Abyss of ignorance

Chapter 12 Mattresses
The suburban fringe of Linzhou and the bustling city center are like two worlds.

The low rent has become a gathering place for floating population living in Linzhou.

Yue Jianfeng led people through the small streets where the "Tu He" music was blaring, and went door to door with Gao Hanyu's photos, and met Lin Xiaodong who was eating a hot dog.

Yue Jianfeng seemed somewhat helpless: "Boss, didn't I tell you not to come over?"

"I've just been idle recently, and I'm here to hang out, and you can take care of your work." Lin Xiaodong took a big bite of the hot dog sausage, and pointed with his finger: "Turn right ahead is the place you mentioned."

Yue Jianfeng sighed, and led the master towards the direction pointed by Lin Xiaodong.

After passing through a narrow road that can only accommodate one person, I finally arrived at a dark red five-story farm building. The top two floors were added later.

"Do you want to rent a house?" A bald middle-aged man greeted him, speaking with a strong accent from the suburbs of Linzhou.

"Police, have you seen this person?" Yue Jianfeng took out Gao Hanyu's photo.

The landlord took a look, then looked at Yue Jianfeng and the team members behind him, and replied with a "sincere" face: "I don't know this person."

Yue Jianfeng glanced at the obviously illegally built private house behind him, and said with a sullen face, "Have all the tenants here registered at the police station?"

When the landlord heard this, he immediately panicked: "Oh, boss, you see, our place may change to a wave of renters in a few days. Sometimes it is really too late to register. I assure you, it will be the next time."

Yue Jianfeng showed his ID: "You can save this to the police in the area. We are from the criminal police brigade. Do you remember the person in the photo now?"

"Looking at it this way, it does look familiar."

"I remembered?"

"He did rent my house here, but he doesn't live here often..." The landlord looked away.

"Take us to his room."

"This person pays the rent every time on an annual basis, which is very straightforward. Most of the people who come to me to rent a house have no money. Let alone paying for a year, I am grateful that I can pay the money on time every month. This person is the most Don't worry, I'll give you one year's money as soon as you come here, and it's all cash, and it's been rented for two years." The landlord took them upstairs with the keys, and said in a rambling manner.

The stairs leading to Gao Hanyu's room are iron stairs welded to the outer wall in the later stage, and there is a "clang, clang, clang" sound when stepped on.

"What happened to him?" the landlord asked tentatively, but he didn't look surprised, as if it wasn't the first time he had received the police.

"Dead." Yue Jianfeng replied bluntly.

"Ah, dead? I knew I'd put the house up." The landlord's brain circuit is also novel.

"Have you seen any suspicious people come to him?"

"Speaking of which, he has never brought anyone here, and no one has come to look for him. At that time, I told him that the stairs were a bit noisy. He also said that he wanted to make a lot of noise so that he would know that someone was coming up. It seems that he was hiding Who are you looking at! This person, I don’t think I’m right.” The landlord said, and he had already opened the anti-theft door with the key.

It was a windowless room, and there was no one there for a long time, and a musty smell came over my face.

Turn on the light, the furnishings in the room are extremely simple, a bed, a bedside table, and nothing else.

Yue Jianfeng looked around for a while: "Is this furniture furnished by you?"

"Hey hey, yes."

At this time, Lin Xiaodong's voice suddenly came from behind: "I can't, I think the size of this mattress doesn't match this bed." As he said this, he had already squeezed in front of the landlord, as if he had seen through his greed for petty gains.

Yue Jianfeng stared at Lin Xiaodong who was following him with wide eyes, but was embarrassed to say anything.

Lin Xiaodong looked at him with a smile: "Ahem, I'm just passing by to watch the excitement, you go ahead." He pointed to a corner of the mattress with his fingers, "That place feels very dirty."

"Aren't you the one who came to see the house just now? Now this house can be rented out to you, and the mattress will also be given to you." The landlord immediately started to sell Lin Xiaodong when he saw Lin Xiaodong.

When Yue Jianfeng heard it, he knew that Lin Xiaodong had investigated it without authorization in advance.

He frowned slightly, and couldn't tell what he was worried about, but he just vaguely felt that the recent Lin Xiaodong had changed from the captain he was familiar with.

Yue Jianfeng put on his gloves and walked to the edge of the mattress.This is a light pink cheap mattress, which looks quite old. The dirty place Lin Xiaodong pointed to has some faint finger prints, which should have been touched repeatedly, and the mattress was also dirty. Cover with zipper.He knelt down and carefully unzipped the mattress.

What I saw at first was just an ordinary sponge, but there was a gap in the middle of the sponge that was supposed to be one piece. It looked like someone had cut it open with a knife later.

Peel off the sponge layer, turn on the flashlight to take a photo, and there are hundreds of yuan in cash in random numbers, stacks of piles, at least a million.

This is where Gao Hanyu hid his cash.

Yue Jianfeng got up and said to the landlord, "You can't rent out this house recently."

The police car roared into the chaotic and noisy suburban town.

A cordon was put up outside the four-story red-brick farmhouse.

All kinds of outrageous rumors were spread among the crowd.

The sky is getting dark, and the investigation and evidence collection of the rental house is still going on.

The landlord who pestered Yue Jianfeng to ask when the house could be rented out just now, did not know when he calmed down.

Lin Xiaodong watched him keep looking at the crowd, his expression was not quite right, and he immediately leaned forward and asked, "What did you find?"

"The policeman said, the person who rented my house is dead?" the landlord murmured.

"Gao Hanyu is indeed dead, what do you want to say?" Lin Xiaodong became alert.

"The one in the striped jacket and the hat is him." The landlord hesitated, and was about to point out when Lin Xiaodong held down his hand.

He followed the landlord's line of sight, and sure enough, in the crowd, there was a person dressed as the landlord described. Amongst a group of whispering people, this person kept his head down and carried a bag, looking very suspicious.

Lin Xiaodong immediately went down the stairs and walked towards the crowd.

Soon, that person seemed to notice something, and ran out quickly.

"Stop!" Lin Xiaodong yelled, which alarmed Yue Jianfeng who was investigating upstairs.

"Boss, what are you going to do?" Yue Jianfeng only saw Lin Xiaodong's back disappearing into the night.

"That Gao Hanyu is back..." The landlord at the side turned pale and asked Yue Jianfeng, "You mean he's dead, right?"

At this moment, a gust of night wind blows, mixed with the smell of fireworks and vegetation on the outskirts of the city...

(End of this chapter)