Watching a man and a woman get out of the express hotel and get into the police car, I was sitting in a Jetta car across the road, I threw down the Coke bottle in my hand with relief, took out the phone and turned out the number and dialed: "Sister Wang, I've done your husband's business." You can find a lawyer to go to the police station and check the police records tonight...... Don't worry, a lawyer must have a way, he doesn't understand what kind of lawyer he is anymore...... Yes...... Yes, yes, when you sue for divorce, this record can be used as evidence for you, and you believe me...... Oh, what's the politeness? It's all as it should be. That one...... You promised me that...... Hey, okay, I'll be waiting for you in the company tomorrow. Okay, okay, okay, bye-bye. ”

Hanging up, I stretched my waist, started the engine, hummed a little song and went home to sleep.

That's right, that's me, I'm a "private detective" who sticks small advertisements on telephone poles.

Of course, the words "private detective" are in quotation marks. In China, as early as 1993, the public security system explicitly prohibited any unit or individual from opening various forms of private detective offices. Although in 2002 the state began to approve the registration of enterprises that provide "security services" such as private bodyguards, detective companies and search for missing persons, the business activities of private detectives are still not licensed. Therefore, private detectives are still a semi-underground marginal industry, and their identities are not completely legal. So, my business license says it's an information consulting company.

As for how I got into the industry? It couldn't be simpler.

I graduated from college in '06, and I studied law as an undergraduate, and I had no merit other than rote memorization of some common sense of jurisprudence. And the family conditions are average, and there is no decent way out, so I squatted at home and stayed unemployed for almost a whole year. Later, my cousin saw that I was not high or low, and he was idle at home, so he said to me, "Daguang, don't you study law?" Come to our company, maybe you can use it. ”

As soon as my dad heard him say this, his brow immediately furrowed.

My cousin is more than 10 years older than me, grew up in the countryside, and he is blind to some miscellaneous people in the tunzi, fighting and brawling all day long. When he was eighteen or nineteen years old, he came to my house to play, and when he went back, he didn't know which tendon in his head was short-circuited, so he rode away from a broken donkey from a neighbor's house and let the police arrest him.

My uncle died early, my aunt was an ordinary rural woman, and my cousin was my father, a male elder who could speak. My father begged my grandfather to sue my grandmother with his old face, but in the end, he was sentenced to one year of labor re-education. After my cousin came out, my dad was heartbroken and hateful, and he was reluctant to beat him up, and his parents couldn't put it down, so he ignored him every time he saw him.

One winter, about two years before I graduated, my dad was suddenly stopped on the street: "Uncle! ”

The man who called him was wearing a thick down jacket, with a hat tightly buttoned on his head, and a long scarf wrapped around his neck two or three times, tightly covering his face. The most exaggerated sky is almost dark, and there is a pair of dark green toad sunglasses on the bridge of the nose. My dad was stunned for a moment, but he didn't recognize who called him.

The cousin hooked the sunglasses downward with his index finger, revealing his eyes: "Uncle, me!" Chen Xiaolong! ”