Chapter 40: In Search of the Gardener
For a medium-sized city with a population of more than 1.3 million, it is really not easy to find a person who only knows his appearance, age, and gender among 1.3 million people, and this person is not sure whether he is a criminal suspect or not, so he cannot take extraordinary measures such as general compilation against him, and can only rely on informants and all the clues that can be used.
In the past few days, Chubby and Crow have run all over the places where they can run, and their informants have also come to ask them one by one, but they all said that they didn't know that there was such a person, and they hadn't even seen it, so they were so angry that Chubby and Crow were choked enough, did this kid collapse out of the stone? Another smoke back into the rocks? Why can't you even catch a shadow.
They also checked the address on the ID card provided by the little gardener, and indeed as Yang Zi said, the ID card was forged at all, and when they heard the news from the police station where the address on the ID card was located, Xiao Fat was so angry that he scolded fiercely: "Damn!" ”
But what's the use of being angry, there is no progress at all, when I think of Yang Zi's stern eyes, Xiaopang and the crow are very anxious, but the more anxious the more useless, no news is no news, the two of them decided to go to the flower and bird market in the south of the city today to see, it is said that when the old lady of the Xu family bought flowers and trees here, she was chatting with the flower seller, this kid interjected a few words on the side, said some knowledge of flowers, and was heard by the old lady, so he made a decision to let him enter the house as a gardener.
Xiaopang and the crow turned around twice in the flower and bird market, and didn't see anything suspicious, the flower and bird market is so big, and it is estimated that there is no point in turning it down, but this is already the last resort, the two of them are not willing to give up like this, and they start to turn the third circle hard, and they are secretly praying in their hearts that this circle can have some harvest.
At this moment, a small truck was about to be unloaded in front of a gardening shop, loaded with some evergreen ornamental plants, and a young man jumped out of the passenger seat, and in a sullen voice instructed the shopkeepers to remove all the potted plants from the car.
The crow, who was buying a bottle of water in a cigarette shop on the street and pouring it into his mouth, turned his head and saw the young man, he put down his raised arm, turned his elbow behind him, and was chattering with the owner of the cigarette hotel, and then slowly motioned to the little fat with his head, asking him to pay attention to the young man who had just jumped out of the car.
Xiaopang was chatting with the owner of the cigarette hotel, and was limped by the crow like this, knowing that there must be something, he quietly changed his posture, turned his body to the direction indicated by the crow, pretended to be lively, and looked at the side of the small truck.
It didn't matter if he didn't look at it, he was overjoyed at first sight, and his eyes lit up at once, and then he couldn't help but get excited, like a hound that found its prey, and immediately wanted to pounce on it and knock it down, and take it away as a trophy.
Looking at the little chubby who was about to move, the crow shook his head slightly, and his right index finger seemed to be unconsciously cocked, and he nodded down two points. This is a set of code words and gestures that they have developed when they cooperate with each other and cooperate with each other to use when it is inconvenient to speak, and now this action is combined with the shaking of the head just now, which means that you should not act rashly first, and then observe the surrounding situation.
Little Fat comprehended, his eyes blinked very slowly, indicating that he already knew the crow's arrangement, and was ready to fight at any time, he did not change his posture, leaned his body on the counter of the cigarette hotel, and continued to chat with the boss without a ride, while expressing great interest in the small truck.
"Boss, why does that family still buy so many goods in this weather, isn't it the off-season? Can it be sold? Chubby pretended to be curious and asked the owner of the cigarette hotel who was chatting with him because he didn't have much business.
The boss followed his gaze and found that the gardening shop opposite had a lot of evergreen ornamental plants today, and was now busy directing the workers to move to the store.
"Oh, what did you say?" The shopkeeper glanced at it, turned around to ask Chubby, and after seeing Chubby nodding, he continued to speak. "That shop is very business-minded, and also knows how to grasp people's psychology, others think that winter is the off-season, no one will be willing to spend money to buy ornamental plants such an expensive and unreal thing, but he does not, not only every winter into a large number of foliage ornamental plants, but also send plants to visit the elderly this leisure way in the city to promote, forming a sense of habit."
"Oh, I see...... The owner of that house is really talented......" Chubby replied as if he pretended to understand.
He pretended to gossip and asked, "With such a flexible mind, this boss must be very old, right?" ”
"Where! Did you see the young man who was directing the workers to move the flowers and trees down? The boss smiled smugly before continuing to say to Chubby.
"Ahh Could it be that the young man is the boss? I didn't expect that this young man was just a migrant worker, working in the city, and getting enough food, but now it seems that things are far from being as simple as imagined.
After the owner of the cigarette shop gave Xiaopang an affirmative answer, there happened to be a few people who came to buy something, and he was busy greeting them, so he didn't care about the two of them anymore.
The crow had apparently heard the conversation between the two of them, and he just frowned tightly and looked thoughtfully at the young man busy in the flower shop opposite, curious about everything about him.
After a while, the evergreen plants of various varieties on the pickup truck had been moved to the shop by the workers, and the driver, who had been sitting in the cab without moving, raised his head and shouted to the young man who had entered the store with the last batch of plants, and then stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out of the sight of Chubby.
The crow and the crow glanced at each other, and while others were not paying attention, they came to the middle of the road that was still some distance away from the gardening store opposite, and the crow told the crow softly: "Don't startle the snake first, touch his bottom, anyway, he is the owner of this shop, and the monk can't run the temple, go in and have a look." ”
Chubby nodded knowingly, and the two of them pretended not to know each other one after the other, and entered the door of the store with a plaque with four iron paintings and silver hooks hanging above the store, "Little Tiger Gardening", and Chubby pretended to be very interested in the green ornamental plants that had just come in, staring at the plants stacked in the middle of the store with his hands behind his back.
This shop is very large, there is more than a hundred square meters, there is an upward staircase on one side, I don't know what the second floor looks like, the sharp-eyed crow has seen what he is looking for, and it is hanging on the wall near the staircase, so he walked straight over and took a closer look.
There is a copy of the business license hanging in the middle of the wall, and I saw that it reads: S City Xiaohu Flower and Horticulture Co., Ltd. Xiaohu Horticulture Business Department, legal representative Zhang Xiaohu, economic nature of non-independent accounting business department, and there are copies of tax registration certificates and other necessary registration documents for business on the side.
The crow was taken aback a little, I can't see it, this master still has two brushes, what Xiaohu Flower and Horticulture Co., Ltd. name is the same as him, it should also be the industry under his name, not to mention how big the company is, just looking at the value of this store is expensive, how much is the monthly rent of more than 100 square meters and two floors? And how much do these staff members get paid? And how much are these goods worth? After calculating this account, there is no twenty or thirty thousand a month, so it can't be taken down, thinking of this, the crow was a little more cautious about the attitude of preparing to investigate this young man named Zhang Xiaohu.
Look at the situation of this store, that company should not be bad, generally this kind of company is itself with horticultural forest farms, even if there is no forest farm, but also with many places in the country forest farms have business contacts, do some transfer in and out, from the south to the north wholesale business, it is said that when the business is good, a lot of profit a month.
After reading these information related to the store, the crow glanced around the store for a while, and didn't see Zhang Xiaohu's figure, I don't know if it was upstairs, he was thinking in his mind how to meet Zhang Xiaohu and talk, or just go straight to show his identity?
In order to get more information, Chubby and a young girl in charge of the reception were stunned from the flowers and trees to the financial crisis, and his face did not change color and his heart did not beat, but the little MM was stunned, thinking that an economist came today.
The crow smiled secretly, and then looked carefully, and secretly counted how many small workers there were on the first floor, this time he saw clearly, connected to the little MM who was talking to Xiao Pang, there were a total of four men, two women and six small workers on the first floor of this store, all of whom were only seventeen or eighteen years old, even if they were going to start fighting, with their own and Xiao Pang's skills, these people should be fine, and they didn't know what the situation was upstairs.
Thinking of this, the crow decided, so he directly showed his identity and asked Zhang Xiaohu to come out to speak, and if it dragged on like this, it would only delay time, he was a little annoyed that he followed Yang Zi but was not good at learning, otherwise he wouldn't have thought about it and didn't have a good idea to come out, so that he couldn't get up and down now, and he was afraid that this Zhang Xiaohu had three heads and six arms, and directly showing his identity would cause an uncontrollable situation, and the clue of not acting was really important, in order to solve the case, he thought of this, Pedal and lift your feet up the stairs to the second floor.
"Hey...... Who, then, stop! ”
Just as the crow had taken a few steps up the stairs and was about to reach the second floor, there was a snort behind him.