There was no time to say more to Zheng Xiaoyue, Liu Tianming hurriedly quickened his pace and ran towards the exit of the corridor.

When I got closer, it was not Xiao Wu, but another stranger with a similar body shape to Xiao Wu. Liu Tianming felt very embarrassed, and he couldn't put down his right hand that was raised in the air to say hello, and he didn't know what to say.

According to the division of the hospital, male caregivers like Xiao Wu are under the unified management of the security department. When Liu Tianming walked into the office of the security department, He Dashan, the deputy captain of the security team, was sitting on the sofa, shaking his head and humming a few words of folk lantern singing.

As his name suggests, He Dashan is tall, somewhat obese, more than 1.9 meters tall, with broad shoulders and black skin that always gives people a kind of power deterrent. It is said that he used to be a basketball preparatory student at a sports school, but he was expelled from the school because of his irritable temperament and many fights. With his brave and ruthless temperament, He Dashan is suitable to be a security guard. It's just that over the years, I have obviously neglected to exercise, eat more and move less, and the fat on my body has increased day by day. Someone once joked in private: The current He Dashan is a fat and strong humanoid wild boar.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, He Dashan turned his huge head, glanced at Liu Tianming who was standing at the door of the office, and asked majestically and coldly with the unique age advantage of middle-aged people and the identity gap between himself and the other party: "Young man, is there something wrong?" ”

Of course, He Dashan knew Liu Tianming. A mere college intern, and not a full-fledged doctor in the hospital, will not be taken seriously by him at all.

Liu Tianming nodded very calmly and asked directly, "Captain He, is Xiao Wu here?" ”

"Xiao Wu?"

He Dashan took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, slowly took out one and lit it, with the arrogance characteristic of the superior, frowned and said, "I haven't seen him for several days." No one answered the phone. Maybe it's because he thinks the hospital care is not easy to do, so this kid simply won't come, right? ”

Liu Tianming had called Xiao Wu's mobile phone before, but no one answered.

Hospital nursing is a very time-consuming and physically demanding job, and the salary is not very large. It's not uncommon for people to do this for a month and then quit and leave. Some people find it troublesome to write a resignation application, so they simply take the current month's salary and leave on their own. In short, I don't owe anything to the hospital, but I also give the hospital a few more days of work for free.

After calculation, when I lost contact with Xiao Wu, it was the third day after the previous month's salary was paid. He Dashan's speculation is not unreasonable.

Liu Tianming didn't stay in the office for long, and casually made an excuse and turned to leave. He knew very well that it was impossible for him to inquire about any useful news from He Dashan.

Fortunately, when we worked together before, Liu Tianming left Xiao Wu's residential address.

This is probably the final clue.

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Houses for rent in urban villages are very cheap. Although the location of Liujia Village is already a suburb of Kunming, although it is far away from the main urban area, it still attracts a large number of migrant workers with a rent of more than 100 yuan a month.

When Liu Tianming came to Liujia Village, it was already dark. There are several barbecue stalls at the entrance to the village near the road, and a strong smell of oil smoke and barbecue can be heard in the air. Whether it's grilled chicken wings or grilled tofu, it's cheap, and you can eat it for just a few bucks. However, looking at the squid and chicken nuggets on the grill that had been smeared with a lot of spices to hide the smell, and I don't know how long they had been in the refrigerator, and the color had been so red under the effect of preservatives that it was outrageous, Liu Tianming really didn't have any desire to eat it.

It had just rained yesterday and the village was full of sewage. The houses are desperately squeezing the space, and the roads have become long worms that seem to be fleeing from the belly of the concrete monster. The road surface in this kind of place is so narrow that even the widest place can barely accommodate three people passing through in parallel. After all, the buildings that are built now will have to be counted as money when the government demolishes them in the future. An extra square inch of land is a thick stack of bills.

According to the address left by Xiao Wu, Liu Tianming cautiously walked into the open red-painted iron door of No. 897.

This is a small six-story building in the shape of a "concave". After the door enters, there is a patio, the door on the side of the first floor is open, and a group of people have set up mahjong inside, making out loud shouts, laughing and scolding, and the noise of playing mahjong shuffling.

An old man wearing a blue cloth shirt with a stiff figure walked over, looked at Liu Tianming very vigilantly, and asked in a thick local dialect, "Which one are you looking for?" What's the matter? ”

The lie that had been calculated for a long time blurted out from Liu Tianming's mouth: "I am a friend of Wu Jian, and I came to help him pay this month's rent." ”

Xiao Wu's name is Wu Jian. As for rent, it's a non-existent thing.

The mysterious patient who had been admitted to the hospital was dead. Liu Tianming is very worried about the current condition of his body. He didn't want to be a guinea pig and he didn't want to die. Therefore, he must and must find Xiao Wu.

If you are not sure whether Xiao Wu is still renting a house, the best way is to use the word "money" directly and decisively to open the way. It also takes skill to throw money at it. Suddenly, the money is forced over, which is really inexplicable, and it will also subconsciously produce vigilance and defense. It's not the same if you use an excuse like rent.

The expression on the old man's face under the light suddenly became much more relaxed. grinned, showing a somewhat satisfied smile, and the rotten teeth that were black and yellow and incomplete with dirt: "There are only a few days left in this month, and I was urging him to ask for rent last week, but I didn't expect it to be delivered today." Yesterday someone came to see the house and said they wanted to rent the room he was living in. Tut-tut, people directly give two hundred yuan, and I also thought that it would be better to rent it to an acquaintance, so I stayed until now......"

The old man's words were obviously a gesture of goodwill. Of course, it was also for Liu Tianming's sake on the banknotes that he took out of his pocket. Liu Tianming didn't have the heart to stand here and listen to the old man's nonsense, so he quickly interrupted the other party's gushing words and asked briefly, "Is Wu Jian there?" ”

"I haven't seen him in days."

After the old man said this, he immediately reacted and looked at Liu Tianming very strangely: "Huh! Didn't you come to pay him the rent? Why are you still asking me about it? ”

"I was a colleague in his hospital, and I rushed over when I got his call."

Every day in the hospital to all kinds of patients, Liu Tianming has also honed his lying skills of coming with his mouth open and not blinking his eyes: "He said on the phone that he was running errands outside." If I had arrived first, I would have waited in his room. Well...... That, please open Wu Jian's door for me. ”

This is logical and reasonable. The urban village is already a chaotic place, and the complex friendships between tenants can be difficult to discern. As a landlord, the old man is naturally experienced in how to judge and this kind of problem. In his opinion, Liu Tianming, who is polite and polite in appearance and gives people a good impression, should not be a liar. What's more, Liu Tianming's first sentence after entering the door was not to find Wu Jian directly, but to pay Wu Jian's rent. This kind of person who is willing to take the initiative to come up with money has eliminated most of the old man's vigilance.

In the past few days since Xiao Wu disappeared, the old man also secretly entered the room to see.

In a place like a rental house, anything weird and weird can happen. For example, a young girl who is still in school gives birth out of wedlock; The wild mandarin ducks that don't know where they came out of here are fornicating here; The murderer disguised himself as a hard-working worker...... In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the old man must be able to control every bit of information in the rental house. Therefore, every tenant's room, the old man looked for an opportunity to look at it secretly. This is definitely not an eromaniac urge to steal women's panties or stockings, it is purely an instinctive sense of responsibility, plus more personal curiosity.

Follow the trembling old man to the third floor, watch the old man take out a large bunch of keys from the back of his trouser belt, find one of them tremblingly, stuff it into the keyhole, and slowly push the peeling paint door open.

Liu Tianming was a little surprised.

He originally felt that if he wanted to enter Xiao Wu's room, he should have to spend a lot of time. Perhaps, I will have to continue to pay Xiao Wu a few more months of rent. It wasn't until the old man turned around and left, and his eyes saw the simple objects in the room, that Liu Tianming felt suddenly, and couldn't help shaking his head, with a wry smile on his face.

The room was small, with only a bed, a fabric wardrobe that could be retracted and disassembled, a table, and nothing else. Near the door, there were several pairs of worn-out shoes, and the basin in the corner was piled up with dirty clothes that had not been washed, giving off a disgusting stench.

It's no wonder that the old man would open the room unsuspectingly and let Liu Tianming in. All the things here add up, I'm afraid they don't sell for a hundred dollars. No thief would be interested here.

Closing the door, Liu Tianming heard that the footsteps outside had disappeared, and the noise of scrubbing mahjong downstairs had become very small. Through the airtight window glass, you can see that there is also a window on the opposite side. It was obviously also a rental house, and about three meters between the two walls outside, Liu Tianming saw two naked men sitting on the bed in the opposite room. One was reading intently, while the other lowered his head and carefully hung his companion's leg hair with a razor.

The scene looks like something special. It's just that the distance between the two rooms is too close, and the man who is shaving his hair may be tired, and when he looks up, he just sees Liu Tianming, who is quite curious. So he glared at him in annoyance, and the man who was reading was frightened, and immediately threw himself into his arms like a bird. Then, the man holding the razor had an angry look on his face, waved his muscular arms, stretched out his five fingers, grabbed the curtain and pulled it fiercely, and Liu Tianming couldn't see anything.