After Waking up Beside the Villain

Meng Wangda hadn't been to this street for some time, since he gave the watch shop to his youngest son Meng Yun, he only came three or four times, and then stopped coming, thinking in his heart that being a man would always Stand up earlier by yourself to look good.

Today, under the scorching sun, I came to the door of this watch shop again, looking at the whitewashed door face, but suddenly I didn't recognize it.

The white dove plaque written by an old gentleman who is very good at calligraphy has long been removed, and replaced with a row of foreign characters hanging vertically, surrounded by complicated and classical European patterns, and a yellow one stands on the top. A bronze dove.

Looking at it, it is beautiful and foreign, and it blends perfectly with the tone of this ten-mile foreign market.

But Meng Wangda didn't like it very much.

He was born in the fifth year of Guangxu, and his family was related to a governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at that time. He was in charge of a large amount of business and had a prosperous population.

Later, when the naval battle broke out and chaos broke out in Guangdong and Guangxi, the governor was beheaded inexplicably.Meng Wangda's grandfather was afraid of getting into trouble, so he gritted his teeth and took his family to the north, to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

However, neither his grandfather nor his father's generation were very useful people.

The family property brought from thousands of miles away will be wiped out after only a few years.Before the family collapsed completely, Meng Wangda got two shops.

At that time, it was about the [-]rd year of Xuantong, and there was a new trend, and people at that time praised industry for saving the country.Meng Wangda had a passion in his heart, and he was unwilling to bury himself like this, so he sold some properties and came to Haicheng to make a living and start a business.

But in a place like Haicheng, all kinds of forces are so intertwined that they can't easily squeeze one more foot.

Meng Wangda is a smart man with long sleeves and good at dancing. Although he has suffered a lot and has been cheated a lot, he has made some names here anyway.

Needless to say later, his luck came, and he knew people with his eyes. When Yu Jingzhi was still unstable, he decided to invest in it with all his wealth. He is almost as good as the officials, and he seems to be a well-known business tycoon in Haicheng.

During that time, he gave the watch shop to Meng Yun.

"master?"

Perhaps Meng Wangda had stood outside the door under the sun for too long, which attracted the attention of the watch shop assistants.

The clerk looked inside suspiciously, recognized Meng Wangda at once, and rushed out to greet him: "Master, why are you free today?"

Meng Wangda withdrew his gaze from looking at the signboard, and glanced at the guy who greeted him with a flattering smile.The clerk was the old man he had sent to the watch shop, but he no longer wore a gown, and changed into a cheap suit, and he stood upright, which seemed to be the case.

"Nothing to do, come and have a look."

The copper wind chime by the door rang, and the clerk graciously led Meng Wangda in.

"Where are you three young masters?" Meng Wangda glanced around, except for this guy, there were no other familiar faces, not even the master who had been repairing watches for decades.

"You also know that it's not the end of the month. There is an account book to be handed in, and the third young master is reconciling the accounts upstairs." The waiter replied, "Master, why don't you sit down first, and I will ask the young master to come down."

Meng Wangda waved his hand: "Come on, I'm busy with you, I just go upstairs to find the third child. I don't want to be so particular about my own place."

As he said that, without waiting for the buddy to react, he lifted up his robe and went upstairs.

The buddy tried to stop him, but he didn't stop him.Although the third young master told him not to see anyone at noon and not to be disturbed if there was nothing to do, but at this time it was Meng Wangda who was at his own place, and his own father went to see his son, so why should he stop him.

Meng Wangda noticed the clerk's embarrassment for a moment, but pretended not to see it, and went straight to the second floor.

He never doubted that there would be something wrong with the always honest Meng Yun, but at this time, he had to think about it.

The first floor of the watch store is full of counters, and the second floor is a few rooms for watch repairs. There are some imported instruments, and there are masters busy in them.

At the end of these watch repair rooms is an office, the door is closed, and it is quiet.

Meng Wangda clenched his fingers and raised his hand to knock on the door.

"Who?"

The reaction from the door was quick, and a male voice sounded, with a little vigilance.

Meng Wangda said: "Me."

There was a muffled sound, followed by footsteps approaching, the office door was opened, and a tall, thin young man in his twenties appeared inside the door, with surprise and astonishment on his face: "Father, why are you here?"

"I'm here to do some business. I was just passing by. I just wanted to see you. These days, you don't even go back to the old house, and you can't see it even if you want to. Your mother will blame me for letting you out."

Meng Wangda spoke casually, waved away Meng Yun's blocked arm, walked into the office, looked around, came to the desk, and flipped through the stacked books: "If you don't do anything for two days, you will have to pay when the day comes." When I got home, I just hugged Buddha's feet temporarily, you--"

Meng Yun smiled bitterly with a little shame: "I don't want to either, Dad, isn't it because I was busy with things before."

Meng Wangda looked up at his son, whom he hadn't seen for a while, and suddenly said, "You reconcile the accounts as soon as you reconcile them, and what are you doing with the door locked?"

As if he didn't expect Meng Wangda to ask this question suddenly, Meng Yun was stunned for a moment, and then said after a two-second delay: "It's not like you don't know that when I was young, I was easily distracted when I was studying and doing things, and it's the same with account reconciliation. Once the door is closed, no one else will disturb me, and my brain can turn around faster."

After a brief explanation, Meng Yun changed the subject: "Father, you are running around under the sun, but you are going to be too hot. Sit down, and I will pour you a bowl of herbal tea to clear away the heat."

As he spoke, Meng Yun stretched out his hand to help Meng Wangda, and led him towards the bench for guests.

Meng Wangda didn't refuse, and sat down according to Meng Yun's wishes.While Meng Yun was walking back and forth, serving tea, he was also carefully observing this spacious office.

He originally came to test Meng Yun with complicated thoughts, but now when he saw it, he found it strange, and he couldn't help but suspect something, and he always felt that there was something wrong in this office.

But before he was allowed to figure out what was wrong, Meng Yun handed over the herbal tea.

Meng Wangda knocked on the lid of the tea bowl and asked, "I haven't come home for the past two months, what are you busy with besides studies and watch business?"

Meng Yun smiled, and said with a bit of embarrassment: "Didn't you say last time that at my age, I should bring you back a daughter-in-law? I have been struggling with your son for the past two months."

Didn't find any sign of lying from Meng Yun's expression, Meng Wangda relaxed slightly, took a sip of herbal tea, and said with a smile: "You boy, you don't like the ones your mother chose, you want to pursue free love, what's the matter, now In love?"

"How old is it, and what family does it belong to?"

After all, they are parents, and when it comes to this kind of thing, they can't help but ask.

Meng Yun said: "She is a teacher in a middle school for girls. She is nineteen years old and her family also runs a business, but she is not in Haicheng, but in Jinling. I met her at a book club, and I fell in love with her at first sight. I have also met a few times, and we have contacts..."

Meng Wangda listened quietly, a gratified smile appeared on his face, just smiled, but the corner of his eyes suddenly glanced at the window sill in front of him, there seemed to be a gray and black trace, like The shoe prints stepped on.

His smile froze for a moment, and he quickly lowered his head, concealing it without a trace.

"Since you have a sweetheart, you should treat him well. When you have free time, you can take him home and have a meal together." Meng Wangda took another sip of herbal tea and felt his throat full of soreness. Forgive me, your father and I still have things to do, so we won't stay any longer."

After saying that, he stood up and walked out.

Meng Yun hurriedly got up and saw them off.

When approaching the door of the office, Meng Wangda stopped suddenly.

He turned around and pressed Meng Yun's shoulder, and said in a low voice like a mosquito: "Son, do you...do you want to talk to Dad?"

Meng Yun looked into Meng Wangda's eyes deeply, and was startled, but saw Meng Wangda looked away, and looked back at the bench he was sitting on just now, where there was a set of mahogany tables and chairs Cabinet, tall and strong.

Meng Wangda felt the tense and stiff muscles under his palm.

Meng Yun said softly: "Father, what do you know?"

Seeing Meng Yun's expression, Meng Wangda's heart became cold in an instant.

He held Meng Yun's shoulders tightly and opened his mouth to speak, but before he could utter a word, he heard a strange voice suddenly sounded from the office: "Jiang Chengjun, why don't you keep your father and have another cup of tea."

Meng Wangda suddenly turned his head, and saw a limping man with a wounded leg coming out from behind the cabinet, staring at him coldly and maliciously.

at this time.

White Pigeon Watch Shop is nearby.

Amidst a series of chaotic footsteps, Chu Yunsheng and Yu Jingzhi followed several subordinates who had come here after the sporadic bloodstains, walked through the winding alley, and came to the base of a tall old locust tree.

"Sir, that's where the blood is gone."

Liu Er, who checked the surroundings, came over and said in a low voice.

Yu Jingzhi looked at the drop of blood suddenly broken in the middle of the alley, then raised his head and scanned the surroundings, and said, "What do the two families next door do?"

Liu Erdao: "They are all ordinary people. They have been searched by the patrol room, and nothing has been found."

Chu Yunsheng was also observing the intermittent bloodstains along the way.

Except for the place in the center of the alley, there was no trace of blood on either side of the piled sundries, gray-black walls or tree trunks.

This is not in line with common sense.

If it is said that the wound was treated at this time, and the bleeding was temporarily stopped, but it was not seen that there was more blood flowing here, after all, there would always be more blood stains left during the time of bandaging in place.But if it wasn't dealt with, how could the bloodstain disappear suddenly? It couldn't be that this person evaporated in place.

In other words, this person found something temporarily, covered the wound, and then quickly fled somewhere.

But there is no trace of him in the people in this alley.

It would be unrealistic for him to cover the wound and then run to a distant place to hide.He was shot in the thigh, and he had already run so far. Even if his physical fitness was much stronger than ordinary people, he should have no strength, and it was impossible to go too far.

"Could it be that his accomplices are here to meet him?"

With Chu Yunsheng's guess of the two murderers at Fan Chengmei's place, Yu Jingzhi first guessed whether there was a second person here.

And it makes sense.

His accomplice came here to respond, covered the wound, carried him away quickly, enough for him to escape a short distance without bloodstains.

Hearing this, Chu Yunsheng walked a few steps towards the street outside the alley, and asked Liu Er, "What houses or shops are there within a hundred meters around here?"

Liu Ergang has already walked around in this area, after a rough observation of these things, he thought for a while and said: "In addition to the two families I just searched, there are also two restaurants, a bank, a bank, and a watch shop..."

"Watch shop?" Yu Jingzhi looked sideways, "Which watch shop?"

Liu Er was taken aback, and said, "Boss Meng's Baige Watch Shop."