Chapter 116: Seeing the body

Just after 8:00 p.m., two customers appear in front of Wen's hair salon.

The guests looked strange, but judging by their clothes and appearance, they should be villagers from the nearby villages, and one of them had a blind cane, and a pair of gray-white eyes opened listlessly.

They knocked on the glass door of the hair salon.

Unlike the long wait in the daytime, Wen Hair Salon opened its doors at night, and there stood Lulu, who scrutinized them and said, "Do you want to wash your hair?"

He Yu hasn't been to this kind of place before, but he's smart enough to answer tentatively, "Massage."

"Oh ...... sit down first."

Lulu guides He Yu to a seat on a cheap hairdresser's stool, and He Yu scans the floor, where there is not a single hair on the ground. ......

His eyes began to scrutinize the salon. The salon was divided into two halves, one inside and one outside, with a staircase and what appeared to be cubicles upstairs. The outer room they were in now was a very normal barbershop, but the scissors looked rusty and were obviously just for show.

Not far away from the sofa, lazily sitting in a row of women, appearance is not too good-looking, but the clothing is very provocative exposure. They were swiping their cell phones, raising their eyes to them from time to time.

"Does this one want a massage too?" Lulu began sizing up Xie Qingcheng, her eyes hovering over his gray contact lensed eyes.

He Yu said, "Yes, it's his first time here. Don't scare him. What are the prices for 'shoulder and neck' and 'full set' here?"

He had also improvised the code words from the internet, not having much certainty inside, but playing it cool on his face.

Lulu was quiet for a moment, and in that silence, He Yu's heart grew tight.

Finally Lulu laughed a little, "80 for shoulder and neck, 200 for the whole set. do you see which sister you want to do it for you?"

He Yu is also really wild, after thinking about it, he bloomed a very well-disguised, lewd smile towards Lulu: "Can we play double flight?"

Lulu: "That's going to be fifty each."

He Yu : "so expensive ah, sister does not make sense ah, I do not give you back to save the room?"

Lulu: "It's exciting, no one wants to play like this. If you don't believe me, ask someone else."

He Yu was really a poor man: "Then it's twenty dollars cheaper. New customer, give me some face, I'll come back next time."

"Ten dollars."

"Deal."

"......" Xie Qingcheng didn't realize that He Yu, the brat, was so good at pretending, but of course he's no less good himself. Wearing contact lenses like the blind man in "The Tuner," he walks cautiously and carefully, first touching the ground with his cane. Then he slowly moves forward.

He Yu asked for the two weakest-looking girls, and one of them came up to help him, "Brother, be careful, these stairs are narrow, let me take you."

The four of them went up the stairs together.

The second floor was some small rooms separated by wooden boards, those boards were not much thicker than paper, so the sound insulation could be imagined.

It's that time of the day, there's not much entertainment in the county, and the eighty yuan start to unpack is not cheap for the villagers, but after all, it's exciting, and can comfort the bachelors very well. So there were already a few customers in the store, and the sounds of male and female love were coming out from inside unabashedly.

The girls who took them upstairs were very young, but it was as if they were numb to this life, no longer shy or embarrassed at all.

Once inside and bolted down, the compartment was filled with two beds and two faux-velvet red couches.

Girl: "Please take off your clothes, both brothers."

He Yu laughed, "Aigoo, my friend hasn't been to this kind of place before, you guys slow down a bit, don't scare him, press your shoulders first."

I've been in this business a long time, and I've met all kinds of people.

The girls were accustomed to seeing such first-time, and somewhat restrained, men, so they were not surprised.

In the service industry, it's always about the customer.

The two girls accordingly seated them on the scarlet armchair, which faced the dressing-mirror and afforded a view of the whole house.

The girls started massaging the guests.

Said massage, but come here all the people are not drunk, naturally do not expect the little girl can have any professional techniques, nothing more than chatting, a little physical contact, and then a little bit of the male guests of the Bureau of melting away.

The phrase "Big brother, where are you from?" Open up the situation, a "big brother, want to be comfortable with me," throwing hints.

There is a process in every line of work and they are no exception.

Xie Qingcheng didn't say much throughout the whole process, her long eyelashes shading her gray eyes, one hand supporting the side of her face, only faintly listening to their dialogue.

He Yu this person, learning ability is really great, in this place to live not a few days, actually already can operate a little dialect and each other to communicate.

The girls quickly took a liking to the new visitor in his witty and humorous remarks, and began to unconsciously leak out information as they were massaged.

Both of them, actually, used to go to Yanlord High School, just not for long.

But when He Yu asks why they dropped out, one girl doesn't say anything, while the other smiles faintly after a moment of silence.

"My family wants me to marry someone, so I won't read anymore."

"Then you ......"

"My husband likes to gamble, a lot of men here like to gamble, the underground money changers gamble a lot, one night can lose two hundred thousand or so, the family's entire savings to compensate is not enough." The woman gently squeezed He Yu's shoulder, "My husband let me come out to make money."

It may sound crazy, but He Yu has read a lot and knows a lot.

He knew that in some places, especially in remote rural areas, such pathetic things happened from time to time. Husbands are idle, so let the wife to do that on the surface of the hook, and some even the husband himself to pimp, as for the money earned, naturally belongs to the man all, women are just a have to use flesh and blood to nourish the family's tool just.

But the inner tremor is still great when you actually face such a victim head-on.

A woman dropped her eyes, paused for a moment, and said, "Big brother ......"

They call their guests Big Brother, no matter how old or young they are.

"When you do it later, can you be gentle." The woman was about to see that He Yu was a good talker, and finally couldn't help but let out some weakness, "I'm actually more than three months pregnant."

He Yu was even more taken aback, "So you still come to places like this?"

"No come no more money. The family has no money at all, and we still have to pay the debts he owes." The woman spoke blandly, but there were already vague tears in her eyes.

He Yu was suddenly speechless.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of Lu Yuzhu.

Back then, Lu Yuzhu also fell into the dust, day after day, until he was numb.

In that desperate situation, it was the person behind the scene who asked her one more time, "Why did you come to a place like this?"

It wasn't really anything too gentle or too concerned; maybe the man was just asking casually, as he was now.

But Lu Yuzhu has been treated like a chattel for so long that such a sentence can make her remember that she is still a living being.

He Yu says, "...forget it, then or-"

The woman sniffed as if she had been startled by something, and before he could finish his sentence, she suddenly flung herself down on her knees.

Her action startled everyone except Xie Qingcheng.

Xie Qingcheng, remembering that he was blind, sat motionless.

The woman pulled the corner of He Yu's coat: "Big brother, don't change the person, okay? You, you pretend that I didn't say anything before, you can do whatever you want, I just came back to work in the past few days, I'm not that good looking, nothing wants me, if you change again, then the boss's wife will be so disappointed in me, I, I ......"

She was speechless by the end of her sentence.

He Yu : "...I mean, otherwise forget it, you can just help me today by giving me a shoulder massage and chatting with me."

The woman froze, "Ah ......"

"I originally just want to come with my friend to take a break, you also know, we are such a person ah, no money, no daughter-in-law, not many women are willing to talk to us. So this time do not do anything is also okay, we are not easy, counting to make a friend, wait for the next time convenient, you privately give me cheaper well."

The woman's eyes reddened, touched and disturbed, "That, how can that be good? I .... I'm not going to give you my hand..."

He Yu : "It's okay, just talk. Brother, what do you say?"

Xie Qingcheng leaned back on the red velvet sofa and faintly answered.

He Yu laughed and pointed to Xie Qingcheng, saying to the woman, "Look, this big brother he didn't really want it in the first place, and he was hard pressed by me to drag him here to see it."

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

Having had such a conversation, the distance between them and those two girls was invariably drawn a little closer.

He Yu then asked some more questions, and they answered in more detail.

After a few rounds of conversation, they had a general idea of the county and even the store.

At the bottom of Qingli County, there are three large villages, Yi Jia Village, Zhuang Jia Village, and Duan Jia Village, where most of the residents are lazy and have bad manners, especially in Yi Jia Village. The entire county bureaucracy is also very corrupt, and the village school and main road were built with funds allocated by Lu Yuzhu when he was the secretary of the county party committee.

The men of the family do not work, and when they return to the house and beat their wives, the women either suffer in silence, or venture out, or, like these two girls, have to sell themselves to earn a little to support their families.

There are several other salons like Wen's Barber Shop in this county, all of which have a particularly grotesque composition.

In the case of Wen Barber Shop, the owner is Yi Qiang, Lu Yuzhu's ex-husband.

When Lu Yuzhu was falsely imprisoned, Yi Qiang took up with a younger woman before his divorce from Lu Yuzhu was finalized.

When Lu Yuzhu was released from prison, her own daughter no longer recognized her, and the young woman came to the house and faced the "prisoner" as if she were the mistress. Saddened, Lu Yuzhu left Qingli County, and in the years that followed, she never returned to this home.

After a few years with his new wife, Yi Qiang gave birth to a daughter, who is now Lulu. However, Yi Qiang is not a hard-working person, and when he was with Lu Yuzhu, Lu Yuzhu was very strong and strict, so Yi Qiang did not dare to be lazy.

But where's Lu Yuzhu's power in a concubine?

Slowly, Yi Qiang's shortcomings, which had been suppressed by Lu Yuzhu, began to resurface. He was an idler, addicted to gambling, beating his wife and daughter when he lost, and sleeping with prostitutes when he won.

Those savings of the family were soon lost.

The youngest wife is a very weak and extremely selfish person who can't stand this kind of life. One night when her husband doesn't return home, she leaves her own Lulu and Wen, born to Lu Yuzhu, and boards a train to the big city by herself. She wants to live a good life, but she is not capable of hooking up with men with her baby, so she decides to write off her past and pretends to be a working girl from the countryside who has never married, and with her looks, she will not be worried about not having a reliable and honest man to hook up with her in the big city.

Mom ran away, leaving only a maniacal father.

Yi Qiang was so annoyed and angry that she spent her days drinking and scolding her two daughters. The eldest daughter, Lu Yuzhu's daughter, had grown up by this time and wanted to get out of the misery, so like her stepmother, she bought a ticket and went to the nearest city to look for a job.

But I don't know whether it was because of her limited learning or because she couldn't get used to drifting around like that, but after a while she came back.

After her return, Wen's temperament changed a lot. She approached her father and said to him, "You want to make money lying down, right? I have an idea, but I need your help. You can buy the ancestral property, and we'll exchange it for a residential and commercial building. I've got my eye on the place, so listen to me, and you'll make money fast."

And with that, Wen's Barbershop opened its doors.

Yi Qiang is the big boss and takes most of the income from the store. Wen and her sister, Lulu, take care of the girls in the store.

The more money you make, the more money Yi Qiang bought a car, acquired the trendiest cell phone, contentedly spent the dirty money, a foot of gas to the town, to the village, to the higher end of the nightclubs, the more luxurious underground money bank spending.

He is also gradually good to his two daughters, before full of "the birth of a daughter is not as good as a man", now know that the daughter can also earn money to support him, mentioning his daughter is full of smiles, boasted that his daughters are two treasures - as for those girls who work in his store, of course, he knows that! As for those girls who work in his shop, of course he knows that they are also the daughters or even wives of a certain man.

But so what?

Their labor can be exchanged for chips on his gambling table, in exchange for the beauty of the fragrant breeze in his arms, and he just took it for granted. Yi Qiang spent less and less time in Qingli County, and most of his friends from the village faded away. He wore trendy brands and watches, and felt that his value had skyrocketed, and that the small countryside couldn't accommodate him as a golden phoenix. He spent a lot of time in the city, and city women flirting, almost forgetting his own origin.

--As long as his daughters remember to call him regularly.

He Yu felt disgusted after listening to it.

Because of his own family's misfortune, he disliked these parents who raised their children better than dogs.

He asked, "So now Yi Qiang lives out there a lot, right?"

"Yeah, he hasn't been back in a long time."

He Yu asked again, "Where's Wen?"

"Wen does come around the store every day, but she usually comes late, is brother going to meet her?"

He Yu, of course, had to meet Yi Awen, and only by meeting her in person could he find out if the mysterious woman from last night was her or not, and if she was, why she had sent them the file so quietly, and where it had actually come from.

But after listening to their accounts, he suddenly felt that Yi Awen was something very special, and that there was a very weird break in Yi Awen's life in the shampooer's description of her first escape to the city.

Before she fled to the city, it sounds like she was a relatively helpless person who wasn't quite brave enough to stiffen up in front of her father.

But after she came back, she was able to give orders to Yi Qiang and induce him to sell his ancestral property for such a business - what exactly did she go through during those years outside?

He Yu wants to know more about Yi Awen, but unfortunately that's all the shampoo girls know.

He glanced at Xie Qingcheng, although Xie Qingcheng was wearing gray fog contact lenses at the moment, others could not see any bright light in his eyes, but He Yu was too familiar with Xie Qingcheng, he was able to read some of the other party's thoughts from Xie Qingcheng's every move, and even his sitting posture and aura.

He realized that Xie Qingcheng's mind was in the same place as his at the moment.

As expected, after a few minutes, Xie Qingcheng, who hadn't said much the whole time and was just quietly listening, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Let's use the restroom. How do I get there?"

The small broken barbershop did not have a separate bathroom in each cubicle, the shampoo girl carefully gave him directions, and at the end was a bit uneasy: "Big brother, or I'll assist you to go there."

He Yu got up and laughed, "That ...... of his may still be embarrassed, it s better for me to accompany him."

The lady, who had seldom seen such formal guests, snorted a laugh, and holding the door open for them, repeated the route to them once more, and let the two lords out.

"Even if we meet Yi Awen, she may not tell us the truth." Xie Qingcheng calmly, and in a low voice, instructed He Yu after making sure that the two hairdressers didn't follow him, "So while we're at it, let's check around this house for any clues. In Heng's dossier bag is something very important to the mastermind, if this dossier is true, and that mysterious woman yesterday was indeed Yi Awen, then there is no way that there is no relationship between them. You go left, I'll go right. There's not much time, split up and check."

He Yu looked into his gray eyes, "How are you wearing invisibility and still so sharp?"

Xie Qingcheng raised his hand and touched his eyelids, frowning slightly, "Is it not pretending enough?"

He Yu smiled, "No, it's very similar. I'm just saying that your aura hasn't changed. It's still like a cop."

"......" Xie Qingcheng didn't have time to banter with him much and said, "Go on."

The two then split up.

The second floor of Wen's barber store was almost entirely filled with cubicles, and Xie Qingcheng walked around without seeing anything worth noting, but when he got to the end, he realized that there was still a narrow flight of stairs there.

This house has an attic.

The attic was small, with a desk, a few rows of bookshelves, some miscellaneous items stacked in a mess, and nothing else.

But I don't know why, Xie Qingcheng always felt that this place is strange, and also exudes a smell that comes and goes, with his experience as a medical student, he immediately judged that this is the smell of something rotten.

Xie Qingcheng looked around the house carefully and realized what was odd-

Despite the stench of decay, there was nothing food-like in this attic, except for paper, metal, or just wood. None of these things could breed such a foul odor.

Where is this smell coming from?

Xie Qingcheng slowly backed up to the entrance of the attic and surveyed the whole room from the doorway, and after some time he discovered something even more bizarre about this attic ......

Wall.

Although there were bookshelves in the way, a closer look standing in the doorway revealed that the color of the wall furthest inward was noticeably different from the other two. The paint was powder white and looked freshly painted.

Xie Qingcheng walked towards the wall, moved the bookcase halfway out of the way, and then - like a dark theater pulling back the curtain slowly - he saw that a large portion of the obviously freshly painted wall was damp and peeling, like some kind of creepy moss. By the time he'd moved the entire bookcase out of the way and retreated back to the front door to take a look, Xie Qingcheng's entire being was stunned.

That Wet Mark ......

It was actually blurred to be a humanoid!

Some kind of horrible thought sprang out of his mind, Xie Qingcheng looked at his wristwatch, nearly ten minutes had passed since he had left the private room, but if he didn't take evidence and investigate now, there was almost no chance of turning back again. So he made an instant decision, went up and knocked along the blurred human figure, and sure enough, he found a hollow drum at the bottom.

There are drums in the place is easy to pry open, Xie Qingcheng from the desk to find a hobby knife, little by little to scrape off the outside of the powder paint, found that underneath is a piece of temporary sealing on the board, he did not take much effort to chisel that board, take the light of the phone to the inside of the light -

Greeting him at the same time as the heavy stench was a pair of tan men's cowhide shoes with a highly decomposed ankle attached to the top of the shoe ......

There was indeed a body in that wall!

However, right at this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

"...... What are you looking at."