I rushed back to the city before five o'clock and went straight to my hotel.

When Lei Ting saw me enter the store, she immediately greeted me and asked, "What is the situation with Xiuli and her family now?" Her family took the money, right? ”

I nodded and said, "The money has been collected, but I think the situation is a bit unpleasant." "Then I told Lei Ting about Sun Zhongqing's mysterious death and all kinds of suspicious signs related to it.

After Lei Ting listened to my words, her little eyebrows were twisted into a pimple.

"How can I help?" She asked.

I didn't come to the hotel to report today's itinerary, the purpose was originally to ask Lei Ting for help, so as soon as she opened her mouth, I immediately said, "Do you know where Sun Zhongqing has been working recently?" I'm going to find that Brother Hong. ”

Lei Ting thought for a while and said that Sun Zhongqing mentioned a small chain hotel last time he came to the store, and she forgot what the specific name of the hotel was, she only remembered the name of a foreign woman, and the location was in the middle of Guangfu Road, near the Chinese Medicine Hospital.

Although the clues were vague, the location was at least clear enough, so I told Lei Ting not to tell Sun Xiuli what I was going to investigate, and then I drove straight to the Chinese medicine hospital.

The advantage of small cities is that there are no rush hours to speak of, as long as you avoid the road in front of schools and large shopping malls, traffic jams are almost non-existent. It only took me 10 minutes to get to the TCM hospital, and then I started slowing down and keeping an eye on the hotels on both sides of the road.

Things went much more smoothly than I had imagined, and in less than three minutes I found the hotel that Lei Ting had told me about, and the name of the hotel was Araya. THE HOTEL MAY ONLY BE FOUR STOREYS OLD, BUT ITS DISTINCTIVE ORANGE EXTERIOR PAINT STANDS OUT AGAINST THE GREY MATCHBOXES THAT SURROUND IT, NOT TO MENTION THE PINK NEON 'ALAYA' SIGN ON THE ROOF.

As soon as I pulled up to the front of the hotel, a woman came up to me from the hotel. She is estimated to be around thirty-five years old, and although she is dressed upscale and fashionable, her figure is bloated. If a beautiful woman is compared to a lark, then this woman is definitely a big fat goose, so I guess she is either the owner of the hotel or the hostess, and she will not be the welcoming waiter anyway.

She came to me and said with a smile that the hotel has not officially opened, but now you can apply for a VIP gold card, enjoy a 50% discount for life, and the VIP card is valid in all Araya chain hotels in the country.

This preferential condition sounds good, but unfortunately I don't go out for a long time, and this hotel name is the first time I have heard of it, the so-called national chain trouble is only limited to Heilongjiang Province, maybe this is the first one!

Although I was not interested in getting a VIP card, I thanked the big goose and asked if the hotel had not been completely renovated.

The big fat goose waved his hand again and again and said, "It's good~ It's good~ At most, it will be another week." There is basically no problem inside, but the work outside is almost unfinished. ”

"Oh." I nodded in response, and then changed the subject: "Is there a person surnamed Hong who does exterior wall painting work in your place?" ”

As soon as I asked this question, the big fat goose's smiling face suddenly disappeared from his face, and his tone became very bad: "Who are you?" What is this for? ”

"I have a friend, my friend knows a person surnamed Hong who is engaged in outdoor decoration, he heard this surname Hong say that there is a very good new hotel here in the Chinese medicine hospital, and the person surnamed Hong himself works in this hotel. I started my own company, and I usually have to entertain some customers, so I wanted to find a hotel for long-term cooperation, so I came to investigate. ”

"Oh, so that's the case~~" The big fat goose's smiling face said that he came back immediately, "The surname is Hong, right?" I'll help you ask now, there are too many people doing decoration here, I can't remember the names of the people, you can sit inside and wait. As he spoke, the big fat goose made a gesture of please, and three layers of waves suddenly squeezed out of his stomach.

I sat on the sofa in the foyer of the hotel for five minutes, and then the big fat goose came up to me with a big smile on his face, "We did have a worker surnamed Hong not long ago, but unfortunately he quit a week ago, I wonder if he is a friend of your friend." But even if it's not, my hotel is real, and it will give you a lifetime 50% discount! ”

The flattering expression of the big fat goose almost amused me, I forced the smile back, and then told him that I chose the cooperative hotel to go to the face of my friend, but I have not been able to contact the friend surnamed Hong, so I came to ask about the situation.

The big goose listened and asked me to wait a while, and then she went to the side to make a call. In less than ten minutes, a young man with glasses and a young man who looked at Sven came to the hotel and politely greeted the big fat goose. The big fat goose smiled and led the guy to me and introduced, "This is Zhao Gong, who is in charge of the hotel decoration, and he knows the address of the friend surnamed Hong you said." ”

The guy smiled at me very enthusiastically, and took the initiative to shake my hand and said, "Are you looking for Brother Hong?" I'm actually going to go to his house tomorrow, I still have two weeks' wages for him, and he either didn't answer or turned off his phone when I called him recently. ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately asked, "When was the last time you contacted him?" ”

"I think it's Six...... Right! It was the sixth, he walked with another worker, Xiaoqing, that day, and then Xiaoqing came over and quit his job, but Brother Hong never showed up. I later called Brother Hong, but he never answered, and then turned off the phone. ”

I felt a chill all over my body. The Xiaoqing in Zhao Gong's mouth is obviously Sun Zhongqing, and Brother Hong is also the person I am looking for. It is very likely that Brother Hong died the next day after finishing that work, so no one answered Zhao Gong's call to him later, as for shutting down the phone, it was even simpler, the phone was out of battery.

Zhao Gong probably also saw something wrong from my expression, so he asked me if something happened to Brother Hong?

I replied that I didn't know, but it was better to go to his house now.

Zhao Gong immediately nodded in agreement.

I didn't say anything else to the big fat goose, and took Zhao Gong directly to the car and set off.

Brother Hong is a rented house in the railway family residential area, and it is only a 10-minute drive from the hotel. It was an old-fashioned community, there was no security and nothing to monitor, so I drove the car directly to the door of the building where Brother Hong lived, and then got out of the car and ran straight to the sixth floor.

As soon as he arrived on the sixth floor, Zhao Gong went to knock on the door of the "602" in the middle, but no one responded for two minutes, and Zuihou knocked out the neighbors on the left and right.

I quickly asked my neighbor if he had seen anyone in the house lately.

The eldest sister who came out of the room on the left shook her head and said that she hadn't seen anyone in this house for a long time, and the eldest brother who lived on the right also gave the same answer, but he knew the phone number of the landlord, who was Brother Hong's landlord, and asked me if I wanted to find the landlord to come and see.

I immediately nodded yes and thanked the neighbor brother.

After about twenty minutes, a chubby woman reached the sixth floor. I briefed the woman about the situation, and she immediately took the key and went to open the door. As soon as the door opened, an unpleasant stench rushed out!

Brother Hong is dead! I didn't have to go inside to see it, so I made up my mind.