Xiao Su followed Rong Rui and Sun Zhisheng into the south gate of the workshop.

It is very spacious here, covering hundreds of square meters. Facing the south is a thick double door. Opposite the door is a shelf as high as a person, piled with some discarded raw materials and packing boxes, covered with dust and mess.

There are large stainless steel consoles cast on the east and west walls, with a large integrated sink embedded in the middle, which is a little cleaner, and there are still wet water stains on the surrounding ground.

There is an open sofa bed in front of the shelf, with lame universal wheels on it. It was probably used by workers to rest. It is extremely dilapidated. There are two rotten quilts piled on top, the cotton wool is exposed, and it is almost dirty. Can't see the color.

The workshop has a gable roof with a very high dome, but there are no windows, and only a circle of gaps are left at the place where the ceiling and the wall are connected as ventilation holes.The ventilation hole is about ten centimeters wide, and an adult can barely stretch out an arm, provided that he can climb a wall more than three meters high.

There was a broken light bulb hanging from the center of the dome.That is to say, once the door of this room is closed, it can only be illuminated by the circle of ventilation holes at the top, and it is very dim even in the daytime.

There was a chair beside the gate, and a police officer was taking fingerprints from the back of the chair.Xiao Su leaned over to have a look, Sun Zhisheng walked beside him, and explained: "This should be used to prop the door, the height of the back of the chair is just enough to withstand the doorknob inside."

Xiao Su checked it visually, and it was indeed so—the door opened inwards, and there were a pair of rusty cast iron handles about one meter high. As long as the back of the chair supported the handles, it was difficult to push it open from the outside.

The inspection team was doing various surveys, taking photos and collecting evidence. Xiao Su didn't dare to wander around for fear of destroying any evidence. Rong Rui didn't care much. Next to the two operating tables, I turned on the faucet to test the water, and sniffed it with my nose.

After strolling for a while, he nodded to Sun Zhisheng.Sun Zhisheng understood and said to Xiao Su: "It's almost there, let's go and see what they asked."

The three came out of the workshop, it was already bright outside, Sun Zhisheng went to the side to make a phone call, Xiao Su looked left and right, but couldn't find Fang Huize's shadow.

Rong Rui squinted at him and said, "Looking for your brother-in-law? They should have been taken away by the local police. This is the boundary of Longzhou. The scene, witnesses, and physical evidence are all under the jurisdiction of the County Public Security Bureau."

Sure enough, after the call, Sun Zhisheng said, "He's at the County Public Security Bureau. I've already made arrangements. Let's go and have a look."

Xiao Su was also convinced of Sun Zhisheng's omnipotent coordination ability, as if there was nothing in the entire public security circle that he could not coordinate.

The three of them walked along the road to the side of the provincial road, drove Xiao Su's car to the county seat, and arrived at the local county public security bureau about half an hour later.

The county bureau is very small, just a four-story building with two rows of bungalows.Fang Huize and Luo Tian had finished their transcripts and left. Sun Zhisheng checked their records, and the content was the same as what Rongrui had guessed—after Luo Tian called the police yesterday evening, he would not get any feedback for a while, so he turned to his immediate supervisor, Fang Huize, for help. .Fang Huize couldn't get rid of her sympathy, so she found the WeChat location on Luo Jianhong's mobile phone through technical means, and then led people to the scene of the incident overnight.

Both Xiao Su and Rong Rui knew what happened next.

Sun Zhisheng asked Luo Jianhong and Luo Jianxin for their transcripts. The criminal police of the county bureau said, "Luo Jianxin is not in good condition and has already been sent to the hospital. His elder brother Luo Jianhong just had a meal. He should be taking notes at the moment. If you wait If not, you can go and listen."

Sun Zhisheng completed the formalities and led Rong Rui and Xiao Su into the monitoring room next to the inquiry room.

Through the single-sided glass, Xiao Su saw Luo Tian's father, Luo Jianhong, sitting inside. The old man looked sluggish, with dark circles around his eyes, with a cigarette in his right hand, and was puffing.

However, he was obviously in good physical condition. Even though he was locked up in the dark, cold, dilapidated workshop for three days and three nights, his back was still straight, his thinking was clear, and his speech was fluent.

"You said you received the WeChat message at noon on the tenth day of the first lunar month?" The policeman sitting opposite him asked, "Do you know the person who sent you the WeChat message?"

Luo Jianhong shook his head.The policeman asked: "You don't know him, why did you pass his friend verification?"

"I thought it was a colleague or a friend." Luo Jianhong took a puff of cigarette and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm a bad old man, who can add me as a friend if it's okay? So I didn't think much about it at the time, and passed."

"You don't know him, why did you go to the workshop according to the location he posted?"

Luo Jianhong's swollen eyelids rolled slightly, his eyes swept over the upper left, turned around, and said, "I'm curious, I usually like to read suspense horror novels, and everyone in my family knows it. When I received this position, I felt It’s like something written in a novel, it’s quite mysterious, and since I’m retired and have nothing to do, I decided to take a trip.”

It's rare for an old man in his sixties to have this innocence.Xiao Su intuitively felt that the reason was quite perfunctory, but the policeman who asked only glanced at him, and then continued to ask: "How did you get to that workshop?"

"Take a taxi and then walk for a while." Luo Jianhong said, throwing down the cigarette butt he had smoked, and took out a taxi receipt from his pocket, "Hey, the ticket is still there."

The invoice was crumpled and seemed to be a little damp, and the words on it were a little blurred.The police put it in an evidence bag and asked, "What happened after you got to the workshop?"

"What else can happen? I was locked up." Luo Jianhong yawned and lit another cigarette. "That day, I managed to find the address, but it turned out to be a dilapidated old workshop with no one around. Not at all, I feel a little fuzzy in my heart. Just about to leave, I suddenly heard footsteps in the workshop..."

At that time, the sky was already a little dark, and fine snowflakes were falling in the sky. Luo Jianhong boldly walked to the door quietly, and looked inside, only to see a sneaky black shadow patrolling in front of the shelf.

He was a little scared, and a little suspicious that the other party was the person who sent him the location. He was hesitating whether to leave or go in to have a look, when he suddenly saw the man turn around, and a beam of dim sky light hit the man through the air hole in the high place. On the face, it was his younger brother who had not been in touch with each other for 30 years, Luo Jianxin!

Speaking of this younger brother, Luo Jianhong is still very angry.

It is said that 30 years ago, the two of them were young men in their prime. Luo Jianhong graduated from technical secondary school and worked as a mathematics teacher in Longzhou No. [-] Primary School. His younger brother Luo Jianxin graduated from junior college and taught mathematics in Longzhou Guangming Middle School.

Their father, Luo Cai, was originally a cook, and he opened a small restaurant in Longzhou City, and his business was ordinary.But it was such an unmotivated cook who was so lucky that he won 20 in a lottery ticket one year!

I don't know if it was a flash of light or some expert advice. After getting the 20 yuan, Luo didn't gamble or change his wife. Instead, he directly bought a one-and-a-half-acre homestead and built a spacious three-yard house on it. Big tile house.

In the blink of an eye, at the end of the 90s, real estate began to take off, and the whole country went crazy like land acquisition and building buildings. Countless farmers became rich overnight, and became millionaires or even multi-millionaires through relocation.

Luo Cai was also one of the lucky ones, because the land he bought had an excellent location, a huge area, and a lot of new houses, so he replaced seven sets of large-sized commercial houses.

However, his good luck also came to an end. Just after the relocation was over, without even looking at the hole dug by the developer, he suddenly died and passed away.

After Luo Cai's death, brothers Luo Jianhong and Luo Jianxin began to deal with the funeral affairs and divide the inheritance, and the most valuable in the inheritance were undoubtedly the seven large houses.

Seven is an odd number.

Later, for the extra apartment and for the support of their mother, the two brothers started a protracted dispute. In the beginning, they could still sit at the same table to negotiate, but then the more they talked, the more they broke down, and it became the same table. quarrel.

Later, the quarrels couldn't satisfy their inner resentment, so it turned into a fight, and later, the father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law... all got involved, and the whole family was in a turmoil.

Man died for money, and birds died for food. Brothers who respected each other and loved each other completely fell out like this. Although the inheritance was finally divided through legal means, Liang Zi also made a knot. After more than 30 years, the two became strangers. Even family members do not communicate with each other.

Therefore, on the evening of the tenth day of the first lunar month, when he suddenly saw his younger brother Luo Jianxin in the workshop, Luo Jianhong was completely stunned.

After hesitating for two seconds between turning around and rushing to fight, the anger he had held for 30 years suddenly disappeared, because he found that his younger brother's hair was much whiter than his own, and the hair that used to be with him The glaring face also changed from youthful and vigorous to ravine, old and weak.

The sudden sadness briefly dilutes the 30-year-long resentment. Luo Jianhong walked into the workshop involuntarily and called out: "Jianxin?"

Luo Jianxin was also taken aback, looked at him hesitantly for a while, and then said, "Brother?"

The two brothers looked at each other awkwardly, not knowing how to continue the conversation for a while.However, at this moment, the door behind Luo Jianhong suddenly closed with a "bang", and then there was a jerky "creak" sound-someone inserted the latch outside.

The two brothers were startled, and rushed over to pull the doorknob, but couldn't move it, and beat the door leaf desperately, but no one responded, only the sound of footsteps gradually going away outside the door.

They were thus locked in the workshop.

In the next few hours, they frantically knocked on the door and called for help, but the workshop was located in an abandoned industrial area, surrounded by deserted people, and even cars were not accessible, so it was impossible for anyone to rescue them.

If you want to call the police, the mobile phone signal is also blocked, you can't dial out, you can't log in to the network, and naturally you can't use any communication APP.

As night fell, the originally dim workshop became pitch black, and you couldn't see your fingers.There was a strong wind outside, and the sound of weeping pines and cypresses could be heard... The brothers were exhausted, their voices were hoarse, their hands were swollen from clapping, and they finally gave up completely. They only hoped that their family members would find out that they were missing early and lead someone to find them. .

The only luck is that there are sofa beds and rotten quilts in the workshop, which can be used to keep them out of the cold, so that they will not freeze to death.Although there is no food, there is running water from the tap on the sink to ensure that they will not die of dehydration in the short term.

In this way, they stayed in this workshop for three days and three nights. It was not until Fang Huize and Luo Tian arrived last night that they finally saw the light of day again.

"You mean, you were locked up immediately after you arrived here, and no one showed up for the next three days?" the policeman asked Luo Jianhong, "No one came to bring you food and water, and no one came to harm or transfer you?"

Luo Jianhong was smoking a cigarette, her swollen eyelids rolled up, and the eyeballs paused on the upper right, and said: "We also find it strange, what did you say that the person who sent WeChat tricked us here? Could it be that he wanted to be hungry?" kill us?"

The policeman was noncommittal and asked him: "Did anything special happen in these three days? Think carefully, for example, have there been any footsteps outside, or has anyone been peeping at you from a high transom?"

Luo Jianhong shook his head: "No, it's just the two of us these three days, and we're also looking forward to someone coming to rescue us, but apart from my Xiaotian and his leader last night, there hasn't even been a ghost there... Hey! I'm such an idiot I'm so regretful, what do you think I'm doing in this hellish place when I have nothing to do?"

The policeman glanced up at him and asked, "What's that chair by the door for?"

Luo Jianhong said casually, "Hold the door."

"Why are you pushing against the door?" the policeman asked, "The door has already been plugged in from the outside, but no one came to open it. What are you doing against it from the inside?"

Luo Jianhong was taken aback, and after a moment of murmuring, he said: "When I saw a chair, I took it to hold it against it, get used to it, don't you sleep in the door?"

The police ignored his question and asked some details again and again, until he was yawning profusely and impatient, before handing over the transcript to him: "Take a look to see if there is any problem, and confirm if there is no problem."

Luo Jianhong scanned it at a glance, wiped his face wearily, and said, "No problem."

The police asked him to sign and told him that the interrogation was over and that he would be taken to the hospital for a physical examination.

Feeling relieved, Luo Jianhong stood up leaning on the table. Although it seemed a little difficult to get up, she straightened her back immediately after standing firmly, and walked steadily, obviously in good health.

Through the single-sided glass, Xiao Su noticed that there were several obvious water stains on his chest, sleeves, and the hem of his clothes. Although they were basically half-dried, they were obviously wet in the past three days.

His younger brother Luo Jianxin also seemed to have water stains on his body, Xiao Su remembered what Rongrui had said to Sun Zhisheng before.

Why?Xiao Su felt a little strange, if it was said that these water stains were wet when they drank water from the sink, it would be a bit too big.

Luo Jianxin may be in poor health, and when drinking water, he can't stand still and easily wet his clothes, but Luo Jianhong obviously doesn't—he hasn't shown any signs of collapse until now, and his mental and physical qualities are beyond ordinary people, quite not bad.

Such a person should not have wet his only clothing to keep out the cold in a dilapidated workshop in the middle of winter.

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