There is only one person in Ping An Apartment who meets this age standard, and that is the old man in the landlord's room who has difficulty even eating.
"Something's wrong. According to the news, the owner of the apartment building should be an old man, but the landlord who received me was a middle-aged man." Chen Ge stood up, walked to the wall, and eavesdropped.
The TV on the other side of the wall was blasting loud, and playing meaningless commercials.
"If you watch TV normally, shouldn't you change the channel immediately when you see a commercial? But now they have been listening to commercials for several minutes." Chen Ge pressed his ears against the wall, "I must have overlooked something."
He calmed down and thought about it from beginning to end: "After I entered the room, I heard the sound of bowls breaking next door, and then the landlord started to abuse the old man, and then the TV volume was suddenly turned up... The old man was sitting in a wheelchair and couldn't move, so it must be the landlord who turned up the volume, but why did he do that?"
Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, and an idea came to his mind: "Is the landlord abusing the elderly? Using the volume of the TV to cover up the sound of the beating?"
The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed. "I just moved in when I heard the sound of a bowl breaking next door. The timing was too coincidental. Could it be that the old man broke it on purpose? After all, according to common sense, it was just a broken bowl. There was no need for the landlord to get so angry. Yes! He was afraid that the old man would attract my attention."
"But why should he be afraid? And why did the old man ask for help?"
A flash of lightning flashed through Chen Ge's mind, and he remembered a detail from before. When the landlord was insulting the old man, he was too excited and mixed in a few words of foreign dialect.
"The old man's family are all from Jiujiang, but the landlord is from another place. He probably doesn't have a deep blood relationship with the old man."
"Normally, an old man would not hand over his property to an outsider to manage, unless the lame man took over the old man's home and held him hostage! If that is the case, then his true identity could be a greedy caregiver, a burglar, or even the murderer from a few years ago!"
It’s terrifying when you think about it!
Chen Ge clenched his fists and said, "No wonder he suddenly came to my doorstep to eavesdrop. It turns out he was just feeling guilty."
Sweat broke out on his forehead. Reasoning was still too difficult for Chen Ge. He had not systematically studied criminal investigation and logic, so he could only figure it out step by step on his own.
"What should I do now? Rush to the next door and beat the landlord to death with a hammer? No, that's too impulsive. If I make a mistake in my reasoning, the consequences will be disastrous." Chen Ge walked around the room with a hammer in his hand and a fruit knife in his pocket.
"Find a chance to confirm it? No, what if we alert the enemy? The murderer may have accomplices. I can't fight four hands with two fists. Once they target me, my situation will become very dangerous."
"I don't have any substantial evidence right now. Everything is just conjecture. Besides, the most important purpose of my coming here is to find the murderer of the murder case four years ago..."
Chen Ge fell into distress again. After a while, the sound of the TV in the next room suddenly stopped, and the silence was a little scary.
"What's going on?" He quietly opened the door, squatted on the ground, and looked through the crack of the door of the next room. It was pitch black inside and even the lights were off.
"It's just past eight and you're going to bed?" Chen Ge squatted at the landlord's door with a tool hammer in his hand. He suddenly felt that his appearance might cause misunderstanding from others. He quickly looked back and when he found that there was no one there, he put the hammer in his arms and returned to his room.
"It's not necessarily accurate to speculate based on online news. It would be great if I could have a professional to help me analyze it." Chen Ge lay on the bed and took out his cell phone. Except for Xu Wan, the others in his contact list seemed to have never spoken.
"To be as dedicated as I am is pretty good."
Chen Ge thought for a long time. Among all the people he had met, the only one who could be related to the investigation of the case was the unlucky child who was frightened unconscious - Heshan.
"The forensic doctor should be better than me." He opened his personal short video homepage, and as soon as he logged in, he saw dozens of private messages in the background.
He clicked on one at random and found out it was a message from a studio manager on the platform, who wanted to invite him to join.
"Is this guy a talent scout?" Chen Ge didn't have the time to look at it now. He was concentrating on finding Qi Heshan's ID and didn't take this matter to heart at all.
But who knew, after a while, the studio sent another private message.
"Are you there? We've seen your video and it has great potential. Do you have any plans to work with us?"
"We can contact our own big anchors to help you attract traffic and increase your exposure."
"It's hard for one person to become successful alone. Almost all the anchors on the platform will form a group. You can consider it."
"Are you there?"
Chen Ge was a little annoyed by the pop-up windows one after another. He was currently battling a murderer from five years ago, so he didn’t have the time to add a studio. He simply replied to the person with two words: “Not here.”
"Haha, you are young and energetic. Consider our studio. You just need to put our studio logo on your short video. We will provide you with the best channels so that more people can see you."
"Sorry, I'm not interested at the moment." Chen Ge felt that he was already polite enough. If someone else was in the same situation, they would probably scold him first and then block him directly.
"Your short video has the potential to become a hit, but you have to understand that this is only a possibility. The platform has an average of one million short videos uploaded every day, and you are just the luckiest one among them. Modern people pursue faster entertainment and have no patience to wait. In this world, more eye-catching gimmicks and hot spots appear every moment. If you don't manage it well, your video will be drowned out in no time."
"Let's talk about it tomorrow. I'm very busy now." Chen Ge has found Heshan's ID.
"Is there anything busier than making money? If you really don't want to, we can try another way of cooperation, such as paying for your shooting method..."
Chen Ge didn't waste any time talking to him. He blocked him directly and then sent a message to Heshan.
To his surprise, Heshan replied to his private message in less than a second: "Boss, I've been waiting for you to release a new video!"
"Wait a moment, I have a very important question to ask you." Chen Ge asked for Heshan's phone number, dialed the number, and told him the whole story in a low voice.