Chapter 2 Wang Mazi
An inconspicuous self-built building along Jinxiu Road, the first and second floors are rented to a small couple who come to Shanghai to beg for a living, the first floor opens a shop to sell mobile phone accessories, and the second floor is a resident. The man works as a maintenance worker in an auto repair shop, and usually a woman takes a 6-year-old girl to look after the shop at home. On the second floor, an attic was built and rented to Wang Mazi for 300 yuan a month.
Speaking of the self-built house on Fairview Road, it has to be deduced to the 90s, when the landlord's wife was still alive. At that time, the old couple, who were not wealthy, saw that the neighbors around them had built houses one after another, and they felt that their son was older, and it was easy to please a daughter-in-law with a larger house, so they took out all their savings to build the current two-story building.
Unexpectedly, my son became an executive in a foreign company and made a lot of money, so he directly bought a set of 3 bedrooms and 2 living rooms in full. The old landlady left the shantytown in the envious and jealous eyes of the neighbors, moved into a high-rise building, and enjoyed happiness with her son.
After the old lady moved into the high-rise building, she thought that the house was empty and wasteful, so she discussed with her son to prepare to rent a small building on Jinxiu Road to an intermediary to earn some rent subsidies.
After the landlady got her son's permission, she found an agent on Fairview Road to list the house. Coincidentally, on the day of the listing, she met her current tenant Wang Mazi.
Wang Mazi was begging the intermediary at that time, telling his miserable experience, and wanted the intermediary to lower the rent. The old lady listened to their conversation on the side, and became sympathetic, and then pulled Wang Mazi aside and asked about his situation.
Wang Mazi's name Wang Shouren, not really has pockmarks on his face, he used to work as a small worker in the fruit market, and southerners are used to calling small workers "Ma Zai", and gradually Wang Ma Zai was called Wang Mazi.
That year, when Wang Mazi was working in the fruit market, he was unfortunately hit by a van that came to unload, and the driver found that there was no monitoring around, so he left Wang Mazi who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and drove the dilapidated Wuling Hongguangfei without looking back.
Fortunately, Wang Mazi was sent to the hospital in time by his co-workers and saved his life, but he was lame. The treatment that followed cost him all his savings and left him in debt. Because his mother-in-law couldn't see hope, she took advantage of a rainy night to sweep away all the money, leaving Wang Mazi and running away secretly.
It wasn't until three days later that the head nurse of the ward came to inform Wang Mazi that the deposit was not enough and asked him to make up the deposit, that he knew that his mother-in-law had already run away with the money. Because there was no money to pay the deposit, Wang Mazi, who was grief-stricken, was helplessly kicked out of the hospital.
Wang Mazi limped back home, looked at the empty room, sat on the ground and cried. But no matter what, as long as you live, you have to go on. After cleaning up his mood, Wang Mazi quickly sold the house, and after paying off the debt, he thought about finding a cheaper house to rent.
After being introduced by the workers in the fruit market, Wang Mazi learned that the rent near Jinxiu Road was cheap, so he came to this real estate agency with the only remaining more than 2,000 yuan.
The old lady listened to Wang Mazi's story, and her tears of sadness flowed out, and she immediately rented the attic to him at a price of 300 yuan a month.
After that, the old lady and Wang Mazi gradually got acquainted, and kindly introduced him to the work of a cleaner through the street, although the salary of 2500 yuan per month is not much, but it can be spent by one person, and it can be used improvised.
The attic rented by Wang Mazi is very small, only about a dozen square meters, and you need to climb in from the wooden staircase at the innermost point of the second-floor walkway through a square opening in the second-floor ceiling. Entering the attic, you can see a small window of half a square meter, in front of which is a Shaxian snack that went out of business at the intersection and a folding table that was bought for 5 yuan.
On the table were half a plate of fried Chinese cabbage with oil residue and half a bottle of bean curd. By the window sits a dirty electric pot and a couple of bottles of seasoning. Wang Mazi was sitting on a single bed covered with stains, looking out the window with a dull gaze, the red plum cigarette he was holding in his left hand had burned to the filter, and the ash fell on the Nike sneakers he was wearing on his feet, and he didn't notice it.
"Hello, is Wang Shouren at home?"
"It should be there, who are you? What are you looking for Wang Mazi? In the mobile phone accessories store on the ground floor of the small building, a young woman holding a little girl sat on the fabric sofa, watching Korean dramas quietly on her mobile phone, and heard someone inquire about Wang Mazi, and raised her head slightly to ask.
"Our Municipal Public Security Bureau, there are some things we need to ask him to understand." As he spoke, the visitor showed his ID.
When the young woman heard this, she put down the child in her arms and stood up uneasily, "Comrade, did Wang Mazi commit a crime?" ”
"Sister-in-law, it's not a big deal, just ask him to understand the situation, don't worry, what about Wang Shouren? Call him. A one-meter-eight board beside the person who came looked at the young woman and the little girl and replied gently.
"No, no, it's not my sister-in-law, I have nothing to do with Wang Mazi, comrade, don't get me wrong. He lives in the attic, and you can go up and find him. The young woman blushed and hugged the girl, at a loss for explanation.
"Where do you go upstairs?" Itachi smiled awkwardly.
"Well, go up to the second floor from the store, and you can see a wooden ladder at the end, and then climb up." The young woman hurriedly pointed to the location of the stairs in the house.
After thanking the young woman, the two went up to the second floor, looking at the old wooden ladder at the end of the corridor, Li Rusong touched the board inch in embarrassment, "Boss Wu, this ladder has been around for many years, you see that the pulp will come out, and I don't know if I can stand it?" ”
"If you have this time, you can climb up!" Saying that, Wu Shaodong climbed straight up with the wooden ladder, and Li Rusong had no choice but to climb up helplessly.
Just climbed up to the ceiling through the wooden ladder, only half of his head poked out, and a stream of damp and turbid air immediately pierced Wu Shaodong's nasal cavity, and after adjusting his breathing slightly, Wu Shaodong quickly climbed into the attic. After standing firmly, he took out his police officer card and said to Wang Mazi, "Wang Shouren, I am Wu Shaodong of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and I have a few questions to ask you about the morning police." ”
"Boss Wu, let me go, let my brother come up first." Without waiting for Wang Mazi to answer, Li Rusong's voice for help came from behind him.
Wu Shaodong moved in, looked at Li Rusong, who was struggling to climb up, and frowned helplessly, thinking to himself Is it really a good idea to visit with this mallet?
After cleaning up his mood a little, Wu Shaodong said to Wang Mazi who was sitting on the bed again, "Wang Shouren, can you hear me?" ”
Wang Mazi didn't notice anyone entering the attic, just looked out the window fixedly, and muttered indistinctly, "I know...... It's him again...... Shadow ......"
"Boss Wu, is Wang Mazi stupid?" Li Rusong stood behind Wu Shaodong, pointed to his head with his index finger, and asked with a glance at Wang Mazi out of the corner of his eye.
Wu Shaodong didn't bother to take care of him, slowly walked to the bed, reached out and gently patted Wang Mazi on the shoulder, "Wang Shouren, are you okay?" ”
"Uh, who are?" Wang Mazi was interrupted from his thoughts, returned to his senses from a state of trance, and looked at the man patting him on the shoulder in confusion with a pair of triangular eyes covered with, and asked suspiciously.
When Li Rusong heard this, he stepped forward two steps in front of Wang Mazi, and replied in a righteous manner, "We are from the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and we have a few questions to ask you, I hope you can cooperate!" ”
"Uh, okay, okay, I must cooperate, I must cooperate" Wang Mazi hurriedly got up, crampedly pulled out two small plastic round stools from under the bed and put them in front of the bed, and looked at the two of them and pointed to the round stool. House, sit, sit, don't mind if the place is small......"
Wu Shaodong didn't mind sitting down, but Li Rusong frowned and looked at the plastic round stool, feeling that his height of 1.86 meters plus his weight of 186 pounds was a little difficult to squat, so he walked directly to the window, leaned against the wall and said, "It's okay, I'll stand for a while, I've been sitting for a long time today, standing slowly, hehe." ”
"Stand good, stand good, politics. If you have any questions to ask, I will answer them truthfully. Wang Mazi replied to Li Rusong, who was leaning against the window.
"Don't be nervous, just chat casually, sit down and say" Wu Shaodong pointed to the single bed and motioned for Wang Mazi to sit down.
"Hey, hey, I'll sit, I'll sit."
Seeing Wang Mazi sit down, Wu Shaodong took out a box of Liqun from his pocket, took out one and handed it to the past, Wang Mazi took it, and then took out another and threw it to Li Rusong who was leaning against the window, Li Rusong took it with a smile, took out a lighter and lit it for himself with his head down, and took a deep breath. When he looked up, he saw Wu Shaodong holding a cigarette and touching something with both hands on his body, so he stepped forward to help Wu Shaodong light it, and then stretched out the lighter to Wang Mazi.
"Hey, Zheng. House, I'll come by myself, I'll come by myself" Wang Mazi hurriedly stretched out his hand to take the lighter and lit it for himself, and immediately handed it back to Li Rusong after lighting it.
Li Rusong smiled, took the lighter, and leaned back to the window again.
Wu Shaodong took a deep breath of cigarette, watched Wang Mazi slowly exhale smoke, and asked, "Wang Shouren, I'll call you Lao Wang." I heard that you reported the crime this morning? ”
"Yes, Machi. Prefecture. ”
"What time do you start work in the morning?"
"Every day, I work at 6 o'clock, and after 7 o'clock, there are more people on the street, and it is difficult to clean."
"Is this the time today?"
"Yes, Zheng. Prefecture. ”
"How did you find the entrails?"
Hearing this, Wang Mazi was obviously a little nervous, and his hand shook and almost dropped the cigarette on the ground, "It's such a government. House, because the garbage is piled on the edge of the public toilet, and it is close to the intersection of the eastern section of Jinxiu Road, it is difficult to clean when there are many people in the late hour. I usually clean up the garbage pile first and then clean the toilet. ”
"Today, as usual, I cleaned up the garbage heap first, I rummaged through it first, looking for any scrap that could be sold for money, but who knows that I saw people's internal organs without turning it over a few times, and it almost scared my soul away."
Wu Shaodong frowned, found a suspicious point, and then asked, "How can you be sure of human internal organs?" Wouldn't it be an animal? ”
"I just feel human."
"Oh? Have you seen this before? ”
Wang Mazi took a deep puff of cigarette and pondered for a moment, "I'm not very sure, it's just that this matter is a bit evil, and this matter has to start from three years ago......"