“Good thing!”
Old Liu smiled faintly, “Let’s go in and talk!”
The man, however, gave Lao Liu a look and couldn’t help but be a little suspicious: “You guys are ……”
Ji Feng and the others hadn’t opened their mouths because none of them could speak that standard Treasure Island accent, one could hear that they weren’t locals, and now it was already so late that the ship owner would definitely be wary when he heard it.
Old Liu, however, once again took out his papers and said, “Police officer, looking for you to find out something.”
The boat owner was startled: “A policeman? I haven’t broken any laws, have I? What ……”
“Don’t worry, it’s not your problem, just looking for you to understand some information.” Old Liu said with a smile. He was good-faced himself, and his smile gave people a sense of trust at first glance.
“…… Alright, please come in!” The boat owner nodded his head. For the police, ordinary people were more or less convinced, “It’s a bit messy, don’t mind, feel free to sit down!”
“It’s okay.”
Old Liu smiled, the life of fishermen was very hard, especially in recent years the fishing resources were getting poorer and poorer, many fishermen had to travel a long way to have a harvest, but with the provocations from some countries around such as the Philippines, the fishermen’s life was even harder, and they even had to face the danger of being caught at any time.
The cabin was really messy and smelled of fish, but Ji Feng and the others didn’t mind in the slightest and casually found a seat and sat down.
The boat owner was a bit nervous, and as soon as he sat down he couldn’t help asking, “Officer, you’ve come to find me for ……”
“You don’t need to be so nervous, we’re just looking for you to get some information.” Old Liu smilingly rea*sured the boat owner before asking, “It’s like this, about half a month ago, you once got a blackish stone and then sold it to a wealthy gentry, right?”
“Huh?!”
The boat owner froze, his eyes a little confused, “Did you? I can’t quite remember.”
Ji Feng couldn’t help but smile slightly at once, this boat owner looked honest and naive, but he was also a shrewd person, ah, just now when Old Liu just asked, the boat owner’s eyes flickered a few times, and then he said he couldn’t remember.
Obviously, the boat owner not only remembered, but also remembered very clearly.
Old Liu said, “Don’t worry, you are not breaking the law by selling the stone, we are only looking for you to investigate the source of that stone, did you get it yourself, or who gave it to you?!”
But the boat owner shook his head and said, “I really don’t remember, did you find the wrong person?”
Old Liu frowned, “Boat owner, you don’t have to do that, as I said, this matter has nothing to do with you, you selling the stones is your freedom, it’s not illegal, we just want to investigate, you probably don’t know that the rich gentleman’s stones have been stolen!”
The boat owner froze, but shook his head and said, “I don’t know what you are talking about, you really have the wrong person.”
Old Liu said, “Boat owner, you probably don’t know the seriousness of the matter yet, do you? Let me put it to you this way, that rich gent called the police immediately after the stone was lost, and ……”
The boat captain didn’t say anything and acted as if he had no interest in the matter.
“He suspects that the stone was probably stolen by you!” Old Liu suddenly said.
“What?!”
The boat owner immediately became anxious at hearing this, “Nonsense, what am I doing stealing his stone? Besides, I don’t even know where he lives or who he is, how could I steal it?”
Ji Feng and the others, however, laughed heartily, the boat owner had just said that he didn’t know what was going on and that they had mistaken him for someone else, but now when he heard that the suspicion was on him, he immediately said ‘he’ in one breath, obviously he had met that rich boy.
Alpha ore, it was he who sold it to Bao Weisheng!
Old Liu said, “Boat boss, that rich gongzi brother said that only you and he knew about that stone, of course he couldn’t have stolen it himself, then it could only be you who stole it!”
“He’s spouting blood!” The boat owner said angrily, “I didn’t steal his stone!”
“But what do you do when people just suspect that?!” Old Liu stretched his hands, “You have to tell us the situation carefully, or else we’ll just have to ask you to talk to the police station!”
“I was wrongly accused!”
The boat owner said hurriedly, very innocent, “Officer, please don’t accuse a good man, yes, I did sell him the stone at that time, but, it was a hand delivery, and then I never saw that man again ah, nor do I know where he lives …… ”
Ji Feng and the others looked at each other and finally admitted it!
“I get it!”
Suddenly, the boat boss’s voice steeply raised a few notches, his eyes held an angry glint as he said, “I understand what’s going on!”
Old Liu asked, “What’s going on?”
But the boat boss did not answer, but asked, “If I tell you, you must believe me.”
Old Liu said, “As long as what you say is true, I will definitely consider it seriously.”
The boat boss hesitated for a moment before saying, “I did sell a black stone to that man, but I didn’t steal his stone, he must be retaliating!”
Old Liu immediately asked, “What’s going on?!”
Ji Feng was also alert, how could he hear the tone of the boat boss, as if there was something else in between?
Of course he knew that Old Liu’s story about the rich gentleman calling the police to report that his stone was lost and suspecting that the boat boss stole it was an impromptu lie made up by Old Liu to swindle the boat boss, but he didn’t expect that there was something else going on!
“Actually, after I sold the stone to that man, that man came again.” The boat boss said.
Ji Feng’s eyes narrowed slightly at once, Bao Weisheng had come again?
This guy is really a dog, his nose is really sharp!
At that time on the yacht, he only lost his temper a little bit, and Bao Weisheng was able to come over and ask again, it seemed that his own performance had fallen into his eyes.
This man had a really good eye, he was something!
“And then what?!” Old Liu asked.
“He asked me if I had any more stones like that, I said no, then he asked me where I got that stone from, asked me the exact address, I said I forgot, I just fished it out unintentionally when I was fishing at sea, and I couldn’t remember exactly where it was.”
The boat captain stretched his hands and said, “Think about it, officer, the sea is so big, when I was out at sea, I inadvertently salvaged a net, it is normal to have some water plants and rocks mixed in it, right? Then when the boat left, how could I still know where it was hit?”
Old Liu nodded his head, the boat boss was right, it was very much in line with common sense.
He asked, “So what did the rich gentleman say?”
“But he didn’t believe it, and threatened me!” The boat boss was furious, “If I don’t remember it, I don’t remember it, even if he kills me, I still don’t remember it, I can’t just say a place, can I? That way if he can’t find it, won’t he still be looking for my trouble when the time comes?”
Old Liu nodded slightly and did not say anything, continuing to listen to the boat boss.
The boat boss said, “Then that rich boy left, and when he was leaving he even threatened me with harsh words, now well, it really came, he actually falsely accused me of stealing his stone …… from him after he left I went out to sea and didn’t come back until morning, where would I have time to steal his stone? ”
The boat captain said angrily, “Officer, you must believe me, what I said is true, it’s all because that guy framed me!”
Old Liu nodded and said, “Take it easy for now, I will consider all these situations you mentioned and report them, as long as you didn’t do it, then we definitely won’t accuse you wrongly!”
“Thank you, officer, please do report it!” The boat captain said repeatedly.
“Don’t worry, it will be.” Old Liu said.
Only then did the boat boss let out a sigh of relief and nodded his head repeatedly.
However, at this moment, Ji Feng was looking at him with narrowed eyes, as if he was thinking.
Ji Feng could be sure that the boat boss was definitely not telling the truth, or at least, he was not telling the whole truth. Don’t look at this boat boss as if he was honest, but when he said these words just now, his gaze flickered several times, so obviously he had lied.
Ji Feng speculated that Bao Weisheng must have come, and certainly the purpose must have been to find the Alpha Ore, although Bao Weisheng may not have known …… no, he must not have known what the black stone actually was, but that didn’t stop him from seeing from his own reaction that the stone should be something useful and of some value.
So Bao Weisheng came and found the boat captain.
However, the course of their conversation after Bao Weisheng found the boat boss was definitely not as simple as the boat boss said, whether or not there was a conflict between them appeared to be unknown, but what Ji Feng could be sure of was that there must be something else in between!
The boat boss had lied!
Ji Feng narrowed his eyes and stared at the boat boss, wanting to see some clues from his face. The boat boss also noticed Ji Feng’s gaze, and although he still looked aggrieved and angry, he was uncomfortable by Ji Feng’s look and unconsciously twisted his body.
“Honey, who’s here in the middle of the night?” Just at this moment, the door inside the cabin was suddenly opened and a middle-aged woman walked in.
“No one, you go back to sleep!” The boat captain said hurriedly.
“We are the police!” Ji Feng suddenly said, imitating that Treasure Island accent as best he could.
“Huh?”
The middle-aged woman was startled, “The police? Hubby, what are the police doing here with us? A few officers, you ……”
The ship’s boss, however, suddenly became furious, and he shouted, “Go back when you’re told to, what are you doing out in the middle of the night when you’re not sleeping? Look at the way you’re dressed! Go back now!”
Seeing this kind of performance from the boat boss, Old Liu, who had already believed what he said, suddenly reacted at this moment, he glanced at Ji Feng and saw Ji Feng nodding slightly to indicate, he immediately understood.
“Boat boss, it seems you haven’t understood the seriousness of the matter, just because of that black stone, you will probably go to jail, you know?!” Old Liu grunted, and his face sank.
