Chapter 8: Code Words
Zhao Haipeng said to leave immediately, I am naturally very happy, although I don't understand why he changed so quickly, but people are willing to go out of the mountain, and it is naturally better. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But Zhao Haipeng was leaving, I found that it was not so simple, as soon as he left, I knew that Zhao Haipeng was living with his brother and sister-in-law, and Zhao Haipeng had extreme respect for his brother, he first went to the back room to say goodbye to his brother, and handed over all the 10,000 yuan I gave him to his sister-in-law.
Before the sun set, he took the cover and embarked on the road back to Lubei City with us.
Along the way, Zhao Haipeng asked in detail about the situation in my hotel and the old man's mourning hall, and then looked at the road ahead that was gradually darkening, without saying a word, thinking deeply.
Before entering our city, the "statue" of Zhao Haipeng spoke again and asked us where the hotel was, saying that time was urgent, and he wanted to go to the hotel to have a look first.
As soon as I saw Zhao Haipeng's serious attitude and serious expression, I knew that this person should be a serious master, so I rushed to the hotel non-stop, and the reception dinner that I had planned in my heart could only be suppressed.
Half an hour later, almost completely at night, I took Zhao Haipeng back to the Huo Ji Boiled Fish, and came to the door of my restaurant that had been deserted.
My Huo Ji boiled fish is bordering the city's "Four Eyes Street", this two-lane street is not a prosperous area, at most it is the level of the urban-rural junction of the big city, the environment is not very good, the flow of people at night began to decrease, not to mention the plastic bags and barbecue stalls in one place, which made me have a headache.
But there is an advantage here, that is, the rent is relatively cheap, the transportation is relatively convenient, as long as the reputation and signboard are good, our business is enough to make up for the lack of environment and people, and this is also the way for our medium-sized catering industry to ascend, and it is also the real reason why I value the sign of Huo Ji boiled fish so much.
After giving the guy a holiday, my restaurant has been closed, looking at the tightly closed iron sliding door, I feel inexplicably desolate, and then in the night wind, Ah Si and I put the key into the lock to open the door, and by the way, clean up the skewers and beer bottles left by the "night wanderers" at my door.
After a heavy "zila" sound, the main door opened, and I took Zhao Haipeng to walk in first, pulling the electric switch and the lights in the main house.
In the room, a pungent fishy smell instantly permeated my nostrils.
In that bright light, I saw a scene that I will never forget, and I was angry.
In front of me, I put in the glass tank of fish farming in the vestibule, I don't know when, it was broken by something, the water flowed all over the ground, and the fish I kept in it to serve diners were all taken out at this time and placed on each of my tables, silver fish scales and red fish blood were intertwined under the stimulation of the light, and I was particularly worried to see it.
Those fish that have been dead for a long time make my heart ache to death, and this death is not a fish at all...... It's money spent in vain!
"It's too bad!" I lined up at the table and howled angrily, "Whoever has a grudge against me......!"
My anger did not affect Zhao Haipeng's mood in the slightest, and this guy was not idle after entering the hotel, he walked over and looked at my glass tank, and then looked at the filth mixed with blood and water on the ground. Finally, he landed his eyes on the table full of dead fish.
Zhao Haipeng walked to the table full of fish miscellaneous, took out a handkerchief, pinched a fish, looked at it carefully for a moment, and turned the fish upside down.
He then took out a roll of paper from the mouth of the fish with its head down.
It was a very fine roll of paper that had been rolled up, and the paper was very hard. So when Zhao Haipeng got the paper out of the fish's mouth, it took a lot of effort.
Zhao Haipeng took the paper in his hand, quickly spread it out, and then handed it to me and said, "Is the person in this photo you?"
I took the photo of Zhao Haipeng out of the fish's mouth in my hand, looked at it quickly, and found that it was a ribbon-cutting photo of the opening of the hotel that year, in the photo I stood in the middle, the old man Yin stood on the left side, and the right side was my second uncle and Yin Numei.
This photo is crumpled, because of the reason why it is placed in the mouth of the fish, the smell is unpleasant, and what makes me most angry is that the content in the photo is not only that, in it, I am treated the same as Yin Wujia, and I have been poked by a red oil pen.
I slapped the picture on the table and burst out with a foul word: "Mommy (harmony) ass! Who did this! Don't let me catch him! ”
Zhao Haipeng continued to pull similar photos from the stomachs of other fish, and said to me: "Don't talk nonsense, you can't kill it, but it can kill you." ”
After that, Zhao Haipeng dragged out the photos of me and Yin Wujia from the mouths of those fish one by one.
Those photos are all me and the old man, in all the photos, the old man and I have gouged out our eyes, deaf ears, the seven holes are light, and some of the photos simply use a knife-like instrument to give us a "decapitation", leaving only a few empty holes exposed.
The photo of the fishy slime stained with a miserable green glow under the fluorescent light, and I was really scared of my feet when I saw it, because I knew that this was probably not something that a human could do, and even if it was done by a human being, it was definitely not done by a normal person.
I had no choice but to stretch out my finger and point to those photos, and stumbled to ask Zhao Haipeng: "Is this ...... What the hell is going on?"
Compared with me, Zhao Haipeng was calm and tight, and after he looked around, he continued to touch the fish with his hand and said: "Boss Huo, remember in the future, if you are not inappropriate when you start a business, you will be too greedy for money, and you will get into trouble." You're messing with ...... It's not a small thing yet. ”
"What do you mean?" asked Zhang Asi in my place.
Zhao Haipeng continued to say calmly: "If I guess correctly, when you opened the restaurant, you offended some kind of 'yin evil', and now they are coming back to collect debts and want your life." The first is Yin Wujia, and the second is you. ”
Zhao Haipeng's tone was as calm as possible when he spoke, but he also listened to my back jumping, and when he finished speaking, the cool air in my feet had been connected with the numb backbone. Thinking about the sudden death of the old man, looking at such a tragic picture in front of me, I am not afraid that it is impossible.
Obviously, Zhao Haipeng knows all this, and Old Man Yin is trying his best to recommend this person to me, so what should he do.
Immediately, I hurriedly asked Zhao Haipeng, what kind of "yin and evil" is this provoking, and why is it staring at me? Is there any indiscretion in my business? Is it because I put too much fake chili noodles? Or is it because I have been a state-protected animal in private before?
In the face of my questioning like shaking a sieve, Zhao Haipeng didn't continue to scare me, he said to me clearly: "Boss Huo, although the things you did were damaged, they were harmless to others, and they couldn't damage yin morality...... I can't talk to you now, I said, it's not good for you, it's not good for you, it's not good for the dead old man. ”
After speaking, Zhao Haipeng ignored my next question, but walked around my fish-smelling restaurant and plunged into my back kitchen.
Zhao Haipeng's non-yin and non-yang attitude made me and the first Zhang Ah Si of my clan not very happy, and Zhang Ah Si was even more dissatisfied with me and said: "Isn't it just a cook in a cooking class? ”
Naturally, I can't be as unqualified as my brother, although I am dissatisfied, I have to suppress my anger and follow Zhao Haipeng to my back kitchen.
I want to see what kind of fame this fellow who looks like a Taoist priest, a fortune teller, a cook, and a detective can make a name for himself.
Compared with the messiness of the front desk, my back kitchen is quite quiet, and I am relieved that the fish tank in the back kitchen has not suffered any damage, and the dozens of mekong fish, grass carp and Qingjiang fish I have raised are sleeping quietly, and with my turn on the light, it has only disturbed a gorgeous ripple.
I looked at those babies who were still alive, and felt a little better, and then I quickly turned around and looked in the direction of Zhao Haipeng.
Under the light, Zhao Haipeng was bending over, crawling beside the chest of drawers where I had placed spices in my kitchen, churning over something.
He looked very strange, rummaging through things, and kept muttering: "In the line grid, the upper position plus the puppet is a dark ...... In the five-element grid, the upper instrument position ......"
I know that sentence is the last sentence of Old Man Yin's will, and I don't know why he has to say this repeatedly when he is rummaging through my condiment cabinet.
After a few moments, I finally understood.
I only saw Zhao Haipeng suddenly reach out and pull out the second drawer from the left on the top of the chest of drawers, and then used the kitchen knife on the side of the drawer to break the partition behind the drawer, and then a hidden partition in the drawer was suddenly exposed to my eyes.
Looking at the clever partition, I suddenly felt that the words in Zhao Haipeng's mouth were definitely some kind of code words, which just pointed out the direction of the hidden partition.
This drawer has been used by the old man Yin before, Zhao Haipeng should know the mystery of this drawer from that secret sentence, he quickly found out the compartment in the drawer, and then stretched out his hand and took out the things in the compartment.
Inside was a large glass bottle, and there was nothing left in it, except for some black-brown residues, like scars left after blood had dried up.
Zhao Haipeng looked at the bottle of things, and suddenly asked me, "Boss Huo, how many years have you been running this restaurant?"
"Five years!" I replied.
Zhao Haipeng asked again: "In the past five years, is Yin Liujia mainly making fish dishes?"
I nodded.
Zhao Haipeng further said: "In the past five years, your business has not been very good in the first two years, right? It has only been in the past three years that business has suddenly improved? And the best-selling dish is fish, which is the fish dish of the old man Yin?"
"That's right!" I wondered, "How do you know!"
"I don't just know this!" Zhao Haipeng further "predicted" to me: "In the past three years, although the old man has made good fish dishes, you have never eaten the fish dishes he made, and when the guys have dinners, Yin Wujia will never make fish for you to eat, he always says that his fish dishes are used to make money, and it is bad to give you little rabbits to eat, right?"
Zhao Haipeng's words were as accurate as a fortune teller, I could only nod speechlessly, and at the same time sighed secretly in my heart, this person really has two brushes, can he only see such things from an empty glass bottle?
He...... What the hell is it for?
After these words, Zhao Haipeng didn't ask me, he hurriedly hid the empty bottle in his arms, lest he see the light.
The guy then told me that he knew exactly what to do, and that everyone would pack up tonight and the hotel would be open tomorrow morning.
When it was over, Zhao Haipeng swore to me that he would have a way to get me through the current crisis and let me solve the so-called "evil spirit" problem, provided that I cooperated.
Then, Zhao Haipeng wrote me a menu with pen and paper.