Chapter 31: Ups and Downs The bearded man disappeared mysteriously
Xing Sang looked behind him with his peripheral vision, and it was a woman sitting on the dining chair behind him who said the words.
Victory was stunned with chopsticks holding soup dumplings in his hand, and he didn't understand what this woman meant for a while.
"How can you be sure that the bearded man will never snatch my little sister's soup dumplings in the future?" Xing Sang asked with his head sideways.
The woman paused for a moment and said, "He's missing." ”
Hearing this, Teng stood up, she stepped behind Xing Sang in two steps, and said, "I guess who cares about this bearded thing, and it's really you." ”
Xing Sang also stood up, and when he turned around, he saw a woman in a dark blue dress and a black hairpin sitting there.
She didn't look very old, but her voice was slightly low, and Xing Sang asked, "Who is this?"
Shengli smiled and said, "Boss, this is the detective lady I told you about living on the third floor of the apartment. ”
Xing Sang smiled slightly, walked to the woman's table, stretched out his hand and saluted, "Hello, my name is Xing Sang and I live on the second floor." ”
But I saw that the woman nodded, and then she also raised her hand and shook Xing Sang and said, "Miss Xing, hello." ”
"I'm a private investigator, my name is Wan Baobao. ”
Victory opened his mouth wide in surprise and said, "You are Wan Baobao!"
Wan Baobao tilted his head and said, "Yes." ”
"Didn't Wan Baobao go to the ocean, why are you still in Qinglin City?"
Wan Baobao smiled slightly and said, "I didn't expect that I have been away for ten years, and there are still people who remember me." ”
"Thank you. ”
Overcoming the excitement was about to be speechless, she thought for a while and said: "If I knew Miss Detective, it would be Wan Baobao, I, I will buy you soup dumplings to eat every day!"
Wan Baobao pursed his lips and smiled, Xing Sang patted his victorious head and said, "Little cub who has no interest, you just invite the big star to eat this!"
Wan Baobao bent down, touched under the table, touched a wooden box, and lifted it.
Xing Sang realized that this Wan Baobao's eyes were not focused, and there seemed to be a layer of white mist covering his eyes.
Xing Sang thought to herself: It turns out that her eyes can't see!
Shengli also looked at Xing Sang in surprise, she had lived in this apartment for so long, she didn't know that Wan Baobao was blind!
"I'll help you. Xing Sang hurriedly said.
Wan Baobao just smiled, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I can do it myself." ”
After speaking, Wan Baobao moved her body inward slightly, and then put the wooden table that was brought up from under the table on the seat, she raised her head and said to Xing Sang and Shengli who were standing at the table, "Please sit down and say." ”
The two sat down and triumphantly said, "Sister Baby, can I call you like that?"
Wan Baobao smiled mildly and said, "Of course, Miss Zhan, your voice is so good, no wonder you look so pretty." ”
Shengli exclaimed: "Sister Baobao, do you know who I am, and what I look like?"
Wan Baobao nodded and said, "Naturally, I can see it, haha." ”
"You, aren't you?" said Victory.
Wan Baobao tilted his head towards Xing Sang and said, "Miss Zhan, look, it's not just with your eyes. ”
Xing Sang said with a smile: "What Miss Wan said is exact. ”
Then, Wan Baobao put the wooden box on the seat on the table again, Xing Sang saw that Wan Baobao was a little laborious, presumably the contents of this box must be very heavy.
"Look at this wooden box, made by Renault Don in Germany. ”
"About half an arm long and two palms wide, sturdy log, wrapped in dark brown leather on the outside, with black acrylic thread sewn on the edges. ”
"The black onyx handle, the lock on it can only be opened with a special matching key. ”
"And there's only one key to a chest. Wan Baobao touched the wooden box on the table and said.
Xing Sang was also a little surprised, although this Wan Baobao couldn't see it, she said all the details of this wooden box, and even the color of this wooden box.
"Sister Baby, is this wooden box yours?" asked Shengli.
Wan Baobao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Of course it's not mine." ”
"Then why do you know so much about the construction and texture, and even the color, of this chest?" asked Victory.
Wan Baobao smiled slightly and said, "Because, I have used and seen this kind of wooden box." ”
"Huh?" the victory still exclaimed.
Xing Sang said: "Miss Wan is extremely subtle and serious in observing the details of life. ”
Wan Baobao said: "Before I lost my sight, I had seen too many things and too many people. ”
Shengli said with a smile: "It turned out to be experience, hahaha, Sister Baby is really amazing." ”
"I just don't know why Sister Baby showed us the wooden box?" Shengli continued to ask.
Xing Sang looked at Wan Baobao and said, "This wooden box is bearded?"
Wan Baobao said: "Miss Xing, you are really a powerful detective. ”
Xing Sang was slightly stunned and said, "Solving cases is just my hobby, I'm not a detective." ”
Wan Baobao shook his head and said, "People always deny it immediately when their true hearts are discovered. ”
Xing Sang said, "Miss Wan, is the thing in this wooden box a bearded maintenance tool?"
Wan Baobao said: "That's right. ”
Xing Sang then asked, "Why is his repair kit in Miss Wan's hand?"
"This morning, someone left this toolbox at the door of my room. Wan Baobao said.
Shengli said: "Before the beard disappeared, he put his toolbox at the door of Sister Baobao?"
Wan Baobao shook his head and said, "I don't know, so I came to the restaurant to find you and help me answer this question." ”
When Xing Sang heard this, he said, "Miss Wan, how do you know that we live in this apartment?"
Wan Baobao said: "Miss Xing, I just got off the train from the long distance yesterday and went to the office first. ”
"Then, after getting off work in the evening, you and Miss Zhan ate hot pot at a hot pot restaurant, and didn't come to the apartment until the early hours of the morning. ”
When he heard Wan Baobao tell the whereabouts of the two of them clearly, he suddenly felt very dangerous.
She was about to question Wan Baobao, but Xing Sang helped her shoulder and shook her head.
"Miss Wan, you know everything about our whereabouts. Xing Sang said.
Wan Baobao said: "You don't have to doubt it, you told me it yourself." ”
Xing Sang and Shengli were slightly surprised, and Wan Baobao continued: "The day before Miss Xing came to Qinglin City. ”
Miss Zhan was in contact with a superior surnamed Man in a phone booth on the side of the road outside the apartment. ”
"I reported the arrival time of Miss Xing's train and the arrangements after that. ”
Shengli said: "I called the day before yesterday, how did you hear it?"
Wan Baobao said: "Because I was standing next to the phone booth, you haven't noticed me. ”
Xing Sang became more and more interested in this actress, and she felt that she must not be such a simple person.
"I, I, Sister Baby, when you say that, I really didn't pay attention to who was next to the phone booth that day. ”
"I can't even remember when I called. Victory said after thinking for a long time.
Wan Baobao smiled and said, "The day before yesterday, you made your first call at 10:32 in the morning. ”
"The weather was not very good, it was very cold. ”
Xing Sang smiled: "I have changed all the clothes I wore from eating hot pot yesterday, and I have already bathed." ”
"The taste is not here to stay. ”
Wan Baobao tilted his head and said, "Miss Xing, it is indeed difficult for you to analyze and guess. ”
"However, you bought alcohol last night and brought it back to the apartment. ”
"It is only the exclusive special Ejiao wine of Xinlong hot pot restaurant, which is the only one in Qinglin City. ”
Xing Sang clapped his hands and praised: "Miss Wan, I admire you, your observation and memory are indeed unparalleled. ”
Wan Baobao said modestly: "As Miss Xing said, this is just a hobby. ”
"I used to be an actor as a hobby, although my eyes are blind, but I can still see everything in the world. ”
Xing Sang asked, "However, how did Miss Wan know that the bearded man was missing?"
Wan Baobao said: "The bearded man, formerly known as Huang Tong, is forty years old this year, single and unmarried. ”
"He has been working as a maintenance worker in this Zhen apartment for 20 years, from a primary school to the present. ”
"Twenty years? How could it be?" This apartment was built less than ten years ago, I remember probably?"
"Eight years and twenty-one days. Wan Baobao said.
Xing Sang asked, "Miss Wan remembers it so clearly?"
Wan Baobao said: "Eight years ago, I came here as an invited guest to cut the ribbon for the completion of the apartment. ”
Xing Sang said, "Please continue. ”
Wan Baobao nodded and said, "Huang Tong's maintenance technology is one of the best in Qinglin City. ”
Although he doesn't talk much on weekdays, he is very serious about his work, or paranoid. ”
"He won't allow something that has been repaired by his hands to break down a second time. ”
"Bearded, what kind of maintenance worker is Huang Tong?" Xing Sang asked.
Wan Baobao said: "He is responsible for all the water and electricity maintenance in the apartment. ”
Xing Sang thought for a while and said, "This has an explanation, how did you find out that he was missing." ”
Victorious listened to the conversation between these two god-like characters with a puzzled face, and couldn't interject a word himself.
"Boss, how do you explain it?" asked Shengli, scratching his head.
Xing Sang said: "In the early morning, when we came back, we saw that bearded man in the hall, can you remember?"
Remember, he said something inexplicable again. Triumph recalled.
"However, I noticed that the faucet in the room was broken, and even if the valve in the room was turned off, it was still running out. Xing Sang said.
Wan Baobao nodded in agreement: "That's right, what Miss Xing said is exactly what I want to say." ”
"Huang Tong, he will not allow anyone to question his craft. ”
"I don't allow anything in this apartment to have problems as long as it's something he's repaired. ”
Shengli said as if he didn't understand: "This bearded man, I don't see that he is still such a workaholic." ”
Wan Baobao touched the lock of the wooden box on the table and said, "This lock must be opened." ”
"I feel that there must be a reason for Huang Tong's disappearance in this box!"