In the corridor at the entrance of the empty bathroom, I stopped Brother Leopard who came out of the men's bathroom. He looked relaxed, still holding the butt of his freshly extinguished cigarette in his hand, and the Buddha beads on his wrist were eye-catching.

He looked back and saw that I was visibly stunned, with a puzzled look.

"I, do you have an impression, Brother Leopard?" I stepped forward and preemptively opened the topic, "I'm a friend of Brother Shang, and I've been with Brother Shang a few times. I was here when you went to deliver the wine. ”

"Uh-huh, I'm a little ......impressed," presumably referring to the watch man, who seemed to be trying hard to recall, but his micro-expression betrayed his perfunctory. "You're looking for me?"

"I'm embarrassed to say," I symbolically stroked my hair and looked back at the discotheque. "Please, don't tell Brother Shang, in fact, I'm also from the countryside, and Cao and I are fellow villagers. You know Cao Ke, she told me she made money from you. ”

"Cao Ke, you know her. "She's been with me before, but she went to work at one of my brothers' place about half a year ago. I introduced her to her, and she didn't have to show up, just work from home. She'd said a few times before that she didn't like the environment, the discotheque, the mess. Brother Leopard squinted his eyes and recalled everything about Cao Ke, as if this woman had been blurred in his memory, or she had not left any traces herself.

"I said I hadn't seen her for a few years, and I thought something had happened to her. I pretended to have a knowing expression, "A few days ago, her relatives in the countryside contacted me, saying that she had something to do with Cao Ke, and she couldn't be contacted, so let me help take a look." What do you say I can do, isn't this Brother Shang proposed to come over to play today, so I thought about asking by the way...... Brother Leopard, for Brother Shang's sake, can you help my sister ask where she is?"

Brother Leopard groaned for a moment, as if he was concerned about the watch man's face, nodded, and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket. "Wait a minute, I'll give my brother a call and ask. ”

Tonight I can finally get some gains. I was secretly happy in my heart, and I still had a grateful smile on my face, and I watched Brother Leopard go to the end of the corridor to make a call. He held his phone and said a few words to the other side, but I couldn't hear the call, I could only see him smiling a few smirks from a distance, and throwing cigarette butts into the trash.

After a few minutes, he hung up the phone, walked back in a huff, and showed me a page for a WeChat chat. "My brother said that he couldn't contact Cao Ke recently, he didn't know where he went, and he didn't pay the money, he was crazy. This is the address of the apartment he arranged for Cao Ke, anyway, Cao Keren shouldn't be there, you can try your luck. That's all. ”

"Thank you, Brother Leopard, you really helped me a lot. In this way, I can be considered to have an explanation for her relatives. I took out my phone and took a photo, "Thank you next time." ”

He waved his hand and put the phone back in his pocket, "I still have some things, let's go first, you tell Brother Shang, and I'll send the fruit bowl over later." ”

"Okay, brother, let's talk about it later. ”

I watched as Brother Leopard walked through the hallway into a small door with the words "Staff Passage" on it, presumably leading to some real yellow tricks. I'll talk about it later, and I'll have to go through it again, the ghost knows who Brother Shang really is—oh no, the ghost doesn't know. I followed the signs of safe passage on the walls on both sides of the hallway to find a back door, pushed open the heavy metal gate, and found a deserted alley outside, the dim light caressing everything that faded in the night.

There was also a man in a black suit standing outside the back door, who should also be a bodyguard, but he was much thinner than the one at the front door. He stopped me with his hand and asked me to show me proof of receipt or something.

"Brother Shang's friend, you dare to stop it, it's too bold", I shrugged, spread out my hands to signal him that I was empty-handed, "Brother Shang hasn't finished drinking yet, I'll help him go to the car to get cigarettes, don't believe you to ask." ”

The bodyguard looked at me suspiciously, and then picked up the headset as if to confirm whether what I said was true.

"Be careful not to eat your good fruit", I imitated the pampered and proud beautiful woman in the TV series I once watched, put my fingers under the light of the street lamp, squinted at my nails, and took my hands from near to far.

The bodyguard picked up the headset and put it down.

I'm such a natural actor. Walking briskly along the alley, the warm breeze of the night blew away the thin sweat on my forehead after drinking, and I was surrounded by a faint aroma of malt. Back in the endless stream of streets, the night after ten o'clock was almost as white as a white night with various light screens, and time was losing from the dazzling lights.

I just took a look at the location of Cao Ke's apartment, and it was about half an hour's walk from here - it sounded a bit tiring, and the subway was not working, so I checked the most suitable bus and found that the last train was out of service.

It's okay to take a taxi. I stood helplessly on the side of the road to stop the car, watching the taxis full of passengers pass by, without a trace of nostalgia for the fireworks in the world. I noticed a landmark-style building opposite, towering into the sky, and the fog blurred its top, creating a real mirage. Colourful advertisements are shown on the building's body: hot air balloons flying over fields, digital products leading the world, and beautiful women, beautifully mannered, expertly smearing lipstick all over their lips.

She probably just wanted a kiss.