In the special ward of Youfu Hospital, Tian Lianfeng, under the leadership of the torture technique, finally met the madman in the mouth of the torture technique, but that person was not only a madman, but also a poor man who had no fingers on his hands.

"His name is Ji Dewu, not much older than us, less than forty years old, he used to be a painter, and he was also a genius, he painted five paintings before he went crazy, three of which were auctioned abroad at sky-high prices, known for his delicacy, he has to paint a painting for half a year or even longer, he is a multi-element painter, but this person is very low-key, he has a kind of obsession with painting, the three paintings that were auctioned out, he didn't get a penny, they were all cheated, that is to say, he is a genius who doesn't know that he is a genius." Xingshu stood outside the door, looking through the window at Ji Dewu, who was sitting on a stool in the corner, with his mouth slightly wide open, watching TV.

Tian Lianfeng looked at Ji Dewu's fingerless palm: "What's the matter with his hand?" ”

"Because of the relationship between those three paintings, someone stared at him and forced him to paint, but he didn't do it, you know, the artist's temper, it's all like this, he doesn't paint when he is beaten like that, those people only recognize money, let him choose, whether he wants to gouge out his eyes or cut off his fingers, anyway, he won't be allowed to continue painting, guess how he chooses?" When the torture technique said this, he shivered.

Tian Lianfeng just stared at him and shook his head.

"At that time, he was abducted and tied to an old factory, and those people threatened him to throw him into the lathe to hang, and after letting him choose, Ji Dewu put his fingers in the lathe himself, and smiled at those people, saying that even if he didn't paint in the future, no one could force him to do what he didn't want to do." ”

"I'll go to his uncle's." Tian Lianfeng was surprised, "He used to be a madman, right?" ”

The torture technique was stunned at this time, and thought of what Zheng Cangqiong said to himself - "Don't forget, you grew up in the madman's house, you were born with a madman, and maybe you were born a madman, but you don't know it, but fortunately, people who are crazy themselves will not worry about becoming crazy again."

Tian Lianfeng saw that the torture technique was distracted, and touched him with his elbow, he came back to his senses, and then shook his head: "Who knows, when he woke up later, the group of people had already left, and a scavenger rescued him and called the police, but the cut off finger was gone, and he couldn't take it back, and there was originally a piece of thumb left, which was cut off because of nerve necrosis and rot infection, and it became what it is now, although he caught those few people who cut his fingers, but it was useless, he became a cripple." ”

Tian Lianfeng nodded: "Then he went crazy?" ”

"Yes, he is crazy because he regrets what he did at the time, on impulse, and he did something that ruined his life." Xingshu looked at Tian Lianfeng and said, "So, you have to be calm at all times, Ji Dewu's current appearance is the end of his ability." ”

Tian Lianfeng said: "But, can he be identified by this appearance?" ”

"Yes." Xingshu nodded and said, "He has a pair of eyes left, he can't draw, he can only be identified, only when he is identified, he is a little more normal, and the appraisal is definitely no problem, someone has come to him before, give money for appraisal, otherwise, where did he get the money to live here and be taken care of, his family doesn't care about him, thinking he deserves it." ”

Tian Lianfeng shook his head and said, "It's really ruthless, is it a family?" ”

"Ji Dewu has a strange temper since he was a child, and he is not in harmony with his family, in fact, many geniuses are like this, and others can't understand what these geniuses have in their heads." Xingshu looked at Ji Dewu, who was gently hitting the wall with the back of his head in the room, picked up the photo of the peerless painting he had taken and said, "Let's try it with the photo first, after all, he is my first choice, it's really not good, we can only go to Shenyang to find another person." ”

Saying that, the torture technique entered the house, walked straight to Ji Dewu, and then squatted down, and also signaled Tian Lianfeng to stop and stand at the door and not go inside, for fear of startling Ji Dewu.

Tian Lianfeng found that although Ji Dewu, who was sitting there, did not turn his head, his eyes slowly moved to the left, looking at the torture, the muscles of his face were also twitching, and the expressionlessness on his face gradually changed to a look similar to that on the face of a beast, and then he turned into a pitiful look, and the corners of his mouth trembled rapidly, as if he was afraid of torture.

"Mr. Ji, I came to entrust you to help me look at a painting, because the painting is too big and too heavy, I didn't bring it, I only brought a photo, are you interested?" Torture said, gesturing to the photo on the left side facing down.

Ji Dewu still squinted and was indifferent.

Torture slowly got up, bowed slightly, and said, "Okay, I understand." ”

Xingshu then gently put the photo on the hospital bed, turned to leave, Tian Lianfeng was about to speak, and Xingshu shook his head slightly at him.

The two left the ward and stood at the window outside the door to watch, only to see Ji Dewu sitting there looking at the photo, and for a long time began to blow the photo with his mouth, trying to blow the photo face down.

Tian Lianfeng was puzzled: "What is he doing?" ”

"Even if he is crazy, his weird temper is still there, and people can't force him to do things he doesn't want to do, but he won't speak as badly as he used to be, after all, he became disabled because of his stubborn temper." Xingshu stood there and watched Ji Dewu slowly kneel in front of the bed, blowing one breath at a time, and finally blew the photo over and turned it over, but because it was too hard, the photo fell to the ground.

Ji Dewu leaned on the ground, leaned closer to look at the photo, just glanced at it, suddenly screamed, fell backwards, and then kicked and kicked his feet back to the previous corner of the wall, clinging to the wall on the right side of the corner and screaming "Ahhhh

At the same time that Ji Dewu let out a miserable scream, the nursing nurse not far away immediately rushed over, and the torture technique stopped her and said, "If you won't be hurt, don't go in." ”

The nursing nurse frowned and said, "Torture, what are you doing?" This is a hospital, not a place for you to do business! ”

Xingshu turned his head and smiled: "Don't, I really won't get hurt." ”

"Okay, I won't fight with you, I'll go find your dad." The nursing nurse smiled, then slammed it away, turned around and walked towards Xing Guodong's office.

Tian Lianfeng saw the nursing nurse walking away, and immediately asked, "Hurry up, your father is coming, I have to beat you to death!" ”

"There's no hurry." Xingshu shook his head and said, "Ji Dewu has such a big reaction when he sees this photo, which means that he has seen it before, this is strange, Ji Dewu is not very old, I identified this painting as made during the 'Cultural Revolution', even if it was replaced, it was buried in the wall in the 60s of the 20th century, he has no reason to see it, there is a problem in this, we will wait." ”

However, the torture technique was strange, because he used to walk around here a lot, and sometimes he would chat with the patients here, and once he accidentally scared a patient, but this nursing nurse was not so excited.

Tian Lianfeng kept looking at the corner of the corridor, for fear that Xing Guodong would suddenly appear, because one of the things that Xing Guodong hated the most was that outsiders harassed his patients, even if it was torture, when he was a child, when he was not sensible to Tian, he once teased a female patient, so scared that the patient almost jumped off the building, for this matter, the two were punished by Xing Guodong to kneel for more than two hours, and after getting up, he stood next to the table and wrote "I was wrong" two hundred times.

Finally, Ji Dewu didn't shout anymore, but kept shrinking in the corner, and the torture technique felt that it was almost over, so he asked Tian Lianfeng to stay, walked in by himself, picked up the photo, put it in his pocket, and then asked, "Mr. Ji, when will I bring the painting over to show you?" ”

Ji Dewu shook his head vigorously, and finally spoke: "You go to him yourself, don't look for me, it has nothing to do with me." ”

Torture nodded: "Okay, I know, then who should I go to?" ”

Ji Dewu still shook his head, Xingshu thought about it, and slowly took out the photo in his pocket, and at the same time observed that Ji Dewu's face instantly changed color, and shrank into the corner of the wall. Where to find it? Male or female? ”

"Outside the road! Outside the road! Outside the road! Daowai North 2nd Street minus 4! Ji Dewu closed his eyes, as if the torture technique was slowly approaching him with a snake, he closed his eyes and tilted his head sideways, shrinking into the corner.

The torturer asked again: "Who are you looking for?" ”

When Ji Dewu shook his head desperately, Xing Guodong appeared at the door and coughed. Xingshu immediately got up, put away the photo and said, "Thank you, Mr. Ji, I'm sorry." ”

After the torture was finished, he walked out of the ward, walked to the door, stood in front of Xing Guodong and closed his eyes.

At this time, Xing Guodong, Tian Lianfeng, and the nursing nurse all understood that the torture technique meant letting his father beat him, because he had planned it like this from the beginning.

Who knows, Xing Guodong said: "Come to the office with me, Lian Feng will also come." With that, Xing Guodong looked at the nursing nurse, nodded to her, motioned for her to take good care of Ji Dewu, and then turned around and left.

Back in the office, Xing Guodong let the two of them enter the room, then closed the door himself, stood at the door and looked at the two people with their backs to him and facing the desk, and said, "Torture, are you stunned?" ”

Torture shook his head: "I'm sorry. ”

"Do you know what this place is? Mental hospitals, where people can't be stimulated, have you forgotten the lessons you learned as a child? Almost made a person jump off the building to his death. After Xing Guodong finished speaking, he was about to turn around when he saw the torture technique, and said, "Don't say I'm sorry, you haven't made that mistake for so long, and I believe that you know the consequences of doing that, but you still did it, I think, you are just a demon, and you are now bent on solving that mystery." ”

Tian Lianfeng couldn't say a word there, and he didn't dare to say it.

Xing Guodong sat down, didn't look up at the two of them, just said: "I've always taught you to do things in a certain way, don't cross the line, I have my bottom line, you also have yours, and your bottom line is also full of other people's rules, so you are violating the rules set by others while you exceed your bottom line, I think, at this point, I and your master teach the same truth." ”

The torture technique replied: "Dad, I know what you mean, you want to say, I listen to my master more than you, that's different. ”

"Okay, stop, I know, whether it's a lip service or a big reason, I mean you can't do it." Xing Guodong flipped it there with a pen, "I'm going to say it for the last time today, don't get scared, and besides, you really want to ask something and do something here in the future, please tell me first, I'm a doctor, and I'm also the person in charge here, or your father, okay, you're busy with yourself, I still have materials to sort out." ”

Xingshu nodded, took Tian Lianfeng to say goodbye, and immediately went downstairs.

When he came downstairs, Tian Lianfeng cautiously asked, "What's wrong with your dad today?" ”

Xingshu shook his head: "He was worried about me, from the beginning, he didn't want me to contact this industry, but he was helpless, he was a workaholic, he made this place his home, I also grew up here, and I was surrounded by these people from childhood to adulthood." ”

Tian Lianfeng said again: "The North Second Street outside Daowai that Ji Dewu said before, that is an old street, and they are all old houses. ”

Xingshu nodded: "Yan Gang also lives near there, and it is quiet, but before Ji Dewu said that North Erdao Street is minus four, where is there a minus four?" But even if my dad doesn't come, I can't ask anything. ”

Tian Lianfeng said: "Then let's go find Yan Gang?" ”

"It's only like this, Yan Gang, where he lives, he will immediately find out all the situations within a radius of a few kilometers, what shops are there, what special backgrounds are there, and it's right to ask him, but I don't know why, after experiencing the things in Heaven and Earth, I'm a little scared." Xingshu frowned and looked at the bitter yellow man who was teasing cats and dogs in the distance, "I am afraid from the bottom of my heart, I don't think any ghosts and gods are terrible at all, people are the most terrible, no matter how kind and honest people are, they will become something more terrible than the devil." ”

Tian Lianfeng thought for a while, and then said, "By the way, do you want to inform the master?" Also, it's been so long since you've been back, and you haven't been looking for He Chenxue, what's wrong with the two of you? ”

"What's wrong?" Xingshu looked at Tian Lianfeng, "I don't have much to do with her, there are some things that have nothing to do with her, so don't involve her in, don't involve too many other people who have nothing to do with her, it will make things complicated." ”

Xingshu walked into the car as he spoke, and it was still the car left by Ma Fei, Tian Lianfeng still followed and asked: "And the ...... surnamed Bai"

Xingshu started the car and looked at Tian Lianfeng, until Tian Lianfeng slowly raised his hand to cover his mouth, and then drove the car.

It was already afternoon when I saw Yan Gang, and from his dusty appearance, he knew that he must have taken other deals. He didn't know why Yan Gang was so crazy about making money, even if he wasn't the kind of person who was desperate for money in nature, but once he was asked to do something, the first thing he did was talk about money.

Sitting in Yan Gang's house, Xingshu and Tian Lianfeng watched Yan Gang drinking water there, and after drinking all the cold white open in the cold cup, he burped, and then sat down and asked, "Okay, let's talk, what kind of business, how much is it?" ”

Xingshu looked at Yan Gang and said, "It's a trivial matter now, just asking you for a place." ”

Yan Gang frowned: "Inquire about a place?" Where? ”

Torture said: "North Erdao Street minus four." ”

Yan Gang was slightly stunned, and then said, "There is no negative four, you know, right?" ”

Torture nodded: "Just because I know if I don't, I looked for you." ”

Yan Gang stretched out five fingers: "Fifty thousand." ”

Tian Lianfeng stood up: "The surname is Yan, are you crazy?" Inquire about a place for 50,000! ”

Yan Gang said expressionlessly: "I'm like this, I will clearly mark the price in advance and not pull it down." ”

Xingshu took out his mobile phone, logged in to the mobile banking, and looked up and said after a while: "Okay, it hits your account, 50,000, and the personal transfer can be transferred to 50,000 at one time, as for other things, according to the old rules, it will be counted separately." ”

"Torture! How much does he want, how much do you give? Your money doesn't come from the wind! Tian Lianfeng was indignant for the torture technique there, feeling that Yan Gang and the torture technique were also old acquaintances, and he was so ruthless when he opened his mouth to ask for the price.

Yan Gang sat down and took out a cigarette: "Negative No. 4 exists, but there is no house number, it is just a rumor, many old Harbin people don't know, but some old public security officers only know about the place of minus No. 4." ”

Tian Lianfeng was still angry that he wanted 50,000, and he wanted to say something, but when he found that the torture was glaring at him, he sat down directly and didn't dance anymore.

Yan Gang said: "This place was first used by spies, at the beginning it was a place where those Russian nobles who were driven out of the Soviet Union gathered, I heard that the group of people who failed to assassinate Stalin that year once met the intelligence department of the Japanese Kwantung Army at that time, and later after their failure, this place was requisitioned by the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, and finally handed over to the intelligence department of the puppet Manchuria, as a transit station, the transit of intelligence or the transfer of some more important people, after the surrender of Japan and the death of the puppet Manchukuo, This place was used by both the Kuomintang military and the central government. ”

As he spoke, Yan Gang paused again and recalled, "Do you know Li Zhaolin?" ”

Tian Lianfeng said: "Who in Harbin doesn't know Li Zhaolin, Zhaolin Street, Zhaolin Park, and Zhaolin Primary School are all named after him, and he was killed by spies." ”

Yan Gang said: "Yes, when the group of spies who assassinated Li Zhaolin first formulated the plan, it was in the negative fourth, but this news has always been a rumor, because the negative fourth is not recorded in the archives, even in the archives of the military commander and the central command at that time, but it only mentioned a place called 'The Other Shore Building'. ”

When the torture technique heard the words "the other side of the building", he immediately thought of the other side flower painted in the peerless painting, and Ji Dewu kept saying that it was minus four, could it be related?

Then, the torturer said, "Can you take me to see it?" ”

"Yes, yes, but the other side of the building is now a dangerous building, this building is built in a group of buildings, across six buildings, very large, before the Soviet army evacuated Harbin in 1946, a detailed search was carried out on the other side of the building, what was found, no one knows, this can not be checked, about a week later, when the Songjiang Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was stationed in Harbin, the subordinate intelligence agencies also searched there, but nothing was found, and then many people lived in that building, It was not until the mid-90s of the 20th century that it became an empty building, because the house was mainly made of wood, which was decaying and very dangerous to live in. After Yan Gang finished speaking, he got up and began to drink water again, and after drinking a large glass, he said, "That's what I know. ”

As soon as the torture technique was about to speak, Tian Lianfeng got up and walked over, pointed at Yan Gang and said, "'Hades', you are really the king of Hades who asks for your life, just say a few words, and 50,000 will be in hand?" As he spoke, Tian Lianfeng turned to the torture technique again and said, "I also told you the story of the thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks, what about my 50,000?" If you give it to him, you have to give it to me, hurry up, my fifty thousand! ”

The torture technique didn't pay attention to Tian Lianfeng, and stepped forward to ask Yan Gang: "Anyway, I have to go and see." ”

Yan Gang nodded: "Okay, since I have received your money, I have to do something, and I will take you there." ”

As he spoke, he walked out: "Go now, it'll be dark soon, I don't want to do things in the dark." ”

Yan Gang nodded, grabbed his bag, and went out with the torture technique, Tian Lianfeng looked unhappy, and followed with a low scolding.