Wang Shen glanced at the uncle who collected the garbage, turned around and prepared to walk towards the unit building. Wang Shen didn't take a few steps before stopping, and turned to stare at the busy uncle again. Wang Shen gradually shifted his gaze from the uncle's body to the location of the trash can. Wang Shen took a few steps behind him, observed the trash can from a distance, and then looked up along the trash can. The trash can is a little to the left directly below Han Mo's balcony. Wang Shen thought of the bloodstains on the edge of the balcony window in Han Mo's house. A thought suddenly flashed through Wang Shen's mind. Wang Shen walked towards the busy uncle.

"Hello. Hello. Wang Shen shouted twice, and the uncle who sorted out the trash can stopped his work and turned to look at Wang Shen twice.

"You're calling me? Something? The uncle looked Wang Shen up and down, then turned his head and continued his work.

"Have you always been in charge of the garbage collection here?" Wang Shen asked, pointing to the engineering vehicle parked not far away.

"yes, what's wrong?" The uncle didn't look back, but asked rhetorically.

"How many years has my uncle been working?"

"I'm too busy to make small talk." The uncle finally stopped what he was doing, turned his head to look at Wang Shen, waved his hand, and the stubble growing messily on his face piled up slightly, showing some impatience.

Wang Shen smiled apologetically, touched his pocket, took out a brand-new hundred-yuan bill, and handed it to the uncle.

"What are you?" The uncle looked at the hundred-dollar bill in his hand suspiciously, and his fingers squeezed the hundred-dollar bill tightly. Then he glanced at Wang Shen suspiciously, the impatience on his face had disappeared without a trace, and the work at hand had completely stopped.

"You don't have to worry, it's not a big deal, I just want to ask you something. Just answer truthfully. Wang Shen stared at the uncle with a smile.

"You're a cop?" The uncle looked at Wang Shen, but Wang Shen did not answer his question. "Well, it's none of my business anyway. However, one thing to be clear, if what I know is not satisfactory to you, I will not refund the money. After saying that, the uncle put the money in his hand into his pocket.

"You don't have to worry about this. How many years have you been in charge of cleaning up the garbage? ”

"I've been doing it for half my life, I can't help it, I haven't read a book, and I don't have any ability, so I can only do this." The uncle sighed heavily and tugged hard at the wide gloves on his hands.

"Three years ago, on the night of June 18th, did you come here to dispose of the garbage that day?"

"Of course, every day, not a single day is broken."

"What time did you come?"

"It's nine o'clock in the evening." Without thinking, the uncle reported the approximate time of disposing of the garbage that day.

"How do you remember so clearly after all this time?" Wang Shen was surprised by his uncle's memory. If a person is not impressed by something that happened on a certain day three years ago, the memory will blur with the passage of time.

"Of course, because it's my normal working time. I used to come here every night at 9 o'clock to deal with the garbage. The uncle took off the wide plastic gloves in his hand, threw them aside, took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit them and took two puffs, and spat out a few comfortable smoke rings.

Wang Shen looked at his watch, showing that the time was just after seven o'clock. "So, today, why did you come so early?"

"As I said, the work at nine o'clock was before. Later, we were complained about several times of nuisance, and the company adjusted our working hours. The people who live in this place, well, they think they can be much more noble than us. It's just a flock of sparrows hiding in the tube building. Speaking of which, the uncle was obviously very dissatisfied with the residents of this area, and while raising the volume of his speech, he spat out a few smoke rings. However, I heard that there used to be a great writer living here. It's called, it's called. Oh, by the way, it's called Han Mo. ”

"Oh? Do you know this? ”

"Do you look down on us garbage handlers or what? We also watch the news and keep up with society. The uncle flicked the cigarette ash in his hand, glanced at Wang Shen, and felt that he was being treated slowly. Hey? 6.18 three years ago? Isn't that the date of that writer's suicide? I remember collecting the garbage that day and waking up the next day, and it was all over her news. It's a pity, I don't know what she can't think of. Beautiful, young and rich. If I were her, I wouldn't have died, I'm really sick. However, she is so rich and lives here, and she is indeed sick. The uncle expressed his feelings while recalling the events of that day.

"Did you see or hear any strange movements that day?" Wang Shen was a little happy in his heart, as if the hundred yuan just now was not in vain. From this uncle's mouth, maybe he can find some valuable clues.

"Strange things?" The uncle took two more puffs, threw the remaining cigarette butts to the ground, and stepped on them twice with his foot. "When I got out of the car, I met a man coming out of the building. I don't know if this counts. ”

"Men? Do you remember what this man looked like? Wang Shen was very interested in the clue provided by the uncle.

It's a pity, the uncle shook his head. "Look at the damn street lights here, there's no difference between having them and not having them. At that time, the man was so far away from me that I couldn't see his face clearly. ”

Wang Shen picked up his notebook and nodded while memorizing. "What else? Anything else strange? ”

"And?" The uncle frowned and took out a second cigarette from the cigarette case. "By the way, I also heard something thrown down the stairs."

"Something? What is it? Can you determine what floor it is? ”

The uncle shook his head. "I'm not sure, if I had known what floor it was, I would have cursed a long time ago. These unqualified things, all their legs are broken? I wouldn't even go downstairs and throw out the garbage. Strangely enough, though, I scolded a few times, so they don't usually throw garbage directly from upstairs. If you want to throw it, you won't throw it at the time I came. It was really weird. ”

Wang Shen walked to the side of the trash can and looked up at the residents upstairs. Only two of them are currently on the lights. "Uncle, did you find the bag of garbage that you threw down later?"

"I thought it was strange at the time, so I looked near the trash can. I was angry when I thought of this, and there was a lot of garbage thrown on the ground. Later, I didn't find anything, just some clothes, shoes or other daily necessities. Some of them look relatively new. ”

Clothes? Shoe? Daily necessities? Wang Shen recorded this information in his notebook. "Are those daily necessities for men or women? Can you see it? ”

"Mostly men's, a small part women's. I ......" The uncle who handled the garbage paused in his words. "I also picked out a few good ones to take out. Anyway, throwing away those things is a waste, and we also need to conserve resources. ”

"What did you take?" Wang Shen asked.

"No, no. No, no, this is something that people don't want. I won't break the law if I take it. Seeing that Wang Shen's tone was hurried, the uncle was a little flustered, and immediately waved his hand to explain.

"Don't be nervous, I didn't mean that. I just want to know what you took? Are those things still there? Maybe I can buy it if it's there. Wang Shen also waved his hand, revealing a friendly smile.

The uncle still glanced at Wang Shen suspiciously, and then said in a slow tone: "Actually, I didn't take anything, just some clothes and a pair of shoes." The shoes were too big for me to wear, so I kept them there. I've thrown away some of my clothes, and I'm left with only a coat. The uncle paused, and then secretly glanced at Wang Shen again. After he saw the smile on Wang Shen's face, he seemed to relax his vigilance a little. "By the way, you just said you wanted to buy those things?" The uncle spoke in a loud voice, with a little tentative.

Wang Shen smiled and nodded.

"If you want these things, you can do it, you can give so much money, do you think it's okay?" The uncle's right hand trembled and flicked three fingers. Suddenly, the uncle seemed to think that the asking price seemed to be a little too high, and hurriedly hid his ring finger in the palm of his hand. Right now, only two fingers of the uncle's right hand are left standing in the night sky.

"No problem." Wang Shen immediately nodded. "But what are you going to give it to me?" Wang Shen knocked his head and glanced at his uncle.

"You wait here, my house is not far from here, half an hour, as long as half an hour, I will definitely be back in half an hour." The uncle was a little excited, he didn't expect that he could make a lot of extra money so easily on such an ordinary night. The uncle told Wang Shen to wait patiently while rushing to his engineering truck. The engineering truck turned on its headlights and disappeared into the alley.

Wang Shen looked at his watch and estimated the time. Wang Shen just used this time to investigate Han Mo's house again. Wang Shen walked into the unit building, and the voice-activated lights in the corridor seemed to be less sensitive. Wang Shen stomped his feet, and the light above the head of the corridor slowly lit up. After a while, Wang Shen stood at the door of Han Mo's house. Wang Shen took out the key to the house from his pocket. This key was originally stored in the archives room along with Han Mo's files. As soon as Wang Shen wanted to use the key to open the door, he saw the door of the leader's house open.

"Hello." Wang Shen walked over and said hello. In front of Wang Shen stood a middle-aged woman with curly hair and a rusty dress full of red flowers.

The middle-aged woman just wanted to lock the door, but after hearing Wang Shen's shout, she immediately dodged and hid in the house, leaving the door ajar. The middle-aged woman glanced at Wang Shen vigilantly and replied, "Who are you?" ”

Wang Shen took out his police ID from his pocket and put it in front of the middle-aged woman. When the middle-aged woman saw Wang Shen's police ID, she relaxed a lot, and her hand holding the door lock also took off some strength. "Is there anything wrong with you?"

"Eldest sister, are you going out?" Wang Shen looked at the middle-aged woman and said earnestly.

"It's not illegal to square dance, right?" The middle-aged woman replied as she straightened her curly, fluffy hair.

"Of course not, of course not. It's just that I want to delay the eldest sister for a few minutes to find out about the situation of the original family. Wang Shen pointed to Han Mo's door.