I want to work hard too!

Chapter 947 Leaving for Treasure Island
Zhao Mingyang showed Shi Qiang the appearances of several people provided by Lai San, including the appearance of the owner of the noodle shop who was the first to provide. This is the necessity for the existence of painters.

It is possible to perfectly draw a portrait that is close to the original appearance, but this requires skill, not all painters can get it, at least it is related to criminal investigation, and even has a certain medical knowledge. Painters in this area have always been at the top of the pyramid Yes, the quantity is small and the fee is not low.

Generally, they are invited for many cases. They are the specially hired ones, and of course they also take on private work. After all, they are in this line of work.

The person Zhao Mingyang was looking for charged [-] yuan for a painting, which was neither high nor low. This person was introduced by an acquaintance, and this kind of work was not accepted every day. If it wasn't for Cai Qimin's introduction, Zhao Mingyang might not have been able to find him.

After all, most of these people are in universities. There is a joke on the Internet. Some university teachers give lectures for [-] yuan a class.

These are really not uncommon in universities. For example, it is not surprising that economics teachers themselves are worth hundreds of millions or billions.

Because many economics teachers are investment experts themselves, and they enjoy their school life.

The painter Zhao Mingyang found was introduced by Cai Qimin. He often helps the criminal investigation team with portraits. Of course, it is basically free of charge, but it is another story for private business.

When Shi Qiang saw the portraits in Zhao Mingyang's mobile phone, he was stunned for a few seconds, pointed to the woman playing cards with Lame San and said, "Isn't this Xu Sanmei?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mingyang quickly looked at Shi Qiang and asked, "Do you know her?"

"I know you. When I was young, I was in a dance hall. To put it mildly, I was a singer. To put it harshly, you know it. It was nothing more than a business.

This Sanmei Xu first sang in an underground dance hall. It was a dance hall that was secretly opened in some underground passages back then. Because of the age relationship, she didn't dare to open this openly at that time, and she didn't let it go until the mid-80s.

However, there are still some people who are used to the lifestyle and entertainment methods of dance halls. After all, this thing is an entertainment method that has influenced generations in Shanghai. Before the 70s, some people modified some underground passages and abandoned air-raid shelters for business.

Xu Sanmei couldn't sing really well, so she switched to selling drinks in dance halls, and by the way, she was a middleman to get a commission.
Those things were strictly prohibited in the dance halls at the time. The dance halls in Shencheng have always focused on singing and dancing, but it is inevitable that some people have needs, and some girls also want to earn extra money, so Sanmei Xu becomes the middleman.

But later it was said that she married an old man, an overseas Chinese businessman. The businessman had a son, but died young, and Xu Sanmei was with him and gave birth to a son.

Later, it was said that Sanmei Xu also started a business, mainly in the business of second-hand dealers, and it was said that she was also engaged in the business of drug addicts. "

"Do you know if anyone knows about Sanmei Xu? Just because they know her better?" Zhao Mingyang asked.

"Yes, that's the Li Lanhua who now runs the dance hall, nicknamed Sister Hua. She doesn't specialize in this, she just likes to dance. Now she opens a dance hall for the elderly, mainly dancing, but she used to hold Xu Sanmei in the Worked in the dance hall shares, can be regarded as one of the bosses.

There is also a 65 now, and she was thirty and old at that time, but she must know about Xu Sanmei, because Xu Sanmei had followed her back then.

Back then, she had a very powerful concubine with strong wrists. After all, she belonged to the powerful class. When something happened in the backstage, Sanmei Xu fell into despair.

At that time, Xu Sanmei's shares in the karaoke hall were given to her for free, and it was no big deal if her concubine could protect it. "

"Can you give me the address?" Zhao Mingyang asked.

"I'm writing to you, that place is hard to find." Shi Qiang said.

Zhao Mingyang didn't hesitate, took the address and went to look for it. It was also due to Shi Qiang's flirtatious nature in the past, so he probably would have liked any pretty woman in Shencheng...

That's why he knows so much, but Lame San has no news, and doesn't know Fan Lingling's appearance provided by Shi Qiang.

But Zhao Mingyang can be sure that even if the people in this circle are not in the same group, they all know each other. Although the circle of three religions and nine streams is complicated, they will basically meet each other.

For example, the smugglers, the drug dealers, and some swindlers basically know each other, because these people rely on the smugglers to help them escape.

And this group of smugglers also needs some thugs, and the thugs have contacts with some circles, go around, and if you can't find it on the surface, you can find it underground.

This is why some gangster dramas have the terms undercover and informant. If you can't get in, you won't know the way inside.

Zhao Mingyang asked Liu Lanshan to contact that Liu Weicheng. Zhao Mingyang didn't want to have anything to do with that person, so he showed Liu Weicheng the portrait provided by Shi Qiang, and the portrait of Xu Sanmei, including the portrait of the noodle shop owner and his so-called wife, and asked him to go underground. Inquire and inquire, and see how much information he can inquire about.

As long as the other party provides clues, the price is easy to negotiate, so Liu Lanshan went to find Liu Sicheng. The two were old acquaintances before, but the way was different.

Liu Qiancheng still did some things that would not be on the table, not only Zhao Mingyang didn't want to deal with him, but Liu Lanshan didn't want to deal with this person too much.

Liu Lanshan only asked Zhao Mingyang one sentence, what if the price proposed by the other party is too high?Liu Lanshan knew this person very well, even his own uncle could betray him, let alone others.

Zhao Mingyang patted Liu Lanshan and whispered in his ear, "If Liu Qiancheng knows about this and doesn't tell, and asks for a sky-high price, we'll pour him wine until he speaks out."

Zhao Mingyang asked Lao Wu to arrange a few people for Liu Lanshan, and now Liu Sicheng is just a little bum in his eyes.

Zhao Mingyang sat in Lao Wu's car and came to a very desolate neighborhood. The layout here was really bad. There was a row of facades and houses stuck outside, and this neighborhood seemed to be in a residential area. It was very difficult to enter the gate. Not spacious, at most the width of a car driving in one direction.

The most important thing is that this place seems to be very close to the urban area, and it is in the urban area, but in this area, it belongs to the four non-examinations, medical education and business are not far behind, and the community is an old community, not to mention the consumption ability, and the age of the residents is generally average. Not too small.

So this area has basically become a very desolate area. The main reason is that it is impossible to expand the commercial area. The people who live here are all former demolition households. This commercial street was also demolished for compensation.

Zhao Mingyang knew something was wrong when he came here. This street has two floors, but the layout here is really bad. First of all, in order to save indoor space, the stairs leading to the second floor are placed on the outdoor road. There are many outdoors. There are S-shaped stairs and V-shaped stairs, but the aisle is not wide, just the width of two cars side by side.

The upstairs roof is too low from the ground, and this row of ground-floor façade houses is only more than two meters high, and the height from the ground is only two meters high.

This is not like a commercial street at all, and it is a dead end road, that is, there is no other exit at the end of the road. This is more like a temporary construction of unplanned commercial housing for compensation to the demolition households, and half-finished products built for compensation and saving.

Zhao Mingyang and Lao Wu were walking in this street. The front rooms on the first floor were basically empty, or they were some wholesale departments. They went to the middle section and went up the stairs to the second floor.

There is a song and dance hall for the elderly here, the location is really remote, and the decoration is of course very ordinary, nothing more than a dance floor, a few seats, a colored light above the head and a big stereo.

This boss is called Li Lanhua, and it is said that he was the concubine of a certain big boss back then. Later, when that big boss got into trouble, this Li Lanhua went from bad to worse, but he was much better than Shi Qiang.

At the very least, she can still live in a commercial house with her pension, and she can also open a dance hall like this, and the cost is not high. Everyone who comes here will be given [-] per month to dance casually.

There are quite a lot of people, there are hundreds of NO.80 people who will come here, and they regard this place as an indoor square dance. Most of the people who come here are a group of people who used to like to go to dance halls to dance ballroom dances, but now the ballrooms are basically no longer exists.

This place has become their gathering place. This sister Hua also has a high appeal and reputation. It is said that she could run away because many people ran away. She didn't run away. She found all the debtors. , and then pay back the money one by one, and give them a deadline if they don't make it, and they must pay it back, and they will never run away.

Li Lanhua has also repaid the money successively in the past ten years, so her reputation has always been good. Although the facilities of this dance hall opened later, although the facilities are simple, everyone also came to support it. The main thing is that this kind of place is basically gone now.

The rent here is not too expensive. When everyone comes to dance, Li Lanhua will give everyone dance clothes for free. They are all advertisements for the nursing home. In January, she has to pay three to five thousand for the advertisement fee, plus selling some snacks, drinks, miscellaneous things Xiao Commodity, he can earn [-] to [-] yuan a month, plus the retirement salary of [-] yuan a month, she can live a decent life. Of course, this is far from the past, a thousand miles away.

Back then, her concubine was in trouble, and she didn't run away. In fact, it wasn't that she didn't want to run away, but that she had a child, and she didn't want the child to be bumped around in the future. The most important thing is that she knew that it might not be good for her to go out, and it might be soon. The money will be spent, and she will go out with a half-year-old child alone. She is very weak and may not survive either.

While staying in Shencheng, at the very least, there are many acquaintances, at most, life is not as easy as before, but it is much better than ordinary people, and there is a good unit, but she has been working in the unit.

So she chose to stay, thanks to her staying. I heard that the group of people who opened the dance hall before ran away, and there was basically no good end, because going abroad at that time and going abroad is different every day, and they are not familiar with the place. They have no background, they can only be bullied by others, and some died halfway, huddled under the plank of the boat, and some people couldn't make it through.

Li Lanhua can be regarded as the group of people who ended up better. In Shencheng, it is too difficult to stand up for decades. For example, her mistress and Shi Qiang were both prominent figures in the past, and they ended up bad. Her mistress Worse than Shi Qiang, he died directly because he committed a major crime.

With such a life now, Li Lanhua feels that he has made a lot of money, at least [-] times better than that Shi Qiang. After seeing Shi Qiang a few times, Li Lanhua gave Shi Qiang a sum of money as a relief. Just one thousand, Shi Qiang didn't want it.

This old man used to be a leader in Shencheng, but he ended up like this. He is not as good as the previous bosses Huang. At least he still has someone to take care of him in his later years.

When Zhao Mingyang came to the dance hall, he saw a woman with dyed hair and brown sunglasses sitting in front of a cash register.

Wearing brown eyes is nothing more than covering the wrinkles in the corners of the eyes. After all, you are over 60 years old, and you can still see the appearance of an old man. You can see it no matter how you take care of it. Li Lanhua is 65 years old, and a little boy is playing in it. Li Lanhua reminded the children to be safe. The little boy is her grandson. Her basic job now is to take care of the children, and then save the money she earns to give to her grandson in the future.

Sister Hua, who was all-powerful in Shencheng back then, is no different from ordinary old ladies now. The only difference is that she likes to make up and wear nice clothes to go out. She spends an hour preparing makeup before going out every day.

"Hello, Auntie." Zhao Mingyang walked forward and said, if you call someone sister, you will be scolded. Sometimes not all women like to be called sister. .

Li Lanhua took a look at Zhao Mingyang, and she could see that Zhao Mingyang was not an ordinary person, after all, she had seen people who were in big storms, so she was very accurate at judging people.

Old Wu was behind Zhao Mingyang, so he was obviously a thug, and she had been behind her before.

"What's the matter?" Li Lanhua looked at Zhao Mingyang and asked.

"Ask someone, do you know this person?" Zhao Mingyang took out his mobile phone and showed the screen to Li Lanhua.

Li Lanhua looked at it and said: "Just say that you are looking for Xu Sanmei, and you will know that I know her when you come to me. Why are you talking so much nonsense? I know that if I don't tell you, you will come in vain, won't you?" '

Zhao Mingyang nodded and stretched out his hand. Old Wu handed Zhao Mingyang an envelope.

Zhao Mingyang put the envelope on the table and said: "This is a kindness, I really need to know his news, because it is very important to me, let's put it this way, you tell me about it, I remember your love, You know if you don’t tell me, I can let you speak out, but it may be disrespectful to you, not very friendly to your family, and maybe do something that hurts them.

This Sanmei Xu has caused a lot of trouble. If you help her hide it, you will push your family into the sea of ​​flames. I am not joking with you. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Shi Qiang. This is the current situation after he helped me. "

Li Lanhua saw the completely new Shi Qiang sitting in the restaurant wearing a suit and eating an exquisite lunch, and then looked at Zhao Mingyang.

She knew very well that what Zhao Mingyang said might not be false.

"I haven't been in touch with Xu Sanmei for a long time. Please come here." Li Lanhua got up and took the envelope away and put it in the drawer. It was she who knew that if she didn't take the money, her family would be in danger.

She found a table and invited Zhao Mingyang to take a seat, then brought Zhao Mingyang a cup of tea, sat opposite Zhao Mingyang and said, "You can ask anything you want to know."

Li Lanhua knows better than anyone else that when a person is in a very high circle and has to deal with an ordinary person, it's okay to really make your family disappear.

So she didn't dare to offend Zhao Mingyang, her grandson was still playing there, and she couldn't run away if Zhao Mingyang watched her.

Zhao Mingyang asked Lao Wu to buy a toy for the children, took a sip of the tea on the table and said, "Aunt Lan, you used to be a prominent figure in Shanghai, so you are a smart person, so I'm looking for Sanmei Xu. I'm not interested in asking about the rest, but I hope you can tell me everything."

"That's, that's, I won't hide anything. Xu Sanmei used to hang out with me. She has a very quack air. I don't like people with quack air very much. Most of them are not of good quality.

In fact, I have nothing to do with the rivers and lakes. I just like to dance, so I bought shares in the dance hall. Shanghai is different from other places. In fact, the dance hall has never been interrupted, because it seems to be a kind of living habit of everyone. .

It's just that the dance halls at that time were purely for singing and dancing, and they were all opened secretly. The difference between Shencheng and other places is that no matter who comes here, it can't be changed. Didn't the old man say it? Shencheng cannot be changed.

At that time, I had never heard of the pastry shop in Shencheng. Qingtuan, white rabbit milk candies were eaten, and chicken, duck and fish were also eaten every day. At that time, Shencheng was the only metropolis in China that could be said to have a special existence. "Li Lanhua's face was filled with the kind of pride in his bones.

She is right. Shencheng has never changed, cannot be changed, cannot be changed. History tells everyone that it is indeed not easy to be changed. It is a very special existence. In the 70s, it was unique in China. There is no one .

"However, no matter how it is changed, it is impossible for the dance halls of that period to be opened so blatantly, right? We also opened them secretly, try to keep a low profile, and require a very pure and clean environment. Who is not afraid of setting fire to warm up? , can't change Shencheng without a watch, can't change us.

But this Xu Sanmei is dishonest, you must have heard of her doing those things, I drove her away from the ballroom for fear of causing trouble.

Later she followed an overseas Chinese. I can't remember what that overseas Chinese was called Sun.

The old man was more than [-] years older than Xu Sanmei, and he mainly did insurance business overseas, and he mainly did some foreign exchange business for banks in Shanghai.

After Xu Sanmei followed him, she gave birth to a son for him, but the old man was very happy. The boy was called Xing Xing, and I had seen him when I was a child.

It is very difficult for you to find Xu Sanmei. She has gone abroad a long time ago, and I can't find her, but I can help you find out her husband's name, because someone remembered her husband's company at that time, you Wait a minute, I'll send a WeChat message to the people in the group. "

Li Lanhua sent out a voice in front of Zhao Mingyang: "Who of you still remembers that dancer Xu Sanmei, what did she marry that old man in the end?"

Zhao Mingyang could tell that Xu Sanmei had always been unpopular in Li Lanhua's heart.

Li Lanhua is more like an old Shen adult. There is always a feeling that you are all from the countryside, that is, people from the imperial capital in the 90s were called country people when they went to Shencheng.

Soon, an old lady sent a voice: "Didn't that old man run an insurance company in Baodao? The old man's name is Sun Jianhua, and his hometown is in Xiamen City..."

When Zhao Mingyang heard this, he knew where to go. He was going to Treasure Island. This time the clue was very important.

(End of this chapter)