Chapter 28: The Story of the Idols
"Buy a god idol? Is it this statue of the god who is too old? Xu Tian asked.
"Will there be a quilt again?" Yu Yi said.
"How did you negotiate at the time?" Xu Tian asked.
"The man didn't talk to me about buying the statue at first, and when I saw him come to the store, I thought he was here to ask me why I was investigating him, and I knew that he found out when I was investigating him, but he didn't say anything to me at that time, and then I stopped investigating him because of a great deal of weakness. He came to the store that day to ask me if there were any cemeteries with better feng shui in other cities besides the city, and we talked about it for about half an hour, and finally I found that he had been avoiding talking about cemeteries, and had repeatedly turned the subject around the statues. When I didn't think he was going to talk to me about the cemetery, I went straight to him and asked him, and finally he told me that he wanted to buy the idol. When I heard that he was going to buy the idol, I was instantly furious, this idolis was passed down to me by my master, and the thought that two years before that time he had been suspected of stealing the white paper inside the idol, my anger suddenly came up. After I yelled at him, he walked away, but before leaving he said something to me, which I remember very clearly to this day. Yu Yi said.
"What is it?" Xu Tian asked.
"He said he'd come and take the idol sooner or later, and I'll beg him to take it away." Yu Yi said.
"There was a lot of provocation in this sentence, and you tolerated it at the time?" Xu Tian asked.
Of course I wouldn't tolerate that, but I didn't respond to him, but I had a vague sense that the orthopedic surgeon seemed to be the one who had stolen the paper with the font on it inside the idol. But then I thought, if he stole the original paper, then why would he come back to me two years later to buy the idol? This has been bothering me for a long time. Yu Yi said.
"Did it take a long time after that to continue to have an accident?" Xu Tian asked.
"It's been about four months! It was also the early winter season, and at that time there were some changes in my store, in addition to me and Xiao Ai, my friend also came to help me run the store, and we ran it together for about a month! I had a serious illness and I was lying in my room all the time. During my illness, the orthopedic surgeon came several times, but I didn't receive him, it was all my friend and Xiao Ai who received him, and I told Xiao Ai that they could just prevaricate him back. But I didn't expect that one night, that person would sneak into my basement. Yu Yi said.
"He's coming to steal the idol?" Xu Tian said in surprise.
"My basement is alarmed because there are some important things in the basement, including this statue, and a lot of valuables that we sell in our store, so we keep the basement very tight. It's this breathable window, you see, right? Yu Yi pointed to the raised ventilation window and said.
"Looking at the structure of this basement, this ventilation window should be open to the ground, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"That person climbed in through the ventilation window, I really admire him, this ventilation window is easy for a person of standard size to enter, but if you want to climb out, it will trigger the alarm I set." Yu Yi said.
"I guess you learned how to do it at the table where the idol is enshrined?" Xu Tian asked.
"That's right, someone who wants to climb up the ventilation window will definitely move this table to the base of the wall, and if someone moves the table out of the way, the alarm will be triggered." Yu Yi said.
"That guy didn't succeed?" Xu Tian asked.
"Of course it didn't work, but I'm not sure if the idol was transferred by him." Yu Yi said.
What does that mean? Do you not know your own gods? Xu Tian asked.
"You can also see, if there are the man's accomplices on the ventilation window, then they can throw the idol through the ventilation window, and if I am the one who wants to steal the idol, I will definitely use this method, which is why I did not put the idol near the ventilation window to worship." Yu Yi said.
"Since you have this suspicion, did you investigate it at the time? The idol is very important to you, you should be able to tell the authenticity of the idol from the fake, right? Xu Tian asked.
"I think the idol resembles the real thing, but I'm not sure if the person took it away." Yu Yi said.
"It's embarrassing." Xu Tian said.
"What's even more embarrassing! I caught the guy right, but in the end, the guy was only detained by the police for half a month, and since then, my shop has become very lively. Yu Yi said.
"What do you mean by that?" Xu Tian asked.
"Every once in a while, thieves would come to my basement, and at last I would be annoyed, so I took the idol to my bedroom and worshipped it, and when I was healed from my illness, I enshrined it in the antechamber. But those who tried to steal the idol did not stop, and many of the thieves I caught came to the store and talked to me about the price of the idol. Of course, I was furious with the thieves, and every time the thief I scolded me would leave the store with a threatening word. Of course, I'm not afraid of their threats, but I feel very irritated when this happens many times. Yu Yi said.
"It's no wonder that this kind of thing will make everyone feel very irritated." Xu Tian said.
"Even more outrageous things are yet to come!" When Yu Yi said this, his face already showed a very tired look.
"What's going on again?" Xu Tian asked.
"Not only did people come to steal and buy idols, but in the end there were even people who came to the store to snatch the idols, of course, those people did not succeed, at that time I had just recovered from a serious illness, and I did not have the energy to fight with those people, so I hid far away in a fit of anger, and I left the city with this idol." Yu Yi said.
"If I'm not mistaken, you went to Dong'an City?" Xu Tian asked.
"You're right, because I stayed in Dong'an City for a while when I investigated Lao Chen before, and after I went to Dong'an City, I only had one friend from Lao Chen, and I helped Lao Chen solve a few cases in Dong'an City, but these things are irrelevant, and the most important thing is that the people who stole the statue and robbed the statue followed me to Dong'an City, and there are more and more of those people." Yu Yi said.