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A surname

A surname

By SASHA PARKERSONPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

"Big Shanghai" Hotel is called "Big Shanghai", but the scale is not too big, and in this ten-li western field, there are already two hotels named "Big Shanghai" in the area of Guangdong Road Si Lu (Fuzhou Road). Many restaurants, cheongsam shop, barber shop... Even the lottery company calls itself "Greater Shanghai".

The hotel was built in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, has been more than ten years, neither new nor old, but it is a good area, male and female guests love to come here to open a room, convenient, every time to visit, the waiter is hanging his eyes wooden face, do not say much.

Business is good. It is better than those high-end "hotel" European hotels.

Their guests are not by the port passengers, but the sea a "freehand friends" entertainment, friends, lean against the green balcony, really do not need publicity - "freehand" for.

The clerk at the counter watched a tall woman with dark glasses and a modern perm leave. She knocks at 218 and has been in for about three or four hours. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the stylish firework woman coming to the door. He knowingly not nosy, just look at the guest list, "218" is a call Yu Zhe passenger, mostly false name, who will check? Rustic from Wuhan, dressed in black, also a big spender, gave him a tip when he opened his room.

Shanghai Tang is a city of extravagance and wealth. Brothels are divided into several levels, the highest is "Shuyu", followed by "Changsan", followed by "Mo Er", "flower smoke room", "Wandong Pai", "bacon". How can a foreign traveler have the leisure and time to mingle with "Sir" and "shepherd"? They were all summoned for a short gathering.

The waiter knows this back, the road is "femme noblet" door on phase fortune-telling - fireworks women of various names, recently popular this. Go into the house and close the door. Isn't it the same business?

I saw "female scholar" curl away, with a point of oddity. He smiled, some people like tall horses plump legs long, some people specially pick small and exquisite birds according to people, turnip green vegetables have their own love.

Women with that a "double sister" fragrance of toilet water away. Finish the business is still deliberately dress up add incense, it seems that "facies" out.

She pretended to be calm, but there was a hint of tension in her sunglasses, until she was far away from the hotel and in the noisy Nanjing Road area, she breathed a sigh of relief.

First to the "eldest house" bought a big bag of smoked fish, add a bottle of rice wine. Everyone said that the smoked fish in the old shop in Shanghai was "full of flavor". A wooden plaque with gold lettering and lacquer was erected on the cross side of the counter. How could I miss a trip?

Then we get on the single braided trolley bus, whatever the stop is. Let the trolley drive, the purpose is to wander around without tracking the whereabouts. Chuckle: "The bumptious people are rare and have never taken the Metropolitan tram. They also avoid carrying copper coins to avoid electric shock."

After getting off the tram, I found a hotel and booked a room under the name of "Ling Qing Xiangshi". The store knew it. It's night. I can't get a ticket to Ningbo or Fuzhou at the moment. I'd better have a rest and arrange it tomorrow.

When I came to Shanghai, I thought I had some money, and then I would find a way out. But something happened and he had to go.

It's a human life!

No one answered the door of the "Greater Shanghai" hotel when the cleaning lady was cleaning and changing the kettle for "218" at noon:

"Mr. Xu, are you asleep? Mr. Xu --"

Yesterday, I handed him a hot towel. He was a good tipper. How could the maid miss the chance to wait on him? And I know that the guest called a mistresses last night, you must tidy up

Knock again, still no response.

Something's wrong!

The waiter joins the door camp. No one answered. Unlocked at last... There was a dead body on the bed.

According to the registration information and the confessions of the persons in the hostel, the police can only follow this direction: --

Body on the bed, male, face slashed, neck pinched bruises, fatal cause. The origin of the foreign passenger is unknown. To open a room with "Yu Zhe" name, only three or five days, uncertain. The luggage showed signs of looting, no money or valuables were found, and the name on the suitcase was different from the registered name: "Xu Kang".

The victim is Xu Kang, and the suspect must be a woman who once entered the room together, tall? , heavy makeup, perm hair, wear sunglasses, carry handbags. The departure was so leisurely that it did not arouse suspicion. Shanghai Beach fireworks women such as Carassius carp, according to statistics, ten years of the Republic of China concession there are more than sixty thousand prostitutes, to twenty years of the Republic of China, has more than one hundred and twenty thousand.

The policeman asked:

"In what direction did you see the lady go?"

Waiter shrinking potential path:

"From the fourth road to the end of Nanjing Road, but did not pay special attention to. It was gone."

'Have you seen her before?

"As if I have, as if I haven't -- she wears dark glasses and can't see very well."

"What are the characteristics?"

"The temperament is not elegant, but the body is fit."

"What are you wearing, please?"

"Improve cheongsam, water red silk, hard lead? A pin. A pearl. A pearl, right? High heels, of course, extra high..."

Everyone thinks that hookers kill their clients, then take the money and run.

Everyone thought that the deceased is difficult to investigate the origin of deliberately hide the identity of the traveler, real name Xu Kang.

Everyone knows that people die every day on the beachhead of Shanghai. This is another cold case. Can not break, but no one to pursue, relatives and friends can not think of his accident in a foreign land, no one can inform.

The hostels, of course, kept their mouths shut so as not to jeopardize business.

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