Chapter 24: The Forgotten Girl

Joe turned around, walked out of the shopkeeper's pharmacy, crossed the street, and came to the door of the dentist's shop opposite.

In the past, with Qiao's stubborn temperament, not to mention haunting, even if there was really an evil ghost killing people in front of him, his first reaction was probably to turn around and leave.

'It's none of your business, hang high', this was Joe's motto in life for a long time.

But after the mid-autumn night, in just two days, Joe's personality changed rapidly.

Not only is it not negative, but it becomes a bit aggressive.

The muttering in the dentist's shop quickly aroused Joe's vigilance, and now the undercurrent in Tulum Harbor is turbulent, and all inconspicuous clues may point to some huge whirlpool.

Inexplicably, Joe has such an intuition, and he is far more than himself who was willing to be a salted fish before, and has improved greatly in some aspects.

Curling his fingers and tapping heavily on the half-open door of the dentist's shop, Joe raised his voice, "Dr. Jack, Dr. Jack, what's going on in your house?" In the name of the law, is there anything you need help with? ”

When Joe knocked on the door, on the medicine furnace street, the guards of the Vettu family spit out the cigarette butts in their mouths at the same time, and they all pressed the weapons on their waists.

In extraordinary times, these guards have also increased their vigilance. Whether Joe took the initiative to find trouble, or trouble took the initiative to find Joe, they were all ready to clash with people at any time.

The door was opened, and the tall, blond, handsome Doctor Jack poked out of the door. Seeing Joe standing in the doorway in uniform, Dr. Jack waved across the street to the drugstore, the grimace shopkeeper standing on the sidewalk.

As neighbors, Dr. Jack and the ghost-faced shopkeeper are naturally acquaintances.

For Joe, Dr. Jack is naturally more familiar.

The sailors of the Ritu's Chamber of Commerce were drunk and fought with people all year round, and each sailor was equipped with dentures. More than 10 percent of the Rittal sailors were long-term and quality clients of Dr. Jack.

"Mary is a little suspicious, of course, I have been a little strange for the past two days." Doctor Jack grabbed Joe's sleeve, and his two eyebrows wrinkled tightly together: "Young Master Joe, it's not strange that you say it's strange, I actually have girls' clothes in my house......"

Joe blinked desperately, "Doctor Jack, do you have girls' clothes at home?" So what? ”

Dr. Jack looked at Joe with a sad expression, "Mary said, this is my lover's clothes, which I brought home." But the great Mu Zaishang, Young Master Qiao, you know me, I have always followed the rules, how could I do such a thing? ”

As he said this, Dr. Jack winked desperately at Joe.

A middle-aged woman with a red face and a bulging body, quite amiable rushed to the door, and she said loudly: "Ah, Young Master Qiao, have I wronged him?" These girls' clothes, you see, outer skirts, petticoats, underwear...... And these little boots, these socks ......"

Slapping her belly hard, the middle-aged woman Mary, Dr. Jack's wife, shouted, "Do you think that these clothes may be mine?" ”

Mary shook vigorously a beautifully made muslin dress in her hand, and snorted coldly: "Either Jack betrayed me, or he was haunted, and it was those hateful fellows who hid these clothes in our house?" ”

Joe only felt a cold air rushing from the soles of his feet to the Tianling Gai, he looked at Jack with an aggrieved face, and Mary with an angry face, and subconsciously took a step back.

Realizing that Joe's expression was wrong, several of the leaders of the Ritu's guards took two steps forward and stood behind Joe. They were like veteran old hounds, their keen eyes constantly sweeping over Jack and Mary, and even over their bodies and looking into their room.

Joe blinked, his right hand stroking the baton hanging from his waist, and asked Dr. Jack aloud, "When did you find out about this?" ”

Dr. Jack and Mary glanced at each other, a little dazed.

Patting her head vigorously, Mary muttered, "On the night of the fifteenth, we were frightened, we fled back, and then, on the sixteenth, we slept all day. During the day today, we were not in good spirits, and we rested at home for a day, and we didn't go anywhere and did nothing. ”

"It's curfew, there's no business coming to the door, so I'll just think about it, clean up the house? Anyway, being idle is also idle, and business is usually good at night, and we have all developed the habit of not sleeping at night. ”

"As a result, I was in a room and found these girls' clothes."

Mary's tone became very serious, and anger gradually appeared on her face: "Not one set or two, but many. Not only the skirts, but also all kinds of private things for girls filled a room, and the big room with the best view on the second floor facing the sea was full of girls' things. ”

Mary shook her head and said, "Really, hell. Jack, of course he's not that kind of person, but the clothes in this house, so many things......"

Dr. Jack muttered, "Of course I'm not such a person, huh, am I, Young Master Qiao?" ”

Joe took two steps back again, he squinted at Dr. Jack and Mary, and said in a deep voice, "What about little Jack?" ”

Mary pointed upwards: "Poor little Jack, he is still a little dizzy, poor little fellow, he has been frightened for the past two days, and he is resting in his room." ”

Joe took a deep breath and slowly pulled out his baton, "So, what about Little Mary?" ”

"Little Mary?" Doctor Jack and Mary were stunned at the same time, they looked at each other, and Mary looked at Joe in surprise: "Master Joe, little Mary?" Who is Little Mary? ”

Joe's heart sank suddenly, and his face became extremely serious.

On the other side of the road, the face of the grimace shopkeeper standing on the sidewalk changed slightly at the same time, and he subconsciously put his hands into his loose sleeves, and his body swayed, and he came to Joe lightly with strange steps.

"Joe, Dr. Jack and Mary, they only have one child...... Little Jack ......" The grimace shopkeeper shook his head vigorously, and he muttered in a low voice, "It's a little wrong, it seems to be ...... My brain is a little dizzy. ”

Joe's eyes widened, and a deep crimson glow suddenly lit up in his pupils.

"Uncle? Dr. Jack and Mary's eldest daughter, little Mary, she often brings you pancakes with cheese and beef filling, have you forgotten? ”

"Fifteen years old, blonde, blue-eyed, with the same hair and eyes as Dr. Jack, with freckles on her face, just graduated from the Silver Cinnamon Church Girls' School, and in a month's time, little Mary is going to study law at the Judicial Academy, just like Tifa?"

Joe's voice was slow, his tone was heavy, word by word powerful.

Doctor Jack and Mary's expressions were messy, and Mary looked at the beautiful long dress in her hand and muttered, "Little Mary? Daughter? We have a daughter? Little Mary? Ah, these clothes ......"

"Dear ......" Mary's eyes twitched slightly, and she fell to the ground.

Dr. Jack was stunned for a long time, and then he said to Joe very seriously: "Young Master Joe, I think you must be mistaken, we have no daughter, Mary and I have only one son, and that is Little Jack...... Daughter, I ......"

Dr. Jack's facial muscles spasmed hard, and he stared blankly at Mary who fell to the ground, his body trembling slightly, and cold sweat continued to ooze from under his hair, which soon made his hair wet.

Because of Joe's presence, Dr. Jack's left and right neighbors, Dr. Jerry, who is also a dentist, and Dr. Byrne, who specializes in treating broken bones, also walked out of their own medical shop and approached Joe's side with a probe.

"Master Qiao, we testify that Dr. Jack really doesn't have a daughter named Little Mary."

Dr. Jerry smiled brightly: "Not only Dr. Jack, but our entire medicine stove street, hundreds of pharmacies and clinics, all of them are sons, and none of them are daughters. ”

Dr. Byrne also laughed: "yes, yes, this is really strange, is it because we have been dealing with various drugs for many years, what changes have occurred to our bodies?" It's a pity, I've always wanted a well-behaved and obedient daughter, maybe she can marry Young Master Qiao! ”

Joe's heart chilled a little.

Changing to other doctors or pharmacy shopkeepers on Medicine Furnace Street, Joe is not familiar with it.

But Jack, Jerry, and Bourne, they're just across the street from the Grimace Shopkeeper's pharmacy, and Joe has been running around for a few years to find the Grimace Shopkeeper, and he still knows about the family situation of the three of them.

It just so happened that if it weren't for Joe's mistake, the three doctors, each of them had a daughter and a son. And the daughters of the three families are all sisters, and they are even about the same age.

Both dentists and orthopedic surgeons have a thriving business and a good income in Tulun Port, so the daughters of these three families are all studying in the girls' school of the Silver Cinnamon Church.

Even Joe's sister Weima, who also studied at the Yingui Church Girls' School, knew the daughters of these three families because of Joe's relationship, and they were even good friends!

"So, you're finished!" Joe laughed, he pointed at Dr. Jack and smiled, "Dr. Jack, you got your lover's clothes home, you're finished!" ”

Joe pointed at Jerry and Byrne and said with a smile: "Hurry up and go home and look for it, maybe, you also have girls' clothes at home?" You can't tell! ”

Shaking his head, Qiao smiled and asked, "You won't either, the sixteenth slept all day, and today you are all mentally exhausted, and you haven't done anything at home, right?" ”

Without Jerry and Byrne answering, Joe knew what was going on just by looking at their expressions.

"You're finished!" Joe smiled and pointed to the three stiff-faced doctors, then turned and walked towards the pharmacy where the grimace shopkeeper was.

The grimace shopkeeper had a gloomy face, and his steps were like flowing clouds, and he followed Qiao into his own pharmacy one by one. Then he quickly rummaged through the cabinets, found more than 20 kinds of strange medicinal materials, and quickly boiled them into a pair of potions on the small charcoal stove.

The light blue, emanating evocative potion was swallowed by the ghost-faced shopkeeper in one gulp.

After a few minutes, a cold and sticky sweat seeped out of the shopkeeper's body, he exhaled heavily, coughed violently, and then two extremely thin lines of blood dripped down his nostrils.

"Joe, I remember, little Mary, Lilia, little Julie......"

The grimace shopkeeper raised his head, and his already ugly face was even more ruthless like a ghost at the moment: "I was careless, I was tricked." An extremely out-of-the-way ecstasy potion, and, an extraordinary secret art. ”

Joe took a deep breath.