plum city

Chapter 72 Unfamiliar Calls
He said hello in dialect.

The woman on the phone continued: "I know the person you are looking for. They are my relatives. I will bring them to you, okay? Where are you?"

Dialect said: "We are..."

He saw Xiaofeng shaking his head and said in dialect: "We are at the Summit Ramada Hotel."

When he booked a hotel yesterday, he saw this hotel and still remembered it.

"Oh, can I bring them over in the afternoon?" the other party said.

Fang Yan said, "We'll wait for you in the lobby bar on the first floor of the hotel."

Anyway, larger hotels will have a lobby on the first floor.

"Okay, let's come over in the afternoon..." the other party said, and Fang Yan heard a male voice whispering something in the local dialect in the background of the other party.

Fang Yan was about to say goodbye to the other party when the other party said, "Oh, do you want to pay us some travel expenses? We are in the countryside."

Fang Yan couldn't help but laugh and asked: "You lied to people and came together as a group? Husband and wife team?"

As he said that, he hung up the phone and blocked the number.He looked at Xiao Feng. Both of them smiled bitterly and shook their heads, then laughed.

Next, Fang Yan couldn't laugh anymore.

Throughout the afternoon, he kept calling. Familiar relatives, friends, suppliers, and several overseas customers all saw the obituary notices in newspapers and the company's website and called to express condolences. Such calls would not be answered. It's long, and it ends in a few sentences.

The other incoming calls were all random calls from unknown origins. They seemed to have been taught by a master. They basically found various reasons to ask him to send money first, with the amount ranging from one hundred to ten thousand.

Fang Yan said with emotion: "These people themselves are pigs. They don't even have a new routine. Do they think others are pigs too?"

"This is stupid." Xiao Feng said, "Telecommunication fraud schemes are the same. The police and the community are doing anti-fraud propaganda every day, but people still continue to be fooled. Why? They just make a lot of phone calls every day. They are stupid people. They fish them out of the vast sea of ​​people and make a profit when they catch one. It's just a phone call. If they don't pay, they won't do it in vain."

Fang Yan felt that what Xiao Feng said made sense. At this time, when he heard the phone ringing, he was not excited or funny, but felt like his head was exploding and he didn't even want to answer the phone.He now regrets that he did not listen to Xiaofeng and buy another phone card at noon. If so, he must have taken out the card and thrown it away.

Fang Yan simply handed his phone to Xiao Feng, and the phone rang again. Xiao Feng saw the phone with his name on it, so he handed it to Fang Yan, and Fang Yan answered it.Xiao Feng directly picked up the unfamiliar numbers. The other party basically followed the same old routine. The first sentence at the beginning was to ask if they were looking for someone. Xiao Feng said:

"Yes, we are the police, let's find out more about the situation from them."

The other party said nothing and immediately hung up the phone.

In the evening, after their missing person revelation was broadcast on the local TV station, more calls came in, almost constantly. It was not until about ten o'clock in the evening that the calls began to decrease.

Xiaofeng stood up and said goodbye, saying he was going back to his room.

After Xiaofeng left, Fang Yan was preparing to take a shower. His cell phone rang. He looked at it and saw that it was still an unfamiliar number. He had to answer it and walked into the bathroom to take a shower.

When he walked out, his cell phone was still ringing. Fang Yan looked at it and saw that it was still the unfamiliar number. He actually dialed this number more than ten times in a row. He was really a perseverant liar.

Fang Yan picked up the call out of curiosity. The other party coughed twice and said, "Finally we got through."

The voice sounded a little old.

Hello in dialect.

"Hello, hello, my surname is Zheng. We saw it broadcast on TV earlier, saying that you are looking for people who worked at the Meicheng Knitting Factory in [-]. I was working there at that time." Fang Yan Question: "Are you the only one?"

"No, there is also my wife, her surname is He."

Fang Yan's heart rose in his throat: "Excuse me, when did you go?"

"It happened so many years ago. Let me think about it, [-], we should have been there in [-]. I came back in [-] or [-]. The factory closed down at that time, oh, and became a private owner. .”

Fang Yan's heart was beating wildly, and the time was right, even the conversion was right.

Fang Yan calmed down and asked, "Uncle, can we meet?"

"Yes, yes, I want to know, ahem, what are you asking about?" the other party asked.

Fang Yan said: "Can we talk in person?"

"Wait a minute." Fang Yan heard the other party on the phone, turned around and asked the others, he wanted us to go there, can we go?Then a woman said, go ahead.

"Where are you?" the other person asked.

The dialect says: "Poyang County."

"Oh, we are in the countryside. We have to take a boat and then a car. It will take more than two hours to get here..."

As the other party said, Fang Yan's heart suddenly rose, "Don't, don't, don't, don't talk about travel expenses."

The other party did not mention the travel expenses, but said, we will leave early tomorrow morning and arrive in Raozhou, probably around ten o'clock. I will give you this call when we arrive?
Raozhou is the seat of Poyang County. Where they are now, Fang Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He said:
"Okay, give me a call when the time comes... How about this, uncle, can I treat you to dinner at noon tomorrow? We can chat while eating. Tomorrow morning, before you arrive, I will send you a message and tell you the location. I’ll send it to you and we’ll meet at the dining place then, okay?”

"We still have to eat. You are so polite. Why should you be so polite about anything?" The other party muttered for a while, and finally said: "Okay, then you can send me the place tomorrow."

After speaking, the other party hung up the phone.

Fang Yan hung up the phone, waved the hand holding the phone excitedly, and said "ouch".

He opened the door and walked out, walked to the opposite side, and rang the doorbell of Xiaofeng's room. Xiaofeng opened the door. Fang Yan was very excited when he walked in, and shouted to Xiaofeng:

"I just received a call. I think this call is a bit reliable. The caller's surname is Zheng, and his wife's surname is He. The time he mentioned when they arrived at Meicheng Knitting Factory and when they left were both correct. Even Everyone knows about the restructuring, so I asked them to come over tomorrow and they agreed.”

"Did they ask you for money?" Xiaofeng asked.

"No, no, this is the most reliable thing I think. They are in the countryside, and this is a water town. To come here, you have to not only take a car, but also a boat. The journey takes more than two hours. Even so, they are still willing to come, but There was no mention of money at all. I made an agreement with them to treat them to dinner at noon tomorrow."

Xiao Feng said: "Could it be that they just want to cheat this meal?"

"No, no, they didn't mention the meal. They just agreed to come over to meet. It was me who asked them to have a meal." Fang Yan said, "Even if they weren't my parents, they should have been in Meicheng at that time. I invited them to have a meal." What’s rice?”

"Could they be what you said, those people from Meicheng who went there together? They have long thought that they are from Jiangxi after being here for so many years. Moreover, one of them happens to have the surname Zheng and the other surnamed He?" Xiaofeng still said Suspect.

"That's it. They are also my parents' old colleagues. Then I can also learn more about my parents from them. If they also return to Jiangxi, then maybe we will still be in contact now? Anyway, we are again There is nothing to lose, what are you afraid of?" Fang Yan said.

Xiao Feng was right when he thought about it. Since the other party didn't ask for anything, so what if it was fake?

(End of this chapter)