It was the afternoon, and there were many people sitting in the public teahouse. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Dusk pushed open the door and looked for a long time before I saw the man sitting in the corner in red clothes and messy hair.

He walked over and tapped the man on the shoulder from behind, and the man jumped up as if frightened. When he turned his head to see the dusk, he said very alarmingly, "Who are you?"

This man was in his early twenties and looked very scruffy. He was wearing a plaid shirt of no original color, a bright red jacket, and bleached jeans had begun to turn yellow. Sneakers are the kind with "devil sticky" and no laces.

His skin is rough, and his yellow-to-black complexion looks unhealthy. Even with thick-framed glasses, he can't hide his dark circles, and he looks like a person who stays up late all year round.

Interestingly, the young man had a bushy beard.

At this moment, the man was holding a backpack in his arms, huddled in a cramped seat, his dark eyes staring at the dusk, as if looking at a monster.

Dusk said angrily, "Didn't you ask me to meet here?" ”

Dai Tian rubbed his nose and grinned, "Do what we do, you have to be vigilant, old problem, old problem." As he spoke, he beckoned the waiter to remove the boiled water from the table and replace it with tea, and then ordered a lot of snacks according to the recommendations on the menu.

After the waiter walked away, Dai Tian pointed to the chair opposite him: "Sit down, sit down." His shift from vigilance to diligence made Twilight a little uncomfortable. But everyone around him was sitting, and he stood to attract attention, so he thought that dusk sat down.

Dai Tian saw that he sat down at dusk, and then he relaxed a little, and he said with a little complaint: "You're late!"

Dusk scratched his head, he didn't want to explain, but he didn't know why he still spoke: "I fell asleep in the car, I didn't pay attention, I sat and stopped." ”

At this time, the waiter began to serve cashew nuts, bean paste buns and other snacks, and the two began to talk while eating.

Dai Tian was originally very good at observing words and feelings, and he had talked to Dusk on the Internet for a while before, so he knew his situation well, so he quickly chatted with the other party.

"Brother, I said, let's talk a lot. But there's one important thing you haven't said. Dusk had almost finished eating the cashew nuts on the plate in front of me.

Dai Tian watched him finish the last pill, and beckoned the waiter to serve another plate.

"Ask, if I can say it, I'll say it. ”

Twilight was a little upset: "How are you sneaky all the time." Having said that, he himself looked around nervously, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to them at all, he lowered his voice and said: "How did you find me? Don't tell me that I met by chance on the Internet, I play landlords every day, and I meet more people, so it is impossible for you to find them so coincidentally." ”

Dai Tian grinned again: "This, I couldn't tell you originally." However, big brother, I have a good temper with you, and I see that you are not bad, so I will tell you. He also lowered his voice: "When you called the police, there was a recording." ”

As soon as Dusk's face changed, he was about to get up and leave.

Dai Tian hurriedly said, "Don't be afraid, you are safe." Otherwise, I wouldn't have found you by now, would I?"

Dusk didn't speak, his hands clutching the edge of the table, his knuckles beginning to turn white with the force of his fingers, obviously terrified.

Dai Tian patted his hand: "Big brother, if I were a bad person, you would have had an accident a long time ago, would you still sit here with me and drink tea?"

With that, the waiter walked over and served a plate of cashew nuts.

Dai Tian stared at him closely: "The story you said you wanted to tell me last time, now you can talk about it." You always say that the Internet is not safe, you see, I have invited you out for tea, and no one here knows you. ”

Dusk hesitated a little: "I really haven't told anyone, you have to promise me, and forget after listening." ”

Dai Tian couldn't cry or laugh: "Didn't you say that it was all about many years ago, the prosecution period has long passed, and I think too much about you." ”

Seeing that Dusk was still undecided, Dai Tian handed him the backpack, "This is what I promised you before, if you don't say it, forget it, I will find a way to deal with the client myself." As he spoke, he sighed exaggeratedly, "Alas, our line of work is miserable, and we finally met a generous employer, but the informant is unreliable again." ”

Dusk didn't answer, just stretched out his thumb and index finger, and gestured: "Okay, 80,000, not a single point less." ”

Dai Tian cried with a sad face: "You gave me a total of 80,000 yuan, and I spent 2,000 yuan myself, you have to leave some for me." Otherwise, you can take the money in this bag first, and then I'll lend you 2,000 yuan, and make up 80,000 yuan, okay?"

Dusk snatched the backpack. He unzipped it, dipped a little spit on his hand, and began to count the money with his head down.

He counted slowly, and Dai Tian waited patiently. Seeing that Dusk hadn't looked up, Dai Tian quietly took out a small voice recorder from his pocket, put it on his thigh, and pressed the recording button. After a while, Dusk, who had finished counting the money, looked up, put the bag behind him, then pulled the chair forward a little and whispered, "I repeat, this is all what I saw with my own eyes." ”

Dai Tian took out a small notebook and prepared to take notes.

Dusk hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, you can't expose my identity." ”

Dai Tian said helplessly: "Big brother, I don't even know your real name." Besides, I've been doing this for so many years, and I'm an old bird, so of course I know the rules. ”

Dusk frowned: "To be honest, I don't have a good impression of you paparazzi at all. ”

Dai Tian shouted: "Big brother, I'm a private detective, not a paparazzi!"

Twilight pouted: "What's the difference? He picked up his cup, drank the tea in one gulp, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and began to narrate.

It was a spring twelve years ago.

At dusk, he had just lost his job, and his wife had returned to her parents' house with the children, and he was very depressed and troubled, and often borrowed wine to drown his sorrows. That night, as usual, he was again very drunk, and walked home with drunken steps, and when he came to a flowerbed, he vomited with a feeling of nausea, and when he had vomited, he somehow fell asleep in the flowerbed.

It was probably the spring night wind still carrying a hint of coolness, and he was awakened by the cold at dusk, and he was a little sober, and was about to climb out of the flower bed, when suddenly he saw a man sneaking around near a car.

At first, Dusk thought that the man was going to steal the car, and he didn't have a good impression of the person who had the car, so he decided to leave it alone. But he suddenly saw the suspicious-looking man bend down and put something under the car, which was obviously not intended to steal the car.

Curiosity rose at dusk, and he crept down in the flower bed again. The flower bed was some distance away from the car, and the shadowy branches of the flowers made it impossible for him to see the man's face or what was put there.

At this time, the man straightened up, and Dusk quickly squatted down.

Dusk squatted for a while, estimating that the person should leave, so he slowly stood up, but saw that the two people were talking while walking, and they had already walked to the side of the car, and both of them were a little excited.

Among them, the younger ones wore police uniforms, and the older ones wore civilian clothes. The young policeman pulled open the car door, and the older one sat in first, still arguing about something. The young policeman was holding on to the roof of the car with one hand, seemingly anxious.

Dusk couldn't hear what they were saying, but was thinking about whether to tell the police when someone slipped an unidentified object under their car. He didn't want to talk about it, and he didn't want to deal with the police. He clearly remembers that he once got drunk and smashed a tavern and was taken to the police station, and the police were not friendly to him.

Thinking like this, Dusk decided that it was better to have more than less, and he quietly moved back, intending to go around.

"Wait!" a voice sounded in the distance, almost scaring Dusk to death, and he shuddered and turned away, only to realize that it was not for him. Another burly man in a police uniform came running from a distance and ran straight for the car, running very fast.

At this moment, Dusk suddenly smelled a strange smell, and then, a loud noise was heard, and Dusk knew nothing. When he woke up, he had been thrown out of the flower bed, covered in bruises, and as soon as he moved, he felt pain everywhere.

Dusk sat up angrily, only to find that the two cars were burning, and the people they had been talking to were gone. When he looked closely, he saw a burnt black wreckage, and he screamed in fright, and fled to his house. It took him a long time before he remembered that he should call the police.

There were phone booths on the side of the road, and I dialed 110 in the evening. But he really didn't have the courage, and when the operator asked him for his identity and location, he hung up the phone in panic and fled home.

He didn't dare to drink or go out for days on end, and waited at home for the police to knock on the door. It wasn't until he saw a TV report that a middle school teacher was seeking revenge for his son, resulting in one police officer killing and one injury, that he was relieved a little. It soon dawned on him that he might well be the only witness that night.

He had never thought to confess the real situation to the police, and he had a hunch that it would be better not to deal with this matter. If he hadn't met this private investigator with the online name "Dai Tian" many years later, he would probably have forgotten this experience.

Dai Tian listened silently, while writing hard. He frowned, his expression solemn, and several times, Dusk felt that he seemed to be a little excited, but in the end he didn't say anything, just silently took notes. After Dusk finished speaking, he looked at him timidly, and seeing that he still didn't say a word, he couldn't help asking, "Do you think I did something wrong?"

Dai Tian said: "I don't think it's important, what matters is your own feelings." ”

Dusk said a little uneasily: "I sometimes wonder if it's because of this incident that I've been having a bad time all these years?"

Dai Tian said: "You don't have to think like that. He met Dusk's puzzled gaze: "I used to think like this, if I had done what I did at the beginning, would not have happened later." But these assumptions proved to be meaningless. Now that it's happened, you can only face it and move forward. The important thing is to live in the moment. ”

"Live in the moment?" Dusk muttered.

Dai Tian took out a few photos from his notebook, "I want you to identify, among these people, is there anyone who put something under the car?"

Dusk looked at the photos in amazement: "Where did you get these pictures?"

Dai Tian smiled: "You don't care about this, I still have two hits, otherwise people won't hire me to work, right?"

Dusk took the photo, looked around, and gave it back to Dai Tian: "I can't say it well, it's been too long, and I was so far away at the time that I really couldn't see clearly." ”

Dai Tian looked disappointed, but still did not give up: "Then does he have any characteristics, or is there anything unusual?"

Twilight pondered for a moment and said, "I just remember that he seemed to be a left-hander. ”

Dai Tian suddenly became excited, "Are you sure?"

"It should be. For when he straightened up, he dusted off the dirt from his body, and he dusted it with his left hand. Speaking of this, Dusk smiled a little embarrassedly, "I was left-handed when I was a child, and I was always beaten by my parents, forcing me to change it, and later I changed my eating and writing, but some things still feel that the left hand is more smooth, so I will pay more attention to the left hand." ”

"This detail is important, maybe it will be used. Dai Tian snapped the notebook with his left hand, and quietly put away the recorder with his right hand. "Well, give me a card number, and I'll give you the remaining two thousand dollars! or, if you'd like to meet again, I'll give you cash the next time I invite you to dinner!"

Twilight shook her head, "Forget it. He glanced at the backpack pressed behind him, "Seventy-eight thousand is not too much, I'm content." Don't look for me anymore, I don't want to be targeted by the police. ”

Dai Tian pretended to be angry and said: "How can the police know? You don't believe in my professionalism too much!"

Dusk disagreed: "Your employer may be a policeman, you better be careful, I'll go first, don't look for me!"

"The police won't find a private detective to handle the case!" Dai Tian retorted unconvinced.

"Then how do you have a police recording?"

Dai Tian was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Okay, I'll admit it, I sometimes cooperate a little with the police, but it's just me asking them for information. ”

Dusk shook her head, "I've said enough today, I've told you what I've seen, and in the future, don't pester me." ”

"Am I that kind of person?!" Dai Tian explained anxiously, but before he could finish speaking, Dusk had already gotten up and left.

"You guy, at least AA system!" Dai Tian shouted behind him, but walked away without looking back.

Dai Tian snapped his fingers helplessly, and after checking out, he also quickly left the public teahouse.

A taxi or two stopped at the door of the most luxurious hotel in Hancheng. Dai Tian got out of the car and swaggered into the lobby under the surprised gaze of the doorman. He got on the elevator with ease, and when he reached the eighteenth floor, he took out his room card and opened the door to a guest room.

After closing the door, Dai Tian ripped off the wig with thick bangs, took off the clumsy flat glasses, and then slowly tore off the fake mustache that was attached to the sideburns. The glue of the fake beard stuck a little to his beard, and in pulling it brought his skin with it, so much so that he let out a "hiss" sound.

After doing all this, he walked into the bathroom and opened his makeup bag. He took out the makeup remover and slowly applied it to his face. As the cotton pad wiped, a mass of earthy yellow was wiped away, revealing his pale skin. He looked in the mirror for a moment, then carefully took out the black contact lenses and threw them in the trash.

In the mirror, there was a foreigner with golden eyes, his eyes were red, but they were dry without a tear.