Section 6 Take my money and pay you the rent
Before he could talk to Zheng Xiaoyue, Liu Tianming quickly accelerated his pace and ran towards the exit of the corridor.
When I got closer, I saw that it was not Xiao Wu, but another stranger with a similar figure as Xiao Wu. Liu Tianming felt very embarrassed. He couldn't put his right hand in the air, which he wanted to say hello, and didn't know what to say.
According to the division of the hospital, male caregivers like Xiao Wu were placed under the unified management of the security department. When Liu Tianming walked into the security department office, the deputy security captain He Dashan was sitting on the sofa, shaking his head and humming a few folk lantern lyrics.
As his name suggests, He Dashan is tall and obese, with a size of over 1.9 meters. His broad shoulders and black skin always give people a kind of power and deterrence. It is said that he used to be a basketball preparatory student at a sports school, but because of his irritable temperament, he was expelled from the school because of his fierce temperament. With his bravery and fierce temperament, it is appropriate for He Dashan to be a security guard. However, he has obviously neglected exercise in recent years, eating more and moving less, and his fat body has increased day by day. In private, someone once joked: He Dashan is now a fat and strong human-shaped wild boar.
He heard footsteps, He Dashan turned his huge head and looked at Liu Tianming, who was standing at the door of the office. With the unique age advantage of middle-aged people and the gap in identity between him and the other party, he asked majestic and coldly: "Young man, is there anything wrong?"
Of course, He Dashan knew Liu Tianming. A mere university intern, not a formal doctor with a staffing in the hospital, would not be taken seriously by him at all.
Liu Tianming nodded calmly and asked directly: "Captain He, is Xiao Wu here?"
"Xiao Wu?"
He Dashan took out a cigarette from his pocket of clothes, slowly pulled out one to light it, carrying the arrogance of the superior, frowned and said, "I haven't seen him for several days. No one answered the phone. Maybe he felt that the hospital care work was difficult, so this kid wouldn't come at all, right?"
Liu Tianming had called Xiao Wu's cell phone before, but no one answered it.
Hospital care is a very time-consuming and physically consuming job, and the salary is not very large. Often, some people only work for a month and then quit their jobs. Some people think it is very troublesome to write a resignation application, so they simply leave on their own after getting the monthly salary. In short, they don’t owe anything to the hospital, but instead give the hospital a few extra days of work for free.
After calculation, when he lost contact with Xiao Wu, it was the third day after the salary last month was paid. He Dashan’s guess was not unreasonable.
Liu Tianming did not stay in the office for too long, so he turned around and left after a random excuse. He knew very well that he could not find any useful information from He Dashan.
Fortunately, when I was working together, Liu Tianming left a residence address for Xiao Wu.
This is probably the final clue.
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The houses rented in urban villages are very cheap. The location of Liujia Village is already outside Kunming. Although it is far away from the main urban area, it still attracts a large number of migrant workers with a rent of about 100 yuan per month.
When Liu Tianming came to Liujia Village, it was already dark. There were several barbecue stalls at the entrance of the village near the road, and a strong smell of oil smoke and barbecue came from the air. Whether roasted chicken wings or roasted tofu was cheap, you could eat enough for a few dollars. However, looking at the grilled spices applied to cover up the odor, I don’t know how long it had been placed in the refrigerator. The colors had turned out to be outrageously red under the action of preservatives, Liu Tianming really had no desire to eat them.
It just rained yesterday, and the village was filled with sewage. The houses were streaked with space desperately, and the roads became lined worms that seemed to be fleeing from the belly of steel and concrete monsters. The road surface in such places was so narrow that even the widest place could only barely accommodate three people to pass through in parallel. After all, the buildings built now will be calculated when the government demolishes the land in the future. If an extra square inch of land is all thick stacks of banknotes.
According to the address left by Xiao Wu, Liu Tianming carefully walked into the open red painted iron door of No. 897.
This is a six-story building with a "concave" shape. After entering the main door, it is a patio. The door on the side of the first floor is open. A group of people put on mahjong inside, making excited shouts, laughter and scolding, and the "spooky" sound of playing mahjong shuffling.
An old man wearing a blue cloth top and hunched figure came over, looked at Liu Tianming with great vigilance, and asked in a strong local dialect: "Which one are you looking for? What's the matter?"
The lie that had been considered long ago blurted out from Liu Tianming: "I am Wu Jian's friend, come and help him pay the rent for this month."
Xiao Wu's name is Wu Jian. As for rent, it is a false thing.
The mysterious patient who was admitted to the previous one was already dead. Liu Tianming was very worried about his current physical condition. He did not want to be a guinea pig, nor did he want to die. Therefore, he had to find Xiao Wu.
If you are not sure whether Xiao Wu is still renting a house, the best way is to use the word "money" to open the way directly and decisively. Spending money also requires skills. Suddenly, you can push the money over, which makes people feel inexplicable, and you will subconsciously become vigilant and guarded. If you use excuses like rent, it will be different.
The expression on the old man's face under the light suddenly became much more relaxed. He grinned, showed a satisfied smile, and his teeth covered in dirt, black and yellow, and incomplete: "There are not a few days left this month. Last week, I urged him to ask for his rent, but I didn't expect it to be sent here today. Yesterday, someone came to see the house and said he wanted to rent the room he lives in now. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk t
The old man's words were obviously showing kindness. Of course, it was also for the sake of the few bills that Liu Tianming took out from his pocket. Liu Tianming had no intention of standing here and listening to the old man's nonsense. He quickly interrupted the other party's endless words and asked briefly: "Is Wu Jianzai?"
"I haven't seen him for several days."
After the old man said this, he immediately reacted and looked at Liu Tianming with a strange look: "Hey! Didn't you come here to pay the rent for him? Why did you ask me the other way around?"
"I am a colleague in his hospital and rushed over when I receive his call."
Every day, Liu Tianming was trained to lie with all kinds of patients in the hospital, and he opened his mouth and didn't blink his eyes: "He said on the phone that he was doing business outside. If I arrived first, go to his room and wait. Well... that, please open Wu Jian's door for me."
What this statement is logical and reasonable. The urban village is an extremely chaotic place, and the complex friendship between renters is difficult to distinguish. As a landlord, the old man is naturally experienced in how to judge and such issues. In his opinion, Liu Tianming, who looks gentle and kind, should not be a liar. Moreover, the first sentence after Liu Tianming entered the door was not to directly look for Wu Jian, but to pay the rent for Wu Jian. This kind of person who is willing to take the initiative to pay the money has eliminated most of the old man's vigilance.
The old man also secretly went into the room to see it in the past few days when Xiao Wu disappeared.
Any strange and weird thing can happen in places like rental houses. For example, a girl who is still studying in school gave birth to a child without marriage; a wild mandarin duck who came out of nowhere is compatible here; a murderer disguised as a hard-working worker... In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the old man must control every bit of information in the rental house. Therefore, the old man looked for opportunities to see the room of every tenant. This is definitely not the erotic man's impulse to steal women's underwear or stockings. It is simply an instinctive sense of responsibility, plus more personal curiosity.
The old man followed the trembling steps to the third floor, watched the old man take out a bunch of keys from his belt behind his back, and found one from it tremblingly, stuffed it into the keyhole, and slowly pushed open the door with the peeling paint.
Liu Tianming was a little surprised.
He originally thought that he would have to spend some time to walk into Xiao Wu's room. Maybe he would have to pay Xiao Wu a few more months of rent. It was not until the old man turned around and left, and his eyes saw the simple objects in the room that Liu Tianming felt suddenly, and he couldn't help but shake his head and a bitter smile appeared on his face.
The room is very small, with only one bed, a cloth wardrobe that can be shrinked and dismantled, and a table. Apart from that, there are no extra large items. Near the door, there are a few pairs of worn shoes, and the corner basin is filled with dirty clothes that have not yet been washed, emitting a disgusting odor.
No wonder the old man opened the room unsuspectingly and let Liu Tianming come in. All the things here are probably sold for less than a hundred yuan. No thief would be interested in this place.
When Liu Tianming closed the door, he heard the sound of footsteps outside disappearing, and the noise of scrambling mahjong downstairs became very small. Through the sealed window glass, you can see a window opposite. It was obviously a rental house. It was about three meters away from the two walls outside. Liu Tianming saw two naked men sitting on the bed in the opposite room. One was reading a book attentively, and the other lowered his head and carefully hung his companion's legs with a razor.
Chapter completed!