Nightmare wake up

Chapter 75 Investigation
In this bourgeois-dominated world, groups of workers are only objects deprived of surplus value.

Because of the poor law and order, the Public Security Department recruited temporary security guards in this area. Almost every street is patrolled by temporary security guards wearing brown and yellow shabby uniforms.

Wearing a black windbreaker through the narrow and closed streets, it immediately attracted the attention of many people, and occasionally I could feel a malicious look.

Feeling like a prey being watched, Maggie touched the pistol on his waist with his left hand in the pocket of his windbreaker, which made him feel more at ease.

This vigilant mentality is estimated to be most people's impression of the Southern District, which is dangerous, dirty, full of violence and crime...

After passing through several streets, Mo Qi finally found the sign "No. 839 Shidong Lane".

This is an old-fashioned red brick house with a small yard built with stones in front, and a lot of vegetables are planted. In this low building in the southern district, it is already quite good living conditions.

Next to the house is a row of typical simple iron houses. The difference is that each small iron house has a red lantern. Even in the daytime, the red light from the iron house can still be seen. , as well as a group of disheveled but heavily make-up women.

Seeing that the unpredictable stopped, the women in the tin room surrounded them, rushing to negotiate the price as if they were snatching food:
"50 copper dollars, do you want to..."

"40 copper yuan, quality assurance."

"Play whatever you want, 60 copper dollars."

"My side, there is free tea... 45 copper yuan."

... This kind of human history, no, the oldest business in the history of the ironborn, also exists in the Commonwealth, especially in the poor southern district.

In this regard, Mo Wei is a bit of a clean freak... He used to call himself a "literati" as a writer on the street. Since he is a "literary", his basic ethics cannot be lost.

What I don't understand is that most of these women are very young. It's not difficult to find a job and make a living in a place where there are many handicraft workshops in the southern district. Why do you choose to do this...

"I'm looking for someone..." Mo Qi waved his hand and walked towards the red brick house.

The women behind them are seldom able to draw guests like Maggie, so they naturally clung to the back and refused to leave, but they did not continue to entangle them, crowding outside the red brick house and waiting...

Knocking on the door, a woman's voice came from inside: "Come on."

Immediately afterwards, there was a series of footsteps, and Unexpectedly heard the bolt of the wooden door being pulled from the inside, and the door opened.

A Tang Dynasty woman wearing a coarse cloth and flower jacket, not pretty, but very clean.

"Who are you?" The woman looked at the unpredictable vigilantly.

"Are you Zheng Anbai's ex-wife Wang Cui?" Mo Qi stretched out his hand and took out the work permit of the Supervision Office: "I want to ask you about the situation."

"Officer..." Looking at the work permit in Mo Qi's hand, Wang Cui was relieved. She couldn't tell the difference between the Supervision Department and the Public Security Department.

Just because she lived in a place like the Southern District, Wang Cui kept a certain level of vigilance against everyone. After checking that there was no one behind Mo Wei, she hesitated and said:

"Come in and sit down, police officer."

Follow the woman into the house, this is a small two brick house, a living room and a bedroom, although the furniture is not new, but it is complete, the whole room is clean.

There is also a small black and white photo hanging on the wall. Zheng Anbai and Wang Cui are leaning against each other, but they are much younger.

"I want to know about Zheng Anbai." Mo Qi asked.

"Brother Ang?" Wang Cui thought it was a routine inspection by the Public Security Bureau, but she didn't expect that the other party was here to ask her ex-husband, and a hint of anxiety appeared on her face:
"What happened to Ange? Did something happen to Ange?"

Moqi was surprised by this, looked at the anxiety in the woman's pupils and asked, "You divorced him, are you still worried about him?"

"Of course..." Wang Cui's face flushed: "One day husband and wife a hundred days... Besides, Ange and I grew up together since childhood."

"Did something happen to Brother An?" After she finished speaking, she hurriedly asked again.

Seeing that the anxiety on the woman's face was real, Mo Xie paused, not mentioning the fact that Zheng Anbai had been killed: "I'm just investigating him on a routine basis."

Only then did the woman feel relieved, and said to Mo Wei, "I'll go get you a glass of water."

Mo Qi just wanted to say no, when Wang Cui got up, took out a white porcelain cup from the cook, checked that it was not dirty, and poured a glass of white water.

"What do you want to know?" Wang Cui pushed the quilt to the table.

"Tell me about Zheng Anbai...Why did you divorce?" Mo Qi suddenly became interested in this question.

Although I only said a few words to Wang Cui in front of me, I can see from the environment at home that she should be a qualified wife...

At least, in his own eyes.

Asked about this, Wang Cui's eyes turned red, and she sat upright, as if caught in some kind of memory:
"I'm afraid I have to start from the beginning..."

"My brother and I are from the countryside of Hot Spring City, and we grew up together..."

"When I was young, he always took me to play around... Brother An has been smart since he was a child. He was No. 1 in every public school exam. He told me when he was in middle school that he would marry me as a wife when he grows up..."

Wang Cui pursed her temples and said:

"Later... He went to college, majoring in doctoring. He said he came to marry me after college, and asked me to wait in the village. Don't worry about getting married..."

"I just waited, waited, those years were really hard... I counted the days and looked forward to it every day."

Unfathomably uncomfortable, Mo Wei reached out and took a sip from the teacup.

"Later, Ange really came back. He is already a doctor at the Hot Spring City Hospital. We are together..." Wang Cui's face was full of happiness in his memories:

"So, we moved here and lived together;"

"Brother Ang goes to the hospital to work every day. I know he is very tired. He has to see a lot of people every day. I do some needlework at home and prepare meals for him every day..."

"Although the environment here is not good, we are much better than those workers outside who can't get enough to eat. After a few years, we bought this house. Although it is not rich, we live a comfortable life."

Mo Wei wanted to wave her hand to interrupt her story and let her cut to the subject directly, but seeing the happiness in Wang Cui's eyes, she couldn't bear it...

"Unfortunately, we don't have any children, and we haven't had any... Brother An is a doctor, and he said that we might not have a baby in our life."

"Brother Ang said he doesn't care, I know he does, but he bears not to tell me... I'm afraid I'll be uncomfortable!"

"It's okay to go on like this... I thought we would go on like this forever."

"Who knows that later, about half a year ago, Ange suddenly changed..."

Wang Cui took a long breath and looked up at the black and white photo of the two on the wall.

Moqi realized that this time point was the approximate time for Zheng Anbai to awaken his contract ability, and it had some connection with what he learned;
After thinking for a while, he asked:
"Did he become rich?"

"How do you know?" Wang Cui asked in surprise, but tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes:

"It's said that men become bad when they have money. I didn't expect such a thing to happen to me."

Wang Cui touched a handful of tears and said with a weeping voice:

"I don't know why he has so much money all of a sudden, maybe it's because he knew someone, and he hangs out with that person every day. That person doesn't look like a good person at first glance. I've told Ange many times, Tell him not to make friends with that kind of nonsense, but Ange won't listen, saying that I know what a woman does..."

"Later, he didn't come back at night..."

"One day, I was guarding outside his hospital for a whole day, followed him secretly, and saw him get into that person's car after get off work, and went to the nightclub together..."

"When he got home, I asked him why he didn't want me. I asked him if there was someone outside, why didn't he live a good life..."

"He said yes, he said he was in love with a singer."

Speaking of which, Wang Cui's eyes were already red and swollen, and she felt sadness from the bottom of her heart:

"I said you can marry her back. I will treat him as a sister, and I won't make her feel like a concubine. I thought it was Brother An who wanted a child. Of course I would agree. I also want a child. child…"

"He said let's get a divorce, he doesn't want me anymore..."

"Then he left, and then he only came back and asked me to sign an agreement."

Mo Qi heard a bizarre story, but it was indescribable.

Originally, he had no feelings for Zheng Anbai's corpse. He originally speculated that Zheng Anbai should have been coerced by voodoo or Yuan Ming to commit the crime together, and he had a little sympathy in his heart;
Only at this time, it has disappeared.

"Then you're still here..." Mo Wei pursed his lips and gestured to the photos on the wall with his eyes;
...He originally wanted to ask why you were still thinking about him. When you asked about Zheng Anbai just now, you were obviously still worried about him.

Wang Cui wiped away another tear:
"I'm waiting for him here!"

"Ange will understand one day. He is so smart... He will know that he and I grew up together. We are inseparable!"

"I wait here every day, clean up the house, wait for him to understand, and wait for him to come home!"

"He left me the house, which means he'll be back sooner or later..."

There was a trace of determination in Wang Cui's eyes, a trace of miserable tragic and solemnity.

Mo Qi let out a long sigh, he felt a little angry, a little sympathetic, but not pity...

He tried his best to keep his face calm and stood up slowly:
"That's all I want to know."

Wang Cui also stood up slowly with him, and laughed with tears in her eyes:

"I'm sorry, officer, I can't help crying when I talk about Ang."

"It's okay..." Mo Qi waved his hand.

When he walked to the door, Mo Wei asked again, "What's the name of the person you know who doesn't look like a good person?"

"And that singer? Which nightclub is it from?"

"His friend is named Ding Sanxi, from Tang Dynasty. The singer's name is Bai Mudan, and she lives in a nightclub called Xinglong." Wang Cui sent Moqi out and said after recalling it.

After memorizing the name, Mo Qi turned to look at Wang Cui, hesitated for a moment, and asked:

"If Zheng Anbai doesn't come back, what will you do?"

Wang Cui smiled sadly, but said nothing.

Alas...with a long sigh in his heart, he walked out of the door and heard the door bolt behind him being re-inserted.

he feels very sick;
Some people already have the most sincere things in this world, but they don't know how to cherish them...

I originally thought that Zheng Anbai's change was due to his contractual ability;

However, at this moment, Mo Wei suddenly felt that the original sin was not contractual ability, nor money, but had always been something in his heart.

(End of this chapter)