Early that morning, Sun Mingtang drove to the police station to work. Just stepping out of the police car, a patrolman standing guard at the door bowed and said, "Deputy Chief, someone is looking for you! He holds your business card and claims to be on the Bund 18."
Sun Mingtang's heart sank and he looked at a man in ragged clothes curled up in the corner of the wall. The man lifted his pants and stood up.
Sun Mingtang guessed that he was the owner of the fishing boat yesterday, and said, "Come with me!"
Sun Mingtang led the fishy man into the neat office.
The man was a little restrained, bowed his head, as if he didn't dare to look at everything around him. Sun Mingtang let him sit down and asked, "Why, did you see someone going to the ghost ship?"
The man nodded and said, "My mother-in-law saw when she poured the toilet in the morning. A well-dressed woman came out of the ghost ship. My mother-in-law was very scared. That woman has been following my mother-in-law. When we got into our boat, I took a piece of ocean and asked us to buy fishing line. It's weird! My mother-in-law waited for the lady to leave and was scared, so she hurriedly asked me to come over with her business card!"
When Sun Mingtang heard him say that the woman in Chinese clothes had bought fishing line, he "cocked" in his heart.
"What does that woman look like?" Sun Mingtang asked.
"My mother-in-law said that before, when she went to sell fish in the city, she seemed to have seen this woman."
Sun Mingtang moved in his heart: "Do you know her identity?"
"No, I don't know." Xu was nervous, and the man swallowed again. "However, my mother-in-law knows her. If she sees someone, she will definitely recognize her."
"That's fine." Sun Mingtang stood up and handed a big ocean to the man, "Call your mother-in-law and go to the city with us to see if he can find the woman."
The morning market in North Street is full of people coming and going. Vendors sell their goods along the street, mostly fresh fruits, vegetables, chicken, duck and fish. The shirtless pig killer cut a few pig ribs with a knife.
Most of the people who came to buy vegetables were housewives, some poorly dressed women with broken baskets on their shoulders, who only dared to choose some cheap vegetables. After passing by the butcher shop, they did not dare to look at them; there were also lightly dressed women with With the maid, strolling slowly, right as a pastime.
"Selling fish, fresh fish!" Sun Mingtang wore a coarse cloth gown, smeared a little soot on his face, and placed a few basins and a steel scale on his feet. There were some fresh fish in that basin. It was only in the morning. Salvaged.
"Why do you sell this little yellow croaker?" A girl with braids came over with a basket on her back. Behind her followed a cheongsam woman with powdered, rouge and curly hair. The woman's age is not a few years older than this girl, but her whole body is full of dust.
"Hey, fresh, but cheaper, only 400 yuan a catty."
"So expensive?"
"It's expensive, now the rice is more than a hundred and a catty!" Sun Mingtang raised his eyebrows, "Miss will pity me, a poor fish seller. There is still a family to raise!"
"What kind of lady I am, I'm just a maid." The girl looked at the woman behind her.
"Xiao Cui, buy a few catties, your master likes to eat fresh yellow croaker."
"okay."
Xiao Cui picked the fish, and Sun Mingtang said it well and said, "Three catties, 1,200 yuan." Wrapped it with a large piece of fresh tree leaves, and passed it over.
Xiao Cui put the fish in the basket, but it was the woman behind her who paid the bill—white and slender fingers, which were well maintained at first glance, and long nails were painted with red curd.
"Give you an ocean, no need to look for it."
Sun Mingtang put Dayang to his mouth, blew, and smiled: "Thank you Madam, Madam."
Xiao Cui and the others walked far away, and a woman in a turban came over from behind a large tree nearby.
"It's her, this woman." The woman said affirmatively.
"Follow up, and be careful not to startle the snake." Sun Mingtang patted a man selling vegetables next to the fish stall. The man was pretending to be his subordinate [Hu Yong], who took his orders immediately.
Sun Mingtang turned his head and handed the newly acquired Dayang to the woman: "This is for you. If the real murderer is caught, there will be your reward."
The woman was stunned and lowered her head. Sun Mingtang saw that she was wearing a new pair of cloth shoes and embroidered simple flowers on her feet, and the clothes on her body seemed to be newly bought.
"Why, too little?"
"No, no, no..." The woman took Da Yang and said vaguely, "I'm sorry to take your money all the time..."
"This is what you deserve, remember, keep it secret to me." Sun Mingtang smiled.
An hour later, [Hu Yong] returned to Sun Mingtang's office.
"Did you find it?"
"Deputy Chief, I found out, that woman is the third wife of a wealthy businessman, and the one named Xiaocui is her close maid. The original partner of the rich businessman and the second wife are not in Shanghai. In that household, it is equivalent to the third wife of the rich businessman. Home. Rich businessmen are often away from home. This third aunt is too idle, sometimes going out shopping, shopping, drinking tea or something." [Hu Yong] replied, "They live in a small western-style building in the center of the city. Here, I heard that this third wife used to be a firework girl, the kind who did not sell herself, was taken by the wealthy businessmen and redeemed her."