"Although I didn't expect to be able to investigate clearly..." Looking at the silent night and the neon lights on the street, Jiang Shao couldn't help but sigh, "This is too difficult."
It is now approaching midnight, and today's working hours have exceeded 12 hours, but the accumulated fatigue has not made any progress in the investigation of the incident. After leaving the company, Jiang Yan looked at the busy streets of the city, and his psychological depression became more and more obvious.
The fatigue from work cannot be brought home. Jiang Yan took a leisurely stroll and was still carried away by his own feet. Regardless of the destination, he hummed a little tune and felt the evening breeze that was starting to get colder. Jiang Yan couldn't help but feel...
I walked to the front of the small building where Taiyi was under house arrest. I scratched my head in frustration. It seemed that I had made up my mind not to think about work. Subconsciously, I was still very anxious. Forget it, don’t think about air defense today and go back honestly.
It's better to take a nap.
Just as Jiang Shao was about to turn around and leave, a soft and charming female voice stopped him in surprise: "Jiang Shao - is that you?" Jiang Shao looked towards her and saw this plump figure in a bathrobe under the dim light.
Wolper looked familiar, but the memory was a long time ago, and she couldn't remember who it was for a while. Perhaps seeing the confusion on his face, the woman laughed for a while, took two steps closer, changed her tone, and spoke again:
: "Mr. Ajman, is this title more familiar to you?"
Now Jiang Yan remembered. "Ms. Zi..." To be honest, Jiang Yan couldn't figure out her age very well, and what to call her made him a little confused. At this time, he saw this "Old Madam" with whom he had a close relationship.
, it was an unexpected surprise. Maybe she could exchange some needed information? After making up her mind, Jiang Hao was about to say hello, but Zi spoke first and said with a hint of joking:
"He said he had to work overtime, but he came to the red light district in the middle of the night. Mr. Jiang Shao was really in a good mood. He just cried. The little girl who worked at my place was the tenant who I missed so much. Not only did he not even like the food she cooked, he
Even--"
"Ahem, madam, you misunderstood." Jiang Yan heard that Shen Mo said that he was now working in Zikai's beauty salon, so he naturally knew who the "little girl" Zi was talking about.
"Oh?" Zi raised an eyebrow, "What did I misunderstand? Did I misunderstand a person or something?"
The originally planned speech was so messed up by the fox that Jiang Yan completely forgot about it as soon as it came to his lips. "I have misunderstood people and things." Jiang Yan thought awkwardly and explained, "Actually, it's work...
"
Zi shook her head, with a hint of anger on her expression, "Ah, work, work, it's all work. It's such a good excuse. I pity my good sister, she can't even compare to work, but she still needs to be ignored with such an excuse.
, Really, the listener sheds tears, the listener is sad, eh eh eh eh..." After saying that, Zi turned her face away in a pretentious manner, wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, and saw Jiang Yan raising her hand to explain, she pretended
Cried even more happily.
After a while, looking at Jiang Shao's helpless expression, Zi changed his face and smiled mischievously, "But, if Mr. Jiang Shao is willing to sit with me and have a chat, it's not like I can't keep this matter a secret for you?"
"...It's up to you." Jiang Yan couldn't remember how many times he sighed today, and he felt like he was being fooled. He could only let Zi hook his hand and lead him with him.
Before leaving the birdcage-like apartment.
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The red light district is not just a place for rouge business. As long as you are willing, you can find the best pharmacies and ramen restaurants in Longmen here, and the quality of the teahouses not far away that have staggered business hours with nightclubs is not inferior. Zi Ling Jiang Yan
Turning into a side street, sandwiched between strange signs such as a ramen shop and a hotel, the two words without neon looked very inconspicuous. "Yaqi", under the name of the shop is the extension of the stairs with dim lights.
It goes underground, not wide nor narrow, just enough for two people to pass. Zi walked down first and introduced to Jiang Yan:
"This is my favorite bar. Not only does the decoration suit my taste, but the owner is also very skilled in craftsmanship and has a strict tone of voice. If I were looking for a place to have a heart-to-heart talk and relax, this is it - ah!"
The purple wooden clogs were obviously not suitable for such a staircase. As she was introducing it to Jiang Yan, she naturally forgot to pay attention to her steps. She accidentally stepped on the air and just as she screamed, Jiang Yan held her elbow from behind.
, to prevent her from falling.
Zi breathed a sigh of relief and straightened her clothes. "Huh, thank you, that's funny." "It's a small effort, but please pay attention to your steps." Jiang Yan held Zi's elbow and scratched it slightly unnaturally with his other hand.
Face: I was so anxious that I didn’t think much about it, but now Zi’s soft body was almost leaning on his arm, so that he didn’t know how to react. Just as he was about to pull away his hand, Zi leaned over and Jiang
He had no choice but to maintain his gentlemanly demeanor to the end, and walked down the steps with Zi in his arms. The "torture" ended only when he opened the door for her.
"Welcome to Yaqi." Behind the door was a gentleman wearing a bartender's uniform. His gray hair was neatly combed behind his head. Even though he was no longer young, his posture still made people feel full of energy. Jiang
I noticed that when the gentleman mentioned the name of the bar, he used the Victorian language, "Under-be", which has not yet become, but will eventually become - "under-be". It is indeed an elegant name.
Zi took the lead and walked into the bar and greeted the boss, "Good evening, Master." "Miss Zi, long time no see." The gentleman leaned slightly and looked at Jiang Yan behind Zi, "You are a stranger. Who is this?"
Zi smiled and pulled Jiang Yan over and introduced: "This is Jiang Yan, a new friend of mine. Jiang Yan, this is the owner of the bar. You can call him Master."
Jiang Yan bowed to the old gentleman, "Good evening, Master. I'm sorry for bothering you tonight."
"Not at all, young sir, please take a seat, Yaqi welcomes everyone." The shop owner showed an friendly smile, walked forward from behind the bar, and pulled out the high chairs in front of the bar for the two of them, "This is
There have been no new customers in our store for a long time. If you can visit, the wine in the wine cabinet will also be happy."
The two of them sat down, took their orders, put the ice cubes into the shaker and made a pleasant sound. There was a brief silence between the three of them. Sometimes classical and sometimes jazz music came from the old-school speakers, occasionally accompanied by incomprehensible music.
The distortion makes people feel impatient, but it has a special charm; the seats in front of the bar, a few leather sofas and the tall wine cabinet together constitute this space that is not spacious, but the just right dim lighting creates this space.
A kind of mystery and security. Although it doesn’t mean anything else, I think the unlisted bar in Afa is completely inferior to this place. Although it was only a few days, this place really made Jiang Yan feel relaxed that he had not seen for a long time.
.
"Blue Moon, Gibson, please use it."
Jiang Yan took the wine glass, and the quite impactful taste perfectly matched his needs at the moment. After the aftertaste of the wine lingered on his tongue for a while, Zi asked him softly, "You ordered a very exciting wine. What now?
, do you still want to talk about work?" Seeing Jiang Yan's eyes lingering on the shop owner behind the bar for a while, Zi smiled and said, "You can put down your guard, this is a place to relax and rest. Besides, Master doesn't know how to do it at all.
Pay attention to what we talk about - he can always hear it through someone else."
"Really?" This was quite interesting. "Perhaps it would be faster if I asked the Master instead of asking you?"
"Please don't embarrass me," the shop owner said with a wry smile, "I'm just a small bar owner."
Zi, on the other hand, ignored the shop owner, "I can't say for sure. After all, this is a shop that old people like to come to. Needless to say, I know what I know. What the Master knows, I may not know."
"The elderly?"
"There are still people with seniority."
Jiang Yan nodded and stopped answering. He just focused on his wine glass and stereo. If everything is true as Zi said, let alone Zi there is no need to lie to him, then this can be said to be the largest important information circulation point in Longmen.
I'm afraid it's not just Lin, but also many giants whom Jiang Yan doesn't know yet provide guarantees here. In this case, the store owner's credit can indeed be guaranteed.
Jiang Yan asked straight to the point, "I wonder if Ms. Zi and Taiyi know each other? If I don't know this person, I probably won't be able to move forward with the problem at hand."
Zi calmly raised his wine glass, "You really said some very difficult things...in every sense." He looked at Jiang Yan's glasses with eyes that could not see the fluctuation, "So, you ask this
What is this about, Club Dukan?"
"...Black Steel International." Zi's reply confirmed some of Jiang Shao's conjectures: the identity behind Taiyi is by no means simple, and it is likely to affect the changes in power and even interest transactions behind Longmen. Jiang Shao considered the words he chose.
He said what he thought would be the least likely to cause trouble. "I will not confuse my own job with an industry that I have no control over. You can rest assured on this. Black Steel International has received a commission and asked us to investigate this."
People’s destination should be said.”
Zi's pupils suddenly shrank for a moment, but Jiang Yan did not miss this information. "What's going on?" Zi asked, "Where is Taiyi going? It should be impossible for him to leave that birdcage."
"...In fact, the results of my investigation tend to believe that Taiyi has been killed and the body has disappeared." Zi obviously does not know the details of that building. This may be something Jiang Yan can use to exchange with her.
"What my employer wants to find out is probably who did this and whether it will have an impact on him. Time is tight and I need to hand over a report that can convince him right away."
Books will do.”
Zi stared at the wine glass with shock and loneliness, and slowly drank the remaining wine in the glass. "Taiyi... is a very charming person. I can't tell whether it is this charm that makes him pitiful, or maybe
It was such a pitiful person who should not have had such charm, which led to what happened to him.
"I have some friendship with him, which is very rare in Longmen. After all, he became famous too quickly. That was when he first came to Longmen, on a stowaway boat, from all over the world, poor people with no way out.
People occasionally come to Longmen in this way, wanting to exchange their bodies for some chance of survival. Most of them are women, and many of the girls you see in heaven and earth are also among them. Taiyi was among them at that time.
, until we got off the boat, no one discovered that he was a man. If he hadn't said it himself, I'm afraid no one would have discovered it at all. Even I didn't believe it. It wasn't until later that everyone discovered that what he said was true.
"You can definitely think of him as a woman. Taiyi is an attractive soul growing up in such an attractive body, but this body is like a joke made by God, it is a male body. That's right.
Because of such a coincidence, he is simply the perfect collection for powerful people with strange hobbies.
"Everything didn't take long, packaging, publicity, auction, and then he was put in that birdcage. My relationship with him only lasted for a short month. If you want to evaluate him...he is a giveaway.
There are some willful people who are hard to figure out.
"His purpose in coming to Longmen was too simple. He just wanted to see what the world was like outside of his hometown. But he didn't have that kind of capital. It was just his natural beauty that gave him a chance to leave his hometown.
This opportunity gave him the opportunity to leave his hometown, but it would not let him leave this place again. This was undoubtedly cruel to him. Seeing only the scenery of one place was obviously not enough for a bird who wanted to travel around the world.
Soon, Taiyi, who had seen the bustling scene, had an unexplained initial sparkle in his eyes. When I saw him for the last time, he got into the buyer's car, and all he could see on his face was... helpless acceptance."
"...I see." Jiang Yan began to understand, "That's why there is a long-standing rumor about him: occasionally objects fall from the small building, and those who are lucky enough to pick them up bring them up for him, so that he can have a look.
Fang Rong. In fact, he chose her just to satisfy his curiosity about the world."
"Yes, this is also where he was willful. In fact, those people later, without exception, disappeared quietly."
Jiang Yan pondered in silence for a while, "Let's stop talking." This topic obviously cannot be discussed further, and it is better to know less about the things behind it: Taiyi is a willful and smart person, he knows how to use small means to express
He rebelled against himself, satisfied his curiosity, and knew how to use his charm to make the owner of the birdcage accept his willfulness again and again. At the moment, the patience of the person he could not imagine had probably reached its limit. This disappearance made him
Feeling so distraught, what Jiang Yan needed to do was to find someone acceptable to his employer to accept this kind of anger.
But entering it to collect evidence without knowing it was indeed too risky.
"My condolences, Ms. Zi. I can probably understand your sadness, but Taiyi's soul has broken out of the birdcage. For him, this is probably the best ending."
Zi raised a smile, and her eyebrows relaxed a lot. "He is really an eloquent gentleman. It's just that it's better not to show this kind of grace to everyone easily. However, in order to thank you for your comfort, I will tell you one more thing.
Bar……"
"The whereabouts of a passenger who came to Longmen from Victoria is unknown. The Guard Bureau is using some other forces to investigate. Part of the reason why it is inconvenient to take action directly is——
"The last identifiable landmark before he disappeared was that small building."
I would like to apologize and thank you to all readers who are still reading this book.
For some reasons, the author has been in a bad mental state. Due to some persistence in the work, I cannot bear to write in such a bad state, for fear of giving everyone a bad reading experience.
Now that I have successfully applied for suspension of study, I am working hard to combat my psychological problems, and my serialization will continue to resume.
Not just Jiang Yan, each of us needs to fight against something beyond our imagination——