I immediately asked for the address where Xiaogang worked. I really couldn’t blame my second uncle for this, and he didn’t know anything about it either.
After hanging up the phone, I took a deep breath of cigarette and gradually calmed down.
I knew I couldn't rush this matter. It was already like this. All I had to do was calm down and think about how to find Xiaogang.
But now it seems that he must have come just for that palm print, otherwise how could he suddenly lose contact.
After we returned to the city, I couldn't rest. Without Xiaogang's whereabouts, I wouldn't be able to sleep that night.
I asked Wu Di to drive the car to the address that my second uncle told me. It was a food processing factory in the suburbs. The factory was quite old.
It was already eleven o'clock in the night, but the factory was still working. This was a factory that ran 24 hours a day.
Our car stopped at the entrance of the factory, and I went to talk to the security guard. I told the security guard that I wanted to find one of their workers.
The security guard asked me who I was looking for, and I said, "Chen Xiaogang, do you know him?"
"Chen Xiaogang?" The security guard was stunned for a moment, looked me up and down and said, "Who are you?"
It seemed that we knew each other, so I quickly said: "I am his cousin, does he work here?"
But the security guard said to me: "It's gone. That guy was fired a long time ago and he still owes me five hundred yuan."
I was stunned: "He was fired?"
"It happened a long time ago. This kid played cards all day long and was absent from work for several rounds in a row. The director fired him."
My heart suddenly went cold, but this was my only clue. I didn't want to give up, so I continued to ask: "Do you know where he lives?"
"How do I know this? I used to live in a dormitory in the factory. I didn't know about it after I was fired."
I fell silent immediately and sighed.
At this time, an Audi car drove out of the factory area. The security guard immediately let him go and said, "Director Liu is off work?"
The people in the car nodded to the security guard, then looked at me again and asked the security guard: "What do they do?"
"The person who was looking for Chen Xiaogang said he was Chen Xiaogang's cousin."
The security guard said, and then turned to me and said, "Brother, this is Director Liu who fired Chen Xiaogang. You may know better if you ask him."
I nodded quickly, turned around and asked Director Liu in the car: "Hello, may I ask, do you know Chen Xiaogang's current situation? Do you know where he lives?"
He shook his head at me and said, "He has been fired from the factory for a while. I don't know what his situation is now. What do you want to do with him?"
"It's a bit urgent, Director Liu, could you please think about it carefully?" With that said, I quickly took out the cigarette, walked up and handed him a whole box of Chinese cigarettes.
He put away his cigarette, looked at me and hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "I really don't know where he lives, but he usually likes to go to a place, which is a nearby bathing center. He has an old friend there."
This was a very important clue, so I quickly asked: "Do you have a specific address?"
He then said to me: "If you go forward, turn left at the second intersection and you'll see a bathing center called Repulse Bay Bathing Center about a hundred meters away. That's right there."
I forgot to glance in the direction of his finger, nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, Director Liu, and let's go slowly."
He nodded to me and drove away.
I was also about to look for that bath center, but the security guard suddenly stopped me and said, "Little brother, do you think you can use your cousin's five hundred yuan..."
This security guard has helped me. Although the money has nothing to do with me, good people should do their best.
I immediately took out my mobile phone and transferred 500 yuan to him. After he received it, he told me another message, saying: "Little brother, I know the name of his old friend. Let me tell you, it will be easier for you to find her."
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I nodded, and the security guard told me that Chen Xiaogang's old sweetheart in that bath center was named Xiaorou, and she was the top star in that bath center.
After I thanked him, I asked Wu Di to drive to the bathing center.
It was already twelve o'clock in the night. I originally wanted to find a hotel to sleep, but the palm print was gone, and I had no intention of sleeping.
However, this time is not too late for the bathing center, and business is at a good time.
This bathing club is not big. It is on the second floor. From the outside, it looks like an informal shop.
Wu Di and I walked in together, and an old lady in her thirties or forties greeted us: "Boss, would you like to take a shower?"
I nodded, and the old lady waved to me again and said, "Come on, let me arrange a room for you first."
We followed him through a dark corridor, and even heard some happy cries as we passed some rooms.
This kind of place is so unclean, it gives people a very depressing feeling, the lighting is also very depressing, and there is a damp and dull smell.
At the door of one of the rooms, the old lady stopped, opened the door and said to us: "Let's go in here first."
I said: "We are together."
The old chicken lady was stunned for a moment, looked at me and said, "Are you two together?"
"No?"
"Handsome guy, we don't like this here!"
“You can add money.”
"It's easy to add money, but how many technicians do you want to serve?"
"one."
The old chicken lady was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "You two bosses, you are really here to have fun! If you two find a technician, then this..."
"Is two thousand enough?"
For this kind of shop, two thousand yuan is completely enough.
The old chicken lady immediately agreed happily: "That's enough. The two bosses, please come in. I'll call my sister here for you. You can choose."
"No, we only need one."
"Is there a familiar technician?"
"One named Xiaorou."
"Xiaorou!" The old lady smiled and said, "It seems that you are really regular customers. Xiaorou is our number one here. You have to make a reservation for ordinary prices. You two..."
"I'll add a thousand more."
"No problem, please come in, two bosses. I'll call Xiaorou over right away."
There is nothing in this world that money cannot do. If there is, then keep adding more money.
After entering the room, Wu Di and I waited, and the old lady brought us two cups of tea.
To her, I may be a big customer, and this purchase is only three thousand yuan.
This room is not big, with only a bed and a fish tank. The lighting in the room is similar to that on the corridor outside, which is very dim light.
It was very stuffy, there were no windows, and the humid smell gave me rhinitis and made me sneeze several times.
Wu Di seemed to have never been to a place like this. He asked me seriously: "Brother Chen, is this really a place for bathing?"
I smiled and said, "It's a bath, but it's not an ordinary bath. Have you never been to a bathing center?"
"No, I have never been to Foot Washing City."
"If it's a regular bathing center, you can still go and experience it. I'll take you there if I have the chance, but forget it, it's quite dirty."
While we were chatting, the sound of high-heeled footsteps came from outside the door.
Immediately afterwards there was a knock on the door of the room: "Hello technician service, could you please come in?"