I come from the abyss

Aimin Road, Beitian District.

urban village.

At the entrance of the village is a jacaranda tree in full bloom, with a cool breeze under the tree, and the stone bench is slightly scorching hot.Just after the sprinkler passed, there was a puddle of water on the ground that hadn’t dried up yet. Half-yellow and half-green leaves floated on top of the water, and ants under the veins could be seen faintly.

Cicadas were singing, and four people were surrounded by the stone table under the tree.Three old men in undershirts and a young man were playing chess with furrowed brows.

The chess game is heating up and is in a stalemate.

Boom——A heavy locomotive parked beside the stone bench with its tail swaying, and an idiot wearing a black and white motorcycle suit in summer got off the car.The idiot took off his helmet, and affectionately called Jiang Heng under the tree: "Abba!"

The idiot is the nightclub owner.

The old men looked at the owner of the nightclub, and then looked at Jiang Heng, who was staring at the chessboard as if he didn't hear it. Judging the age of the two from the condition of their skin, they all expressed shock: "Your son is so old?!"

"The 'son' who came over with a smug face." Jiang Heng clicked until he reached it, and with a 'slap', he said with a smile: "General."

The old men sighed, waving cattail fans and holding sweaters to shake the cool breeze, persuading them: "You can't blindly recognize your son these days, at least find someone with a good brain, and it will be easier to raise."

Jiang Heng: "I can't sever the relationship after being raised so big. Except for asking for money, I am very filial at other times."

Walking happily towards my dear father, I suddenly heard the nightclub owner who couldn't bear the comments, his footsteps gradually became heavy, and he showed a gaze like a "resentful wife" who hesitated to speak: "I have filial piety to you, but you treat me as a ditch."

"Don't talk nonsense." Jiang Heng corrected politely: "The ditch is the conscience of the city, how can we discharge sewage without the ditch? The ditch is so useful, don't insult it."

If it weren't for his impregnable iron walls, the owner of the nightclub would have murdered his father long ago.

The nightclub owner swallowed countless swear words mixed in dialect and Mandarin, and shrugged his shoulders to lead the way: "This is Simen Village. You asked me to go to the Golden Triangle to check things, but I have no one there. Finally, I asked someone to make some connections. , Find the old Duan who has been running goods there all the year round. He is cautious and shrewd, and he can tell at a glance that I am not the employer behind the scenes. Unless you talk to him face to face, he will not help no matter how much money you give. "

Jiang Heng: "What are you doing?"

Nightclub owner: "Beside water, hauling goods, running long distances, earning the difference. I'm a bit addicted to drugs. You know that even poppy shells are the basic seasoning there. People who live there all year round will inevitably touch local food. But the old Duan is smart. I didn’t dare to really get addicted to drugs, at most it’s the level of smoking addiction.”

Jiang Heng: "Yes."

The so-called edge water refers to the sale of counterfeit and shoddy daily necessities in the Golden Triangle area. Anyway, the local residents and drug dealers in the mountains have never eaten the real goods outside.

The old duan that the nightclub owner said only dared to make the difference and didn't touch drugs. He was a principled person.Of course, if he touches drugs, the nightclub owner will not contact him, he is afraid of being betrayed.

Simen Village is an urban village in the center of the urban area. The floors are connected and the streets are clean and tidy. It is not inferior to a commercial community with complete supporting facilities.

The nightclub owner pointed to the buildings in front of him and said: "They are all small property rights houses contracted by the village committee to developers. Basically, each person has one building, and some people have two or three buildings. After they are built, they can be rented or sold. Thieves have money."

He was drooling with hunger.

Jiang Heng walked forward slowly, followed the nightclub owner to stop at the C building inside, opened the electronic gate, entered the elevator, went to the 11th floor, and walked through a road after coming out. There were flower pots on both sides, and the pots were full of weeds.

At the main road on the right, there are three rooms in total.

Looking at the layout, there should be three bedrooms on the left, and two bedrooms on the right.The door on the right has been newly painted, with bright red couplets pasted, a 'frame' pasted in the middle of the main entrance, and broken fireworks and firecrackers beside the door.

In contrast, the door of the second room on the right is very plain without any decoration.

The nightclub owner knocked on Zuo Yi's door, and a bald middle-aged man came to answer the door.

He recognized the owner of the nightclub first, then looked at Jiang Heng behind him, swept them one by one from head to toe, then nodded and said, "Come in and sit."

The bald middle-aged man is the old segment they relate to.

The old Duan lived with his family, two young people in the family went to work, and an old lady was taking care of her grandson in the living room.The old Duan sat down on the wooden sofa and said to his wife, "Old woman, take the kids back to the room for a nap."

When the old Duan's wife heard the news, she took her grandson back to the house and told her husband to remember that the kitchen was making soup.

"Remember, remember." Lao Duan drove away his wife, invited Jiang Heng and the nightclub owner to sit down, offered them a cup of tea, thought for a moment and asked directly, "Which aspect do you want to investigate?"

Jiang Heng held the teacup, the light brown tea swayed slightly, raised his eyelids and smiled harmlessly, and uttered two words: "Shan State Army."

Clang.

Old Duan's hand trembled unsteadily, the teacup fell down, and hot tea splashed on the back of his hand. He quickly wiped it off with a paper towel, staring at Jiang Heng with suspicion, but he couldn't figure out Jiang Heng's reason for collecting information about the Shan State army. reason.

"Purpose."

Jiang Heng said "huh", "Market rules have changed? Buyers must take the initiative to provide the purpose? How about I just tell you all my personal information, including personal property and bank card passwords. Do you feel relieved?"

Facing Jiang Heng with a friendly smile, Lao Duan's scalp felt numb all of a sudden. He had been to the mountains of the Golden Triangle and seen desperadoes licking their blood with knives, so he could tell that the gentle Jiang Heng also had the blood of desperadoes!

He's even calmer than the Desperado.

Old Duan quickly judged Jiang Heng's nature, knowing that he was not easy to mess with, but he was also reluctant to give up the generous reward. He lit a cigarette and thought for a long time, then slapped his thigh: "I only collect news!"

Jiang Heng: "Don't worry, every penny is worth every effort, and you won't work for nothing."

The old Duan moved his lips, and finally chose to smoke in silence: "Give me half of the money first, and the remaining half will be paid to my card at home at the end of the year. When the business is over, don't contact me again."

Jiang Heng: "Okay." He readily agreed, and after briefly explaining the information to be collected, the two sides fell into silence.After a while, Jiang Heng asked, "Can I use the bathroom?"

Old Duan pointed to the balcony: "There."

"Thank you." Jiang Heng thanked and went to the bathroom on the balcony.

Two bougainvillea plants were planted in the planter outside the balcony, the bright red pieces were dazzling, Jiang Heng came out of the bathroom, and while washing his hands outside the balcony, he admired the two bougainvillea plants.

The owner of the flower should cherish it very much, and raise it to be full of vigor, vigorous and colorful, warm and full.Its flowers and leaves cover half of the balcony, and also block half of the hot sunlight, so the bathroom on the balcony is cool and comfortable.

The breeze is gentle, and the fragrance of flowers comes naturally.

"?" Jiang Heng frowned, turning his head to stare at the bougainvillea swaying in the wind.

The air smelled like flowers, laundry detergent, and cleaning fluid. When you sniffed it carefully, you could smell an imperceptible stench mixed in the aroma, like the smell of a rotting corpse.

Others may not be able to smell it, but Jiang Heng has smelled the stench of rotting corpses.

The smell of corpses should be very strong, but this smell is very mild.

Jiang Heng looked at the planter on the balcony, stepped forward to push aside the bougainvilleas hanging on the protective window, and saw that there were two connected planters on the opposite side, one of which was covered with cement, and the other should have been redecorated and filled with new soil.

As soon as the bougainvilleas were opened, the stench became stronger.

Jiang Heng covered his nose, looked at it for a while, and then left.

The nightclub owner got up: "Let's go."

Jiang Heng responded, and the two said goodbye to Lao Duan.

Ding.The elevator on the left opened, and a young man and woman came out of it.The young man held the flower seeds in both hands, and the young woman held the air freshener in her hand, and complained to the young man beside her: "The house smells so bad, can you tell your father to change to another room? Or come live with me."

The young man said: "No, baby, my parents say that this house has good Feng Shui, which is good for family harmony."

Young woman dissatisfied: "Superstitious all day long."

The young man hurriedly coaxed his wife: "This house has been unoccupied for a long time. Although it has been renovated, no one has come to supervise the work before. Maybe the workers were lazy and threw away the smelly things. Let's work harder, clean it up, plant flowers, spray water, etc. Just a little air freshener and the smell is gone."

They passed by Jiang Heng and looked at each other. The young man was jealous and deliberately blocked his wife's sight. The nightclub owner greeted: "Father, hurry up."

Jiang Heng stepped into the elevator, and through the palm-width gap in the elevator, the couple was picking out the keys in front of the door pasted with a big red frame.

――They are newlyweds.