Chapter 4: The Bartender's Side
The two of us followed the sound and looked over, only to see the bartender coming towards the two of us, Li Jing immediately escorted me behind him, and we stared at the people who came vigilantly.
On the contrary, the bartender looked relaxed and comforted us, saying, "It's okay, I didn't tell the boss about your purpose." It's just that someone finally brought it up, and it reminded me of something. ”
"Huh?" Li Jing unconsciously issued a question word.
"Don't be nervous, I really don't have any ill intentions, I just want to talk about what happened at that time." The bartender waved his hand, hoping we would be able to relax. But seeing Li Jing's tense back, I knew that he was still wary of this man who suddenly appeared.
"Why?" Li Jing asked.
The bartender probably also knew that Li Jing was wary of him, so he just sat on the stone steps next to him: "Probably because of the condemnation of conscience, right?" The bartender laughed self-deprecatingly.
"Condemnation of conscience?" Li Jing repeated the bartender's words.
"Ah, by the way, when you first arrived, I thought you two weren't just here to play. I'm just a normal bartender, but I can observe the people in the bar. No one will immediately separate as soon as they enter the bar and become like strangers, and few girls will run to the bar to find a drink by themselves, unless they break up and buy drunk, the average girl will definitely wait for someone to buy her a drink under normal circumstances. It's rare for me to meet a girl with a smile on her face who buys drunk on her own. So I think you must have wanted to ask me something, but I didn't expect it to be such a big deal. The bartender Mi Youyou, answering Li Jing's question, talked about our omissions, which made me embarrassed.
"But I can see that you don't come to this place very often." The bartender was still joking, but seeing Li Jing's stern expression, he still answered the question honestly, "It's not a big deal, but now that I think about it, I still feel that I'm too cowardly." ”
Speaking of this, the bartender paused: "I was an apprentice when I first arrived here four years ago, and this bar was very popular because of a very exciting bartending performance. It's that the bartender puts a lot of effort into the bartending tricks, and the bartender will play with fire while bartending at the same time, such as shaking the bartender with two hands while playing with a fire stick, and constantly swapping places between the two things, which will look very exciting, but because the mind is all about the performance, the taste of the wine in the end is really not flattering. However, the bartender who performed the show was a beautiful woman, so even if the taste of the sake was not good, there was an endless stream of customers who came here to enjoy the performance. Ah, far away, on the day of the accident, the beautiful bartender still performed as usual, but I don't know why I missed, the fire stick fell, and it may have been sprinkled on the ground when the bartending was made, and when the fire stick fell, it ignited the wires and the like, and it turned into a fire in the chaos. The incident happened suddenly, everyone panicked, the beautiful bartender was closest to the fire, in fact, pulling her at that time could definitely get her out, but at that time, everyone ran out, no one noticed her, and when everyone escaped, they remembered that she was still inside, and it was too late to go back to save her. ”
These people are really selfish, there must have been many people who confessed to the big beauty at that time, but when it came to the critical moment, they still left the beauty and ran away alone. I sneered inwardly.
Probably noticing my mocking expression, the bartender explained in a bit of a panic: "You don't know, everyone was scared stupid during the fire, so they had to flee for their lives." ”
I was just about to open my mouth again to mock his selfishness, but Li Jing tugged at my clothes and motioned for me not to speak yet: "But the report said that four were burned to death." Could it be that those people are also close to the fire? ”
Hearing Li Jing's question, the other party was obviously stunned: "Four? No, it's just the bartender. She was my master, and she was the only one who died at that time, and I couldn't know better. ”
Is Shi Hao's information wrong? Li Jing and I looked at each other.
Seeing that we didn't believe it, the bartender said in a resolute tone: "I swear that my master is absolutely alone, so I will always feel guilty and leave my master alone in the fire at the last moment." Later, because of the fire, the show was stopped, and everyone didn't come here much, and business gradually declined, and within a few months, the bar changed hands. Everyone left, I had nowhere to go, and I felt guilty about Master, so I chose to stay. Every time I get off work, I always think of my master, if I had the courage to run over and pull her, she would still be performing here. The bartender looked at the sky and sighed, then turned to us after a while and said, "However, I didn't expect to be able to tell anyone about it again one day." I didn't expect that after so long, there would still be people thinking about her. Are you friends with Sister Beauty? ”
Li Jing didn't speak, took my hand and quickly left the bar street.
In addition to Bar Street, Li Jing took a taxi and went straight to the airport.
"Don't we have to go to the local police station?" I asked Li Jing, isn't this just to investigate the situation?
"Team Xiao, it's me, the matter is almost investigated, I'm on my way back. The taxi you took was issued with a license plate number. After ignoring me, he called on his own.
"I'm sorry" I thought he was still angry about what had just happened, so I decided to apologize to him right away, "I'm really sorry I talked like that just now, I didn't mean to hurt you." ”
"You don't have to apologize to me, you're right, I'm too conceited." Li Jing said lightly, his eyes kept paying attention to the taxi driver.
I thought to myself, I'm really angry when it's over, and I can even admit my shortcomings.
"No, scolding me is really unscrupulous, I know that you are for my good, and you are here to help me solve everything. I really shouldn't have said that, I just want to prove that I'm not the fool you think I'm going to be. I hurriedly explained to Bai Shou, and by the way, he was sitting in the passenger seat, and pressed his shoulder.
This sentence seems to be quite useful, it seems that he is not as angry as he was just now, but his eyes have been wandering on his mobile phone and private himself.
"I just want you to admit that I also have an IQ, and every time I see you and Team Xiao solve cases majestically, I also want to be as handsome as you." I continued to pat myself on the back.
Li Jing also seemed to know my intentions, and slapped my hand away: "Got it! I can talk in my head, and I always say that I have no emotional intelligence, and my emotional intelligence is also negative? "I was relieved to hear that Li Jing had begun to sarcastically mock me. Finally stopped being angry. By the way, what does she care about me when she gets angry? Didn't the reason I first investigate with him just to make him angry and frustrate his spirit? Why are you coaxing him now? Xiaozhi, you're so stupid that you can't be helped.
The driver listened to our conversation and suddenly interjected: "You are the police?" ”
"No, it's not." Li Jing replied first, "However, I have a police friend in City B, and I asked him to pick me up tomorrow." Li Jing put his hand in the duffel bag he was carrying.
"Coming back so late?" The driver asked Li Jing, as if he had seen Li Jing's movements.
"Well, tomorrow he's on vacation, and he'll be sure to pick me up when we get there." Li Jing added an accent to the word 'certainly'.
"That's right." The driver stopped talking. The atmosphere in the car was very weird, and it didn't take long for us to arrive at the airport, Li Jing pulled me out of the taxi, and then quickly checked in, and flew back to City B for the last flight. I didn't go to the bathroom until the plane took off.
Li Jing's face has been bad all the way, and I thought he was still angry with me.
It wasn't until the plane landed at the airport in City B and got into the Xiao team car that Li Jing breathed a sigh of relief and showed a tired look.
"Xiaozhi, that bartender lied." After Li Jing finished speaking, he fell asleep against the glass window.