I’m not threatening him, this is not a simple matter, and I’m not sure now whether he pulled this wallet off on purpose or whether he dropped it unintentionally.
If it was dropped intentionally, it’s a trap. If it was dropped unintentionally, then if the security guard took the money inside, Zheng Peng will definitely think that the security guard knows his secret, and then the security guard will be in trouble.
“I swear to Master Zhao, I won’t even open this thing to look at it. But with such a small amount of money, he may not come back for it, and that rich boy Wan Evil is looking pretty wild to me.”
I said, “He will definitely come back for it, but if he really doesn’t come back for it, you must tell me, here’s my phone number.”
I wrote my mobile number to him.
He was confused, “What the hell is going on? You guys are so nice, he did that to you and you still want to return his wallet to its rightful owner, if it were me, I’d just use it up myself and throw it away somewhere.”
I couldn’t explain to him about the Yun family and Zhao Zichen said, “Of course, we obey the law. Well, contact us if you need anything.”
When we left, the security guard was worshipping me to death, complimenting us over and over again.
Both Zhao Zichen and I were embarrassed by the compliments and hurriedly slipped into the car.
In the afternoon, the car finally arrived at Ningcheng and we went straight to Xia Gehuai’s hotel.
I originally asked Xia Gehuai to come out for dinner, but Xia Gehuai refused to come out, saying that it was too dangerous.
From the sound of his voice, he seemed to be terrified. I don’t know what it was that could have scared Xia Gehuai, a policeman, like that.
Xia Gehuai’s funds were limited and he stayed in a guest house.
Cai Xiaobing drove around for a long time before finally finding this guest house whose sign was about to fall off.
Youfen Guest House.
The light box of the guest house was already broken, and the few big red letters were also a bit faded.
Ningcheng is even further south than Tongcheng and is very humid. Even though it is winter, I smell a musty smell as soon as I enter.
The young man at the reception desk was lying on a recliner playing a game, and out of the corner of his eye he sensed us coming in and shouted, “Wait a minute, finish this hand.”
“We’re here to see someone.”
“Go up yourself then. Don’t get into any trouble, we’re covered by Brother Kongs here.”
We went upstairs as a group, with Chu Xiaoxiao following me, and the young man’s eyes lit up at once.
“Wow, the young lady is really pretty.”
Chu Xiaoxiao smiled at him smugly.
I said, “Kid, don’t you hit on her, I’m her boyfriend.”
The kid was very thin and looked at me and Zhao Zichen and Cai Xiaobing, who were all tall and big, and didn’t dare to make a move.
“No, big brother you misunderstood, how dare I hit on Missy’s idea. But you guys have an idea, we have a well-known pervert in Ningcheng, you must pay attention to Zheng Peng, this guy is not a good thing.”
Zheng Peng, coincidentally, I didn’t expect that this guy was really quite famous in Ningcheng.
I asked, “Zheng Peng, I heard he’s a rich man, he wouldn’t come here either.”
“As a rule, he wouldn’t, but he’s been hanging around here the other day, and I don’t know what he’s doing.”
“Does Zheng Peng come to your place often these days?” Zhao Zichen asked.
“I even saw it the day before yesterday, he was looking for someone at a nearby hotel, hell knows, or maybe he’s just bringing a different chick with him to change hotels for the experience. Hey, it’s good to be rich, you can have any woman you want, unlike me, I’m nineteen and I’m still a virgin ……” he said and his eyes went to Chu Xiaoxiao, but I glared at him and he immediately averted his eyes.
We went upstairs as a group, with Zhao Zichen walking next to me.
“Do you think it’s a coincidence?”
“It’s possible, we’ll see when we find Xia Gehuai.”
I didn’t dare to jump to conclusions first, it wasn’t like a coincidence, but Zheng Peng was a person that Xia Gehuai had never raised with me.
And Zheng Peng couldn’t fight and had a bad brain, so it was hard to imagine that such a person would be of any use to Jiang Ming.
We knocked on the door, and a dull voice came from inside, and Xia Gehuai pressed his voice and asked, “Who is it?”
“Me, Zhang Chao, you’re all pissed off.”
Xia Ge Huai opened the door and I drew in a breath of cold air when I saw him.
His face was full of beard and his hair looked uncombed for days, and he had lost a lot of weight and had a charred face.
When he opened the door and saw it was us, he let out a long sigh.
“Come in quickly and don’t let anyone follow you.”
A few of us squeezed into his hut, which was less than ten square feet, and couldn’t even stand. Xia Gehuai glanced nervously out the door to make sure no one was following him, before closing it behind him.
The room was a mess, with rubbish everywhere, seven or eight eaten noodles piled up on the table, and the sheets smelt of bed.
The room was cold and stuffy without air conditioning, and I wondered how Xia Gehuai had managed to endure so many days.
“Don’t tell me you haven’t been out for the past few days.” I said.
“Didn’t go out.”
Zhao Zichen said, “No money to talk to Zhang Chao, he asked you to come on an errand, you can’t not give you some funds, look at what you’re living in here.”
Xia Gehuai sat on his butt on the bed, because this room was so small that if we didn’t sit on the bed, a few of us couldn’t stand up.
Chu Xiaoxiao tried to find a stool, but couldn’t find one, and in the end found nothing, so he had to sit on his butt on the bed as well.
Xia Gehuai said, “What the hell, this is the safest place. You don’t know, this kind of small hotels don’t check ID cards, it’s hard for them to find me.”
I was busy asking, “Who’s looking for you.”
“I’m not sure, but it’s definitely someone looking for me. I reckon it’s someone from the Yun family, or maybe it’s the person who set up Baldy. It’s possible that they know about the camera I put up, which is likely because the aunt who cleans the house put it up for me, and maybe the aunt slipped up. They might have wanted to destroy the evidence because the last hotel, my room was rummaged through. The hard drive where the footage was stored was taken.”
“What about that?”
Shaggy said, “In this f*cking day and age, who keeps a single copy? When I got it, I had five copies on five different cloud servers. Then I moved to this guest house, afraid to go out, afraid to order takeaway. At least you’re here, otherwise I’d be sick of eating noodles.”
Zhao Zichen let out a long sigh and wanted to light a cigarette, but seeing that the environment was really not suitable for smoking, he had to put the cigarette away again.
“It’s a good thing you didn’t go out, I’m afraid someone is really looking for you.”
“Who is it?”
Zhao Zichen said about Zheng Peng.
“Although Zhang Chao thinks it might be a coincidence, I don’t think there’s such a thing as coincidence, this guy might just be looking for you. A rich kid with nowhere to vent his energy, not going to pick up girls every day, looking around in a very poor place like this, don’t you think it’s weird?”
