Chapter 17: It's All in the Past
On November 15, 2013, at 3:07 a.m., at the "Companion Years" hot pot restaurant on Diezhang Middle Road, the Chinese square lamp hanging high illuminated the inside and outside of the store.
As soon as a guest paid the bill and left, there were only three tables left for me. It looks like they are all guests from Jinsha Nightclub who have finished singing, and there are beautiful women around them to accompany them for supper.
The taste of the environment of "Accompany the Capital Years" is very good, maybe the proprietress was originally the princess of Jinsha Nightclub, and the main source of customers is the guests who go to Jinsha to drink, sing, and socialize, these people are not bad on the surface, so the price is expensive.
I was almost unable to eat anymore, when Irina took out a green phone from the small bag she was carrying.
It was the first time I saw the color of this phone case, and I was a little surprised, remembering that the three phones she took out of the drawer when she paid for it should have been white.
She skillfully swiped the unlock pattern on the phone screen, looked at the time, and handed the phone to me.
When I sat and took the phone, the mobile phone rang suddenly, Zhou Huajian's "difficult scriptures": laughing at you and I are scheming in vain, I love to compete for the beauty of the mirror flower, I am afraid that luck will pass away in a blink of an eye, and I am fascinated by greed, hatred, joy and anger......
Irina still had that innocent smile and prompted me to answer the phone.
I remember the mysterious call, and the ringtone tone that passed was the "difficult scripture", and I didn't know whether it was nervous or surprised for a while. When you look closely, it's not the number.
"Call me?" I asked.
Irina nodded, her eyes losing the gentleness just now, as if she had changed someone.
I didn't know the meaning of the song when I first heard it, and then I heard it again.
I smiled bitterly to myself, thinking that I was pretending to be smart, and it turned out that whether it was Dr. Kim, Xiaoji, Irina and the caller, I was in their bureau.
The voice on the phone, hoarse and low, spoke quite quickly, it was difficult to hide the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart, it was Wu Wangjing!
But this number is by no means Wu Wangjing's.
"You come to me right now," Wu Wangjing added, "don't speak. ”
I was stunned, and immediately understood that Wu Wangjing had robbed Jiang Long, and now I don't know how many people are looking for him.
Wu Wangjing said slowly: "You follow the people around you, she is my girlfriend and can be trusted." ”
I sighed, and finally understood why all I saw today was green.
Before I could react, Wu Wangjing hung up the phone.
Irina got up and took the phone, and at eye level with me was her mid-dress, a curvaceous green.
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I walked to the bar, ready to pay, and when it was time for me to go, I had to go.
The proprietress looks quite beautiful, with a jasper chain around her pink neck, which is worth a lot of money and is verdant.
Compared to Irina, if one is a peony, the other is a lotus. She smiled gracefully, looked at it skillfully, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Cao, Irina has paid for it." ”
I was surprised and asked, "Do you know me?"
"Who doesn't know Mr. Cao? You have forgotten, we have also sung together. The proprietress said quietly: "WeChat, Irina WeChat transfer." I've never seen Irina pay, you have to cherish it......" Her expression was meaningful.
"Okay," I said, walking back and asking Irina, "Far away?"
Irina replied: "It takes about 20 minutes to take a taxi, and my mobile phone has called the car." ”
I was speechless for a while, I didn't say more, I didn't want to say more, and I was a little interested.
What is seen and thought is often not the same thing as reality.
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It's green again, a grass-green taxi, parked at the door of the "Companion Years".
Irina motioned for me to get in the car first, I'm used to being at the mercy of others today.
I sat in the back row, Irina sat to my right, and I kept a distance of half a person, speechless all the way.
The road is empty, there are no cars and pedestrians, and the streetscape on both sides flies by. The taxi drove to an unnamed two-story building on the east side of the office building of the Xuancheng Federation of Literary and Art Circles, which was once a state-run vegetable market. At the entrance of the alley next to the vegetable market, there are a few dim street lamps.
Irina got out of the car, and I moved to the door of the car, and from this angle, I could just see the driver's face, with a dark complexion, a mouth full of yellow teeth, two small eyes, and an obscene expression, exactly like the dead newsstand owner next door, Lao Wang.
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Irina said, "You come with me, the road is not easy to walk, pay attention to your step." ”
What is this called? The road is not easy to walk, pay attention to your step? I became nervous, it can't be a pun, remind me of something, right?
Walking through the dimly lit alleys, south, east, and south to west, it took me about three or four minutes, and I really don't know which direction I was heading now. I took out my phone to check the time, and on November 15, 2013, at 3:33 a.m., I realized that my phone had no signal at all.
333, such a coincidence? Did Wu Wangjing deliberately find such a ghost place with no signal?
Along the way, I saw several walls with big red characters written on them. The old city compartment attached to the city center here belongs to the scope of demolition and relocation, and it is estimated that high-rise buildings will rise one after another by this time next year. Now the speed of municipal construction has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and people have to sigh at the changes in the world.
Coming to the next T-junction, there is a small courtyard at the junction, and the courtyard gate is gray-green. The weedy wall at the entrance is covered with ivy, making people wonder if the owner's family has been moved away for a long time and has not been inhabited for a long time.
Irina stopped at the gate of the courtyard, looked left and right, snapped three times, stopped for a second or two, and snapped again.
I looked up at the heights, there was no camera monitoring equipment, and I secretly admired Wu Wangjing's caution.
Hidden in the city, who would have expected that after Wu Wangjing robbed Jiang Long, he would settle in the city center not far from Jiuzhou Hospital. The courtyard he chose was well connected to the nearby trails, and there was no surveillance around it, and there was no cell phone signal. It is not only conducive to concealing whereabouts, but also convenient to retreat in case of any situation, and causing great trouble to the other party's contact and communication.
The rhythm of Irina's knock on the door must have been agreed in advance.
The gray-green courtyard door creaked open slowly, tearing apart the tranquility of the late autumn night at such a lonely hour.
I didn't see anyone, I followed Irina into the small courtyard, and the door squeaked and closed by myself, and I realized that Wu Wangjing was hiding behind the door.
A lean and thin figure, a black bottomless pineapple button kung fu shirt, and a pair of blue and white Nike sneakers on his feet.
Through the sultry starlight and moonlight, I saw that his pale face was full of nervousness and unease.
Wu Wangjing shook Irina's slender and delicate hand and said in a low voice, "Sister, it's hard for you." ”
"Sister?" I blurted out reflexively, "Didn't you say your girlfriend on the phone just now?"
Wu Wangjing glared at me, the meaning is obvious, now the police are looking for me everywhere, you kid is stupid. It's like a reminder to warn me, this is my sister, don't think about any crooked thoughts.
Wu Wangjing's kung fu is one of the best in Xuancheng, and I can be knocked down by him at any time if I add up to three or four.
I approached Irina and seemed to smell the flowers in the garden. lowered his voice, pointed to Wu Wangjing's back in front of him, and asked, "Is he really your brother?"
Irina nodded in reply, and walked lightly towards an old-fashioned building with a green tile gate in the courtyard, and I seemed to hear her snort softly.
Although it was the middle of the night in late autumn, I suddenly felt that spring was bright.
But Wu Wangjing is from Guangxi, but Irina is from Yuyao, Zhejiang? It must be Irina's mother who married Yuyao, and the two are cousins, I explained in my heart.
There is always a way to explain a certain outcome that a person desires......