Case File Compendium

At around eight o'clock in the evening, two customers appeared at the door of Awen's hair salon.

The guest was unfamiliar, but judging by his clothes and appearance, he should be a villager from a nearby village. One of them was still leaning on a blind cane, with a pair of gray eyes open blankly.

They knocked on the glass door of the salon.

Unlike the long wait during the day, the Awen hair salon opened the door at night, and there was still Lulu standing at the door. Lulu looked at them and said, "Do you two wash your hair?"

Although He Yu had never been to such a place, he was smart after all, and tentatively replied, "Massage."

"Oh... just sit down first."

Lulu led He Yu to sit on a cheap hairdressing stool. He Yu glanced at the ground, but there was not a single hair on the ground...

From the corner of his eye, he began to carefully observe the hair salon.The hair salon is divided into two halves, inside and outside, with stairs, and it seems that there are compartments upstairs.The outer room where they are now looks like a very normal barbershop, but the scissors look rusty, obviously they are just decorations.

On the sofa not far away, a row of women sat lazily. They didn't look very good-looking, but their clothes were very provocative and revealing.While swiping their phones, they raised their eyes to look at them from time to time.

"Does this one want a massage too?" Lulu began to look at Xie Qingcheng, her eyes lingering on his eyes wearing gray and white contact lenses.

He Yu said: "Yes, it's his first time here. Don't scare him. What are the prices of 'shoulder and neck' and 'full set' here?"

He also picked up the code words from the Internet temporarily, and he didn't have much confidence in his heart, but he pretended to be calm.

Lulu was silent for a moment, and during this silent time, He Yu's heart gradually became tense.

Finally, Lulu smiled: "Shoulder and neck 80, full set 200. Which sister do you think you want to do for you?"

He Yu is really wild, after thinking about it, he smiled at Lulu with a well-disguised, wretched smile: "Can you play Shuangfei?"

Lulu: "Then add fifty to each."

He Yu: "It's so expensive, my sister doesn't make sense, why don't I save the room for you?"

Lulu: "It's exciting, no one wants to play like this. If you don't believe me, you can ask another place."

He Yu is really a poor ghost: "That's [-] cheaper. New customers, please save face and come back next time."

"Ten dollars."

"make a deal."

"..." Xie Qingcheng didn't expect He Yu, a bastard, to be so good at pretending. Of course, he didn't give in too much. Wearing the contact lenses of the blind man in "The Tuner", he was cautious when walking, and took the blind stick first. Touch the ground, then move forward slowly.

He Yu asked for two girls who looked weakest, and one of them stepped forward to help him: "Brother, be careful, the stairs are narrow, let me take you."

The four went upstairs together.

The second floor is a small room separated by some wooden boards. Those wooden boards are not much thicker than paper, so the sound insulation can be imagined.

At this point, there are not many entertainment activities in the county. Although the decompression starting at 80 yuan is not cheap for the villagers, it is exciting after all, and it can comfort those bachelors well.So there were already several customers in the store, and the voices of male and female love came from inside undisguised.

The girls who took them upstairs were very young, but they seemed to have become numb to this kind of life, and they no longer had any shyness or embarrassment.

After entering the door, the bolt was released. Inside the compartment were two beds and two red sofas made of artificial velvet.

Girl: "Two brothers, please take off your clothes."

He Yu said with a smile: "Oh, my friend has never been to this kind of place, please slow down, don't scare him, just give him a shoulder first."

This business has been around for a long time, and you can meet all kinds of people.

The girls were used to seeing this kind of restrained man for the first time, so they didn't take it seriously.

The service industry always puts the customer first.

The girls therefore seated them on a scarlet armchair facing a full-length mirror with a view of the whole room.

The girls start massaging the guests.

It is said to be a massage, but the people who come here are all drunkards who don't care about drinking. Naturally, you don't need to expect any professional techniques from the little girl, just chatting, having some physical contact, and bit by bit to ease the tightness of the male customers. melt away.

A sentence of "Brother, where are you from?" opened the situation, and a sentence of "Brother, want to talk to me comfortably" threw a hint.

Every line has a process, and they are no exception.

Xie Qingcheng didn't speak much the whole time, his gray eyes were covered by long eyelashes, his face was propped on the side with one hand, and he just listened to their dialogue lightly.

He Yu is a person who is really good at learning. After living in this place for a few days, he can actually communicate with the other party in some dialects.

The girls quickly fell in love with this new customer in his witty and humorous words, and began to leak some information unconsciously while massaging.

The two of them actually had studied in Renheng Middle School, but not for a long time.

But when He Yu asked why they dropped out of school, one girl didn't speak, and the other smiled faintly after a moment of silence.

"My family wants me to marry, so I won't read it anymore."

"then you……"

"My husband likes to gamble. Many men here like to gamble. The underground bank gambles a lot. They can lose about two hundred thousand in one night. It's not enough to use all the family savings to pay for it." The woman gently squeezed He Yu's shoulder, " My husband let me come out to make money."

Although this matter sounds incredible, He Yu has read a lot and has seen a lot.

He knows that in some places, especially remote rural areas, such sad things happen from time to time.Husbands are idle, so they let their wives do unscrupulous activities, and some even pimp themselves. As for the money they earn, it is naturally owned by the men. Women are just a tool that needs to nourish the family with flesh and blood. That's all.

But when facing such a victim directly, the inner tremor is still great.

A woman lowered her eyes, paused for a while, and said, "Brother..."

No matter how old or young they are, they call their guests Big Brother.

"When you do it later, can you be gentle." The woman probably watched He Yu's words, and finally couldn't help showing a little weakness, "I'm actually already pregnant for more than three months."

He Yu was even more surprised: "Then you still come to this kind of place?"

"If I don't come, I will have no money. The family has no money at all, and I have to pay back the debt he owes." The woman said indifferently, but there were tears in her eyes.

He Yu was suddenly speechless.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of Lu Yuzhu.

Back then, Lu Yuzhu also fell into the wind and dust, day after day until she became numb.

In such a desperate situation, it was the man behind the scenes who asked her one more question, "Why did you come to this kind of place".

In fact, those words were not too gentle or caring. Maybe that man was the same as me now, just asking casually.

But Lu Yuzhu had been treated as a livestock for too long, such a sentence reminded her that she was still a living person.

He Yu said: "...forget it, or—"

When the woman heard the words, she seemed to be shocked by something, and before he finished speaking, she suddenly plopped down on her knees.

Her actions startled everyone except Xie Qingcheng.

Because Xie Qingcheng remembered that he was blind, he sat in a daze, motionless.

The woman grabbed the corner of He Yu's clothes: "Brother, don't change people, okay? You, you didn't say anything before you became me, so you can do whatever you want. I just came back to work these days, and I don't look so good-looking. , I don’t need me, if you change people again, the proprietress will be very disappointed with me, I, I..."

When she finished speaking, she was speechless.

He Yu: "...I mean, otherwise forget it, just give me a shoulder today and chat with me."

The woman was taken aback: "Ah..."

"I just wanted to hang out with my friends. You know, people like us have no money, no daughter-in-law, and no women are willing to talk to us. So it doesn't matter if we don't do anything this time. It's not easy for everyone. Make a friend, and when it's convenient next time, you can give me a cheaper price in private."

The woman's eyes were red, she was moved, but also uneasy: "Then, what's the point of that? I...how about I give you a hand..."

He Yu: "It's okay, let's talk. Brother, do you think so?"

Xie Qingcheng leaned back on the red velvet sofa and responded lightly.

He Yu pointed at Xie Qingcheng with a smile, and said to the woman: "Look, he didn't really want this big brother, so I dragged him here to see him."

Xie Qingcheng: "..."

After having such a conversation, the distance between them and the two girls was invisible.

Then He Yu asked some more questions, and they answered in more detail.

After several rounds of dialogue, they have a general grasp of the situation in this county and even this store.

Under Qingli County, there are three big villages, Yijia Village, Zhuangjia Village, and Duanjia Village.The bureaucratic system in the entire county is also very corrupt. The schools and main roads in the village were built with funds allocated by Lu Yuzhu when she was the secretary of the county party committee.

The men in the family didn't work, and they beat their wives when they returned home. The women either endured it silently, or fled at risk, or, like these two girls, had to sell themselves to earn a little money to support their families.

In this county, there are still several hair salons like "Awen Barbershop", and their composition is particularly deformed.

Take Awen's barber shop as an example, the owner is Lu Yuzhu's ex-husband Yi Qiang.

When Lu Yuzhu was falsely imprisoned, Yi Qiang married Lu Yuzhu and lived with a young woman before the divorce procedures were completed.

After Lu Yuzhu was released from prison, her biological daughter no longer knew her, and the young woman entered the room, facing this "prisoner" as if she were the hostess.Sadly, Lu Yuzhu left Qingli County. After so many years, she never returned to this home.

Yi Qiang lived with his new wife for several years, and they gave birth to a daughter, who is now Lulu.However, it is difficult to change Jiangshan's nature, and Yi Qiang is not a hardworking person. When he was with Lu Yuzhu, Lu Yuzhu was strong and strict, so Yi Qiang did not dare to be lazy.

But where does the little wife have half of Lu Yuzhu's momentum?

Slowly, Yi Qiang's shortcomings suppressed by Lu Yuzhu began to revive.He was idle, addicted to gambling, beat his wife and scolded his daughter when he lost, and spent time with prostitutes when he won.

Those savings at home quickly ran out.

The little wife is a very weak and extremely selfish person, she can't stand this kind of life, on a night when her husband didn't come home, she left her own Lulu and Lu Yuzhu's daughter Awen, and boarded the bus to the big city by herself. train.She wants to live a good life, but she has no skills, and it is difficult to hook up with men with a baby, so she decides to write off the past and pretend to be a rural migrant girl who has never been married. The city is not worried about not having a reliable and honest man to take the bait.

Mom ran away, leaving only a crazy father.

Yi Qiang was annoyed and hated, and spent his days drinking away his worries, beating and scolding his two daughters.The eldest daughter—that is, Lu Yuzhu's daughter, had grown up at this time, and she also wanted to get out of this sea of ​​suffering, so like her stepmother, she also bought a ticket and went to the nearest city to find a job.

But I don't know if it was because of her limited knowledge, or because she was not used to such a wandering life. After a while, she came back again.

After returning, Awen's temperament changed a lot. She found her father and said to him: "You want to lie down and make money, right? I have an idea, but I need your help. You bought the ancestral property, and we will exchange it." A building for both commercial and residential use. I have taken a good look at the place, you listen to me, and the money will come soon."

In this way, Ewen Barber Shop opened.

Yi Qiang is the big boss, taking most of the store's income.Awen and her younger sister Lulu are in charge of managing the girls in the shop.

Earning more and more money, Yi Qiang bought a car, bought the most fashionable mobile phone, spent the dirty money with peace of mind, kicked the accelerator to go to the town, to the village, to higher-end nightclubs, more luxurious underground banks Consumption.

He also gradually got better with his two daughters. He used to say that "having a daughter is not as good as a boy", but now that he knows that a daughter can make money to support him, he smiles all over his face when he mentions his daughter, and praises his daughter as two treasures—as for those who are The girls who worked hard in his shop, of course he knew that they were also some man's daughters, or even wives.

But so what?

Their labor can be exchanged for the chips on his gambling table, and for the fragrant beauty in his arms, he just takes it for granted.Yi Qiang spent less and less time in Qingli County, and most of the friends in the village in the past were out of touch. He put on trendy brands and famous watches, and suddenly felt that his social status had skyrocketed, and the small village could not tolerate him. This is a golden phoenix.He spent a lot of time wandering around the city, flirting with the women in the city, almost forgetting his origin.

——As long as the daughters remember to send money to him regularly.

After hearing this, He Yu felt very disgusted.

Because of his family's misfortune, he hates parents who raise children better than raising dogs.

He asked: "Then Yi Qiang often lives outside now?"

"Yeah, he hasn't been back for a long time."

He Yu asked again: "Where is Awen?"

"Sister Wen comes to the store every day, but she usually comes very late. Brother wants to see her?"

Of course, He Yu wanted to meet Yi Awen. Only when he saw her in person could he know whether the mysterious woman last night was really her. Where did it come from.

But after listening to their narration, he suddenly felt that Yi Awen was not simple, and in the description of the shampoo girl, Yi Awen's life had a very strange fault, that is, the period when she fled to the city for the first time experience.

Before she fled to the city, she sounded like a relatively helpless person who didn't dare to stand up to her father.

But after she came back, she was able to issue orders to Yi Qiang, and induced Yi Qiang to sell his ancestral property to do such a business——what did she go through during those years outside?

He Yu wanted to know more about Yi Awen, but unfortunately that was all the shampoo girls knew.

He glanced at Xie Qingcheng, even though Xie Qingcheng was wearing gray fog contact lenses and no one could see the light in his eyes, but He Yu was too familiar with Xie Qingcheng, he could tell from Xie Qingcheng's every move , and even interpret some of the other party's thoughts from the sitting posture and aura.

He realized that Xie Qing was thinking the same as him at this moment.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, Xie Qingcheng, who was just listening quietly, suddenly spoke up and said, "Let me borrow the bathroom. How do I get there?"

There is no separate bathroom in each cubicle of Xiaopo's barber shop. The shampoo girl showed him the way carefully, but at the end she was a little worried: "Brother, or I will help you there."

He Yu stood up and said with a smile: "His...maybe he's still embarrassed, so let me accompany him."

The girl seldom saw such reserved guests, so she smiled, opened the door for them, repeated the route to them again, and let the two masters go out.

"Even if we meet Yi Awen, she may not tell us the truth." Xie Qingcheng calmly and whispered to He Yu after confirming that the two hair salon girls did not follow, "So while it is now, First check in this room for any clues. Renheng's file bag is very important to the mastermind behind the scenes. If this file is true and the mysterious woman yesterday is indeed Yi Awen, then what will happen between them? If there is no time, there is absolutely no relationship. You go to the left, I go to the right. There is not much time, so we will investigate separately."

He Yu looked into his gray eyes: "Why are you still so sharp while wearing invisibility?"

Xie Qingcheng touched his eyelids with his hand, and frowned slightly: "Is it not pretending enough?"

He Yu smiled: "No, it's very similar. I'm just saying that your aura hasn't changed. You still look like a stick."

"..." Xie Qingcheng didn't have time to chat with him, so he said, "Let's go."

The two split up.

The second floor of Awen's barber shop was almost full of compartments. Xie Qingcheng walked around and didn't see anything worth noticing, but when he walked to the end, he found that there was still a narrow staircase there.

The house has an attic.

The attic is not big, there is a desk, a few rows of bookshelves, some sundries are stacked in a mess, and there is nothing else.

But for some reason, Xie Qingcheng always felt that this place was weird, and there was also a smell that came and went. Based on his experience as a medical student, he immediately judged that there was something rotten. .

Xie Qingcheng looked around the room carefully, and realized that something was weird——

Despite the strong smell of decay, there is no food in the attic, except for paper, which is metal, or wood.None of these things can breed such a stench.

Where did this smell come from?

Xie Qingcheng stepped back slowly, to the entrance of the attic, and looked at the whole room from the door. After a while, he discovered an even weirder place in the attic...

wall.

Although there are bookshelves blocking it, if you stand at the door and observe carefully, you can find that the color of the innermost wall is obviously different from the other two sides.The paint is powder white and looks freshly painted.

Xie Qingcheng walked towards the wall, moved half of the bookshelf, and then—like the curtain of a dark theater slowly opened, he saw that a large part of the wall that was obviously just painted was damp and peeled, Like some kind of weird moss.When he removed the entire bookcase and went back to the door to look at it, Xie Qingcheng was shocked.

that wet mark...

It was actually a human figure!

Some kind of terrible thought came out of his mind, Xie Qingcheng looked at his watch, it had been nearly 10 minutes since he left the private room, but if he didn't collect evidence and investigate now, there was almost no chance of turning back again.So he made a decisive decision, stepped forward and knocked along the vague figure, and sure enough, he found an empty drum at the bottom.

It is easy to pry open where there is a hollow. Xie Qingcheng found a utility knife from the desk and scraped off the outer powder paint bit by bit. He found that there was a temporarily sealed wooden board underneath. With a lot of effort, the wooden board was cut open, and the light of the mobile phone was used to shine inside——

Facing him at the same time as the strong stench was a pair of tan men's cowhide shoes, with a highly rotten ankle attached to the top of the shoes...

Sure enough, there was a dead body in that wall! !

However, at this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

"……What are you looking at."