Chapter 164 The Corpse Under the Well
The chopsticks in Xia Lili's hand fell to the ground, and the familiar feeling of visual blur swept over her.
Before the hallucination appeared in her mind, Xia Lili could still hear Aunt Wu say in her ear: "Feng Jinyan, I won't do anything sneaky!"
"If you want detergent, go buy it yourself!"
Feng Jinyan?
It turned out that the uninvited woman was called Feng Jinyan.
Soon, hallucinations flooded into Xia Lili's mind.
The first scene of the hallucination is a dim laundry room.
The clock on the hands pointed to 11:30 pm.
Feng Jinyan was unpacking a rectangular package in the small laundry room. The package box was very large and the contents looked very heavy.
Feng Jinyan used a blade to cut open the box, revealing a roll of carpet inside.
The smell of the carpet seemed a bit strong. Feng Jinyan couldn't help frowning when she took it apart and fanned it in front of her nose with her hand.
"Oh my God, it's been ages since I last washed it, and it smells so bad!"
She took great pains to get the carpet out of the delivery box.
As soon as the carpet was spread out, Feng Jinyan discovered that it was a European-style carpet, with intricate dark red patterns spreading out - vine-like curling grass patterns interwoven with faded gold threads, and a circle of fuzzy iris patterns on the edge, which was very distinctive.
Feng Jinyan touched the carpet with her hands, a puzzled look on her face. "This carpet looks quite expensive. I'm surprised they sent it to a small place like mine to be cleaned."
At first glance, it doesn't look old, and the texture is even still thick, but the surface is mottled: dark brown stains have seeped into the texture like dried blood, black grease has formed a hard crust on the edges, and there are several suspicious sticky marks.
Feng Jinyan frowned and cursed: "This is so difficult to clean. He is so rich, why don't you ask him for more cleaning fees!"
Hallucination Act II.
Feng Jinyan was wearing gloves and overshoes as she scrubbed the carpet in her backyard. However, the more she scrubbed, the more strange her expression became. She sniffed and frowned, while the faucet flushed the carpet, and with the strong detergent, puddles of brown stains flowed out of the carpet.
The next scene in the hallucination was the front desk of a laundry shop.
Still at night, a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a mask came to pick up the carpet.
However, Feng Jinyan held up three fingers with a mercenary look on her face and said to her, "The cleaning fee is 300,000 yuan."
The last scene of the hallucination is a scene in a well.
The well water is dark green with a layer of oil film floating on it.
Feng Jinyan's body was suspended in the water, her pale face pressed against the surface, her pupils dilated, as if she was still staring.
Her hair spread out like waterweed, slowly twisting with the undercurrent.
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Xia Lili was so frightened by this scene that her heart almost jumped out of her chest! She almost screamed out loud!
"Sister Lili, I got you a new pair of chopsticks~"
The little anemone's tender voice sounded in Xia Lili's ears, pulling her back from her fear.
Xia Lili's vision cleared up again, and with trembling hands she took the chopsticks that Xiao Haikui handed her: "Thank you."
She looked around and found that Feng Jinyan was gone. She was probably scolded away by Aunt Wu.
Xia Lili quickly asked Aunt Wu, "Aunt Wu, who was that woman who just came to you asking for detergent?"
"She's my distant cousin. We grew up together."
Aunt Wu sighed when she said this, and hesitated to speak. It was obvious that she found it difficult to evaluate this distant cousin.
She said to Xia Lili with an apologetic look on her face, "I'm sorry to disturb your meal."
"It's okay, it's okay."
After witnessing the scene in the well, Xia Lili had no appetite at all. She looked at the table full of delicious seafood, but couldn't bear to spoil Aunt Wu's fun. She slowly peeled a shrimp and ate it, while trying to find out information about Feng Jinyan.
Xia Lili looked curious: "Aunt Wu, judging from her tone just now, does she run a laundry?"
Aunt Wu nodded: "Yes."
She looked helpless. "When she opened this laundry shop, I lent her 20,000 yuan, and she still hasn't paid it back."
"These days, the one who owes money is the boss. She's so shameless, coming to my house from time to time to ask for money."
Aunt Wu shook her head when she said this.
"That's a really difficult relative." Xia Lili then asked, "Where is her laundry shop?"
"Feng Jinyan's laundry shop is called Jinyan Laundry Shop. It's in a small alley in the old city of Haicheng, quite out of the way..."
Aunt Wu sighed again at this point. "She's not running a serious laundry business. She uses low-quality detergent and rinses quickly, securing long-term orders from nearby budget hotels at a low cost."
"She's also thick-skinned and good at dealing with people. She's made a lot of connections and introduced her to high-end clothing cleaning services."
"If customers don't pick up their high-end laundry after the due date, she will simply resell it. Or if there are imitations of high-end clothes available online, she will just buy them and replace them."
Aunt Wu shook her head repeatedly: "And she keeps delaying the washing of the clothes. When the customer is in a hurry, she charges an expedited fee..."
After all, they are blood relatives, but Aunt Wu is still worried about this distant cousin: "I always tell her that she can't do business like this, and something bad will happen one day."
"But she laughed at me for being inflexible and stubborn, saying I couldn't make a lot of money."
Xia Lili listened to Aunt Wu's words and silently lit a candle for Feng Jinyan in her heart.
Something is really going to happen!
Combining the information in the hallucination image, when the owner of the carpet came to pick up the carpet, Feng Jinyan actually asked for 300,000 yuan for cleaning fees!
I guess these 300,000 yuan are not cleaning fees, but hush money, right?
Feng Jinyan probably found some suspicious stains on the carpet while washing it, which might be blood. She thought she had learned the secret of the carpet owner and began to blackmail him.
In this regard, Xia Lili just wanted to say that if you don’t seek death, you won’t die. Can’t you just call the police if you find anything unusual?
"Last time, she came to my house for a meal and stole my keys that were on the table when I wasn't paying attention."
"That key is the key to the hotel's cleaning supply warehouse."
"I happened to be on leave that day, and she snuck into the warehouse with my keys, carrying sacks and suitcases to pack cleaning supplies!"
Aunt Wu was speechless, gnashing her teeth in hatred for her eccentric cousin. "Luckily, Lao Wang from the security team saw her and stopped her, but she still managed to sneak away with a few bottles of strong cleaning agent."
"I didn't expect that today, you would actually have the nerve to come to me and ask for it!"
Xia Lili was speechless after hearing this. If she had such a relative, she would definitely stay away from him.
Although Feng Jinyan is hateful, she is also a victim of homicide. We cannot leave her alone and we must ensure her safety.
"Auntie Wu, can you tell me the detailed address of this Jinyan Laundry?"
Xia Lili took out her phone and said, "I happen to have a friend who lives in the old city of Haicheng. She usually sends a lot of her clothes to the laundry. I have to send this message to help her avoid this place!"
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