Chapter VI: Murder
Time back to ten days ago, January 1, 2015...... Two days before Li Zhen was conferred the title.
Pingyang City, Taoxi Road, Liu Ji Barbecue Restaurant.
It was already past twelve o'clock, and the guests were gone. Qi Yuanshan closed the roller shutter door after Aunt Liu also went home, then opened a bottle of beer by himself, and drank the remaining edamame peanuts on the table slowly.
The TV on the wall was still broadcasting news, but most of it had nothing to do with a small citizen like him. The only thing that could make him raise his head and glance at it a little was a case of theft from an ancient tomb. It is said that it was a gang of smuggling criminals who committed a series of crimes, with cruel methods and mysterious whereabouts, and the police still have no clue.
But he just looked at it, then lowered his head and lit a cigarette.
I drank and smoked, and my mind was a little dizzy. Today is New Year's Day, there are many customers in the store, and he hasn't slept well, so his throat has been sore recently. However, there are always things up and down in his heart, and he feels a breath in his chest. If you don't smoke, I really don't know how to survive the night.
If such a method of drawing had been left in the past, some people would have advised themselves to "smoke a few less", right?
But as soon as he thought of that guy, Qi Yuanshan couldn't help frowning slightly, and then "hissed".
I thought it was a buddy.
Or do you want the public security bureau to come to a personal notice, saying that he has found a relative and is not doing it here - and we have to keep it secret.
Do you have to sign a "confidentiality agreement"!
Wow, that's amazing, it's so background!
Maybe that relative is still which uncle and which marquis, and he won't even show up!
I'm afraid that we flat-headed people will embarrass him! I'm afraid I feel ashamed to see this storefront!
Qi Yuanshan snorted. Then he took another sip of wine.
Why didn't you see such a person before?
He felt a little dizzy - he wasn't drinking very well.
Then I heard the sound of ghosts crying wolves in the streets outside. It was like a few people who were drunk in the middle of the night, and they were swaying down the street while howling at the top of their throats.
He frowned and began to clean up the things on the table, intending to turn off the TV and go to bed in the back.
However, before the empty bottles could be put into the beer crate, a "bang" of the roller shutter door was heard. He was startled, and when he turned his head, there were two more "bangs".
Then one of the people shouted, "What about his people?" Aren't you horizontal? Come out and practice with your brother! ”
He suddenly understood that the ghostly howling voice he had just felt was a little familiar. Isn't this Yu Yongqiang's three gangsters?
It was a few days of purification. Took a few sips. I'm starting to drink like crazy again.
Qi Yuanshan held the wine bottle in his hand, took a few heavy breaths, and then tried to calm himself down. He must still have those two attendants with him, and it would be a fool's errand to go out on his own. Just let them kick it - the door can't be broken. Just kick it a few times and get out.
So he snorted and sat down on the table. Staring at the rolling shutter outside the glass door—it was still rattling. I don't know what those three madmen are doing.
After about ten minutes, there was no sound. Qi Yuanshan stood up and planned to turn off the lights.
However, another word came from outside the door, which instantly ignited the anger that had been accumulating in his chest all these days—
"Call that kid out of here! Don't come out and don't end today! ”
Call it out?!
Call you!
I don't know where he is!
It's endless!!
He couldn't take it anymore. Grabbed a bottle from the beer crate with his backhand, then strode to the door, unlocked it, and lifted it up with a hard swipe - swiping and pulling up the roller shutter.
The cold wind outside the door swept in, and the lights in the room reflected Yu Yongqiang's flushed face. He leaned over and narrowed his eyes to see—
Didn't that kid come out?
The next moment, I saw a beer bottle rapidly enlarged in front of my eyes—
There was a "bang" sound. He didn't have time to feel the pain before he felt like he was being smashed. Dark green glass ballast splattered everywhere, and bright red blood covered his face. Yu Yongqiang staggered back a few steps according to his head, and finally reacted.
He howled at the top of his throat: "you, give it to me!" ”
But at this time, Qi Yuanshan had already shaken off the glass slag in his hand and pounced viciously.
I thought it would be like on TV, knocking an empty bottle on the table, leaving a bottle spout in my hand, and it could be used as a knife - at least in terms of weapons, right?
I didn't expect it to be broken in my hand, and I pulled out a few cuts in my palm. I don't know if it's a lie on TV, or if I can't get home. But it doesn't matter......
Anyway, now I just want to beat people.
Li Zhen is not crazy with you? Without him, the earth would still turn!
With the strength he had cultivated in the countryside, Qi Yuanshan grabbed Yu Yongqiang's neck and dragged him several steps away. Then while he was dizzy and didn't stand firmly, he kicked him the knee, and the other party fell to the ground. Then he rode on top of him, his head filled with blood, alcohol, and indignation, and raised his fist and slammed it against the screaming mouth—
It was so bad that his blood was dripping, his mouth and nose were bleeding, he was rolling his eyes, and he was still humming and chirping—
"Hit me again—hit me again!"
Another punch hit him on his front teeth, and there was a click.
Rejoice! The anger that had been building up for days seemed to have found a place to vent, and the hot air in his chest finally spit out. He shouted, "If you dare to come here and ask for trouble, I'll kill you—"
However, his voice stopped abruptly. Because a brick struck him firmly on the back of the head.
Qi Yuanshan stopped his fist in mid-air, turned around in a daze, and glared at the sneak attacker with a pair of bloodshot eyes. Then he gritted his teeth and stood up, walking towards the man with his hands covered in blood.
But before he could take three steps, the other man took a few steps back, ran away, let out a strange cry in the air, and kicked him on the waist.
So Qi Yuanshan fell to the ground with a pop.
Yu Yongqiang stood up from the ground with his hands and feet, covered his head and turned around a few times before finding the direction, jumped onto Qi Yuanshan's back, kicked the back of his head fiercely while jumping with the strength of wine, and yelled madly: "Hit me, beat me, beat me—did he beat me again?" Am I that good at bullying? Am I here to bully people——! ”
So Qi Yuanshan's body was like a mat, making a "tongtong" sound on the cold and empty street-
Until the three people who kicked and beat him around, the alcohol in his body slowly evaporated with sweat, and he heard a faint human voice coming from a tall building across the street—
“…… I've called the police! Stop it! ”
Only then did they realize that the man on the ground hadn't moved for a long time.
Yu Yongqiang was stunned. Then he put the hat on the back of the cotton coat on his head, and shouted angrily: ", go away!" ”
The chaotic footsteps of the three people quickly disappeared into the night, leaving only the lights in Liu Ji's barbecue restaurant hollowly on—reflecting a pool of blood slowly flowing from under Qi Yuanshan's body.
The sound of police cars and ambulances broke through the night twenty minutes later.
Actually, I was here the next day. Li Zhen asked him to look at his old friend, and he has always been a caring person. So I changed into casual clothes and found free time to come to this barbecue restaurant.
But the door was closed. With nothing to do, he sat in the tea room across the street and waited. But as the morning passed, he only saw a middle-aged woman hurriedly walking to the front of the store and opening the roller shutter door, and after being busy in the store for a while, she came out again to lock the door.
So he put the money on the table and walked briskly across the street to the woman.
As soon as she called "eldest sister", the woman suddenly turned her head as if frightened, and looked at him with a wary face: "What are you doing?" ”
Ying was a little stunned - he doesn't look like a burglar, right? But he still smiled: "Does Qi Yuanshan work here?" ”
The woman looked at him suspiciously, then stopped in his ear. Because of the long-term wearing of military caps, there are obvious indentations there. Her heart sank suddenly, and she took a few deep breaths with anger before she said coldly, "No." There's no such person here! ”
Then he turned and locked the door, and walked away quickly.
He resolutely tried to catch up and ask a few more questions, but the pungent energy peculiar to middle-aged women made him dare not go too far - if he was scolded in the street, he would really be embarrassed.
So the last one couldn't figure out what the woman's inexplicable anger was. It was only when he went back to the tea room to get his coat that he overheard the owner there mention it...... A guy at the barbecue restaurant opposite was beaten and hospitalized.
His heart was slightly startled, but he couldn't do anything more. Originally, he was out on a mission, and he couldn't afford to make any extraneous problems, let alone delay the time of his colleagues who were waiting for him because of such a thing as visiting patients.
In the end, Ying resolutely regretted leaving Taoxi Road, hoping that the local judicial system could give Li Zhen's friend a satisfactory explanation. And because Li Zhen was about to be conferred the title, he didn't want to tell him such news for the time being, so when Li Zhen asked on the evening of the 3rd, he covered up the past with a white lie.
Then he went on a business trip again, and the Shennongjia incident occurred, and finally ...... Lost memory. So the news has been hidden until now.
In fact, Li Zhen also got similar information from Beichuan's mouth, but the version he heard was that someone was beaten and taken to the hospital on the evening of January 1, and the Liu Ji barbecue restaurant was closed on January 8.
This matter is a little strange, Qi Yuanshan is of course a victim, but ......
Why do you want to close Aunt Liu's shop? Beichuan didn't explain to him, but he had a faint premonition in his heart.
So he said goodbye to Beichuan with a gloomy face, and his heart was quite unhappy. And Beichuan only said one sentence before he went out: "It's inconvenient for me." ”
Li Zhen nodded silently and strode away.
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Got a cold...... I caught a cold in the summer. I have a terrible headache, and I don't write well to take care of it...... (To be continued.) )