Seeing that my eyes were not quite right, the mustache hurriedly explained: "I feel even more pity that the clue of Boss Hong is about to be broken!" ”

"Except for Xiao Jiuhe, no one else dares to raise such a vicious and dangerous ghost, I guess it is likely that he did it!" I ignored the moustache quibbles and continued to focus on Boss Hong.

"I think so, too, that's why I came back to you."

"Hasn't Xiao Jiuhe already run away? Why do you dare to come back to the provincial capital? ”

The mustache snorted and said, "It's been more than a year since he escaped in Wencheng County last time. He may have felt that the limelight had passed and sneaked back to the provincial capital to carry out activities. After all, the richest customers are in the provincial capitals! ”

"What a scourge!" I scolded.

"Otherwise, our Maoshan Dao Association wouldn't have pursued him with a heavy reward!"

"What business does this Boss Hong do? With whom do you have such a big enmity? I muttered, "The only person who can ask for Xiao Jiuhe should be money, and his price is very high!" People who don't have a deep hatred will not be willing to spend so much money to harm others with such a strange poisonous scheme. ”

"This eldest brother is mainly in the sand reselling business, and he used to mix on the road." The mustache's tone was a little helpless, "He usually runs casinos, and occasionally lends usury to those gamblers." He is also a good gambler, and I heard that he has just won a lot of money recently. Therefore, he has a lot of potential enemies! ”

The mustache looked left and right, and said to me: "Since it won't help for us to stay here, why don't you go back to my antique shop, I have compiled some preliminary information by myself, you can understand the situation in more detail." ”

"Alright, let's go!"

I followed the mustache out of the hospital and went to his antique shop. It's been a long time since I've been here, but the manager and the guys still remember me and greeted me warmly. In the mustache's office, I saw "some" of the information he had put together, but I couldn't help but be very surprised: when did this guy start to learn to be humble?

The mustache has really put a lot of work into it this time! He used an entire wall as a drawing, plastered with photographs and background information about various people, and various lines drawn between them, indicating who had a relationship with whom, and who had a grudge with whom. It's only been a day since this clue came out, and the mustache was able to sort out so much information, and it is estimated that he didn't sleep much last night, and stayed up all night to make such a relationship diagram.

The mustache didn't mean to show off at all, and pointed to the wall and said to me: "This investigation may be very verbose and troublesome, because Boss Hong's network is too complicated, and I can only find out through the Daomen's intelligence network." You see, this is a preliminary relationship chart that I put together, where do you think it would be better for us to start? ”

When I took a closer look, there were more than a dozen names on the map, and there were dozens of connections to each other, which was indeed like a mess. The current situation is completely opposite to what I estimated before I came, I thought there would be few clues, but it turned out to be too many. If it is said that there are enough motives to attack this Boss Hong, there are at least seven or eight on the map, and other people with partial motives cannot be completely ruled out. This big brother is really, why do you have so many enemies for yourself?

"I've counted it," said the mustache, pointing to a watch on the wall, "There are five enemies that Boss Hong made when he was in the road before; There are three competitors who have had a direct conflict with him because of the sand and gravel business; Two of his clients owed him large sums of money to loan sharks; One of the gamblers who had recently won a million at the table by him; There is also a horse boy who has been greened by him, but he has always been by his side. ”

"Does this horse boy know that he was green by his boss?" I asked with a smile. It's a delicate relationship!

"Know! That's why he's suspicious! The mustache also smiled, "However, his wife is a restless woman, and it is not certain who seduces whom!" Almost everyone knew about the matter between his boss and his wife, and it was impossible for him not to hear a little rumor. ”

"How much have you studied him? A person who can endure it like this must be psychologically perverted, and it is completely past to say that he would choose such a secret means of revenge! ”

The mustache shook his head and said, "I think it's less likely than him." ”

"Why?"

"Because as you just said, the people who invite Xiao Jiuhe are rich people. He's just a horse boy, and even if his boss dies, the inheritance isn't his. He may be able to take over the business left by Boss Hong, but he will not be able to get the money immediately. ”

I nodded, agreeing with the mustache's analysis. I looked at the watch again, found another person I thought was the most suspicious, and asked the mustache, "What about this person?" He once had a hand cut off by Boss Hong, and this kind of deep hatred is enough to remember for a lifetime! And he is now running a KTV, and there should be no shortage of money. ”

When the mustache looked at it, he shook his head again and said, "It's been more than twenty years since Boss Hong cut him. At that time, both of them were still young people in their teens and twenties. Later, through the intervention of the bosses of both sides, the matter has been settled. In fact, although Boss Hong has many enemies on the road, they are all old things. Even if these enemies want to retaliate, with their style, it is better to ask Xiao Jiuhe to directly ask the killer to kill Boss Hong, so as to conform to the rules of doing things on the road! ”

"And what about this guy who owes him 800,000 loan sharks?" I asked, pointing to another person's name.

"That one is the least likely!" The mustache smiled, "If he really has the money to ask Xiao Jiuhe to make a move, then it is better to return the money to Boss Hong." At Xiao Jiuhe's price, even if you can't pay back half of it, you can pay back at least a third! ”

"Then tell me, who is the most suspicious here?"

The mustache pointed to the names of the people on the table one by one and said, "Let's use the elimination method to see!" The enemies have been grudges for a long time, and some have even become friends, and I don't think their motives are enough. The two who owe the loan shark and the cuckold boy are short of money, although the motive is sufficient, but it is not very likely. Among the competitors of Boss Hong's sand and gravel business, the only one who can directly profit is Boss You, who is competing with him for the same project. If Boss Hong died, the earthworks of that project would be done by Boss You, so this is the first suspect. Another suspicion is that this gambler who lost a million in poker gambling with Boss Hong. ”

"If you lose money in gambling, you don't have to kill people to vent your anger, right?" I wondered.

"This gambler is also a big boss. A million is nothing to him, he can afford to lose money if he has money! But what about our boss Hong, he still preaches it everywhere after winning money, which makes people very faceless! The mustache suddenly grimaced and said, "The face of a rich man is very valuable." It's not surprising that he can lose a million in gambling and spend hundreds of thousands to kill someone, right? ”

"What about the others?"

The mustache shrugged his shoulders and said, "Of course, their suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, maybe there are still some contradictions and grievances that we don't know about." Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered so much to get this relationship diagram out! ”

I also began to study the photographs and names and background information on the wall, but I was almost dazzled in a few moments. I patted my head and rubbed my eyes.

The mustache laughed beside him: "Why, you were stunned so quickly?" ”

I simply moved away from the wall and then looked at the whole picture. This time, I finally saw something wrong.

I said to the mustache, "You've drawn this relationship picture carefully enough, but don't you think you're missing something very important?" ”

"What's that?" The mustache said blankly.

"Snuffbox!"

I pointed to the picture on the wall and said, "You have paid so much attention to people and relationships, but you have forgotten the most important piece of physical evidence at hand!" Why is there a ghost in Boss Hong's snuffbox? And where did this snuffbox come from? Have you investigated? ”

The mustache pulled out the snuffbox and laughed, "I just forgot to draw it." In fact, I had already asked Boss Hong that day, and he said that he bought it from the Gufeng Pavilion. ”

"Where is the Ancient Wind Pavilion?"

"On another shopping street, I think this name is also selling antiques."

"Have you been?"

"It's not too late!"

I looked at the time, it was only five o'clock in the afternoon, "I came out on leave, since there are so many clues to investigate, let's hurry up!" ”

The mustache nodded and got up, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the Ancient Wind Pavilion now to ask about the situation!" ”

Gufeng Pavilion is located in a commercial street in Beicheng District, and its façade is larger than that of the mustache's antique shop, and there are many customers who come in and out. We went straight to the store manager, showed him the snuff bottle, and asked him if he had sold it from this store.

"Who are you from Hong Ye?" The store manager asked directly. Obviously, when he asked, it meant that he had indirectly admitted that the snuff bottle was sold to Boss Hong from his shop.

The mustache pretended to say: "We were called by Boss Hong, and he said that there is a problem with this snuff bottle!" ”

"Questions?" The store manager was stunned for a moment, picked up the snuffbox and looked at it carefully, and wondered: "This is the real thing!" Could it be that Hong Ye thinks it's fake? ”

"Of course there is a problem! But it's not a question of authenticity! The mustache made a fool of himself again.

The store manager continued to be confused, "It's not a question of authenticity?" What's the problem with that? ”

"There's just a problem!"

"What's the problem?"

"How did you get this kind of thing?"

"What does this have to do with you?"

"It's a big deal! If you don't get it clean when you collect it, it's not right to sell it to our boss! ”

"Not clean? It's pretty clean! ”

"Can't you see it's 'dirty'?"

"I can't see it!"

The store manager was almost stunned by the mustache. However, I don't think he looks like he's pretending, maybe he really doesn't know how to read this kind of "organ".

The mustache and I were figuring out how we could get the snuff bottle out of his mouth, when a man came out of the back and asked, "What's going on outside?" Why is it so noisy? ”

When the mustache and I saw this man, we were overjoyed! Hey, I've met an "acquaintance"!