Before seeing anyone, I heard a voice coming from inside the house: "Are you going to have a drink with me?"
As the words fell, the people in the room also came out.
Wearing a double-breasted cotton jacket, black cotton trousers, and a pair of thick cotton shoes, he is about the same age as the old man.
The old man pointed at Zhou Zhimo and introduced him: "Let's not talk about drinking for now."
"This is Officer Zhou. I want to ask you something. Please tell me."
Lao Wan looked at Zhou Zhimo and smiled: "Okay, what do you want to ask?"
The three of them sat down in the yard. The yard was not big and everyone was used to putting tables and chairs in the yard.
Zhou Zhimo said with a smile: "Five years ago, Uncle Wang renovated the yard next door. Do you know?"
Lao Wan looked at the old man: "When did you travel to Qinghai?"
The old man nodded: "Yes, just that time."
Lao Wan teased him: "What happened? Those people stole your old treasure?"
The old man rolled his eyes: "Go, go, people ask you about business, don't make a fuss."
Lao Wan chuckled: "That's what happened. In and out, those people must have been working for half a month."
Zhou Zhimo asked him: "Do you have any impression of these people? Have you seen them before?"
Lao Wan recalled: "A group of people, maybe four or five."
"There are people in their forties and fifties, and there are people in their thirties."
“Last summer, I was shopping for groceries and saw them repainting the market sign.”
Zhou Zhimo asked him: "Which vegetable market is it?"
Lao Wan told him: "In front of the vegetable market in the East Triangle."
Zhou Zhimo asked him again: "Do you remember whether they are locals or outsiders?"
Lao Wan thought for a while and said: "Those people don't like to talk much. Once, I chatted with the leader, Master Fang, for a few words. He had a local accent."
"It's said that there isn't much work to do, so I work slowly and tinker."
"I calculated, I worked for half a month."
Zhou Zhimo thanked the two old men and went directly to the vegetable market.
He knocked on the door of the market office, and after entering, he saw that one of his high school classmates was working here.
The two smiled, shook hands and exchanged greetings. After sitting down, Zhou Zhimo told him the reason for his visit: "I heard that the plaque at the door was renovated last year. Did you sign a contract at that time?"
The classmate smiled and said, "Don't bully others, this is none of your business."
Zhou Zhimo explained with a smile: "Someone saw the worker patching up the paint. He is the person we are looking for now."
"Can you see if there is a signed contract, or ask the person in charge of the project at the time if you can find the contact information of those workers?"
The classmate smiled and told him: "It's easy to talk about. I'll call and ask the person who was in charge of this now."
He quickly got through the phone: "Yang Xin, the worker who repainted the market last summer, please give me your phone number."
Yang Xin said: "Okay, I will send it to you later."
He asked casually: "What's wrong? Is the paint peeling off again?"
Classmate Zhou Zhimo said: "No, a classmate of mine is looking for someone to do some work and is interested in their skills."
Yang Xin said cheerfully: "That's okay. They're just a little slow in their work, but they're doing fine."
After hanging up the phone, the number was sent over.
Zhou Zhimo took the phone number and stood up happily: "Old classmate, thank you for your strong support."
The classmate sent him out with a smile: "You are now our soldier, and we will fully cooperate with your work."
Zhou Zhimo called as soon as he walked out the door. It rang for a while before he answered: "Hello."
Zhou Zhimo asked him: "Is it Master Fang?"
The other party asked him: "Who are you? What's going on?"
Zhou Zhimo told him: "The people from the wet market project department gave me my phone number. I have some work and I want to see you."
"Where are you? I'll come over and talk to you."
Master Fang said: "I work in front of Sanhe Primary School."
Zhou Zhimo said: "Then I'll come to see you, just to see what you're doing."
After hanging up the phone, Liang Yinuo called: "Master, are you still in Laojie? I'm here to find you."
Zhou Zhimo felt that this call came at the right time: "I'm at the entrance of the East Triangle Food Market. Please take me to Sanhe Elementary School."
Liang Yinuo arrived soon and picked up Zhou Zhimo: "Master, what are you doing at school?"
Zhou Zhimo told him: "I just asked where those workers were and I was going to take a look."
Liang Yinuo flattered him: "Master stepped in, one is as good as eight. We found workers so quickly."
Soon we arrived at the gate of Sanhe Primary School. The students were already on vacation.
The car stopped on the side of the road, and Zhou Zhimo and the two walked towards the school gate. From a distance, they saw three workers squatting next to a pillar and working.
As he got closer, Zhou Zhimo bent down and said, "Hello, I'm looking for Master Wan."
An older man slowly stood up, slightly hunched over, and moved his back. He still held a tool in his hand: "I am Lao Wan."
Zhou Zhimo walked over with a smile: "Master Wan, I called you just now."
Lao Wan said "Oh", then bent down and put down the tools, pointing at the work he was doing: "Look, this is our job."
Zhou Zhimo nodded: "Yes, you did it very carefully."
He asked Lao Wan: "How many workers do you have?"
Lao Wan told him: "The five of us have our own division of labor."
"There's another one carrying water."
Zhou Zhimo said to him: "In this case, I will take you to see the place, and we can continue to talk about the rest."
Lao Wan was a little embarrassed: "I'm not done yet. Look, the ingredients haven't been used up yet."
Zhou Zhimo looked at it and said, "Well, I'll wait for you for half an hour to use up this little material without wasting it."
"Then, I'll take you with me to take a look."
"That's my work for the unit, don't worry."
Lao Wan rubbed his hands, not knowing how to refuse, so he had to continue squatting down to work.
Zhou Zhimo was wandering around, and time passed quickly. When he returned to the door, Lao Wan was packing tools with others.
Zhou Zhimo went to the security room and showed his ID: "I took those people away, please keep the tools."
The security guard saw his ID, looked at his eyes, and didn't dare to ask anything. He nodded and agreed: "Okay."
Zhou Zhimo led several people to the car. Liang Yinuo opened the car door and said to them: "Go in."
Lao Wan and others looked at each other: "We are dusty and dirty."
Zhou Zhimo waved his hand: "Sit, sit, sit, it's not that important."
Sitting in the car, several people looked at Lao Wan and communicated silently with their eyes.
When they arrived at the unit yard, Liang Yinuo stopped the car and everyone walked down.
Standing in the yard, the workers looked at it.
Lao Wan looked at the office building and asked Zhou Zhimo in a low voice: "Is this the building you are talking about?"
Zhou Zhimo pointed inside: "Let's go in and talk."
After saying that, he strode towards the steps.
Liang Yinuo said to Lao Wan and others: "Let's go, what are you afraid of here?"
Several people hesitated, and Lao Wan hunched his back slightly and asked him, "Are we all going in?"
