Abyss of ignorance

"When I was beaten, I seemed to hear someone humming." He Zhongwen said uncertainly.

"Are you sure it wasn't your own voice?" Yue Jianfeng couldn't help asking.

This question made He Zhongwen doubt himself even more, and muttered in a low voice: "It shouldn't be, didn't I buzz my head, and then I heard someone humming behind me, just the kind of very light, confused The sound of pain..."

Lin Xiaodong listened quietly, looked at He Zhongwen with sharp eyes, picked up the injury report on the bedside table, did not continue to ask this question, but asked: "Where did you hear the rumor about the drug money?" ?”

"Uh, everyone is spreading the word. Let me think about it. When was the earliest time, oh yes, I would buy a lottery ticket sometimes and listen to what the boss said." He Zhongwen remembered.

Lin Xiaodong smiled helplessly, buying lottery tickets and hunting treasures, it seems that this He Zhongwen is really a daydreamer, no wonder he is afraid of being scolded by his wife.

"Which lottery shop?" Lin Xiaodong continued to ask, but Yue Jianfeng couldn't understand why he was suddenly interested in this direction.

"It's near our unit, the one on Chenxi Road." He Zhongwen said.

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The cicadas that live in the canopy are chirping, which is very annoying.Yue Jianfeng wiped the sweat from his brow, looked at the colorful lottery shop at the door, and asked puzzledly: "Captain Lin, do you really believe the rumor that He Zhongwen said about the huge drug money? If so, wouldn't that Qian Yingjie know about it?" ?”

Lin Xiaodong didn't say a word, just walked in. It was past four o'clock in the afternoon, and Linzhou was far from off-duty time. The air conditioner in the store was not working well, and the boss was lying on the recliner behind the counter boredly, shaking a fan with one hand, and brushing with the other. The short video on the phone, giggling and giggling alone, did not notice anyone entering the store.

Lin Xiaodong called him twice before he came back to his senses, got up from the recliner, and looked at the two "righteous" people in front of him.

Most of the regular customers who patronize the lottery shop, but these two in front of them are obviously not.

"What do you want to play, 3D or scratch?" He asked in a familiar manner.

Lin Xiaodong and Yue Jianfeng looked at each other, obviously they didn't understand this.

"We are from the Criminal Police Brigade of Linzhou Public Security Bureau." This time it was Yue Jianfeng's turn to reveal his identity, "There is a case that requires you to cooperate with our investigation."

When the boss heard that, the relaxed state just now disappeared, he quickly put the fan on the recliner, and stammered, "Police, police? I'm doing my business, and I've been in business for 20 years. I didn't cause you any trouble..."

"Don't be nervous, we just understand the situation." Lin Xiaodong said and took out He Zhongwen's photo, "Do you know this person?"

"Ah, isn't this Brother Wen? What's wrong with him?" The boss blurted out after seeing it.

"It seems that He Zhongwen is a regular visitor here." Lin Xiaodong said, "He was attacked."

"Man, is he alright?" The boss was obviously surprised, "Brother Wen is quite honest and kind, who beat him?"

"We are still investigating this, but do you know where he was beaten?" Lin Xiaodong leaned on the counter with one hand, looked at the boss with raised eyebrows, and asked the boss flustered.

"This... I don't know..." He looked back and forth between Lin Xiaodong and Yue Jianfeng blankly.

"East Petroleum Market." When Lin Xiaodong said this, the boss obviously remembered something.

He froze for a moment, then slapped his forehead and said, "Brother Wen, he doesn't really believe it, does he?"

"Tell me, what did you talk to him about?" Lin Xiaodong asked.

The boss pursed his mouth: "It's just chatting, it's not a good thing. Didn't the East Petroleum Market say that someone took over the order recently? The whole Linzhou knows it. This... huh?" He suddenly realized something while talking, facing The eyes of the two people in front of me lit up, "You two should know best, didn't someone die there last year? Everyone said that there was something tricky in that place. They said everything. I also heard it from customers who patronized here, saying It was because Jiang Wanchao colluded with drug traffickers and hid a large sum of money there, but no one found it when he died, and said that the money was astronomical, let alone 1000 million!"

"Customer? Which customer did you hear from?" Lin Xiaodong continued to ask.

The boss scratched his head, twisted his face and said: "Comrade policeman, I don't remember this, don't look at my store at the moment, there is no one in it, come back later after work, there are quite a few people coming in and out every day, Sometimes I chat a few words, how can I remember who said it?"

"You remember what he said so clearly, but the person who said it can't remember it. Think about it again, otherwise..." Lin Xiaodong smirked.

"Okay, okay, let me think about it..." The boss hurriedly waved his hands, frowned and thought for a while, and finally said, "Hey? That's weird, I thought about a few old acquaintances, and it shouldn't be them That said, where did I hear that..."

Lin Xiaodong looked at him with the same look as when he was looking at He Zhongwen in the ward.

"Perhaps, not a regular customer?"

"Hiss...you said that, wait! I'll think about it right away." The boss's eyes swept from one corner of the store to the other, as if trying to help himself remember more things through the scene, "You're right , just a stranger, he just sat there." The boss pointed to a three-seater wooden sofa against the wall outside the counter as if waking up from a dream.

"A man, I have an impression, because it was raining that day, he was wearing a black sun hat, I said at the time that this man was strange, that's it, if you ask me specifically, I will I really can't remember."

Lin Xiaodong immediately became serious when he heard this: "Have you seen that person's appearance clearly?"

"Oh, I said I'm wearing a sun hat. I'm fine and I won't stare at people." The boss muttered, but maybe it was because he corresponded to a specific person, but he remembered something, "This person said so , It’s a little strange, this sofa is usually where the frequent guests would sit and chat. That person bought a scratch pad for the first time when he came here, and he mentioned some familiar ones, and chatted for a while. No wonder I thought it was an acquaintance at first."

"Did this person show up later?" The more Lin Xiaodong listened, the darker his face became.

The boss thought about it for a while, and shook his head blankly: "I really haven't seen it before..." After he finished answering Lin Xiaodong, he suddenly realized something, "No, Comrade Police, this, it can't be Brother Wen who beat him, right? I remember that Brother Wen wasn't there when that man came over."