Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 349 Everything Returns to the Starting Point (Part 3)
Someone came to visit late at night. It was either something or something big, not to mention that there were two girls. They didn't look like the type who would appear on the construction site to do plastering. The middle-aged man could only secretly guess that these were the girlfriends of those two bastards. He was so envious and jealous that his teeth were about to break. The quality was amazing.
"What's the matter?" He chose to greet with a smile. Even a guy who had a sour face all day would feel very different when he saw a beautiful girl. Most people are visual animals, regardless of gender.
Lu Mingfei showed the middle-aged man Su Xiaoqiang's business card and said, "Boss Su asked me to come here. I want to investigate something."
The middle-aged man had no choice but to walk out of the security booth and take the business card for careful examination. Because Su Xiaoqiang's name has been too famous in the local area in the past two years, some criminals want to pretend to be someone related to Su Xiaoqiang to do something bad. Only the person who actually holds the business card can prove that he has a real entrustment relationship with Su Xiaoqiang.
As soon as the middle-aged man got the business card, he immediately felt its heavy weight. He rubbed the laser-engraved platinum fonts with his fingers. The edges were smooth and the fonts were clear. There was no doubt that it was a genuine business card from Su Xiaoqiang.
"How can I help you?" The middle-aged uncle immediately changed to honorifics. Anyone who could get Su Xiaoqiang's business card must be either rich or noble. Even though there were two young girls in front of him, they must be important people who were either rich or noble. A small security guard like him could not afford to offend them, so he had to treat them well.
"Don't be so polite, we just want to go in and look for some things that might be left behind." Lu Mingfei smiled very approachably. She was not good at putting on airs, but she didn't like the feeling of the old man being overwhelmed by Su Xiaoqiang's business card. "Are you familiar with this place?"
"Yes! Of course I am!" The security uncle nodded like crazy. "I have been a security guard here since the project park was approved. I used to guard the park, then the factory, and now the construction site. My youth is a witness to the rise and fall of this place."
Lu Mingfei thought to herself, wow, there is a security guard who has been working in the same place for so many years. It seems that this uncle not only has some connections, but is also a model of the way of living a life of idleness and waiting for death.
"That's great. If it's not too much trouble, could you come with us? I have some questions to ask you." Lu Mingfei said.
"Sure, sure!"
The gate was open, and the security uncle let Lu Mingfei and Ling in, then turned around and locked the gate and gate. He put the keys on himself, and walked with them swinging and jingling. At first glance, he looked majestic, as if the key was his imperial guard badge, and he was going to inspect the Summer Palace with the imperial concubines. As long as he is with beautiful women, the value of a local dog will soar. If the person next to him is Marilyn Monroe, others will look at you as if you are the richest man in the world.
The park has changed a lot. Various construction waste and debris fill the open space. The first few rows of buildings have been replanned, either demolished and rebuilt or added to small houses. The middle part is a few high-rise buildings that will be made into large flats. It is not until deep into the park that you can see the previous appearance. Rows of workshops, rusty iron doors, ropes pulled back and forth outside, with a lot of clothes hanging on them. This place has probably become a temporary construction site dormitory. You can hear snoring like thunder coming out of the window.
The noise was so loud that I felt that if I put a piece of paper on his face, he would probably blow it up when he exhaled. I don't know how other workers tolerated this guy. The saddest night in the world is when there is a guy snoring wildly in the dormitory.
"This place used to be the territory of the Black Prince Group? What was the purpose of building so many factories?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Back then, the company invented some high-tech product, saying it was a quantum reading converter that could help people quickly read and memorize the contents of books. It touted its various effects as miraculous, and these delivery rooms said they were the factory that manufactured that thing. The thing was indeed made, and it looked quite high-tech. The materials used were quite expensive and the product looked very good. It was promoted as a learning machine of the new century, and it successfully defrauded a lot of loans and investments. Everyone knows what happened later. The company went bankrupt and ran away, leaving behind such a mess."
The security uncle spoke of the past events in great detail and it seemed that he had talked about them with many people. He has been guarding the gate here since that time. His status is like a living fossil of the park, witnessing the honor and disgrace, rise and fall of this place.
"This sounds like something from a scam, but so many banks and investors believed it." Even Ling finds it unbelievable when he hears it now.
"Now that I think about it, that's what happened, but at that time, we didn't care so much. There was no financial crisis yet, the stock market was booming, and everyone thought we were about to take off collectively. What's more, the Black Prince Group had such a large business before, and it did make people feel very reliable. At this time, he suddenly announced that he had developed a new product that could assist with memory and study to get high scores in exams. Do you think those parents would not believe it? Many things can only be understood after the fact, and those who are involved are always confused." The security guard spoke meaningfully, with a look of disillusionment.
“Uncle, your speaking skills are really good, they’re almost coming out!” Lu Mingfei almost gave him a thumbs up.
"I write something occasionally when I have nothing to do. It's nothing original. It's just the nonsense of ordinary people." The security guard laughed, but you can see that he is actually quite proud of it. There are countless security guards in the world, but not all of them are educated and eloquent.
"You've been here for so long, do you still remember your former colleagues? I want to ask you about someone." After a few words, they became familiar with each other, and it was time for Lu Mingfei to show her sword. "The Black Prince Group used to have a driver who drove a Maybach. His last name was Chu, and his name was Chu Tianjiao. Do you know him?"
"We're more than acquaintances. We're good buddies!" The security guard puffed out his chest and acted proud, but then he immediately withered. "It's a pity, Lao Chu was a nice guy. His favorite thing to do was to go to a barbecue stand with me to enjoy beer, grilled wings, and braised intestines. Later, he got into trouble and died. I was left alone. I couldn't even enjoy the beer, and I never went to a barbecue stand again ."
"What kind of person is he in your eyes?" Lu Mingfei pressed on. She really didn't expect that there would be an intelligence agent here who was so familiar with Chu Tianjiao.
The security guard opened his mouth but was stunned. He seemed to have a lot to say when it came to Chu Tianjiao, but when it came to him speaking, he suddenly didn't know how to start. It was as if the person was right in front of him, yet he just couldn't grasp him.
"The most distinctive feature of Lao Chu is that he is always cheerful." The security guard tried hard to recall that face. "I remember that he was married before. His wife was a beautiful dancer and they had a son. Later they divorced and he had to pay child support every month. His life was always tight. How much money could he make from driving? He couldn't find a side job because the boss could be out at any time and he had to be on call at any time."
Lu Mingfei was right. The only time she and Chu Tianjiao had met was on that rainy night. But judging from the conversation between Chu Zihang and Chu Tianjiao, Chu Tianjiao did not show up many times when Chu Zihang needed him. He was also an S-level dragon slayer at Kassel College, an eye for Lu Mingfei, and the driver of the Black Prince Group. No matter how powerful a person is, he would be unable to do everything. It was a pity that no one knew his story at that time, and even Chu Zihang treated him coldly.
"Anything else?" Lu Mingfei continued to ask.
"If you keep asking, I really don't have much to say ." The security uncle scratched his head. "Old Chu is a pretty unremarkable person. He doesn't have any hobbies except drinking a little wine and eating some large intestines. When we were together, he mostly talked about bragging. He was always so lively in front of me, but now that you ask me to think seriously about him, I feel like I don't know him at all. I don't even know where he goes every day."
Lu Mingfei and Ling looked at each other. Although this did not leave any information for future generations, there was no doubt that this was how an S-level specialist should behave. He could blend into the life around him and be an ordinary person. When he disappeared, he would not leave any traces of him around. But this made his son and his future daughter-in-law suffer... Otherwise, Chu Zihang would not have been unable to find anything for so many years.
"Oh, right!" The security guard suddenly slapped his forehead, "Speaking of Lao Chu, I remembered that the house where he used to live in the factory is still there! That place is a basement, and the workers don't want to go in. It's too stuffy in the summer, and it's rarely vacated when there's no work. I didn't go to see it , but maybe everything is still there!"
"He actually lives here?" Lu Mingfei was extremely surprised. This was a hundred times more useful than a bunch of descriptions from outsiders.
"Are you interested?" The security guard guessed what Lu Mingfei was thinking from the look on her face, and immediately took out a bunch of keys from his waist and began to search.
The place where Chu Tianjiao lived was right below the workers' dormitory. The old factory building would have needed some underground equipment processing room or something. Walking in this long corridor, the footsteps of three people overlapped. Lu Mingfei suddenly thought whether Chu Tianjiao would be like this many years ago. Every lonely night when he came back from work, he had no friends and no socializing. The only thing that could keep him company was the braised large intestine he carried and the empty footsteps.
How lonely would such a life be? But Chu Tianjiao had to bear it. He would still pretend to be the old Chu in the security uncle's mouth and put on the mask of a driver. Maybe he didn't care about these things at all. But he made the biggest mistake of his life. He shouldn't have liked Su Xiaoyan. Because of that wrong love, he had a child. From then on, the lonely hero had two fatal weaknesses and could no longer bear everything alone.
The air was filled with the hum of air-conditioning compressors, and old mechanical parts were piled in the corners. After so many years, this place still retained its original appearance. The security guard walked in front to lead the way, chattering about the past all the way.
"This place used to be an air-conditioning room and a temporary warehouse. When Lao Chu came to work, he said he had no place to live, so the boss arranged a temporary room for him in the basement, and I took him out to buy a bed and quilt. I thought he would move out after living there for ten days or half a month, but he ended up living there for so many years. I advised him, saying that the boss is not stopping paying you, and it would be better to save a few hundred dollars a month and find a more comfortable place to rent. There are no windows here, and you will suffocate in the summer and freeze to death in the winter. Lao Chu always smiled and told me that it was not necessary, and that he could bear it, and he was a real person."
He stopped in front of a metal door, took out the key he had prepared long ago, inserted it into the keyhole and tried to turn it. However, perhaps because no one had been there for a long time, the inside of the keyhole was a little rusty, and the security guard tried for a long time but failed to open the door.
"Let me try." Lu Mingfei took the key and tried to turn it. She immediately found something wrong. The lock of this door had not been changed, but a small thing had been added to the lock cylinder. The conventional way to open the door was wrong. She turned the key in the opposite direction, no longer pushing it hard inward but gently pulling it outward. The key perfectly matched the lock cylinder at a certain point, and the small mechanism installed replaced the reaction of opening the door with a light click, and the door finally opened.
It seems that Chu Tianjiao did this on purpose. He intended to add some extra protective measures to his residence, and there is definitely something special inside.
But unexpectedly, the air blowing in from the door was fresher than the air in the basement passage outside. Because it had not been opened for many years, it only had a slight smell of dust, which was not very choking.
The space is not big, about the same as a single bedroom, with a bed, a cabinet, a table, a chair, and nothing else. It is as simple as the ancient Chinese performance called ventriloquism, but for the sake of living, a few steel wires are pulled in the corner of the room to dry clothes, with two suits and some simple black and white T-pants hanging on them. Probably because there is no wardrobe, this is the only way to store things.
"Wow, it's quite clean." The security guard said with emotion. It was rare for a bachelor's room to be so simple and clear in storage. His own nest was not much different from a pigsty, except that it was convenient, so he would put everything at hand.
"Uncle, can you leave for a while?" Lu Mingfei said, "Let us be alone for a while."
"Okay, okay, I'm just going to take a look at the equipment room and do some work while I'm here." The uncle nodded repeatedly. They were Su Xiaoqiang's people. Holding a business card was like President Su himself coming. Not to mention staying alone for a while, even if a girl suddenly said, "Hey, bring me some bombs. I want to blow this thing up to the sky," he would tell the workers to get up and work without saying a word.
Maybe it has something to do with Lao Chu? A story involving love, hatred and vengeance between two generations is played out in the uncle's mind.
