Old Xu Tou lay alone in the intensive care unit, his thin body covered by white sheets, making him look like a lifeless corpse. If he hadn't looked at the ceiling with his eyes wide open and bored, Ren Qiuling would have almost thought that he was dead.

Looking at Ren Qiuling's sympathetic gaze, Lao Xu Tou explained a little embarrassedly: "My wife died early, my son and daughter-in-law are working in other places, it's okay, my son is rushing here." ”

Ren Qiuling's nose was sour, and she almost burst into tears. She inquired, why did Lao Xu Tou call Lao Xu Tou, not Lao Xu, or Xu Lao Man? It turns out that in the title of their generation, "head" means to represent the leader. For example, the director of the bureau is not called the director, but "head". The head means the leader.

Before Lao Xu retired, he was the captain of the criminal investigation detachment and was in charge of the upper part of the district, so he was called Lao Xutou. Presumably, Lao Xu was once in the limelight, but he didn't expect his evening scene to be so bleak.

"Are you hungry? Why don't I buy you something to eat? Ren Qiuling said.

Old Xu shook his head and said, "No need." Really, when people lie down on this hospital bed when they are old, they will think in the direction of death. I was thinking, why do people die when they get old? Now I understand that it is useless when people are old, and it is only a shame to stay in the world, and it is better to die. ”

Ren Qiuling almost burst into tears: "Don't say that." ”

Lao Xu sighed and said: "When I was young, I really didn't blow it, more than ten young men besieged me, and I also put them all down." Two hundred pounds of stone locks, I can lift more than 20 times in one go. Hey, I didn't expect it to be so useless today, and I asked a bunch of little girls to put it down. It doesn't work......"

Ren Qiuling said: "Don't talk about you. When Section Chief Xiao led the team to arrest those girls, something almost happened. A woman suddenly woke up and screamed loudly, and four or five strong men who went up couldn't hold her down, and almost strangled one of them to death. According to the examination of them by the hospital, the women seem to be controlled by some kind of drug, and most of the brain activity is inhibited, and only the primitive instincts of animals are retained, so they have a lot of strength. The doctor who gave them a CT scan of the brain said that they looked like the living dead made by Voodoo, but the techniques were much more advanced than that! ”

Originally, some information was confidential, just to comfort Lao Xu, Ren Qiuling had to reveal a little bit of information to him.

Lao Xu's eyes were much more enlightened, "Is it related to the supernatural?" ”

Ren Qiuling nodded.

Lao Xu understands the rules very well, and immediately turned the topic to the case being solved, "You shouldn't just come to see me, right?" There are new clues in the case? ”

Ren Qiuling smiled embarrassedly, "I have something to ask!" ”

Lao Xu became excited: "It seems that I can't die yet, there is still residual heat to play." ”

Ren Qiuling opened one of the two maps she was carrying, "That's right, during the 730 case in 98, the police used to collect blood samples from everyone in the city. At that time, you were mainly responsible for the district, and I would like to know which areas on the map are referred to by the district. ”

Lao Xu glanced sideways at the map: "Starting from the new post pavilion, cross Hulu Lane, and then the passenger station - the road of the passenger station is the dividing line, the top belongs to the company, and the bottom belongs to the ...... in the district."

Lao Xu looked at the ceiling again and talked eloquently. He had worked in those areas all his life and was naturally impressed. "All of this, centered on the district government, is in the district." He summed it up.

Originally, in 98 years, the official name of Zitong City was Zitong District, and it was later changed to the city.

Ren Qiuling took a red pen, drew a line on the map, and after asking Lao Xu to confirm it again, she carefully put away the map.

"I also want to ask you to help identify something," Ren Qiuling took out a small test tube, which contained black mud, "Look at the golden things in these mud, is it gold!" ”

"What gold? Do you want to get rich and want to go crazy? That's a copper crystal! I've been working in the mines all my life, and I recognize it through the door. It was Lao Wei who was rushing into the door who spoke.

Lao Xu has been fighting with Lao Wei all his life, and when he saw Lao Wei coming in, he turned his face away and said angrily: "Put things down, people go out!" I'm injured and need to rest. ”

Lao Wei cried bitterly, "Hey! Don't look at you, I'm not with you when you're injured, isn't it me who jumps up and down in this hospital? I still remember that you like to eat elbows, so I found an old store to buy you elbows. ”

Ren Qiuling was stunned, didn't Lao Wei talk nonsense? Lao Xu's hospitalization was arranged by Section Chief Xiao, what does it matter to him Lao Wei? It's just that in front of Lao Wei, it's not easy to expose his lies.

Lao Xu sneered: "I don't believe you have such good intentions, now I need to rest, please both of you!" ”

Lao Wei complained, "Isn't this a dog biting Lu Dongbin?" Ren Qiuling hurriedly pulled him out of the ward.

When he arrived in the corridor of the hospital, Lao Wei changed his face and said with a smile: "You are quite familiar with Master Hui Idiot. Well, I have a book in my hand, and you can show it to him. If he likes it, you can give it to him on my behalf, and ask him to teach me a way to maintain health. As he spoke, he took out a thread-bound book from his clothes.

This book is quite broken, and the words on it are basically traditional characters, and they are typeset vertically. On the cover is the title of the book, "Qiu Chuji Notes on the Diamond Sutra". Of course, Ren Qiuling has heard of the name of Changchun Ziqiu Chuji, but Qiu Chuji is a Taoist priest, and he has actually read the "Diamond Sutra"?

In fact, Wang Chongyang of the Quanzhen Sect really has his own person in history, advocating the "harmony of the three religions", putting aside the view of the door, the learning of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism is applicable to learning, so it is a family of its own. Changchun Ziqiu not only read the "Diamond Sutra", but also praised it, not many people know about this matter, but there is indeed such a thing.

It turned out that Lao Xu was injured, and Lao Wei did not accompany him by his side, but went home to get such a book, intending to give it to Hui Idiot to learn a method of health preservation. Maybe on the way back, I felt that this matter was not good for Lao Xu, so I bought an elbow and sent it to Lao Xu by the way.

Ren Qiuling couldn't help but have a new understanding of Lao Wei: You see that he has also taken advantage of it, and he has also done favors, which is really exquisite, and it does not leak.

Looking back at Lao Xu, I feel that this old man is much simpler, and of course, he has failed a lot.

"I'll try it!" Ren Qiuling knew that Hui was obsessed with books, and if it was really the "Diamond Sutra" annotated by Qiu Chuji, he might really like it. "I have something to ask you for a treat." Ren Qiuling put away the book and opened another map again, it was still the map of Zitong City in ninety-eight years, she copied two maps from the city library, which were naturally useful, "You help me see, in ninety-eight years, which places belonged to the company?" ”

Lao Wei Tou is also the head, and he was also the captain of the criminal investigation detachment back then, responsible for the company.

Because he begged Ren Qiuling for something, Lao Wei Ge worked hard and personally drew a line on the map, and within half a minute, another red line appeared on the map.

Ren Qiuling overlapped the map marked by Cai Xu with the map marked by Lao Wei, and looked at the sunshine!

Of the two pictures, only Hulu Lane has a problem. In the map marked by Lao Xu, Hulu Lane belongs to the district, and in the map marked by Lao Wei, Hulu Lane belongs to the company.

Old Wei Tou said angrily: "It must be that Lao Xu is mistaken, he is confused!" The origin of Hulu Lane is that a senior engineer of the copper company had nothing to do, learned Zhuge Liang's cultivation in Nanyang, and planted a gourd, and later the place was given such a name. This must be the company! ”

Ren Qiuling put away the map, and seemed to have expected such a situation for a long time, "Go!" Let's go to Hulu Lane. ”

It was about six o'clock in the evening, and Hui Idiot and Bai Xinruo went back to the hotel first. But Lao Wei behaved very positively, "I understand your idea of handling a light case!" He said as he drove. Today he has a very good temper, and he no longer yells at people, and learns to understand people.

A few minutes after the car drove away, he suddenly shouted, "I understand!" Back then, there was a guy in our detachment who was particularly capable, and he was a criminal investigator and a member of the Railway Bureau. Every time the criminal investigator asked him to solve the case, he said that he would hold a meeting at the Railway Bureau, which was a particularly important meeting; The railroad bureau called him to a meeting, and he said that he was following the case, a particularly serious case. Is this your way of thinking: In '98, if the murderer was in the city, how did he escape the blood sample? It's because there is such a piece of land, and the company can also manage it, and the district can also manage it. As a result, the police officer on the company's side asked him to collect blood, and he said that he had collected it in the district; The police officer in the district asked him to collect blood, and he told him that the company had already collected it. ”

Ren Qiuling knew that this was just a possibility, but the possibility had to be verified, and only by going to the place to investigate and implement it. "Ha, it turns out that there are similar people everywhere! The Binjiang Criminal Investigation Bureau also has such a master, who has been playing with similar methods for more than half a year, and finally the people on both sides have a meeting together, and he still wants to coax both sides and expose it. ”

Old Wei laughed, "The person I'm talking about is also exposed like this." ”

When he arrived at Hulu Lane in Zitong City, Lao Wei took the initiative to take Ren Qiuling to find Sister Zhang, the director of the neighborhood committee in ninety-eight years. Sister Zhang in Lao Wei's mouth is an old lady in her sixties, who is "principled and disciplined" when she opens and closes her mouth, which is the kind of Marxist-Leninist old lady.

After sitting down, Ren Qiuling explained her intentions: "We are looking for such a person, this person lived in Hulu Lane in ninety-eight years, aged about twenty-five to forty years old, is a foreigner, single, has a very good temper, and gives people the impression of being very honest; He had a small business, and his business had to be sold from street to street; He also has a disability, but he can't see it from the outside, for example, he is deaf in one ear. ”

Sister Zhang thought for a while: "You said that you look like a deaf martial artist?" This person is from Wuxiu Township, east of Zitong City, and sells meat and steamed buns in Zitong City--you don't know, when there was no chengguan, there were many such small businessmen. Every day, he would push a bicycle with a basket in the back seat of the car, and in the basket was a roasted meat bun, and he would go out into the street and shout: 'Meat buns, hot!' That's how it sells buns. ”

Lao Wei didn't know what to remember, and suddenly shouted, "Oops! Then he slapped himself hard.