This also shows that Sun Hanhan's and I inferences are correct.

The killer didn't have a car, so he must have been near the bridge, or even around us.

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

It's the proprietress of this little inn.

The hostess stood at the door and shouted to us.

"Young man, do you still boil medicine with something you don't need to cook? My meal is ready, and everything is cleaned up underneath. If you don't mind, you can go down and boil the medicine!"

I immediately opened the door to my room and thanked the hostess.

Then I took the packed Chinese medicine bag and went to the counter on the first floor. There is an induction cooker on the ground next to the counter, and there are some ordinary iron pots on it, some for cooking and some for boiling porridge.

I took a casual big pot for boiling porridge, washed the Chinese medicine with water and threw it into the pot, added a full pot of water, and then just boiled the Chinese medicine soup until it was thick, so that he could continue to burn the taste of the Chinese medicine.

I sat on the pony, boiling the medicine constantly, and the proprietress sat at the counter to settle the accounts.

The proprietress had long white fingers, pressing the calculator constantly. Hearing the numbers calculated by the computer, the business of the small inn of the proprietress is very bad, and there is not much business in a month. If you add it up in a month, you will only earn more than 7,000 yuan in total!

I couldn't help but sigh with the hostess.

"More than 7,000 yuan a month, it's really not too much! But it's not bad, and it earns more than people in ordinary factories!"

The hostess shook her head when she heard my words.

"Where can I compare to those factory girls and factory workers. My 7,000 yuan is the flow of the hotel, and fortunately, the first floor and the second floor of this small hotel are ours, so I don't have to pay rent. Therefore, the usual expenses are not too much.

If the house is not my own. That's a month's worth of money, and it's almost enough to lose my pants pocket!"

This proprietress is quite funny when she speaks. But she started to count my accounts with her fingers.

"Look at my small shop, I don't usually have a lot of people. You all have a TV in each room and you can take a shower. You can also turn on the air conditioner every day.

But the cost of air conditioning and electricity is expensive now. The air conditioner in a room costs more than 20 yuan a day from morning to night. In addition to the water bill, there is also free toothpaste, toothbrush, and disposable household items.

There was no cleaning in the small hotel, and I was busy alone. So many sheets have to be washed every day, and they have to be cleaned. Really, the amount of money I earn every month is completely disproportionate to what I give!

Now I look at my turnover last month was more than 7,000 yuan, in fact, I paid 1,500 yuan for electricity last month. Coupled with a lot of messes, I really can't earn as much as those factory girls! But the work is much more tiring than those factory girls!"

The proprietress complained as she gently rubbed her temples with her hands.

"This business really can't go on! Why is it so hard to make money now! The monthly food bill is more than 2,000 yuan, and the current money is really unspent!"

I half-smiled and chatted with the proprietress about it.

"There are just the two of you in the family, just you and your son, and the monthly food cost will cost more than 2,000! Don't say it, you two must have a good meal!

If the inn really can't be opened, you can redeem it! If you want me to say that you are alone with a child, it is better to find a light job. Some factories recruit clerks, although the monthly salary is not high, but after all, the work is easy, and it is better than you are tired of watching the store alone!"

When the proprietress heard my words, she immediately shook her head.

"My small inn has been doing bad business! Where can I redeem it? I have to do it myself, otherwise the monthly utility bill will be more expensive, and it will be a burden."

I propose again.

"I see that there are a lot of young couples renting houses outside the factory, and your small hotel has at least a dozen houses. You can rent it out cheaper!

Then you go into the factory yourself to find an easy

Some work, with a son. Isn't there food and accommodation in the factory! In short, you don't have to be as tired as you are now!"

When the hostess heard my words, she squinted her eyes and was still a little hesitant.

"No! I don't want to rent a house. After so many years of small inn, I have survived it alone, and I can still hold on!"

Since people don't want to, I don't make any more suggestions.

I looked up and asked the hostess.

"Have you been running a hotel here for many years?"

The proprietress said.

"I've been with my husband since I was 19 years old! He's a local, and the inn was originally my husband's.

At that time, I also came to work in the factory from other places and became a factory girl. Later, my husband left the factory with a few words of rhetoric and went to the hotel for free to help as a cleaner.

Later, when we had a child, the two of us got married, but the first child was not kept. And then a few years later, I gave birth to my son!"

The proprietress squinted her eyes as she reminisced about the past. Her expression was a little sad, recalling the past. There wasn't much happiness on the boss's face, but instead it was all haggard.

I asked the hostess.

"What about you man? Is he sick or ......?"

In fact, I heard Sun Hanhan say yesterday that the boss's man seems to have run away with a factory girl. But I deliberately didn't say it in that direction, I was afraid that the proprietress would think that I was such a big man and gossip.

The hostess shook her head and told me the truth.

"No, he's not sick, he's fine. He ran away with a little girl in the factory a year ago.

The inn was also abandoned, and neither did the children. We're the only ones left to depend on each other!"

As soon as I said that the husband of the proprietress had also run away without a trace, I suddenly remembered that it was a sunny day.

I asked the proprietress directly.

"That's right, hostess. Have you heard of any missing female employees in a nearby factory recently?

Is there a female employee in a nearby factory who has gone missing in the last six months or so?"

The proprietress thought about it for a long time. There was another shake of the head.

"The last six months! I haven't heard of anything happening in the nearby factory.

There are a lot of factories nearby, and there is a lot of gossip every day. But most of them find out that there is a little bit of wind and grass, and those rumors and rumors cannot be contained, and it will not take a few days to spread to everyone in the vicinity.

But there are female employees who have disappeared inexplicably, and I really haven't heard such news in the past six months!

If only a few years ago, there would have been a few such incidents!"

"A few years ago?" I furrowed my brow slightly.

"What happened a few years ago? Is there a female employee who has gone missing?"