Dahuang Town, outside Mingtai City, 8:30 p.m.
Wen Yang blew the cup noodles in his hand and complained: "brother, even if you don't have a salary, can you improve the food? At least we are a technical type of work, so you can eat instant noodles?"
"This place is too remote to enter the town. There is a convenience store three miles around. It's good to eat." Li Qing drank the noodle soup and frowned gently. "If you don't like to eat, you'll be hungry, or go out and eat the soil."
"Forget it, if you say so, we'll be treated with high standards." Wen Yang glanced out of the window and couldn't help but be surprised. "I didn't expect that Mingtai still has such a remote place."
Hu Meng, the bodyguard, came over and introduced with a grin: "there was a chemical plant not far from here. Later, it was shut down because of serious pollution. Although the land here was cheap, it had a bad reputation. The developers were afraid that the house could not be sold and were unwilling to come."
Li Qing drank the last mouthful of instant noodle soup and sipped: "this broken place is out of the range of Mingtai, isn't it? You didn't inform me in advance. I knew this was the case here. We all brought some food. It's almost nine o'clock. Living on a bowl of noodles, do you want to starve to death?"
Hu Meng feel shy as like as two peas, but his neck hurts. His mouth corners twitches. "Sorry, I'm the first time here, I didn't think I could speak it to anyone else."
He then raised his hand and pointed out to the window: "see the wasteland over there?"
"Nonsense." Wen Yang said unhappily, "who's special and not blind? You have something to say. Don't sell it."
Hu Meng didn't dare to provoke him. He honestly said, "I heard from my uncle that this place is particularly desolate. In the early years of public security chaos, those black car drivers pulled outsiders in the city and ran here. They killed and robbed, and then buried them on the spot."
Li Qing felt incredible: "true or false?"
"Hey, hey, I heard, but it's probably true, because my uncle worked in the police station. He said he had handled the case himself. Just because the influence was too bad, the case was suppressed and not announced to the public." Hu Meng said, "according to him, if you go to this place a few years further, you can see ghost fires all over the mountains and fields at night."
Li Qing looked out of the window. It was dark. There was only a thin light in the shanty town not far away. He felt that Hu Meng's words should have a lot of exaggeration, but they would never be groundless. The environment outside is really suitable for killing people and stealing goods.
Wen Yang threw the empty flour bucket into the garbage bag and sighed silently: "brother, the boy surnamed Zeng, how true or false is his speech? We've been squatting here for three or four hours. Don't suffer in vain."
Li Qing pursed his mouth and said, "I don't know. Let's be a living horse doctor now."
At about three o'clock this afternoon, Li Qing was sitting on the sofa watching TV with Qian Hanling when he suddenly received a call from Zeng Shiqi.
It's not exactly "sudden". After all, Li Qing has been waiting for his news.
Zeng Shiqi provided a very important clue. He claimed to get the news from a taxi driver. Last night, a young guest with a big bag got on the bus at Qianmen port.
The guest proposed to go to Dahuang town. The driver thought the place was remote and afraid of insecurity. But as soon as he refused, the guest pulled out a dagger and put its head on his neck.
The driver had no choice but to start the car. After driving the taxi to the destination, the guest paid to get off, opened the trunk, carried the big bag and swaggered into the town.
After this incident, the driver did not choose to alarm. Based on the principle that more is better than less, he concealed it silently. However, he and his brothers drank some wine in a small restaurant at noon the next day, but they still took it as a conversation after dinner and talked it out.
In the news provided by Zeng Shiqi, whether it is the place and time of getting on the bus, or the appearance and clothes of the guest, they are very close to the person li Qing is looking for.
After hanging up, Li Qing called Wen Yang and Hu Meng, drove to Dahuang Town, then parked outside the town and squatted until this time.
Li Qing is worried about Qian Liming's stability. He doesn't want to act early. But after arriving in Dahuang Town, he observed the surrounding environment and found that this place was really suitable for cold shooting.
There are many uncompleted residential buildings left by developers in the town, and the town is surrounded by flat wasteland, which is quite a situation that one man can't open. If you break in during the day, the other party can find it without effort.
Li Qing still doesn't know which force the other party is and can't afford to take this risk, so he can only wait until dark and dead of night to sneak into the town.
"It's almost time." Li Qing looked down at his watch and said faintly, "enough wine and food, let's start."
Wen Yang's small face jerked: "brother, don't be so high sounding about squeezing labor. Can you? I've eaten a bowl of instant noodles since noon. I've been holding it with water all the time. How can I be full?"
"Less nonsense." Li Qing opened the door and jumped down first.
He walked on the wide wasteland with weeds and walked towards the thin light opposite. It was dark all around. He really felt frightened.
Will Qian Liming be here?
Wen Yang and Hu Meng followed, and they could only hear rustling footsteps.
"Fierce son." Li Qing suddenly asked, "how much do you know about this town?"
Hu Meng said, "there are a lot of empty houses in the town. Most of them work in the city. There are not many people left. I guess that is some old people and children."
Li Qing suddenly gave a slight meal at his feet: "do you say... Is it possible..."
Wen Yang blinked in the dark: "big brother, what could it be?"
"Is it possible that we... Broke into the wolf's nest?"
Hu Meng's face suddenly changed: "what do you mean?"
"Big brother means..." Wen Yang raised his hand and patted him. "This may be the stronghold of some organization. It has existed for a long time."
"No?" Hu Meng's eyelids jumped violently and his face was extremely ugly. "What should I do? I'll call and call someone from the villa. If Mr. Li is right, it's up to the three of us? It's not delivered to the door and stepped on."
Wen Yang groaned angrily, "I want to step on you."
I wonder if he remembered the man he met on Xingfa island that night. Hu Meng trembled all over and his cheeks were blue.
It seemed as if in a moment he had found the fear of that night again.
"Those people under you don't work." Li Qing took out his mobile phone from his pocket and sent a text message. "If there's no trouble, let him go in vain."
"Brother, who is it?"
Li Qing didn't answer. Instead, he stared at the bodyguard Hu Meng in the dark.
"Meng Zi." he took a breath and asked, "you are still reluctant to elaborate on what happened last night. But I still have to ask, how did you escape?"
"Ah?"
Li Qing repeated: "how did you escape when you found that man was not Wen Yang?"
Hu replied tremblingly, "I... I just follow the method you gave me..."
Before his voice fell, Li Qing suddenly kicked him to the ground: "are you really there? I asked you to kneel and you knelt? Then I asked you, if you saw him today, would you still kneel and beg for mercy? Kneel as soon as you meet, kneel as soon as you meet. What's the use of you following us in? Sending knees to others?"
"I... I..." Hu Meng cried again. "Mr. Li, what should I do?"
Li Qing sneered: "how about changing the rules tonight and drawing a gun?"
Hu Meng nodded again and again, "OK, OK."
"Remember what you said." Li Qing raised his finger and pointed to him. "If you're still like that bear tonight, forget it. Pack up and go home tomorrow to coax your wife and children."
"I see, Mr. Li. Don't worry."
"HMM." Li Qing nodded his head, immediately waved his hand, turned and went on.
Before, I parked the car far away for fear of being found by the other party. It took three people more than ten minutes to walk from the car to the outside of Dahuang town.
The three sneaked in in the dark. Li Qing stood on the main road in the town and looked around. He didn't find any problem.
"Am I wrong?" he couldn't help thinking. "Maybe the guy just grabbed the old money and wanted to find a hiding place."
"Big brother." Wen Yang turned around and lowered his voice, "no..."
Before his voice fell, he suddenly turned his head together with Li Qing and looked at a family on the street.
There, the peeling paint door opened a narrow gap, and an eight or nine year old boy was shrinking at the door and looking straight at the three people in the street.
"Who are you?" he asked. "Who are you?"
Hu Meng heard the sound and jumped back like a conditioned reflex. When he saw that the other party was a young boy, he was relieved: "little rabbit, I'm scared to death."
He soon recovered his composure, but Li Qing and Wen Yang looked at each other and felt their hair stand upright.
"Fuck me." Li Qing took a half step aside, clenched his teeth and asked, "how long has he been standing there?"
"I don't know..." Wen Yang answered with his teeth clenched. His voice was like squeezing out of his teeth. "It must have been a while. I didn't find it before..."
Li Qing was silent for a few seconds and suddenly grinned: "we're looking for someone."
The little boy still had that kind of straight eyes and asked without blinking, "who are you looking for?"
Li Qing stared at him for a while and replied with a smile again: "have you seen a fat and fat uncle?"
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