Chapter 14: A Stand-in Messenger Appears!
Qiao Fan didn't know that what he had done had caused Yu Qingwan and them to fall into a deep shock, and he had already withdrawn his 'Melancholy Blues' and walked to the door of the house where the dog dealer was.
I could smell the smell of meat coming from inside through the door, and I could tell from the rich smell of spices that it was dog meat.
It seemed that another dog had died under the butcher's knife, and Qiao Fan gritted his teeth, hoping that Ah He was still alive.
"Knock Knock"
Qiao Fan reached out and knocked on the door.
"It's coming!"
The voice of a big man came from inside the house.
It didn't take long for the roller shutter to be pulled up from the bottom up about half a meter high.
The dog dealer who appeared in the "Melancholy Blues" screening before squatted under the door, looked up at Qiao Fan, perhaps because it was an unfamiliar face, and asked with some confusion: "Young man, who are you looking for?" ”
Qiao Fan already had a way to deal with it.
He also knew the names of some of the people who had traded with the dog dealer last night in the previous replay, and basically he only did the business of acquaintances, so it was best to approach in the name of acquaintances.
"Ah, I'm here to buy goods, Lai Piguo introduced me."
Qiao Fan said very calmly, he was actually a little nervous in his heart, worried that his trick would be discovered, but he still pretended to be calm on the outside.
"Understood, Lai Piguo, then come in and talk about it."
When the dog dealer heard that it was an acquaintance's introduction, he immediately let go of some doubts and guards, lifted the roller shutter door completely, and let Qiao Fan in.
Qiao Fan walked into the door, it was dark inside, only a door not far away emitted a white light, although there was a translucent plastic curtain to cover it, but it couldn't hide the strong smell of blood coming from it, and even some blood stains could be seen on the yellowed plastic door curtain, which was very infiltrating.
There was also the sound of rustling and some whimpering in the dark room, and Qiao Fan smelled some unique smells from the dog, as well as the strong smell of dog excrement.
Sure enough, the dogs were all sent here and locked up.
After Qiao Fan entered, the dog dealer looked left and right at the door, and after confirming that there was no one around, he quickly pulled down the roller shutter door.
The dog dealer walked in the dark and asked, "Why don't you eat dog meat in Lai Piguo's shop?" Do you want to come to me to buy goods? ”
Qiao Fan said the excuse he had already thought of: "Hey, don't mention it, Lai Piguo's craftsmanship is not good, it is not to my taste, I heard that you have a lot of fresh meat here, so I plan to buy some and go back to make it myself." ”
"Smack"
The dog dealer skillfully touched the wall and turned on the light switch, and the dark room was instantly illuminated.
Qiao Fan's eyes were shaken by the sudden light, and he stretched out his hand to cover it, and it took a while to open his eyes and see his surroundings clearly.
I saw that this small room was full of large and small dog cages, and each dog cage was stuffed with several dogs. There are very many types of dogs, from earth dogs, wolf dogs, pet dogs, to some large dogs.
Some dogs are tied to their limbs and mouths, and can only make faint whimpering sounds of pain; Some dogs pass out in their cages.
Qiao Fan's gaze swept through the cages, looking for Ahe's figure, and his eyes were also full of horror.
He had expected that there might be quite a few dogs in the hands of the dog dealers, but he didn't expect so many!
Just Qiao Fan's rough glance at the dogs that he could see were at least thirty or forty above.
Seeing Qiao Fan's slightly shocked expression, the dog dealer triumphantly walked behind Qiao Fan and introduced:
"Then you are in the right place, in our city's dog meat market, I have the most dog categories, and they are guaranteed to be fresh, and they are now picked and killed! Come, choose at will, the price is also very affordable, according to different varieties, basically 8 to 20 yuan a catty, I will help you deal with it, add a 20 yuan processing fee. ”
"That's amazing." Qiao Fanpi smiled perfunctorily and flatteredly, and began to wander around the room, seemingly picking out a dog, but in fact he was still looking for Ahe's figure.
Qiao Fan saw that many dogs were still wearing clothes or collars, as well as various accessories. Obviously, at least most of the dogs were stolen.
The dog dealer saw Qiao Fan wandering around in front of the cages for a long time, but he didn't seem to have any intention of choosing, so he was puzzled, so he asked, "Why little brother, you don't like it?" ”
Saying that, the dog dealer walked up to Qiao Fan, took out a pack of cigarettes from the pocket of the butcher's apron on his body, and wanted to smoke a cigarette from it for Qiao Fan, but with some pain on his face, he directly handed the whole pack of cigarettes to Qiao Fan: "Come and smoke a cigarette." ”
"I don't smoke, thank you."
Qiao Fan looked down and noticed that the dog dealer's right hand was wrapped in gauze, and there were traces of blood spilling on the back of his hand, and he clearly remembered that the dog dealer's hand had not been injured last night during the screening, and it seemed that he had only been injured for a short time.
The dog dealer took himself a cigarette, then lit a lighter with his uninjured hand, took a puff and asked, "What dog are you looking for?" I'll help you find it, if I don't have it, I'll contact someone to help you buy it, and you can get it tomorrow. ”
There are too many cages and dogs here, and Qiao Fan also felt that it was indeed a bit time-consuming and laborious to find them, so he simply went straight to the point and asked, "Is there a virtuous pastor?" ”
"Demu?" The dog dealer smiled at his cigarette, turned and walked towards the bloody door, and said as he went, "Then you are a coincidence, come with me." ”
Qiao Fan suddenly had some bad premonitions in his heart.
"Demu, who just arrived yesterday afternoon, is very strong and fierce."
The dog dealer took a puff of his cigarette, then threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped on it again: "I said to feed him some food at noon today, but I was bitten by this dog thing, so I have to go for rabies vaccination in the afternoon." ”
Qiao Fan looked at the back of the door curtain in a daze, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense, cold sweat broke out on his forehead and back, and his breathing became short.
The dog dealer stood in front of the curtain, lifted the curtain and said, "So I slaughtered this dog, just killed, and made a portion of braised dog meat, come to you to taste, and then buy a few catties back after eating." ”
Qiao Fan's gaze looked inward along the opened door curtain, and he suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.
Inside the curtain is the slaughterhouse and kitchen.
On the stainless steel kitchen workbench facing the door, there is the corpse of a dog that has been plucked out of its hair and gutted, disemboweled, and has no head and hind legs.
The dog's head was placed on the side of the body, and Qiao Fan could see that there was a gap in the dog's left ear.
Behind the table, a pot of dog meat was boiling on the stove.
The anger in Qiao Fan's heart suddenly became overwhelming, his whole body trembled slightly, and he followed the dog dealer into the slaughterhouse.
The dog dealer walked straight to the pot of dog meat and said, "This is a leg stew, and I was going to eat it alone." ”
Saying that, the dog dealer picked up a pair of chopsticks, took a piece of dog meat from the pot and put it in his mouth, chewed a few bites and said, "I don't know how this dog practiced, the meat is very solid." ”
As if thoughtful, he put down his chopsticks and walked to the wall on the other side of the slaughterhouse.
There are many nails on this wall, and on the top of one wall hangs a lot of various pet accessories, such as collars, clothes, tags, head coverings, etc. Apparently they were all ornaments left behind by dogs that had died at the hands of dog dealers.
The dog dealer picked up a string of tags and said, "This dog seems to have a tag, I didn't pay attention when I slaughtered it, I'll take a look..."
The dog dealer took the tag and looked at it carefully, reading: "Ahe, second-class meritorious dog, numbered ......"
The dog dealer didn't read any further, his eyes widening as if he realized something.
Qiao Fan also walked to the edge of this wall, his eyes swept over, and then rested on a dirty, old collar on the side of the wall.
Qiao Fan's eyes widened, and after taking a few steps closer to see clearly, his fists were clenched, and his eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire.
Qiao Fan likes dogs very much, and when he was a child, he was inexplicably liked by small animals, and he had a good relationship with the dogs of various neighbors in the countryside.
One day in elementary school, when he came home from school, he met a stray Jinba dog on the way, and followed Qiao Fan all the way home. So Qiao Fan raised the stray dog, and made a collar with some rags and put it around the dog's neck, and wrote the word "Fan" on it with a marker pen to mark that this was his dog.
This dog accompanied Qiao Fan for several years, until one day in Qiao Fan's third year of junior high school, the dog left home to play and never came back, Qiao Fan was sad for a long time, thinking that he was not good to the dog, and the dog ran away from home.
Now after four or five years, Qiao Fan saw the familiar collar here, and after getting closer, he saw the word "Fan" whose traces had faded but could still be distinguished, and immediately understood that the dog that had accompanied him for several years had already died in the hands of the dog dealer and became someone else's meal.
Dog dealers, you damn it!
Qiao Fan roared in his heart, and he was about to summon a stand-in "Melancholy Blues" to teach the dog dealer a lesson to avenge his dog and Ahe.
"Boom-"
Without waiting for Qiao Fan to make any moves, he felt a pain in the back of his head, and his eyes were dark, Qiao Fan fell to the ground, covered the back of his head and looked back.
I saw that the dog dealer was standing behind him with a solid wooden stick, with a grim face.
"You're here to investigate this meritorious dog, and you're almost on your way."
After speaking, he raised his stick and stabbed Qiao Fan, straight to Qiao Fan's abdomen.
"Melancholy Blues"!
Melancholy Blues appears and grabs the stick that the dog dealer stabbed at Qiao Fan.
"Huh?"
Seeing that the wooden stick was still more than ten centimeters away from Qiao Fan but couldn't poke it, the dog dealer was immediately shocked, let go of a hand, and then took off a walkie-talkie from his waist and shouted: "Son, come down quickly!" ”
With that, he threw the stick in his hand and hurriedly retreated to the edge of a staircase on the other side.
Qiao Fan stood up, "Melancholy Blues" held a stick and was beside Qiao Fan, looking at a stick next to Qiao Fan floating out of thin air.
"Da, da, da, da"
With the sound of crisp footsteps, a young man with dyed white hair and black short sleeves walked down the stairs with sleepy eyes, yawning and saying to the dog dealer at the bottom of the stairs: "What is Daddy, have you eaten?" ”
As if grasping a life-saving straw, the dog dealer pulled the young man in front of him, and then pointed at Qiao Fan and said, "Xiao Xuan, this person seems to be as weird as you!" ”
Xiao Xuan opened his hazy eyes and looked in Qiao Fan's direction, then he was stunned for a moment, and then rubbed his eyes again to see clearly, he was also shocked, and said in a lost voice: "'Melancholy Blues'?!" ”
When Qiao Fan heard this, his eyes widened, and his eyes focused on the young man known as Xiao Xuan.
The other party can even see his "melancholy blues"?!
The other party is also a stand-in messenger?!