77 Lenin Avenue is a red-and-yellow, six-story apartment with baroque spires, ice picks hanging from the eaves, and a stone-brick pavement in front of the door covered with snow.

I went up and knocked on the bronze door, and it was an old woman who opened it. She looked us up and down, then quickly spoke a string of Russian that I didn't understand.

I looked at Yang Wen beside me with a confused expression.

Yang Wen explained: "She asked you what you were doing here. ”

I asked Yang Wen to translate: "You told her that we were here to find relatives. ”

As I spoke, I handed the photos of Uncle Dao and Dean Wei to the old grandmother.

The old grandmother took out a pair of reading glasses from her pocket and put them on, squinted at the photo for more than ten seconds, and then shook her head angrily, and then was about to close the door.

Wei Yin hurriedly went up to stop him and asked Yang Wen to translate: "My father has been missing for a few months, and I have been very worried, but just a few days ago, he suddenly sent us a letter, saying that he was here, so we came from China thousands of miles away, please let us go in and find it!" ”

The fat bear also chimed in: "That's right! Chinese look similar in the eyes of foreigners, you don't know normal, let's go in and find more reliable ourselves. ”

After Yang Wen finished translating, the old grandmother was still hesitating, and at this time I gestured to Zheng Tian with my eyes, Zheng Tian reluctantly made an OK gesture, and then took out a banknote worth five thousand rubles from his bag and stuffed it into the old woman's hand.

The old grandmother shirked it at first, but she couldn't resist the insistence of all of us, and finally accepted it.

Wei Yin took the old grandmother's hand and said with a crying voice: "My grandmother is about the same age as you, and now that my father is missing, I haven't dared to tell her, she will be heartbroken if she knows, so I hope you can help us." ”

The dedicated Yang Wen also learned from Wei Yin, and translated this sentence very hard with a crying voice.

The old woman was a little emotional, nodded reluctantly, and said to us: "Вытратитевремя!" ”

Then she opened the door completely and ushered us in.

I asked Yang Wen what Grandma said, and Yang Wen said with an apologetic look: "She said you are wasting your time. ”

The letter sent to us by Dean Wei only said that they were at 77 Lenin Street, but did not give a specific room number, and that there were more than 20 families in this apartment, and if we knocked them one by one, we would probably be beaten.

Fortunately, after we entered the door, the old grandmother did not leave, she walked in front of us with staggering steps, probably leading the way.

We followed her up to the second floor to the door of Room 201, where she took out the key and opened it.

"Didn't she just say she didn't know those two?" Fat Bear wondered.

I guessed: "It is estimated that Uncle Dao and they left a bad impression on this old grandmother before, so she avoided talking about it." ”

When the door opened, the grandmother left without saying a word. I looked inside the room and felt a sense of foreboding in my heart.

How do you describe the scene inside the house...... It's like you've just been ransacked by robbers. All the tables and chairs were kicked and knocked to the ground, even the TV screen in the center of the living room was smashed into a hole, and there was still a pool of dried blood on the ground, and I don't know when it was left.

Wei Yin's face suddenly turned white when she saw this scene, and she immediately ran into the house to look for someone. We also followed, but after looking for a long time, there was no one inside.

Wei Yin sat on the sofa dejectedly, covering her face with her hands, despair welling up in her heart.

I walked over and patted her on the shoulder to signal her to cheer up,

At this time, the fat bear shouted: "Did the old woman lead us into a room and send us away, the person we are looking for may not be here at all." ”

Wei Yin also felt reasonable, and she wanted to rush out to ask the old woman for clarification.

At this point, I suddenly noticed that there were still a few cigarette butts left in the ashtray on the coffee table.

I picked up the cigarette butts and looked at them: "It's a domestic Su cigarette, and there is a mouthpiece filter on it." ”

Wei Yin's face changed, she snatched the cigarette butt from my hand, and said tremblingly, "This cigarette holder ...... I bought it for my dad. ”

In this way, Uncle Dao and Dean Wei did stay here.

At this moment, we suddenly heard a loud "bang" in the study, and we immediately became alert.

A few seconds later, Zheng Tian stumbled over from the study and scolded: "This ghost place is really terrible, the electric fan on the roof suddenly fell down just now." ”

"You're not hurt, are you?" I asked with concern.

Zheng Tian shook his head: "Fortunately, I hid quickly!" ”

The fat bear walked into the study and looked at it and said, "There are bullet marks on this fan, it should have been shot before, and now it can't bear the weight, so it fell off." ”

"Looks like there was a lot of fighting here." I said with a solemn expression.

"What about my dad...... They ......, "Wei Yin is even more anxious than just now.

"Ask the landlady, she'll know the situation." I said.

We went to the lobby on the first floor again, where the old woman was sitting on a couch reading the newspaper. After Yang Wen stepped forward to communicate with the grandmother for a few words, the grandmother turned her head to us, and then motioned for us to come and sit down on the sofa.

When we saw that there was a play, we immediately walked over.

Before I could speak, my grandmother whispered a string of Russian, and then raised her hand to signal Yang Wen to translate.

Yang Wen's face was a little ugly at this time, and I asked him not to swallow and say something directly.

Yang Wen nodded and said to us: "Grandma wants you to compensate your relatives for the damage to the furniture in the house, a total of 100,000 rubles. ”

It turned out that he had come to collect debts...... I thought about it and it was better to give this money, after all, we have to get out of the old lady's mouth, and if you want to come to 100,000 rubles, it will be less than 10,000 yuan, and after weighing the pros and cons, I arched Zheng Tian with my elbow again.

Zheng Tian looked at me with an innocent look: "It's me who pays the money back......"

I pretended to be serious and said: "Because you are a famous Zheng Shao in the whole city of Nanjing, rich and handsome." ”

Zheng Tian was praised like this, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a little smugness: "Yes, Zheng Shao recognized it this time." Then he took out another wad of money from his bag and stuffed it to the old woman.

As soon as the old grandmother took the money, Wei Yin hurriedly asked, "Can you tell us what happened in my father's house?" ”

The old lady sighed, put the money on the table, and then described the ins and outs of the matter to us while gesturing her hands:

It happened at ten o'clock the night before, when many of the residents of the building were resting and she was about to go to sleep, but suddenly she heard a violent knock on the door of the apartment.

They went straight to room 201 where Uncle Dao and Dean Wei were on the second floor, and after kicking the door open, there was a crackling sound of fighting inside, accompanied by a burst of gunshots.

A few minutes later, a window in bedroom 201 was shattered, and Uncle Dao and Dean Wei jumped downstairs from the window and fled to the street, where they were never found.

Then the gang of gangsters chased down the stairs, and the leader warned the grandmother not to call the police......

(End of chapter)