"It's also possible!" Liao Mengfann shook her head, she looked exhausted, and rubbed her temples: "My head is a little messy, let me rest for a bit."
She leaned her head against the door and dozed off. Looking at her, I thought, She can't really be interested in me, can she? It was hard to guess what the woman was thinking. It was a little cold in the taxi, so I took off my jacket and put it on her.
The street lamps outside the window constantly flashed past. Inside the taxi, the driver turned on the radio and listened to the familiar radio. Accompanied by the special phone of the radio station, the host answered the phone. The caller was a twenty year old boy.
The young man said he had been in the city for five years and had been working in a fish pond at a salary of two thousand a month. The young lad's hometown was from the north, far away from Yongan city. He said a lot on the phone, but the one he said the most was still his hometown's parents.
Before the host hung up the phone, the young man said he wanted to order Long Fei's "work trip." He wanted his parents to hear it so they wouldn't worry. He said he was living a good life here.
After the host's blessing was over, the car began to play a melody.
He left his hometown and his parents. Carrying his luggage, he walked into the distance.
Do not take care of yourself in the heat and cold of winter, do it on your way to work.
Who told me to be a man, to be strong,
Don't disappoint your parents, if you want to do it, you have to do it...
The sound of the music also knocked on the door of my heart. I think I'm the same as thousands of other workers. 365 days, how many days can I spend with my dad? How many days had it been since his grandfather, who was resting in the sanatorium, had seen his children?
The buildings in the distance were faintly visible to me. What were the people who worked there thinking at the moment? The footprints on the reinforced concrete floor would one day be covered with high-grade floors and bright floor tiles. But the people who trod on the floor tiles might still be the city's passers-by. When the sun went down, they would probably all open their windows and look out into the distance in different directions.
When the music ended, I saw that the driver had also wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
The car slowly stopped. I woke Liao Mengfann up and paid for the car. The driver handed me the invoice. I asked him, "Master, aren't you a local as well?"
"Sigh!" The driver looked up at the sky and sighed. "I've been here for 30 years …"
Watching the driver drive off, Liao Mengfann passed my clothes to me. When I had it in my hand, I draped it over her shoulders. I told her not to catch a cold because it was too cold and you had just woken up. She nodded at him with a smile, but did not refuse.
What we were standing on was a wide, almost empty driveway that ran straight south. At the end of the driveway, I saw a huge stadium. The stadium was circular in shape, but the roof had been welded together like a petal with countless steel frames.
Surrounding Lotus Stadium was a large area of shanty towns. Inside the shanty towns, there were a few houses with dim lights. They should be the so-called nailed households.
On the west side of the shantytown, there were many buildings that were under construction. Some were high-rise, some were multi-storey. The pagodas stood there, revolving nonstop at this moment. A series of ear-piercing explosions could be heard from that direction. It was most likely the construction site that was continuously being poured with concrete for the entire night.
I dialed Brother Huang's number, and the call was quickly connected.
"Little Chuan, where are you?"
I told him where I was and he said, "Oh? We're not too far away from each other. I've been wandering around the area for the entire afternoon and found some clues. Wait a moment, Little Chen and I will drive there to pick you up. "
The night in Yongan City is a little cold, and with my clothes draped over Liao Mengfann's body, after a wave of coldness hit me, my body couldn't help but tremble. I somewhat regretted listening to Liao Mengfann's words and not eating any chili peppers.
After about ten minutes, Chen pulled up beside me. Liao Mengfann and I opened the doors on both sides and sat down. As the car doors closed, a wave of warmth came over me. I rubbed my hands together, only to see that little Chen was smiling back at me.
"The weather in Yongan has changed a lot recently. It rained a day before yesterday, and it also rained heavily last night. It's a little cold, but the weather forecast says it will be better the day after tomorrow."
I smiled at Little Chen and then asked Brother Huang, "Brother Huang, what did you find out?"
Brother Huang said: "That trash collector is actually not just here to collect trash. His occupation is actually here to pick up trash."
"Eh …" I was a little dizzy from listening to that and indicated Brother Huang to continue.
Brother Huang said, "This afternoon, after coming out from the aunty's place, I went to the surrounding construction site to inquire. After dozens of people heard my description, they all said that this person was called Li Da Zui, my real name is not clear. "
"Li Da Zui has been hiding around here for three years, picking up trash. Moreover, his mind isn't normal, he seems to have received some sort of stimulation."
I asked, "Have you found any traces of this Li Da Zu?" I had a bad feeling that this man had something to do with the case. However, how could a trash picker form a grudge with a university teacher? I can't figure it out.
The Brother Huang sighed, then said: "Sigh, Lee Chang Zai is wandering around, the workers do not think of him as a human, and no one is paying attention to him."
"Brother Huang, one more thing!" Liao Mengfann interrupted and asked: "You're the one who said that the old lady sold that ice shelf to Li Da Zang Jie, how big is it?"
Brother Huang said, "That auntie has opened a grocery store before. It's the type of ice box that lengthens and can put a person inside."
The Brother Huang then asked us what leads we had so far, and I told him everything we knew. At present, both the suspect and the murderer were surrounding the construction site.
I rolled down the window and looked out at the construction site. I noticed that the buildings were being built with the name of the construction company, most of them with the name of the provincial construction company. I had Chen drive the car over and park it outside a construction site.
There were a total of three buildings in the construction site's enclosure, two of which had been roofed, and the last one had just been dry-foundation, but it struck me as odd that there was an excavator smashing against the finished wall inside the building's foundation.
When we reached the entrance of the construction site, we were stopped by the old man who was watching the door. The grandpa was rather nice when he saw that we had come in a police car.
I asked the grandpa, "Grandpa, is this the provincial project department?"
"What?" The grandpa was rather deaf, so he could not hear what was being done clearly at the construction site.
I left little Chen at the door to chat with the old man, and the three of us went straight into the construction site.
As soon as I entered, I saw a scrawny foreman with a red hard hat directing the ditch diggers. Next to him stood a young man who looked to be seventeen or eighteen. The young man lowered his head. At this moment, he was being scolded by the foreman.
"Fuck you, do you know how much money you've lost?" Just twenty thousand dollars is f * cking a hole. Tell me, can you f * cking do it properly? "
That young man lowered his head and said, feeling wronged, "Uncle, I was wrong. I won't do it again." After the young man finished speaking, he began to cry.
"Sigh!" The foreman pointed at the young man's forehead and said, "Don't f * cking cry, why are men crying? Remember, study hard with your master. You've already worked for two floors, can't you pick a fight by yourself? "
The foreman lit up a cigarette and said, "Uncle, you have no other intentions. Your parents have entrusted you to me. If you act like this, how am I supposed to explain it to them?"
The foreman pushed the young man's shoulders and pointed to the hook in the hole. "Hurry up and watch it. You won't be sleeping tonight. After you finish the night shift, you'll have to f * * king take the money when the supervisor comes tomorrow."
The young man wiped away his tears and ran away. I walked towards the foreman and handed him a cigarette. "Hello, Master. I'm from the Public Security Bureau. I want to know more about the situation!" As I spoke, I handed the Police Certificate over to him.
After the foreman saw the Police Certificate, he let out a heavy sigh and led us into the office of the construction site. Although it was called an office, it was actually just a simple colored steel room with a bed inside. A wire hung from the head of the bed, and on the wire hung a few washed clothes.
The room was very simple and crude. A few leaders were sitting on the beds, smoking and playing poker. The foreman sat on the bed and pointed to the few broken stools on the bed. "The conditions are not good. Please take a seat. What's the matter?"
I pulled out a stool, sat down, and asked, "Are you four provincial buildings?"
"Huh?" The foreman did not quite understand.
I said, "I saw the company banners in your building. Are you not from there?"
"Ah, that's what you're talking about!" The foreman handed me a cigarette and lit it for me. "It's just a name," he said.
The foreman took a drag from his cigarette and said, "The construction site nearby is all dependent on the Qualifications of the provincial capital. Actually, the owners are all individuals."
"Personal?" Liao Mengfann asked: "Then can the quality be guaranteed?"
"Ha!" Everyone in the room was amused. The foreman said, "To be honest, what we do is better than a proper company. What do you want to ask?"
Hearing the foreman's tone of voice trying to avoid this topic, I smiled and said, "Have you built the Lotus Stadium at your construction site?"
"Lotus Stadium?" The foreman chuckled and said, "We thought about it. We don't have that kind of ability!"
The foreman said, "We are all foreign. That kind of big work is all contracted by the locals!"
"Oh?" I asked, "Do you know who contracted it?"
At this moment, the foreman's phone rang. However, he looked at the caller and hung up. He stood up and led me out of the colourful steel building, then pointed to the big high-rise building to the west and said: "That's a good place, the contractor is called Fu Dachun, and in Yongan city, he can be considered a big boss. He was the one who contracted the stadium."
I thanked him and left the site. As I was walking out of the door, I saw that Little Chen was talking on the phone in the car. When he saw us coming over, he quickly hung up the phone.
After getting on the car, I signaled Little Chen to pull us over to Fu Dachun's construction site. After making a turn, we ran onto a temporary concrete road. The cement road led directly to Fu Dachun's construction site, I thought, looks like this guy really knows how to act cool, fixing the cement road on the construction site, and smashing it down in the end, he's quite a spendthrift!
After I got off at the entrance to the construction site, I noticed that the construction site was much larger than before. There were at least 30 buildings being built inside the barricade. There were several luxury cars parked in front of the construction site and there was even a Bentley Muchan. Beside the Bentley, I saw a yellow beetle.
I snickered in my heart. It seems that the path of enemies is really narrow …