sea ​​situation

As long as everything has a beginning, there must be an end, but the length of time in between is uncertain, this can be regarded as a law in the world.

On the third day after meeting Du Juan, Lu Ming finally unlocked the secret in Zi Yuan's letter.

He has been thinking about it these days, and he has not stopped trying various things, such as roasting it with fire, soaking it in several different developer solutions, etc., but unfortunately they all failed.

On this day, he had a whim and began to fumigate with steam.

Of course, there is no reason for this, but there is really no other way, so I simply smashed the jar and tried all the methods I could think of.

He never thought that there was a wrong move. Just when he was on the verge of desperation and was about to give up completely, his eyes suddenly blurred, as if he saw a new ink stain appearing. When he turned back to check carefully, he found that there seemed to be writing on the back of the stamp.

He carefully uncovered the stamp, and sure enough there were words on the stamp, but it was covered by the paste and could not be seen clearly.

He steamed the stamps, then carefully scraped off the paste with a knife, revealing all the writing.

The handwriting on the back of one stamp is "Sheng Yuan", the handwriting on the other stamp is "Pawnshop", and the handwriting on the last stamp is "Camera is here".

Lu Ming put these three stamps side by side, and it is easy to connect them into one sentence: the camera is at Shengyuan Pawn Shop.

He suddenly remembered the missing camera in Sheng Muyi's study, and immediately understood what was going on.

As the saying goes, hard work pays off.Lu Ming immediately put on his clothes, ran downstairs and drove to Shengyuan's pawn shop.

The car was halfway on the road, but he suddenly remembered, how to get the camera back without pawning the ticket?

If Sheng Muyi pawned the camera, there should be a pawn ticket, so where is the pawn ticket?

If there is no pawn ticket, the pawnshop will not give him the camera, and the camera was considered a high-end consumer product at that time.

Even if you pay or double the money to buy it from the pawn shop, people probably won't agree to it, unless the pawn business has expired. Generally, the pawn shop's pawn business is up to 6 months, and it is less than 6 months since Sheng Muyi disappeared.

If the pawn business has not expired, the pawnshop will never sell the pawned items, which is also the rule of the pawnshop industry.

Lu Ming didn't stop, and continued to speed up towards Shengyuan's pawnshop.

He made up his mind, if the pawnshop dared not give him the camera, he would go all out and be a rogue, and ask Zhang Ziyang to find an excuse to seal up the pawnshop, conduct a thorough search, and must get the camera back.

Although doing this was a bit of bullying, but in order to get Sheng Muyi's camera and find out the secrets hidden in the camera, he decided to be this scoundrel.

When we arrived at Shengyuan's pawn shop, Lu Ming said to the tall counter, "I'll take the pawn, it's a camera."

The counter of the pawn shop is not only high, but also has thick iron fences on it, just to prevent people from snatching items.

An old man with thinning hair at the counter raised his head and said, "Pawn the ticket."

"There is no pawn ticket. It is a camera my friend put here and asked me to pick it up. She said you knew about it." Lu Ming made up nonsense.

"Excuse me, what is your name, sir?" asked the ticket shopkeeper.

"My name is Lu Ming, the road of Dalu, the song of birds." Lu Ming said.

"Well, please sign your name on this piece of paper." The shopkeeper handed out a piece of paper and a pen from the counter.

Lu Ming didn't understand what this meant, but he still honestly signed his name on the paper.

The shopkeeper took the signature in, opened a drawer, rummaged through it for a long time, found another piece of paper, and compared it.

Lu Ming waited anxiously, not understanding what the shopkeeper was doing, why he wanted his signature instead of pawning the ticket.

"Well, the signature is correct. Please wait a moment, sir. I'll get you the camera right here." The shopkeeper walked to the back room.

Not long after, the shopkeeper came out, holding an iron box in his hand, and handed it to Lu Ming.

"Is that enough?" Lu Ming couldn't help asking in surprise.

"Yes, that's all right, you can't go wrong." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

"What's in the box?" Lu Ming asked intentionally.

"Didn't you come to pick up the camera? Of course it's a camera, it can't be a human head." The shopkeeper was a little humorous.

"Then why can I get things without pawning the ticket? Aren't you afraid of being claimed by others?" Lu Ming asked with a smile.

"No, the owner of the camera said that only the signature and handwriting can be pawned. There is no pawn ticket at all." The shopkeeper tapped the counter with his knuckles and said.

"Then how much should I pay you?" Lu Ming understood, this was prepared by Sheng Muyi in advance.

"No, this camera is not supposed to be here, but is kept here. The owner of the camera has paid a large sum of money and asked us to keep it for a year. Only a person named Lu Ming can come to pick it up, and sign it. The handwriting must match." The shopkeeper explained.

The shopkeeper actually didn't know what was going on, but a few months ago, an elegant woman came to the pawnshop with this box, not pawning money, but asking the pawnshop to keep it for one year, and paid 100 Yuan Dayang's custody fee.

She made an agreement with the shopkeeper that only a person named Lu Ming could take this box away, and she also left a signed note, requiring the picker to sign, and the handwriting must be consistent with the signature on this note.

If no one comes to pick up the box after a year, destroy all the contents in the box.

The shopkeeper didn't know what was in the box, but the woman said that there was a camera inside, and if someone took out the camera in the box and sold it without permission, the pawnshop would be in trouble.

The shopkeeper felt that the matter was quite strange, and he was beating his heart. He didn't want to take the job, but seeing the one hundred ocean banknote, he couldn't refuse it.

Lu Ming didn't ask any more questions, and returned to the car with the box in his hand.

He checked the seal on the box first, and it was indeed intact, indicating that the contents inside had not been touched, and Zi Yuan's signature was on the seal.

The seal is glued on and waxed, and once the seal is broken, it is damaged and cannot be restored.

Lu Ming lifted the seal and opened the iron box, and inside was the camera he had seen before.

He took out his camera, opened the back, and pulled out a box of developed film, which he held up to the sunlight to examine it carefully.Looking at it, his hands trembled a little, and the film couldn't help falling on his knees.

He breathed a long sigh of relief, calmed down, and found that there was still something in the box, which was a stack of papers full of handwriting.

He took out the stack of papers with trembling hands, and seeing Sheng Muyi's familiar handwriting, he resisted the violent beating of his heart, read the contents of the paper, and then collapsed on the seat, unable to move at all.

"God, earth, how could such a thing happen?" He shouted in his heart, unable to hold back his tears.

After five or six minutes, a surge of anger rose in his heart, and he pressed the gun handle on his waist. He really wanted to drive to find the traitor immediately, and shoot him without saying a word.

Calm down, calm down.Lu Ming forced himself to calm down, thinking about this matter back and forth.

what can we do about it?The matter is too big, he can't handle it alone.

After Lu Ming regained his composure, he read what Sheng Muyi had written again to make sure that he had fully understood and memorized it.

The anger was still burning in his chest, but he had calmed down now, and began to think about what to do about this matter and which step to take first.

Sheng Muyi didn't tell him what to do in the letter, but just asked him to save someone.

He regretted very much why he went to his hometown in Huzhou at that time. If he was in Shanghai at that time, he would not let this matter develop to the point of getting out of hand.

Maybe Yuan Ziyuan won't be kidnapped and detained, and Sheng Muyi won't disappear. It's not known whether she is dead or alive.

He just sat in the car like this, angry and regretful, his mind turned cold and hot, thinking about how to solve this matter.

Now I can't afford to make any mistakes. If I take a wrong step, I will regret it for the rest of my life. I must come up with a perfect plan before I can act.

He sat in the car from noon until night, not knowing the passage of time, nor feeling hungry.

It wasn't until he woke up and looked out the car window that he realized that it was pitch black outside, and the pawn shop had already closed, leaving only a light in front of the door, which was reserved for those who do emergency pawn at night.