fool.

After getting off work on Friday the next day, Lin She went to the airport before boarding a plane to Fangzhou.It was nearly nine o'clock when the plane landed, and he searched non-stop to Building 2, Happy Harbor, Dama Road. Taking advantage of someone pushing a battery car into the building, he followed in, climbed the stairs directly to the 5th floor, and knocked on the door of Room 502.The facilities in the community are a bit outdated. There are many small advertisements for water pipes and certificates posted on the walls and on the security doors of the residents. Some traces of red paint can be seen on the door frame of room 502.

Accompanied by a voice of "Who? Just put the takeaway at the door." The door opened, and there stood a 40-year-old man with thinning hair in a tank top, boxer shorts, thick-soled black-rimmed glasses, and plastic slippers. left and right men.The man narrowed his small eyes, scanned the empty left and right hands in front of Lin She, adjusted his glasses, and said, "Where's the takeaway? Was it knocked over on the road?"

Lin She brought a backpack in front of him, stuffed some change of clothes in it, and he was carrying the backpack on one shoulder at this moment.The eyes of the man in the room fell on the backpack. The man closed the door a little bit, stepped back a little, and his eyes became vigilant.

Lin Sheqian said with a smile, "Hi, I'm sorry, I'm looking for Meizhen." As he spoke, he stretched his neck and looked into the room.Unexpectedly, the man in the vest and glasses became more vigilant and said, "There is no such person." He was about to close the door.Lin She hurriedly blocked the anti-theft door with his feet, reached out and grabbed the door frame and said, "Hello, brother, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Meizhen's neighbor in Fangcun before. After she and her mother moved to Fangzhou, I I have also communicated with her for several years, but she suddenly lost contact when she was in high school, so I just came to Fangzhou on a business trip, so I wanted to come to this address to see her and see if she can live here."

After these words, the man's attitude and eyes became a little gentler, but he still said: "There is really no such person." He waved his hand, "She doesn't live here anymore."

At this time, a woman's voice came from behind the man.

"Who? What's wrong with the takeaway?" The woman asked, and the sound of footsteps with slippers approached.Lin She glanced over the man's shoulder, and saw a woman with a pregnant belly and wet bangs walking towards them.

The man turned his head and said to the woman: "It's not a food delivery, what are you doing, why don't you go back to your room and lie down."

The man said again, "I'm looking for Lian Meizhen."

Lin She asked, "Then you bought her house?"

Hearing this, the woman strode over, grabbed the man and was about to enter the house, and shouted anxiously: "She didn't live here half a year ago! This house wasn't hers in the first place! Now it's even a penny with her!" It doesn’t matter! Didn’t you say that the money has been paid back? Go to her uncle to collect debts! I only live in Building 5! 501! Don’t bother us!” The woman also said: “If you don’t leave, we will call the police! Do you know that this kind of private lending is illegal?? You are loan sharks! The state cracks down hard!" The woman kept complaining to the man, "I told you a long time ago that I would spend an extra [-] yuan to buy the right red flower set, you don't want it. ! It’s because I was greedy for such a cheap price!! I told you a long time ago!”

The man grabbed the woman's arm, with an impatient expression on his face, and said, "Okay! Go, go, go and sit in the living room! He is from Lian Meizhen's hometown! He is not here to collect debts! If you are really a debt collector, stand up!" Come over with a big belly and fight them hard??"

The woman was also very upset, she glanced at Lin She, pulled out her arms, twisted her body and walked away.The man pouted his chin in front of Lin She, and muttered: "Safflower is not an experiment in the school district room, okay, it's not that you want to buy it..."

Lin She smiled and apologized with the man: "I'm really sorry, I should find out before I come back, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He pointed to the corridor and said, "I'm bothering you two, I'll go find her right now Uncle will inquire again."

The man nodded and said, "Yes, yes, go find her uncle, Building 5, 501." The door was about to close.Lin Sheqian asked a little more: "What's the matter with her debt to usury? This house has been painted, right? Didn't the agent tell you before you bought the house? The agent is too dishonest, right? ?” He handed the man a cigarette.The man pointed outside, turned his head and said, "I'm going to take out the trash!" He walked out and closed the door.

In front of Lin She and the man were standing on the corridor smoking.The man said: "The manager didn't say anything, I really went to the manager to discuss the theory afterwards, so I dragged him to find Lao Lian, I said that Lao Lian seemed to be quite honest, he had more than one house, and several more houses. Why do you still owe loan sharks? And the owner owes loan sharks, why didn’t you tell us? We just moved in on the first day, and people lit firecrackers at the door in the middle of the night, and the door was painted red on the second day. I am worried died!"

"The broker shirks responsibility? That's not right, you can complain here, they are obliged to tell you about the owner's financial disputes or something?"

"Cough! For a long time, the one who owes money, the loan shark you are looking for, that is, the Lian Meizhen you are looking for is not the owner at all! This house has nothing to do with her! As for the loan shark, they know her address, how can they care so much Ah, just come to harass me, this house belongs to her uncle, and her uncle lent them to their mother and daughter to live in." The man took a puff of cigarette and said, "It is said that he gambled on the Internet and owed several million." The man chuckled and shook his head, "It's the first time I've heard of a woman who owed so much money for gambling, and also heard that the loan sharks chased her home several times, and her mother was so mad."

"Then you called the police? Didn't the usury come? They don't know that her uncle also lives in this community?"

"I know, it's also splashing paint and making trouble, but that was all half a year ago. I heard from Lao Lian that the money has been paid off."

"Her uncle sold the house to help her pay it back?"

"No, I don't know how to pay it back, and her uncle can't tell. The house is sold because his son is getting married, and he said he plans to buy a townhouse from us."

Listening in front of Lin She, after smoking the cigarette in his hand, he left the man and went to Building 5.When he arrived at the door of 501, he knocked on the door and heard someone approaching the door, but the door didn't open, as if someone was looking at him through the peephole on the door.Lin She held his hand in front of his mouth and said, "Hi Uncle Lian, I'm the reporter who contacted Meizhen before, interviewed her, and planned to write a story about the dangers of Internet gambling addiction. I'm from Yancheng. She and I are in Yancheng I know you, I haven't contacted Meizhen for a long time, she gave me your address before, saying that she is staying here temporarily, I have some follow-up..."

At this point, the door of 501 opened, a silver-haired man in gray pajamas lowered his head slightly, and softly motioned to Lin She: "Come in, come in and tell me something."

Lin She saluted respectfully and entered the house. While changing slippers at the door, he glanced at the two-story simple shoe rack at the entrance.The shelves were full of men's and women's shoes in plain styles and colours.He also looked into the house, only the dining room was lit, and the living room and corridor were dark.

The man led Lin She to sit down at the dining table and asked him, "Do you want tea?"

Lin She stood up hurriedly and said: "It's not busy, it's not busy, isn't Mei Zhen at home?" He looked around, the decoration of this house is extremely simple.

The man poured two glasses of boiled water and said, "It's been a long time since I contacted you. You said you met her in Yancheng?"

"Yes, hasn't she mentioned to you that she has been to Yancheng?"

The man sighed, with a tired expression on his face: "As soon as her mother died, she ran away. She was buried. She took her mother's bank card, and the death certificate ran away. The loan shark found me, what a mess..." The man shook his head. , "Then one day I received a call from her, asking me if I knew what her mother's old lover in Hong Kong was doing. How does your mother know anyone in Hong Kong? I asked her where she was, but she hung up the phone without saying anything. I also checked the number, and it was from a small local hotel. Not long after receiving the call, the loan shark I just stopped, anyway, I didn’t inquire too much, it’s best to stop, who doesn’t want to sleep peacefully.”

Lin Sheqian took out a pen and paper from his backpack, turned on the recording on his mobile phone, and said, "Mei Zhen told me that her hometown is in Fangcun. How could she think of moving to Fangzhou? It's quite far away."

The man said: "It's about it..." He began to sigh again, Lin She handed over cigarettes, but the man didn't take it, looked at the corridor, and said, "It's been a long time since I quit."

He touched the table, drank half a glass of water, and said, "Mei Zhen is also a poor child."

Lin She chimed in and said, "Her parents separated quite early, right?"

"Separate? She told you so."

"She didn't mention it directly, but from the lines, I heard that her parents divorced very early, and her mother took her by herself."

Holding the glass water glass, the man said, "Her dad..." He swallowed, "To put it bluntly, he's crazy."

"You mean he's mentally ill?"

"He's just a lunatic, a pure lunatic, and what he's doing is now a pyramid scheme, an evil..." The man bit his lip, and changed the subject, "What else can I do? Waiting to go to jail together?"

"Do you think it's because of the incomplete family in childhood, that caused Meizhen to have some psychological problems...and become addicted to gambling?"

The man slapped the table, and anger suddenly burst into his eyes. Lin Sheqian asked: "Or do you think there is another reason why such a young and beautiful girl gambles online all day and owes so much money?"

The man lowered his eyes, and said Shen Shen: "She was kidnapped by her father when she was eight years old."

Lin She was stunned.The man lowered his head to drink water, and pointed all over the sky: "After her father and her mother left, what kind of lecture tour did she do? Once she was going to Chongshi and passed Fangcun on the way. The father wanted to see the child, and the child wanted to see his father. The first time we met, we went to the zoo, went to the museum, and nothing happened. We said we would have lunch together that day. The child’s father was also in a hurry. He said he would send the child home at one o’clock after lunch. It was past two o'clock, and the child hadn't come back yet, so her mother was in a hurry and called me, I was in Fangzhou at the time, and I came here early to do business, and immediately bought a ticket to go home when I received the call."

"I'm an hour late, maybe it's a traffic jam?"

The man said: "My sister said that when she was leaving, she had a dispute with the child's father. Meizhen had stolen a classmate's wallet at school a while ago. My sister saw Meizhen's father and knew that he was still doing it. Lectures about cultivating the mind and breaking through the self are very angry, saying that you can't manage your own children well, and you still teach others how to cultivate themselves."

Lin She asked, "So...how did Mei Zhen come back?"

"There is Maple Leaf Town near Damin Mountain. The child was found there. He was very frightened. He was holding a handkerchief in his hand with a phone number written on it. It was the phone number of a grocery store near my sister's house. We met After giving birth to the child, she asked what happened to the child, but she couldn't explain clearly. She said that she was locked behind the car by her father, and she couldn't remember anything after that. Later, she went to the hospital for an examination. Some concussions caused memory confusion, and she was diagnosed later. Something claustrophobic."

"What about her father?"

"Missing." The man pinched his eyebrows.

"Missing?"

"No more news from him."

Lin She said: "Then do you know how Mei Zhen paid back the millions she owed? I asked her, sometimes she said she won the lottery, and sometimes someone helped her pay it back. Change the word every time."

The man was also very confused: "I'm wondering too, I think it's possible to win the lottery. The other day we went out to eat hot pot as a family, and we met a loan shark who always came to harass us in the store. What's his name is Dawei? Seeing him, he wanted to take a detour, but he pulled me and said that he wanted to treat me to dinner, saying that Xiao Zhen paid back all the money, and said that if there is a loan and repayment, it is a good business, and let us need money in the future Find him again."

Lin Sheqian snorted: "This usury is ridiculous. You just said that Mei Zhen took her mother's bank card or something. Could it be that she got a notarization of inheritance and found out that her mother's bank card actually has a lot of money? Are you still on?"

The man shook his head: "I know my sister's financial situation best. After Meizhen was kidnapped, she felt that Fangcun couldn't live anymore. At that time, I opened several foreign trade clothing stores in Fangzhou, and the business was good. I bought two houses, so I said, come here and help me. If you want to live, you can live in the same neighborhood as me. If there is anything, there is a brother and sister to take care of her. She is usually very frugal, but it is impossible to be so 30 Let her save 400 million yuan a year."

"400?"

"Yes, that Dawei said, Meizhen took the initiative to find them that day, and made an appointment to go out in our community. At the entrance of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on Xinxing Road, people stared at the money she took from the bank. The 400 million that was reserved in advance, Mentioned directly to them."

"Did she say anything to the loan shark?" Lin She asked, "You said just now that her father is missing. Could it be that she contacted her father? Now that her father is well-off, he paid for her, right?"

"Speaking of her father..." The man thought of something, got up and found a cell phone, put on his presbyopic glasses, looked at the cell phone as he walked back, and said, "We thought he was dead a long time ago. That day my cousin Send me a WeChat message, I'll look for it, it says I saw Mei Zhen's father, Lao Zhu, on TV..."

"Meizhen changed her mother's surname after something happened, right?"

"Yes, here," the man handed the phone in front of Lin She, "He said he was watching TV at home with his children, what TV station to watch to film a star's home, and he sent me a picture, asking me if the star's home is hung on the wall. Does the man in the group photo look like Lao Zhu."

The man said, pointing to a blurry photo of a TV screen taken with his phone.

"Then does it look like..." Lin She asked, looking at the program name on the lower right corner of the TV screen, "Come to my house today!"He knows the star in the photo, he is a Hong Kong martial arts star, who has been active in the mainland in recent years, his name is Jiang Mian.

The man smacked his lips: "I also specially asked my son to look it up on the Internet, and said that the person in the photo is a master, called Mr. Shanlin, born in the United States, and later went to Hong Kong to develop, how could it be an old man?" Zhu."

"Does it look like you?"

"Hey, there are too many similar people in the world. At this age, I think they look pretty much the same in the way they dress and tidy up."

Lin She smiled and drank some water.The man put down the phone and said, "That Dawei also said that Xiao Zhenxiang has changed into a different person, wearing a famous brand, and said that he will go to Hong Kong to develop." The man asked Lin Sheqian, "When did you meet in Yancheng? her?"

"Last month, Yancheng was close to the sea, and many yachts would go out to gamble on the high seas in the name of sea fishing. I was an undercover agent on a yacht looking for a few suitable interviewees, so I met her."

"Oh."

Lin She said, "Don't you want to ask her how she is doing?"

The man smiled and said, "We will move after a while, and the store will be sold to others. It just so happens that my son is planning to start a business, and we are also planning to change cities."

Lin Sheqian nodded and didn't ask any more questions.The man got up, and Lin Sheqian also got up, and the man sent him to the door. Before parting, he asked: "You interviewed many gamblers, right? Are there any of them who have given up gambling at all?"

Lin She said: "Change your phone number, car, whatever you can." He said, "I won't keep your contact information."

After leaving Happy Harbor, Lin She took a taxi to the airport. After washing up in the toilet at the airport, he boarded the plane to Hong Kong directly.He fell asleep on the plane, arrived in Hong Kong, took a taxi to Lishun Building, this is a high-rise apartment with a doorman, you need to swipe the key card to enter the door, Lin Sheqian walked around the neighborhood, found a small hotel and opened The room fell asleep.The next day, he got up early, and sat at the window before dawn, staring at the opposite Lishun Building. At 07:30 in the morning, some people dressed as office workers went out one after another, and Lin She hurriedly dressed and went out He walked through the door, mixed in the crowd and entered the building. He went to the mail room first, found the mailbox in room 26A, pressed the brim of his peaked cap, and turned his back to the surveillance camera in the corner. All the letters inside were taken out.There was only a supermarket flyer and a bill from Jieyun Home Service Company in the mailbox.

Lin She put the supermarket flyer back into the mailbox, and left the building with the bill.He found a tea restaurant opposite, chose a seat by the window, ordered a meal A, opened the bill and looked at it.According to the bill, 26A needs to pay a large commission for the "daily butler service" provided by Jieyun every month.When the meal was on the table, Lin She glanced at Li Shun who was opposite him again, and he sat down in the tea restaurant. After drinking the third cup of lemon tea, a white car with the words "Jieyun" on it stopped. After passing the entrance of Lishun Building, a uniformed cleaner got out of the car and entered the building.Lin She was busy buying the bill before running to the opposite side, sneaked into the building, went up to the 26th floor, and knocked on the door of Room 26A.A cleaning lady in her 40s opened the door and looked at him through the security door.Women are like Filipinos.

Lin She showed his police officer's ID and said, "Inland police, ask me something."

The cleaning lady swallowed and asked in Cantonese, "What's the matter?" She added, "I don't speak Mandarin."

"Where's the head of the household?"

"No one lives here..."

"No one lives here, what are you cleaning?" Lin Sheqian took out his mobile phone and pretended to look at it for a while, "We all understand clearly, the people from Jieyun, right, 26A is booked for a daily butler service, right?"

Cleaning turned around and said, "Wait a minute, I need to ask our supervisor, what's the matter with you?"

Lin She shook the anti-theft door: "Hey, have you seen this woman?"

He found Lian Meizhen's ID photo on his phone, and stuck his phone through the door.The cleaner glanced over, his face froze clearly, and said, "I haven't seen it before."

Lin Sheqian took out his ID again: "Auntie, sister, check it out, the police ID of the public security, you can call your supervisor, call to confirm, go and check, I have a colleague who assists in handling the case , is already on the way, the Hong Kong police will be here soon, or wait for him to arrive, you tell him that he must know more about the laws of Hong Kong than I do, what is illegal, what is legal, your identity, what to do with a labor visa , I don’t understand these things, I just want to know if you’ve seen this woman before, I’ll leave when I get an answer, and I won’t bother him to come up here, you’d better think about it before you speak.”

"I haven't violated the law!" The cleaner looked left and right, opened the door, pulled Lin She into the house, closed the door and said in blunt Mandarin: "You can't arrest me and go to jail."

"You didn't break the law, why should I arrest you? I just asked if you have seen this woman."

"Are you going to catch her?"

"Does she live here?"

"No! She suspects that her husband is working as a mistress in Hong Kong. I said that this house looks like it's been lived in for a long time, and it doesn't look like a woman lives here. She doesn't believe it."

"You just let her in to see?"

"She just came in to have a look, but she didn't take anything. I was staring at it. If I lost something..."

Lin Sheqian interrupted her: "The owner William Wang entrusted you to clean it, right?"

"What William, no, it's Lawyer Wang."

"Lawyer Wang?"

The cleaning staff pointed at the opposite side: "Yes, Wang Dazhang of the law firm opposite, their law firm is also cleaned by our company, and this house is managed by him." The cleaning staff looked at Lin She, "The owner Is it William?"

Lin She went to take a look outside, and indeed saw a signboard called Yaohui Law Firm.He left Lishun Building, checked the time, and found that he bought a ticket to fly back to the mainland in the afternoon. Time was running out and he had to go to the airport, so he had to check the law firm of Zhana Yaohui on the way. The law firm mainly handles agency services In the company's overseas investment business, there is only one partner lawyer surnamed Wang, Wang Jianguo.

This trip to the mainland, the plane landed in Chongshi, and when it arrived in Chongshi, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. Lin Sheqian hurried to the Daminshan Orphanage. Seeing the gray-haired old dean, the dean couldn't help feeling: "Xiao Lin, I haven't seen you for so long, why are you so haggard? Are you too busy being a policeman?"

Lin She smiled in front of him, the sun was setting to the west, and a cold wind was blowing in the mountains.He said: "So this weekend, I came to Damin Mountain for a walk, relax and relax. I slept in the mountain last night. This scenic spot is really well developed. I regret buying and staying for a few more days. The train will go back at night. .” He said, “I want to go to the river beach to have a look.”

The dean said: "Let me walk with you."

The two went for a walk by the river beach, chatting along the way, and when they passed a wreckage of a wooden house, the dean smiled and said, "Do you still remember how you got your name?"

"Remember, this forest house used to be here..." Looking at the wreckage of the wooden house in front of the forest house, there was still a twilight in the sky, he said: "That's where I was picked up by my uncle, in 99."

He rubbed his fingers: "If it wasn't for him, I would have died a long time ago, either from starvation or from being eaten by wolves. I always hear wolves howling in the middle of the night..."

"Do you still keep in touch?"

"Contact often, contact often, he is still very busy." Lin Sheqian cleared his throat and looked at the dean: "By the way, dean, do you remember that there was a gold robbery here before? It's in Chongshi."

The dean said: "I have an impression. In 88, there was no orphanage like ours at that time. I was still working in the streets of Guanxing District, Chongshi City. It was said that there were four young people carrying bags from the Children's Palace. A bag of guns, earth bombs, I don’t know where they got so many guns. The police went to the Children’s Palace to check for a long time. As a result, a group of people entered the mountain and quarreled. The police said that according to the analysis of traces on the scene, two of them robbed a The car, I didn't expect that the car was broken down. Later, the police found out that two people from other places drove into the mountain to go to Chongshi. The car broke down halfway and stopped, and the two people from other places drove I went to Maple Leaf Town to ask for help, and got lost on the road. The two robbers who robbed the broken car were going to drive away or something, but failed, and collided with the other two robbers. All four robbers are dead."

"What about gold?"

"I didn't find it, I guess it was picked up by someone passing by."

Lin She looked up at Gaoshan: "Don't tell me, I have stayed here for so many years, and I have never been to Maple Leaf Town."

The dean said: "Now that the road has been built, it is very close from our orphanage. Now it is also a scenic spot. May I take you to see it?"

Lin Sheqian was a little tired, he said, "Next time." He said, "I'm really a little tired today."

The dean said: "What time is the train? You said you too, came in such a hurry... Is there still time for dinner?" The dean smiled, "Well, even the food in our orphanage is not delicious."

"Do you still have a bed there? I don't know why I'm so sleepy..."

The dean smiled: "I only heard that people left the orphanage and didn't want to come back. This is the first time I heard that people came back to find a bed after leaving the orphanage."

Lin Sheqian also laughed, and the two returned to the orphanage. The dean took him to a double room. I reached into my clothes, touched a letter hidden in the inside pocket, and fell asleep instantly.

He is dreaming.He dreamed that he was reading a letter over and over again.The letter read: "Xiao Zhen's mother, the address I sent before was returned. I found this address after asking around. Forgive me for disturbing me. I am really worried about Xiao Zhen. How is she doing recently? What happened? I am really sorry about what happened to her, and Teacher Zhu has been blaming herself afterwards, and I will remit money to this account regularly. Enclosed is my current business card, if you need anything, please feel free to contact me."

Lin Sheqian also dreamed that he was looking at a business card over and over again—the business card of Hong Kong Beite Culture, lecturer Wang Weilian.

He woke up from this dream and found that he was still reading the letter.

"Xiaolin, congratulations, I'm really happy for you, I was admitted to my favorite school and my favorite major, and I'm really sorry that I couldn't send my blessings at the first time, but recently, I have to deal with the things at hand It's almost there. I will definitely go to the police school to see you after a while. I still remember you told me when you were young that you wanted to be a policeman and you wanted to help those in need. I also remember that you were very righteous when you were in the orphanage Feelings, you will protect the weak and have the courage to speak out for the weak, you know justice very well when you are young. To be honest, I didn’t expect you to realize your dream before me, it seems that I have to work hard.”

Lin Sheqian woke up again.He sweated a lot, and his face and body were wet. When he left the orphanage, he encountered a cold mountain wind. On the train back to Yancheng, he had a fever. I stayed and took a week off before going back to work.