At eight o'clock in the evening, two guests appeared at the door of Awen's hair salon.
The guest's eyes were raw, but looking at the clothes and appearance, it should be a villager from a nearby village. One of them was still leaning on a blind cane, and a pair of gray and white eyes were blankly open.
They knocked on the glass door of the hair salon.
It is different from the need to stay in the daytime. At night, Awen's hair salon opened the door all of a sudden, and the people standing at the door were Lu, Lu, and Lu looked at them and said: "Are you two washing your hair?"
Although He Yu had never been to such a place, he was smart after all, and tentatively replied, "Massage."
"Oh... sit down first."
"Lu" "Lu" led He Yu to sit on a cheap hairdressing stool, He Yu glanced at the ground, there was not a single hair on the ground...
Out of the corner of his eye, he began to take a closer look at the salon. The hair salon is divided into inner and outer halves, with stairs, and it seems that there is a partition upstairs. The exterior of their shop now looks like a very normal hair shop, but the scissors look rusted, and they are obviously just decorations.
On the sofa not far away, there was a row of women sitting lazily. Their faces were not too good-looking, but their clothes were very provocative and revealing. While brushing the machine, they raised their eyes to look at them from time to time.
"Does this person want a massage too?" "Lu" "Lu" began to look at Xie Qingcheng, his eyes wandering over his gray-white contact lenses.
He Yu said, "Yeah, it's his first time here. Don't scare him. What's the price of your 'shoulder neck' and 'full set'?"
He was also a code word that was temporarily searched on the Internet. He didn't have much confidence in his heart, but his face was very calm.
"Lu" "Lu" was silent for a moment, during this silence, He Yu's heart gradually tightened.
Finally, "Lu" and "Lu" smiled: "80 for the shoulder and neck, 200 for the full set. Which sister do you want to do for you?"
He Yu is also really wild. After thinking about it, he opened up a disguised, very sly smile at "Lu" and "Lu": "Can you play Shuangfei?"
"Lu" "Lu": "Add fifty to each."
He Yu: "It's so expensive, my sister doesn't say anything, I'm not going to save you the house now?"
"Lu" "Lu": "It's exciting, no one wants to play like this. If you don't believe me, ask another place."
He Yu is really a complete poor ghost: "It's 20 cheaper. New guests, give me some face, and come back next time."
"Ten dollars."
"pay."
"..." Xie Qingcheng didn't think that He Yu would be so good at pretending, but he didn't give up too much. He wore the blind-like contact lenses in "The Tuner". He was careful when he was on the road. Give it a touch, then move forward slowly.
He Yu asked for two girls who looked the weakest, and one of them stepped forward to help him: "Brother, be careful, the stairs are narrow, I'll take you."
The four went upstairs together.
The second floor is separated by some wooden boards, which are not much thicker than paper, and the sound insulation can be imagined.
At this point, there are not many entertainment activities in the county. Although the decompression from the 80 yuan jump is not cheap for the villagers, it is exciting after all, and it can comfort some bachelors. So there were already a few customers in the store, and the voices of male and female love came out unabashedly.
The girls who took them upstairs were very young, but they seemed to be numb to this kind of life, no more shyness or embarrassment.
Entering the door, the bolt was dropped, and inside were two beds and two faux-velvet red sofas.
Girl: "Please take off your two brothers."
He Yu said with a smile: "Oh, my friend has never been to such a place, you guys slow down, don't scare him, just press your shoulders first."
After doing this for a long time, people of all shapes and sizes can meet.
The girls were used to seeing this kind of man who came for the first time and was a little restrained, so they didn't care.
In the service industry, the customer always comes first.
The two girls therefore let them sit on the scarlet sofa, which was facing the dressing mirror and could see the whole house.
The girls started massaging the guests.
It is said to be a massage, but all the people who come here are drunkards who do not drink alcohol. Naturally, there is no need to expect the little girl to have any professional methods. It is nothing more than chatting, touching the body, and bit by bit to make the male guests cramped. melt away.
"Big brother, where did you come from?" to open up the situation, and a "big brother, want to talk to me comfortably" throws a hint.
Every line has a process, and they are no exception.
Xie Qingcheng didn't say much the whole time, his eyelashes covered his gray eyes, his face was turned sideways, and he just listened to their dialogue lightly.
He Yu is really good at learning. After living in this place for a few days, he has been able to "fuck" and communicate with each other in dialect.
In his witty and humorous words, the girls quickly fell in love with this new customer, and while massaging, they began to leak some information unconsciously.
The two of them actually both studied at Yanlord Middle School, but not all the time.
But when He Yu asked why they dropped out, one girl didn't say anything, the other was silent for a while, then smiled lightly.
"My family wants me to get married, so I won't read it anymore."
"you… "
"My husband likes to gamble. Most of the men here like to gamble. The underground bank gambles so much that he can lose 200,000 yuan in one night, and it's not enough to lose all the family's savings." The woman gently squeezed He Yu's shoulder, " My husband let me out to make money."
Although this may sound bizarre, He Yu has read a lot and is well-informed.
He knew that in some places, especially in remote rural areas, such sad things happened from time to time. When the husband is idle, he asks his wife to do unworthy hooks, and some even the husband himself goes to pimp. As for the money earned, it is naturally owned by the man, and the woman's "sex" is nothing but a person who has to nourish it with flesh and blood. It's just a home tool.
But when I really faced such a victim, my inner tremor was still very big.
A woman lowered her eyes, paused for a while, and said, "Big brother..."
No matter how old they are, they call their guests big brother.
"Can you take it lightly when you do it later?" The woman looked at He Yu and said, and finally couldn't help revealing some weakness, "I've actually been pregnant for more than three months."
He Yu was even more surprised: "You still come to such a place?"
"There's no money if he doesn't come. There's no money left at home, and he has to pay off the debt he owes." The woman said indifferently, but there were faint tears in her eyes.
He Yu was suddenly speechless.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of Lu Yuzhu.
Nian Lu Yuzhu also fell into the dust, day after day, until numbness.
In such a desperate situation, there was a behind-the-scenes man who asked her one more question, "Why do you come to such a place".
It's not a language that is too gentle and caring. Maybe a man is just like himself, just asking casually.
But Lu Yuzhu had been used as a livestock for too long. Such a sentence reminded her that she was still alive.
He Yu said, "...Forget it, or else—"
The woman heard the words, as if she was shocked, but before he could finish speaking, she suddenly threw herself down on her knees.
Her move shocked everyone except Xie Qingcheng.
Xie Qingcheng remembered that he was blind, so he sat silently and didn't move.
The woman took He Yu's clothes by the corner: "Brother, don't you change people? You, you and I didn't say anything before, you can do whatever you want. I just came back to work these days. Me, if you change people again, the lady boss will definitely be disappointed in me, I, I…”
In the end, she was speechless.
He Yu: "...I mean, otherwise forget it. You can press my shoulder for me today and chat with me."
The woman was taken aback: "Ah..."
"I originally wanted to relax with my friends. You know, people like us have no money, no daughter-in-law, and no woman wants to talk to us. So it doesn't matter if we don't do anything this time. It's easy, it's considered a friend, next time it's more convenient, you can give me a little cheaper in private."
The woman's eyes were red, and she was moved, but also disturbed: "What do you mean? I....Will I use it for you..."
He Yu: "It's okay, let's talk. Brother, do you think so?"
Xie Qingcheng leaned on the red velvet sofa and responded lightly.
He Yu pointed at Xie Qingcheng with a smile, and said to the woman, "Look, he didn't really want this eldest brother at all, but he was dragged by me to see it."
Xie Qingcheng: "…"
After such a pairing, the distance between them and the two girls was invisibly narrowed a little.
Next, He Yu asked some more things, and they answered in more detail.
After several rounds, they had a general grasp of the situation in the county and even the store.
Under the Qingli County, there are three large villages, Yijia Village, Zhuangjia Village, and Duanjia Village. The bureaucracy in the entire county is also very corrupt, and the schools and main roads in the village were all funded by Lu Yuzhu’s county party secretary.
The men in the family do not work and beat their wives when they go back to the house. The women either endure it silently, or take the risk of fleeing, or like these two girls, they have to sell themselves to earn a little bit of money to support their families.
In this county, there are several hair salons like "Awen Hair Shop", all of which are specially constructed.
Take Awen Hair Store as an example, the owner is Lu Yuzhu's ex-husband Yi Qiang.
When Lu Yuzhu was falsely accused of being imprisoned, Yi Qiang and Lu Yuzhu married a new love and lived with a young woman before their divorce was renewed.
After Lu Yuzhu was released from prison, her biological daughter no longer knew her, and a young woman entered the room and faced this "prisoner" as a mistress. Sad, Lu Yuzhu left Qingli County, and she never returned to this home for many years after that.
Yi Qiang and his new wife have spent several years together, and the two gave birth to a daughter who is now "Lu" and "Lu". However, the "nature" of Jiangshan Yichang is difficult to change. Yi Qiang is not a diligent person. Nian and Lu Yuzhu are strong and strict, so Yi Qiang does not dare to be lazy.
But how can the little wife have Lu Yuzhu's half aura
Slowly, some of Yi Qiang's shortcomings that were suppressed by Lu Yuzhu began to resurface. He was idle, addicted to gambling, beat his wife and scolded daughters when he lost, and flirted with prostitutes when he won.
Some of the savings at home soon ran out.
The little wife is a very weak and extremely selfish person. She can't stand this kind of life. One night when her husband did not return, she left her own "Lu", "Lu" and Lu Yuzhu's Awen, and boarded the road alone. Train in the big city. She wanted to live, but she had no ability, and she would not hook up with men with her baby, so she decided to write off the past, pretending to be a rural working girl who had never married anyone, and with her beauty, she was popular in the big city. Don't worry about not having a reliable and honest man to take the bait.
Mom ran away, leaving only a mad father.
Yi Qiang was annoyed and hated, and used alcohol to relieve his worries all day long, beating or scolding the two women. The eldest daughter, Lu Yuzhu's daughter, is already old now, and she also wants to get out of this misery, so like her stepmother, she also bought a bus ticket and went to the nearest city to find a job.
But I don't know if it was because of her limited knowledge, or because she was not used to living like a wandering life. After a while, she came back.
After returning, Awen's "temperament" changed a lot. She went to her father and said to him: "You want to make money by lying down, right? I have an idea, but I need your help. You bought your ancestral property, and we Go to a commercial-residential building. I have seen all the places, you listen to me, and the money will come quickly. "
In this way, Awen hair shop opened.
Yi Qiang is the big boss and takes most of the income in the store. Ah Wen and her sister "Lu" and "Lu" are in charge of managing the girls in the store.
The more money he made, the more Yi Qiang bought a car and the most "trend" machine. He spent the dirty money in peace and went to town, village, high-end nightclubs, and more. Luxurious underground money shop consumption.
He gradually became more and more towards the two girls. He used to say that "it's better to have a girl than a boy", but now that he knew that a girl could make money to support him, he would laugh when he mentioned girls, and praised his girls as two treasures. The girls who worked hard for their lives, he knew that they were also the daughters of a certain man, or even the wives.
But what
Their labor can be exchanged for chips at his gambling table, and in exchange for the beauty in his arms, he just suffers like that. Yi Qiang spent less and less time in Li County, and most of his friends in the village in the past faded away. He put on the "Tide" brand and a famous watch, and suddenly felt that his worth had skyrocketed, and the small village could not tolerate it. He is a golden phoenix. He spent a lot of time wandering around the city, flirting with women in the city, almost forgetting his origins.
- As long as the girls remember to call him money regularly.
After hearing this, He Yu felt disgusted.
Because of his family's misfortune, he hated parents who raised children rather than dogs.
He asked, "Is Yi Qiang living outside now?"
"Yeah, he hasn't come back from time to time."
He Yu asked again, "Where's Awen?"
"Sister Wen comes to the store every day, but she usually arrives very late. Does my brother want to see her?"
He Yuran wants to see Yi Awen. Only by seeing her can he know if the mysterious woman from last night is her. If it is her, why did he secretly send them files like this, and where did the files come from? .
But after listening to their narration, he suddenly felt that Yi Awen was not simple, and in the description of the shampoo girl, there was a very strange fault in Yi Awen's life, which was the first time she escaped to the city.
Before she fled to the city, she sounded like a relatively helpless person who didn't dare to be tough in front of her father.
But after she came back, she was able to issue orders to Yi Qiang and induce Yi Qiang to sell her ancestral property to do such a business - what has she experienced in the years outside
He Yu wanted to know more about Yi Awen, but it was a pity that the shampoo girls only knew that.
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, and he could learn from Xie Qingcheng's every move. , and even interpret some of the other's thoughts in the sitting position and aura.
He realized that Xie Qing's thoughts at this moment were the same as his.
If not, after a few minutes, Xie Qingcheng didn't say anything during the whole process. Xie Qingcheng, who was just listening quietly, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Borrow it for a wash. What?"
There is no separate hygiene in each compartment of the small break hair shop. The shampoo girl carefully pointed him the way, and he was a little worried at the end: "Brother, or I will help you over."
He Yu got up and said with a smile, "He... Maybe I'm still embarrassed, so let me accompany him."
The girl rarely saw such prudent guests. She smiled and opened the door for them. She repeated the route to them again, and let the two masters go out.
"Even if we meet Yi Awen, she may not tell us the truth." Xie Qingcheng calmly told He Yu in a low voice after confirming that the two hair salon girls did not follow, "So take advantage of this now Check the room to see if there are any clues. Yanlord's portfolio is very important to the behind-the-scenes. If this file is true, and the mysterious woman yesterday was indeed Yi Awen, then they will never be together. It probably doesn't matter. You are on your left, I am on your right. Time is running out, so go check separately."
He Yu looked at his gray eyes: "Why are you wearing invisibility and still so sharp?"
Xie Qingcheng raised his eyelids and frowned slightly: "Is it pretending not to look like enough?"
He Yu smiled: "No, it's very similar. I just said that your aura hasn't changed. It's still like a note."
"..." Xie Qingcheng chatted with him from time to time and said, "Come on."
The two split up.
The second floor of Awen's hair shop was almost completely separated. Xie Qing walked around and saw nothing worth noting, but when he came to the end, he found that there was still a narrow staircase inside.
This house has an attic.
The attic is not big, there is a desk, several rows of bookshelves, some sundries are piled up in a mess, and there is nothing else.
But I don't know why, Xie Qingcheng always felt that this place was weird, and it also exuded a stench that was sometimes hidden. Based on his experience as a medical student, he immediately judged that it was something rotten. .
Xie Qingcheng looked around the room carefully, what was wrong with his consciousness—
Despite the rancid smell, there was nothing in the attic except paper, metal, or wood. None of these things can breed such a stench.
Where did this smell come from
Xie Qingcheng slowly stepped back, retreated to the entrance of the attic, and looked at the whole room from the door. After a while, he found something even weirder in the attic...
wall.
Although there are bookshelves blocking it, but if you look carefully at the door, you can see that the color of the innermost wall is obviously different from his two sides. The paint is chalk white and looks fresh.
Xie Qingcheng faced the wall, moved the bookshelf halfway, and then—like a dark theater opening slowly, he saw that a large part of the wall that had just been painted was wet and peeled, like a Some kind of creepy moss grew. When he removed the entire bookcase and went back to the door to look at it, Xie Qingcheng was shocked.
a wet streak…
Fuzzy is actually a human figure!
A terrifying thought came out of his mind, Xie Qingcheng looked at his watch, it had been nearly ten minutes since he left the bag, but if there is no evidence to investigate now, there is almost no chance to turn back. So he made a quick decision, stepped forward and tapped along a vague human figure, and sure enough, he found an empty drum at the bottom.
It is easy to pry open the empty drum. Xie Qingcheng found a utility knife from the desk and scraped off the powder paint on the outside. He found that there was a temporarily sealed wooden board underneath. After a while, the plank was cut open, and the light of the machine was used to shine inside—
Facing him when the stench was strong, was a pair of brown leather shoes for men, with a section of highly rotten ankle attached to the top of the shoes...
There was indeed a corpse in the wall! !
However, at this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded outside the door.
"… what are you looking at?"