The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 171 Meeting the Joyful Meeting (5)

Brother Fat stuffed a few pomegranates into his mouth noncommittally, chewing until the red juice flowed out, as if he had just eaten someone, then waved his hand and signaled the two people standing next to him to bring Wang Honger up.When Wang Honger came to the lobby, he saw that Brother Fei didn't make things difficult for us, and asked curiously, "Did you tell him that it belongs to someone else?"

Her expression was always peaceful when she spoke, and it was difficult for people to associate her with someone who was insane.Brother Fat spat out the pomegranate seeds and asked Wang Honger, "What is the name of the person you are talking about?"

Both Ji Mingmei and I turned to look at her.Wang Honger froze for a moment, then said, "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Ji Mingmei was furious, "You have been with him for so many years, and you don't know his name!"

"He hasn't said a word to me, so how do I know his name?" Wang Honger wondered, the expression on his face didn't seem to be fake at all.

"Zhou Xunshan" himself said this, so Ji Mingmei and I didn't know how to talk about it.After a long while, I said: "Even if he has never spoken to you, don't the neighbors call him by his name on weekdays?"

"Neighbors?" Wang Honger had a strange expression on his face, and my heart skipped a beat, with a bad premonition.Sure enough, Wang Honger went on to say, "No one has seen him except the three of us."

"Impossible!" Ji Mingmei and I shouted at the same time, "He has lived there for 20 years, even if he lives alone, how can no one see him at all?"

"So, I don't think he is human." Wang Honger replied calmly.But we were a little ashamed when we heard that, if "Zhou Xunshan" is not a human being, then what is it that she has been with him for so many years?
Ji Mingmei and I were speechless for a while, but this matter is easy to verify. Brother Fat listened to our conversation and asked someone to inquire about it.While waiting for the inspectors to come back, he didn't say anything to us, just eating pomegranates there, and when he finished eating, he actually asked someone to bring another one.

Because there was an extra spectator, Brother Fat ate even more bravely. When the investigators came back, he had already wiped out another pomegranate.The investigators went straight to the point, and said as soon as they came up: "I have asked, and it is true that there is no such person."

Ji Mingmei and I were both terrified when we heard that, we both looked at that person.The man didn't even look at us, he just told us what he had heard.The house we were in hadn't been lived in for a long time, but a woman had been coming in and out over the years to clean and tidy it up.

The neighbors thought she had already bought the place, and they didn't care.Unexpectedly, not long after, they suddenly discovered that this woman seemed a little abnormal, often standing alone in the courtyard and talking to the empty place.They were naturally a little worried when they saw this, fearing that a delirious person would be moved in.

But unexpectedly, this woman didn't live here, she just came here every now and then, stood in the courtyard, said something to the empty place, and then left.From the tone of her words, it seemed that the "person" opposite her was a man, and she had some admiration for this man, so she came to him from time to time to help him clean up the house.

Since this woman doesn't live here, the neighbors don't bother themselves, but avoid her to some extent, and rarely even go to the door of that place.In the few encounters, the woman even mentioned the "people" who lived there, and someone vaguely told her that there were actually no people living there, and wanted to see her reaction.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the woman showed a thoughtful expression, and then said that what they said was right, there was indeed no one living there.She admitted that no one lived there, and the neighbors were naturally even more surprised.When the woman went there again, someone secretly hid aside and peeped, but saw that she was still talking to the place where no one was there.

After doing this a few times, everyone understood that the woman verbally admitted that there was no one living there, but in fact she believed that only she could see the "people" living there!After everyone figured this out, they all kept her at a respectful distance. Except for Zhuo Yue, who used to live there, no one went to that place gradually.

Because of this, we couldn't find anyone anywhere when we got there, so we had to go to that house to inquire about Zhuo Yue's whereabouts, and thus got involved in this inexplicable incident.Now, it has been established that the house is unoccupied, but my heart has settled down instead.

Because those neighbors also confirmed one thing at the same time, Wang Honger had indeed been in contact with an invisible "person" for many years.If we are lying, then our lies are also based on Wang Honger, but we are here for the first time and do not know Wang Honger.

Brother Fei took a serious look at me, and suddenly said: "You breathed a sigh of relief? Do you think that since Wang Honger's statement has been confirmed, your statement should also be confirmed?"

My heart turned cold, since he asked such a question, he naturally still didn't believe what we said.Sure enough, he didn't wait for me to open his mouth and said, "Even if her statement is confirmed, you can't escape the responsibility. What if you and her are in the same group, just coming here doesn't mean you didn't know each other before. Right?"

I was powerless to refute, and there were faint sweat beads on my forehead.

Brother Fei picked up a cloth on the table and wiped his hands, then threw the cloth away and tapped his fingers briskly on the table, "Zhou Xunshan has been imprisoned in the county police prison for 20 years, but he has been imprisoned for [-] years. The funds from the security regiment were stolen, and then blamed on two strangers. The most important thing is that he has not taken the gold away."

He suddenly laughed as he spoke, and asked us humbly, "You say, if all this is true, then what is he doing for it?"

"Having said so much, you might as well go to the county police prison to see if he's still there," Ji Mingmei forced a smile, "If he's gone, then wouldn't everything we said come true?"

"No need to go. The county police prison is guarded by the security team. Zhou Xunshan has been in the prison from the beginning to the end." Brother Fei glanced at us, "Actually, since I found the batch of 'big yellow croakers', I have been thinking about all this. What is it all for?"

My heart moved, and I suddenly asked: "If this batch of gold is stolen, and someone uses this to coerce the security team to release Zhou Xunshan, will you agree?"

"Yes." Brother Fat replied without hesitation, "This batch of gold is the basis for the security team to live and work. Even if the security team demolishes the county police station, we have to do it." He turned around as he spoke, " I know what you're going to say, but the gold is lost and recovered, and all the purposes of this matter are immediately defeated."

He was right, so I shut my mouth dejectedly.But Ji Mingmei's eyes brightened when she heard the words, and said: "Since the gold has been lost and recovered, can it be said that we are not only innocent, but even meritorious?"

She was right, as long as it can be proved that we had nothing to do with the theft of the gold, then indeed, as she said, we are not only innocent but even culpable.But the question is, how do we prove that this matter has nothing to do with us?Just when I was racking my brains and thinking about it, Ji Mingmei let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair.

"If he really believes that we did this, do you think we can still stand here and talk to him?"

I was taken aback by what she said. Indeed, from the discovery of gold to the present, this fat man has been too polite to us, except that we didn't share half of us when we ate pomegranate just now, and he really didn't beat or scold us.It's just that we were so worried and didn't think of it coming up. Ji Mingmei must have figured it out just now.

Brother Fat saw me looking at him, so he pouted towards Ji Mingmei and said, "Sit down."

"You...you believe us just like that?" I still couldn't believe that I got out of the predicament so easily.

"Who said I believe you," Brother Fat said flatly, "I just don't believe that someone will guard such a sum of gold and not escape." If you did, then you are naturally an accomplice of the invisible man."

"You said, I'm his accomplice?" Wang Honger still had a thoughtful expression.

"But I can't figure it out, if you are his accomplice, why did you stay after he disappeared?" Brother Fat frowned, "You don't want gold, but you keep people here, what is the purpose? ?”

He seemed really lost in deep thought, and after a long while he shook his head and said, "I can't figure it out. So, I can only think that you are not his accomplice."

In a few words, he actually ruled out the suspicion of the three of us at the same time.We were all very surprised and looked at him speechless.After a while, Ji Mingmei said cautiously: "In that case, can we leave?"

"Go? Where are you going?" Brother Fat narrowed his eyes, "Even if you didn't do it, you were the last ones to appear next to Gold. This matter has nothing to do with you, right?"

This is an irrefutable matter, we had no choice but to nod, but we don't know what he was thinking.Brother Fat supported his chin with his hands, and suddenly another chin appeared out of thin air, "Well, since the gold has been recovered, I will leave this matter to you to investigate."

We were all stunned when we heard the words, Brother Fat said again: "The gold was stolen in an unimaginable way, is it like magic? It's too similar, but I don't believe it, and I don't know what the ultimate purpose of this matter is. If you can give me a satisfactory If you confess, this matter has nothing to do with you. If not, the three of you did it. Have I made it clear enough?"

Although these words are a bit outrageous, if the truth cannot be found, we have nothing to say when this matter happens to us. After all, gold did appear by our side in the end.So I hesitated again and again, but still gritted my teeth and nodded, Ji Mingmei reluctantly followed suit.

Since we need to find out the truth by ourselves, I immediately said: "I need to go to the warehouse to have a look. The first thing we need to find out is how the gold 'swims' out."

Brother Fat was easy to talk at this time, so he took us to the warehouse without saying a word.The security regiment is neither army nor police, so the station is neither a police station nor a barracks, but a huge house.The warehouse is in a remote corner of the backyard, not connected to other houses, and is usually guarded.

When we got to the warehouse, Brother Fat opened the warehouse and let us go in to check.I asked him, "Is the gold still in there?"

Brother Fat's eyes flashed, and he replied, "It's gone."

He was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of well ropes for ten years, so he changed the place where the gold was hidden, and he didn't plan to tell us.I didn't ask him, but walked into the warehouse first.The light in the warehouse is dim, but because it is part of the security team, it turned on the electric lights that are rarely seen elsewhere.

The warehouse has no windows except for the door, which rules out the possibility of someone sneaking in from elsewhere to steal.In addition to storing gold, the warehouse also stores some uniforms, guns and other items.The inside is not very ventilated, so the smell is not pleasant, and I feel dizzy when I take a deep breath, which is similar to being hit in the head.

I walked to the place where the "big yellow croaker" box was placed, and found that the old box was still there, and it was still open. I guess it was because after the gold was stolen, Brother Fat didn't ask anyone to touch it, and kept it as it was.There was water in the box, but naturally it had already leaked out.The dead big yellow croaker was also disposed of, otherwise the smell in the warehouse could kill people at this moment.

The stream that runs along the box has naturally dried up, and the water has seeped into the ground.It's just that it hasn't been long, and the stream is still a little wet.I squatted down and touched the soil in the stream, squeezed it in my hands, and then walked over to check the box.

The box is made of solid wood, and the bottom of the box is very flat, so it will not leak.But at this moment, there is a gap about half a finger thick at the bottom of the tank, and the water in the tank flows into the stream through the gap.

(End of this chapter)