Evening is coming.
Li Baolai and police officers from the police station hid in every corner of the black market streets.
Xi Jingchen was wearing a plain blue work suit and looked like a worker from a nearby state-owned factory.
He wandered lazily through the streets of the black market.
There are small vendors setting up stalls on both sides of the street.
While soliciting customers, they carefully looked around.
They were afraid that someone would suddenly come and arrest them.
Xi Jingchen understood that these small vendors were all nearby villagers or workers who set up stalls here to support their families.
After all, doing business in this era is considered speculation and you may be caught at any time.
He walked and looked, sometimes stopping to ask the price.
Sometimes I ask passers-by where they sell candles.
He followed the direction pointed by a passerby and finally found the only place selling candles here.
Xi Jingchen walked over and stopped at the stall selling candles.
He looked at the candles on the stalls. Some were big, some were small, some were long, some were short, some were white, some were red, some were thick, some were thin...
The boss was squatting in front of the candle stall fiddling with the candles.
He looked honest and decent, not like a wicked person...
While Xi Jingchen was looking at the candle, the boss was also looking at Xi Jingchen.
"Would you like a candle, comrade?
I made these candles at home!"
Xi Jingchen thought about what Li Baolai had said to him.
"Boss, do you have any candles?"
The boss was slightly stunned.
Understand the person in front of you, his real interest is not the candle.
"How many do you want?"
After hearing the reply, Xi Jingchen continued, "Three is too few, we need five, and they need to be strong enough!"
The boss frowned slightly.
"Sir, you look unfamiliar!"
Xi Jingchen said in a scoundrelly tone, "It's true, but I was introduced by an acquaintance! What? You want to make money?"
The boss looked at Xi Jingchen's gangster look, thinking he didn't look like a cop, and chuckled.
"You'd be a fool not to make money!"
He said as he stood up and looked around.
Then he gathered the spread cloth and the candle on the ground, threw them behind him, and put them on his back.
"Come with me!"
Xi Jingchen made a gesture to Li Baolai who was hiding in the dark to follow!
Then he followed his boss through several alleys and stopped in front of a house.
"Comrade, I don't have anything with me.
How much money do you need?
I'll get it for you!"
Xi Jingchen took out thirty yuan from his pocket and handed it to him.
"Boss, we are familiar with each other, so you have to give us a discount!"
The boss took the money and laughed, "Don't worry, I'll definitely give you a discount!"
Then the boss walked in.
Li Baolai watched his boss leave and spoke in secret to Xi Jingchen in the dark.
"Should we rush in now and catch the man red-handed?"
"Wait, the person will come out and be captured on the spot! Have the comrades guard the surroundings!"
"Then wait..."
"Um……"
The boss came out with a newspaper package.
"Brother, take your time with this medicine, it's very potent!"
Xi Jingchen took the newspaper bag and weighed it in his hand.
"Boss? Why does it feel like something is missing?"
As he spoke, he opened the newspaper and looked inside, which contained about ten small paper packages.
This small paper bag is exactly the same as the one found in Meng Huanghe’s home.
"Comrade, what's missing? I've given you an extra pack!
You can rest assured!"
"Yeah?"
Xi Jingchen smiled at the boss.
In the dark, he made a gesture of action to Li Baolai.
Li Baolai knocked the boss unconscious with a chop from behind.
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