After tidying up the room, Lynch had visitors. His house was an old four-story building facing the street. The first and second floors were a small bar, while the third and fourth floors were for ordinary residents.
Many hotels and pubs had short-term rooms for rent on the second floor for three to five days, or even a week. The shortest rentals were for one day, more like hotels or hotels.
This model was first discovered by drunkards. The owners of the pubs would give them a bed and charge them extra. Soon, most pubs began to do this. No one would complain about taking money from drunkards.
Alcohol was a very special thing. It could make some people unconscious and throw them into a "high-end" room to sleep for a night. Paying extra money could also make some people live a simple and straightforward life. Therefore, every pubs and pubs needed some rooms.
This also meant that Lynch's current residence was not too remote. It was in an uninhabited suburb where people came and went. Whether it was day or night, there would be a lot of pedestrians passing by.
The police said that there were no witnesses. It might be a repeat offender. In fact, it was impossible that there were no witnesses. Whether it was the other residents living on the second floor, the bartender behind the bar on the first floor, or a few customers, it was impossible that they did not know anything.
However, they would not say anything. First of all, Lynch had no direct interest in them. Second, there was no need to be targeted by the Federation's tax bureau because of an unknown and unrelated person. Therefore, everyone chose to keep silent.
However, this also caused the police to misunderstand something, and then they had the leeway to do something.
He had just tidied up the messy room when someone came to the door. It was a few children who sold newspapers.
The leather bags they carried were bulging. It seemed that everyone was struggling. Their faces were red, partly because of the heavy leather bags, and partly because of excitement.
The masthead promised them that as long as they delivered the money and remembered some details in the room, they would be able to get an extra reward this month. Each of them would get no less than 50 yuan.
This money was very important for children of their age. In two or three years, they would be able to live independently. They had to save some money before that to face society. This opportunity did not come easily, even if it was only 50 yuan.
Before Lynch closed the door, he glanced outside. The pub he was in was on the side of the road. There was a corridor outside the door, and the guardrail of the corridor was the road. Standing here, he could see most of the things outside at a glance.
There was nothing unusual, but his mind was already moving. With his many years of experience in dealing with … these children were very suspicious.
These few days, it was indeed the newspaper boys who came here to trade, but the masthead would also come. However, they did not enter the room. Basically, they stood outside in the corridor.
They gave a large amount of change to these children. Naturally, they had to keep an eye on them to prevent them from escaping....... property....
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Any abnormal phenomenon meant that there was a deeper problem. There were two possibilities for the absence of the masthead:
The first possibility was that he did not want to have any direct relationship with this place or with him.
The second possibility was that he knew it was very dangerous here. Even if he cared about the change, he did not appear at the scene. However, he had a way to ensure that his money would not be in trouble.
This was a conclusion that did not require much thought. Otherwise, he would not have asked these newspaper boys to bring a large amount of change to exchange for the money.
Coupled with the things that Lynch had encountered before, he already had a good idea of what was going to happen next.
Not only was he not afraid, but there was a trace of excitement and eagerness in his heart!
"How much money is here?"
He took a small wooden box from the side and placed it on the cart. He asked the newspaper boys to pour the money into it.
The children poured the money and said, "It's a total of 5,000 yuan, sir."
"Five thousand yuan?"
Lin Qi chuckled. His eyes glanced at the leather bags of the newsboys. "This is a surprising number. I thought it would be less."
This amount of money was too much. It was enough to convict him directly. This also confirmed his thoughts. Someone was setting a trap, and he was the person in the trap.
If the tax bureau or the FBI rushed in later, and he could not explain where the money came from and why it was in his room, he might face serious charges.
When the time came, as long as the other party proposed a "deal," he would definitely not be able to escape from the hands of those people. He could only do as they asked, unless he wanted to spend the rest of his life in prison.
He nodded noncommittally. After the wooden box was filled with 5,000 yuan coins, he pushed the cart into the inner room and said, "I'm going to the toilet. Wait for me for a while."
The five-cent coin was very heavy. The five-cent coin was the lightest, weighing 3.7 grams. The fifty-cent coin was the heaviest, weighing 6.1 grams. Adding the ten-cent and twenty-five cent coins, the average weight of each coin was more than four grams.
5,000 yuan, 100 … 30 pounds. Each of the newspaper boys had more than 20 pounds of coins in their bags. No wonder their faces were redder than usual. Just going up to the second floor was enough to make them feel tired.
After entering the inner room, Lynch was not in a hurry to go out. He dragged the box full of money into the bathroom and found a pair of sturdy pants from the freshly washed clothes in the cart.
He tightened both sides of his trousers and stuffed a large amount of coins into his trousers. When the box was lighter, he directly hugged it and poured it into the box.
Both pants were filled with coins. He tied his waist with a belt and pushed the pants into the shape of a stick. He then stuffed the coins into the hole of the toilet bowl in the bathroom.
When this kind of old building was built, it didn't have all kinds of humanized bent pipe designs.
Not to mention a bent pipe, even a parallel pipe would cause the feces upstairs to flow back directly. Therefore, the design of the sewer was a straight main pipe. Each floor had a downward-sloping pipe directly connected to the main pipe. At the place where the main pipe was connected to the septic tank, there was a one-way plate.
The advantage of this design was that there would be no backflow. The residents living on the ground floor did not need to be afraid of the feces gushing out of the toilet bowl. The disadvantage was that there would sometimes be a strange smell in the house. If an exhaust fan was installed, there would be no need to worry about this.
He hung a soap box on the end of the belt. It was a simple wooden box. This box could ensure that the belt would float on the feces. When he took it out at night, he would not have to jump into the septic tank to search for it bit by bit.
After a faint sound of sinking and the sound of the wooden board hitting the pipe, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Not long after, Lynch returned to the room with a few stacks of cash. Now, the newspaper boys were a little impatient.
Their attention was completely focused on the thick stack of cash in Lynch's hand.
He sat on the edge of the bed and took a few newspapers. He unrolled the rolls of cash that were tied with a rubber band and handed them to the different children. "You count it first, then I'll count it again."
This was his rule, and people were willing to do it. This way of counting both sides established an important channel of trust between Lynch and these traders.
The children did not count quickly. When the first child finished counting the stack of ten dollar bills in his hand, he said the number he counted and handed the money to Lynch.
Lynch counted again in front of him, then put it directly into the newspaper and wrapped it in the newspaper. Then, he took out a rubber band from his pocket, tied the newspaper, and handed it to the child. This was what he had been doing.
In the beginning, he said that the most inconspicuous thing in the newspaper boy's leather bag was something related to the newspaper. This could prevent them from being targeted by some people.
This saying was also accepted by the newspaper boys. From then on, whenever the amount of money exceeded fifty dollars, Lynch would wrap it in the newspaper and hand it to them. It had become a habit by now.
After counting the money, he wrapped it in the newspaper and tied it with a rubber band. After sending the children away, Lynch immediately returned to the inner room and took out a lot of money from his pockets.
He played a little trick and deducted a lot of the money that was supposed to be given to the children.
This was actually a very simple trick. When counting the money, he used his ring finger to pick up a part of the money and passed it over his middle finger. Then, the moment he finished counting the money, he retracted his middle finger and held it with his palm facing down. That part of the money would be held in his palm.
At this time, the attention of the children who finished counting the money was focused on the stack of money that Lynch put in the newspaper. This allowed Lynch to easily put his hand back into his pocket — he needed to take the rubber band.
Then, the money that was counted by the newspaper boy and Lynch at the same time would be wrapped in the newspaper and tied with a rubber band under their gaze. The whole process, from Lynch's action to the money leaving people's sight, took less than two seconds.
In addition, the children were younger than Lynch, so they didn't dare to offend Lynch's dignity and didn't raise the idea of counting the money again. Lynch smoothly took the money back.
If they had the courage to resist, they wouldn't be just a newspaper boy now.
About two to three thousand dollars, he didn't count. Since the other party used this method to frame him, then they couldn't blame him for looking for some compensation.
Not long after he finished everything and hid the money, the door of the room was suddenly kicked open...