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This shopping mall is a well-known local shopping mall specializing in gold and jewelry. Ruan Qi's store is relatively large in it, and his studio is inside the store, so I'm not too worried, after all, this place is a big one. The shopping mall is full of people, no more crowded than the sparsely populated place where Huo Chi stayed, and Ruan Qi is not as weak as he looks. From my intuition, I don't think anything big will happen to him.

Although it is not a weekend, there are still many people in the mall. Ruan Qi makes gold jewelry. These days, the people who buy gold jewelry are mainly the elderly, or gifts for children. The old men and women along the way looked at us three times. The two men hurried across the counter, all casting surprised glances. Fortunately, no one came forward to ask, otherwise, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort.

At Ruan Qi's counter, there were two young female shopping guides standing. They saw us approaching and greeted us with smiles.

"Hi, may I help you?" asked the female shopping guide on the left.

"I'm here to see your boss," I said.

The female shopping guide was stunned for a moment: "Are you looking for the boss?"

"I'm looking for Xiao Ruan." I said.

The female shopping guide showed a look of confusion or pretending to be stupid, and looked at the three of us. At this time, the one on her right looked at the little brother and the black blind man carefully, and said, "Did you come to find us a few days ago? past the boss?"

"Yes, you remember?" I replied.

"The two boys are so handsome, I'm afraid it will be difficult if I don't remember." The shopping guide said with a slight smile, "Come with me."

"Sister Qi." The younger one on the left was obviously embarrassed, "Didn't the boss say that no one can go to him without his permission?"

"These are guests brought by the boss, why don't you have any vision at all." The shopping guide called "Sister Qi" gave the young shopping guide a look, then turned his head and said to us, "Come with me."

Because of such a detail, I inevitably looked at her a few more times. In fact, she is only a little over 20 years old, with a very immature baby face. At first glance, she is the kind of innocent little girl, but she is quite capable. Damn, it's no wonder that Ruan Qi arranged for her to stand outside, probably because of this.

Ruan Qi's storefront is in the corner of the shopping mall, so it should be possible to do so, so the space behind the storefront is much larger than ordinary shops. Babyface first opened the first door and led us through the warehouse, then went to Ruan Qi Qi walked to the back office.

Such a situation is more reassuring, after all, the chance of Ruan Qi having an accident is much smaller, so my heart that has been hanging has also settled down a lot.

"Does Xiao Ruan usually see no guests?" I asked casually.

"The boss is very busy, and basically doesn't care about the store's affairs, unless there is a big incident." Babyface replied, "But since I came, there has been no big incident."

"So, you're still his top leader," I said.

"Not anymore." Babyface smiled shyly and lowered her head, "It's our duty to do things for the boss."

While we were talking, we had already arrived at the door of Ruan Qi's office. The baby face knocked on the door and shouted: "Boss, some guests you brought before came to see you."

Who knew that Babyface waited for half a minute after saying this, but there was still no reply.

There was a "thud" in my heart, and I exchanged glances with my younger brother and the blind man, and my emotions that had been settled down became tense.

Babyface was obviously also a little surprised, and yelled again, but this time Ruan Qi still didn't respond, she stretched out her hand and pushed the door, and as expected, the door was locked.

"Oops." The blind man said to me, "Little San Ye, I'm afraid we have to knock down this door."

Babyface let out an "hey", as if she wanted to stop it, but she didn't say a word in the end, probably because she realized that the situation was not good.

Black Glasses was forced to take the Huo family's bone-shrinking medicine before. Although he already has the antidote and is receiving treatment, he still hasn't fully recovered after all. Things like knocking on the door can only be left to the younger brother.

Poker Face moved his hands and feet on the spot, and then kicked sideways suddenly. With the sound of "click" and the sound of the door lock breaking, the door had been kicked open by Poker Face, and I heard the baby face gasp Feeling cold, he muttered something like "so handsome", and Poker Ping had already walked into Ruan Qi's office.

The black glasses and I also rushed in, and the moment I entered the door, I already felt my hands and feet were a little cold.

On Ruan Qi's desk, the materials were scattered in a mess. It is impossible for a person like him to mess up his things by himself. Someone obviously flipped through them in a hurry. I went around the desk and looked at it. Until Ruan Qi collapsed in a pool of blood.

For a moment, my hands were trembling, and Poker Fing knelt down to touch Ruan Qi's neck, and said to me, "I'm still alive."

"I'll call someone to pick him up." I said, and started looking for the numbers in the address book.

"Don't call the police." Hei Glasses said suddenly, I turned my head in a daze, and saw Hei Glasses reached out to hold Baby Face's cell phone, Baby Face looked at him in horror, with trembling lips.

"The boss...is like this...how can he not call the police?" Babyface said tremblingly, seeing that she was about to cry.

"You can't tell the police about your boss. This matter is very complicated." Black Glasses said, "We will save him. You should see that we are not the ones who will harm him."

The baby face was still trembling, and I don't know if she listened to what the black glasses said. For an ordinary girl, witnessing such a tragedy suddenly, and being refused to call the police by a few men who could kill her casually, It should be a very scary thing.

The black glasses took her mobile phone, leaned against the door seemingly casually, blocked the way of the baby face, and said to me: "Hurry up, he doesn't look good."

"I know." I had sent all the texts I had to send, and by this time I had heard back.

"Is there a back door to this place?" I asked Babyface, "Is it impossible for your boss not to leave a way out for himself?"

The baby face was already frightened, and he kept nodding his head, pointing to the bookcase by the wall, Pokerfing went over to remove the bookcase, and a secret door appeared behind the wall.

"Brother, you take Ruan Qi, and I take those books. This little girl... take them with you too. Don't worry, we won't hurt you." Scared to death, but if she did call the police, it would be a big problem for us.

The black glasses nodded, and pulled the baby face out. At this time, the baby face didn't resist anymore, with an expression of death-defying expression on his face, Poker bottle hugged Ruan Qi, and I cleaned up all the scattered things on his table Take it from the folder, and we left the mall through the secret door of Ruan Qi's office.

The secret door of Ruan Qi's office is a small alley, and there are not many people coming and going. This is within my expectation, and it also saves the trouble of being seen by passers-by.

Poker bottle hugged Ruan Qi, black glasses pulled a baby face, I contacted my people at the entrance of the alley, and soon a car came to our side.

The driver is an acquaintance of mine in Beijing. We got into the car. The man was obviously a little curious about our configuration, but he was very interested and didn't ask any more questions. However, his eyes still stayed on Poker's face. for a while.

This driver has known me more than ten years ago. At that time, I was still a kid, and he was already very familiar with the road, so I respectfully call him Brother Zhao.

Brother Zhao is Fatty’s friend. When we rescued Poker-Face from Xiwangmu Tianshi, we lived in Beijing for a while, during which time we asked this person to help us ask about the house, so we can be trusted here friends.

"Long time no see, little third master." Brother Zhao smiled at me in the rearview mirror, "Where are you going?"

I thought about it, but still didn't report the address of the black glasses.

"Let's go to the courtyard where Fatty lives." I said, "You should know the address."

"No one has lived in that place for a long time." Brother Zhao looked a little surprised, "If you go to live there, I'm afraid it's not suitable."

"It's okay, just take a rest for a while." I said, "Let's go there."

"Okay." Brother Zhao responded and started the car. I saw that he was looking at Poker Bottle from the rearview mirror, and Poker Bottle kept a calm expression, and he didn't take Zhao Brother seriously at all.

"Little third master, I think this master...seems to be a bit kind?" Brother Zhao said tentatively.

"Since you look at Mianshan, it must be someone you know." I said.

What I said was cryptic, and Brother Zhao immediately understood that there are people in this car who cannot be trusted, and dare not speak too bluntly. admit."

I also know that what he wants to say is that Boyouping is still not old at all after more than ten years, but I have already hinted that he can't talk too much, so that's about it. I smiled and said nothing, and the car drove quietly. With that, he soon arrived at Fatty's residence.

The gate of the courtyard where the fat man lives is locked. Ten years have passed, and the lock has rusted. I have always had a spare key here. I never thought I could open the lock. When I pushed the door open, dust fell, and I hurried back a few steps.

"Do you want me to clean up for you?" Brother Zhao asked.

"No need," I said, "to trouble you."

"No, no." Brother Zhao waved his hands and smiled, "Then I'll go first, little third master, hello if I have something to do."

We said goodbye briefly and entered the yard. The first thing we did was send Ruan Qi to the bedroom to rest.

The third drawer of the bedside table contained medicines, some of which were unopened and should still be usable. I found them and handed them to Poker Bottle, while I went to the back room to contact Fatty and Xiaohua.

Xiaohua's phone rang twice, and was quickly connected, his voice on the other side was quite calm.

"How are things going with you?" I asked.

"That woman has a lot of troubles, she insisted on dragging us to the police station, but after waiting for a while, she said that she had no time to leave first, maybe she has something wrong with her mind." Xiao Hua said.

"So where are you now?" I asked.

"We are looking for you now, how is your situation?" Xiaohua asked.

"We're in the courtyard where Fatty used to live, come and talk about something," I said.

Xiaohua promised to hang up the phone, and I went back to the bedroom to see Ruan Qi. Someone stabbed him in the chest, but he missed the vital point. He must have dodged at a critical moment.At this time, the black glasses stood outside the door and hooked my hand, and I slipped out knowingly.

"Little Third Master, have you ever fought with hand-rolled noodles?" Black Glasses asked in a low voice.

From behind the bronze door, I had no room to dodge his fist that hit Huanglong directly, and this immediately made me understand what the black glasses were trying to say.

"Ruan Qi's skill may be better than mine. I don't know how deep he is." I said, "But if Handan Mian wants to sneak attack him, I think the chances of him avoiding a fatal blow are very small."

"Not only is it not big, it should be nothing." Black Glasses said, "No matter what the situation is, it is impossible to make the hand-rolled noodles so tight that there is only time to stab the knife. If Ruan Qi fakes his death and wants to deceive the hand-rolled noodles, I think there is a chance. Not too big, a person who can go behind the bronze door is unlikely to be fooled by such a trick."

"So you mean...the knife wasn't hand-rolled?" I asked.

"I think there are two possibilities for this matter." Black Glasses said.

"The first possibility, and the worst possibility, is that Ruan Qi was stabbed for us to see. If this is the case, things will be very bad, because he was deliberately injured, which means that he may also be related to hand-made noodles."

"If he himself is interested in these things, those things don't mean much to him, and the amount of compensation we can give him is also large enough." I said, "If you say that he colludes with hand-rolled noodles, then He can give these materials to hand-made noodles, he is the only one who can decipher these things, and there is no need to perform bitter tricks to win our trust."

"I also thought of this level, so I didn't stop you from bringing him back." Black Glasses said, "There is another possibility, that hand rolling noodles didn't come to kill Ruan Qi himself, maybe he was killing Huo Chi If he is in trouble, maybe he has other things to do and is just using Ruan Qi to delay our time."

"In other words, no matter what the hand rolling noodles want to do, he has helpers here." I said.

Almost at the same time as I said this sentence, the girl in the sunglasses appeared in my mind.

The timing of her touching porcelain was too coincidental.

Coincidence is very suspicious.