Chapter 59: Ruffians
Li Shimao seemed unable to believe the photo he had just seen, and confirmed again: "Qu Yifeng , was he really killed?"
"Do you think the police would play such a joke?" Yu Miaomiao asked back.
"No, no." Li Shimao nodded and coughed twice, then thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I met Qu Yifeng a few years ago. At that time, my family opened a building materials store. One day he came to me and said he wanted to discuss a business deal. At that time, he said he had ten houses and wanted to get the building materials needed for the decoration from me, but the price he offered was very low at the time. In fact, after deducting the cost, he didn't make much money. But he said he had a lot of similar decoration work on hand, and he could introduce them to me in the future. He also said that he would decorate a large shopping mall of more than a thousand square meters in a while. Although the price was low, I agreed. At first I thought Qu Yifeng was bragging, but it turned out that he did have a lot of work on hand."
"So you have had business dealings since then?" Yu Miaomiao asked.
"Yes, later we got to know each other well, so I asked him what he did and why so many people came to him to take charge of the decoration. He said he was a little devil. There is a saying that goes, "Big Buddhas are easy to give away, but little devils are hard to deal with." Qu Yifeng was that hard little devil. Whenever he saw a property being built, he would go directly to the developer and ask for some work. If the developer refused, he would do something bad. Whenever the developer hired people, he would chase them away, or he would stick to the developer, forcing them to have no choice but to give him some work and send him off. Over time, anyone who planned to develop real estate, shopping malls, or real estate knew about him and would symbolically send him off first." Li Shimao scratched his head and continued, "Later, when the crackdown on gangs and evil was launched, he changed his tactics."
"What method?" Yu Miaomiao straightened up. Han Yun had been looking around.
"As soon as he saw the construction of a property project started, he investigated which company the developer was from, and then targeted the company's senior management, tracking them every day to find dirt on them. This method worked like a charm, and those rich people really didn't need to be checked, so after getting the evidence, Qu Yifeng went to show his hand. In fact, he wasn't a contractor, he just took some odd jobs, and then took the money to look for different places to make a profit." Li Shimao paused and said, "Don't think that he only made a profit from the middle, but they are all big projects, worth hundreds of millions or tens of millions. He can make hundreds of thousands for one job. I originally wanted to do this job with him, but Qu Yifeng didn't seem to plan to share the money with others, so he has always been alone."
"In addition to business dealings, do you often hang out together privately?" Yu Miaomiao asked.
"Occasionally, but not often. If you take the initiative to ask Qu Yifeng to come out, he will definitely not come out, so he always asks me to come. On the surface, he wants to go to a bar to sing and drink, but in fact, he has work and needs building materials, so he notifies me. Later, the price he gave me was getting lower and lower, and I couldn't get angry and say anything." Li Shi rushed in to Yu Miaomiao and said, "I heard that Qu Yifeng has killed people and is a desperado. This is the important reason why everyone tries not to provoke him if they can pay the matter away."
"Have you ever killed someone?" Yu Miaomiao took a step back, frowned slightly and said, "Where did you hear this from?"
"Once he took me to meet a big boss. Qu Yifeng was not polite at the time. He asked the boss for 100,000 yuan directly. The most important thing was that the boss did not ask what he wanted the money for. He just took out the card and gave it to him." Li Shimao lowered his voice and said, "Later I asked Qu Yifeng why the boss seemed to be afraid of you. He didn't say anything, just smiled. I found this very strange. Once he asked me to go to KTV. There were other people at the time. When Qu Yifeng was not there, someone came over and put his arm around my shoulders. He was obviously drunk and said drunkenly, 'Do you know why Brother Feng can get along so well? Because when he was young, Brother Feng was ruthless and a desperate criminal. He killed people without .' Qu Yifeng was indeed a ruthless person. Another time, he was supposed to contact the upper and lower levels, but the people below went directly to the developer and gave a price lower than that reported to Qu Yifeng. This incident made Qu Yifeng very embarrassed, so he arrested the person and beat him up."
"Why didn't the person who was beaten call the police?" Yu Miaomiao wondered.
"Because that person didn't know who beat him up, and Qu Yifeng is not stupid, so how could he let the other party see it?" Li Shimao explained, and then said: "Anyway, this person can't explain clearly, otherwise if the police didn't come to me, I would have thought he had committed a crime. But I think there must be a lot of people who want to kill him. You said he holds so many handles on the top executives of big companies, how could no one want to get rid of him. I think maybe some boss paid someone to kill him. This kind of thing is too normal."
"Don't bother you to worry about solving the case." Yu Miaomiao asked seriously, "Besides these, what else do you know about Qu Yifeng?"
"Almost. Actually, I'm not very familiar with him. Most of his stories are told by others." Li Shimao sighed. "Qu Yifeng never cared about money and was generous. The key is that business has been difficult in recent years. Although Qu Yifeng was very exploitative, he was able to introduce a lot of work. He still made money."
"Do you remember the name of the boss that Qu Yifeng took you to meet at that time?" Yu Miaomiao tried her best to filter the conversation with Li Shimao in her mind, for fear of overlooking any important clues.
"The boss's surname is Cao. I call him Boss Cao, but Qu Yifeng calls him Shunzi. So there should be a Shun in the boss's name, Cao Shun? Or Cao something Shun, Cao Shun something, I don't know the specific name." Li Shimao frowned and thought seriously and said, "But I heard from Qu Yifeng that Boss Cao opened a shopping mall and a school."
After listening to Li Shimao's words, Han Yun, who had been silent beside him, took out his mobile phone, opened the browser, and searched for celebrities with the surname Cao in Beidu who opened shopping malls and schools. Since this boss Cao was so successful, he could easily give Qu Yifeng 100,000 yuan, and he should have many charity activities, which were not difficult to find on the Internet.
"Qu Yifeng also has another name, Qian Feng. Don't you know anything about this?" Yu Miaomiao continued to ask.
Li Shimao shook his head stiffly: "I've never heard anyone call him by that name."
"Okay, you have my phone number too. If you remember anything, you can call me." Yu Miaomiao felt that she had asked almost everything she needed to ask, so she said, "You can go back."
"Okay, I'll tell you if I remember anything." Li Shimao said as he took two steps back, then turned around and walked away leisurely.
