12. Scavengers
San Mazi is naturally not a real name, just a nickname, but this nickname is almost familiar to me.
When my dad used to work at Wei Zi's, I used to eat with Wei Zi or something, and they often mentioned San Mazi at the dinner table. It is said that this San Mazi is good at mixing black and white, especially in the white way, he is particularly open-minded, and often settles some unsightly things for those high-ranking government officials and the like.
At the time, I didn't know what to call such people, but now I understand that people like San Mazi are scavengers in the jargon.
I wasn't particularly surprised to hear the name San Mazi from the arrogant boy's mouth, after all, the matter was likely to involve the former director of the Public Security Bureau, and the director naturally didn't want his hidden murder case to be exposed, so it was only natural to ask a scavenger to help settle the matter.
This arrogant boy confessed that he was just a little person who had just come out and been messing around for a few years, and San Mazi didn't come forward to find him in person.
Three days ago, a man named Qiu Hongbo arranged a job for him, asking him to find a few people to watch in the bungalow area of Lao Zheng's house, as long as someone enters Lao Zheng's house, and after the people come out, they will be responsible for teaching him a lesson. Later, he asked a friend and found out that this Qiu Hongbo was a general under San Mazi, and it could basically be said that he was mixed up with San Mazi.
Three days ago, I didn't know about the funeral home's corpse fraud. From this point of view, the matter of San Mazi arranging people to keep an eye on the old Zheng family has little to do with Qiao Wei's actions and me, obviously there are other people who have been paying attention to the funeral home, and he will act immediately as soon as he deceives the corpse.
Whether it is Qiu Hongbo or San Mazi, they are just scavengers who eliminate disasters for others, and there must be a big man behind the scenes.
I don't need to guess the identity of this person behind the scenes, I just need to go to San Mazi and ask.
The arrogant boy then told us the contact information for Qiu Hongbo as well, and then I stopped to let him go. Before getting out of the car, Qiao Wei also instructed the arrogant boy, telling him not to talk to anyone about what happened today, otherwise attracting ghosts would only make him unable to eat and walk around.
The arrogant boy nodded tremblingly, and saw that Qiao Wei waved his hand at him and allowed him to get out of the car, so he dared to open the door and leave. After getting out of the car, this kid didn't dare to look back and ran away, it is estimated that he will never see Qiao Wei again in his life.
Qiao Wei and I didn't rush to call Qiu Hongbo or go to find San Mazi, because my understanding of San Mazi was ten years ago, and now I don't know how big San Mazi's shili is and how many people he has, so it is obviously not a wise choice to come to the door to find trouble.
So I called the kid, and according to the kid's answer, San Mazi is now in a state of retreat like Wei Zi, and in the past, San Mazi's shili and business were all taken care of by Qiu Hongbo, in fact, now Qiu Hongbo has completely replaced San Mazi as the new scavenger.
The kid suggested that Qiao Wei and I should not go directly to Qiu Hongbo or San Mazi, but let him build a bridge from the middle, and arrange for us to meet with San Mazi and Qiu Hongbo alone, so that it would be more convenient to say anything. I thought the kid was a good idea, so I left it all to the kid.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the kid called to say that he had arranged everything, and agreed to meet at five o'clock in the afternoon.
The whole mushroom pot is also a very famous hot pot restaurant in the city. As you can tell from the name, this shop sells all mushrooms, fungus and other edible mushrooms, although I don't like meat, but the whole mushroom pot is an exception, so I am quite satisfied with this arrangement. Qiao Wei, a vegetarian, is not to mention.
Three hours later, Qiao Wei and I met the kid in the whole mushroom pot on time, and then the kid took the two of us to a single room on the third floor, where two middle-aged men were already waiting for us. As soon as the three of us entered, the two men immediately got up and came over and warmly shook hands with Qiao Wei and me to greet him.
Both of these men are very distinctive-one of them has a five-short body and a big cake face, and the skin on the face is as pitted and baggy as the surface of the moon, and it looks extremely ugly; The other is a bald uncle with a hint of obscenity in his kind eyebrows, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the color of the train in a Japanese movie.
The kid introduced us to each other in the middle. The pock-faced ugly ghost with a short body is really San Mazi, and that Seshu is Qiu Hongbo, who hired an arrogant boy.
In the past six months, I have also seen a lot of ruthless characters, such as Jiang Tao, Li Bald and the like, but I can't connect the two men in front of me with the black and white scavengers.
After the five of us sat down, we exchanged a few words, and then I went straight to the point and asked Qiu Hongbo about the old Zheng family, and focused on who asked him to do something.
Qiu Hongbo also gave me a happy word: "I can't tell you this, even if you find someone to suppress me, I can't say it!" But you are Wei Zi's person, and the kid is also friends with you, my Lao Qiu will definitely give you this face, I think that's it, I will tell you everything I can say, you can study it yourself if it is useful or not, and that's all I can do. ”
Before going upstairs, the kid also said hello to me, he said that Qiu Hongbo and San Mazi are the ** lake that has been mixed on the road for almost 30 years, and they must not be able to force things, so they can only say how much. So I didn't make any comments, so I made a gesture to signal Qiu Hongbo to continue.
Qiu Hongbo nodded and continued: "Everyone on the road knows that the third child and I do dirty work for others, but we also have a rule, that is, we don't do business with the police, we have never broken this rule, and it is the same now!" You know what I'm saying, right? ”
"Understood!" I immediately nodded in response.
"About the Lao Zheng family, in fact, the incident has happened to this point, I don't think there is any need to do anything about Lao Zheng's son, he doesn't know anything at all, and you can't find anything special in the old Zheng family, so I just found a few boys to deal with it, but I really didn't expect those ten people to be easily settled by the two of you."
"The old Zheng family has nothing important? Are you so sure? I asked.
Qiu Hongbo shook his fingers, "That's all for this problem, I can't talk about it anymore." ”
"Then let me ask another question, do you think Lao Zheng's book is useful?" After speaking, I put Lao Zheng's small notebook that recorded the number of corpses on the table and pushed it in front of Qiu Hongbo.
Qiu Hongbo glanced at the book, and then his brows suddenly furrowed, and his mouth was tightly closed and he didn't spit out half a word.
Although he didn't speak, this expression has already told me that this book is the key point of the problem!
At this time, San Mazi, who had not spoken much beside Qiu Hongbo, suddenly started a different topic, he looked at Qiao Wei and said, "I said young man, it should be the people you called Lao Qiu in the morning to pack up and run away, right?" I heard the kid say that you seem to be a horse fairy? ”
Qiao Wei smiled and waved his hand and said: "I am the feng shui ghost master of the Bazhai Hall, and the things I use here are more miscellaneous, and the horse immortal technique is only one of them, but it accounts for the largest proportion." ”
"It doesn't matter, I don't understand what you're talking about. But since you know what this stuff is, I'll tell you a place, there's a landfill further east of the petrochemical plant, so go and walk around there. By the way, can you come out in broad daylight or something? San Mazi asked.
"It's okay during the day, but it's like the rainy one this morning." Qiao Wei replied.
"Oh oh oh, long knowledge! Come on! Boy, go and call the waiter to come and order, everything that needs to be said is finished, and the stomach is added. San Mazi grinned and waved at the kid again and again. The kid also ran out obediently like a small character follower and called the waiter.
Although San Mazi and Qiu Hongbo didn't say it very thoroughly, I already had a very clear clue in my mind that could link Lao Zheng's Xiaoben with the garbage dump - all the corpses missing from the funeral home were buried in the garbage dump!