After eating and drinking, it was already ten o'clock at night. Everyone went home one after another. Xun Mu also sent Qi Yuan to the door of his house. He waved his hand to let him rest early and drove away again.

Qi Yuan did not go upstairs. He was slightly tipsy and wandered down the street downstairs. It had been a long time since he had gone shopping. Today, on a whim, he suddenly wanted to go shopping.

But when the cool breeze blew, he vaguely felt his temples beating slightly, his head swelling and pain, and he felt a little uncomfortable, so he lost interest and went upstairs to sleep.

He woke up very early the next day, and it was the weekend again. He had nothing to do, so he played games at home for the whole day. He went out again in the evening and wandered around again.

Since the stall economy suddenly recovered three months ago, or since the authorities suddenly relaxed restrictions on the stall economy and in turn encouraged the stall economy, many cities have suddenly become lively.

But this is only the initial stage. The rise of the stall economy is just a false proposition. The fundamental reason for encouraging stalls is to try to restore the economy and seek stability as much as possible.

Because of an accident, the impact on the economy was much greater than many people expected. The weakest people were unemployed, and many fresh graduates could not find jobs. There were more and more marginalized people in the city, and the proportion was getting higher and higher.

As they grow older, their survival becomes a critical issue.

When the proportion of this group of people is relatively small, their demands are niche demands and their problems are only minor issues. In the eyes of some people, creating health, creating civilization, city appearance, order, etc. are more critical.

At this time, small problems have become big problems, so solving their demands is more important than creating a health problem or something like that.

Everything is actually a choice. No matter what choice you make, it is difficult to be perfect. In many cases, you can only choose the lesser of two evils.

Just like banning small vendors, it is inevitable that some vitality and excitement will be lost, which will worsen the situation for many families who are not already wealthy. The cost of living and operating costs will increase sharply for many people, but in exchange for most people, they will have some benefits.

Benefits of stability, cleanliness, security and order.

Encouraging the establishment of stalls can certainly reduce the pressure on these people, and relatively sufficient competition may also lower the prices of goods to a certain extent. This will also significantly reduce the pressure on many people's lives. It is also much more convenient to purchase some daily necessities. Just go out and go downstairs.

have to……

However, overly mobile vendors and shopping consumers will inevitably bring about various problems, such as an increase in the incidence of pickpocketing and even more serious violent crimes, and difficulty in ensuring the quality of goods.

No matter how you choose, there are advantages and disadvantages, there are winners and losers. It is normal for losers not to be willing to curse, but it is a bit stupid for many vested gainers to follow them and complain.

Of course, there are compromise solutions to get the best of both worlds, but they require too much manpower, material resources and energy. When there are too many people to be managed and too few managers, new problems and new troubles will also arise.

One size fits all has become an instinctive choice.

Qi Yuan himself is quite objective and calm, and can barely maintain his rationality to look at these issues. He does not dislike small stalls and vendors. Like most people, he sometimes laments its convenience, and sometimes complains about the many fakes or being too crowded and noisy.

Yes, but basically only for a moment, and you can calm down quickly.

What's more, three months have passed, and the number of people setting up stalls is much smaller than before. After all, although the threshold for setting up a stall is low, not everyone can do it.

There will always be people who leave sadly.

At the beginning, various jokes were widely circulated, such as purchasing goods on online platforms, using seven-day no-reason refunds to avoid risks, and even paying for goods with credit "property" to avoid taking up already scarce cash.

Some people actually thought it made sense and ran to try it, but most of the results were miserable.

After so many years, the prices of many products on online platforms have long been no longer much cheaper than offline. Even if there are many products that look very cheap, they are still more expensive than wholesale purchases, thus losing the price advantage. If you insist on maintaining the price advantage, even

You may lose money, and even if you don't lose money, the little money you make will be too little.

What's more, returns also require postage. There are not many products with free freight insurance, and it is difficult to offset the postage. If you purchase freight insurance by yourself, as the frequency of returns increases, the price of freight insurance will also increase.

Some people also use online wholesale platforms, such as World Factory, Yaoliu Baba, etc., but online wholesale malls do not necessarily support refunds without reason, and there are also restrictions on the number of pieces to be approved.

Therefore, many speculators left the market sadly.

Doing business relies on many things, but just having a brain and being clever is far from enough. Not many people will tell you about the real experience of making money.

The gust of wind from the stall economy is not enough to blow pigs to the sky.

Therefore, there are much fewer people setting up stalls than three months ago.

But it's still lively.

Among them, various food stalls account for half of the country, and most of them are quick-fried and barbecued. Therefore, the smoke on the road makes it look hazy at first glance, and the various flavors are mixed together, which is quite fragrant.

Well, food stalls are not allowed to be set up directly in residential areas or under residents' buildings to prevent the fumes from having too much impact on residents. At the same time, they are not allowed to occupy the road for business, so most of them choose to gather on the sidewalks along the road.

Qi Yuan has no appetite at all now, so he has no interest in these food stalls.

On the contrary, he would stop and take a look at the stalls selling gadgets from time to time. Some of the things looked interesting at first glance, but there were also many that were really needed and worth buying.

For example, Douban’s high-rated movie calendar, such as a fly swatter with a vague Mona Lisa smile pattern, such as a disposable film camera, such as a multi-functional mobile phone case similar to a Swiss Army knife, such as Harry Potter’s little wand, such as pocket work

Combination sets, such as Transformers pens, air sand, pocket picnic straps, etc.

Some are quite practical, while others are not useful. Qi Yuan has bought quite a few of them, some of which can surprise him, but the novelty soon wears off, and most of them just pay the IQ tax.

But there are also some that are actually used, such as the bottle cap opening tool, which is so easy to use that it makes you cry.

There are even more necessities, such as shorts for home wear, slippers, cheap socks, etc.

But today Qi Yuan doesn't want to buy anything - before when he went shopping, he just bought the things he needed in a hurry and left, but today he wants to go shopping quietly and enjoy a slow-paced life for a short period of time.

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There was a lot of hustle and bustle, stops and starts, and unconsciously, a smile appeared on Qi Yuan's face.

As he was walking, he suddenly heard a few screams. His professional habits made his heart tense for a moment. He suddenly looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman in her early thirties in a room not far away.

He rushed out of the chess and card room, screaming loudly as he ran, shouting about killing people.

Qi Yuan hurriedly ran to the chess and card room, took out his cell phone and quickly called the police, shouting to identify himself.

Rushing into the chess and card room, he vaguely heard a faint wailing coming from a certain compartment. He immediately glanced left and right and saw that many people had gathered around to watch the fun. There were still several men and women standing in the chess and card room.

He lowered his head and looked away, not daring to look directly at Qi Yuan. He had an idea in his mind and quickly walked towards the cubicle.

The compartment door was actually locked and could not be opened. He quickly came to his senses and said coldly: "Key! Take it out!"

"No...no key, officer." A middle-aged man said quickly.

"No key? Are you kidding!" Qi Yuan raised his eyebrows and raised his voice a little higher: "Be honest and hand over the key quickly! If you delay saving people, you are committing murder!"

"We really don't have a key. We don't know what happened. The door was suddenly closed. We tried to open it just now but couldn't open it and couldn't find the key." The middle-aged man explained immediately.

Qi Yuan frowned, snorted, and then said: "Come two people and break the door open with me!"

The middle-aged man immediately stepped forward, took two steps back with Qi Yuan, and slammed the door hard.

While banging, Qi Yuan took out his mobile phone and called the emergency number. He explained the situation clearly in a few words and then continued to bang on the door.

The quality of the door was not very good, and it was knocked open in a few strokes. Immediately after, Qi Yuan saw a woman in her early twenties lying on the ground, her mouth wide open, white smoke coming out of her mouth, and she could smell it.

There is a distinct burnt smell.

At this moment, she had lost consciousness and was motionless. Qi Yuan hurriedly stepped forward and found that her pupils were also dilated and she was already in a dangerous state.

Qi Yuan sighed softly, and when he looked carefully, he saw that her clothes were disheveled, her collar was torn, and there were many scratch marks on her neck and chest. The scratches were so deep that the skin was broken and blood oozed out.

There were also many burn marks on her hands and face, and several pieces of hair were missing. Many of the hair strands were either burned or curled up into pieces. There was also a lot of charcoal ash on her body, hair and on the ground.

Looking more carefully, the woman's face was flushed, and underneath the burnt smell, she could smell alcohol.

"What's going on?" Qi Yuan asked with a serious face.

Several people looked at each other, but no one answered.

Under Qi Yuan's gaze, the middle-aged man from before finally stood up and said, "We really don't know what's going on. Just now, our guests were playing cards here when we suddenly heard a tragic sound coming from this room.

Yelled, followed by another sound of "dong-dong-dong".

I was about to go and see what was going on. Suddenly someone yelled that someone had killed someone. Many customers were so frightened that they immediately stood up and ran outside. The place became a mess. The mahjong tables were pushed to two. Follow the police officer and come here.

Yes. Really, just run away and turn over the table..."

Qi Yuan frowned and looked around.

This compartment is quite large. There are three tables, two mahjong tables and a multi-functional chess and card table. It has no windows and relies on three exhaust fans for ventilation. In fact, it poses quite a fire safety hazard.

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There was also a toilet inside. Qi Yuan walked in and took a look again, and found that there was a window in the toilet, which was covered by blinds. The blinds were now in a mess, the window was wide open, and several incomplete and shallow pieces could be found on the window sill.

Shoe prints are in exactly the opposite direction.

In other words, the scene is not a secret room, but there is only one exit outside the door. Conventionally, this is where the suspect walked - unless he made a subtle arrangement when committing the crime, and people in the chess and card room heard the movement.

It was already gone by then.

But this is obviously impossible. There were obvious signs of struggle on the victim's body, and the middle-aged man said that the door was suddenly closed. Therefore, the perpetrator must have stayed at the scene and left in a hurry after causing a commotion.

It can also be seen from the shoe prints that the perpetrator probably entered and exited the scene through a window. Of course, it is also possible that after going out, he deliberately climbed up the window sill and stepped on it to create some false traces to confuse the police. Although the possibility is not high, Qi

Yuan will not rule it out easily.

What's going on? You can find out by having a professional mark inspector come over and do some shoe print separation and coverage analysis.

In addition, Qi Yuan still had many questions in his mind, so he asked one by one: "Does anyone know the victim?"

"We know each other. She's Lao Wu's daughter. Her name is Wu Huiwen. She just graduated this year." The middle-aged man said again: "Lao Wu is my partner. In the chess and card room we open together, I contribute 60% and he contributes 60%."

40%. In addition, Huiwen is already talking about marriage with my son, and I treat her as my daughter-in-law.

At about four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Hui Wen stumbled into the chess and card room. She was obviously drunk. She called her dad when she came in, but Lao Wu was not there. He had gone back to his hometown the day before yesterday. I asked her what was wrong and why she drank so much, but she didn't.

He said, I had no other choice, so I poured her a cup of hot water and helped her into this room to rest."

After a pause, he repeated again, emphatically: "That's what happened after that. Suddenly I heard screams and some other noises. Someone was shouting about killing, and then you came, police officer."

Qi Yuan then asked: "When you helped her in, was the door open?"

"No, there was no ventilation inside, and there were not many people in the store at that time and it was not too noisy, so I didn't close the door, so I could take care of her from time to time. I even called my son and asked him to come over.

Take Huiwen home to rest, it’s not easy to sleep in the chess and card room, there’s no bed or anything like that, so we can only put up a few chairs for her to lie down on.”

Qi Yuan thought over what he said carefully in his mind, and then continued to ask: "Did anyone come to this compartment during this period?"

"No, I didn't see it. Then the door suddenly closed. I thought it was blown by the wind."

"Okay, I understand." Qi Yuan squinted slightly, looked at the man twice, noted down his appearance, and regarded him as an important suspect who needed to be investigated intensively.

The reason is very simple. When he replied, he said that the deceased was his daughter-in-law, and at the same time, his words intentionally or unintentionally revealed his concern for the deceased. But what Qi Yuan saw after he arrived at the scene at the speed of light...

Anyway, Qi Yuan didn't show much concern. On the contrary, he was a little evasive at first, and his reaction after hearing the screams was too indifferent.

Even when he knocked on the door, Qi Yuan had to open his mouth, and he didn't know how to call the emergency number. When he heard the noise before, he just stood there blankly, saying that he was looking for the key but not finding it, and then did nothing...

And it didn't look like he was panicked or frightened.
Chapter completed!