This middle-aged man's name is Lin Yude, not a native of Yangzhou, but a butcher from a small county town in Nanjing to do business, driving a small truck back and forth between Nanjing and Yangzhou for a long time, selling raw duck meat and duck blood.

Those who have stayed in Nanjing know that Nanjing people love to eat duck, what roast duck plate duck salt water duck, duck gizzard duck heart duck four pieces, duck liver shreds, duck blood vermicelli soup, in short, it is dipped in duck, Nanjing people do not like to eat, so Nanjing's duck is better than other places, from Nanjing to the surrounding places to resell duck meat, it has become a good business to make money.

In those years, Lin Yude's business of reselling duck meat did well, firstly, he opened the duck meat market in Yangzhou, and secondly, he had his wife by his side to help him busy, and the life of the small couple was also enjoyable, and because there was a relatively large meat market near this small hotel, so every time they drove from Nanjing to transport goods, the two would choose to live in this small hotel, and the proprietress of this shop, that is, the arrogant and domineering fat old lady we met, became acquaintances.

This fat old lady's name is Yanfang, although she looks arrogant and domineering, but she is a kind person with a knife mouth and tofu heart, which is actually from the time when she was at the door just now, we can see a little bit, and we know that this boss lady is not bad in nature.

At that time, Lin Yude and his family often came to live in the hotel, and they had a good relationship with the proprietress Yanfang, and it was not easy to see them travel long distances to do business, so when the two came to live in the hotel, the proprietress often gave discounts to the two of them, at that time, the relationship between the two was still very pure, not to mention the wrong socks of the other party, in order to avoid suspicion, they didn't even dare to say much when they met in private.

But about a year ago, one day, Lin Yude and his family had an accident.

In the evening, the end of the new year is approaching, and in order to thank the vendors for their continuous care, Lin Yude decided to set up two tables of wine in the restaurant in the evening to feast on these 'old customers', so as not to lose customers in the coming year.

Lin Yude's wife doesn't know how to drink, and she has nothing to do after eating in the restaurant with her, seeing that Lin Yude is still busy pushing glasses and changing lamps with the guests, it is estimated that the wine will not be dispersed in a short time, so when the clock came at eight o'clock, she said hello to Lin Yude and said that she would go back to the hotel to rest first.

Lin Yude thought about it, anyway, the restaurant was not far from the hotel, so whenever it happened, after answering, his wife left the restaurant on foot with her bag.

After his wife left, Lin Yude and the guests continued to drink, and when it was nine o'clock, the restaurant waiter ran into the private room to deliver the letter, saying that Lin Yude's wife called from Yanfang's small hotel and asked Lin Yude to pick it up.

Hearing this, Lin Yude followed the waiter out of the private room and went to the front desk to answer the phone. ”

Lin Yude was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked his wife what happened.

I only heard my wife nervously reply on the phone: "When I came back from the restaurant just now, it seemed that someone had been following me, but when I turned back, I couldn't see anything, and I heard a strange sound behind me, and I followed it all the way to ......the hotel from the time I left the hotel."

Hearing this, Lin Yude hurriedly asked, "Did you hear it wrong?" It's been too hard to unload the meat market these days, and you're tired, right? ”

I heard my wife say again: "At first, I thought I heard it wrong, but the more I heard it all the way back, the more clearly I listened, I just accidentally glanced out of the window in the house, which startled me, and it seemed that someone was staring at our house behind the curtain cracks......"

When his wife said this, Lin Yude was also startled, but after thinking about it, his wife usually never allowed herself to drink, even when she was socializing, she tried her best to persuade herself to drink less, so the two of them had a lot of quarrels before, and now that she was feasting guests and drinking again, her wife should not be deliberately deceiving herself, right?

What's more, let's not say that Yangzhou's night security has always been good, let's just say that if someone really follows his wife all the way, what is the purpose? Isn't the wife already safely at the hotel, there is the proprietress Yanfang in the hotel to take care of, and there are several guys and so many tenants, what can happen?

Thinking of this, Lin Yude didn't take it seriously, comforted his wife and said that she should wait for a while, and she would go back in a while, if her wife was really scared, she would call the proprietress Yanfang to stay with her for a while, and after a few perfunctory words, Lin Yude hung up the phone directly, and staggered back to the private room with the strength of the wine and continued to drink......

Lin Yude drank from more than nine o'clock to more than ten o'clock, seeing that it was almost half past ten, and the banquet was still not dispersed, but the waiter of the restaurant ran into the private room in a panic and told Lin Yude that his wife called from the hotel again, but as soon as he said two words, there was no sound on the phone, and the waiter 'hey, hey, hey' for a long time, and he didn't reply on the phone, so he hung up the phone......

Lin Yude asked the waiter what his wife said on the phone......

The waiter thought for a while and replied: "As soon as I answered the phone, your daughter-in-law immediately shouted, 'Let Lin Yude come back', she shouted and startled me, and didn't wait for me to reply, and then shouted 'The big money skewers are going to eat me', and there was no movement after this sentence......

After the waiter said this, Lin Yude not only did not panic, but laughed out loud and told the waiter: "Don't pay attention to her, why did the big money skewers come out?" I haven't heard of money skewers that can eat people, eighty percent of these girls think I always drink here and don't go back, I'm mad, I think I'm going to be beaten up when I go back tonight......"

After Lin Yude said this, a group of guests at the wine table couldn't help laughing.

Lin Yude didn't take it seriously, and after taking away the waiter, he continued to drink with the guests, and this drink was drunk until eleven o'clock, and then the banquet dispersed, and the guests were sent away, and Lin Yude also walked back to the hotel leisurely.

But when I returned to the hotel and entered the room, I saw that my wife was no longer in the room.

The television in the room was on, the windows were wide open, and there was a basin of warm footwater on the floor, but the wife was nowhere to be found.

At that time, the small hotel was not as good as the big hotel, and the toilets were all outside, Lin Yude didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that his wife might have gone to relieve herself, or she went to chat with the proprietress Yanfang, so she lay down on the bed and fell asleep with the strength of the wine.

Lin Yude slept this time, and when he woke up again, it was already the second half of the night, he sat up in a daze and asked his wife for water to drink, how did he know that he shouted two sentences but did not get a response from his wife, Lin Yude woke up at this time, turned on the light and looked into the house, his wife had not come back yet, this time Lin Yude was in a hurry, and quickly went to the front desk to wake up Yanfang, who was also sleeping heavily, and only after a startled inquiry did he know that his wife had not talked to him at all the night before.

Lin Yude pondered, it can't be a pit, right? Although he also knew that this was nonsense, he still ran to the thatched house to check it, and sure enough, there was still no trace of his wife, Lin Yude became more and more panicked the more he pondered, and said in his heart Is it because of his own drinking, and he ran away from home in anger with himself? But this is Yangzhou, not her hometown Nanjing, where can she go?

Lin Yude slept anywhere, got dressed and began to look for his wife everywhere, and the proprietress Yanfang also took the guys to help find her, but she still couldn't find it everywhere, and her wife was like evaporating from the world.

That morning, Lin Yude went to the police station to report to the police, how did he know that his wife's whereabouts were still in the sea, the strangest thing is that if his wife ran away in anger, she couldn't bring a penny, but the wife's wallet in the hotel room and the jewelry she brought were the same; And if the wife was kidnapped by someone, why has no one called for ransom? Or maybe you just take all the valuable things in the room with you?