Part 2 Chapter 42: Helpless
This night was so exhausting that I really didn't have the energy to figure out what was going on.
I looked back at the bath center. From the outside, this house actually looked quite ordinary. Besides being a little shabby, it didn't look like a ship at all. I didn't know how to understand Qin Yiheng's words that it was a ferry.
However, after observing for a while, I figured out something. After all, this house was used for sex trade in the past, so there might be a secret passage to avoid inspection and escape. So Qin Yiheng disappeared, and it is very likely that he went out through that secret passage. Thinking about this, I think it is necessary to come back and take a look after I go back to rest.
I had breakfast on this street and sent a text message to Qin Yiheng, telling him to meet me there. If his phone was broken, he would be able to receive the message after he got a new one.
While eating breakfast, I asked the owner of the breakfast shop about the bath center, and the information I got was the same as before. However, surprisingly, the owner told me during a casual chat that the land in this area had been bought by a developer a long time ago, and it was said that it would be demolished a long time ago , but no construction has started until now. Many stores on this street heard the news and quietly expanded or built simple houses in order to make more money when the demolition happened. As a result, there is no movement at all now.
After hearing what the boss said, I roughly calculated it in my mind. Although this area is not in the city center, the location is actually not bad. If the demolition work starts, it will cost a lot of money. Maybe the developer has not prepared enough funds. So I casually asked which developer it was. Unexpectedly, the boss's answer gave me a shock. He told me that it was called Hongda Group.
To be honest, when I heard the boss's answer, I really wanted to vomit all over his face. Damn, this house is not only related to Yuan Zhen, but also involves Hongda Group!
I thought about it and realized that the person who signed the contract with the old man should not be Yuan Zhen from Hongda Group. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a contradiction? It is obviously impossible for my group to buy the land and sell the house on it.
But if it was another Yuan Zhen who did it, what was his purpose? Did he also buy it for investment after hearing rumors that it was going to be demolished? In the end, he waited for a long time but it was not demolished, so he couldn't wait any longer, or he sold the house because he needed to turn over funds? But in my opinion, he should be in cahoots with Hongda Group.
I walked to the street and looked around. Just as the breakfast shop owner said, many stores had expanded on their own, making the houses look weird. Even this breakfast shop was an expanded part of a clothing store next to it.
I lit a cigarette, but I didn't wake up at all. Instead, I started to feel dizzy. Many houses I own will also face the problem of demolition, so I am relatively familiar with it. I pondered for a long time, and suddenly I felt that I had some ideas. I thought to myself: "Yuan Zhen bought this house just to be a nail house, specifically to prevent Hongda Group from developing this piece of land? Then his goal was achieved, the house had no use, so he sold it?"
If this is the case, then the reason why Hongda Group has not started construction yet is probably because there is no need to start construction. Could it be related to the recording of fetal dreams?
I was fooled by my own thoughts. If my speculation was correct, this was a huge investment. This piece of land must be worth at least hundreds of millions. How could they spend hundreds of millions just to record the fetal dream in that house? What kind of dream is so valuable? Besides, couldn't they just buy the bath center? Even if they wanted to conceal their tracks for some reason, they wouldn't have bought the entire piece of land, right?
The more I think about it, the more troubled I get. It would be great if Qin Yiheng were here at this moment.
After breakfast, I felt even more dizzy, and I didn't know if it was because of the blow last night that I had a concussion. I returned to the hotel, put my phone to my ear, and fell asleep .
Because I was worried about the phone ringing, I didn't sleep very well and barely managed to sleep until around three in the afternoon.
After getting up, I tried to call Qin Yiheng again, but there was still no news from him. He hadn't been missing for long, so if I called the police, no one would care. And after I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that he was probably the one who killed the other person, so I was a little worried that calling the police would harm him. But I definitely couldn't just wait like this, so I went to the bath center again before it got dark.
This time, I searched carefully for more than two hours, but I couldn't find any secret passages or traps, so I had to go back to the hotel. I was completely helpless.
I didn't know how long I had to wait here, and most importantly, I couldn't even find someone who could help me analyze it. Finally, after much hesitation, I had no choice but to call the old man.
The old man's tone was still the same, which made people feel a little disappointed. I told him that we had already explored the house and had made many discoveries, but there were some questions that I hoped he could answer. I didn't dare to tell him about Qin Yiheng's disappearance because I was also worried that this house was a trap set by the old man, and I couldn't tell him that we had fallen into it.
The old man didn't respond much on the phone. He just told me indifferently to come back and talk, and then ended the conversation.
I didn't waste any time after I hung up the phone and immediately bought a return ticket. I left a message for Qin Yiheng at the hotel front desk and headed straight to the airport.
I was very uneasy on the way back. After getting off the plane, I didn't even go home. I made another appointment with the old man directly, and the place was still the teahouse.
When I got to the teahouse, I found that the old man hadn't arrived yet, so I lay on the table to rest for a while. After waiting for seven or eight minutes, the old man finally pushed the door open and came in. He didn't sit down, but told me to get up and go out with him. He went downstairs and took me to his car.
To be honest, it was a risky move for me to get on the bus with them. However, I really had no other choice but pretend to be calm and look out the window, but my heart was actually beating very fast.
The car didn't drive for long, and stopped after two or three streets. I got out of the car and saw that it was a famous villa area near the city center. The price of villas in such a location can be imagined, so this is a real rich area. I had always hoped to buy a house here, but I never came across it.
I followed the old man on foot into the villa area, and I didn't understand why he got off the car. We walked quite a distance, and the old man took me into a villa.
The furnishings and decoration inside the villa disappointed me. It was not as good as I imagined. Maybe it was because the houses in this villa area were quite old. It was not obvious from the outside, but it felt rustic as soon as I entered the house. The old man did not say hello to me. He sat on the sofa in the living room and started drinking tea. I did not sit down immediately, but stood and observed the surroundings briefly.
The house is still in Chinese style, but it is much worse than the one the old man showed us before. There is a large calligraphy scroll hanging in the main hall of the house. I recognized the words on it at a glance. It reads "万民一户".
Without the owner's permission, I couldn't go any further, so I had to sit down and wonder whether it would be better for me to ask first or for the old man to speak first. As I was thinking, the old man asked me first: "Where is your friend?"
I was a little flustered when he asked me this, because I didn't know whether to tell the truth or a lie. Then, I decided to just evade the question and told the old man that the friend couldn't come because of something else.
The old man looked at me noncommittally and continued to drink his tea. When he finished his bowl, he stood up and asked me to follow him upstairs. Only then did I see the rest of the house.
The decoration upstairs was better than downstairs, but not much better. I followed the old man into a room, which looked like a study. The old man took a book from the bookshelf and flipped through it, then handed me a note and asked me, "Do you recognize this thing?"
I took the note and looked at it, and was completely stunned. This was not the first time I had seen this note, because it was written by Fang Wanjin when Qin Yiheng took me to see Fang Wanjin.
