Chapter 187. Case 22: The City of Memory

That day, I was busy until late at night, and Hu Zongren and I took Mr. Yang to check the inside and outside of the supermarket. Until we confirmed that there were no ghosts left. In addition to Zhang's mother's ghosts, there are actually several left, but we have never been able to confirm their origins, considering that there is an old community nearby, there is a hospital, and we have never been able to see those ghosts with our own eyes, so it is very difficult to guess their identities. But fortunately, these ghosts are a little different from Zhang's mother's ghosts, although they are in a state of dissociation and ambiguity, they know that they are dead, so if they are isolated and dispersed, they will not have the situation of attacking me and Hu Zongren earlier, but will avoid people, and even fear that people will find out.

So it was easier to deal with, Hu Zongren and I first recited a mantra to persuade him to return to obedience and leave, if he was obedient, it would save a lot of trouble. But if there are a few people who still refuse to cooperate, Hu Zongren and I can only forcibly catch them, send them into the gossip bag, run for a week, and wait until you wake up, this is like dealing with some people who are drunk on the street, the best way is not to give him sobering soup, but to let him sleep well.

It's late at night, and the supermarket is already closed. After collecting the money, we told Mr. Yang that in the future, don't burn the yellow straw paper, and don't burn the dark coin, since the surrounding neighbors oppose you burning in front of other people's buildings, then you can burn it at the entrance of your own building, and the customs and habits still need to be retained, but the way can not be mistaken. In this way, we can be considered to have completely completed the case.

We didn't go home for two days in a row, and we didn't rest well, and we were both exhausted. Hu Zongren was worried that I would doze off while driving, so he took the initiative to drive me home and then took a taxi home. In the next two days, Hu Zongren didn't call me, and I didn't take the initiative to contact him, Hu Zongren had some things to do, after all, his wedding was very close, and he needed to prepare a lot of things. And I began to enjoy this rare leisure.

I don't remember the details of the third or fourth day, but I only remember that it was a Sunday, and Hu Zongren called me and said that a new case was coming again. I asked him if he was in the Jiangbei City area as Situ had expected? Hu Zongren said yes, but the source of this business entrustment is a little strange. I asked him what a strange method, he said, at first we received the commission of the victim directly from the phone of Ma Daoren, and then Zhao Jing was born, she became our upper client, and since Zhao Jing's movement was restricted, it has become a text message notification, and it is also the kind of SMS number that cannot trace the source, but this time it is different, this time it is a call, but the other end of the phone is not the subject, if I guess correctly, it should be someone from Xuanyuan Club.

I asked Hu Zongren, do you mean that now the Xuanyuan Club has changed the contact person for the matter of the two of us? Hu Zongren said that he didn't know, but the accent was a local Chongqing accent, and he had checked the caller number, and it was indeed Chongqing's number. Hu Zongren also pretended not to understand the content of the commission, and dialed the number, and the person who answered the phone was still this person, so this can rule out the possibility that this number is used as a serial number, which means that if we want to find someone from Xuanyuan Club, we only need to call this number, and we can tell the people of Xuanyuan Club about our thoughts and needs. I thought about it and felt strange, originally the relationship in this whole incident, I don't want to say it, Xuanyuan will want to find Hu Zongren, Hu Zongren must also let them find it, otherwise it will delay our 24 case appointment, and Hu Zongren wants to find them, although there are also so many contact numbers, but often no one cares about it. In other words, every time Xuanyuan will issue a new commission, Hu Zongren and I need to rely on this very limited information to handle the case, and during this period, we want to find more information, but there is no way at all. But this time, we can easily find each other, this is obviously not Xuanyuan's style of doing things, and I even suspect that there is something wrong with this. So I said to Hu Zongren, let's be careful, since this person's accent and phone number are local, but the main altar of the Xuanyuan Association is in Chengdu, then it is very likely that this person is the person they arranged here to be responsible for keeping an eye on us.

Hu Zongren said on the phone, in fact, he also thought about this, this person's appearance is obviously used to replace Zhao Jing, so it seems that Zhao Jing's situation is very unoptimistic, there has been no news for a long time, I don't know if she is still alive. When I heard Hu Zongren's words, I was still inexplicably nervous. In fact, Zhao Jing's life and death have nothing to do with me, although it is an opponent, but Zhao Jing doesn't feel so annoying to me, if she really has something three long and two short, I will be sad for such a beauty. So I reminded Hu Zongren and said, let's really be careful, this person suddenly appeared in place of Zhao Jing, I'm afraid it's a ploy, and when the time comes, let's make some moths with us, and it's the last few cases, don't be late in the future.

Then I asked Hu Zongren about the situation of the new case, and the explanation of the case was no different from before, and it was just a very simple explanation, and the details needed to be slowly excavated after we arrived at the scene. However, Hu Zongren told me that there is a difference in this case, because this case seems to have no owner, that is to say, the stall of the Xuanyuan Club learned that someone here encountered something, and without the permission of the other party, he grafted the matter onto us, which means that this trip is first of all no commission to take, and secondly, we are also called nosy, obviously we will not interfere in things, but inexplicably become we have to take care of it. In fact, this is not the slightest benefit to Hu Zongren's own cultivation and I have done this, but it is easy to take this cause and effect on ourselves because of unwarranted questioning about other people's cause and effect.

But we also know that we can't do it.

After asking about Hu Zongren's situation, I made an appointment with Hu Zongren and said that we would meet somewhere, because Jiangbei City was not far from where I lived, and I was asked to drive all the way to Nanping to pick up Hu Zongren, and I was not Lei Feng. But after hanging up the phone, I thought about it for a long time and called Situ. Situ and I have a good relationship, and we are old friends, and sometimes it is slightly easier for me to speak with some help than it is for Hu Zongren to speak. I told Situ what happened this time, and by the way, I praised his clever calculation for a while, and sure enough, this case appeared in Jiangbei City. The so-called thousands of sycophants are not worn, a few fragrant sycophants made Situ comfortable, Situ also told me, these last few cases, let us pay more attention to the surrounding situation, this case was not personally entrusted, but was handed over to you by Xuanyuan Hui on his own initiative, whether you can complete it They have no way to verify, so during this period, they will inevitably send people to follow you from afar, at least there are clients in the previous cases, but this time there is not, so they can only do this.

Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, I didn't even think about this at all, Situ said this, I really felt that I had to do it. Situ also told me, don't tell Hu Zongren about this matter for the time being, until you find out, you can tell him that this kid is rough and reckless, and it's not good to be impulsive and startle, he is a straightforward person, not as insidious as you. Although Situ criticized Hu Zongren as a bit incomplete, the insidious sentence behind it made me very unhappy. So after thanking him, I hung up the phone, and after the appointment with Hu Zongren, I went out to the place where we met.

I am a very authentic Jiangbei native, born and raised for more than 20 years, so I am very familiar with most places in Jiangbei. Because when I was a child, the traffic was not as developed as it is now, and when we said "going into the city" to play, it basically meant going to the area of the Liberation Monument, taking a car or taking a cableway, which seemed to be a long distance, so most of our activity time was concentrated in this small circle in Jiangbei. Jiangbei City, which is across the river from Danzishi in Nan'an District, sandwiches the most prosperous area of the entire Chongqing. If you ask any feng shui master in Chongqing, he will probably tell you that Chongqing has an iron triangle matrix left over from ancient times, and the three corners of this iron triangle refer to Danzishi, Jiangbei City, and Chaotianmen respectively. On the map, the three look at each other across the river, and these three places happen to be the most prosperous areas in Chongqing since ancient times.

Jiangbei City, also known as the city of memory by old Chongqing, was a county in ancient times, with independent gates and forts, and a sound commercial system. Chaotianmen is the east gate of Chongqing, out of the east gate, you can go down the river, straight to the sea, is the place where soldiers have always been fighting. Danzishi is a place where Chongqing was specially opened to foreigners to set up foreign firms and station officers and soldiers after the opening of the port, so these three places are the most prosperous places in the whole Chongqing. The memory left by Jiangbei City to me, in addition to those uneven tiled houses, there is also the winding bluestone road with a great slope. There is no road in the old street, because most of the houses on the side of the road are not old houses, and it is precisely because of those winding alleys that this person is in the hustle and bustle of the main city, but there is a rare peace and calm. However, with the development of the times, these old houses have become fewer and smaller, and have been replaced by those towering community houses and various parks built to improve people's living environment.

So when Hu Zongren told me about Jiangbei City, I still had those narrow roads in my mind, and the roads were full of people washing their hair on the side of the road and flowing down the foamy water, the picture was black and white, but it was a city of memories that could never be found again.