After arriving at the machining workshop, I stepped forward and greeted a guy who was operating the machine: "Hello, excuse me."
"Is something wrong?" The young man turned to look at me and continued to operate the machine.
I took out a cigarette, stepped forward and handed him one, and said with a friendly smile: "Is it convenient for me to ask you something?"
He looked at me first, and then at the cigarette I handed him. He didn't take it, but said indifferently: "I'm very busy now and don't have time."
I smiled bitterly, took back my cigarette, and took a look at the machinery workshop. It was quite messy, with machinery oil stains everywhere and a strong smell.
And besides this little brother, there is no one else here.
Seeing that I still didn't leave, he asked me again: "What do you want to do?"
"What am I not doing? Don't be so hostile to me. I'm just here to ask you something."
He hesitated for a while, finally stopped the machine, and turned to me and asked: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Smoke." I stepped forward again and handed over the cigarette.
This time he finally took it, and I quickly took out the lighter and lit it for him, and then asked him: "Not long ago, did you find a group of people beating a woman outside?"
The little brother was obviously stunned for a moment, but shook his head and said: "I didn't see it."
"Handsome guy, I'm really in a hurry. If you see it, please tell me the truth, okay?"
As I said that, I took out the five hundred yuan I had just taken out from my pocket and quietly handed it over.
He looked at the money, was stunned for a moment, and said, "What do you mean?"
"Please, if you see this, please tell me that the woman who was beaten is my girlfriend."
The young man squinted his eyes, hesitated for a moment, took the money, and then said: "I did see it. There were several men surrounding a woman and beating her."
I suddenly became nervous, and then asked her: "Have you seen the faces of those men clearly?"
"I saw it clearly at the time, but I have forgotten it now. I didn't look carefully. There are so many people. What if they find me peeking and hit me?"
I sighed and asked again: "Approximately how many are there?"
The little brother was silent for a while and said: "There were probably four or five people. After the beating, they ran away on bicycles."
After finishing speaking, he paused and added: "You still have to thank me, because I called 120 for your girlfriend."
I took out another two hundred yuan and handed it to him and said, "Yes, thank you very much!"
After hesitating for a while, he took the two hundred yuan and then said to me: "Brother, who did your girlfriend mess with? I don't think you are a good person! It's more like
On the road."
"are you sure?"
"Look at what they are doing," he said to me in a low voice after a pause, "By the way, there are no surveillance cameras nearby. If you want to find those people, I can go to the intersection ahead to get the surveillance cameras.
, they left on three motorcycles and must have passed the intersection in front of them."
I nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, thank you very much, brother."
"It's okay. There were a lot of them just now. If there were just one or two people, I might go and help. Don't blame me for not helping."
"I don't blame you. You've already given me a lot of information by telling me this. Thank you."
"Go on, go on, I'm going to do something." After saying that, he continued to operate the machine.
I first went to the intersection in front of the place that the guy mentioned and checked. After confirming that there was a camera, I went to the police station.
I recounted the incident of Sun Xiaojie's beating to the police, and told them that the men who beat Sun Xiaojie might be filmed by the surveillance camera at that intersection.
So I followed the police to the traffic police brigade and retrieved surveillance footage of the approximate time period when Sun Xiaojie was murdered.
Sure enough, I saw several men riding three motorcycles. There were five of them in total. They were all wearing helmets and could not see their faces. They didn't even have the license plates of the three motorcycles.
The police saved the video first and then told me they would investigate.
I don't know how long the investigation will take. Just like the person who signed the contract with Sun Xiaojie, there is still no news at all.
But what can I do now?
As for the surveillance footage just now, although the people who beat Sun Xiaojie were captured fleeing the scene, there was no video of them beating anyone at all.
Moreover, we couldn't even see their faces, so finding them would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I returned to the hospital again. Sun Xiaojie had just finished the infusion, but he still stayed in the hospital for observation.
Seeing that I was back, Sun Xiaoxiao hurriedly asked me: "How is it? Have you found the person?"
I shook my head, sighed and said, "There was no surveillance at the place where you were beaten, and the surveillance at the intersection ahead didn't capture the faces of those people."
"Does that mean you let them run away?"
I didn't know what to say, so I chose silence.
Sun Xiaoxiao said anxiously: "Speak! Can we find those people?"
"The police said they are waiting for news."
"We're waiting for news again. How long will we have to wait?" Sun Xiaojie began to feel uneasy.
In fact, I know that the group of people was probably sent by Min Wenbin. The group of people did not kill Sun Xiaojie, which is enough to prove that Min Wenbin wanted to give me a warning.
This grandson is simply too despicable, but I can’t do anything about him, so why does he still linger around?
In the silence, Sun Xiaojie lamented again: "Forget it! Let's compromise! We are really no match for him, let's compromise!"
I am really unwilling to give in! But I really don’t know how to solve all this.
The useless feeling in my heart cannot be expressed in words. I can even feel how proud Min Wenbin is at this moment.
Maybe Liang Jing is right, I am no match for Min Wenbin, I am just an ant in front of him.
Sun Xiaojie started crying again. In the long time I've known her, this is the most I've seen her cry in the past two days.
She was really scared, and seeing her changed beyond recognition made me feel very uncomfortable.
Originally, she and Min Wenbin had nothing to do with each other, but because of me, she was hurt.
Maybe, I really should choose to compromise.
After a long period of weighing, I finally said to Sun Xiaojie: "You are crying. I will go find Min Wenbin now and compromise with him."
When Sun Xiaoxiao heard this, he immediately became energetic and asked excitedly: "Is it true?"
"Then what else can be done?"
Sun Xiaojie wiped away her tears and said, "Don't he just want An Lan's house? Give it to him, and I will buy you a bigger one in the future."
I smiled bitterly and said nothing more.
When leaving, I told him to take a good rest and then left the hospital.
I stood on the roadside outside the hospital gate, looking at the endless flow of traffic in front of me, and the footsteps that were sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and I felt absent-minded for a long time.
Do you really want to compromise with Min Wenbin? Do you really want to give him the only real estate left by An Lan?
And I always feel that the house An Lan left behind was not that simple, and Min Wenbin definitely didn’t just want that house.
But what else can I do now?
The only way is to choose to be patient, to compromise, to bow to him