Chapter 172

Li Jincheng sighed. How could such a beautiful girl, whose clothes were neither dirty nor poor, be greedy for food in the hands of a stranger?

He simply walked over and handed her the biscuit: "Do you want some?"

The smooth hand reached out and took the biscuit. Her fingertips accidentally touched the back of Li Jincheng's hand, which was very cold. Li Jincheng immediately retracted his hand.

There was a bench under the big tree over there, and the two of them sat half a person's body apart. Li Jincheng bought a good brand of chocolate biscuits, which were very fragrant. Li Yu ate one after another very attentively. At this time, Li Jincheng also saw that the girl's brain seemed to be a little slow to react. This also explained why she would cross the road regardless of the danger and stare at the food in the hands of a stranger.

"Where are your family members?" he asked. "Why didn't they take good care of you?"

"He went to buy medicine for me." Li Yu replied, "I'll be waiting for him under the tree and will be back soon."

Li Jincheng sighed. He thought that the girl's family was not well off and her family members were not taking good care of her. There was nothing he could do about it. He thought the tree Li Yu was talking about was this tree. Li Yu also thought that this tree looked good and Liu Huaixin should be satisfied.

"Aren't you full?" Li Jincheng asked.

"Ah."

"But...next time, don't eat food from strangers, okay?" he said. "Of course you can eat what I give you. I'm not a bad person."

Li Yu understood. She knew that this person cared about her, so she chewed the last bite of the biscuit, turned around and gave him a bright smile: "Okay, I won't eat anything given by others. I will only eat what you give me."

When she smiled happily, the winter snow seemed to melt, her eyes hid the purest and most profound colors of nature, and flowers seemed to be quietly blooming around her lips. Li Jincheng's chest "thumped" when he saw her, he looked at her quietly for a few times, turned his head to look aside, and decided not to look at her face again.

It was just because she was beautiful. He thought, her beauty was pure and fragile, and breathtaking. He was too young and had never seen a woman before, so he didn't dare to look at her.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Li Jincheng, he said to himself, be more promising!

"Brother." Li Yu pulled his sleeve, "Thank you."

Li Jincheng's face towards her began to heat up again. He wanted to say I'm not your brother, but he felt it was unnecessary, so he just said in a muffled voice, "You're welcome."

Li Yu stopped talking. She was slower than others in speaking. She let go of Li Jincheng's sleeves, supported herself on the bench with her hands, and kicked her pair of fair white calves.

"I want some water," she muttered.

Li Jincheng resigned himself to his fate and went to buy another bottle of water. He planned to stay with the girl until her family came. Of course, he had to educate her family again and pay more attention to her in the future.

After all, what if such a beautiful girl gets lost or encounters danger in Chaoyang Home, a place where all kinds of people gather?
"I want a sweet drink!" Li Yu shouted.

Li Jincheng never liked sweet drinks, thinking it was unhealthy. If a normal girl made such a request, he would just do it and not bother to care about others. But Li Yu looked like a child. Li Jincheng's worrying personality came out, and he only got her a bottle of healthy mineral water, but he felt a little guilty, so he got her a bottle of healthy pure milk.

Fortunately, Li Yu also enjoyed drinking milk.

But when she raised her hand to pour the liquid into her throat, some scars appeared on her other arm.

Li Jincheng narrowed his eyes slightly. What he was thinking at this moment was that her family members thought she was a burden and must have beaten and scolded her. Although the police couldn't handle such things, he would say a few words later to deter them.

So he took out his police ID, tentatively placed it in front of her, and said, "My name is Li Jincheng, and I'm a policeman. What's your name?"

Li Yu looked at him with brighter eyes and hugged his arms with both hands: "So you are the police officer! Hello, police officer!"

Li Jincheng: …

An uncle will be an uncle.

However, the girl was too naive. When she hugged him like this, the two full lumps on her chest rubbed against Li Jincheng's arms, reminding him that she was not a real child at all. Li Jincheng pulled his arm back as if he was on fire, and even moved half a body to the side, with his back against the back of the chair.

He stammered, "You're already grown up. In the future, you can't hug others casually or let anyone touch your body casually, okay?" After saying this, his face turned even redder.

Li Yu said "Oh" again, not quite understanding.

Li Jincheng pointed at her arm and said, "How did you get these injuries? Did someone beat you? I'm a police officer. I can help you. Ask this person not to beat you again."

But Li Yu seemed to have triggered a switch with these words. He stood up suddenly and ran away without saying a word.

She remembered. If she didn't go to wait for Liu Huaixin under the tree, she would be beaten. She had to go back quickly! Ah Xin also said that she couldn't talk to strangers, and couldn't go with strangers. But she thought this brother looked good, so she forgot that she had followed him for such a long distance and said so many words! Seventy, eighty, ninety, twenty sentences at least!

It's over! She must not be discovered!

Seeing her running away like a wild cat, Li Jincheng was totally confused, so he simply chased after her.

Li Yu was about to cry: "Don't come! Please don't come!" It would be terrible if Ashin saw it!

Li Jincheng hesitated for a moment, and just happened to see the door of Yuan'an Clinic at the intersection in the distance being pushed open, and Sun Huaian walked out. He was off work. This was Li Jincheng's only chance to find Ye Songming in private that day.

So Li Jincheng took out a black notebook from his pocket, wrote his name and phone number, and tore off the page. The young criminal policeman caught up with the slender girl and forced the paper into her hand, saying, "Remember, my name is Li Jincheng, Muzi Li, Jin means cautious, Cheng means honest. I am a people's policeman. If you need help, call me! I will come right away."

Li Yu looked back with tears in her eyes. In the old neighborhood shrouded in twilight, in this place that seemed like a cage for imprisoning butterflies, she saw a pair of dark, firm and gentle eyes.

A thought popped into her confused mind - he was different from others.

She held the paper tightly in her palm and ran away without looking back.

-

Liu Huaixin was standing under the big tree, smoking his third cigarette.

When the cigarette burned out, the ashes burned his hands, and he came to his senses. What on earth was he doing?
he does not know.

He had been waiting for so long, but Li Yu didn't come back.

Sometimes people do things that they themselves cannot understand. After they have done it, when the consequences come, they may realize what they really want to do in their subconscious mind.

Just like what happened just now, it was actually dangerous to leave Li Yu alone under the tree. What if she ran away? What if she was cheated by someone else? If Luo Long and Qian Chengfeng were here, they would definitely not agree to do this. The medicine didn't have to be bought now. He could go back, lock Li Yu at home, and go out to buy the medicine himself; or he could wait until they came back at night and then go out to buy it.

But he still walked into the clinic and left Li Yu alone outside.

Now, Li Yu was indeed gone. He felt a strange sense of relief in his heart, and he didn't even run around to call her name and look for her.

Liu Huaixin finally realized one thing. He couldn't even tell whether he was hoping that Li Yu would run away from that devil's cave or be found.

Maybe his conscience is still alive.

Liu Huaixin smiled bitterly, and his heart became annoyed again. If he really couldn't find it, how would he explain it to those two people? Or maybe he ran away today too?
Just as he was about to light his fourth cigarette, he caught a glimpse of a white figure running towards him from a distance, panting.

Liu Huaixin raised his head and looked at her quietly.

Li Yu was so scared that she didn't dare to speak, and she didn't know what to say. She just timidly grabbed Liu Huaixin's arm and said, "Ah Xin... I've been waiting for you under the tree."

Liu Huaixin's eyes flashed with tears, but his tone was very cold: "I have been waiting for you here for a long time, but I haven't seen you. You don't keep your word."

“No, no!” Li Yu immediately shook his head and pointed randomly behind him, “There is also a tree over there, which is bigger than this one.”

Liu Huaixin immediately understood, this fool!
He felt relieved again. She really listened to him. His depression disappeared. He thought, let's just leave it like this for now. It's so good. He touched her head: "Do you like hanging out?"

Li Yu nodded vigorously.

"As long as you are obedient and come back every time, I will take you out to play tomorrow."

"Good." Li Yu hugged his arm and rubbed it hard with her head, "Ah Xin is the best."

A thought suddenly flashed through Li Yu's mind: Li Jincheng told her not to hug others casually, and not to let others touch her casually. But, is Ashin considered someone else?

Do Luo Long and Qian Chengfeng count?

So did she do something wrong?

She had already chewed up the piece of paper with his phone number on it and eaten it. She had seen this kind of scene on TV. She was very smart and had memorized the phone number.

But Li Jincheng is so stupid. She doesn’t even have a cell phone, so how can she contact him?
But she still wanted to memorize his cell phone number, for some reason.

-

Li Jincheng walked into Yuan'an Clinic again.

Ye Songming looked up at him, then lowered his head to work again. But Li Jincheng noticed that his movements became a little sluggish.

Li Jincheng walked over, sat at the table again, and handed him a cigarette.

This time Ye Songming didn't answer, but asked: "What do you want to do?"

Li Jincheng didn't know where the impulse came from, but he really felt that the man in front of him was trustworthy. And his intuition about people, from childhood to adulthood, was rarely wrong. So he simply took out his police officer's ID, covered it with his arm, and put it in front of him.

Ye Songming stood still, staring at the police officer's ID.

"Why do you want to ask about Xiang Siling?"

Li Jincheng's heart skipped a beat.

He loosened up, it was quite dramatic.

Li Jincheng lowered his voice and said, "This year, there is a boy in the senior year of Desi Middle School named Luo Huaizheng. He is very outstanding and was originally recommended to Tsinghua University."

Ye Songming looked at him in confusion. What did this have to do with Xiang Siling?

"A few days ago, Luo Huaizheng went to Xiang Siling's home to visit his classmate. According to Luo Huaizheng, he ran into Xiang Siling's father. In order to save Xiang Siling, Luo Huaizheng and Xiang Siling's father had a fierce fight. When the police arrived, Xiang Wei was already dead. Now, classmate Luo has been arrested for manslaughter.

I want to know, has Xiang Siling been to this clinic? Is it possible that Luo was just acting bravely and excessively in self-defense? Maybe his fate can be saved. If such an excellent child wants to do good things, but is ruined by bad people and loses his whole life, that is something I don't want to see anyway."

Ye Songming seemed to be in a daze and it was unclear how much he had heard.

Li Jincheng touched his arm: "Can you help me? Luo will be convicted soon. This concerns the lives of his and Xiang Siling's children."

Ye Songming seemed to be awakened at this moment, and whispered: "I still have things to do, Master will be back soon, you should leave quickly."

Ye Songming did not immediately believe the words of the man who claimed to be a policeman. In the past few years in the clinic, he had seen too much dirt. If this involved a murder case, such a serious crime would be enough to make some people lose their conscience and take risks. How could he be sure that this man was not trying to cheat him of what he had?

Ye Songming was about to leave Xiangcheng and didn't want to cause any trouble. However, he decided to secretly inquire about Luo Huaizheng's affairs to see if what Li Jincheng said was true, and then decide whether to take out the evidence.

　good evening.

　　(End of this chapter)