Han Minyu's detective series of novels continues to be serialized......

On a hot afternoon, the sun was scorching the earth viciously, and the leaves on both sides of the road were curled up in the sun, as if a timely rain was urgently needed to relieve the suffocating heat.

An electric tricycle drives on an empty country road, kicking up a sky of dust wherever the tricycle passes.

The courier Brother Li is a young man who has been in the industry for less than half a year, but he is already quite familiar with the area he is responsible for delivering in Hengzhen Township.

"Where is Xiangkang Nursing Home? It seems that it has never been delivered. When Brother Li saw the address for the first time, he couldn't help but mutter.

As expected, this unfamiliar address didn't seem easy to find, and the tricycle went back and forth on the side road several times without finding the right place.

Brother Li stopped and stopped an old man who was working in the farm: "Uncle, do you know how to go to Xiangkang Nursing Home?" I searched and searched and couldn't find it. ”

The dark-skinned old man pointed to an inconspicuous path and said, "You go straight along this road for five hundred meters, and then turn right at the end of the road." ”

"Thank you!"

Da Da Da ...... The sound of the motor continued to sound, and Brother Li finally found Xiangkang Nursing Home as he wished under the guidance of well-wishers.

At the foot of the mountain, several gray three-story buildings appeared in front of him, the area is not very large, and it looks like a small private nursing home.

The gray exterior wall gave a very oppressive feeling, and after explaining his intention to the security guard, Brother Li drove a tricycle inside.

On the lawn of the yard, it was bare, and only a little dark yellow grass was pitifully gathered together, showing desolation.

On both sides of the road are a few plane trees, with wide leaves and green trees, like a green umbrella in this hot summer, bringing the only vitality to the entire nursing home.

Brother Li walked in with a package of couriers, and a staff member wearing a nurse's clothes stopped him: "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm here to deliver a courier, is there a person named Sun Delai here?" Brother Li asked.

The female nurse glared at him and said impatiently, "All our couriers are placed in the security room." ”

Brother Li explained with a smile: "This courier must be signed by myself, and it is paid for...... Do you think you can help me find this person Sun Delai? ”

At this time, a male nurse who was also wearing a nurse's clothes walked over, with a square face, a collapsed nose, and a medium build.

"What's the matter with Xiao Xiao? Who is looking for Sun Delai? ”

Xiao Xiao glanced at Lao Tan and said, "The one who sent the courier said that it was a document that must be signed by himself." ”

Old Tan looked at him unhappily and said, "Come with me." ”

"Thank you, thank you!" Brother Li thanked him repeatedly.

Walking through the long corridor, Brother Li met Sun Delai, the owner of the courier.

Brother Li glanced at Sun De, who was thin and unlooking, and was lying on the bed with a sick face, and said, "Uncle, please sign for your express delivery." ”

Sun Delai sat up with difficulty and signed his name on the courier note.

Brother Li reminded with a smile: "This is a piece to pay, please pay the postage." ”

"Good...... Okay......" Sun Delai got out of bed sickly, walked to the cabinet and took out a fifty yuan and handed it to him.

Brother Li took the money and found dozens of yuan for him, and then left with steps.

When he walked through the corridor again, Brother Li glanced at the room where the old people lived, the same layout, the same rudimentary equipment.

In some of the rooms, the gray walls in the corners were dusted and no one cleaned them.

Brother Li thought to himself: "This must be a cheap private nursing home, dedicated to taking care of some lonely elderly people or children who are greedy for cheap to send the elderly here, I definitely don't want to come to this kind of place when I am old." ”

"Hey, work hard, don't come here in order to get old in the future!" Brother Li sighed softly.

As the tricycle clattered out of the nursing home, passing by a kiosk, Li Ge picked up a banknote to buy a popsicle to quench his fever.

Hey? How could there be the words "Save me, there is a demon" written on this banknote, Brother Li carefully recalled that this was not the fifty yuan that Sun Delai handed him just now, how could there be these words? Is it a prank or is there something going on?

But after thinking about it, he felt that there was no fuss, there were so many cases of scribbling on banknotes, nothing special.

Half a month later, another courier from Sun Delai, which needed to be signed in person, appeared in Brother Li's hand.

The tricycle clattered on the way to Xiangkang Nursing Home.

"Hello, I'm looking for the old man Sun Delai, here is his courier that needs to be signed in person."

The nurse gave him a blank look and said, "He died last week." ”

Brother Li asked in surprise, "Dead?" Why did he die when I saw him a few weeks ago? ”

The female nurse opened her mouth impatiently and said, "What's so strange? People die here every day, and you don't look at the situation of the old people sent here? All of them are dying or paralyzed. ”

"Oh, thank you." Brother Li scratched his hair and walked out with the courier.

The sound of a fierce quarrel in the hall caught his attention.

A woman in red dressed in foreign clothes shouted angrily: "How did my father die? What is it? Tell me clearly, or I'll accuse you of murder. ”

Lao Tan said lightly: "Ms. Sun, your father Sun Delai died suddenly because of a cerebral infarction. ”

"You're talking nonsense, I've never heard of him having a cerebral infarction." The woman in red shouted accusations.

A middle-aged fat man with a fat head and big ears next to her dragged her and said, "Sister, our father really died of a cerebral infarction, don't make any more trouble." ”

When the woman in red heard him say this, she pointed at his nose and scolded: "You killed it, you killed Dad." I send so much money every month for you to take good care of him, you know gambling every day, can he live long if you send our dad to such a place where no one stays? I really regret that I didn't take him with me in the first place, otherwise he wouldn't have ...... Woowoo"

Lao Tan said with a stiff face: "Please mourn, if you two brothers and sisters want to quarrel, please go outside to quarrel, don't affect others here." ”

The woman in red glared at him angrily and shouted: "Some time ago, I received a call from my father, telling me to go back to China immediately to pick him up, saying that he didn't want to stay here and that he was scared or something, and I asked him the reason, but he refused to say whether he was alive or dead. Later, he said something to me about death or something, as if he was saying goodbye to me in advance. If it was a cerebral infarction, would he say these things to me? ”

"Ms. Sun, don't mess around, I'm going to call the police if you make trouble again."

"You report, you report, if you don't call the police, then I'll come, I want to see if your nursing home is saving people or killing people......"

Hearing this, Brother Li immediately remembered the words "Save me, there is a demon" written on the fifty yuan bill last time.

Brother Li stood up and interjected: "Ms. Sun, this is Sun Delai's courier, please help sign for it." ”

The woman in red turned her face and said, "This is what I sent to my dad, courier brother, let me ask you, did you also deliver the courier to my dad last time?" ”

Brother Li replied truthfully: "Yes." ”

"And how was my dad last time you saw him?"

"It's very thin, but I can barely get up."

"Anything else out of the ordinary?"

Brother Li hesitated a little and didn't know how to speak, but after thinking about it, he still said truthfully: "He gave me a banknote with the words "Save me, there are demons" written on it. ”

A trace of viciousness shot out of Old Tan's cold eyes: "What nonsense are you talking about?" You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately. ”

Brother Li was startled, and barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Hehe...... Maybe I'm looking at it wrong. ”

The woman in red sneered and turned to leave.

Half an hour later, Liang Yu, the head of the criminal investigation team, came to Xiangkang Nursing Home with a few colleagues.

At the entrance of the nursing home, a woman in red got out of the black car.

Liang Yu walked up to her and asked, "You called the police?" Say there are homicides here. ”

"Yes, my name is Sun Yuting, and my dad passed away here not long ago, but I found out that there was a problem with his death, and it was probably that he killed him."

Liang Yu said lightly: "Please tell me the details." ”

Sun Yuting said slowly: "About a month ago, I received a call from my father, he told me to hurry back to China to pick him up, and said that he didn't want to stay in this nursing home or something. As he chatted, he talked about death or something, as if he was saying goodbye to me. I thought he might just be in a bad mood, so I persuaded him a few words without thinking too much. I called him again a few days later and couldn't find anyone. The nurse explained that my dad was either in the shower or busy or something, and wouldn't let us talk. Some time ago, I couldn't take time to return to China because I was busy with work, but I really didn't worry about my dad, so I sent a few couriers that needed to be signed for in person to my dad to show filial piety, and by the way to see what the situation was. When I was done with the work at hand, I came back to pick him up this time, but I didn't know that my father had passed away. They said that the cause of death was cerebral infarction, but my father has always been in good health, how can he just say it? ”

Liang Yu listened patiently to her and continued to ask, "What other circumstances make you feel that your father's death is not so simple?" ”

Sun Yuting said: "Ask this courier brother, he knows." ”

Brother Li told Liang Yu in detail what he had seen and heard.

Liang Yu stepped on the cigarette butt on the ground with his foot and said, "Let's go in first to see what the situation is?" Go back first, we'll look for you again if there's any clue. ”

Liang Yu walked into the dean's office with a group of people, and the dean was a gray-haired old man.

"Hello, Mr. Policeman, I'm the dean here, what's the matter?"

Liang Yu replied: "It's nothing, someone called the police that her father's death was not normal, so let's investigate." ”

The old dean nodded and said, "It's Sun Delai's family who called the police, right?" It's no wonder that I checked his body when he first came, and he was in good health, and it's no wonder that the family didn't understand. ”

Liang Yu asked, "What do you do?" ”

The dean smiled: "I used to be a doctor, and then after I retired, I opened this nursing home with my friends. My original intention was to hope that those abandoned elderly people who were lonely and widowed would have a place to settle down. ”

"How many old men are there? And how many staff are there? ”

"We have about fifty or sixty elderly people here, which is not much, because the scale is small, and the staff is not very large, about thirty people in total."

Liang Yu squinted and asked, "I heard that your nursing home has a high mortality rate?" ”

The old yard sighed and said, "Yes! Most of the elderly people who are sent to us are either paralyzed or sick, so the normal death rate is higher than that of the elderly in other nursing homes. ”

"Oh? Can I meet the nurse who took care of Sun Delai? Liang Yu asked.

"You say Lao Tan? No problem, he is an old man here, and everyone respects him very carefully and carefully in his work. ”