Chapter 52: Departure
Finally, in the cranky thoughts of the two people, they came to the street where the hotel mentioned by Xiao Zhu was located, Qin Cang saw the signboard of the hotel from a distance, so he beckoned a parking space on the side of the road, parked the car in it, and the two of them got out of the car and walked towards the hotel.
This little inn looks really inconspicuous, not even a decent faΓ§ade, only a tattered light box placed on the side of the road, and a somewhat faded sign hanging on the wall of the floor, with a large arrow sticker under the sign, pointing to a small unit door that is sandwiched between two stores and can be easily ignored without looking closely, and you have to walk closer to see that there are four small words under the tattered light boxββ" Please go up to the second floor".
As soon as Tang Guo and Qin Cang walked into the unit door where the door had been broken, Tang Guo couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, this hotel shouldn't be called "Dream Garden" at all, from the perspective of this external environment, it should be called "Heartbeat Hundred", although the sky is still bright now, the stairwell is dark as if it is night, this is not strange, the general stairwell has small windows for lighting and ventilation, There is no here, or to be exact, there was originally, but now it has long been covered by the big signboards of the stores outside, not to mention the ventilation, even the light can't penetrate in, the stairwell seems to have a ghost-like demeanor, not to mention such a small door, the inside is dark, very inconspicuous, many drunks and the like, they regard this place as a place for drowning, as soon as they walk in, there is a strong smell of urine, Tang Guo felt that his stomach was overturned, I almost didn't retch it directly, but I endured it stubbornly.
Fortunately, the small hotel is on the second floor, Tang Guo does not need to continue to endure such foul air for too long, and soon the two of them went up to the second floor, a door very close to the staircase is pasted with a sticker of the same color as the light box outside, on which is written the five words "Youmengyuan Hotel", bells and whistles, revealing a vulgar energy, the door is the kind of old-fashioned anti-theft door that gets up early, it looks a little thin, and now it is just a cover-up, Qin Cang walked in front, Tang Guo followed behind, and the two of them opened the door and walked in directly.
The air in the room was not much better than in the hallway, and it was true that the smell of urine was not so heavy, but it was still very cloudy, mixed with the stench coming back from the sewer.
In order to make a hotel, it is obvious that this house has also been remodeled, the original layout has been completely disrupted, the space of the living room is separated to only three or four square meters, like a small bathroom, there is a bar counter on the side near the door, and there is a wall cabinet on the wall behind it, where some drinks, snacks, and travel toiletries that look like fake and shoddy products, and the room is divided by a very simple wooden board, which looks very thin, probably to save space.
The furnishings inside the inn were exactly the same as the signboard on the outside, both old and vulgar, Tang Guo glanced at the door open in the direction of the door, and saw that there was only a non-standard double bed in the small room, and the bed was covered with bright pink sheets, not to mention the color on it.
Qin Cang and Tang Guo stood there and waited for about two minutes, except for the faint sound of water, no one came out, Qin Cang looked at the top of the bar, and found that there was a doorbell or something like that in the corner of the bar, he reached out and pressed it, and the room suddenly remembered the sound of tinkling music, and then a woman answered vaguely, and after about half a minute, the sound of the rushing water stopped before, followed by the sound of someone wearing plastic-soled slippers going down the stairs, A woman wearing a large flowered sweater dress appeared at the other end of the small hallway that had been separated from it, and it seemed that the hotel was connected by two floors, and the staircase should be in it. The woman's sleeves were rolled up to her elbows, and she was probably washing her clothes on them.
Seeing someone come to the door, and it was still a man and a woman, although the time seemed to be a little inconsistent with the time period when their business came to the door on weekdays, this woman was still very happy, she greeted her with a smile on her face, and a pair of eyes kept looking Qin Cang and Tang Guo up and down with ambiguous gaze, Tang Guo was a little uncomfortable when she stared at her like this, and frowned slightly unhappily.
"Two, do you live in a hotel? We can stay here, or we can open an hourly room to rest on the board, what do you need? She asked with a smile, saying "two" in her mouth, but in fact, she seemed to be asking Qin Cang.
Qin Cang smiled at her, took out his ID from the pocket of his clothes, poked it in front of the woman, and said to her, "Yes, we need you to cooperate with our work and be investigated." Are you a hostess? β
This kind of "need" is obviously not the kind that this woman expected, she was stunned for a moment, then pursed her lips in some disappointment, nodded again, and said, "Yes, I'm the hostess, what are you doing in our hotel?" We have a license here, and there is no mess at all, special rules! Except for the occasional little couple in the nearby school, boyfriend and girlfriend come to live, then it's one thing whether you can accept this conceptually, but it's not illegal, right? β
"Has this person stayed with you before?" Tang Guo didn't want to waste his tongue and energy to discuss other things with this proprietress, so he directly took out Ji Yuanliang's photo and handed it over for the proprietress to identify.
The proprietress looked at the photo and didn't have too much time to remember and think, so she nodded directly and said very firmly: "I have the impression of this person, I spent two or three nights here before leaving, I remember!" β
"What's this man's name?" Qin Cang asked, he wanted to know what kind of fake identity Ji Yuanliang used.
"He, I want to think about it...... I want to think about it...... Oops, I can't remember it all of a sudden, you guys wait a while, I'll flip it for you! Knowing that the police did not come to the door to accuse their hotel of being involved, the proprietress relaxed a lot, she casually pulled a yellowed white towel from the side of the bar, wiped the water on her hands, and then pulled out a registration book-like thing from under the bar, and made a fuss for a while, and finally found it, she pointed to the record she had made herself, "Oh! Here, the man you inquired about is named Ren Xiaotao, I have seen his ID card, and there is no problem. What's wrong with this? Is there something wrong with this person? Is he a fugitive or what's going on? Can you give me a letter? β
"This man is missing." Tang Guo thought about it for a while, and decided to find a reason that was neither a lie nor a complete truth, which could make the proprietress of this small inn feel a little urgent, but it would not scare her into opening her mouth, and she thought about it to tell the fact that Ji Yuanliang was missing.
The proprietress was really a little surprised, and she was still afraid that she would have something to do with her shop, so she hurriedly said, "Oh, even if he is missing, he has disappeared since he left us!" It has nothing to do with us! He was in a hurry on the day he left, it was already night, it was quite late, he suddenly ran back from outside, entered the house and began to pack his things, and then he was about to leave, when he still had a deposit with us, he didn't ask us to return, just like burning his ass and left. Oops, did he have an accident after that night? That's really a sin! But he's a man of a young age, and we can't stop him from doing anything, if you want to say that he has to pay for the room, then we can block it, but not the other way around! β
"Was he late that night when he left?" Tang Guo asked.
The proprietress nodded: "I can't say what time it is, but it's very late when I go, it's right that my old man is on duty here at night, I'm in charge of the day, he usually closes the door at about eleven o'clock at night, that day this Ren Xiaotao ran back when he was about to lock the door, came back for a while, and hurriedly wanted to leave, my old man just locked the door, very unhappy, said that he had to open it for him, that Ren Xiaotao said that he also felt very embarrassed, so the deposit did not have to be returned, Then he walked alone. β
"Did he spend two or three days with you, and wander outside late every night?"
"It doesn't seem to be there, he seems to go out during the day before, help come back at night, buy a lot of cans of beer from outside at night, close the door and drink it in the house, I also reminded him, saying that we are also our own personal family to do some small business, not easy, and those big hotels can not be compared, the size of the work is our old two busy work, so he don't give me vomit in the house to steal everywhere. He promised well, and he did, and the smell of alcohol in the room was quite strong, but it really didn't make too much of a mess for me. β
"You know where he goes when he goes out during the day?"
"Then I don't know, I have a busy day to do, how can there be that idle man who stare at him every day without doing anything! I knew that he seemed to be in a bad mood, as if he had lost his soul, and his face was sad all day long, and my old man asked him what was wrong, and he didn't tell us. The hostess replied.
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