, and the police have been responsible for guarding the orphanage.
Zhao Xian is a policeman and he specially brings people to "identify people", so the welfare home will naturally not stop him. Mao Xiuyu happened to have nothing to do, so he took them to the health center himself.
The health clinic in the shelter was renovated from an old temple building. Except for the clinic and pharmacy, which are separated by bamboo fences, the rest of the area is used to place hospital beds, with a total of thirty or forty beds. About half of the rooms here are occupied by patients, and there are nurses making rounds.
"How is the condition of patient No. 11?" Mao Xiuyu asked the nurse. He knows the situation of the inmates very well.
"I woke up this morning," the nurse said, "but I'm not very conscious. I'll fall asleep again now."
"What's the condition of the wound?"
"It's just a superficial wound on the head, it's nothing," the nurse said. "The doctor said this morning that he probably only had a concussion. There is no danger of life or disability."
"Can I visit?"
"Okay." The nurse said and took them to the single observation ward.
There was a man lying on a simple bamboo hospital bed, covered with a thin military blanket and with white gauze wrapped around his head. Chen Yu could tell at a glance that this was not who Chen Ding was!
"That's him!" Chen Yu nodded.
No wonder I found him like a cow in the sea, he was not in Guangzhou at all!
Zhao Xian didn't expect to find the person so quickly, and he was very happy in his heart, saying: "It took all the effort! You are really lucky, your uncle's luck is even better!"
He turned to Mao Xiuyu and said, "This is Chen Yu, the patient's nephew."
Mao Xiuyu was very happy when he saw that this "Anonymous" had been found. Chen Ding was immediately asked about his name, age and place of origin. Chen Yu asked if he could be picked up. Mao Xiuyu said that he had not fully recovered yet and had to wait for the doctor to see him before making a decision. It would be better to pick him up in a few days.
As he was talking, Chen Ding woke up on the hospital bed. Chen Yu hurried over and called. This time Chen Ding was not confused. Although he was not familiar with Chen Yu, his nephew, he knew it when he talked about it. After saying a few words, the conversation naturally became warm. Only then did Chen Yu know that Chen Ding had arrived in Guangzhou a few days ago. Not long after disembarking, I suddenly fell unconscious before entering the city.
"...It's probably because the money was exposed on the road, and someone killed himself for the sake of wealth!" Chen Ding sighed, "It's a pity that the hundreds of taels of silver I brought..."
Zhao Xian noticed something was wrong when he heard it, and interrupted the conversation between their uncle and nephew: "That's not right, you were injured because of the fight on January 11th, and the location of the injury was on Dashi Street - the file is still on my desk. "Here we go"
Unexpectedly, Chen Ding denied it, saying that the last place he arrived before he fell into coma was near the old site of Wuyangyi outside the city. Due to internal emergency, he wanted to go to the public toilet for convenience, but he was beaten as soon as he reached the entrance of the alley.
"I'm not familiar with the local area, so why would I fight with others? My relatives and friends don't live over there on Da Shi Street, so why should I go there?"
Although the nurse believed that Chen Ding's statement was "sequelae of concussion," Chen Ding insisted that he was tipped outside the city and lost his luggage, which contained two hundred taels of silver.
"Half of these two hundred taels of silver are my savings, and half are the money my father-in-law gave me! I didn't expect that I was robbed as soon as I arrived in Guangzhou!" When Chen Ding said this, he stamped his feet and beat his chest with regret.
Now things get complicated. Originally this was just a fight, and both parties arrested on the day of the incident said they did not know Chen Ding, so he was just a passerby who was accidentally involved. However, the current situation is that Chen Ding was robbed, and the amount was very special. huge.
Zhao Xian couldn't make up his mind, and he was doubtful about what Chen Ding said. It's nonsense to say that he had a "sequela" attack. He had a nose and eyes when he said it, and he swore to it; to say it was true, some blind robber went crazy, knocked down someone with a sap, robbed the money, and even killed the victim. Carry it to the city and leave it at the scene of the fight? Besides, the robber didn’t know that the National Army soldiers near Dashi Street would fight with the shop assistants that day?
In normal times, Zhao Xian would have ignored this matter. After all, Chen Ding's words are unfounded and there is no evidence from anyone. But since Mr. Wu values him very much, this matter can't just let it go. At least there has to be an explanation.
To be cautious, he asked Chen Ding about his journey from Sanliang to Guangzhou until he lost consciousness. Chen Ding's answers were clear and coherent, not like he was confused after being hit on the head. Moreover, with his observation of people Chen Ding is not a cunning person. He didn't make these words up.
"I think I have to trouble Mr. Ding to go to the police station to report this matter. Firstly, Mr. Ding is still involved in the fight case and needs to make a record." Zhao Xian said, "Secondly, two hundred taels of silver is not a small amount. , it’s a big case. It’s not an ordinary gangster who committed the crime, it’s probably some giant thief who came to the city, and he wanted to catch the criminal both publicly and privately.”
Chen Yu didn't care about this at first, but after hearing Zhao Xian's words, he felt it made sense and hurriedly said: "I'm going to trouble Brother Zhao about this..."
Zhao Xian hurriedly said that he could only help with this matter, because he was from the Public Security Department, and if the case was reported, it would be considered a criminal case, and he could not get involved.
Chen Yu was about to go through the formalities to take Chen Ding out of the hospital and back to Wu's house. But Mao Xiuyu said that since he had been found, he was not in a hurry for this day. After all, the wound on his head had not healed, so it was not too late to observe him for a day or two before leaving. Zhao Xian also said that there was no rush. As for the matter of reporting the case, he could leave it to Chen Ding, and let Chen Ding write a letter of authorization and specific details first, and let him help to establish the case first.
"...So I gave Master Mao a dollar and asked him to look after Master Ding more and buy whatever he needed. Zhao Xian and I went to the police station and rushed back to report the matter."
Wu Yijun thought this was too bizarre! But he couldn't think of a reason, and when he heard that he had been robbed of two hundred taels of silver, he couldn't help but secretly gasp. Chen Ding is really brave to carry so much money alone for a long distance!
However, he took the risk and brought a huge sum of money to Guangzhou. He must have some agenda, either he was preparing to use the money to clear the way for business, or he was planning to do some business in Guangzhou. No matter what Chen Ding originally planned to do, he is now injured, robbed, lost money, and desperate. Helping him himself is the best way to show his kindness.
"Chen Yu, go and talk to the housekeeper and ask him to clean up Xikuoyuan and prepare some items. In addition, prepare some inner and outer clothing according to Master Ding's measurements."
Zhao Xian returned to the bureau and first took out the files on the street fight case and studied them.
The case is not complicated. At noon on January 11, five soldiers from the Wuzhou Brigade of the National Army who were resting in Guangzhou gathered for dinner in a restaurant on Dashi Street. After drinking too much, they had an argument with the restaurant waiter and smashed the tables and dishes in the store. The waiter from a nearby store came over. After "reasoning", a fight broke out. The two sides fought from the restaurant to the street. During this period, other National Army soldiers wandering in the market and nearby shopkeepers joined in, eventually forming a big melee of more than 20 people. It sparked onlookers and blocked traffic. The patrol found out that soldiers were involved and called in a nearby military-police joint patrol team, which brought the situation under control.
In the end, the joint patrol arrested 21 people at the scene, including nine National Army soldiers and 12 civilians. Eleven people were injured, three of whom were seriously injured and required hospitalization, and an unidentified person who was unconscious with a head injury was found at the scene...
There were also confessions from the arrested persons in the file. Zhao Xian looked through it briefly, but Chen Ding was not mentioned in any of them. Looking at the list of items found on them, there was no large amount of money either.
Obviously, these people have little to do with Chen Ding. Chen Ding was not robbed. The money-if there was any-was robbed by others.
This is really strange. Zhao Xian studied the case file for a long time, but still couldn't figure out the reason. In fact, to this day, he still has doubts about whether he has the two hundred taels of silver.
"Forget it, let's leave this matter to the criminal police." Zhao Xian thought to himself.
