Xie Wan squatted down and asked the middle-aged man, "How much is this?"
When the middle-aged man heard Xie Wan asking about the price of the Buddha statue, he was stunned. He looked up at Xie Wan and said nervously, "One hundred yuan."
Xie Wan bought a lot of things in the department store that day, but only spent eighty yuan.
Her bonus was two hundred yuan, plus the fifty yuan she cheated from Ren Dazhuang, so her total was two hundred and fifty yuan.
Now there are one hundred and seventy left.
Originally, the money was enough to buy this Buddha statue, but Xie Wan also wanted to buy a watch for Qin Muye, so there was not enough money after that.
Xie Wan asked: "I'll give you 20 yuan and 50 kilograms of food coupons, is that okay?"
The middle-aged man was overjoyed, as the value of fifty kilograms of food coupons was more than one hundred yuan.
Xie Wan was willing to give him another twenty dollars, so this was a good deal.
"Okay, take it."
Xie Wan gave the fifty kilograms of food coupons that the army rewarded her to the middle-aged man, and added twenty yuan.
As soon as he held the "Lotus Seat Dhritarashtra Statue" in his hand, someone patted him on the shoulder.
Xu Bing looked down at Xie Wan and said with disdain, "Why did you buy this broken thing?"
When Xie Wan saw that it was Xu Bing, she was speechless. She knew at once that this guy must have followed her.
"What is it to you?" Xie Wan put the Buddha statue into his bag, of course, actually he put it into the space.
The old farmer who was exchanging new grain for old grain suddenly asked, "Girl, do you still need this kind of Buddha statue? I have one at home."
Xie Wan thought that the old farmer must have just seen her exchange fifty kilograms of food coupons for the middle-aged man, and he must be a little jealous.
I guess the old farmer thought she liked Buddha statues.
She said: "I don't want ordinary Buddha statues, I just want this kind of Buddha statue that is a bit old."
The old farmer said: "I really have one at home, which my grandfather picked up from the field.
If you want, come tomorrow and I'll show you."
Xie Wan didn't hold out much hope, but what the farmer picked up in the field might have been unearthed from an ancient tomb, so it wouldn't hurt to take a look.
Xie Wan nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll come and see it tomorrow.
But I don’t have that many food coupons anymore, so I may need to pay or exchange them for other coupons.”
In the old farmer's mind, the Buddha statue was a useless thing. He had no objection to Xie Wan's suggestion that he had no food coupons left and could exchange them for money or other coupons.
After agreeing on a time, Xie Wan continued shopping.
Xu Bing asked curiously, "Aren't you here to catch bad guys?"
Xie Wan rolled his eyes: "How can there be so many bad elements?"
Xu Bing was very disappointed, but he continued to nag: "Where did you get so much money and food coupons?"
Xie Wan said patiently, "I caught the bad guys and made a contribution. The army rewarded me for this."
Xu Bing was a little skeptical.
Xie Wan said: "If you don't believe me, go back and ask your dad. Your dad knows about my meritorious service."
Xu Bing believed it now and became excited again: "Ah? You can make money by catching bad guys?"
At this moment, Xu Bing had already forgotten about the grudge between him and Xie Wan.
Xie Wan finally met a ticket scalper, because bicycles are more practical than watches, so they are more scarce.
When Xie Wan took out his bicycle ticket and exchanged it for a watch ticket from the ticket scalper, the ticket scalper gave him a few more cloth tickets.
"You even have a bicycle ticket? Is it also a reward for meritorious service?" Xu Bing was amazed and extremely envious as he watched from the side.
Xie Wan walked around for a while and didn't see anything that caught his eye, so he left the black market.
It was still early, and Xie Wan suddenly thought that it would be a good idea to go to the place where Zheng Hu had hidden before, hoping to find some clues.
She asked Xu Bing for his opinion, and of course Xu Bing was willing to go.
The two men rode their bikes and relied on their memory to reach the slum area.
Most of the people living in this area are outsiders who have fled to the city, and many of them make a living by picking up garbage.
Occasionally, one or two ragged people would see Xie Wan and Xu Bing with very cold eyes.
Xie Wan was somewhat glad that Xu Bing came with her, otherwise she would still be a little scared if she were alone.
The shack where Zheng Hu once lived was found, and it had not yet been occupied by anyone.
This place has been searched by the police.
They found nothing in the shack.
Xie Wan released Xiao Zhi and asked it to ask around nearby.
There are a lot of rats in places like this where garbage is everywhere, so I guess there are also many sources of information.
Not long after, Xiaozhi came back and told Xie Wan that the mice nearby told Xiaozhi that someone had died in the woods behind.
It took Xie Wan and Xu Bing some time to find the place.
This forest is also littered with garbage, so normally few people come here.
The two men carefully stepped over a lot of dirty things and smelled a suffocating stench.
Next to a garbage dump full of mosquitoes and flies, a large number of white maggots were wriggling.
There lay a rotting corpse.
vomit……
Xie Wan and Xu Bing both couldn't control their nausea.
Xie Wan suppressed his nausea and took another look, and immediately saw that the deceased was bald.
Zheng Hu?
Xie Wan and Xu Bing vomited continuously.
They stumbled out of the woods, and Xu Bing complained while feeling sick: "Xie Wan, you're catching bad guys, how did you find something so disgusting?"
Xie Wan also felt uncomfortable.
She was just a veterinarian and had never actually seen a dead person.
"This man is the robber who escaped that night."
"Ah? Are you sure it was him?"
"Not sure. The person is so rotten that he must have been dead for several days. But that bald head really looks like that person."
Xu Bing had only seen Zheng Hu from a distance when he was following Shi Yu and Zheng Hu, and he wanted to go back and take another look.
Xie Wan really didn't have the courage to face such a disgusting scene again. She grabbed Xu Bing and said, "Forget it, let the police investigate!"
The two rode their bikes to the Public Security Bureau.
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