5. Chapter 5
It was basically a cinder road after coming out of Luoping County. In the past, vegetation was dense here. Later, due to excessive logging, many forest farms were abandoned. Vegetation was sparse on both sides of the road, and locals were seen driving sheep by the road from time to time.
After taking a bus for two or three hours, Anna finally arrived at the bus station in Hongshiii in the evening.
The Hongshijing was originally a town formed by forestry mining. The bus station was very simple, with two greenhouses, a row of old bungalows made of red bricks, and a yellow mud road leading to the town outside the door. A few dozen meters away, a railway extended out. When Anna came out, a black cargo cargo car full of coal was ringing with its flute and passing by her with a clang. The ground was shaken slightly, and some coal blocks fell from the roof. Several children passing by after school waited for the train to pass and immediately flocked to pick up coal blocks falling on both sides of the railway.
Anna watched the train disappear from sight and turned around toward the town.
The book Liu Mei left for her may have been emotionally disturbed at the time, so she only said that she lived at her aunt's house when she was a child and did not write down the address.
Although this is not a big place, she is not familiar with the place. It may be a bit difficult to find someone with an ordinary name in a short period of time. But since this matter has already been exposed to her, she has to take this trip.
As everyone has arrived, I can only ask slowly in the town and bet on my character.
The yellow mud road does not look very long, but it is not short to walk. Anna drags the box and hides from the suspected fresh sheep dung eggs on the roadside. Finally, she finally comes to the huge propaganda poster of "Struggle for the Four Modernizations" painted on the wall at the entrance of the town. At this time, it is already dark. From time to time, workers in labor uniforms walked by from time to time, turning their heads to look at Anna.
Anna called a few passers-by and asked about "Li Hong", but they all shook their heads.
In the north of winter, the darkness was far beyond Anna's imagination. Not long after, the dim street lights lit up. Anna stood in front of the Workers' Cultural Palace and felt a chill. She decided to find a place to live first. When she found a guesthouse in the Forestry Bureau, she hurriedly searched for it. When she found it, it was already dark. The single room cost five yuan a night. The waitress asked her for a letter of introduction. Anna said she was here to find someone, but she didn't have a letter of introduction, so she asked Li Hong by the way. The waiter said she didn't know her. She was a little nervous and was afraid that she wouldn't let her live, so she might have to sleep on the street tonight. Fortunately, the waiter didn't insist, so she took her to the door after collecting the money, opened the door, said, "Hot water is in the boiler room, I'll make it myself", and turned around and left.
The room was very simple. A light, an iron bed, a scratched table, and a rusty enamel tea tray and two glass cups, plus an old washbasin and a thermos, all the facilities were all.
After taking the train for a night, it was another half daytime car. Anna was already very tired. She didn't have the energy to pick and choose, and ate half of the hard-crusted bread she bought on the road, which was unknown when the production date was, took a basin and a thermos to the hot water room next to her, fetched hot water, and came back to wash her face and feet randomly, locked the door, and didn't take off her clothes. She fell asleep while dreaming that she and her friends were enjoying a lobster meal in the Four Seasons Hotel in Bora Bora Island. When she was saliva, she was suddenly awakened by a thumping sound of the door. She jumped up and sat up, her heartbeat faster and she dared not answer.
"Open the door! The police check the room!" A voice came from outside the door.
Anna was even more nervous. She didn't know why her luck was so good. As soon as she came, she encountered the police checking the room. She didn't dare to turn on the light, got out of bed and put on her coat, and opened the crack at the back of the door. Seeing that it was indeed a policeman in uniform, she opened the door with a tough bullet.
Outside the door were two young policemen who looked quite young, with a serious expression. The waitress stood behind her and said to the policemen: "Comrade, it's her! I care that she wants a letter of introduction, but she said no! She came to find someone named Li Hong. She couldn't tell her where Li Hong was. When she asked her where she lived, she still couldn't tell her. Isn't this a lie? I don't think she looks like a decent person. Hasn't the district been arrested recently? I'm afraid that I'm hiding criminals here, so I informed you. You guys carefully check her!"
Anna almost vomited blood.
If she had known this, she would have been squatting outside all night.
The two policemen did not come in.
"Household registration book." The ID card system has just appeared and has not yet been popularized. The square-faced person has to ask for a household registration book. When he asked, another round-faced person has taken a pen to record it on a notebook.
Anna stumbled and said, "...I'm anxious to go out, I forgot..."
"What's the name?"
The round-faced policeman's eyes fell from her messy maroon curly hair to her jeans and asked.
"Anna."
"Ask you your real name, what foreign name do you talk about with me? Do you think I have never read Anna Karenina?"
The round-faced policeman was unhappy and knocked on the notebook hard.
"Comrade Police, my name is Anna..."
"Okay, I'm pretty stubborn!"
He snapped the pen.
"My name is Anna, my surname is Anna."
Anna was in tears and explained quickly.
"Where did it come from? What did it do?" Fangfang Public Security Bureau asked again.
"...S City... Come find someone..." Anna herself was unsure of responding.
The square-faced policeman looked at Anna's suitcase in the corner of the wall: "Last month, a major robbery occurred in the county. According to the witnesses, there was a female accomplice inside. Now she doubts your identity. Bring your stuff with us and go to the office for investigation!"
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Last month, the Finance Department of Luoping County Tobacco and Liquor Company was snatched a huge sum of 5,000 yuan by a gang of masked gangsters. There was a woman in charge of looking for the wind. The impact of this matter was very bad. The county attached great importance to it and required the subordinate districts to cooperate with the action to solve the case as soon as possible.
Anna was taken to the police station, and the time of the wall clock on the wall was shown at 1:00 a.m.
Anna didn't know why she was so unlucky, but she encountered such a thing as soon as she came.
It is obvious that she is now arrested as a major suspect.
After entering the police station, she was ordered by the two police officers to squat in the corner of a small room that looked like a torture room. The suitcase was taken away. There was no one beside her. When she was nervous, there was a sound of footsteps, the door was opened, and several people came in.
In addition to the two police officers who took her away, Luo Cheng with a square face and Qiu Gaohe with a round face, there was also a police officer who was a little older and looked like he was 24 or 25 years old. He seemed to have just been called from his sleep, his eyes were slightly bloodshot, and he was wearing police pants like Luo Cheng's Qiu Gaohe. In winter, he only had a white shirt on his upper body. As soon as he came in, he glanced at Anna, who was still squatting in the corner of the wall, sat in a chair, and his long legs were casually raised to the corner of the table. He took the interrogation record handed over by Luo Cheng, glanced at him in a few seconds, and threw it on the table.
"What is in the box?" the man asked.
Two fluorescent lights were installed on the ceiling, and the light was dazzling white, making Anna's face look even less bloody.
Anna lowered her eyelids and stared at the cement floor covered with small potholes in front of her feet, and replied weakly: "Clothes...shoes...cosmetics...are all personal items..."
"Captain, I took it from the guesthouse together. It's next door."
The round-faced Qiu Gongsan went over and brought Anna's suitcase.
The young man glanced at the box: "Open!"
Anna really didn't want to unbox it. In addition to the personal supplies, there were also the money, passport, and mobile phones that she had not had time to deal with. Although they were already in the mezzanine, it would be even more troublesome if they were turned out. After a little hesitation, she saw the man showing an impatient expression, and opened the drawer, took out a dagger, and seemed to be about to pry the box. She had to come over and opened the password box under the gaze of a few eyes.
The things were taken out by two little policemen, and the man looked at them.
Two sun hats, several pairs of shoes, five or six clothes, a few scarves, bottles and cans of cosmetics, perfume, sanitary napkins, stockings, the eyes of the two little policemen became wider and wider. When they lifted out a bikini, their expressions became awkward without control. They stared at the set of sexual-sensory black lace bras and triangles exposed at the bottom of the box, and hesitantly looked at the young man: "Captain..."
The young man glanced at it, stretched out the foot on the table, hooked the lid on the box, lowered his feet and looked at Anna. Seeing that she was standing there with her head down, her eyebrows were lowered, and she slightly arched her slender fingers and knocked on the table.
"Are you really not an accomplice of those people?"
"It's really not, I swear!"
Anna opened her eyes wide and shook her head desperately. Her long curly hair followed her and swayed around her shoulders, showing a beautiful luster. The two little policemen were a little cautious in their eyes.
The young man glanced at his subordinates and frowned slightly, "There is no place of your hometown in the inquiry record. Your hometown? You also have a workplace or home address. I'll contact you. If it's correct, I'll let you go."
"...Captain... What Qiu Gongsan said just now is actually right. Anna is just my English name. My real name is Li Mei. Li Hong is my aunt... My mother passed away recently, so I will join my aunt..."
All three police officers were stunned.
The round-faced Qiu Gongsan reacted and said, "What's going on with you? I asked you what your name is in the guesthouse, and you insisted on Anna. When you turn your head, you became Li Mei again! I tell you, it's useless for you to make such a quibbling!"
"Comrade Public Security, my name is Li Mei... But I don't like my name very much. I have been using Anna for so many years. What I said is true. Li Hong is indeed my aunt. After my mother passed away, I came here to join her. But I left here when I was a child, and I had a serious brain-affecting illness in the middle. After healing, I couldn't remember some things, and I wasn't sure where my aunt lives... I hope you can help me. If you find my aunt, ask her if I lie..."
Qiu Gong'an and Luo Gong'an remained silent and looked at the young man.
The young man looked at Anna.
Anna also looked at him, her eyes as innocent and pitiful as a little sheep.
After a while, he stood up from the chair and said to the two people: "Let's find someone named Li Hong tomorrow."
"Okay, captain, please go! I'm really sorry, the Mining Bureau Guesthouse reported the case. We thought this woman had a big problem, so that's why you came." Luo Gongan was a little nervous.
The young man smiled.
"Captain, what should I do if this woman is going tonight?" Qiu Gongan asked.
The man glanced at Anna.
Chapter completed!