078 The Mouth of a Dead Man
Although I am a subconscious person who is very nosy, when the strange nurse said that the little girl left in the shelter was younger than the leaves, I first felt that I really couldn't be indifferent.
Secondly and most importantly, why did this strange girl have my contact information on her?
I drove to the suburbs, more than 20 kilometers from the city, which has always been a humble place for migrant workers.
The shelter is small and looks like an old repair shop from the outside. The windows and walls are mottled, the equipment is outdated, and there are few nurses. The little girl at the registration desk turned out to be a mute who could only play sign language.
"You're Ms. Shu, right?" Just when I was worried about how to communicate, a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old female nurse hurriedly came downstairs: "Hello, I just called you. β
I nodded, saying it was me Shu Lan.
"I didn't make it clear on the phone, and I ...... I don't quite understand what you mean. What girl? What's your name, follow me...... Matter? β
"You're not the child's mother, are you?" The female nurse looked me up and down, and the helplessness in her eyes made me easily capture: "The child's name is unknown, but the child's name is Little Bell." β
I nodded, saying that I was not a mother of children, and that I was so confused that I didn't know what was going on.
"Forget it, we're used to this kind of thing." The female nurse led me upstairs and introduced me to the humble shelter: "Beilin District is a distribution center for migrant workers in the suburbs of S City, and the environment is noisy and simple compared to the center of the city, and the population flow is large.
Our shelter and my family are all private, and we have been on the fringes of government subsidies, hehe, like a motherless child.
In the early years, it was founded by a well-meaning professor couple and invested their life savings. After the death of the professor's wife, the shelter could only rely on a small amount of money donated by people from all walks of life. Most of the staff are also volunteers.
Therefore, there are only a limited number of children that can be accepted here, but if there is a way out or good health, we will contact the older orphanage or the relevant person of the child as soon as possible. β
As we spoke, we came to a small, crowded room, where the little girl was asleep in a simple single bed. Her hair was short, her face was round, and I don't know if it was because of the lights or my illusion, but her face was not as rosy as that of a normal two-year-old, but sickly white.
I said, "Do your children still have the conditions to live in a single room?"
"Oh. Little Bell has congenital heart disease, and she can't keep it with other children, so she has to pack up a warehouse and send her over. As soon as the nurse explained this, I realized that the lack of doors and windows here was very depressing, and the small beds were crowded out of a pile of cardboard boxes, as if I could find a random box to bury if I really died one day. That feeling makes anyone worry when they see it.
I said hurry up and explain to me, what the hell is going on with this kid? I'm sure I haven't seen her at all, who is her mother? Where are the people now?
The nurse looked at me seriously and said, "Her mother said that her name is Shu Lan, and she sent the child over this Monday. The patient said that there was something going on at home, and he would pick people up in two days at most.
To be honest, we've seen this kind of thing a lot. Many women who give birth to children out of wedlock, or who want to remarry after divorce, will find an excuse to send the child to a shelter. And in this case, the child is most likely not healthy.
So we didn't say yes, but the woman ran away in an instant. You can only bite the bullet and put the child first.
As a rule, we have to give your child a full body check-up. But this test doesn't matter, Xiao Bell suffers from the most serious kind of congenital heart disease, the congenital sinus membrane loss. If you can't get the operation in half a yearβ" The nurse shook her head, unable to bear to go on.
I said I knew the child was pathetic, but I wasn't her mother. Now I just want to know who took my name, or...... Is it a coincidental pseudonym? Either check the entire S City, or maybe I'm the only one named Shu Lan, right?
"But the mobile phone number she left is yours. She told us that if she didn't come back in two days, she could contact her. The nurse said that in general, women who want to abandon their children have fake names and mobile phones. So from the moment they found out that Little Bell had congenital heart disease, they had no hope that they would be able to find the woman.
But just this morning, the shelter suddenly received a large amount of remittance, and the note was the operation fee of the little bell.
"Two million." When the nurse said it, she couldn't be completely calm, thinking about how she had ever had such a huge amount of money in their small shelter. The feeling of being stunned by money every minute.
"The origin of the huge sum of money is unknown. According to the regulatory process, we have to track it down. What's more, this matter is so abnormal, if someone can be willing to raise such a large amount of money for Little Bell's treatment, why would they abandon her in such a place. The nurse said, "So, we just contacted this mother named 'Shu Lan' with the attitude of giving it a try, but I didn't expect the mobile phone number to be connectedββ"
When I heard this, I completely understood that the child's mother had left my name and my contact information, in the hope that I would be found by the asylum.
So she probably knows me! Who? My friend?
I don't have many friends, and the only mother of the right age to give birth is Winter Night.
"Ms. Shu, is Bell's mother your friend? Several of our colleagues were thinking, but it couldn't be because she had encountered something tricky and couldn't get out, so she deliberately left your contact information. β
I shook my head, and I said I really hadn't seen this little girl named Bell, let alone her mother. What kind of woman is she? How old, tall, short, fat and thin, can you describe it to me?
The nurse reminisced and said to me, "Probably in your early twenties." Single, not even a man. He wears a pink tweed coat and dyes his hair yellow. When I came, I was in a hurry, and I looked restless.
Alas, as soon as we see such a woman, our staff is very vigilant. It's a pity that I didn't look at it at it and let her run away.
She speaks with an out-of-town accent. Also, oh yes, there's a black mole on the left eyebrow. β
"Black mole?!" I couldn't be more shocked, if I hadn't subconsciously grabbed the arm of the nurse, I would have almost fallen against the wall!
The nurse's description was simple, but I already had a terrible outline in my mind.
The black mole in the center of my eyebrows has appeared several times in my dreams in the past few days. Exaggerated tears, frightened eyes, hysterical pleas for help. And the black mole that disappeared with the headshot.
She was...... Wang Miaolian!
Lin Xuejun's ex-girlfriend, the woman who was killed by Ling Nan, and the culprit who stabbed Ye Zi with a pin, is also ...... The mother of this little girl named Bell?
It's too messy, it's too messy! I crouched down with my head in my hands, desperately trying to sort out a clear line of thought.
When Wang Miaolian and Lin Xuejun fell in love, they had no money because they wanted to have an abortion, so they went to blackmail Lin Xuejun's aunt and Lin's sister-in-law who worked as a nanny and took leaves at my house.
At the instigation of Yan Yan, a worker working in the same cake shop, the two fools took advantage of Sister-in-law's negligence to steal the leaves from the park. Because he was annoyed that the child was crying, he foolishly and self-righteously pricked the needle into the child's head, thinking that the child would not remember her face.
After Sister-in-law Lin compromised and gave money for the sake of Yezi, they successfully released the person. The whole accident was played out unconsciously in the few days when Ye Jinliang and I went abroad.
It looks smooth, natural, and nothing flawed.
But......
If this is the case, how could Wang Miaolian deliberately let me find her relatives who remained in the detention center?
She destroyed my child with her own hands, aren't you afraid that I will take revenge on her child? No matter how you look at it, it's an act that goes against the logic of normal people!
What's more, where did the two million who operated on the little bell come from? How did she, a working girl who lives at the bottom of the bustling city, get two million!
The child was sent to the shelter on Monday, and she was taken away by Jiang Zuoyi and Ling Nan that night.
Wang Miaolian and Lin Xuejun were lovers more than two years ago, but it seems that they have broken up for a long time. Judging from Ling Nan's state of extorting confessions from them, not only do these two not have any lovers, but they also seem to have a bit of a grudge.
And according to the confessions of these two people, they said abortion, what kind of abortion? If this girl named Little Bell is really Wang Miaolian's, according to the calculation of time, she will give birth to the child at all.
Why, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, logical truth, suddenly became porous? I even felt as if Wang Miaolian knew that she was going to die, as if she deliberately wanted to leave some clues for me and a few words to say to me!
Besides, judging from her behavior of being able to send the child here and leave my contact information to the nurse. Methodical, the head is the way, she doesn't look like a stupid woman who has no logic and no brains at all!
Would such a woman do the kind of bird thing that hurts others and herself like stabbing my daughter with a needle because of a few words of 'Yan Yan'?
But now, Wang Miaolian is dead, Lin Xuejun is also dead, and even Sister-in-law Lin is no longer alive.
All of them can no longer speak......
"Ms. Shu? Ms. Shu, are you alright? The nurse was pulling me: "Your face looks bad, you ...... Do you really know Little Bell's mother? β
"Oh...... Maybe it's an employee in our company who left the company a while ago, I'm not sure. "I prevaricated for a reason.
"That's the best, can you find her?"
I shook my head, and I said that she might have returned to her hometown, and most of them were not in S City.
"But I'll try to contact her as much as possible, if you don't use this money to treat the child first, just contact me at any time if you have anything."
It was almost ten o'clock, and I drove all the way to the Golden Glory Club. This is a place I thought I would never set foot again in my life.
I lost my virginity here back then, and now I have lost my three views here.
But I finally came, because I don't know when and where I started, I didn't seem to be afraid to face any madness in reality.
Between 10 a.m. and 3 a.m. is the best time for the clubhouse to do business. Coincidentally, it happened to be Ling Nan staring at the scene today.
I asked the lobby manager to take me to meet him and say he had something important.
"Okay, Ms. Shu, you sit down first, and I'll go and inform Mr. Ling."
Staying in the heavy leather fashion sofa in the hall, I still couldn't calm down for a long time. When I walked out of here a few days ago, I forgot whether I was being carried or dragged down.
The thought of this makes me sick, disgusting and unbearable. The atmosphere here is so oppressive that I really don't want to stay for a minute.
The lobby manager came out and told me that Mr. Ling had something important to deal with and told me to wait for him for half an hour. I nodded again and again and said yes, I'll go to the road first to breathe.
Walking to the convenience store opposite, I bought a bottle of mineral water. While drinking, I stood at the window and looked out.
From this point of view, the splendid club is really as good as its name and true. Extravagant, resplendent in luxury. Everyone knows how many filthy dry bones are under the stench of evil copper, and everyone knows how to fill up intrigues and tricks in the endless ravines of desire?
"What are you talking about, what I saw the day before yesterday is exciting!" At this time, there were no customers in the convenience store, and two small employees, a man and a woman, at the cash register, casually gagmed: "Four men, alas, carrying a woman out, hehehe, I think the silver gun is about to be born again." β
"Maybe you're going to play mahjong, but you want to be crooked."
"Who wants to be crooked? If you play mahjong and don't have one, it's hard to catch a woman to cook. Tsk, what good business can come out of this kind of place. I'll tell you, there are really all kinds of men of all kinds, and I saw one that day, and the woman that my mother brought out can be older than my mother. β
Listening to the boastful talk of the two children behind me, I deeply understood the essence of Meng's mother's three moves. Sure enough, what environment you work and live in will be affected by what environment. The convenience store opposite this clubhouse is like watching a small movie in the island country every day.
"You," I suddenly snorted, put down the water bottle and ran to the cash register, "what you just said, but the splendid clubhouse opposite?" β
The two cashiers were only in their early twenties, and the lonely man and widow in the middle of the night must have been embarrassed to hear this from a stranger to me.
At this moment, he blushed and nodded at me.
I don't care who they chew their tongues behind their backs, I just care-
"You stand here and you can see the other side of the road clearly. So, you always have surveillance footage in your convenience store, right?
Can you take a picture at the door or across the road? β
The boy looked at me as if he had an ulterior motive and was a little more vigilant: "You're a policeman?" β
I shook my head and said no.
"There is surveillance footage, but it can't be shown to others casually."
I nodded and said I understand, if you can find the surveillance footage from more than four years ago, I can pay as much as I want!
"More than four years ago?" The boy looked at the girl, and immediately spread his shoulders to me helplessly: "This is impossible, our convenience store chain only opened last year." β
"That's right..."My heart sank back to the realm of disappointment, but it wasn't so easy to give up: "What kind of shop was this before?" β
"It seems to be an auto repair shop, and the master can't do it anymore, so he cashes the shop to his nephew. The area here is prosperous, and the auto repair is not mainstream. So our boss joined a convenience store. β
The boy replied.
"So, you know the original owner? Can you help me get in touch, I want to find the old surveillance footageβ" I snapped.
"Don't be kidding, the auto repair shop is a craft workshop, how can it be equipped with surveillance video?" The boy smiled: "But the master is a local, he has opened a shop here for more than ten years, and he knows everyone in the surrounding neighborhood, and he also likes to take care of all the trivialities."
Are you here looking for witnesses, a robbery or a car accident or something? Why don't you call the police?
But if you want, you can take the time to talk to the master. He lives in the alley two streets behind, called Wu Daodao.
There's nothing he doesn't know about here. β
The young man was very enthusiastic, and I thanked him, but I knew in my heart that there was still no great hope to hold.
Could it be that if you go and talk to an old man like Bai Xiaosheng, you can find out who the man who raped me in the hotel opposite back then?
He's not fucking clairvoyant!
In fact, I originally wanted to see if I could find the monitoring on the day of the accident, even if I checked the people who entered and exited the hotel one by one according to the time period, I could narrow down the scope.
Now it seems that the hope is as slim as throwing a needle in the Pacific Ocean, but I still remember the name Wu Daodao.
"Shu Lan? Why are you here? "At that moment, there was a knock of 'Welcome' at the door of the convenience store.
As soon as I looked up, I met Jiang Zuoyi's surprised eyes.
"Jiang Zuoyi? You-" I thought about it, it wasn't strange for him to be here, after all, it was his business across the street. It's a big night, just come and watch the scene.
"Didn't you say you went back to recuperate? Running near the clubhouse in the middle of the night, wouldn't you be worried about the cost of Yezi's surgery? β
This dead man, if he doesn't tease me anytime, anywhere, it's like he's going to get dehydrated.
I saw him put a bottle of water on the cash register, and wondered, "It's your business across the street, why do you still come here to buy water?" β
Jiang Zuoyi raised his eyes and looked at the fire tree and silver flower on the opposite street: "I never liked the water and food there, and I always felt that it smelled of blood and liquid." β
Me: "......"
I said that I came to find Ling Nan, and Jiang Zuoyi said that he was too.
But it's normal for him to look for Ling Nan, but why am I looking for him?
Hanging my head, I hesitated for a long time before telling Jiang Zuoyi what I was holding in my heart: "I think... There is a secret in the matter of Lin Xuejun and Wang Miaolian. Did Ling Nan kill the wrong person? β
Jiang Zuoyi sneered: "Then you dare to come alone?" In Anan's law, there is no admitting mistakes, only mistakes are wrong.
If you dare to question him for killing the wrong person, aren't you afraid that he will kill you together? β
I said I'm not joking with you: "Jiang Zuoyi, you really... Do you believe in him very, very much?
He's the closest person to you, are you sure you can control him? Won't he cover the sky with one hand, and won't he disobey the yang and the yin? β
I'm taking risks again, Jiang Zuoyi has warned me more than once about the messy siblings. But I can't tell what kind of mentality I have at this time.
More worried about yourself? Or do you care more about Jiang Zuoyi?
"You mean, Wang Miaolian has a daughter who has congenital heart disease. And a few days ago she stole your name and threw yourself into a shelter? β
Jiang Zuoyi groaned and summarized the information I told him a little.
I nodded my head again and again, and said that's why I thought something was wrong.
Jiang Zuoyi was silent for half a minute, and then said to me: "Don't worry about these things. β
I'm very upset, I said that they are the murderers of my daughter, what do you call me to care!
"But they're dead." Jiang Zuoyi's eyes were cold when he said this, which made me involuntarily creepy: "If you die, the case is decided." β
"But I think you believe in Ling Nan so much, in case he..."
"Believing in a person is not because I can control him, but because I firmly believe that he doesn't need me to control him.
Shu Lan, like you, do you think that the layout is simply to buy people? You think of the science of management as too simple.
For example, if you let a girl named Qi Lulu be an assistant next to Lu Zhaoxin, it seems that on the surface it is to win people's hearts, but in fact, it will make Lu Zhaoxin, who was originally loyal to you, have the illusion that you are checking and balancing her. β
"Ahh I was speechless by him: "It will... Will it? β
"Once you don't get the right balance, it's easy for your subordinates to go back on and put you in the air."
I said, hehe, Jiang Zuoyi, now is not the time to teach me a lesson. How do I feel... You seem to have changed the subject abruptly. And, you know why I do what I do! How much eyeliner do you have in Zhongshan!
"But speaking of Lu Zhaoxin, I still have something I want to ask you to help with. A few days ago, she was beaten at home, a single woman's family, and she didn't know what kind of grudge she had.
I asked her, and she said it was a family inheritance dispute, but I always felt that it was Shu Yan's slut's hand.
Jiang Zuoyi, can you help me check? β
"Pay as you order." Jiang Zuoyi glanced at me.
I said okay, I'll help you pay for this bottle of mineral water, oh, it's really a coincidence, the apartment Lu Zhaoxin rented is actually in Tianchi Jiayuan. Didn't you say it was a high-end neighborhood, how could it still be called?
Strangers broke in?
"Jiang Zuoyi, hey, Jiang..." I found that I had been talking for a long time, but Jiang Zuoyi's attention was not on me at all.
He stood straight, staring straight across the road!
I only saw three or five black cars suddenly stop at the door of the splendid clubhouse, the doors of the cars were opened together, and a large group of people came down like airborne troops, and went straight to the main hall and broke in!
"Black car, red and blue flag, Long Ye's people ......" Jiang Zuoyi's face suddenly turned into frost.
"What...... What a situation! "I just witnessed a murder not long ago, and today I am going to witness the real fight scene that is only in the movies!
"Ling Nan made an appointment to meet Master Long tonight, for the black powder that Wang Xiaofei said last time." Jiang Zuoyi stood still and didn't move, but I knew that he didn't stop thinking for a moment.
"Black powder?" Wang Xiaofei's little face with a full sense of justice appeared in front of me, and he talked about it......
I think that if the substandard detonators in my company's blasting accident were also related to the black powder smuggled underground in S City, then it would not be too much for me to ask a few more words today, right?
"I thought Ling Nan could do it. But I didn't expect it," Jiang Zuoyi pinched his mobile phone and made a phone call: "Fuck the other party has brought so many people!" Shu Lan, stay here for me!
Andy, call someone! Resplendent! β