Chapter 161: Unraveling
This meal is not stopped, it should be said that no one has moved chopsticks since Old Tang entered the house, and they are still digesting the strange conversation between them just now. Even Pinpin's ghost girl noticed that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and ran back to her room to play while going to the toilet, as long as she couldn't touch her.
"Well, I say, what about your codes? What blisters, what fishing? What for? Hu Dazhu patted the table and asked them.
Lao Wu was still thinking about what Lao Tang had just said, his hand was unconsciously clenched into a fist under the table, and then slowly let go, he noticed something from the moment he saw Lao Tang enter the room, when he heard Lao Tang say this, how could he not understand. Thinking of this, Lao Wu turned his head to look at Hu Dajiao, sighed and muttered in his heart: "You second brother, I thought you could finally be reliable once, but I didn't expect that you guy is still the same!" β
Lao Wu suddenly smiled at Jiang Nan at this time, then raised his hand and patted Jiang Nan's hand under the table, and glanced at her. Jiang Nan didn't understand it at first, but when he saw Old Tang with a gloomy face, he suddenly reacted, first turned his head sideways to the outer door and listened, and then turned his face to Old Tang's daughter-in-law and said: "It seems that the child is crying, I won't coax her every time she cries, you go and see it with me." β
Old Tang's daughter-in-law was warm-hearted, and as soon as she heard this, she quickly got up and went out with Jiang Nan, and went to the second floor.
There is a chandelier hanging in the center of the room, which is the kind of large bulb with an iron lid on it, because the wattage is not enough and the light is relatively dim, the faces of the remaining three people in the room from top to bottom are gloomy and scattered, and the atmosphere falls into a very strange dull feeling.
Without waiting for Hu Dabo to speak, Lao Wu spoke to Lao Tang first: "Old Tang, is there any misunderstanding?" β
"Misunderstanding? I don't think so, right? Someone reported you. And I don't think what the man said was making it up. Old Tang leaned back in his chair and smoked a cigarette and looked at Lao Wu.
Lao Wu smiled helplessly: "Now you public security are arresting people by feeling?" Aren't you particular about the evidence? Besides, I'm just a hotelkeeper, what can I do? β
Old Tang exhaled a puff of cigarette and watched the smoke slowly disperse, before he turned his face up and said, "Oh, you are not only a hotelkeeper, you also have a powerful brother." And you're more than that. β
At this time, Lao Wu could be sure that the fourth master told him that he was a tomb robber, and Lao Tang may have just wanted to verify it, or wait for him to admit it himself. Lao Wu used to be alive and trembling because he had done tomb robbery, but he didn't expect that now that the whole country has been liberated, he could have lived to death without incident, but he didn't expect to make this incident, and let Lao Tang, the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, know his previous identity, at this time Lao Wu didn't know what to do, or simply accepted his fate.
"What my ability is! That has to start with my hometown. In my hometown, I have a nickname called Shovel Wu, who specializes in digging wells for people, which should be regarded as a skill, right? Lao Wu fiddled with the chopsticks in his hand and said slowly.
Old Tang said directly: "Digging a well is to get water, but you have to call it taking money, right?" Take the dead man's wealth! β
But after saying this, I looked at Hu Dabao's somewhat surprised expression, and then felt that I was right, but I didn't expect Hu Dabao to suddenly answer: "Alas, mom! How did you know we used to be grave movers? At that time, I fished out the small copper plates in the pile of dead people all day long, and saved them to drink in exchange for wine! Old Tang, you know this, huh? β
Let Hu Dabao say these words. Confused by the two people at the same time, Old Tang was stunned for a moment before squinting his eyes and saying, "You used to be from the grave removal team?" β
Hu Dawei nodded and said, "Yes!" My brothers met when we were working in the Lushi County grave relocation team. How else do you know? Can the be the one you met when you robbed the tomb? Isn't that? β
"Tomb robbing?" Old Tang Teng's voice stood up, pushed all the chairs he was sitting on to the wall, and banged with a bang.
Hu Dawei made Old Tang startled, looked up at him and said, "What's wrong?" I'm just giving you an analogy, what's your reaction? What's wrong with you today? β
At this moment, Lao Wu slowly stood up from his seat. waved his hand to Hu Dajiao and said, "It's none of your business." Then he turned to face the gloomy old Tang, and said directly: "When I was young, I robbed the tomb with an old tomb robber named Hu Wan, and in a few years, we robbed a lot of tombs, and the fourth master was right. I'm a grave robber. β
"No, Lao Wu, you"
"Don't talk without you!"
As soon as Hu Dafang heard this, he quickly stood up, but was blocked by Lao Wu raising his hand.
Lao Wu limped one leg and slowly moved a few steps, leaned on the back of the chair behind him, and calmly said to the somewhat excited old Tang: "Old Tang, you sit down and listen to me first." When I was young, I didn't want to accept my fate, I didn't want to live my life so simply, so I was bewitched by gangsters and became a tomb robber. But what I say now is a cover-up, it's useless, if you do something wrong, it's easy to just apologize, then what's the law for? I didn't think too much about it, and I didn't want to hide for the rest of my life. But now that you know everything, then I'll tell you generously, but this should be an old thing, and I feel that this old account should be able to turn over the page, right? β
Old Tang was not as excited as before after hearing this, and slowly sat back, putting the half-burned cigarette back to his mouth and holding it. After taking a few puffs vigorously, he was still crushed with his feet on the ground, took out the small book he had been carrying, turned a few pages and looked at it, raised his eyes and said to Lao Wu: "Old Wu, do you know why I keep using the small book to remember?" β
Listening to his tone, Hu Dawei also relaxed, but Lao Wu still stood there and replied in a low voice: "Do you want to leave a record for yourself?" β
"Not exactly, because a long time ago I was a little policeman patrolling the streets, and that day I caught a few people who were robbing bags on the street, and one of them knelt on the ground and begged me to let him go, saying that he had a newborn child at home, and that his daughter-in-law had died of hemorrhage when she gave birth, and that he was the only one to take care of him, and if he was caught, then his child would have to starve to death. I was young at the time, and I had little experience in the industry, so I believed and let this man alone, and just as I was about to take the other people back to the game, the man I let go knocked me down with a wooden stick in the back, and they ran away. By the time I woke up, it was already a few days later, and although the men had been recaptured, my memory had become very bad because of the blow to the head. β
Old Tang slowly talked about the past, and as he spoke, he raised his eyes to look at Lao Wu and said to him: "The reason why I use this book to remember things is because my memory is too poor, and if I don't write it down, I will soon forget it." The second is because only by writing it down by myself will it be more profound and prevent me from making the same mistakes. Lao Wu, you're right, the old things have been turned over, but why are you still doing your old business now? β
Lao Wu frowned and said, "Old business? That's impossible, after I escaped from the grave a long time ago, I haven't done that illegal thing again, I've been working here and there for so many years, and I'm doing serious work, what do you mean? When am I going to rob the grave? β
Lao Tang opened the small book, and after finding something he remembered, he raised his eyes and asked Lao Wu: "Didn't you dig a tunnel, and planned to take advantage of the demolition of the temple to hollow out the bottom and steal things?" β
"Oh, that's what happened!" Lao Wu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, patted his head, and began to grin.
Hu Da looked at him and said, "Oh mom, I'm crazy!" Old Wu, fucking you're going crazy! β
"What are you laughing at?" Old Tang thought it was strange.
Lao Wu sat down on the table, and said to Lao Tang with a smile: "I misunderstood, what kind of tunnel am I digging!" I'm so old that I can't dig even if I want to. The reason why the thief said this was because this guy came to talk to me that day and probed on my bottom line. He had good eyesight, and when he saw what I was doing before, he thought that I was also running for the demolition of the temple and wanted to partner with me. I actually wanted to trick him into the hotel, and then catch a turtle in the urn, so I lied to him and said that he had dug a tunnel, but as a result, I never expected that this sentence would actually turn me into an army, he was looking for me to partner, but he was afraid that I would rob him of something, and come to kill me in advance. Fortunately, there are many nobles around me, but I was stabbed in the leg, and I passed that day peacefully. β
Old Tang thought for a while and then asked him: "That's the case, then why make the thief called the fourth master unable to speak?" What do you mean by that? β
Lao Wu explained: "Isn't it because of what I did before, I'm afraid that you will find out and turn over the old accounts!" That's why I made it like this, it's all a misunderstanding! β
They can be regarded as reasonable, after seeing Lao Tang nodding and smiling, Lao Wu slowly let go of the hand he had been holding, and the sweat in the palm of his hand could flow smoothly at this time. His calmness just now was completely pretended, and he was actually afraid in his heart, he was afraid that Old Tang would suddenly take out the handcuffs, how old was he, and he would be able to explain it if he was tossed a few more times.
At this time, Lao Tang's daughter-in-law came in with the child, and Jiang Nan followed him into the house. But after Jiang Nan came in, he first observed, and found that those people were all smiling, and Lao Tang didn't have the previous Yan sΓΉ, so he immediately put down the heart he had been carrying, and also caught the ghost girl of Pinpin.
"Hey Old Tang, look at this girl, it's really funny." Old Tang's daughter-in-law hugged the child to Old Tang and leaned down to let him see the child's little face.
After Lao Tang glanced at the child, he smiled and said, "Well, it's very fun, like this old Wu family." (To be continued......)