Mu Yu immediately stopped and stared at Qin Jinhuan with his ears raised.
"Oh?! Okay, I'll go there now."
Seeing Qin Jinhuan put down his mobile phone, Mu Yu immediately asked: "Do you know Zhou Sheng? Who is he? What's going on?"
She knew that Cheng Xiang called him about Zhou Sheng.
"Let's talk about it after we get in the car."
When Qin Jinhuan was talking, Huang Bo had already driven the car over, and the two of them immediately got in the car.
"Who is Zhou Sheng? How do you know him?"
Chen Yisheng spoke so poorly of Zhou Sheng that Mu Yu couldn't understand how Qin Jinhuan could know such a person.
"He used to be the vice president of a branch of Qingtian. His work ability was very good. I valued him very much. Just when I was about to transfer him to Qingtian headquarters, he was sentenced for drunk driving and hit several passers-by. The company also Then he was fired. I don’t know when he was released from prison, and I didn’t expect him to be in such a bad state.”
There was a trace of regret in Qin Jinhuan's tone, and it could be seen that he once really valued Zhou Sheng.
"So that's it." Mu Yu, who knew Zhou Sheng's past, was not surprised by Zhou Sheng's current situation, "Which company will use people who were fired by Qingtian? Zhou Sheng can only find this kind of job. ”
Qin Jinhuan did not answer immediately, and was silent for a long time before speaking: "Zhou Sheng is not an employee of Qingtian now, but he used to be. The victims in the previous serial murder cases were all related to Qingtian, and Zhou Sheng can also say that It has something to do with Qingtian. He eats at Chen Yisheng's night snack bar before twelve o'clock every night, and then goes to the supermarket opposite. Yang Weiping was hit by Yin Xiaotian's car at that time, and it happened to be when Zhou Sheng went from the night snack bar to the supermarket. On the way, if Zhou Sheng is also related to Ling Xiaoxia's case, then as you speculated, Yin Xiaotian's collision with Yang Weiping was a misunderstanding, and the person she really wanted to collision was Zhou Sheng! "
"So the most important thing we know now is whether Zhou Sheng had been to Huacheng six years ago!" Mu Yu was very excited. "If he had been to Huacheng six years ago, then Yang Weiping's car accident was really an accident. See you later Be sure to ask carefully when you come to Zhousheng.”
"but… "
"But what?" Seeing Qin Jinhuan hesitate to speak, Mu Yu immediately asked.
Qin Jinhuan thought for a while, but still didn't say what he wanted to say. He just said, "Let's wait until we meet Zhou Sheng."
Mu Yu nodded.
Tailingyuan where Zhou Sheng was located was less than two kilometers away from Xiangyun Anju Community, and they arrived outside Tailingyuan not long after.
It was early morning in the cold winter. Except for the whistling wind, the surroundings were completely silent. The dark Tailing Garden looked particularly cold and chilly.
"This wind is so penetrating that it can blow to a person's bones." Huang Bo, who got out of the car first, tightened his coat and cursed the biting cold wind in a low voice.
"Ah Huan, are you cold? Do you want to..."
When Mu Yu got out of the car, she had already put on the large cotton-padded coat that Qin Jinhuan had prepared for her in the car. She didn't feel cold, but she was worried that Qin Jinhuan, who didn't have any extra clothes, would feel cold just after getting out of the car with the heater on.
"I'm fine. Watch your steps." Although someone turned on a flashlight, Qin Jinhuan still held her arm carefully and reminded her from time to time.
"It's okay."
Having been to Tailing Garden several times, Mu Yu knew that the road to the gate was easy to walk, so he didn't take it seriously.
She was worried that Qin Jinhuan would catch the cold, and she was also eager to see Zhou Sheng, so she led Qin Jinhuan forward a little quickly.
The house where Zhou Sheng lived was right at the entrance to the main gate of Tailing Garden, and it was only a few steps away after getting off the car.
Cheng Xiang was already waiting at the door. When he saw them coming, he hurried over to greet them: "Boss, young lady, Zhou Sheng is inside. His arm is really broken and is splinted, which makes it very inconvenient to work."
"Did it fall the night before yesterday?" Mu Yu asked.
"He said yes. I haven't gone to the hospital to verify his statement yet, but the gauze on the splint is new. He probably didn't lie. Hey! Boss, his room is in a mess.
Are you sure you want to go in? "
Qin Jinhuan ignored him and took Mu Yu straight into Zhou Sheng's "home".
As soon as she entered, Mu Yu was choked by the unpleasant smell and frowned. Out of politeness, she resisted covering her nose and held her breath while scanning the room. After scanning it, she realized that what Cheng Xiang said was "very messy" was not an exaggeration at all.
The room in front of me is about thirty square meters. The furnishings inside are very simple, including a small straight sofa, a table, and a single bed. The table and sofa are filled with messy clothes, both in winter and summer. Yes, there are slippers and leather shoes here and there on the floor, and some shoes have a sock on them that I don’t know whether they have been washed or not. There were a few buckets of instant noodles and a few packs of pickled mustard randomly placed on the table. Some of the pickled mustard had been opened, and the juice from the pickled mustard flowed onto the table.
There is a large trash can in front of the bed, filled with messy garbage. It seems that the garbage has not been taken out for many days. Fortunately, it was winter now. If it were summer, Mu Yu suspected that this trash can would be infested with maggots.
At this time, Zhou Sheng, who had one hand tied up, was sitting on the edge of the bed. When he saw Qin Jinhuan and Mu Yu coming in, he immediately stood up and stared at Qin Jinhuan with extremely surprised eyes: "Qin, Mr. Qin?! You, Why are you here?"
Then he immediately walked to the sofa, rolled his clothes aside with his uninjured hand, and arranged half of the sofa to invite Qin Jinhuan to sit. Perhaps he thought that the sofa was not clean enough for Qin Jinhuan to sit on. Qin Jinhuan was asked to sit down, but he just looked at him awkwardly.
Considering his suspicion of Zhou Sheng, when Qin Jinhuan brought Mu Yu to Zhou Sheng's place, he specifically told Cheng Xiang not to mess with the decorations of Zhou Sheng's house and not to tell Zhou Sheng that he was coming. Therefore, Zhou Sheng was really worried about Qin Jinhuan's arrival at this time. Unexpected, like a thorn in the back.
Qin Jinhuan obviously knew what he meant by wanting him to sit on the sofa, but he didn't sit down and just stared at him.
A year ago, Zhou Sheng paid great attention to his image. He always wore suits and leather shoes, and his hair was not messy at all. He was completely different from the Zhou Sheng who had messy hair, unshaven beard, dull eyes and sloppy clothes. If it weren't for knowing that the person in front of him was Zhou Sheng, Qin Jinhuan wouldn't believe it at all.
"Qin, Mr. Qin, I'm sorry." Zhou Sheng was stared at and lowered his head unnaturally, saying an apology weakly.
Qin Jinhuan looked away and asked calmly: "When were you released from prison?"
"A month ago."
"Why did it become like this?"
Zhou Sheng was so embarrassed by this question that he did not dare to look Qin Jinhuan in the face, and responded in a low voice: "In order to compensate the victims injured in the car accident and reduce the crime, I entrusted a lawyer to transfer the car in my name and the house that was still under mortgage. They were sold together. After I was released from prison, I had nothing and no money. I felt that I was too embarrassed to go back to my hometown to see my elderly parents, so I reluctantly found a place like this. "
"Why don't you go find me?"
Zhou Sheng choked up for a moment: "Because of that car accident, I caused losses to the company. I'm sorry for the company. I failed to live up to your expectations. I don't have the face to see you at all."
"If I had known today, why bother in the first place?"
Zhou Sheng choked up more and more: "I just wish I had no regrets in this world."
"What did you do in Huacheng before?"
"Huacheng?" Zhou Sheng looked confused at Qin Jinhuan's sudden words, "I have never been to Huacheng, how can I work in Huacheng?"
"Have you never been to Huacheng six years ago?" Qin Jinhuan added his own question.
Zhou Sheng still shook his head with a confused look on his face: "I just graduated from college six years ago, and I wanted to go to a city far away from home to find a job. I went to two cities but couldn't find a suitable job. I wanted to try my luck in Huacheng." I had the idea, but my parents scolded me before I went back to Ancheng. After I came back, I went to Qingtian for an interview. I was lucky enough to pass, and I continued to work at Qingtian until the damn car accident. If it hadn’t been for that. If there was a car accident, I might be the general manager of the branch now."
When he talked about the car accident, his face was full of regret, and he even gritted his teeth, truly regretting it.
"correct,
Mr. Qin, why do you ask this? "
"Just ask. After you were released from prison, even if you didn't have the face to go to Qingtian, why didn't you find a decent job? The famous big companies in Ancheng would indeed be taboo about you being fired by Qingtian, but if you are looking for talent, But small companies don’t taboo these things. With your ability, you can get re-employed in any small company. Why would you want to go to a supermarket to find a job for an elderly person?”
"It's not that I don't want to go, it's just that my body doesn't allow me to go." Zhou Sheng pointed to his injured arm with tears in his eyes, "When I had the car accident, I not only injured others, but also broke my own arm. Although the bones were reattached later, the muscles and bones had been injured for a hundred days. Because they were not recuperated properly, they suffered sequelae, which made the arm not very flexible when working in the prison. Because of the inflexibility of the hands, it was always unable to complete the task. , I couldn't eat on time, and my body couldn't bear it as time went by, and I gradually became ill. If it weren't for this illness, I would still be serving a sentence. My parents hated me for not living up to expectations when I was in the car accident. I am too sick to go home and I have to work very hard to work in a company. My body does not allow me to overwork myself, so I plan to find some easy work first and take care of myself. I'm looking for a better job. I didn't expect to be so unlucky. I woke up the night before and fell down in a daze, breaking my injured arm again. The doctor said that if I break this arm again, I'll be injured. It’s useless. Alas, everything goes wrong when people are unlucky.”
"Do you know about the car accident in front of Chen Yisheng's supper shop that night?" Seeing that Qin Jinhuan was silent, Mu Yu finally asked what he wanted to ask.
"I know. I was eating late-night snacks at Boss Chen's shop that day. As soon as I started eating, I heard a bang over there. I was so scared that I dropped my chopsticks. Hey! I forgot to pay with Boss Chen! I still owe His face is forty yuan!”
Seeing Zhou Sheng say this, and knowing that he didn't know that he was deliberately reneging on his debt, Mu Yu thought for a while and asked with a smile on purpose: "Chen Yisheng said you are taciturn, but I think you are quite capable of speaking."
Zhou Sheng bared his teeth in embarrassment: "I just don't like talking to him. When he opens his mouth, he either talks about how rich he is, or tells some sexually explicit jokes, which is very vulgar. Besides, I don't have any money. If you don’t have a woman, wouldn’t you be asking for trouble by telling him this?”
He asked Qin Jinhuan as if he suddenly came to his senses, "Boss, did you get the news about me from him?"
"Yes." Qin Jinhuan glanced at the unopened instant noodles on the table and said lightly, "It's not good to take care of your health in such an environment. Go back and find a better environment to take good care of your health and then come to Qingtian to see me."
As he spoke, he glanced at Bian Zijun. Bian Zijun understood and immediately took out a stack of money from his bag and presented it to Zhou Sheng: "If you don't have enough, ask me for it."
"How can this be done? This..."
"Even if it's an advance salary. What happened in the past should be treated as a lesson."
After Qin Jinhuan finished speaking, he glanced at Mu Yu, and seeing that she looked like she had nothing to ask, he motioned for her to leave Zhou Sheng's "home", ignoring Zhou Sheng's crying thank yous behind him.
Back in the car, Mu Yu told Cheng Xiang to carefully verify what Zhou Sheng had just said.
"But I guess he didn't lie." After telling her, she sighed for no reason, "I probably thought too much."
"Then don't think about it, go back and have a good rest." Qin Jinhuan hugged her and yawned.
"I'm sorry for making you stay up late with me." Mu Yu looked at him with guilt and distress.
He chuckled: "At least it's worth it if you take me to such a delicious barbecue. It's very late and we won't go home. I'll take you somewhere."
"where to?"
"You'll know when you get there. There's a section of the road, so you should close your eyes and rest for a while. I'll call you when we get there."
Mu Yu liked the way he pretended to surprise her very much. She held back her laughter and didn't say anything. She leaned in his arms obediently and closed her eyes.
She was also sleepy and fell asleep soon. When she woke up again, she was already in a strange environment.