Tiandi Baiju

"Is your company still recruiting people?" Zhou Luoyang asked unwillingly, "I can serve tea and water for the bosses to iron their clothes."

In the past few days, Zhou Luoyang asked this sentence the most.

Du Jing was still analyzing his information, without raising his head, he said, "Your hobby has become ironing recently? How do I remember someone's dream is to open an antique shop?"

Zhou Luoyang cleanly separated the relationship: "What dream? I don't remember what dream I have. Ironing clothes and doing housework are my dreams."

Du Jing: "..."

Zhou Luoyang ironed Du Jing's suit and shirt, and said, "Winter in Wan City is too cold, so I have to buy you two thicker clothes. Can Boss Du accept long johns?"

Du Jing finally glanced at Zhou Luoyang: "Why do I feel that your attitude towards me seems to have changed slightly."

Zhou Luoyang was really sad, and replied: "Yes, I was a layman to begin with."

"Well, a monthly income of 40 is a lot," Du Jing said casually, "The previous one worked in this position for two years, achieved financial freedom, resigned and took his wife to play all over the world."

Zhou Luoyang said: "Indeed, there are more than 300 million after tax a year."

Zhou Luoyang's family used to have a business in the tens of millions, but the series of family declines brought about by his father's death have made his life very difficult now.But he is not a boy who has never seen money, he just expressed just the right amount of happiness for the improvement of his situation that Du Jing brought to him.

He didn't say to Du Jing, "Lend me the money and let me pay it back first", but he will always remember it.

"You didn't notice, the focus is on the second half of the sentence." Du Jing said again.

Since Du Jing moved to Zhou Luoyang's house, he finally got enough sleep. His whole body exudes a strong sense of masculinity. This family has been included in his territory.When he was living comfortably, he wouldn't worry too much, and always said something in front of Zhou Luoyang, and blurted it out without thinking.

"I'm going to work." Du Jing thought for a while at the door, and then said, "Change to rent a bigger elevator complex, and remember to take care of the store today."

Zhou Luoyang thought it was coming, and started to pull, this guy will definitely bring up the past one day, and he will never forget the punch he punched him when we met again.

"I would like to follow Mr. Du's orders." Zhou Luoyang replied politely.

But sometimes when he thought about it carefully, Zhou Luoyang didn't want Du Jing to engage in this dangerous job.

He curiously inquired about the next senior executive at the vice president level of Changyi. Du Jing didn't know much about that person. He only knew that the other person was also surnamed Zhou. He was a handsome 26-year-old man who cooked delicious food. The deliciousness comes from the fact that he occasionally cooks claypot rice for his colleagues at work when he is working overtime-there is a very beautiful little boyfriend at home.

In addition, the company will protect the information of all resigned employees. After all, there are too many people offended by this business.

Du Jing originally hoped to break the record of this "President Zhou" and become the youngest senior executive in Changyi's history, but he was three months late when he returned to China, so he was only a little short of that line.

Having said that, at the age of 27, it is not easy to become the deputy general director of the largest private detective organization in China and be directly responsible to the boss.

Of course Zhou Luoyang understood what Du Jing meant. There were too many variables in this business, so it was not a long-term solution.What he said earlier was all a joke, of course he understands that Du Jing's salary is in a sense paid for his life.He decided to open the store as soon as possible, so that Du Jing would have no worries.In this way, he can also choose to resign after two or three years, and the two will run the antique shop together.

Du Jing gave him a certificate issued by the company and a bank statement. Zhou Luoyang can use it to find a bank and use Du Jing's name as a guarantee loan to support his store opening expenses in the early stage, but he has not yet Going to do it.

This day, Zhou Luoyang found an intermediary, looked at several apartments, and sent photos to Du Jing. Du Jing's reply was [as long as you like it].And then he was obviously very busy, so he stopped replying to him.

Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, since he worked so hard to earn money for me, he didn't care about the fact that he couldn't return to work in seconds.

He took a fancy to a sixteenth-floor apartment with plenty of sunlight, a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, two bedrooms and two living rooms, and a large living room. He took photos and sent them to Le Yao. Le Yao's reply was: [Just as you like. 】

Zhou Luoyang was silent for a moment in front of the intermediary, the "you" in this sentence seemed a bit meaningful, but Le Yao quickly added: [What my brother likes is what I like. 】

So Zhou Luoyang settled down.

The next step is to consult the shop at the same agency.The agent brother was very happy. Two big orders came on the same day, and he took Zhou Luoyang to see the store.

In the past few years, the economy has been in recession, a large number of industries have been sluggish, a large number of shops have closed, and many have gone bankrupt.The rent was unexpectedly much cheaper than Zhou Luoyang imagined.

"I have illusions about shops," Zhou Luoyang said in his heart. This is really a surprise, "It's still a few years ago."

The intermediary replied with a smile: "The business has not been doing well in the past few years. The store has changed to three merchants. It is said that the economic environment is not good, but everyone still wants to do business, and it is still very popular."

The store faces the street, and there are ginkgo trees on both sides of the street. The fallen leaves in late autumn will be beautiful, and the embassy and high-end clubs are diagonally opposite.There is a tea art shop next to it, which sells some root carvings by the way.

Zhou Luoyang was very satisfied with this store. Although the rent was cheaper than expected, it was still a bit unbearable.The antique business has always been closed for three years, and it takes three years to open. The working capital is also very important. In addition, decoration and purchase will cost a lot of money.

In the afternoon, he thought about it seriously, and finally sent a message to Du Jing, even if he didn't reply, he still had to ask for his opinion.

"The rent issue, can you ask the landlord to be more lenient?" Zhou Luoyang said, "As you can see, my liquidity is indeed not sufficient. It is no problem to sign a two-year contract. I just hope that it will be settled quarterly."

Just as the agency boy was hesitating, a message came from Zhou Luoyang's cell phone.

【wait for me. 】Du Jing stood at the gate of the embassy and sent a message to Zhou Luoyang, 【I saw you, with the real estate agent. 】

Zhou Luoyang: "???"

Zhou Luoyang went to the side of the road and turned his head to see that Du Jing and two colleagues were leaving the embassy and crossing the road.

The afternoon sun in Wanshi shone on Du Jing. He turned around, nodded briefly to his colleagues, and everyone got into their cars and drove away.

This group of private detectives is really rich, and Zhou Luoyang also found out that they all drive luxury cars worth millions.

"Come out to work?" Zhou Luoyang asked, "Why did you come to the French embassy?"

Du Jing glanced at the agent, hummed casually, saw that Zhou Luoyang was watching his expression, knew what he was worried about, and said casually, "I've taken the medicine, there's nothing wrong with it."

The agency guy was a little scared when he saw Du Jing. Du Jing was too tall, with injuries on his face, so he was not easy to mess with.

"Our other shareholder," Zhou Luoyang explained to the intermediary, "We are in partnership."

The intermediary nodded hurriedly, seeing Du Jing coming out of the embassy diagonally opposite, and the people leading him treated him very politely and respectfully, obviously he had a certain social status.But in this line of work, I naturally know what to say and what not to say.

Du Jing pushed open the dusty glass door and went in. After a glance, there was so much dust inside that he sneezed.

Zhou Luoyang laughed out loud.

"Wait outside." Du Jing said to the intermediary again.

The intermediary unlocked the lock again and exited voluntarily.

Du Jing didn't say it in front of the agent, but said to Zhou Luoyang at this time: "It can save a lot of money for decoration."

"Yeah." Zhou Luoyang said.

"The location is good," Du Jing said again, "it's suitable for your customer group."

Zhou Luoyang hummed again, Du Jing looked around and said, "Have you asked the Feng Shui master?"

Zhou Luoyang laughed, and Du Jing looked at him suspiciously.

"It's so casual about the rented house at home," Zhou Luoyang said, "Why do you care so much when you see a shop?"

Du Jing simply said: "Whether you earn or lose is not important to me. I just hope that you can make money by opening a store."

Zhou Luoyang thought for a while and understood what Du Jing meant. He naturally didn't care how Zhou Luoyang spent his money, but if the store kept losing money, it would have a big impact on Zhou Luoyang's self-confidence.

"I think I can make money." Zhou Luoyang said.

He is different from a person who came up with a sudden idea and three friends pooled some money to invest together. He knows how to do antique business.He has been familiar with the entire industrial chain of the collectibles industry since he was a child, and has certain contacts. When he was still in junior high school, he would go back to Wan City every winter and summer vacation to help his grandfather manage the business, and attend some famous auctions.

It can be said that the exchange of collectibles and history is his major, while the field of mechanics and precision engineering he studied in college is instead a preparation for him to take over the family business in the future.

This is why it was still difficult for him to accept working in the company after returning to Wanshi. Zhou Luoyang always felt that as long as he opened the store, he would be able to support himself, Du Jing and Le Yao.

"I believe in you." Du Jing always believed what Zhou Luoyang said, even though they had lived together, he never felt any amazing business talent in Zhou Luoyang.

"Then this one." Du Jing finally made a decision.

"A name?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Chang'an," Du Jing said indifferently, "Chang'an clocks and antiques."

Zhou Luoyang hummed, Du Jing's WeChat name used to be "Chang'an".They went to Luoyang and Chang'an together in their sophomore year. Du Jing liked the ginkgo trees in Chang'an very much.

Zhou Luoyang went to bargain again, and the agent brother promised to try his best to communicate with the landlord.Zhou Luoyang turned to Du Jing and said, "Where are you going now?"

"Is dinner ready at home?" Du Jing asked, "I want to drink some stew."

Zhou Luoyang raised his eyebrows, the meaning was very clear, I ran outside for a day, what should I do?What's more, we are moving, and everything has been moved.

"Wait for Leyao to come back and start a business? Go back and cook it for you in the microwave. It's still early and you haven't had lunch?"

Du Jing replied: "I don't want to eat it, Wanshi is too dry in autumn."

Zhou Luoyang only stewed soup very well. The reason is very simple. He directly bought the prepared herbal soup from the Internet, put ribs, chicken and other meat into it and stewed it.

At home, Zhou Luoyang planned to finish the store, listed the books and expenses, and everything was in order.

Du Jing also found out, and looked at the items written in Zhou Luoyang's notebook with surprise, such as decoration materials, hiring workers, purchasing, transportation, commercial furniture and furnishings, precautions, and so on.

"You really know it?" Although Du Jing is not proficient in business, he can roughly tell.

"I'm a professional." Zhou Luoyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Tomorrow I have to go to various auction houses first, and ask acquaintances to help introduce some customers. There are not many things left by Grandpa that can be sold, so I have to buy them when they are empty."

Du Jing nodded and continued to do his work at the dining table.Zhou Luoyang noticed that he was quite irritable, not because of his illness, but because of his work.

But he didn't ask much, just got along as usual.In the end, Du Jing couldn't hold back anymore, got up and left the restaurant, and walked to the kitchen behind Zhou Luoyang.

"What are you doing?" Du Jing asked with a frown.

"I'll prepare lunch for you tomorrow." Zhou Luoyang scooped the newly cooked rice into the lunch box and laid it flat, put the stewed potatoes and braised pork on it, and tasted it, "It's so salty... Forget it, drink more after eating Get some water."

Du Jing: "..."

"I'm going to the embassy today." Du Jing said.

Finally couldn't help but speak.Zhou Luoyang thought to himself.He put the lunch box aside and began to try the soup.Du Jing stood behind him, watching his movements.

"Huh? And then?" Zhou Luoyang said, "Why do I feel like we are a couple."

Du Jing frowned slightly, and said, "Because of the serial murder case. Give me a taste."

Zhou Luoyang fed him some soup, Du Jing said, "That's it, let's eat, I'm hungry."

"Has the case escalated?" Zhou Luoyang asked.

Du Jing sat at the table and concentrated on drinking the soup, and finally replied: "No, it's just my intuition."

"Six people, three men and three women." Du Jing started to eat the pork ribs stewed in the soup, and Zhou Luoyang gave him a plate of soy sauce.

"In the past three months, they have been missing one after another," Du Jing mused, "It's been a long time."

"What does this have to do with the French embassy?" Zhou Luoyang thought of the Saudis who were tricked into the embassy and brutally mutilated.

Du Jing replied: "These six people all went to the same place before they disappeared. Guess where."

"Paris?" Zhou Luoyang said, "It's unlikely."

The disappearance of tourists in Paris will not go unreported in China, and it is impossible for the local Chinese embassy to ignore it.Suddenly, perhaps out of intuition, Zhou Luoyang mentioned a place.

"Cambodia?" Zhou Luoyang asked.

Cambodia and Vietnam were once French colonies, but Zhou Luoyang remembered that the recent news did not seem to report any missing cases of Chinese tourists in Southeast Asia.

"The geographical location is close," Du Jing said, "to Ho Chi Minh City."

"The six tourists disappeared, why didn't you report such a big thing?" Zhou Luoyang served the dishes, took the chopsticks, and started to eat.

"We didn't go together," Du Jing replied, "Sequentially, and without joining a tour group, it's not even considered independent travel."

Zhou Luoyang was very puzzled, and Du Jing said: "The missing persons are engaged in different industries. There are Internet celebrities and housewives. They have the same characteristics. They are all freelancers, drifting north, without a fixed unit, and do not live with their families. , rented a house alone, and refunded the rent to the landlord before disappearing."

Zhou Luoyang understood. In this city, there are nearly 600 million migrants from the third, fourth and fifth lines in the area between the fourth and sixth ring roads.

From the well-dressed nouveau riche to the blue-collar migrant workers, a large number of "Beijing drifters" strive to gain a place in the country's largest city, the political and cultural center, and he and Du Jing are just like them.

But not everyone who works hard can get what they want. Among the more than 500 million people, there are also a considerable proportion of so-called "freelancers". I am used to the big city, or for a little hope for the future, unwilling to admit defeat and give up, so I go back to my hometown to live.

These people are jokingly called "solitary and widowed house", just like the widowed old man, living alone, no one cares about, there are more than 40, unevenly distributed in all social strata, even if the future is bleak, they still stubbornly stay in the house. Wan City, paying the rent, looking for opportunities to do part-time jobs, accepting outsourced work, barely making ends meet.Just like lonely old people, the nature of their work determines that their environment is closed, and they don't have many friends. Even if they have a few friends, most of them are strangers who don't care about each other, and they are only slightly better than strangers.

The Internet is the only social media for widows and orphans. In addition, they have little contact with their relatives and friends. Day after day, year after year, they become more and more autistic, and they hardly contact anyone on weekdays until It was not discovered by accident until months after the disappearance.

Du Jing also said: "One of the men is an Internet celebrity on Douyin. He has a small number of fans, and his stage name is 'Xiao Wu'. It's normal for Douyin to stop updating. The popularity on the Internet, some people pay attention today, It will disappear tomorrow."

"Hmm..." Zhou Luoyang generally knows that the relationship on the Internet is really not strong, especially the netizens who have never met before. Today, everyone may have a good chat, but one day the netizens suddenly disappear, and most of them will never again. Go to ask, only when the other party focuses on returning to real life.

"But this little Wu has a fan," Du Jing said, "he has a little money, he is a second-generation rich man, maybe he has an unrequited love, he came to Wan City to find someone, and after finding out that he quit the lease, he came to us. "

Zhou Luoyang said, "A girl?"

"Male," Du Jing said, "this Internet celebrity has a lot of male fans."

Du Jing took out his phone and turned on his TikTok channel. Zhou Luoyang took a look. This man has a little muscle, and under the TikTok filter, his skin looks good. He has a bit of stubble, which is the typical temperament of a celebrity in the gay circle.

"So I entrusted it to your company." Zhou Luoyang said.

Du Jing said: "In the beginning... the second generation of the rich wanted to spend money to find out his whereabouts. I didn't care about this case, but I assigned it to Xiaoli, and accidentally discovered a more serious problem."

That day when Du Jing was called back to the company, it was Xiao Li who strangely connected the two when he compared some internal information and searched for keywords.

It was a shared clue forwarded by Interpol to Changyi. It was about a 26-year-old young man who went to Cambodia and disappeared for a long time without returning. Then he suddenly disappeared.

And this No. [-] missing person is Xiao Wu's fan.

Xiao Li just used "Xiao Wu" to search the clue library casually, but unexpectedly found an unexpected discovery.

At this time, he didn't realize that things might be going in another direction, but he just notified Du Jing in advance.

However, Du Jing has a natural keenness and intuition for this. After returning to the company, he accessed the database and started a detailed investigation from the missing persons overseas, and found six of them. connected together.

Every year, there are a large number of overseas missing persons in China, smuggling, suicide caused by gambling, drug overdose death, human trafficking, etc... Once a transnational case occurs, the process will inevitably become extremely complicated, requiring embassy negotiations, criminal police Calling the police is also a big problem.

As long as it is not self-inflicted, with China's current national strength, it will definitely not sit idly by.I am afraid that I will kill myself, if I go to Cambodia to gamble and be seized by the casino, or engage in suspected criminal activities, the embassy will not take care of this situation.

"So you suspect human trafficking?" Zhou Luoyang glanced at the profiles of the other people, "But why buy these people? But to be honest, they all look good."

"Maybe it's worse." Du Jing said, "We went to the French embassy to apply for a special visa today, but it was rejected. Maybe I should tell them the truth."

Zhou Luoyang pondered for a moment, and said, "I once saw a scam on the Internet called 'killing pigs'."

Du Jing said: "The principle may be similar."

Zhou Luoyang added: "If they were tricked into going overseas by a pig slaughterer, then there might be more than these six missing people."

"This is the key," Du Jing said, "The boss is applying for Interpol to provide more clues."

"Looking for so many people," Zhou Luoyang said, "If you find them all, there should be a lot of bonuses, right?"

Du Jing said: "You think too much. Most of the people who are cheated away just think that they don't have this relative at home. In Wan City, there is no lover, no relative relationship, only friends who nod and acquaintance, who would do it for you? Find them and pay them?"

Zhou Luoyang asked: "Then only the second generation of the rich will pay."

Du Jing: "Expanding the scope and looking for the connection between different cases will help to find key progress. If the east is not bright, the west is bright."

Zhou Luoyang: "How much did he pay you in order to find his male god?"

"At first I just thought the other party was avoiding them, and the reward was 100 million. After hearing that it was a disappearance case, the second generation of Xiao Fu asked for more money, and he promised to pay 1000 million." Du Jing said, "He said that Xiao Wu is his true love. .”