Original Sin (IV)

Nine o'clock, chess and card room.

Gu Fang showed up on time, still looking nonchalant, with a toothpick in the corner of his mouth.

Ma Ge smiled and said, "Do you have money? We don't sell on credit here."

Gu Fang patted his chest, which was bulging, and said, "Everything is here. When does it start?"

"Right away." Just as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open and a man in his forties came in, wearing a white shirt and a khaki suit, with a slightly bulging belly. He has a big forehead and a bright face, and you can tell at a glance that he eats well. A young man followed behind him, carrying a briefcase.

Ma Ge hurried forward, bent over, and smiled flatteringly, "You are here."

Zheng Baochang nodded slightly, glanced at Gu Fang, frowned slightly, and seemed dissatisfied.

Gu Fang was amused. "You don't want to play with this uncle, do you? He looks like an office worker. Does he have any money?"

The man glanced at him sideways and walked into Ma Ge's office first. The man behind him shook his head with pity.

Gu Fang was even happier and said to Ma Ge, "I don't want to play anymore."

Ma Ge's face changed slightly, and he quickly held his arm, "Come on, brother, since you're here, why don't you play a few rounds before leaving?" In order to prevent Gu from leaving, Ma Ge even said something against his will, "This is a regular customer, he's addicted, he has money, and his card skills are just so-so. Opportunities are hard to come by."

Gu Fang hesitated, "Just for fun?"

Brother Ma nodded hurriedly, "Let's play." He pulled Gu Fang inside, afraid that he would run away.

The office had been rearranged, with a large, long table in the middle with chips on it. Zheng Baochang was already sitting down, with his clothes draped over the back of the chair, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and a briefcase on his right hand.

He opened his briefcase, which contained bundles of money neatly stacked.

Gu Fang immediately showed interest and automatically sat opposite him. "What are you playing?"

"Just play poker."

"Okay." Gu Fang glanced at Brother Ma and saw that he was going to deal the cards. He said, "Brother Ma, let's play together. He," he pointed at the person brought by Zheng Baochang, "will deal the cards."

The young man was startled and looked at Zheng Baochang in embarrassment.

Zheng Baochang suddenly became interested, "Xiao Zhang, you deal the cards, Xiao Ma, sit down."

Ma Ge had no choice but to give the cards to Xiao Zhang and pulled a chair to sit down.

Xiao Zhang held the cards nervously, "How do you deal it?"

Zheng Baochang: "You should post it the same way as others do."

Xiao Zhang hesitated and started with the first brother Ma on the left. Ma Ge stared at the cards, and his brows furrowed a little with every time he dealt a card.

Gu covered the cards with his hand as soon as they fell on the table. His arms were very long, and the cards were completely invisible after he covered them. This was the case for all three cards. He was playing with the chips with his left hand.

Zheng Baochang had a smile on his face, looking confident.

Ma Ge was the first to throw chips onto the table, Zheng Baochang followed without hesitation, and Gu Fang smiled and increased the chips. Ma Ge was startled, "Brother, you have to think about it carefully."

Gu Fang shrugged, "I've thought about it."

Ma Ge looked at his cards, gritted his teeth, and threw his chips again. Zheng Baochang followed suit, and Gu Fang still increased his chips.

Ma Ge sighed deeply, "You're still playing such a big game when you're still holding your cards."

Zheng Baochang was very interested, "Xiao Ma, stop talking nonsense."

Ma Ge smiled bitterly, "Let me take a look." He picked up the card, glanced at it for fun, and threw it away, "I quit."

Zheng Baochang rolled his eyes at him and said, "You're a loser." He threw in the chips.

Gu Fang smiled and continued to follow, but he didn't add it.

Zheng Baochang: “Too conservative.”

Gu Fang shrugged, "I can't go all in at once, I have to save some money for the next round."

Zheng Baochang laughed and continued to throw chips, "It's already more than three thousand, don't you want to take a look?"

"It's already over three thousand, don't you want to take a look?"

Zheng Baochang smiled and shook his head. Gu Fang asked, "Are you so confident?"

"If I'm not confident, how can I play with you guys at this age?"

Gu Fang blew a loud whistle, "That's true." He threw more chips in, "I want to see your cards!"

Zheng Baochang picked up the cards confidently and turned them over. It was a straight flush - 8, 9, 10 of hearts. "You lose." He said as he reached for the chips. Gu Fang held his hand, "That's not necessarily true."

Zheng Baochang raised his eyebrows, Gu Fang picked up the three cards, a smile on his lips, his eyes changed, and he slapped the three cards on the table, "Sorry, it's a little older than you."

It’s the same straight flush, but with black-hearted J, Q, and K!

"Impossible!" Zheng Baochang and Ma Ge blurted out at the same time, and Xiao Zhang was stunned!

Gu Fang took all the chips into his arms and said, "If you lose, just say it's impossible. You can't afford to lose, right?"

Zheng Baochang and Ma Ge looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes. Ma Ge's expression immediately turned ugly, "I'll deal the cards."

Gu Fang used his body's strength to push the chair back a long way, raised his long legs and placed them on the table, his eyes emitting coldness, "I have been gambling since I was five years old, and you guys can't fool me with such a little trick. These cards are marked, so you are fearless, and now you want to try other tricks when you see I win. Although I am from another place, I don't allow you to bully me like this! I don't want to play anymore!"

Ma Ge didn't expect that he would be pecked in the eye by a goose after years of hunting geese. His face changed and he reached his hand under the table. When he raised his hand again, there was a wooden gun in his hand, and the opening of the gun was facing Gu Fang.

Gu Fang sat still, but the coldness in his eyes became stronger and stronger. "The May 4th-style wooden pistol is a copy of the Soviet TT-33. The caliber is 7.62 mm, the range is 50 meters, and the magazine can hold eight bullets. It is very powerful. But the recoil of this pistol is also very strong, so you have to hold it firmly."

Ma Ge swallowed subconsciously. Why wasn’t this guy afraid? Why was he so familiar with Mucang?

Zheng Baochang's face was sinister. "Who are you?"

Gu Fang stood up and walked towards Ma Ge, "This wooden warehouse of yours is a toy, right? It's a good replica. At first glance, it looks like the real thing."

"Don't move! I'll shoot if you move again." Ma Ge's hand holding Mu Cang began to tremble.

Gu Fang didn't care at all. "You said Chang Tian owed you more than 20,000 yuan. It's not worth killing him. I only won a few thousand yuan, and you want to kill me? As long as the sound of the wooden box is heard, you will never be able to get out of prison for the rest of your life."

Ma Ge was shocked, "Are you a policeman?!"

Gu Fang's face changed, and he rushed out like an arrow, grabbed Ma Ge's wrist, threw him over his shoulder, and threw him to the ground, while taking away his wooden warehouse.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and Jiang Shengyu rushed over with his men, and arrested the remaining three people in a lightning speed. When he heard the whistle, he took his men to guard outside the door and listened to the noise inside. He only rushed in after knowing that Gu Fang had taken action.

Zheng Baochang was pressed on the gambling table and sneered, "How dare you arrest me without even asking who I am?!"

"No matter who you are, as long as you break the law you will be arrested! Take them all away!" Gu Fang's face darkened. He saw the number on the wooden warehouse and put it on his waist.

Jiang Shengyu stared at his movements without saying anything, and only asked when he reached the door: "Did they really catch them all?"

"Grasp!"

Jiang Shengyu nodded and strode away.

Gu Fang walked straight to the shelf opposite the door and picked up a large dictionary. He noticed it since he came in. Ma Ge was a small-time gangster who could barely read or write, so how could he have something like a dictionary? He opened the dictionary and found it was empty, with several packets of white powder inside.

…

After testing, the white powder was found to be a hallucinogen, with the same ingredients as those in Changtian's body.

After a day and night of interrogation, Ma Ge admitted to killing Chang Tian. He said that Chang Tian had been owing him money and he had urged him several times, but he got tired of it and wanted to kill him.

Just then, someone sold him a few packets of hallucinogens, and he wanted to try out their effects, so he made an excuse to ask Chang Tian out for a drink. He knew that Chang Tian liked to drink and was addicted to it and would not stop until he was drunk.

He kept forcing Changtian to drink, and when he got drunk he put hallucinogens in his drink. A few minutes later, Changtian started dancing. He was afraid of attracting other people's attention, so he took Chang Tian back to his residence.

Who knew that Chang Tian actually mistook him for Nana and wanted to do that with him. Ma Ge didn't know how Chang Tian played with Nana, but he saw Chang Tian take out a clothesline and nail a big nail into the wall.

How could a man like Ma Ge tolerate such an insult? He wrapped a clothesline around Chang Tian's neck and tied the other end to the clothesline on the balcony. He stood in front of the bed and watched Chang Tian struggling towards him, calling Nana, Nana.

Ma Ge felt disgusted and remembered that he once had a poster of a female star in his pocket. He thought of a mischievous idea and pasted the poster on the place where Chang Tian was nailing the nail.

When Chang Tian saw the female star in scantily clad clothes, he immediately went crazy and reached forward desperately to grab the poster.

Ma Ge was watching with a smile on his face, and he was cheering for Chang Tian. As he was cheering, he realized something was wrong: Chang Tian stopped moving. He was dumbfounded. He used trembling fingers to check Chang Tian's breath, but there was no breath.

Ma Ge panicked and quickly took away the poster and pulled out the nails. He was afraid of leaving fingerprints, so he tore a piece of cloth from his clothes and wiped all the places he might have touched.

Before leaving, he thought the police might find out that Chang Tian took hallucinogens, so he smeared the powder around the nail holes. He thought that even if the police found out, they would suspect that Chang Tian took it himself and it had nothing to do with him. In order to make things more difficult for the police, he also took away hammers, nails and other items.

Ma Ge actually felt wronged, "I didn't expect Chang Tian would strangle himself to death for a woman. I really didn't mean to do that. I just wanted to use him as a test subject."

Gu Fang didn't expect Chang Tian to be so obsessed with women. "Where did the hallucinogen come from?"

Ma Ge paused and said, "I bought it."

“Where did you buy it?”

Ma Ge hesitated, met Gu Fang's creepy eyes, and said, "On the black market."

"Black market?" Gu Fang had heard of this place before. It was said to be a spontaneous organization organized by some people, specializing in selling things that were banned in the market. The police have cracked down on them before, but these people are like rats, when you crack down on some, some will pop up again.

Ma Ge said, "There is everything on the black market, as long as you have money."

"Where is the black market?"

"There is a small forest near Qingyun Road. It is located at the junction of three provinces and no one cares about it. After midnight, the black market opens."

"Where did you get the wooden gun in your hand? You are guilty of illegally possessing a police firearm."

Ma Ge couldn't believe it. "Is that a police rifle?! I didn't know that. I just saw someone selling it on the black market and thought I'd buy one to show off. But there are actually no bullets in the rifle."

"What does the person who sold it to you look like?"

"He was wrapped in a black robe with only his eyes exposed. How would I know who he was? I only knew he was a man, about the same height as me." Seeing that he had asked enough questions, Gu Fang was ready to leave. Ma Ge said, "Officer, I have told you everything I know. Can you also help me clear up a mystery? How did you change?" He clearly saw that the cards in his hand were the 5 of hearts, the Q and K of black hearts, how did the J of black hearts come from.

Gu Fang sneered, "You still have the time to think about this? I told you I started playing when I was five."

Ma Ge was shocked, "Are you kidding me?"

Gu Fang glanced at him, stood up and went out.

Just as Qi Jiabao was about to ask for details, Gu Fang came in again and took him by the back of the collar and left, "Stop asking."

Qi Jiabao: ...

…

The composition of the powder on the wall is indeed the same as that of hallucinogens, and Shen Xingyan also detected semen stains in Chang Tian's underwear. The police found hammers, nails and other items at the place where Ma Ge had given his instructions.

Nana was asked to give a statement again. She said that Chang Tian had gone too far. When he was excited, he would indeed nail a big nail on the wall and tie her up. It was very perverted.

Although Ma Ge’s matter has been clarified, there is still Zheng Baochang. From the first moment Gu Fang saw him, he knew who he was.

Zheng Baochang is the CEO of Changbao Real Estate Company, the largest real estate company in the city, and the largest taxpayer in the city. He often meets with leaders at all levels and owns several pieces of land.

As soon as he was arrested, a phone call came to Zhang Changming's office. Zheng Baochang is related to the economic development of Nanfu City. Once he is arrested, the economy of Nanfu City will be hit hard. The land in his hands alone is worth hundreds of millions.

Zhang Changming had a headache. It was just a suicide case, so how did Zheng Baochang get involved? !

He called Gu Fang and asked him to release the man, but Gu Fang refused and took out the wooden gun from his waist and slapped it on Zhang Changming's desk. "This wooden gun belongs to Shibang. It disappeared after he left, but now it suddenly appears in Ma Ge's hands. Zheng Baochang was also there at the time, and he didn't seem surprised or panicked at all, which shows that he knew Ma Ge had the wooden gun."

"Even so, he can only be considered an accomplice and can be released on bail."

Gu Fang was shocked, "Director Zhang!"

Zhang Changming's eyes were stern, "Obey the order!"

Gu Fang clenched his fists tightly, "This matter concerns Shibang!"

"Don't lose your mind when Shibang is mentioned. You are a policeman! Not just a friend of Zhai Shibang! If you continue to be so impulsive, don't investigate Zhai Shibang's case anymore!"