Blackstone Code

Lynch had visitors after simply tidying up the room. His house was an old four-story building facing the street. The first and second floors were a small bar, and the third and fourth floors were ordinary residents.

Many hotels or taverns have short-term rental rooms on the second floor, for three to five days, or a week, and the shortest one-day temporary rental is accepted, more like a hotel or hotel.

This pattern was first spotted with drunks, the tavern owner would give them a bed and charge them an extra fee, and soon most taverns started doing it, and no one complained about taking money from drunks .

Alcohol is a very special thing. It can make some people unconscious and be thrown into a "high-end" room for a night's sleep. It can also make some people simple and straightforward, so every bar, pub , both need some room.

It is also destined that Lynch's current living place will not be too remote, an uninhabited suburb, where people come and go, whether it is day or night, there will be many pedestrians passing by.

The police said that no witnesses were found, and they might be veterans. In fact, it is impossible that there are no witnesses. Whether it is other residents living on the second floor, or the bartender behind the bar on the first floor, or a few sparse customers, it is impossible to know everything. .

But they wouldn't say that, first of all, Lynch had no direct stake in them, and secondly, there was no need to be targeted by the Federal Taxation Bureau because of a person he didn't know and was not related to. Everyone chose to remain silent.

But this also happened to make the police misunderstand certain things, and then they had room for manipulation.

He had just tidied up the messy room when someone came to his door, a few children selling newspapers.

The leather bags they slung were bulging, and everyone seemed to be struggling, and their faces were flushed, partly because of the heavy leather bag, partly because of excitement.

The masthead promised a few of them, as long as the money is delivered and some details in the room are remembered, then they will be able to get an extra reward this month, no less than 50 yuan per person.

This money is very important to children of their age. They will start to live independently in two or three years. Before that, they must save some savings to face the society. The opportunity is hard-won, although it is only fifty yuan.

Lynch glanced outside before closing the door. The tavern he was in was on the side of the main road, and there was a corridor outside the door. most things.

There was nothing unusual, but his heart was already active. Based on his years of experience in fighting against..., these children were very suspicious.

These newsboys are indeed the ones who trade with him these days, but the newspaper heads will also come, but they don't enter the room, and basically stand in the corridor outside.

They gave these children a lot of change, so they naturally wanted to keep an eye on them and not let them run away. While protecting their own property, they could also deter these children, but there are no headers outside the corridor today.

What does this mean?

Any abnormal phenomenon means that there is a deeper problem. There are two possibilities that the header is no longer:

The first possibility is that he doesn't want to have any direct relationship with this place or himself.

The second possibility is that he knew it was dangerous here, so even though he was very concerned about the change, he didn't show up at the scene, but he had a way to ensure that his money would not go wrong.

This is a conclusion that can be drawn without thinking, otherwise he would not let these newsboys bring a lot of change to exchange for the whole money.

Coupled with the things that Lynch encountered before, he already knew with a high probability what was going to happen next.

Not only was he not afraid, but there was a trace of excitement in his heart, a trace of eagerness to try!

"How much money is here?" He took a small wooden box from one side and put it on the cart, asking the newsboys to pour the money into it.

The children leaned over and said, "Five thousand dollars in total, sir."

"Five thousand?" Lynch laughed. His eyes looked at the cowhide bags of several newsboys. "This is really an unexpected number. I thought it would be less."

This amount of money was too much, enough to directly convict him, which also confirmed his thoughts more. Someone was setting up a situation, and he was the one in it.

If he waited for someone from the IRS or the Bureau of Investigation to come in and he couldn't explain where the money came from and why it was in his room, he could face serious charges.

At that time, as long as the other party proposes a "deal", he will definitely not be able to escape the grasp of those people, and can only do what they ask, unless he wants to get out of prison.

He nodded noncommittally, and when the wooden box was filled with 5,000 yuan coins, he pushed the cart into the room and said hello, "I'm going to the bathroom, please wait for me for a while."

The five thousand dollar coin is very heavy, the five cent coin is the lightest, with 3.7 grams, and the fifty cent coin is the heaviest, with 6.1 grams, plus ten and twenty-five cents, the average The average weight of each coin is more than four grams.

Five thousand yuan, one hundred... thirty pounds, each newsboy has more than twenty pounds of coins in his bag, no wonder their faces are redder than usual, just going to the second floor can make them feel obvious strenuous.

After entering the inner room, Lynch was not in a hurry to go out. He dragged the box full of money into the washroom, and found a pair of sturdy pants from the freshly washed clothes in the cart.

Tighten the trouser legs on both sides, grab a lot of coins and stuff them into the trouser legs, and when the box is lighter, just hold it and pour it inside.

The two trouser legs were full of coins. He tied the waist with a belt, pushed the two trouser legs apart into a stick-like shape, and stuffed them in through the leak of the simple toilet in the bathroom.

When this kind of old building was built by people, there were no humanized elbow designs.

Not to mention curved pipes, even parallel pipes will allow the feces from upstairs to flow back directly, so its sewer design is a straight main pipe, and then there is a downward-sloping pipe on each floor that is directly connected to the main pipe. There is a one-way plate where the main pipe connects to the septic tank.

The advantage of this design is that there will be no backflow phenomenon. Residents living on the ground floor do not need to watch the toilet spraying manure out of fear. The disadvantage is that sometimes it will make the house smell strange. If you install an exhaust fan, you don’t need to worry about it. These.

He hung a soap box on the belt head, a kind of simple wooden box, this box can ensure that the belt head will float on the dung water, and it will not jump into the septic tank when it is taken out at night. Little search.

He breathed a sigh of relief after a faint sinking sound and the sound of the board rebounding against the pipe.

Not long after, Lynch returned to the room with a few stacks of banknotes in his hands, and now the newsboys were getting impatient.

Their attention was completely focused on the thick stack of banknotes in Lynch's hands!

He sat by the bed, took a few newspapers at random, unfolded the rolls of banknotes tied with rubber bands, and handed them to different children, "You count them first, and then I will count them again."

This is his rule, and people are willing to do it. This way of counting on both sides has established an important channel of trust between Lynch and these traders.

The children were not counting quickly. When the first child finished counting a stack of ten-dollar bills in his hand, he handed the money to Lynch while talking about the numbers he had counted.

Lynch counted one side in front of him, then put it directly in the newspaper, wrapped it in the newspaper, took out a rubber band from his pocket, tied the newspaper and handed it to the child, which is what he has been doing all along of.

According to what he said at the beginning, the most inconspicuous things in the cowhide bags of newsboys are things related to newspapers, which can prevent them from being targeted by some people.

This statement was also recognized by the newsboys. Since then, as long as the money exceeds 50 yuan, Lynch will hand it to them in a newspaper package, and it has become a habit they have adapted to.

After counting the sums of money, they wrapped them in newspapers and tied them with rubber bands. After sending the children away, Lynch immediately returned to the inner room, and took out a large amount of banknotes from several pockets on his body.

He played a trick and withheld a lot of money that should have been given to those children.

This is actually a very simple trick. When counting money, use your ring finger to pick up a part of the banknotes to bypass the middle finger, and then retract the middle finger at the moment after counting the money and hold it down with the palm of your hand. Will keep in the palm of my hand.

At this time, the attention of the children who had finished counting the money was all focused on the wad of money that Lynch put on the newspaper, so that Lynch could easily put the hand that withheld part of the money back into his pocket—he Need a rubber band.

Then, the money counted by the newsboy and Lynch at the same time will be wrapped in newspapers and tied with rubber bands under the watchful eyes of the two. Just less than two seconds.

In addition, these children are relatively young, and Lynch is older. They don't dare to offend Lynch's majesty, and they will not propose the idea of ​​counting again. Lynch successfully got the money back.

If they have the courage to resist, they will not be just a newspaper boy now.

About two to three thousand yuan, he didn't count, since the other party used this method to frame him, then he can't be blamed for finding some compensation first.

Not long after he had done everything and hid the money, the door of the room was suddenly kicked open...