blackstone code

Chapter 10 A Trick Every Day

After simply tidying up the room, Lynch had visitors. His house was an old four-story building facing the street, with a small bar on the first and second floors, and ordinary residents on the third and fourth floors.

Many hotels or taverns will have short-term rental rooms on the second floor. For three to five days, or a week, the shortest one-day temporary rental is accepted, which is more like a hotel or hotel.

This pattern was first discovered from those who were drunk, the tavern owner would give them a bed and then charge an extra, and soon most taverns started doing this, and no one complained about taking money from drunks .

Alcohol is a very special thing, it can make some people unconsciously thrown into a "high-end" room to sleep for a night and pay some extra money, and it can also make some people simple and straightforward, so every bar, pub , all need some room.

This is also destined that the place where Lynch currently lives will not be too remote, an unpopulated suburb, where people come and go, whether it is day or night, there will be many pedestrians passing by.

The police said that no witnesses were found, and they may be veteran criminals. In fact, it is impossible to have no witnesses. Whether it is other residents living on the second floor, the bartender behind the bar on the first floor, or a few sparse customers, it is impossible to know everything. .

But they would not say that, first of all, Lynch has no direct interest in them, and secondly, there is no need to keep silent because a person they do not know and are not related to was targeted by the Federal Tax Service.

But this also happened to make the police misunderstand something, and then have room for action.

He had just tidy up the messy room when someone came to the door, a few children selling newspapers.

The leather bags they were slung across were bulging, and everyone seemed to be struggling and flushed, partly from the heavy leather bag and partly from excitement.

The masthead promised a few of them, as long as the money is delivered and some details in the room are remembered, then they will be able to get an extra reward this month, no less than 50 yuan per person.

This amount of money is very important for children of their age. They will start to live independently in two or three years. Before that, they must save some savings to face the society. The opportunity is hard-won, although it is only 50 yuan.

Lynch glanced out the door before closing the door. The tavern he was in was right on the side of the main road. There was a corridor outside the door, and the road was just outside the corridor. most things.

There is nothing unusual, but his heart has been activated. With his years of experience in fighting against..., these children are very suspicious.

It is indeed these newsboys who have been dealing with him these days, but the mastheads will also come, but they do not enter the room, they are basically standing in the corridor outside.

They gave these children a lot of change, and naturally they had to keep an eye on them to keep them from running away. While protecting their property, they could also deter these children, but today there are no masts outside the corridor.

What does this mean?
Any anomalous phenomenon means that there is a deeper problem, there are two possibilities for the absence of the header:
The first possibility is that he does not want to have any direct relationship with himself here.

The second possibility is that he knew it was dangerous here, so even though he cared about the change and didn't show up at the scene, he had a way to ensure that his money would not go wrong.

This is a conclusion that can be reached without thinking, otherwise he will not let these newsboys come with a lot of change to exchange the whole money.

In addition to what happened to Lynch before, he already knew with a high probability what was going to happen next.

Not only is he not afraid, but there is a trace of excitement in his heart, a trace of eagerness to try!
"How much is there?" He took a small wooden box from one side, put it on the cart, and asked the newsboys to pour the money into it.

The children leaned forward and said, "It's 5000 yuan in total, sir."

"5000 yuan?" Lynch laughed. His eyes looked at the cowhide bags of several newsboys. "This is really an unexpected figure. I thought it would be less."

This amount of money is too much, enough to convict him directly, which also confirms his thoughts. Someone is setting up a game, and he is the player in the game.

If he waits for someone from the tax office or the Bureau of Investigation to rush in and he can't explain where the money came from and why it's in his room, he could face serious charges.

At that time, as long as the other party proposes a "deal", he will definitely not be able to escape the hands of those people, and he can only do what they ask, unless he wants to sit in prison.

He nodded noncommittally, and after the wooden box was filled with 5000 yuan coins, he pushed the cart into the room and said hello, "I'm going to the toilet, please wait for me for a while."

The 5000 yuan coin is very heavy. The five-cent coin is the lightest, weighing 25 grams, and the fifty-cent coin is the heaviest, weighing [-] grams. Adding ten and twenty-five cents, the average weight of each The average weight of a coin is just over four grams.

5000 yuan, one hundred... thirty pounds, each newspaper boy put more than 20 pounds of coins in his bag, no wonder their faces were a little redder than usual, just going up to the second floor made them feel obviously strenuous.

After entering the inner room, Lynch was not in a hurry to go out. He dragged the box full of money into the washroom, and found a pair of sturdy trousers from the freshly washed clothes in the cart.

Tighten the trousers on both sides, hold the coins and stuff them into the trousers, and when the box is lighter, hold it directly and pour it into it.

The two trouser legs were filled with coins. He tied his waist with a belt, pushed the two trouser legs apart and turned them into a stick-like shape, and stuffed them through the leak of the rudimentary toilet in the bathroom.

When this old building was built by people, there was no humanized elbow design.

Not to mention bent pipes, even parallel pipes will allow the feces upstairs to flow back directly, so its launching design is a straight main pipe, and then each floor has a downward sloping pipe directly connected to the main pipe, There is a one-way plate where the main pipe connects to the septic tank.

The advantage of this design is that there will be no backflow. Residents living on the ground floor do not need to watch the toilet spray feces in fear. The disadvantage is that sometimes the home will have a strange smell. If an exhaust fan is installed, there is no need to worry. These.

He hangs the soapbox on the head of the belt, a simple wooden box that makes sure that the head of the belt will float on the dung, and when you take it out at night, it will not jump into the septic tank. Do a little search.

He breathed a sigh of relief after a faint sinking sound and the sound of wood boards bouncing against the pipes.

Not long after, Lynch returned to the room with a few stacks of banknotes in his hands. Now these newsboys were a little impatient.

Their attention was completely focused on Lynch's hand, the stack of thick banknotes!
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he took a few newspapers in his hand, unfolded the banknotes rolled up with rubber bands, and handed them to different children. "You count it first, and then I will count it again."

It was his rule, and people were willing to do it, and this kind of point-to-point approach established an important channel of trust between Lynch and these traders.

The children were not happy with ordering. When the first child finished counting the ten-dollar bills in his hand, he handed the money to Lynch while talking about the numbers he had counted.

Lynch counted again in front of him, then put it directly into the newspaper, wrapped it in the newspaper, took out a rubber band from his pocket, tied the newspaper and handed it to the child, which is what he has been doing all the time. of.

In his original words, the most inconspicuous thing in the leather bags of the newsboys is the thing related to the newspaper, which can prevent them from being targeted by some people.

This statement was also recognized by the newsboys. Since then, as long as the money exceeds 50 yuan, Lynch will hand it to them in a newspaper bag, and it has become a habit they have adapted to.

After counting the sums of money, they wrapped them in newspapers and tied them with rubber bands. After sending the children away, Lynch immediately returned to the inner room and took out a lot of money from several pockets on his body.

He played a little trick and deducted a lot of the money that should have been given to those children.

This is actually a very simple trick. When counting money, use your ring finger to pick up a part of the banknotes around the middle finger, and then retract the middle finger and hold the palm down at the moment of counting the money, and that part of the money will be will be in the palm of your hand.

At this time, the children who finished counting the money focused on the stack of money that Lynch put on the newspaper, so that Lynch could easily put the hand that had detained part of the money back into his pocket—he Need to get a rubber band.

Then, after both the newsboy and Lynch count the money at the same time, they will be wrapped in newspapers and tied with rubber bands under the watchful eyes of the two. The whole process from Lynch's hands to when the money is out of people's sight, probably also Just under two seconds.

In addition, these children were relatively young, and Lynch was older. They didn't dare to offend Lynch's majesty and would not propose the idea of ​​counting again. Lynch got the money back smoothly.

If they had the courage to resist, they wouldn't be just a newsboy now.

About two to three thousand yuan, he didn't count. Since the other party used this method to frame him, then he can't be blamed for finding some compensation first.

Not long after he did everything and hid the money, the door of the room was suddenly kicked open...

(End of this chapter)