Rebirth of financial migrant workers

Chapter 508 Ruan Shaoyan's Uncle
"Brother, should we listen to Sister Jun? Ruan Shaoyan's current condition is obviously not good. Will it be dangerous if we go there as agreed? Is this a trap? In the Hong Kong police and gangster movies, I saw that saunas are the lairs of evil forces."

Ever since leaving the hotel, Zhao Gang has been muttering to himself beside Wang Chunliang.

Wang Chunliang finally couldn't help but turned around and suggested:
"In that case, let's go back and forget about this matter."

"Ah? I was just talking casually, why did you really give up? No, no, we finally found this Ruan Shaoyan and are about to solve the mystery, how can we give up halfway?"

After saying that, Gangzi stopped a taxi, took Wang Chunliang to the back seat, and after telling the driver the address, he drove quickly towards his destination.

The taxi drove for about half an hour and finally stopped in an old and densely populated residential area.

The driver pointed to a two-story building not far away:
"Malandra, over there is the Zun Shang Sauna you are looking for."

Wang Chunliang got out of the car first, then looked at the small building with a shabby sign in front of him and fell into deep thought.

After paying the taxi fare, Gangzi followed. He reached into his pants pocket and touched the small umbrella he had just picked up from the hotel. He sighed:
"Brother Wang, I thought that sauna center was a brothel in the red-light district, and they even prepared combat uniforms for it, but why is it like this?"

Wang Chunliang ignored Gangzi and after observing the surrounding terrain, he decisively walked through the half-open glass door and entered the small building.

The internal structure of the small building is similar to that of a small bathhouse in the mainland, with a small hall as the first entrance.

An old man in his sixties wearing reading glasses was sitting behind the bar. He glanced at Wang Chunliang and then shifted his gaze back to the small TV that was broadcasting the Mark Six lottery results live.

"There's not even a single customer here? It's so deserted."

Gangzi, who came in later, asked the old man to take another look, and then pointed to the price list of bathing items posted next to the bar.

"Summer Ascension. Ancient Road Tenderness. Tsk, what a name."

Gangzi glanced at the project introduction and couldn't help but complain aloud. Then he remembered the business and asked Wang Chunliang in a low voice, "The man only wrote "Zun Shang Sauna" on the note, and didn't say whether it was inside or outside. What should we do? Where should we wait for him?"

Wang Chunliang thought for a moment and replied:
"I'll watch at the door, you go in and take a sauna. If you see each other, contact each other immediately."

Half an hour later, at 8:15, 15 minutes had passed since the agreed time.

Did he get stood up?
Did the other party encounter an emergency?
Wang Chunliang was filled with doubts and uneasiness. After waiting for about ten minutes, he entered the small building again and called out Zhao Gang who was taking a sauna.

Gangzi drank Coke in big gulps to replenish his almost dehydrated body.

After a while, he reported:

"That person was teasing us on purpose. I checked every room from the bathroom to the sauna room, but there was no sign of anyone there."

Wang Chunliang looked at his phone again. The time was already 8:50. Ruan Shaoyan probably wouldn't come tonight.

"Let's go, let's go back first."

Just as the two were about to push open the glass door and leave the Zun Shang Sauna, the old man who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke in authentic Hedong dialect:

"What's your name, young man?" The Hedong dialect is quite different from Mandarin, and it is difficult to understand if you are not a local.

Wang Chunliang has lived in Hedong for more than ten years, so he has no hearing problems. He tentatively answered in the Hedong dialect:
"My last name is Wang. What can I do for you, sir?"

The old man turned off the TV, trotted around the bar to the door, pulled down the shutter, then turned around and whispered:

"I am Shaoyan's uncle."

Wang Chunliang and Gangzi opened their mouths wide when they heard this, their minds full of question marks.

I have never heard that Ruan Shaoyan has a relative in Gangcheng. If that is the case, why didn't he go to his relatives when he first came here, but was left alone to work for the casino?
As if he had seen through Wang Chunliang's thoughts, the old man took the initiative to answer:
"About forty years ago, my eldest brother's child, Shaoyan, was just born. I had a quarrel with my father and left my hometown in Hedong, and came to Gangcheng alone to make a living. My father was furious and severed the father-son relationship with me, so no one knew that Shaoyan had a younger uncle like me."

"So when he got into trouble, the first thing he thought of was to come to Hong Kong City to seek refuge with you?"

The old man nodded:

"Because I left behind a lot of bold words when I left home, I left a false identity and information when I called my eldest brother and the others. After Shao Yan came to Hong Kong City, he naturally couldn't find me according to the information I left."

Just a few words give a strong sense of the picture.

When Ruan Shaoyan was fleeing in a panic, he went through untold hardships to reach Gangcheng and planned to seek refuge with his relatives at the address provided by the other party, but he found that such a person did not exist.

Wang Chunliang seemed to be able to imagine the pain and unwillingness that Ruan Shaoyan's face showed at that time.

"Shaoyan found me five or six years ago. At that time, he had become a member of the casino. No, it should be said that he was under house arrest by the casino."

"Since you knew he was under house arrest, why didn't you call the police?"

Facing Gangzi's questioning, the old man looked slightly unhappy:

"Why call the police? Not to mention that it's difficult for me to call the police if Shaoyan commits a crime in the mainland, we ordinary people can't afford to offend the gang in the casino."

"Old man, please continue. I'm curious how you knew he was under house arrest?"

"In fact, the address I left for my eldest brother and the others was in this area, so Shaoyan went to the casino not far from here after he couldn't find me. At first, he just went in to play, but soon he gambled away all the money he brought from the mainland. After he signed the contract with the casino without knowing why, he felt that all this seemed to be a deliberate trap set by the casino. Since then, a man named Brother Qiang was arranged by the casino owner to be Shaoyan's foreman, but in fact he was monitoring him 24 hours a day. Speaking of which, Brother Qiang used to be a frequent visitor to my place, so he brought Shaoyan to me not long after. It was at that time that I was able to recognize Shaoyan."

The old man paused for a moment, tapped the price list next to him, and continued, "Brother Qiang is obsessed with these things. He spends dozens of minutes on the play-offs every time he finishes washing. Shao Yan took this opportunity to tell me a lot."

Wang Chunliang quickly went over the information given by the old man in his mind. Although it was a bit too coincidental, it generally made sense.

He relaxed his vigilance a little and continued to ask:
"Did he tell you why the casino put him under house arrest?"

"At first, Shao Yan suspected that the casino owner might think that he must have hidden a huge amount of dirty money when he fled from the mainland to Hong Kong, so he wanted to control him and find the whereabouts of the stolen money step by step. But later he found out that the truth of the matter did not seem to be the case. The casino owner seemed to have some kind of relationship with the person in the mainland who wanted to kill him."

(End of this chapter)