The Dragon City Rises

Chapter 117 The Garbage is Cleaned

Under the awning of the teahouse, Wei Xiangzuo smoked and asked softly, "Have these people shown up anywhere else?"

"These guys stayed at Xishui Pavilion Foot Massage City on the first day, and rented a house on Gangnei Sandao Street the next day, paying a month's rent." Xiao Feng replied in a low voice, "After Gu Lao was beaten to death, these people never showed up again."

Wei Xiangzuo pondered for a long time, "Are you sure that the people who went to the foot massage city and rented the house are the same group of people?"

"Certain." Xiao Feng replied affirmatively, "The people from the foot massage city and the person who rented the house both told me that there was a person about 1.78 meters tall, with a crew cut, small eyes, and half of his left ear missing. The physical characteristics match."

Wei Xiangzuo took a sip of tea and immediately ordered, "Call the person who rented the house, and we'll go take a look."

"Okay." Xiao Feng took out his cell phone.

...

The Ma Gang (dock gang) has a large number of people, with disciples all over Gangnei, and they have contact and exchanges with all walks of life. Some are even Ma Gang's own industries, so it is not difficult for Wei Xiangzuo to find out some news in this place. It may even be easier than the police station coming to investigate the case blindly.

Afternoon, around two o'clock.

Wei Xiangzuo's car stopped at the intersection of Gangnei Sandao Street. The group sat in the car and waited for a while, and a middle-aged man in his fifties trotted over and yanked open the car door.

"Lao Wei." The middle-aged man smiled and greeted Wei Xiangzuo.

"Ah," Wei Xiangzuo nodded to him: "I have something I want to ask you about."

"It's about those tenants, right?"

"Yes. What kind of people are they?" Wei Xiangzuo asked directly.

"I really don't know how many people there were." The middle-aged man recalled and replied, "Their house was rented through an agency. Two people came to talk to me. One of them was about 1.78 or 1.79 meters tall, with a crew cut, small eyes, and half of his left ear missing. Haha, you also know that my family has a lot of dilapidated houses here, so after discussing the price, I felt there was no problem, so I signed a contract with them."

"Didn't you keep any identification or anything?" Wei Xiangzuo asked.

"What kind of identification do you need in this crappy place? Petty thieves, water car dealers, opium smokers, all hang out in this area. Where would they have identification? Haha, just rent it out if they pay." The middle-aged man paused and replied, "Oh, right, one morning I went to buy something and saw people in that yard. At that time, I saw five people, and that half-ear even greeted me."

Wei Xiangzuo pondered for a long time, "Can you be sure when they left?"

"I can't determine the exact time," the middle-aged man said after a pause, "but it must have been after Gu Lao passed away. To be honest, Lao Wei, I was quite confused when I heard that Gu Lao was beaten to death. We heard that the gunmen were also six or seven people, and they haven't been caught, so I thought of these people who rented the house. Who knew that when I came over to take a look the next day, they had really left, the house was cleaned up, and even the garbage at the door was cleaned up."

"Even the garbage was cleaned up?!" Wei Xiangzuo was a little surprised.

"Yes."

"You didn't report this to the police, did you?" Wei Xiangzuo asked.

"Am I sick?!" The middle-aged man replied speechlessly, "Isn't reporting this to the police just asking for trouble? To put it bluntly, if you hadn't come to ask me about it, I wouldn't have told anyone about it! I'll wait until they come to investigate."

"Haha, thank you."

"It's nothing, we've known each other for so many years." The middle-aged man grinned.

"Okay, I got it." Wei Xiangzuo nodded.

"Lao Wei, do you think Gu Lao...could really have been beaten to death by these people?" The middle-aged man asked with some concern, "I can't get into trouble, right?"

"You just rented a house, what trouble could you get into?"

"That's true." The middle-aged man nodded.

"Okay, we'll go first."

"Okay, see you."

After the two finished talking, the middle-aged man got out of the car, and Wei Xiangzuo and others left.

After a while, Wei Xiangzuo and others went to Xishui Pavilion Foot Massage City again and met the manager on duty that day.

This foot massage city is not big, and it also provides some more special services, so the manager on duty was very impressed with the guests who came that night.

During the exchange between the two parties, Wei Xiangzuo learned that there were six people, who went to the foot massage city that night, washed their feet in the private room, had a massage, and three of them even called the young ladies.

Xishui Pavilion has surveillance cameras, but they are all in the corridors and public areas. Because the staff is awesome, it is impossible to arrange camera equipment in the bathing area and small pink rooms, so there are not many surveillance images left by these six people. When Wei Xiangzuo was watching, he discovered a detail, that is, these people all walked with their heads down in places with surveillance, and they didn't show their faces at all.

A series of details all showed that these people were a bit abnormal.

The vehicle used in the crime was stolen from Tianhong Port. These people obviously paid a month's rent, but they left after only a few days in the house, and it is very likely that they did not come back the night Gu Tongshan had the accident.

Nothing was left in the room, and even the garbage was taken away. The group went to Xishui Pavilion Foot Massage City, but none of them left a frontal image.

After Wei Xiangzuo sorted out a series of information, he felt that he had finally caught a thread.

...

Evening.

Wei Xiangzuo took his brothers to a restaurant in Tianhong Port for dinner.

"Brother, these people really look like the gunmen who killed Gu Lao." Xiao Feng said in a low voice, "If they really did it, then their arrival in Tianhong Port may have been longer than we thought. Analyzing it this way, it is very likely that the Yu family didn't do it."

Wei Xiangzuo ate fish without saying a word.

"Not only does it not seem like the Yu family did it, but these people came the day after Xu Er was killed." Xiao Feng turned his head and glanced around: "Think about it, the goods at sea were swept away, the value of six million worth of goods, but in the end, it was discovered to be eight million worth of goods. Gu Lao must have been unhappy about this matter at the time. Brother, if you combine the time when Xu Er was killed, and the time when these people entered the port... isn't this a bit creepy?"

Xiao Feng's words were already very clear, and Wei Xiangzuo frowned as he listened.

"The higher-ups were not satisfied, and his younger brother was killed, so he called a group of gunmen into the city to prepare for emergencies. This is too normal." Xiao Feng added again, "The vehicle used in the crime, the rented house, and the activity tracks of those people, all are in Gangnei... Think about it, think carefully."

"Damn, you seem like Conan!" Wei Xiangzuo scolded speechlessly.

"...It's too much like it, Brother!" Xiao Feng replied with a serious expression.

Wei Xiangzuo was silent.

"Brother, anyway, our brothers are definitely unhappy. This old man is gone, and he hasn't done anything. Instead, he is contacting internal relations, wanting to take power, and engage in new channels. The most hateful thing is that the interest money of our people has been stopped." Xiao Feng gritted his teeth and said, "The old man was your master. When he was here, we had to endure anything we didn't like, respect the teacher and value the Dao! But the old man is gone, why should Xu Hu carry the banner? Why?!"

Wei Xiangzuo took a sip of white wine and asked, "What time is the meeting tonight?"

"Seven thirty, in Longkou. I heard that Lao Gu's wife and children are also going." Xiao Feng said.

"We'll go too." Wei Xiangzuo drank the wine in his glass and replied in a flat tone.

...

Longkou City, Su Tianyu, Kong Zhenghui, and Bai Hongbo, accompanied the leaders of the Civil Affairs Department, and had already drunk a lot.

Inside the toilet, Su Tianyu's face was flushed, and he immediately instructed Da Bai, "Damn, quickly arrange a place, if I drink any more, I'm going to die."

"Poke your throat."

"I can't..."

"Come on, I can, I'll poke it for you." Bai Hongbo's two fingers flickered rapidly, looking extremely professional: "Come on, open your mouth."

"Get out!"

Su Tianyu pushed Bai Hongbo away, took out his phone, glanced at the text message he had just received, and replied with four words: "Arrange him well."