Chapter 215 Epilogue (End)

Three months later.

Li Qingyao finished his work and went downstairs with his partner Xia Yongze. Xia Yongze went to drive his car, while Li Qingyao went to wait under the tree at the entrance of the unit.

After a while, Xia Yongze drove out and lowered the window: "Then I'll go first. How long will it take for Chenpu to arrive?"

"almost."

"You actually made your girlfriend wait. I never make my wife wait."

"Fuck you, he just finished a mission and was on his way back."

Xia Yongze smiled and left.

The smile on Li Qingyao's face disappeared, and he looked at the traffic with a calm gaze.

Of course Chen Pu couldn't let her wait for long. After a few minutes, the familiar car stopped in front of her. Zhou Yangxin got out of the passenger seat, waved his hand and said, "I won't delay the arrival of my son-in-law. Today's work report is in my hands. Do a good job, Chen Pu!"

Chen Pu smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Li Qingyao opened the passenger door and went up to ask, "Are you done?"

"Well, the person has been arrested and handed over to the Economic Investigation Bureau."

Li Qingyao looked at him twice. After three days on a business trip, he looked energetic and handsome, but there was a bit of dark shadow under his eyes. If it wasn't for the fact that today was the day he had agreed to visit her house for the first time, he probably wouldn't have come back.

"Have you brought everything?"

"It's been ready for a long time. It's been in the trunk."

The car started and merged into the traffic. Chen Pu also looked at her and asked, "How did you sleep these two days?"

"pretty good."

"What time did you fall asleep?"

"12 point."

"What time did you wake up?"

"It's about 6 o'clock."

"Really?"

She rolled her eyes at him: "Why would I lie to you? I really fell asleep. I slept well before you went on a business trip."

Chen Pu thought so too, and he breathed a sigh of relief. When the traffic light turned red, he freed one hand, held her hand tightly, and kissed her lips, saying everything.

After finding Li Jincheng, Chen Pu didn't notice it for the first few days, because he couldn't sleep all night. Later, he couldn't stand it anymore and went to spend the night at Li Qingyao's house. He found that her condition was much more serious. She hadn't closed her eyes for several days and nights. She looked very calm and didn't cry. She just sat there very energetically all night.

But that night, Chen Pu held her in his arms and she fell asleep, almost unconscious. Chen Pu was also influenced by her and had the only good sleep in those days.

Chen Pu thought this was not going to work, so she cheered up faster than her and went to talk to Ding Guoqiang, asking them not to go on business trips for the next few months. They had solved such a big case and suffered so much, so it was understandable, so Ding Guoqiang agreed. After that, every day, no matter how late Chen Pu worked, he would go home and sleep with her in his arms.

Gradually, three months later, Li Qingyao's sleep became regular and he began to smile. That's why Chen Pu felt relieved to go on the business trip.

The two discussed and decided to move to Xingyue Bay together. Chen Pu bought the house in Chaoyang Home, and if he could sell it, he would sell it, and if he couldn't sell it, he would rent it out. Li Qingyao kept the small house he rented, and sometimes when they worked overtime late, they would stay overnight nearby.

After living together for such a long time, Yuan Ling began to hint that it was time for them to meet formally. Hence today's arrangement.

Soon they arrived downstairs of Li Qingyao's house.

Chen Pu parked the car but didn't move.

Li Qingyao unbuckled his seat belt and asked, "What are you daydreaming about?"

"come over."

Li Qingyao stretched out her arms to him, and he held her tightly in his arms, buried his head in her shoulder, took a deep breath, and rubbed her. Li Qingyao could feel his heartbeat in his chest, so she closed her eyes and hugged his shoulders tightly.

After a while, he raised his head, found her lips, and kissed her deeply. This kiss was powerful, sweet and bitter. His kisses were a little different from before, always deeper and more silent.

After a while, they let go. He still liked to put his forehead against hers, looking into her eyes, and said, "Do you know what it means for me to go upstairs today?"

"what?"

"From now on, we are a real family."

Li Qingyao's eyes slowly became wet and he smiled: "Chen Pu, you have always been our family."

He smiled too, let her go, and they both got out of the car.

He took out various gifts from the trunk, filled his hands with them, and held her hand with the other hand: "Let's go."

It was dark, the path was quiet, and there was no one walking. Li Qingyao looked down at the swaying shadows of the trees under the street lights, and suddenly said, "Please carry me back."

He was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "But what should we do with these things?"

"I'll take it. Kneel down, I want to carry it."

Chen Pu smiled helplessly and shook his head, so he had to hand her the wine and cigarettes in his hand, and reminded her: "Hold it firmly, this time you can drop people, but you can't drop things."

"Be bold!"

Chen Pu squatted down with his long arms resting on his knees, revealing a slender neck. Li Qingyao climbed up with the things in her hand, and he easily lifted her up.

The street lights are bright and the road is long.

Suddenly, tiny snowflakes floated down from the dark sky, landing on Chen Pu's hair and in front of Li Qingyao's eyes. She reached out her hand and caught one.

"It's snowing," she said.

He looked up at the snow and answered, "Yes, it's snowing."

He seemed to be less anxious. In this cold snowy night, he walked slowly, step by step, and very steadily.

Li Qingyao put his face against his neck and called out, "Brother Chen Pu."

"Hey."

"Let's go home." "Okay."

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Li Qingyao's father, Li Xizhou, washed his hands as soon as he got off work and went to the kitchen to help. Yuan Ling was stewing spareribs and instructed him: "Cut the meat into shreds, cut them evenly, and prepare more chili and garlic seeds, Chen Pu likes it."

"Okay." Although he said yes, Li Xizhou felt uncomfortable. He had always admired Chen Pu, but it was another thing to kidnap his precious daughter.

"Do you think it's a good idea for our daughter to date a policeman?" he muttered.

Yuan Ling rolled her eyes at him and said, "They have officially come today, and you are still hesitating. I think Chen Pu is a good guy, he is handsome, honest, and his family is well-off. He is five years older than Qing Yao, and he will definitely be caring."

Now Li Xizhou had something to say: "Looks like me, right?"

"roll."

As she walked toward the restaurant carrying the cooked spare ribs, Yuan Ling subconsciously glanced at the portrait on the wall and her eyes became sore.

Li Jincheng in the photo still looks so young, energetic, and smiling.

In fact, the couple had been prepared for the fact that their brother had not been found for so many years. Three months ago, Li Qingyao came back and told her that the case had been solved. Her brother had indeed died while on duty. He was shot dead by the criminals and his body was abandoned in the wilderness, so he had never been found. Ding Guoqiang, the leader of the criminal police team, also expressed his condolences and apologies to Yuan Ling and her husband.

Yuan Ling felt sad. When the child came to their home, they spent so much energy to take care of and raise the child. Now he is gone at such a young age. Who as a parent can bear it? But life must always move forward. Li Xizhou also comforted her and said that it is better to find the child's bones and bury them than to be exposed to the wind and rain in the wilderness and unable to return home. Yuan Ling gradually came out of her emotions and returned to normal life.

What Yuan Ling didn't know was that Li Xizhou, also a criminal policeman, had drunk countless amounts of alcohol and cried countless times behind her back.

Doorbell rang.

"Here I come." Yuan Ling was delighted and quickly ran over to open the door, shouting, "Old Li, come and greet them too, quickly."

Li Xizhou also walked out of the kitchen and saw the portrait on the wall. He had been a criminal policeman for decades, but on this happy day, he almost cried when he saw his son. He lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeves, as if nothing had happened. He walked to Yuan Ling and finally smiled sincerely, looking at the pair of well-matched and obedient children who came in.

It's winter already.

The first snow covered Xiangcheng. The oasis in the river was like a thousand-year-old man in white clothes, always looking up and gazing at the green Yuelu Mountain.

It was also on this day when it snowed lightly that Lu Xing stood in the court. Facing the multiple charges read out by the judge, he said calmly, "I plead guilty." The bailiff escorted him down from the dock. There were cries coming from the audience next to him, and someone was calling his name. Lu Xing raised his head and saw his sister holding her five-year-old daughter, looking at him with tears in her eyes. But he smiled brightly and shouted to her, "Take good care of my niece. When she goes to junior high school, I will come out to find you." The sister nodded with tears in her eyes, and while crying, she also smiled at her brother.

Snowflakes also drifted past the windows of the Third Municipal Hospital. Zhang Chaohua, the night shift minibus driver from Yingzhu Mountain to Songya Lake, and his family were waiting anxiously outside the internal medicine operating room for several hours.

Finally, the lights in the operating room went out.

The surgeon came out with a smile on his face: "The operation was very successful. Your son is fine. You can see him again after he is wheeled back to the ward."

Zhang Chaohua's wife cried with joy, and Zhang Chaohua thanked her repeatedly. After a while, he couldn't help wiping away his tears. His wife cried for a while, grabbed his hand and said, "That lady from the charity fund saved our son's life! When the child is discharged from the hospital, we must go and thank her."

Zhang Chaohua was stunned and speechless. He looked up and saw snowflakes falling. He murmured, "I hope she... will live a peaceful life."

As snow fell on the barren fields in the south of the city, the door of the South City Women's Prison opened, and a thin woman in her fifties, wearing simple clothes, slowly walked out.

The warden in charge of her discipline personally sent her out and said to her, "Song Hui, live a good life after you are released from prison and forget about the past." The warden gave her a gentle smile.

Song Hui also smiled and bowed to the supervisor: "Thank you."

Based on Liu Tingmei's last words before her death and the comparison of fingerprints at the scene, the police accurately reconstructed the crime process and confirmed that Liu Tingmei was the main culprit and Song Hui was an accomplice. She was retried and her charges was re-examined. In addition, she has always behaved well in prison, so she was finally released from prison today with a reduced sentence.

The prison door was closed. Song Hui, the former director of Dahai Welfare Home, looked up and saw snowflakes falling. She reached out her hand, caught one, smiled, and her eyes gradually turned red.

In the farther north, the winter snow falls even more heavily, adorning the century-old and famous university with a silver-like look, solemn and majestic.

Luo Huaizheng got off the taxi dragging his suitcase.

He was wearing a black cashmere coat, which made him look taller, thinner and more handsome.

Luo Huaizheng stood under the plaque of "Tsinghua University" for a long time, so long that snowflakes fell all over his body and his eyes were wet. But he lowered his head and smiled, and kept smiling, pulling his luggage and walked into the door that he had been dreaming about.

……

If one can be a free bird in this life, who would want to be a young and weak cicada?

One day, when I saw the cicada falling from the branch again, tears filled my eyes. I decided to walk behind those mantises and become a fearless oriole from then on.

When I was seventeen, I met a boy I liked very much, and I witnessed him falling from the sky.

When I was seventeen, I met a boy I liked very much, and I had fallen from the world.

I lost everything when I was seventeen. When I was twenty, I met a young man I liked very much. I watched him fall from the earth.

I finally met the young man I loved so much. I saw him calling that name in the night, I saw him swallowing all his sorrow and pain, and I saw him smiling at me.

Life is as brilliant as the vast galaxy, and life is as cold and biting as the eternal night.

The warmth of the world is like a mother’s first embrace, and the darkness of the world is like an empty cemetery.

Take care.

(End of the article)

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The author has something to say: (The following takes up the text space and I will write a free short play later to post in the book review section and on Weibo)
Congratulations, you've finished another book!

I had thought of this ending before I started writing, but today I was so upset that I didn’t dare to post it. I sat there for a long time after I finished writing it. (Don’t hit me, I’ve written it to this point, the story can only develop this way, there is no other possibility)
Actually, from the beginning, I had three heroines in my mind. You can see my intention from the title and the copy. On the first day of writing this book, I posted a sentence on the wall next to my desk: "A female suspense romance novel that is told in a gentle and gentle way, full of life, realistic, and humorous." At present, Lao Mo feels that the writing goal of this book has been basically achieved and has not deviated from it from beginning to end. But it may also be because of the pursuit of realism and excessive effort, and some places are too miserable and biased. In addition, the rhythm of the middle part is a bit slow. In fact, I have seen everyone's opinions and have thought about them seriously. I will try my best to revise these in the next two weeks. Thank you for your understanding.

In fact, before I started serializing, I was mentally prepared that this might not be a typical online novel. It’s not exciting enough, not stimulating enough, not novel enough. But I still want to write this story. I am also very grateful for your support, understanding and encouragement along the way, and for accompanying me to the end of the story. I promise that the next book will not be so cruel! I also thank everyone for their rewards, especially several classmates who gave rewards every day, rain or shine, I saw them all, I am very sorry, thank you.

Let me talk about a few things that everyone is concerned about:

1. Extras. I didn't plan to write an extra, as the main text has already been written. But yesterday I saw a reader saying that I should write a story about a criminal police brother and a Peking University student named Ting. This is a good idea. In addition, the editor told me that I have to update it on November 11th, and there will be a list. So this article will have two extras, which will be updated on November 8th (next Tuesday) and November 11.5th (next Friday), respectively. There will be titles, and you can buy them as needed.

2. New book. There will definitely be a new book next year. Follow @丁墨 for news about the new book.

3. Activities. Today, there are building activities in both the book review areas of Qidian.com and Qyue. The special prize is the traditional Chinese book "Achan" to be signed. In addition, there are also customized wallets and specially signed postcards that were very popular before, as a small reward for everyone.

Thank you all for all the hard work, many gains and many friendships. See you in the new book.

丁墨
October 2024, 10 Changsha