Section 6: The Boss's Invitation
Three days later, the owner of Tan San Hotel sent someone to say that he would personally pick me up for a banquet in the evening, and I was flattered. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
I know that my boss, Tan San, has always been grateful to me because I cured him of stubborn prostatitis. I will come down and prepare to go in the evening.
It was just dark, almost five o'clock, I sent Tian Fang home, "It's not early, you go back." ”
She put down the rag and looked at me, "Master, people invite you to dinner, it must be very lively." I want to go. ”
"......" I hesitated.
Tian Fang glanced out the window, turned his head, and his face was full of color, "I'll be alone when I go back, it's boring, and a lot of people can relieve boredom!" ”
"It's okay to go, but don't go out of line, don't talk about what you shouldn't talk about."
"Thank you, master!" She smiled.
Suddenly, there was a "Bang Dang!" from outside the window. A sound followed, followed by the sound of feet stepping on the snow. Then, a figure swayed through the window. After that, everything was calm again.
"Master, what do you see?"
"There was a noise outside the window, and there was a figure! This is not like a passerby! ”
"Figures?" Tian Fang followed my gaze, "Where is the figure?" ”
I stepped open the door, stood at the door, and looked at the pine snow under the window by the light in the window. ”
"Meow!" I asked "Where did the cat come from?" ”
The direction of the cat's meow is the landlord's house next to the clinic. The lamp is on in his house, and a window is open, and the sound will come from the window.
I walked uneasily to the window and looked into the lighted room.
"Open the window on a cold day, this Luo Hui is really superhuman."
I think it's a false alarm. But just as I was about to turn around, I found a package on the windowsill, the same as the one I had picked up before. I reached for the package and stuffed it into my cotton coat.
"What are you doing?" Tian Fang stood at the door of the clinic and stared at me.
I pointed to the window, "It's weird that no one else has a window open." ”
Tian Fang looked down at the snow under the window, "There are cat paw prints on the ground, and his cat has run away!" ”
"Nope! Not to run away, but to enter. ”
"He doesn't have a cat?"
"Yes, no. The cat must have smelled something fishy. I said, "Who will that figure be?" ”
"Eighty percent are landlords!"
"No, the landlord's feet are very large, and the footprints on the ground are much smaller, it should be that the woman has just left."
"I heard that the landlord has been lending usury, and he just got divorced, will you-"
"You think it's his lover's footprints?" I asked.
"It should be!"
Turning my head, I looked into his window again, and there was a dead silence in the room. Occasionally, a cat would come out from under the bed, its mouth covered in blood, and it would look at me with a hunched eye and a gut telling me that it was full.
"It looks like the landlord isn't at home." Tian Fang said.
I glanced at the footprints under the window, "If you don't do your job, something will happen sooner or later." ”
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Soon, Tan San drove a black Audi to the clinic. He is very righteous and I admire him. So, Tian Fang and I stood at the door of the clinic to greet him.
"Master, this car is good!"
"People are good, too." I say.
Tan San, who was tall and thin, dressed in a suit, and had a big face, got out of the car and treated me with a courteous face, "Doctor Hou, we haven't seen each other for a long time!" ”
"yes, I didn't expect you to remember me."
"Of course! You cured my illness, you are my own uncle! ”
"You're still like that, joking, haven't changed at all." I say.
"Hey! Smile for ten years! "Tan San has a high level of understanding.
Getting into the car, I thought I was going forward, but Tan San stood outside the car and looked at the clinic motionless.
I rolled the window and asked, "Are you looking for my landlord?" ”
"Hmm."
He turned his back to me, only said yes, strode to the door of the landlord's house, he waved and knocked on the door, and in the northwest wind he could hear him shouting "Luo Hui, Luo Hui......"
There was no response, and he tugged hard at the locked door, but to no avail. Eventually, he got back into the car and sat in the driver's seat, thoughtful.
"Doctor Hou, have you seen Luo Hui?" Tan San asked me.
"I saw it a few days ago, but I didn't have it today." I asked, "Is he a part too?" ”
"Well, I said yesterday that I picked him up for dinner today, and the lights were on in his house, why was there no one?" Tan San was puzzled.
"I'm looking for a woman!"
"Tian Fang!" I'm a little angry.
“…… I'm talkative, I'm wrong. Tian Fang admitted her mistake.
"Well, almost." Tan San smiled again and asked me, "Doctor Hou, this is ......?"
I said, "I forgot to introduce her just now, her name is Tian Fang, and she is my apprentice." ”
"Good, good!" Tan San was inexplicable.
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Golden Resources Hotel.
When we arrived, there were already several people sitting in the private room. These strangers, each with fat heads and big ears, are indispensable. After the greetings, among the six fat people, Shi Erniu, who had a big bald head and triangular eyes, toasted me.
"Doctor Hou, I have already heard thunder about your superb medical skills, Tan San is right, you really have the demeanor of a fairy wind bone!" "Do it first!" Shi Erniu drank it all.
He was bold, but I didn't want to be accompanied, and I felt embarrassed.
"Master, I'll do it for you!" Tian Fang picked up my wine glass.
"Disobedient, put-" Before I could finish speaking, she craned her neck and drank all her wine.
Tian Fang tilted his wine glass and signaled to everyone, "I am an apprentice, it is only natural to drink for the master, how about it?" Tian Fang's face did not change in public.
In the small talk, you brought up a series of strange things that have happened recently. So much so that I became the focus of questioning.
"Since Liu Xiaosong disappeared, strange things have happened in Xinzhan Village one after another. It is rumored that Wang Ying was hit and killed by Liu Xiaosong's car, and Hu Ergou's family is also missing. They all happened after you were treated, is it a coincidence? Shi Erniu asked me.
“…… It shouldn't be a coincidence. "I feel embarrassed.
"Wang Ying died in front of your clinic, what is the explanation?" Shi Erniu got to the bottom of it.
"I think Wang Ying's death is revenge." I say.
"But Liu Xiaosong retaliated against Wang Ying, which is a bit strange."
"It's not surprising that the motorist may not be Liu Xiaosong." I say.
"It's not him—who could it be?"
"......" I wanted to say and stopped.
"Boss Tan, there is a problem with the braised mackerel in your hotel!" Tian Fang interjected.
"Oh? What's the problem? ”
"Ergou said that his family couldn't afford to get sick after eating braised mackerel, and my master concluded that it was caused by poisoning!"
I added, "It's not fish poisoning, because Ergou has also eaten it." ”
"There's a problem with the food delivery!" Tian Fang said.
"Delivering food?" Tan San emphasized that "she is mute and very honest, it can't be like this." He suddenly exclaimed, "Ah! The dumb man sent food to Luo Hui yesterday afternoon! ”
"Could it be that the landlord-" I feel bad!
Half an hour passed, and Tan Sanyi's gang was already drunk. Tian Fang was in charge of driving Tan San home, and I left alone with doubts.
Along the way, I recalled footprints in the snow outside the clinic; swaying figures; a cat with blood sticky at the corners of its mouth; the wrap I stuffed into my cotton coat; And that open window. By all indications, this is unusual.
When I returned to my accommodation, I had just opened the door of the clinic and subconsciously glanced at the host's house, where the windows were still lit and the lights were silent. And the more this happens, the more it makes me think about it.