Detective Files II

Chapter 329 Feud
Tian Mi was really stunned by the words of the little waitress girl, a little dumbfounded: "Do you think being a policewoman will make you unable to get married?"

"No, no, no, I didn't mean you!" The little girl realized that what she said just now had a wide range of impact, and quickly explained, "You are so good-looking, and you are in a big city, so it must be different. I mean, in our place, if a girl from any family becomes a policeman, the family probably won’t let her go, and even if the family can’t manage it, she can’t expect to get married in the future.”

"Why is that?" Tian Mi was puzzled, thinking that the locals had some special repulsion towards the police.

The little girl smiled and waved her hands: "It's nothing, it's nothing, you guys should go to bed early, you have to be busy tomorrow, right? Here is your key, I'll boil water and fill your thermos!"

After more than 24 hours of long-distance travel, Tian Mi was already exhausted. She didn't think much about the waiter's words and opinions. She took the keys of each room and the ID cards of the two people from the little girl, and carried the The luggage went back to the room.

The facilities in the small hotel are very simple, except for a small table with a hot water bottle, there is only an iron canopy bed that creaks when you sit on it. A hole was broken.There is a window in the room, but the window faces the backyard of the hotel. After opening the window, a putrid smell comes in with the wind. The weather is hot and there is no air-conditioning fan, so Tian Mi can only bear it.

It is taken for granted that a hotel with such conditions wants to require separate toilets and bathrooms for the rooms. , belonging to the first-come-first-served type.

Fortunately, it seems that there are not many other guests staying here, and there are not many competitors. Naturally, Lu Xiangdong will be modest and let Tian Mi let her take a comfortable hot bath after putting away her belongings.

After taking a bath, Tian Mi felt that her muscles and bones finally relaxed a little. She wiped her hair and went back to her room. Within a few minutes, the little waitress who had just registered for them was carrying a big steaming kettle. Knocked on the door and walked in.

"The conditions here are just like this, you just make do with it!" The little girl may be friendly, or she may be a little envious of Tian Mi after hearing that she is a policeman, and her attitude is particularly enthusiastic, "I will give you first Fill the thermos bottle, and then go to boil a pot for your colleague!"

"It's okay, don't be busy, a pot of water is enough for the two of us." Tian Mi didn't want to let the little girl go away, but wanted to chat with her, "Are you busy tonight? How many people live here?" many?"

"Not many! It's just the two of you staying tonight!" The little girl was honest and unabashed, "We don't usually have a few guests here, but occasionally someone in the town holds a wedding or a wedding, and the house can't accommodate us. Someone is coming. Anyway, the boss owns the house, and he also arranges wedding and birthday banquets, so it can last."

"Since you're not busy, sit down for a while, let's chat!" Tian Mi patted her bedside, asking the little girl to stay a little longer.

The little girl guessed that it would be boring to be on duty alone at night, but she was very happy when someone asked her to chat, so she nodded and sat down immediately.

"Are you a local from Shiyuan Town?" Tian Mi asked, and she was already [-]% sure in her heart. Apart from judging from the accent, the size and condition of the town was really not good. Like an environment that can attract foreigners to work here.

Sure enough, the little girl's answer immediately confirmed her speculation: "Yes, I was born and raised here."

"You look much younger than me, you've come out to work at such a young age!" Tian Mi continued to chat with her.

"I have to make money to subsidize my family, and the whole family has to eat."

"Your parents..." Tian Mi was a little confused by the little girl's answer, thinking that she accidentally poked someone's scar.

"My parents also have to work hard to make money. I make money to feed and drink for the family, and the two of them make money to support my brother's education. In the future, he will have to go to college and so on."

Tian Mi frowned slightly, but didn't say much.It's not that she hasn't heard or seen things like patriarchy, it's just that in a family with older brothers, as a girl, she has received impartial care from her parents since she was a child, even There is also the protection of the big brother Tian Yang, so whenever she hears that kind of patriarchal things, she will feel very puzzled, and can't help but secretly rejoice.

"Actually, I'm fine like this. I don't have anything to do every day. It's easy and I can earn a thousand or eight hundred a month. Anyway, I can still come out freely. It's better than some girls I know who are being beaten all day long." It's good to be locked up at home and under the supervision of parents." The little girl was quite satisfied with her situation.

Tian Mi smiled at her, and didn't know what to say, so she changed the subject and asked, "Your Shiyuan Town doesn't seem to have a large population."

"Not many, there were not many in the first place. Later, many men went out to work, and even fewer stayed."

"There are fewer people and a small place is actually good. The neighbors are more familiar with each other, and it is lively to get along with each other."

"That's true," the little girl agrees with Tian Mi's words, "It's such a big place with sesame seeds and mung beans, and there are only so many families. It's hard not to know if you look down all day long."

"Is there a lot of people surnamed Meng in your town?" Tian Mi gradually got to the point.

The little girl nodded: "Yes, Meng is the most common surname in our town! All the ancestors who have lived here for generations are almost all named Meng, and the other surnames are all moved in later."

"I see. I knew there was Meng Qingwei in your village, and later I found out about Meng Dabao. Just now I thought these two were cousins ​​or something."

"The two of them?" The little girl's expression immediately became amused, and she seemed to know both of them well, "The two of them are definitely not brothers, let alone related, these two families are simply blood feuds."

"Is that an exaggeration?" Tian Mi's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and she deliberately pretended to be unbelievable, "As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. They all live in the same town, and they are still in the same family. Where did such a big contradiction come from?"

"Anyway, believe it or not, these two families are notoriously thorny in our town, and even their own relatives are equally quarrelsome, so they don't care if they belong to the same family or not!" I was happy with Tian Mi's reaction, and felt that she thought she was making a big deal out of a molehill, so her face tensed up a little.

Seeing her like this, Tian Mi quickly calmed her down and said to her, "That's right, sometimes people do not recognize their relatives in front of interests, let alone not being relatives without reason."

"That's right! These two old Meng families are famous in our place for being bitten by seeing benefits more than flies seeing blood!"

"Then the feud between the two families you mentioned must have been accumulated due to conflicts of interest?"

"I don't know about it. I also heard my parents chatting at home. They didn't tell me the details, and I don't know. In fact, they might not even know what happened to the two families. The little girl curled her lips, "It seems that in the early years, because of the homestead, the land was still divided. Anyway, what we outside know is because of this kind of thing. The two families started to find fault with each other from the grandfather's generation to the grandchildren's generation. It's not over yet."

"I don't know what to say, but don't spread it to me. Our family can't afford to offend any of those two families." After finishing speaking, the little girl instructed Tian Mi with some concerns.

Tian Mi laughed as soon as she heard it: "I'm an outsider, how can I tell you nonsense."

Only then did the little girl relax her nerves, a little embarrassed for her nervous reaction: "That's true."

"Do these two families still often fight now?"

"I don't know. Our house was not far from Meng Dabao's house. Later, my younger brother was always bullied by the youngest of their family, and sometimes he was robbed of pocket money. I moved away. After living far away, I heard less about the troubles of those two families. Anyway, it has nothing to do with me." The little girl said nonchalantly.

Tian Mi saw that she couldn't ask any more questions, so she didn't force her, and chatted with the little girl for a while. Later, the little girl realized that Tian Mi was yawning again and again, so she realized that it was late, and hurriedly took the pot to leave , I also went back to the room to sleep.

After sending the little girl away, Tian Mi tentatively called Lu Xiangdong who lived in the room diagonally opposite to her, but Lu Xiangdong answered it quickly.

"Not asleep yet?" From the speed at which he answered the phone and the sound of his voice, Tian Mi could tell that Lu Xiangdong was still in good spirits.

"I'm reading a book. Have you finished chatting with that waiter? Did you gain anything?"

After Lu Xiangdong asked such a question, Tian Mi told Lu Xiangdong all the information he had communicated with the waitress girl, and then concluded with one sentence: "Although there is not much gold content, at least the two families have a bad relationship. We can It's confirmed. Let's go to the Shiyuan Town Police Station tomorrow morning to find out more, and if the two families once had a bad fight, the police station will have a grasp of it."

"Well, then you should go to bed early. Although the environment is not good, it is better than being on the train." After listening to her words, Lu Xiangdong told Tian Mi to go to bed early.

"It's the same with you. Last night, you didn't seem to close your eyes very much. You didn't go to bed early tonight. Are you in a hurry to read that book?"

"Understood, I'll go to bed early, good night, that's it." Lu Xiangdong's answer sounded not only insincere, but rather perfunctory, he answered hastily and hung up the phone.

(End of this chapter)