In this weird little town, just after getting rid of surveillance, he suddenly bumped into a person suspected of possessing magic. Li Changan had to have doubts.
Where can such a coincidence happen?
But things in this world are nothing but coincidences.
"Don't tell me that your house also lives here?"
When the Taoist priest sent Liu Weidong, the middle-aged man he rescued earlier, to the downstairs of his house, he couldn't help but smile.
Unexpectedly, after going around in circles, I returned to the starting point. The two of them were at the barbecue stall where the orange cat descended from the sky.
At present, the diners at the barbecue stall have changed several times, but the quarrel upstairs has no intention of calming down. On the contrary, it has become more and more intense. Listening to the shouts and shouts, it seems that there are a few more people participating in this scolding war, but unfortunately, none of them can be the opponent of Zou Pingpan's mouth.
No, an old man was furious.
The Taoist priest downstairs could hear the sound of breathing in his chest like a broken bellows, and the old man's voice was trembling.
"Yuhu! You shrew! I can't tell you what to do with Liu Weidong in your house? Call him out and I'll tell him."
The woman laughed, her laughter shrill and filled with pride.
"I know, he might die outside. What are you doing to him? Are you going to accompany him?"
"You! Why are you such a vicious mother-in-law?"
"Am I vicious? That's why you call me vicious when so many of you bully me!"
Then, there was a ping-pong-pong sound, Yuan Xiaochuan's energetic scolding, and a series of ear-splitting barks.
"oops."
Liu Weidong slapped his thigh, and without caring about Li Changan, he quickly thanked him, held on to the railing of the stairs, and limped upstairs.
As for Li Changan, he thought to himself: He has come. Ever since, I followed him slowly with my hands folded.
And it was at this moment, when both of them stepped onto the corridor.
Among the crowds of people on the street behind them, including the owner of the barbecue stall, the diners in the rice noodle shop, and the woman walking her dog on the opposite street, all of them took out their mobile phones in unison and silently pointed at the backs of the two of them.
Liu Weidong's home is on the fifth floor.
He had difficulty with his legs and feet, so he hurriedly took the first step, but he was pulled behind. Li Changan took his time and got up the stairs first.
When he arrived at the place, the first thing he saw was a security door wide open. A group of men, women, old and young were blocking the door, but they didn't dare to take a step beyond the boundaries. They were only gesticulating and noisy from a distance of three or four steps.
The Taoist priest came closer and saw a woman lying in a wheelchair covered with a sheet inside the door. She looked pale and thin, but her mouth and expression were very excited.
Speaking of excitement, he even waved his hands, used them as gun barrels, made knife edges, poked and dotted them, and sprayed out filthy words one by one like a machine gun, "beating" his opponents to the point of thickening their necks. Red eye.
Just listening to the excitement, Li Changan felt his scalp numb and his forehead sweating.
But her opponents were very "civilized". Although they were so angry that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas were born, none of them broke in and talked sense with their fists. The reason is probably that a yellow dog of no apparent species, but about the size of an adult man, is squatting on the threshold and standing guard.
With such a "door god" present, this explosive scene has a somewhat modest and gentlemanly style of "talking but not using hands".
As for Captain Yuan, he was still there. He was just sitting on the stairs above, smoking a cigarette and sneering at the bottom. When he saw Li Changan coming, he only motioned for him to go up and watch the show with him.
"Didn't you leave?"
Li Changan told the truth about his encounter with Liu Weidong.
By this time, Liu Weidong was belatedly arriving.
As soon as he came up, he planned to finish Yuan Xiaochuan's unfinished business and break up the fight. But no matter what, one person hates the situation, and the other person thinks that his arm is crooked. A big man nodded and bowed, dragging his lame leg, spinning around like a ball with saliva flying on both sides. But neither the indignant neighbors nor the sharp-tongued wife stopped to ask where the injury on his face came from.
Only the big yellow dog would wag its tail and lovingly add to the bruises on his face.
All in all, Liu Weidong's efforts were in vain and he became a doormat.
A man with glasses pointed at his nose and cursed: "Does the Liu family in your house have a tutor? They have no sense of morality at all!"
"No, no, my mother-in-law is in a bad mood lately."
Liu Weidong just explained in a low voice, but Zou Pengpeng behind him immediately responded with a sneer.
"Public morality? Some people have the nerve to talk about public morality?"
"Which one do you mean?"
"I say you."
"What did you say about me?"
"I said you secretly threw cigarette butts on my balcony a few days ago."
"You fart."
Probably feeling that he had finally caught the opponent's flaw, the man with glasses took a proud sip.
"I don't smoke, and I was on a business trip last week. I just came back today. How could I have flicked cigarette butts on your balcony a few days ago?"
As soon as these words came out, the noise in the venue suddenly stopped.
"High paraplegia?"
On the stairs, Li Changan, who had watched the show for a long time, asked Yuan Xiaochuan in a low voice. He found that Zou Pengpan had only one head and two arms that moved from beginning to end.
Yuan Xiaochuan nodded.
"Below the chest."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zou Pengpeng suddenly patted the wheelchair and laughed wildly.
Eyes Guy feels bad.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Why am I laughing?"
She wiped away her tears Hanako.
"Then you have to ask your wife."
The man with glasses cannot get back on his feet.
An aunt next to her quickly took over the fight, but she changed her strategy and launched a roundabout attack to present the facts and reason.
She caught Liu Weidong.
"Xiao Liu, we need to be reasonable about this matter. Zou Ping in your house threw the cat downstairs. We tried to persuade her, but she still scolded us for no reason. Hey, if you don't say anything, even if we neighbors don't look up and look down, we can't see it. It catches your eye, but other people passing by don’t provoke you, so why do you throw the cat away and hit others?”
Liu Weidong was so anxious that he was sweating all over. Before he could say anything, his wife behind him screamed again.
"So what if it hits me?"
She seemed hysterical.
"They are all accomplices! Lackeys! Accomplices! If you smash them to death, you will count them all. At worst, I will be paralyzed and pay for your life. I will make a profit!"
This scolding war is finally over.
It's not that Liu Weidong's peace talks have achieved results, it's just that both sides are tired of scolding and have stopped fighting again.
The two parties went home respectively, but Yuan Xiaochuan greeted the Taoist priest and entered Liu Weidong's house.
The layout of his home is quite old-fashioned, a little crowded and small, but full of the flavor of life. It is ordinary. The only unique feature is probably that there are many pet cages in the living room. As soon as a few people enter the door, a group of cats and dogs gather around it.
Liu Weidong himself was like a spinning top that kept moving. Here he greeted the guests to sit down, and there he pushed Zou Ping into the bedroom, and in the blink of an eye he was busy in the kitchen again.
But just put on an apron.
Zou Ping said:
"What are you going to do?"
"I'll give you a bowl of noodles."
"I'm not hungry. Come here first."
He lowered his eyebrows in response and trotted to the bedroom door.
"Are you stupid?"
Zou Ping spoke again.
"Bring the medicinal wine."
"Why!"
He shouted back with joy, "Huang'er, medicinal wine."
"Woof."
The big yellow dog barked, then turned around and came to the owner with a bottle of medicinal wine, and then
"Lang Kai is old again. Didn't I tell you to be careful?"
"Be careful next time, be careful next time."
"hiss."
"Don't move."
This side of the living room.
Yuan Xiaochuan dug out tea leaves, teacups, melon seeds and peanuts, then brought a hot water kettle from the kitchen and brewed two cups of hot tea.
"You're welcome."
"Are you being polite? In the four or five months I have been in Qishui, the places where I have spent the longest time are, first, the rented house, second, the traffic police brigade, and third, this house."
Li Changan took the tea cup. The tea was fragrant but a bit hot to the mouth.
"Say it."
He put the cup down.
"Does the reason you called me to help have anything to do with this family?"
"It's related, but not entirely."
Yuan Xiaochuan, a heavy smoker, lit his cigarette again and sipped hot tea while smoking.
"That was more than four months ago. On the night of my first day working in Qishui, I rode a bicycle to the surrounding area to familiarize myself with the road conditions. Unexpectedly, I ran into my first case on the spot. A Lamborghini was hit by a drunk driver. Overturned by a family of three walking on the roadside."
"a family of three?"
"A couple and a five-month-old fetus in the woman's belly." Yuan Xiaochuan continued, "I was the first to arrive and called an ambulance. After rescue, the man was better and one leg was lame. The girl was in a much more serious condition when she woke up the next day. Although she was out of danger, the baby was not in danger. She was paraplegic at a high position and has been in a coma."
"As for the driver who caused the accident, he didn't do anything wrong. He just fell asleep on the airbag and put it back that night. The next day, someone went to the man to have sex with him."
"Can this situation be kept private?"
Yuan Xiaochuan sneered and continued:
"First of all, the person who caused the accident gave him a lot of money. Secondly, the man had a soft character, and his relatives and friends were trying to persuade him, so he agreed to have an affair. But at this time, the woman woke up."
"My baby had a miscarriage and I am a paraplegic. She has a fierce personality. She is determined to make the perpetrator go to jail even if she doesn't ask for money."
"It should."
"But when I was preparing to prosecute, I discovered that the perpetrator was a different person, the records in the file had also changed, and all the key evidence, including surveillance video, was gone."
Yuan Xiaochuan took a deep breath, pressed the butt of the cigarette into the ashtray, and spoke word by word.
"There's nothing under my nose."
"I'm looking for people from below. They don't admit that I'm looking for people from above. They don't want to interfere. They even advise me not to meddle in other people's business."
"This guy sounds like he's full of energy."
"Of course there is energy. This person's name is Hong Daihai, chairman of Hongmao Group."
"The chairman is still drunk and driving a car?"
"Can't the chairman drive a car? Ma Xiaoyun is still making movies, and Li Zongrui is still having sex with women. If he has money, he is not a scumbag?"
"You know my temper. I don't like this kind of thing, so I will try my best to find out the details of this person."
"How about it?"
"This Hong Daihai is a native of Qishui. He serves as the book of the village, has been a people's representative, and has been elected as an outstanding entrepreneur. Judging from the archives alone, he is a typical businessman who started from scratch. In the early days, he relied on collecting river sand and stone materials. , contracted land, obtained start-up capital, and later followed the trend of the boom in the health care product market, started this red grass medicated wine, and became rich from then on, becoming the richest man in the province. Don’t look at it outside, this Hong Daihai is just buying wine Yes, but in Qishui, the companies under his name are involved in all walks of life, including real estate, education, transportation, security, and even food, vegetables, takeaways, and Internet cafes."
"Sounds like a local coward."
"Yes. But the strange thing is that this local snake has never bitten anyone in the file. All the businesses under his name, including those that made him rich in the early days, there is no bad information."
At this point, he changed the subject.
"You and I both grew up in the countryside. We all know what the situation is like in the countryside. It can be said that there are many demons in the temple, and there are many bastards in Chiqian. In the countryside, especially more than ten years ago, who started from the bottom Those who make a fortune don’t have any shit on their butts.”
"This Hong Daihai is too clean."
He lit another cigarette.
"I don't believe in this evil. If I can't find it overtly, I will check it secretly. But I am not familiar with the place, so I can only find local people who are willing to help me."
Li Changan pointed to the bedroom.
"A couple of them?"
"right."
"Liu Weidong and Zou Ping are both locals. Through them, I learned some of the glorious deeds of Hong Daihai and his group of people. It's incredible that fighting, extortion, bullying, and election manipulation are all things that should and shouldn't be done." Luo, they are just a bunch of bandits and bullies!"
"He, the chairman of a group and the richest man in the province, also makes such a shabby amount of money?"
"Who knows about him? Maybe it's because he couldn't wipe the shit off his butt when he got rich in the early years. It's more likely that he has a traitorous nature that is hard to change."
Li Changan was still a little confused.
"That's not right. Logically speaking, for such an arrogant person, even if he is an official and has no one to control him, why hasn't there been any news about Lang Kai among the people?"
Li Changan's hometown is not far from Qishui, but there are not many negative rumors about this Hongmao Group except for the medicinal wine itself.
In this regard, Yuan Xiaochuan did not answer directly, but just said something seemingly irrelevant.
"When you take the bus to the station, you have to cross a bridge called Hongmao Bridge. When you get off the bus, the square next to the station is called Hongmao Square. When you look up anywhere in the city, the tallest building you see is called Hongmao Square. The building includes everyone you meet on the street. Nine out of ten have relatives who are employees of the Hongmao Group. Even if you leave the city, most of the surrounding fields are filled with red grass medicinal planters."
Yuan Xiaochuan pointed at his feet.
"This place is called Hongmao."
The Taoist priest nodded thoughtfully and signaled Yuan Xiaochuan to continue. He took over the last paragraph and said:
"I have also contacted some people through various means. Some of them are messing around with conflicts of interest, and some are really victims. But every time I contact these people, they suddenly change their words within a few days. Some are more determined and even lose their temper. I contacted him for several days, but when he showed up again, he either moved or changed his story. Until a few days ago, I found a man named Bao Zhiyun. This person also suddenly lost contact for a few days. I am waiting for him to show up again."
"Has he also changed his tune?"
"He didn't change his story, but he became mentally ill."
Yuan Xiaochuan finished smoking another cigarette and pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray.
"I asked you to come over and help me this time. Firstly, I can't do it alone. Secondly, I feel like I'm being watched!"
Hearing this, Li Changan smiled and shook his head.
"Then have you ever thought that from the day we meet today, I will also be monitored because of you?"
After hearing this, Yuan Xiaochuan was stunned for a long time, and his face became increasingly ugly.
"I'm afraid it's not that powerful."
Li Changan spread his hands.
"Who knows?"
He scratched his head and said hesitantly:
"or"
"You're just kidding, no matter what age you are, you are a gangster, not a spy. How can you be so powerful?!"
The Taoist grinned.
"I helped you with this!"
The living room of Liu Weidong's home.
Li Changan looked at a shrine in the corner, which contained a statue of a god with a very strange appearance. It looked like a human but not a human, a cat but not a cat, and a dog but not a dog. The color was old, but the expression was vivid.
Just now, Yuan Xiaochuan left because of something urgent, leaving only Li Changan who still had some doubts and wanted to ask Liu Weidong. But they are enjoying themselves in the bedroom. The Taoist priest was so bored that he had no choice but to look around, and happened to find such a shrine in the corner of the living room. Unexpectedly, I saw something strange at just one glance. This statue is not an ordinary clay sculpture. There seems to be something strange in it.
"This is Grandma Wuwu."
I don't know when, Liu Weidong finally came out of the bedroom and introduced Li Changan next to him.
"This is the ancestor we worship in this industry."
"Ancestor?"
Chinese folk gods are like the crucian carp crossing the river. Forgive Li Changan for his blindness.
Liu Weidong smiled, put a stick of incense on the shrine, and then said:
"I am in the pet business, but I am different from most of my colleagues. This is a craft passed down from my ancestors. The cats and dogs I train are famous far and wide. They are much smarter than ordinary pets. This is all thanks to the blessing of my ancestors."
Perhaps there were too many people questioning him on weekdays, but before Li Changan expressed his position, Liu Weidong rushed to say:
"You don't believe it."
"Huang'er."
He called out, and the big yellow dog ran forward wagging its tail.
"stand at attention."
The big yellow dog man stood up and put a front paw on his head.
"shake hands."
The big yellow dog "walked" over and handed Li Changan a paw. The Taoist smiled and shook hands with it.
These are all ordinary actions, nothing to praise, but then, it becomes a bit interesting.
Liu Weidong lay down on the sofa.
"I'm a little bored and want to watch TV."
The big yellow dog actually dug out the remote control and turned on the TV.
"I'm a little thirsty."
The big yellow dog picked up the kettle again and poured a cup of hot water.
"My shoulders are a little sore."
The big yellow dog barked, jumped on the sofa, and beat Liu Weidong's shoulders with his front legs.
"How about it?"
Liu Weidong smiled proudly at Li Changan. This man who had been obedient all day now actually looked somewhat confident.
But there was something inexplicable in Li Changan's eyes. What kind of ancestral craft is this? When Liu Weidong interacted with the big yellow dog, Li Changan clearly heard it, and the smell of magic on Liu Weidong became more obvious.
But looking at Liu Weidong's calm demeanor, Li Changan's hesitation towards him was relieved a lot.
The Taoist priest thought about whether it would be a situation like this: in today's world where spiritual energy is exhausted, many magical powers are ineffective. "Clairsight" means the eyes are better, "Shunfeng Ear" means the ears are better. Spells that can control animals may only make pets better behaved.
In this way, there must be people who possess magic and don't know it.
Li Changan echoed a few words casually, but he still wanted to ask more questions.
But suddenly, there was a "dong dong" sound upstairs.
Immediately afterwards.
"Is there someone dead in your house? There is a funeral in the middle of the night!"
Liu Weidong's confident smile suddenly turned back into a bitter look.
have to!
Li Changan stood up.
It's time to say goodbye and go back to clean your ears.
