What is this person doing?
After hearing this, Jiang Shuiying was stunned for a few seconds and then had a strange look in her eyes, as if Luo Yuwen was talking incoherently.
"Luo Yuwen, are you talking in your sleep?"
"It's only been a short time since I got the shares, and this is City A. Even if Yan Ming's reach is long, he can only be a local boss in City G. How could he possibly reach City A?"
Luo Yuwen was so shocked that he could only collect his thoughts and sit quietly in the driver's seat, his mind racing, trying to think of other solutions.
Although Luo Yuwen was a private investigator before, in most cases he would first know the whereabouts of the person being investigated and then follow up to investigate, and most of the time he was helping wives to catch their husbands cheating. Now that the clues were suddenly cut off, he was at a loss as to what to do.
The leaves outside the car window were blown by the wind. Luo Yuwen looked at them and felt very confused.
Suddenly, Luo Yuwen seemed to be two hundred meters away from the car and saw a person lying on a tree.
At first Luo Yuwen thought he was seeing things, but when he looked closely, he found that there really was a person on it, but that person was wrapped in leaves like a dumpling, lying on a thick branch, holding a camera in his hand and facing the set.
Wait, is this a paparazzi?
Luo Yuwen widened his eyes - are paparazzi nowadays so hardworking?
He nudged Jiang Shuiying beside him with his elbow and whispered, "Jiang Shuiying, Jiang Shuiying, look what that is."
"There's a person lying on the tree!"
Jiang Shuiying also widened her eyes after hearing this: "What did you say?"
Jiang Shuiying threw her phone away and looked in the direction of Luo Yuwen, but because the car window blocked her view, she could only lean forward, leaning her upper body on Luo Yuwen, and said in a normal tone:
"What's that person lying there? Where?"
Luo Yuwen's body tensed up again. Jiang Shuiying took off her hat. He lowered his head and could only see Jiang Shuiying's whorls of hair and the rose scent of her body in his nostrils.
"Uh, it's on the tree in front..."
Jiang Shuiying leaned forward a little, grabbed Luo Yuwen's arm, and then stuck her head out of the car window to see the person in the tree clearly.
"Huh? There really is someone here. What is he doing?"
It was not until Jiang Shuiying shrank back that Luo Yuwen's tense body relaxed. He straightened his leather jacket that was messed up by Jiang Shuiying, and casually told Jiang Shuiying that this person might be a paparazzi.
"Paparazzi? If he's a paparazzi, this guy might be useful, Mr. Detective."
Jiang Shuiying's words immediately woke Luo Yuwen up.
"get off!"
Luo Yuwen just drove around the set. It was impossible for him not to notice such a loud noise, but the person in the tree was still lying there, motionless. I don’t know if he really didn’t notice the two people or was just pretending.
Jiang Shuiying and Luo Yuwen were very cautious. They squatted down and walked around slowly, trying their best not to make any noise.
Luo Yuwen walked and observed, and found that the man did not notice. Jiang Shuiying followed Luo Yuwen, not knowing what he was going to do.
The two of them walked smoothly to the tree. Before Jiang Shuiying could react, Luo Yuwen grabbed the trunk with both hands and shook it violently. He was so strong that even the leaves on the tree shook a little.
Sure enough, a scream came from the tree.
"ah!!!"
Luo Yuwen withdrew his hands, raised his head with an unhappy expression, and shouted to the person in the tree:
"Hey! What are you doing?! What are you doing lying there?!"
The person above didn't move, apparently intending to play dead. Luo Yuwen grabbed the trunk and shook it again, this time with more force. The whole tree seemed to be swaying, and the screams from the tree were even louder.
"If you don't say anything, I'll call the police!"
Perhaps it was Luo Yuwen's strength or his threat that worked, but a voice pleaded for mercy from the tree: "No, no, no! Big brother! I'm a good person!"
"I'm a good person! I didn't do anything!"
It was a male voice, and it sounded quite young.
Luo Yuwen and Jiang Shuiying exchanged a glance and continued shouting towards the tree, "Fuck you, get down here now! If you don't, I'll call the police!"
"No, no, no! Big brother! I'm going down... I'm going down..."
As soon as the words fell, the two saw a man with leaves tied all over his body and a camera hanging on his chest slowly moving down from the tree.
Jiang Shuiying saw the man clearly. It was a man with mud streaks on his face. He looked more like a spy than a paparazzi.
When the man arrived under the tree, he saw Luo Yuwen with his hands in his pockets, and Jiang Shuiying standing behind him with her arms crossed and her eyebrows raised. Both of them had contemptuous expressions, as if they were looking at some animal.
The man was a coward to begin with. His legs went weak in an instant and he sat down on the grass with a panicked look on his face.
"I, I didn't do anything! Don't call the police!"
"Let me go!"
Luo Yuwen squatted down, glanced up and down at the person in front of him, and said, "You, are a paparazzi?"
"Paparazzi now moonlight as spies?"
The man, trembling, finally confessed to being a paparazzi under Luo Yuwen's threat. He explained that it was his first time on the set, unfamiliar with the location, and he didn't know anyone there, so he resorted to climbing a tree in the hope of capturing some photos for the company. He failed to capture any, and was practically terrified.
Is he really a paparazzi?
After listening to the paparazzi, Jiang Shuiying walked forward and nudged Luo Yuwen with her leg, indicating that he should move to the side, as she had something to ask.
"They say celebrities hate paparazzi the most. What do you think would happen to you if I made a phone call and told the people there that there's a paparazzi who's willing to climb a tree just to take a picture?"
Jiang Shuiying shook the phone in her hand, which displayed the dialing interface, and her expression was self-evident.
When the paparazzi heard this, he wanted to bang his head on the ground, saying that a noble man should not bear grudges, and begged the two men to let him go.
Seeing the paparazzi's reaction, Jiang Shuiying turned to look at Luo Yuwen and raised her chin towards the paparazzi again.
Luo Yuwen followed her words and said, "Well, let's make a deal."
"We're investigating someone. Since you're a paparazzi, you must have access to her itinerary."
"Tell me, what if we let you go?"
The paparazzi huddled against a tree, his voice trembling: "Who...are you looking for?"
"The singer who has become a little famous recently, Zhu Zhi."
***
Jiang Shuiying and Luo Yuwen returned to the car with the news, started the car and headed for the next destination. The paparazzi squatting under the tree was still gasping for breath, as if they had been greatly frightened.
Jiang Shuiying sat in the passenger seat with a smile on her face.
"It seems we have a good understanding, Mr. Detective."
"It's a pleasure to work with you."
Luo Yuwen drove the car, his eyes fixed on the front, and replied, "It's a pleasure to work with you."
According to the clues given by the paparazzi, Zhu Zhi was not at the address given by the male secretary at this time, but at a film set on the beach.
The car was driving steadily. Jiang Shuiying leaned back in the chair and browsed her phone, bored, as if she was going to meet a friend, not her husband's cheating lover.
This attitude surprised Luo Yuwen.
In his impression, the wife would always become hysterical after finding out about the mistress, and several women would fight to the death for a man. This was the first time he had seen someone as calm as Jiang Shuiying.
The more Luo Yuwen thought about it, the more he felt that Jiang Shuiying didn't care at all whether her husband cheated on her or not, but she had previously acted like she loved her husband very much... If you really love someone, you should have some possessiveness, right?
Unable to hold back, Luo Yuwen asked, "Jiang Shuiying, aren't you angry?"
Jiang Shuiying's eyes were still fixed on the screen. "Why should I be angry?"
Luo Yuwen hesitated and said, "Zhu Zhi, she is your husband's lover, you..."
Jiang Shuiying then raised her head and responded, "Oh, so you want to see me tear the mistress apart?"
She turned her phone screen towards Luo Yuwen, and on it was a selfie that Zhu Zhi had posted on social media. The background was the beach, and she was smiling happily.
"Zhu Zhi is only 23 this year, but Yan Ming is already 35. Do you want me to blame a girl who just graduated not long ago?"
"I don't want to blame anyone for his infidelity because I can't do anything about it. Instead of dwelling on it, I'd rather know how he died."
Jiang Shuiying's answer didn't give Luo Yuwen any room for rebuttal. Luo Yuwen withdrew his thoughts, gripped the steering wheel and stared straight ahead. For the next moment, the two of them were caught up in their own thoughts, and neither of them spoke.
When they arrived at the destination and got out of the car, Jiang Shuiying found that Luo Yuwen had taken her to the beach.
"So this is the set where Zhu Zhi was filming?"
Jiang Shuiying followed Luo Yuwen to the set. When passing by the flower shop, Jiang Shuiying took some flowers with her, and Luo Yuwen did not comment.
After all, you shouldn't go empty-handed.
But it was not easy to enter the set. To prevent information leakage, there were a lot of security personnel around. Before the two of them could enter, they were stopped by two strong men. Seeing that they were holding flowers in their hands, the security personnel thought they were fans visiting the set.
"Who are you? What are you doing?!"
"This is a film set, fans are not allowed in!"
Jiang Shuiying and Luo Yuwen exchanged a glance, then spoke to the two security guards: "We are not fans. We were sent by Mr. Ming. If you have anything to ask Miss Zhu Zhizhu, please tell her." After saying that, Jiang Shuiying raised the flowers in her hand.
The two security guards were skeptical: "Mr. Ming?"
"Yes, the one with the gold letter Ming. Just tell her and she will let us in."
Luo Yuwen was a little surprised by these words. This hint reminded Zhu Zhi without revealing too much information. Moreover, if Zhu Zhi was smart enough, they would definitely be able to get in.
He glanced at the woman beside him inconspicuously. The woman still had a smile on her face and didn't seem to think much.
Sure enough, the two security guards said something while holding up the walkie-talkie, and about five minutes later, a slightly plump woman with an ID card hanging on her chest walked towards them.
The fat woman had a very gentle face and smiled at Jiang Shuiying and Luo Yuwen.
"I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. Please come in."
The fat woman led the two to Zhu Zhi's rest shed. On the way, they learned that she was Zhu Zhi's agent. Today happened to be Zhu Zhi's last day here to attend an announcement, and she would fly away tomorrow.
What a coincidence? Luo Yuwen couldn't help but think about it.
The agent took the two to their destination and left. They lifted the curtain and saw a girl with short light-colored curly hair. She had her back to them and was looking at the mirror, applying blush on herself. Her round face looked very cute with the pink blush.
Jiang Shuiying pretended to be Luo Yuwen's assistant, so as soon as she entered, she took out the notebook, and Luo Yuwen also spoke:
"Miss Zhu, I'm sorry to bother you. We've been commissioned to secretly investigate the cause of Yan Ming's death, so I wanted to talk to you about Yan Ming."
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