Chapter 206 Preparations

Of course Lu Ming knew what was wrong with Lin Shen. But obviously it cannot be shown. At this moment, he could only pretend to be a stranger to contact him.

Lin Shen glanced at Lu Ming in surprise, and forced a smile: "It's okay, I'm okay."

He didn't stop and kept walking outside.

"Hey, hey! Man!"

Lin Shen stopped and looked at Lu Ming.

"That's right." Lu Ming considered his words: "You used to work in this shop, right? You don't work now?"

"The boss has changed and I quit."

"Can you do me a favor?" Lu Ming continued: "You have worked in a shop, so you should know a lot about seafood, right? That's it. I've been cheated a lot in the past two days. Can you go shopping with me? Please check the seafood for me?"

Lin Shen was a little embarrassed. But Lu Ming knew that he was not a person who was good at rejecting others.

"Fine."

"Walk."

The two of them walked together towards the seafood market next to them.

"What do you call it?"

"My name is Lin Shen, just call me Ah Shen."

"Ah Shen, hello, hello, my name is Lu Ming."

"Hello, Brother Lu."

Facing Lu Ming, Lin Shen seemed a little inferior.

The two of them chatted casually and came to the market.

Lu Ming noticed that this Lin Shen was indeed a relatively honest and honest person. After agreeing to help him choose seafood, he worked very hard. Not only is the seafood carefully selected, but he also tries his best to help himself bargain with the boss. At the end, Lu Ming calculated that he only spent less than two-thirds of the price in the previous two days, and the things he bought were better than before.

"Brother Lu, you can eat it by yourself. That's enough. If you buy too much of this, it will be a waste."

"It's okay, it's okay, I have a friend coming over later."

"That's okay."

After finally choosing the seafood, Lu Ming asked again: "Which stall here is good and clean?"

"The Ah Fu Seafood stall, I heard that they just spent a lot of money to hire a chef some time ago. It should be okay."

"You'll take me there?"

"OK."

After taking Lu Ming to Afu Seafood, Lin Shen said goodbye.

Lu Ming took out his cell phone and looked at it. He sighed and said, "My friend has something to do and can't come. I bought so much and I can't finish it. It's time for dinner. Ah Shen, why not Let’s have something to eat together.”

Lin Shen was a little cautious: "This is not good. Brother Lu, you can eat by yourself. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

"Don't bother me. If you have anything else to do after eating, it will be wasted. It's all money. You're welcome, come on, come on."

Lu Ming was very enthusiastic and asked Lin Shen to sit down. Lin Shen couldn't refuse and could only sit down.

During the dinner, Lin Shen was still a little cautious. When eating, I only ate worthless food, leaving the more expensive food untouched at all. Lu Ming saw it and ignored it, just casually chatting with Lin Shen.

Lu Ming, who had received special training, quickly opened the topic, and Lin Shen gradually relaxed a little.

After they finally finished eating, the two of them became familiar with each other, and Lu Ming said: "Ah Shen, it's like this. Brother, I have some spare money and want to invest it. I think the business of the seafood stalls here is quite good. , you have worked in this industry, can you analyze it?"

Of course Lu Ming knew that the food stall business was actually not easy, and all he earned was hard-earned money. Lin Shen explained it and explained all the difficulties to the best of his ability without any reservations. The main idea is to advise Lu Ming not to get involved easily, or he may lose money.

But Lu Ming showed that he was determined, so Lin Shen could only stop admonishing him.

"Okay, brother, you just don't have a job now, why don't you follow me? Let's start from scratch and prepare a shop. When the time comes, you will be the store manager and manage it for me."

Lin Shen hesitated.

"Hey, I think you are also a kind person. To be honest, I don't know much about this industry. If you, a kind person, hadn't helped me, I would have been deceived. In this way, even if you join the job from today on, I’ll give you 4,000 a month. Well, you don’t have much money now, right? I’ll pay you half a month’s salary first.”

Lu Ming took out his mobile phone and transferred 2,000 yuan directly to Lin Shen.

Perhaps it was Lu Ming's sincerity that made Lin Shen finally trust him, or perhaps it was because he was really short of money and needed money that Lin Shen finally made up his mind.

"Okay, then I'll do it with you, Brother Lu."

"good."

Lu Ming knew that in the following period, he finally had a legitimate reason to hang out with Lin Shen and observe his daily life up close.

The next day, the two of them went to see the shops together to make preparations for renting a house. After running around for a day, I visited seven shops. In the evening, the two planned to go out for dinner when they suddenly saw a lottery shop on the roadside.

Lu Ming's heart moved and he said: "Let's go, I'm going to treat you to a treat and go and scratch two pieces."

Lin Shen smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Lu, you don't know, I've always had bad luck, so I won't shave. You can shave."

"It's okay, let's go."

After entering the store, Lu Ming directly handed out five hundred-dollar bills: "This scratch-off ticket costs five hundred yuan."

The shopkeeper counted out a stack and handed it to Lu Ming. Lu Ming took out half of it and slapped it in Lin Shen's hand: "This half is yours, and all the money you get from it belongs to you."

Lin Shen wanted to refuse, but after Lu Ming said a few words, Lin Shen was only grateful and began to draw prizes honestly.

"This one won five dollars. Oops! This one won fifty. This one didn't win. This one won ten dollars..."

When all the scratches were finished, Lu Ming won a bonus of 180 yuan for half of his scratch tickets.

The cost is two hundred and fifty yuan, and winning one hundred and eighty yuan is a normal probability.

But Lin Shen's half actually won only fifteen yuan.

This probability can be considered extremely small.

The store owner was also surprised: "Brother, you are not lucky today."

Lin Shen was a little embarrassed: "Brother Lu, I told you, I've always had bad luck."

Lu Ming smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll give you another five hundred yuan."

He still handed over half of the scratch tickets to Lin Shen: "I won't give you the money from this scratch."

This time, Lu Ming scraped out 205 yuan, and Lin Shen scraped out 140 yuan.

After cashing in the prize, the two left and went straight to the hotel. After eating, Lu Ming said: "It's still early, why don't we go to the Internet cafe to play for a while?"

"this……"

"Let's go, let's go together."

Lin Shen followed Lu Ming to the Internet cafe. After turning on the phone, Lu Ming opened a very popular game recently, connected with Lin Shen, and started playing it like a normal young man.

"This, no, no, the equipment is too rubbish. Charge money and draw cards. Ah Shen, you draw too."

Lin Shen quickly shook his head: "Brother Lu, I won't smoke anymore, you can just smoke."

"Come on, it's fun to smoke together. Please recharge as much as you can."

Lin Shen couldn't refuse, so he had to pay a hundred yuan.

After drawing cards, Lu Ming drew a few top-quality cards. Although he didn't get his money back, his loss wasn't too much. As expected, Lin Shen didn't get any of the best items, and lost a total of 100 yuan.

Lin Shen grinned heartbrokenly.

"Hey, it's a hundred yuan, Brother Lu, I said no, look at this..."

"It's okay, it's okay, just have fun."

The two played in the Internet cafe for a while and then went back to sleep.

The next day, everything was normal. Same thing on the third day. But on the third night, after dinner, Lin Shen looked something wrong. After walking a few steps, I suddenly started vomiting. Not long after, the fever started again. Lu Ming had no choice but to send him to the hospital.

After the test, the doctor said: "It's nothing. It's just a bad stomachache and gastroenteritis. Just give me a bottle of water and it'll be fine."

Lu Ming was a little confused.

During this time, he and Lin Shen had been eating together. If Lin Shen ate something bad, he shouldn't be able to escape.

"Doctor, I have been eating with him these days. Do you want me to do a test too?"

The doctor raised his eyelids: "Are there any symptoms?"

"No."

"What test would it take without you?"

Lu Ming was speechless.

"This kind of thing depends on personal physique and luck. For the same thing, some people will be fine if they eat it, and some people will have problems if they eat it. If you don't have symptoms, don't worry about it. If you have symptoms, let's talk about it."

"Okay, thank you doctor."

Lu Ming was a little resentful.

The two of them went back separately until late at night.

After that, on the fifth day, Lu Ming got up early in the morning and planned to meet Lin Shen to go to the second-hand market to look at tables, chairs, benches, refrigerators and freezers. But the phone call couldn't be reached. I went to look for him in the old dilapidated community where Lin Shen rented, but couldn't find him.

Lu Ming was a little confused.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Lu Ming received a call from Lin Shen.

"Brother Lu, um, can you advance some more salary?"

Lin Shen's voice was full of frustration.

"What's wrong, Ah Shen?"

"I'm at the Sheriff's Department now."

After listening to Lin Shen's story, Lu Ming understood.

It turned out that this morning, a child was hit on the head by a falling object under the building Lin Shen rented. The injury was serious. It is expected that follow-up treatment will cost at least 10,000 yuan.

The parents called the police, but this was an old building and there was no surveillance.

According to the law, in this case, all residents in the building should provide evidence to prove that the items were not lost by themselves. For example, the windows were sealed and no one was home at the time of the incident. Those who are unable to provide evidence to prove themselves can only share the costs equally and jointly compensate the injured children for their losses.

This is the law, there is nothing to say. Since there are regulations, just follow them.

But Lin Shen happened to be one of the six households who could not provide evidence to prove himself.

If the expenses were shared equally, he would need to come up with 2,500 yuan.

But he didn't have much money left.

Lu Ming was speechless.

This is simply an unnecessary disaster.

But there is no way. Lu Ming hurried to the Public Security Bureau, paid for Lin Shen, and watched him sign the documents before he was released from the Public Security Bureau.

"Brother Lu, don't worry, I will definitely work hard and I will be able to pay you back your money soon."

Having said that, Lin Shen was obviously more depressed after this incident.

Perhaps because of his mental shock, Lin Shen caught a cold the next day after returning home, started to have a fever again, and felt weak all over. In desperation, Lu Ming could only let him rest in bed at home.

Lu Ming finally understood why Lin Shen chose to commit suicide.

These days of continuous misfortune are really not fun.

After only a few days of experience, Lu Ming already felt that he couldn't accept it. But Lin Shen has been living like this for more than twenty years.

He didn't go crazy, he was still alive and well, his mind was relatively stable, and he could even maintain a generally optimistic personality, which was a miracle.

but……

Do these events in the past few days prove that Lin Shen's luck is really abnormal?

I'm afraid not yet.

Probability can still perfectly explain this problem.

Everything is probability. It's just that this small probability happened to fall on Lin Shen.

But Lu Ming also felt that even if he continued to observe, he might not be able to observe anything new.

After thinking for a long time, he picked up the phone and dialed Zhang Dingshan and Lu Qingliang.

He Wei didn't know where she had gone, so it was difficult to contact her. Lu Ming didn't call her.

The three of them once again gathered in the video conference room.

"There is such a thing. I don't know if it is a supernatural event."

Lu Ming recounted in detail the information he obtained from Lu Qingliang and his observations of Lin Shen during this period.

Zhang Dingshan frowned slightly.

"Luck? Bad luck lasting more than twenty years? This..."

This kind of thing is neither reasonable nor unreasonable. It's reasonable to say it's unreasonable.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Dingshan finally made a decision.

"Compile a piece of information and give it to the research office. They will decide whether to file a case."

The sources of cases in the Operations Division are mainly from the public security system. Just like the murderous house case and prophecy case that Lu Ming experienced before, they were all reported through the public security system.

The public security system will report suspected cases, but it is up to the research office to decide whether the operations office should take over these cases. Only after analysis, it is believed that there is a high probability that supernatural forces are involved, the Operations Office Research Office will dispatch the case, and the Operations Team will take over the investigation.

Now, this matter also needs to go through the same process.

"good."

A piece of information was quickly compiled and submitted to the research room by Lu Qingliang. While waiting for the results of the research laboratory's review, Lu Ming continued to work with Lin Shen on the "preparation" work for the stall. But progress is always delayed due to various accidents. Now, nearly ten days have passed, and the house has not even been rented.

Of course Lu Ming didn't care about this. After all, he couldn't really work at a food stall. But Lin Shen felt very sorry about this, thinking that he had caused Lu Ming to be harmed. Lu Ming could tell that he wanted to resign several times, but because of the salary advance, he could not say the words of resignation, so he could only do his best to help Lu Ming prepare.

Three days later, the Operations Office Research Office finally had the results.

In the video conference room, Zhang Dingshan was full of seriousness.

"The opinion of the research office is that we should investigate to see if there are any signs of supernatural interference. Although there is a reasonable explanation for the 21 consecutive years of unlucky events, the probability is too low to warrant investigation."

Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

From his own emotional point of view, Lu Ming was of course willing to investigate to see if Lin Shen's situation could be changed.

After all, this young man Lin Shen is really a good person.