Chapter 179 It turns out that a genius descended from heaven
After leaving the Hilton Hotel, Xiong Jiandong planned to take Metro Line 4 to Zhongguancun.
Xiao Zhuzhu has been detained by the police station for several days, and he plans to drop by the detention center to see him.
The crime of kidnapping, explosion, and even murder may be related to the prosecution of Xiaozhu, and it is very likely that he will be sentenced to more than a few years. How to reduce Xiaozhu's sentence has become a problem on Xiong Jiandong's mind.
At the subway entrance, a pair of beggars called "husband and wife" stopped Xiong Jiandong.
The man was in his sixties, had a broken arm, and was crippled with one leg; the woman was about the same age, carrying a cloth bag riddled with holes, only opening her mouth but not speaking, and looking like a mute.
Both of them were wearing begging "work clothes" and holding professional "props" in their hands. They led Xiong Jiandong to a secluded place, and the man handed him a cigarette.
"Uncle Dacheng, Aunt Yang, how is business today?" Xiong Jiandong asked in a low voice.
"It's okay!" Uncle Dacheng replied, "I guess I have seventy or eighty yuan."
"I can make more money than Lao Zhang. I earned more than 100 yuan in one morning!"
Seeing no one around, Aunt Yang also spoke in dialect.
She took out a stack of medical records, an electrocardiogram, and a few X-rays from the bag, and said gratefully to Xiong Jiandong: "Thanks to your beggar-headed strategist's effective tricks, these things picked up from the trash can really come in handy!
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Indeed, her money-making chain tool was an idea that Xiong Jiandong came up with from a rag picker.
The man whom Xiong Jiandong called Uncle Dacheng, whose surname was Zhang, was Yao Shunzhu's fellow villager in Yizhou and Xiong Jiandong's biological uncle who was sworn to his brother Zhang Er Ge in Jiuwei Mountain.
Some time ago, Brother Zhang found out the whereabouts of Granny Yao's youngest son through his uncle who was a beggar here. As a result, Xiong Jiandong quickly got in touch with Xiaozhu as soon as he returned to the capital.
As a common social phenomenon, beggars can be found all over the country. Especially in big cities like Beijing, as long as there is a place to stay that is not forcibly controlled, such as overpasses, underground passages, subway stations, etc.
Professional beggars can be seen everywhere.
Many of them pretend to be disabled, or have mild disabilities that appear more serious; some pretend to be seriously ill elderly people, or beg for surgery fees for their children.
Not far from the car wash shop where Xiong Jiandong works, there is a shantytown that has not yet been renovated. It is small and only houses a few dozen families.
Zhang Da became the leader and took a number of beggars and rag pickers under his command to live here. Usually, they had the same schedule as office workers, starting early in the morning and finishing work in the evening.
Uncle Dacheng has been a beggar for more than ten years.
In his early years, he worked at a construction site in the capital. Half of his body touched a high-voltage wire and one of his arms was amputated, so he began his career as a beggar.
Most beggars stick together in groups, so there are often disputes over territory and road rights, and they generally cannot fight alone.
An important job of Uncle Dacheng is to combine roles for his team of beggars from time to time and change the begging route map. Otherwise, it will always be a pair of familiar faces in the same old place, and there will be no one willing to give money.
Today, Uncle Dacheng and Aunt Yang are working together as a temporary couple to drum up business at the subway station here.
Xiong Jiandong has no other place to go in the capital these days. He spends most of the day exchanging greetings with street vendors, homeless workers, and even beggars and collecting rags. He always maintains a close relationship with them and makes some decisions for everyone.
Invisibly, he became a member of the beggar team and was flattered as the "beggar-headed strategist!"
However, he just had to go begging along the street with him.
On the one hand, Xiong Jiandong sympathizes with these weak people who are struggling to survive; on the other hand, he himself feels the hardships and hardships of life at the bottom of society.
Of course, he had another, more long-term consideration, which was to ask Zhang Dacheng and his team of beggars for help once he had clues that Representative Tan was in the capital, and send someone to wait at the door of General Lu's house to monitor the guests.
At this time, Zhang Dacheng asked: "Brother Xiong, why are you here?"
"I came... to visit an acquaintance." Xiong Jiandong couldn't say that he went to the Hilton Hotel for dinner, as that would frighten the two beggars in front of him. "Now, I want to take the subway to see Xiaozhu."
"I'll buy you a ticket." The enthusiastic Aunt Yang said and hurried to the subway ticket office.
"Poor little Zhuzhu, it's hopeless now, he'll probably be shot!" Zhang Dacheng lamented. "Speaking of it, the waitress in the hot pot restaurant is hateful enough. If she hadn't provoked her one after another, Xiaozhu wouldn't have been able to do it all.
Being so impulsive can lead to such a big trouble!"
"Tell me, how did that girl provoke Xiaozhu?" Xiong Jiandong was moved in his heart.
"That day, Xiao Zhuzhu invited a few of us to drink at a street stall, and the waitress and her new boyfriend happened to be passing by." Zhang Dacheng said, "The man took out a fruit knife and threatened Xiao Zhu. If he dared to provoke the waitress again, he would
She gouged out Xiaozhu’s eyes. The waitress also threw the fruit knife in front of Xiaozhu and told Xiaozhu that if she had the guts, she would be killed!”
"So the fruit knife used by Xiao Zhuzhu on the day of the accident belonged to the waitress and her boyfriend, and was not planned by him in advance?" Xiong Jiandong was horrified.
"Exactly!" Zhang Dacheng said, "Later, we pushed the waitress and her boyfriend away, and the fruit knife remained."
"Uncle Dacheng, you saved Xiaozhu!" Xiong Jiandong said happily.
He waited for Aunt Yang to buy a ticket and immediately got on the subway without thanking her.
If what Uncle Dacheng said is true, this will be an important piece of evidence that is very beneficial to Xiaozhu's case, and may even lead to an unexpected reversal.
Because that fruit knife is the key evidence in the kidnapping case. If Xiao Shunzi had prepared it with him before, it means that he had a motive for the murder. On the other hand, if it belonged to the waitress and her new boyfriend had prepared it before and actually used it.
If someone comes to threaten Xiaozhu, of course there will be a new explanation for another situation.
Thinking of this, Xiong Jiandong immediately felt relaxed.
Xiaozhu was addicted to smoking. In a small supermarket opposite the detention center, Xiong Jiandong bought two packs of cigarettes. He hesitated when he saw bagged duck legs and tea eggs on the shelves.
When he left Jiuwei Mountain, the money Taoist Aunt Miaoxin gave him had been spent for a while, and there was very little left.
But not far after he walked out of the supermarket, he couldn't help but think of Grandma Yao, who had always missed her son. So he turned back and took out all the few dozen yuan he had.
Now, Xiong Jiandong is penniless. Fortunately, he is now mixed with Zhang Dacheng's group of beggars, and he has food and shelter for the time being. As long as he waits until the end of the month, he can receive his first piece-rate salary from the owner of the car wash shop.
The police officer raised Yao Shunzhu from his cell and only allowed Xiong Jiandong to visit him for ten minutes.
Xiao Zhuzhu was considered an extremely dangerous felon, so he was handcuffed and shackled when meeting Xiong Jiandong.
As soon as he waited for the police officer to leave, he immediately burst into tears towards Xiong Jiandong.