Chapter 41: The Shopkeeper
[Happy Tangyuan Festival, everyone!(I suddenly regretted it, if I had changed the names of He Ning and Fang Yuan, would I be able to make up a Tangyuan cp now?!)]
Indeed, not long after Ni Sheng's incident happened, Lou Xiaoqin and Shao Yingguang also said that the roommate was scared some time ago because there were always some people looking for Ni Sheng, so he simply moved out and didn't live here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Because I don't know what this Jingming's business project is, it seems that the search scope of that commercial street is still relatively large, but considering that it is very likely that this Jingming moved away before and after choosing another store site to move over, and then removing the store decoration time that may be required, the opening time should not be particularly long, and looking for a new store that has just opened for a short time should be able to effectively narrow down the scope and save a lot of energy.
The two of them drove to the commercial street, because it was early in the morning, when they arrived there, many shops had not officially opened for business, some of the roller shutters had not yet been raised, and some of them had already opened, but they were all salesmen preparing, or the store manager and a group of clerks were jumping and jumping in front of the store to do morning exercises, using this method to attract the attention of passers-by, in order to achieve the purpose of expanding popularity.
But that's okay, the shops haven't officially opened yet, so there aren't many people on the street, Hening and Tang Li walked back and forth from beginning to end, and paid attention to the shops on both sides of the road, and found that there were really three or four stores, and it could be seen from the signboard that it had just opened for a long time, and one of them was even in the trial operation stage, and the red cloth covered by the signboard had not been removed.
These stores became the focus of attention for the two of them.
After about ten minutes, the shops on the street have opened one after another, and the morning dancers have also put away the stereos, and the commercial street has just quieted a little, waiting for the flow of customers to slowly pour in. He Ning and Tang Li noticed that the three or four stores were also open, so they went over one by one to inquire, two of the stores were hired clerks to take care of the storefront, He Ning asked if their boss's name had the word "Jingming" in it, they all shook their heads and said no, their attitude was very determined, and one of the clerks also directly reported the name, age, physiognomy and characteristics of their boss to prove that they were not lying.
The remaining two stores are owned by the owners themselves, so it is easier to verify their identities, and their names do not have the word "Jingming" in them, and they are not the people they are looking for.
Where did the store in Jingming move to before? Obviously, the small notice said that it was here, why did you come here but couldn't find it? The notice also clearly stated that the "new store address" was here, and it was not merged into the old store before it, so there was no reason why I couldn't find it.
"Huh?" He Ning suddenly remembered that they had passed by a shop just now, which had not yet opened, and the doors were all fenced off, and the inside was tinkling, as if it was being renovated, and their attention was on the newly opened store not long ago, and they didn't care too much, "Do you think we overestimated the speed at which Jingming's original store moved? What if his new store hasn't opened yet?"
As she spoke, she pointed to the storefront that was being renovated not far away, and Tang Li looked in the direction of her finger, nodded, and the two of them walked over there, lifted the thick cotton curtain that covered the door, and got in.
The area of this shop is not too big, I don't know what business projects were done before, the inside is now tinkling busy, the light is not too good, the dust is also big, there is a smell of cement dust, it does not smell good, there are three decorators in it are busy, because the decoration noise is relatively large, none of the three of them found that someone came in from outside the door, until Tanny walked towards one of the people, walked closer to the place, the decorator found that there were two more outsiders in the house.
He temporarily put down the work in his hand, raised his head and looked at Tang Li with a little doubt, and then looked at He Ning who was standing not far away, with a somewhat blank expression on his face: "You guys...... Who's the matter?"
Tonic did not rush to show his ID, but nodded to him and asked, "Did you take the work directly from the employer, or did the foreman ask you to come over?"
"Straight job," the decorator replied confusedly, gesturing to the other person who was working furthest away from him, "He's our foreman." Are you looking for someone to work for? Go and tell him, he can say what he wants. β
"What's your employer's name?" asked Tonic again.
The decorator thought about it, but he didn't seem to remember the name of his employer, so he turned his head and called out to his co-worker: "Hey, old Xu, what's the name of the person who came to work for us?"
The person he called "Old Xu Tou'er" looked to be in his sixties, and he was originally working with his head bored, but when he heard him shouting here, he stopped the tools in his hand, turned his head to look, and saw the two strangers, Tonic and He Ning, he was stunned for a moment, and answered his companion's question as usual: "It's called Han Jingming, what's wrong?"
Han Jingming! He Ning's eyes lit up, this is very likely the person they are looking for!
"Can you please any of you who have Han Jingming's contact information, can you call him over? We have some things to communicate with him, and we are in a hurry." He Ning said to the old Xu Tou'er with a sincere face.
Old Xu Tou'er didn't know what the origin of her and Tang Li was, but he could only see that they seemed to be really anxious to find Han Jingming, thinking that there were other disputes or problems in the store that had not been resolved, but he was not embarrassed to get to the bottom of it, so he immediately nodded, patted the ashes on his hands, took out his mobile phone from the pocket of his clothes, and went to the side to make a call, and after about a minute or two, he came back and said to He Ning: "He said he would be there in a while." β
Because the room is really dusty and the noise is not small, He Ning and Tang Li chose to wait at the door, the layout of this shop The two of them have seen it, and only the front door can enter and exit, so there is no need to worry about missing Han Jingming, and you can also avoid waiting inside will also affect the work of the three decoration workers.
It's still a little cold outside, especially this store is in a position where the wind is at the outlet, and the wind is especially strong compared to several other locations, but because I don't know what Han Jingming looks like, in order not to miss him, Tang Li and He Ning can't go to a distant shelter to wait, now there are more people on the commercial street, people come and go, it is inevitable that there is a possibility of accidentally missing it, and now it is difficult to find the trace of the suspected Ni Sheng roommate, and the two of them feel that they would rather be blown cold by the wind than take risksγ
He Ning pulled the zipper of his coat to the highest, and shrunk his neck as much as possible, but he still felt that the wind was pouring into his neck vigorously, and soon the temperature accumulated in his body was swept away by the wind.
"You wait a minute here. Tonic said to her, and then strode away.
He Ning didn't know what he was going to do, thinking that he was in a hurry, or thought of something else, so he didn't pay too much attention to it, and his attention was still on paying attention to whether Han Jingming came, about ten minutes later, Han Jingming still didn't appear, and Tonic had already come back first, he was holding two cups of hot drinks in his hand, and there was a flat box under his arm, I don't know what it contained.
"You help me with this. Tonic walked up to Henin and handed over two cups of hot drinks.
He Ning held it one by one, watching as Tonic took out the flat box and opened it, and took out a scarf from it, the scarf was dark beige, cashmere texture, not heavy, but quite wide. Tonic carefully wrapped the scarf around He Ning's neck, and buried half of He Ning's face in the scarf.
"It's working time, and I can't do anything other than buy a scarf. He seemed a little embarrassed, "I don't know much about girls' things, so I chose the safest color, and I can change it if I don't like it." β
"I don't need to change it, I think it's good, I like it. "He Ning's complexion is relatively fair, and it does look pretty good with such a color, and she herself really thinks that this color looks warm. She originally thought that Tonic looked quite cute with such a dull look, but when she thought of the so-called "other way" that he didn't pick out, she felt a little hot on her face and a little embarrassed.
Anyway, having an extra scarf around their necks can indeed warm up a lot, He Ning and Tang Li stood at the door and drank the hot drink that Tang Li had just bought, and their bodies gradually warmed up again, and after about twenty minutes, a small car that looked a little old slowly stopped on the side of the road, and a young man in his twenties got out of it, and after getting out of the car, he went straight to the direction of the shop that was being renovated.
Tang Li greeted him: "You are Han Jingming?"
The young man was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stopped and nodded to Tonic with a puzzled expression.
Tang Li took out his ID and showed it to him: "We are from the criminal police team of the Public Security Bureau of A City, and I just asked the decoration master in your shop to call you over." Have you ever shared a house with Ni Sheng before?"
"Ah, it's not a shared house," Han Jingming didn't deny it, "To be precise, it should be that he was the second landlord for me." He rented the house, and I just rented a room from him, and I didn't live there for long, and I didn't know him very well, so I moved out. β
"Are you nervous?" He Ning looked at Han Jingming's appearance and asked on the side.
Han Jingming gave her a "knowingly asked" look: "Of course I'm nervous! Just now my worker called me and said that someone was looking for me in a hurry, I thought something was wrong, so I hurried over, but I didn't expect that the person looking for me was a policeman, and asked me about Ni Sheng, it would be strange if I wasn't nervous." Let me tell you in advance, Ni Sheng and I are ordinary roommates, and it didn't last long, and then I moved away, and even the store was taken away, so I really don't know much about him. No matter what happened to him, I don't know, we didn't know each other well enough to talk about everything. β
"Don't worry, we're just looking for you to understand the situation," He Ning looked at Han Jingming in front of him,
"And we didn't say that Ni Sheng had an accident, why are you in such a hurry to clear it up?"
"Look at what you said, I'm not stupid! If he's okay, can you find me? This must be either him causing trouble, or he has an accident!" Han Jingming seemed to know, "Then let's do it, if it can be solved in one sentence or two, let's solve it quickly, if we have to ask for a while, then let's find a place to sit down and talk, it's too cold here, and we'll freeze through after a while!"
He Ning and Tang Li accepted his proposal, and under the leadership of Han Jingming, they went to a coffee shop not far from his store, there was no one here early in the morning, and it was quite quiet, and the three of them found a convenient place to talk in a corner and sat down, ready to talk about serious things.
Han Jingming doesn't look very old, he should be about the same as He Ning, he is dressed quite fashionably, but it doesn't seem to be too high, slinged jeans, motorcycle leather clothes, hair should be permed, the sides are relatively short, the middle is quite long, he can't drink half a foot high with a hair dryer, and he still has a huge diamond stud earring on his ear, of course, looking at the age of the car he drove, as well as his own outfit, plus the size of the diamond, it is estimated that it is a rhinestone earring on the market that can be worth twenty or thirty yuanγ
"Two, can I ask first, is Ni Sheng causing trouble, or is there an accident?" After he sat down, he didn't seem to have much stage fright, and took the initiative to ask Tang Li and He Ning.
"Which one do you think it will be?" asked Tonic without replying.
Han Jingming shrugged: "I really can't guess this, I think it's all possible, to tell you the truth, I moved out of him for two reasons." In the past, I opened a store near the house he rented, and I was not afraid of your jokes, when I rented a store there to open a store, I must have had my brain in water, and the business was not good at all, I wanted to move a little, but I felt that the rent elsewhere was too expensive, and I was a little entangled, and then after renting a room with Ni Sheng for a while, I made up my mind, so he counted me as the second reason for moving the store. β