Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 18 18. Trouble
Since Vienna demolished the city wall and built a 4-kilometer-long ring road, the city has expanded several times.Many locals call this avenue "Ring Road". Inside the ring is a noble finger, and outside the ring is garbage that can be discarded at any time.

Basinger Avenue is one of them.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Carvey returned to No. 73, his original "home".

This small building was built more than ten years ago, so it is not very old, but it is indeed not very clean when people come and go.

Under the sporadic candlelight, No. 73 was dressed in dark red clothes, hiding among his own kind.They stood in a row by the side of the road, silently bearing all the shortcomings of a modern industrial city in order to make the central city comfortable enough.

The place where Rosa fell from the building was cleaned up yesterday, and the windows of Room 302 were pitch black, as if she had never been in this world.

Standing at the gate, the memories of the original owner made Carvey full of thoughts.But after removing these dispensable things, there is still more strangeness.He didn't belong here in the first place, and the mottled memories before were too miserable, and it was time to say goodbye.

Carvey advanced the month's salary from Ignatz, thinking about paying back the rent owed first, tidying up, and moving to the hospital after returning the restaurant's lunch box tomorrow night [1].

Because Andre doesn't live here, it seems inappropriate to leave without saying goodbye, so he is going to write another note to express his helplessness not to renew the contract【2】.

Carvey dragged his tired body slowly up the third floor, and opened the door of his room with a key.

After entering the room and taking off his coat, he decided to lie down on the bed for a while and take a good rest.Then eat the food brought home last night, and then review the operation this afternoon, and design a set of experimental procedures related to postoperative infection.

However, just as he entered the house, a dark figure suddenly walked out of the window not far away.

He is shorter than Mick who visited here yesterday, and his raised belly is much more rounded, but for Kavey's appearance, the two reacted surprisingly similarly: "You came back early today."

I don't know if it's because of the class gap in the [-]th century, or because of the subtle influence of the surrounding environment, Kavey's behavior pattern is much more cautious than before coming here.

Don't say what you shouldn't say, don't do what you shouldn't do, don't offend what you shouldn't offend, praise what you should praise, and honor what you should add.It's like seeing the landlord Mr. Andre now. Although he was shocked, his heart rate soared to over [-], and his mind was full of obscenities, he still stabilized his emotions.

"...Mr. Andre?"

"You were not there when I came, so I came in first by myself."

Carvey once again abandoned the modern concept of "do not break into a private house", and classified "landlord breaking into the door of the rented room with a spare key" into the category of normal trivial matters.After all, he is just a temporary underage worker who is far below the food and clothing line, and has no status in the eyes of the other party.

"Why do you have time to come to my place?"

"What about this month's rent?"

Andre asked back, wanting to suppress his temper first, but Kavey was already prepared: "The money has been collected."

"Have you got it all together? You were still in a dilemma yesterday, why did it only take one day?"

Andre has a good mind. He glanced at the crepe in his hand, and immediately saw through everything: "I wondered just now, why do you suddenly have so many delicious French dishes at home when you eat black bread and polenta all day long?" , It turned out that something good happened."

"Just found a new job." Carvey explained.

Seeing that his dessert became the snack in the other party's mouth, he didn't get angry, and he didn't want to cause trouble, he just hoped that he could send the person away smoothly.Carvey consciously took out 250 Heller from his trouser pocket and handed it over: "This month's rent is here, please take a look."

Andre threw away the crepe casually, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, took two steps forward, took the money and looked at it carefully: "What new job, it's so generous."

"Hospital work." Carvey didn't want to say too much, "If there is nothing else, I have to clean up the house. By the way, I will move out tomorrow night. I thought about it. Forget it, now that you are here, That’s a good time to say hello.”

Andre didn't expect that he would come up with such a moth: "The house is not rented anymore?"

"Well, it's too far from the hospital, I have to change my place."

Andre stuffed the money into his pocket, slowly retreated to the side of the bed, and sat down: "You can talk about the lease slowly, and I'm not here just for the rent."

Carvey frowned: "Then why?"

"For... well, let's say it's for Miss Rosa who died tragically yesterday." Andre suddenly mentioned Room 302, "She's such a nice girl, she's only 20 years old, what a pity. Carvey, I see Come out, you have an unusual relationship with her."

Carvey:? ? ?
Kavey confirmed the memory of the original owner, and he has nothing to do with that Rosa.It is not easy for him to even live, so he has no time to think about such things: "Did you make a mistake? I have nothing to do with her, and I don't even know her last name."

"Didn't you help her carry the suitcase?"

"That was a long time ago, just a neighborly favor."

"Okay, okay, you know I'm not talking about this kind of relationship." Andre lowered his head and swept off the crumbs that fell on his chest, and suddenly changed the subject, "If I read correctly, you have seen A man in black."

Even with Carvey's experience and reaction, when encountering such an unexpected situation, he still showed a little unnaturalness.

Although he tried his best to conceal his panic and denied it all the time, Andre seemed to have confirmed the matter a long time ago: "Don't go around with me, Rosa was thrown from the stairs after being crushed to death by a heavy object." The murderer should be the man in black who often goes in and out of this building, and you are the accomplice."

In principle, this seems to make sense, and for the first time, Carvey had the idea of ​​killing people.

But it's just a simple idea, and there is still a long way to go from action.This evil thought also flashed by, and quickly dissipated in his mind.He was a life-saving doctor, not a demon, and the scalpel he just got from Ignatz couldn't be used in this place.

Looking back and thinking about it, if Andre really wanted to identify himself, he should bring the police.Since he came here alone, he must have a special purpose.

for money?
Or for something else?
"I don't know the man in black, and I didn't see Miss Rosa yesterday." Carvey still denied the incident, "The murderer and accomplice you mentioned have nothing to do with me."

Andre had expected this to happen a long time ago, and explained with a smile: "Don't deny it in a hurry, you know in your heart whether it has anything to do with it. I advise you to stay here obediently, and I will only charge 5 crowns next month." rent only"

It turned out that it was to extort money.

"Mr. Andre, are you kidding? I only have 5 crowns for my whole body." Kavi didn't hide from him and emptied his pockets. "You must have looked for it at home. If you really gave the 5 crowns, I Next month, I won’t be able to afford bread with crumbs.”

"You can find the man in black."

Andre walked to those exquisite lunch boxes, and said with a smile: "Guys who can afford Rocheshuart's restaurant, 5 crowns should be used like change."

"This is left over from Mr. Ignatz's treat last night. It has nothing to do with your so-called man in black. If you go to the restaurant now, the chef, Mr. Alphonse, should be able to prove it for us."

What Carvey said was true.

But to Andre's ears, it became a story of time, place, and characters.The story was very exciting, but his preconceived ideas convinced him that what he knew was the truth: "The old guy in room 303 saw the man in black yesterday, shortly after Miss Rosa fell from the building."

"I do not know him."

"He walked straight out of Room 302."

"I really do not know."

"Turned a corner and entered your room."

"I"

Andre stood up and began to press with the clues he had: "I don't know what Dr. Ignatz has to do with you, so don't tell me that you don't know. 303 has been renting here for five or six years, and I I can trust him. Similarly, I have lived in Vienna for decades, and Inspector Witte can also trust me."

After finishing speaking, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and put it on the writing table: "Look at it, sign it as soon as possible, and I'll pick it up tomorrow afternoon."

This is the 5 crown lease that Andre said before, and the time is only 3 months.In other words, after the end of 3 months, Andre can change the amount to 10 crowns or 20 crowns.

Kawei had no way to refute, and the other party didn't give him such a chance, so he left the lease.

Looking at the empty room behind him and the closed door of Room 303, his thoughts went back to yesterday afternoon, when the guy who called himself Mick dragged him into the quagmire.

Judging from the conversation just now, Andre has indeed mastered some things, although some are inaccurate, for example, Carvey was completely forced.But when the man in black is not found and the detective cannot close the case, maybe he will be used as a scapegoat.

He did not believe that there would be any real rule of law here.

It's a little troublesome.
The incident happened suddenly, but it did not affect Carvey's original plan.

Because the worst case scenario is to send 5 crowns to calm the incident, at least he can stabilize Andre for a month, and he still has time.

After dinner, he reviewed the entire operation process and made detailed records.Then I designed a set of preliminary data collection + follow-up experimental statistics plan for the surgical ward, and finally slept peacefully on the bed.

The next day, Carvey got up early and went directly to the carriage platform.

"Excuse me, is this the carriage to the library of heaven?"

"Yes." The coachman said, "There are still seats, and you can get on the bus for 15 helle."

"Give."

After Carvey gave the change, he hurried into the rear compartment [3].

There weren't many people on the morning bus, so he randomly found an empty seat and sat down. Judging from the route map, the journey would take at least half an hour.Carvey was about to lean against the window and look at the street scene outside, and then take a nap, but soon his sight was attracted by a newspaper erected on the opposite seat.

In the center is the introduction of Ignatz's operation, and the photo was taken during a personal interview after the operation.Carvey is also included as an assistant, but there is no place for him in the huge text space.

But what Carvey really cares about is not this headline, but a piece of news like a patch.There are only a few short sentences, and the words are very small. Even if you bring a photo, it only takes up a small space in the lower right corner.

However, its content surprised him:

[Last night at twelve o'clock last night, a male body was found by the Danube River. The head was hit hard. The identity was initially identified as Andre Joseph Edmund, who lived in the central city]

(End of this chapter)