Chapter 88 I’m not a good person
There are still three days until New Year's Eve.
A street in the East District is still bustling with people and very lively, especially young people having skewers in the barbecue area.
Seeing that the boss was too busy, the eldest brother in jeans rolled up his sleeves and started working on his own.
A figure fell under the mask in front of him. The eldest brother stepped into the role, lowered his head, sprinkled cumin powder, and shouted vigorously, "Meat dishes are three yuan, five yuan, eight yuan, and vegetarian dishes are two yuan. Take your pick!"
Shen Manzhi turned his head to avoid the rising smoke, "Come out and have a chat."
The eldest brother raised his head, his pupils widened, and he forgot to turn over the skewers in his hand, "Big brother?"
Shen Manzhi raised his eyelids slightly, "What the hell?"
With the incandescent lamp covering his head, Xie Meng hunched over and ate the barbecue in silence. From time to time, he raised his head to glance at the woman opposite. The violent and bloody scene was still vivid in his mind, and he hesitated, "Boss, you, you, you really don't want to eat?"
Shen Manzhi, wearing a brown leather jacket, leaned back, folded the candy wrappers in his hands, and said with tired eyes, "I'm not hungry."
"Oh. Then I'll eat it."
As if he was afraid that someone would snatch it from him, Xie Meng tried his best not to make any noise, and wolfed down a handful of meat skewers in one hand.
He was afraid that this person would suddenly stop letting him eat, and then overturn the table and beat him until his teeth were all over the floor. After all, he had watched the life and death situation between her and Jackson that night be so touching.
Except that a month ago he and his brothers were eating crayfish here, and he provoked her without knowing anything and got into a fight, but it has been a long time ago. So while he was eating, he recalled whether he had done anything harmful recently. He even put a piece of cardboard from the old man who collected waste on his head when it rained that day. Now that he thought about it, he felt that he should go back and say thank you.
He ate with relish and with fear.
Shen Manzhi was completely unaware of her "evil image" in the eyes of others. He held the candy on his tongue and pressed it against his cheek. He was quite arrogant and his thoughts were not here. "What are you afraid of me for?"
Xie Meng swallowed the meat in his mouth and said excitedly, "I was also there on the day of the life and death game. The boss is so handsome!"
She raised the corners of her mouth and sneered slightly.
After Xie Meng finished eating, he wiped his mouth carelessly, touched the non-existent sweat on his forehead, and looked at her seriously.
Only then did Shen Manzhi turn his attention to him again, "What happened to Chen's Pawn Shop in Beixiang?"
Xie Meng choked, blinked, and did not hit him, but asked a fatal question.
"Boss, why are you asking me this? I'm just a street kid and I don't know anything."
Shen Manzhi lowered his eyes and clicked on a picture on his phone, then turned the screen to show him.
In the evening and rainy night, a group of people carried a box of heavy things and hurriedly turned into another alley. Behind them, deep in the dark alley, two people pushed an old man who was half a century old out.
The pawn shop owner, Chen Gui.
The last time I went to see him, I heard him play an erhu.
This afternoon passed, and the inside and outside of the courtyard seemed to have been looted and badly damaged.
Xie Meng looked at the black and white picture in his hand with a surprised look on his face, "Is this kidnapping?"
"what about this?"
Shen Manzhi slid his index finger and the next picture popped up.
On the roadside full of cars, Chen Gui was pushed into an ordinary black SUV. On the opposite side of the road, by the trash can, a man in jeans was squatting there smoking, looking up at the scene as if watching a good show. side.
It is Xie Meng.
"Hey," Xie Meng squinted his eyes to confirm, and suddenly realized, "It's this group of people. I was still watching the show. Is this the owner of Chen's Pawn Shop?"
"Well," Shen Manzhi put one leg up on the table's tripod, took back his phone and continued to scroll through it, "You are the most familiar with this area. What happened that night?"
Knowing that he was not looking for fault, Xie Meng calmly picked up the toothpick box on the table and took out one to pick his teeth. "Big brother, you have asked the right person. You also know that everyone is playing here. If we can be friends, we will never do it." This was the first time I saw an opponent who robbed people in such a big way, so I went to inquire about it.
I heard that the owner of the pawn shop was looking for some priceless old things and found someone he shouldn't have checked. A group of people came overnight and ransacked the pawn shop. I don't know who it was, boss, do you know him? Is this the boss? "
Shen Manzhi glanced at the photo, then raised his eyes to look at Xie Meng. The latter looked a little uncomfortable, blinked and shrank, looking submissive.
"Come to the store with me."
"Ah, no, boss, I have to go home."
Xie Meng was stunned, looking at Shen Manzhi's cold eyes when he turned around, and swallowed, "I won't be back tonight."
The wooden door was blocked by something from the inside, and there was still some mud on the threshold after rain.
Xie Meng was very discerning and moved a stack of discarded wooden boards and placed them in the corner. "Boss, let me go in first and see if I can open the door from the inside."
He quickly turned over and looked around to make sure there was nothing wrong. He was about to remove the wooden stick blocking the door when he heard the sound of climbing over the wall and landing behind him. "."
Xie Meng's mouth opened slightly, and she even turned over from the other side of him that was not supported by the board.
Shen Manzhi lifted the hem of his clothes, clapped his hands, and looked at Xie Meng's surprised eyes, ".Is this difficult?"
He shut his mouth, okay, the boss is indeed a boss.
He followed and walked inside. The houses in the inner courtyard were not locked, but it could be seen that they had been violently damaged.
Xie Meng avoided the cabinet that fell to the ground and said indignantly, "All the valuable things here must have been taken away. These people are so arrogant!"
Shen Manzhi stood at the threshold, crossed his arms and raised his head, looking at the gadgets hanging on the wall behind the counter and the newly displayed canvases.
She raised her chin and said, "Help me get that little lion."
Xie Meng realized that she was calling him and followed her line of sight. It was simple.
Without even thinking, he went behind the counter and took out a stool. He stepped slightly to get the lion pendant next to the canvas.
Shen Manzhi's eyes were not on the pendant, but on the man's broad and stretched shoulders and the half-cut hairstyle on the back of his head.
Xie Meng pulled the pendant and turned around, "Is this it?"
Shen Manzhi looked away calmly, "Yes."
Xie Meng patted the dust with the long-bearded little lion and handed it to her, "Boss, do you like this kind of furry thing? This one looks so old. Do you want me to buy you another one?"
Shen Manzhi took it and hooked it on her finger. The poorly made little lion lay in her hand with a cute look on its face.
She whispered, "No need."
Xie Meng pursed his lips, walked around the inner room, and then came out again, "Everything has been emptied, boss. There is nothing valuable here."
Shen Manzhi weighed the things in his hands and said nothing.
The East District is so chaotic that no normal person would leave valuables here openly, let alone a pawn shop that is popular in the eyes of outsiders.
"It's a pity that the store owner is my friend."
Xie Meng didn't know what she was feeling sorry for, but he still agreed, "I don't know what the boss is looking for to offend someone."
Shen Manzhi helped him pay for the barbecue and asked Xie Meng to pay more attention to the news about the pawn shop owner.
Xie Meng responded readily with his pockets in his pocket, lit a cigarette from the charcoal fire, held it in his mouth, and walked out relaxedly.
Shen Manzhi followed the little lion's fur in her hand and accidentally plucked out a few strands. She slowly turned into another alley.
If you had a God's perspective, you would definitely see that the alley she walked down and the alley where Xie Meng left were the same destination.
At the entrance of the alley with heavy traffic, Xie Meng answered the phone with a somewhat proud smile on his face, "Yes, you did follow the surveillance and found me. She asked me to take her to the pawn shop. I guess she believed her. Don't worry. , the store owner was taken away, and she couldn’t find anything.”
After the people walked away, the figure hiding in the dark leaned against the wall and lit up the phone screen, reflecting a cold face.
Shen Manzhi took out the third photo that he did not show to Xie Meng.
It is the perspective of the wooden door at the entrance of the pawn shop facing the main hall of the house. In the black and white picture, a tall and burly man is standing on a stool facing the wall, pulling at a few canvases, as if to see if they are valuable.
The man was wearing a hat, but his movements and body shape were exactly the same as when Xie Meng was standing on a stool to pick up the little lion.
Shen Manzhi gathered his coat and walked back. He took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and held it between his two fingers. There was no fire.
At a noisy late-night snack stall intersection, several young people laughed together, and their mouths were filled with dirty words.
Shen Manzhi glanced and saw a group of people pushing and hooting around a boy carrying a schoolbag in the corner.
She looked away without interest, stepped up the steps and took out coins from her pocket, saying in a cold voice, "Lighter."
"Sister, let me lend you some fire."
The lazy boy's voice rang in his ears, and Lu Zhe, who had flamboyant red hair, lay on his side on the counter with his chin propped up, looking at her and smiling.
Shen Manzhi was cold and distant, holding the cigarette between his two fingers to his mouth, with the little furry lion on the back of his hand, lowering his eyes and lighting the fire.
The flames flickered in the woman's beautiful eyes, but Lu Zhe felt a little sourness in his heart.
She turned around, exhaling a circle of smoke from her mouth, and glanced at his red hair as if looking at a stranger.
"Lu Zhe, I am not a kind person, please don't touch my bottom line."
(End of this chapter)