Chapter 207. Case 22: The person who stalked
When Hu Zongren said this, I was surprised. After hesitating for a few seconds, I asked him how you found out. Hu Zongren continued to lower his voice and said, now he is walking aimlessly on the street, and he doesn't seem to have noticed that he has found it. Hu Zongren said that he had just come out of some small shops, and then it might be that the shops in that area were a little more concentrated, and he inquired so much that attracted the attention of others, so since he walked out of the door, Hu Zongren noticed that there seemed to be someone behind him, but when he turned around and saw those people, it was quite normal, so he was on guard in his heart, and wandered around for a while, always feeling that there was someone behind him, so he took the time to call me.
I asked Hu Zongren, do you know where you are now? He said it was near where we had eaten, and he didn't know where to go because he was being followed. I thought about it quickly and said, in this way, you walk slowly towards the north, the same direction I took after we parted ways, until you reached the base of the city wall, and then call me. Hu Zongren said, are you over there now? I said yes now, but I'll run over when I hang up the phone, don't look back, go on your own, and if someone is following you, then I'll follow that guy.
Hu Zongren smiled, and said as if he thought it was funny, okay, let's see what kind of character this guy is.
After hanging up the phone, I began to calculate the direction, and I decided to find a way to get to the place where we first had bean curd rice, so I saw the road and got into it, so that I could see if anyone was following me. After about ten minutes of running, I had already run to the root of the city wall on the opposite side, and I continued to walk against the wall, and soon I saw the small city gate where Hu Zongren and I had entered at that time. So I pretended to be a passerby, put on the hat on my clothes, then lit a cigarette, and walked slowly, and sure enough, on the road I was facing north before, just past the position of the 110 duty point, I saw Hu Zongren in the distance.
Hu Zongren put his hands in his trouser pockets, as if he was sightseeing, walking slowly, and farther behind him, there was a middle-aged man wearing a black peaked cap, wearing an outdoor jacket, and carrying a single-lens reflex camera, who looked to be about forty years old, at the fork in the road, he had been photographing those old houses, but he looked at Hu Zongren from time to time. Hu Zongren guessed correctly, he was indeed followed, and the person who followed him was probably met when we first entered the city, because we had met a few ordinary people who liked photography at that time, maybe this guy was mixed in at that time.
I'm a bit of a clever person, so when someone sneaks up on something and I'm finding out, I often have a lot of ways to make him say something without noticing that I've found out about him. Fortunately, there are many forks in the small town, so I can easily get close to him by finding one and making a slight detour, but in broad daylight, even if there are few people in this city, it is impossible to do anything to others, so I decided to lead this guy to a remote place first. So I followed the middle-aged man from such a distance, and in the process I was even more convinced that he was following Hu Zongren, because he seemed to be casually taking pictures of the landscape, but occasionally he would take a quick photo of Hu Zongren. Although I am not a person who has studied photography, I did have been obsessed with photographic equipment for a while, and in my opinion, this guy's lens is a telephoto lens, which is equivalent to the function of a telescope, and he can easily record every movement of Hu Zongren with the camera as a disguise.
Soon Hu Zongren walked to the corner, and then took out the phone and called me. Just when Hu Zongren stopped, I saw that the middle-aged man also got into an alley on the side at the right time, and then stood on the side and waited. After I picked up Hu Zongren's phone, I didn't wait for him to speak, I first said to him, you are pretending that the phone is not connected, and I will tell you, you just have to listen. I said that I can see you now, and I have found the person who is following you, you follow the path on the right hand side against the wall, and when you come to the place where there is a stone tablet with four red characters written "Amitabha", you can see a red, orange and red roofed house, that house is a river temple, you want to go to the temple, if this guy also goes along, we will clean him up in the temple. I said if you understand it, just cough gently.
Cough! Hu Zongren responded, and then hung up the phone. I saw from afar that after he hung up the phone, he still looked annoyed and shook his head, as if he had called someone and the other party didn't answer. This guy is stupid on weekdays, and if he really wants to act, it's not bad. Then Hu Zongren continued to walk in the direction of the River Temple, I know Hu Zongren very well, if I can find the River Temple, then he will definitely be able to find it. So for the rest of the day, stop-and-go, and then dodge at the right time, the three of us followed each other back and forth, but I had to be wary of anyone following me behind me. Fortunately, along the way, it seems that I have become the one who no one is following.
The distance from the road by the city wall to the temple gate of the River Temple was very short, so I couldn't see the two of them in this area, but I calculated the time and speculated that Hu Zongren had entered the temple at this time. So I called Hu Zongren, he still didn't speak, I said you will cough when you enter the temple now. Hu Zongren coughed lightly. I said okay, don't look back at the temple door, you go directly to the statues of the gods facing the door, find the statue of Maitreya Buddha, and then don't do anything else, just stand there and watch, I'll be there right away, just hang up the phone if you understand. So Hu Zongren clicked and hung up the phone. I walked slowly to the side of the path where I had bought incense and candles, and found that I could not see the middle-aged man who was following me there, so I guessed that he might have turned the corner and followed him near the temple gate. So I started walking towards there, and the old women who were setting up the stalls saw me passing by, and were about to raise the incense candles in their hands to sell them to me, and I made a few loud gestures to them, and the aunts probably recognized me as the one who had just bought something, so they put down their things and went on to do their own things.
I walked around the corner, and I knew that if I poked my head out, I would be able to see the temple gate of the river temple not far away. So I took out my mobile phone and used the mobile phone screen as a mirror, and sure enough, I saw the middle-aged man, leaning against the pillar of the temple gate in a strange posture, but I couldn't see anything else, but I could tell that his eyes were towards the temple, and he must be spying on Hu Zongren, and he didn't know that I was following behind. So I slowly turned out and found that he was similar to me, stretching out his hand and pointing the camera lens at the temple, and his body was blocked by the pillar, so even if Hu Zongren turned around at this moment, he probably couldn't see him, but he could refract his line of sight according to the camera display, and he could see Hu Zongren clearly.
I took a deep breath and left my hands free because I knew I was going to clean him up here. Slowly approaching him, getting closer and closer, he never noticed me. I was only a few meters away from him, I suddenly exerted force, rushed up, he heard the movement and looked back at me in surprise, but before he could react, I bent down and hugged his waist, and then I put my feet and hands together, and I picked him up, so that after his feet were suspended in the air, he lost half of his focus. At this moment, even if he wanted to attack me, he could only hit me on the back with his hand. Then I took advantage of the situation to exert my strength towards the temple gate, and after a while, I quickly threw this guy in front of the incense burner in the temple, and then I shouted, Hu Zongren, catch it!
Hu Zongren has been cooperating with me in acting, and he probably can't help it in his heart. Hearing me shout, he immediately turned around, and then quickly untied the bags on his body, pounced on him, dragged the middle-aged man up from the ground, and then stepped on his wrist with one foot, and broke the other hand of the person with one hand, and Hu Zongren's remaining hand reached out and stuck his neck.
I saw that Hu Zongren had come to help, and the force was a little less, and after making sure that we had restrained him, I began to press this guy's body and get up, and then I said to Hu Zongren, this place is easy to be seen, let's drag him to the side. After saying that, I pointed in the direction of the Jizo King Bodhisattva, that place is a dark corner, at least if someone passes by the temple gate, you can't see that place. So Hu Zongren and I dragged this person very roughly, and on the way he tried to shout, but Hu Zongren suddenly covered his mouth. When he arrived at the bottom of the King of Jizo, Hu Zongren pinched this person's cheek, making his face appear a very ugly expression, Hu Zongren said viciously, what is the purpose of you following me, what is going on in Old Man Liang's house, if you don't explain it to me today, I will knock down the teeth in your mouth for you one by one!
The man glared at Hu Zongren, but his mouth was inarticulate. So I asked Hu Zongren to let this guy speak well first, and Hu Zongren let go of his hand and said to him at the same time, if you dare to shout, you should know what the consequences are. Since you came to follow me, you must also know what kind of person I Hu Zongren is, if you provoke me, you can only be the one who can't eat and walk around!
After speaking, Hu Zongren let go of his hand, and when he let go, he pushed the man's head back. He looked at me and Hu Zongren angrily, but he didn't dare to speak.