Chapter 162

2017 5 Month 22 Day.

The weather was getting hot. Li Jincheng rushed to the bus as soon as he got off work, and rushed to Desi Middle School immediately after getting off the bus. His T-shirt was soaked with sweat. He didn't care, and waited at the school gate before the evening self-study class was over. He bought a bottle of water from the nearby canteen, drank most of it in one gulp, and then slowly walked to the shadow corner under the slope at the middle school gate.

The location of the ambush could not be too obvious. After all, Li Qingyao was also studying here. Although he agreed to his sister's request to investigate the case for her, he did not want to be seen by his sister. First, he was afraid of affecting her studies; second, nothing had been found yet, and he did not want to face his sister's tears again.

Li Jincheng will be 23 in half a year. He is wearing a white T-shirt and loose sports pants. He has broad shoulders and a thin waist. He is 180cm tall, has fair skin, and has short, fluffy hair that falls on his forehead. He looks no different from a male college student.

A girl walked out of the school gate, kept looking in his direction, and laughed quietly. He was very tired after a day's work, so he stood for a while, then simply squatted down and continued to drink the water. Now, most of his elegant and upright temperament was gone, and the temperament of a criminal policeman picking his feet on the spot was highlighted. Fewer and fewer girls looked at him.

Li Qingyao has been studying very hard recently and comes home very late every day. Li Jincheng has seen that most of the people in their class have come out, but he hasn't seen her yet - he has already carefully looked at the group photo of their class.

At this time, Xiang Siling came out.

Like everyone else, she wore a school uniform, with her long hair tied up, her head lowered, and her bangs covering her forehead, but her beauty could no longer be concealed.

She walked along the road alone, not talking to any classmates, and no one talked to her.

Li Jincheng stood up, threw the mineral water bottle into the trash can, and walked over silently.

Xiang Siling walked to an empty corner of the intersection and stood still.

"To Si Ling."

She turned around and looked at him blankly.

Li Jincheng tried his best to make his smile look sincere and gentle: "Hello, I am a police officer from the branch. I would like to find out more about your father's case. It won't take up too much of your time, is that okay?"

Xiang Siling still looked lifeless, with neither expectation nor resistance in her eyes. The eighteen-year-old girl was like a tree that looked fresh on the outside but was withered on the inside. That withered feeling emanated from her eyes, her face, every pore and every strand of her hair.

She shook her head slightly.

Li Jincheng didn't understand what was going on, but the sound of a car horn was heard behind him.

"Xiang Siling!" a woman's voice shouted. Li Jincheng turned around and saw Li Meiling getting out of the driver's seat of a black car. Although Li Jincheng was also the criminal police officer handling this case, he was a young boy who only did odd jobs. The criminal police who had direct contact with Li Meiling were all experienced criminal police, so Li Meiling did not recognize him for a while.

Li Jincheng immediately lowered his head and walked away quickly. He heard Li Meiling ask, "Who is he?" "Asking for directions." "Don't talk to people you don't know!" "Oh."

Walking across the street, Li Jincheng turned back again. Li Meiling sat back in the car, and Xiang Siling opened the door and was about to get in. She seemed to sense something, raised her head, and met Li Jincheng's eyes again.

Li Jincheng couldn't tell what kind of look that was. Sadness, hopelessness, and a hint of hope.

It was all gone in a flash, as if everything was Li Jincheng's illusion. He lowered his head to Si Ling and got into the car.

However, it was this look that shocked Li Jincheng's heart. He couldn't explain the feeling, but the young detective felt that he had caught something.

He looked at Li Meiling again. She was picking up a paper bag that looked like medicine from the center console and handed it to Xiang Siling. Xiang Siling took it and took out a small plastic bag from it. There were indeed a few pills inside. Xiang Siling swallowed them in one gulp and took some water from her schoolbag to swallow them.

Li Jincheng has excellent eyesight and saw "Yuan'an Clinic" written on the paper bag.

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This was Li Jincheng's first time in Chaoyang Home. Although the house he and Chen Pu rented was also old, it was still much better than this place.

He followed the navigation on his phone and found Yuan'an Clinic, squatting outside. In the past week, he had tried every possible way to find loopholes in this case, but found nothing. He didn't know why he came here. After seeing Xiang Siling's eyes and the medicine bag beside the car, he always felt uneasy if he didn't come here to take a look. This might be some kind of criminal police intuition.

Today he finished his work at 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, and came here without eating. He bought a meal at the nearby stir-fry restaurant, and while sitting down to eat slowly, he paid attention to the Yuan'an Clinic not far away. He was good-looking, gentle and honest, and considerate to everyone he spoke to. Not long after, the owner of the stir-fry restaurant enthusiastically told him about the situation of the Yuan'an Clinic.

Li Jincheng thought there was nothing wrong with it, it was just an ordinary clinic in the community.

But this place is several kilometers away from Xiang Siling's home, and there must be a similar clinic there. Why would her mother come here to buy medicine for her?
After Li Jincheng finished his meal, it was late at night and there were only one or two patients left in the clinic. Li Jincheng got up and walked in.

Sun Yuanan was not there. There was only a nurse at the front desk, and a young doctor in a white coat, sorting a stack of medical records at the desk.

The doctor looked up. He had a dark complexion, regular features, and bright eyes. He asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Jincheng sat down in front of him and said, "Doctor, please help me. I've been feeling a little irritated lately."

"Open your mouth." After examining me, the doctor said, "You can go to the pharmacy and buy some Niuhuang Shangqing tablets, or you can get some at our clinic. The price is the same. Don't waste your money if you don't need any other treatment."

Li Jincheng smiled and said, "Okay, thank you. What's your name, doctor?"

The doctor smiled. When he smiled, he looked particularly cheerful and a little childish. His originally gloomy face seemed to brighten up. He said, "My last name is Ye."

Li Jincheng went to the nurse to get the medicine, thinking that this young doctor named Ye seemed like a nice person.

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Li Jincheng is different from other boys. He has been very delicate and sensitive since he was a child, and can perceive other people's emotions. Although Li Qingyao's family of three treats him very well and treats him the same as their own child, he still lives cautiously every day and has become accustomed to observing people's words and expressions.

He was young at that time, and Yuan Ling and his wife did not realize this. They just thought that he had lost his father at a young age and was particularly well-behaved and sensible.

When Li Jincheng gets older, his family may not be able to tell what he is thinking.

However, every time Li Qingyao felt unwell, her parents might not have noticed it yet, but Li Jincheng was the first to notice it. Such a tall and strong young man would do whatever Li Qingyao asked him to do, working hard without complaint, just to make her happy;

Yuan Ling was upset at work, but she kept it to herself. Father Li was still happy and unaware of it. However, Li Jincheng had already made a cup of liver-soothing and depression-relieving tea and handed it to Yuan Ling. He also tried to make her speak out her heart, which made her feel much better.

When Mr. Li came back from a mission, his old shoulder injury recurred. He sat alone in the room struggling to apply medicated wine. It was Li Jincheng who first discovered him and gave him a massage for a long time to relieve the pain.

Li Jincheng is like a tree, a healthy, straight tree with dense branches and leaves but standing alone. He is firmly rooted in his second home, trying to absorb the sunshine given by his family, and desperately using his not-so-thick canopy to shield them from wind and rain.

However, Li Jincheng never tells the people he loves about the difficulties and pressures he faces. When asked, he always says that everything is fine. He always looks happy, which makes people feel relieved and kind and gentle. In the police academy, he was arrogant and was suppressed by Chen Pu for four years. He became the eternal second in command and was laughed at by everyone. He was upset, but he didn't tell his family - although he later regarded Chen Pu as important as his family; when he first entered the unit, he was ordered around by everyone and had to do errands and miscellaneous things, but he was also full of energy and didn't complain to his family; because he made a mistake at work and was scolded by the captain until he almost cried, he didn't say anything; Li Qingyao begged him to investigate Luo Huaizheng's case, and how much pressure and burden it brought to him - he didn't say a word.

Li Jincheng has a contradictory appearance and inner heart. On the outside, he is sunny, optimistic and cheerful, but on the inside, he is delicate, patient and tough as iron.

Many times, Li Jincheng feels lonely; but more often, he feels lucky and at ease.

Therefore, after two days of observation outside Yuan'an Clinic, Li Jincheng was keenly aware that Sun Yuan'an looked cunning and good at disguise, and it would be difficult for him to break through with his own strength. On the contrary, the young doctor named Ye Songming, although he looked a little depressed, was very patient and gentle every time he treated the patient, and tried his best to consider the patient's health and economy. Li Jincheng always felt that Ye Songming was hiding something in his heart, so he was depressed every day. He felt that he might be able to find out something from Ye Songming.

On the third night, which was May 5, Li Jincheng continued to keep watch outside the clinic. Seeing that Sun Yuanan had left for something and most of the patients had left, Li Jincheng put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked briskly up the steps outside the clinic again.

The door of the clinic was pushed open, and two young men passed by him. One was fair-skinned, and the other was tall. The fair-skinned one was holding a bag, and Li Jincheng took a look and saw some medicine syringes, condoms, and bandages with iodine. Li Jincheng subconsciously glanced at the faces of the two men. With Li Jincheng's limited experience, he judged that the two men did not look like drug addicts, but their puffy eye bags and oily faces meant that they often stayed up late, or were alcoholics.

Li Jincheng withdrew his gaze.

When I walked into the clinic, Ye Songming was sitting there in a daze.

Li Jincheng quickly glanced at the medical record in front of Ye Songming. There was a name on it: Li Yu. He also saw words like diabetes.

"What's wrong, Dr. Ye? Is there something wrong?"

Ye Songming came back to his senses and said, "No, what's the matter?"

Li Jincheng smiled and said, "How come those two men just now were so young and had diabetes?"

Ye Songming lowered his eyes, put away the medical records on the table, and said, "It's not them. They are getting medicine for others. What's the matter with you?"

Li Jincheng took out a cigarette box, handed one to Ye Songming, and lit one himself. Li Jincheng rarely smoked, but sometimes you have to have cigarettes in your pocket when investigating a case, so that you can get close to people. This was taught to him by the old criminal police. Ye Songming rarely smoked on a daily basis, but he was a little annoyed today, and there were no patients in the clinic, so he simply took it. Li Jincheng lit it for him and said in a low voice: "I want to ask you about someone."

He took out his phone, found a clear photo of Xiang Siling, and put it in front of Ye Songming: "Has this girl been here?"

Ye Songming lowered his eyes for a few seconds, then looked up at Li Jincheng.

……

[I know it's useless to keep Xiang Siling's abortion operation form. She is already 14 years old and is not a young girl. Even her family doesn't care, so who else would care?
But I just wondered, what if? What if Xiang Siling needed this thing to protect herself one day?
What if it really could change someone’s life?

Today, the one thing I had been waiting for for a long time actually appeared. 】

——Excerpt from Ye Songming’s Diary 5
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