Chapter 49

Team Two spent the entire morning in peace and quiet.

This was also the first time since Li Qingyao came to the second team that she did not actively pay attention to anyone's needs, nor did she smile much. She was quiet and focused on her own things. But she also realized that this was actually... nothing wrong. Everyone should communicate with her, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with it. And she was actually quite comfortable.

Tired from work, Li Qingyao picked up the teacup and went to the tea room to get some fresh air.

There was no one in the tea room. She put the cup under the water dispenser to get hot water, put her hands on the countertop, and looked up at the glass door on the cabinet.

The person reflected in the glass was not clear. Because of the light, half of the face was bright and the other half was dark, making her face look even duller. She looked at her straight brows, her quiet eyes, and her drooping mouth corners, and suddenly felt a strange feeling.

[Li Qingyao? Are you really such a person? ]

[Be what you are. If you are unhappy, don't smile. If you want to care about someone, pay attention to them. If you don't want to care about them, just ignore them.]

What kind of person am I?

Many distant images and sounds suddenly flashed through my mind:
Seventeen-year-old Li Qingyao was holding a martial arts novel, leaning on the simple iron chair in the classroom, reading leisurely in the sunlight by the window. A classmate said, "Aren't you going to review?" She said, "Now is my time to relax, the brain will rust if I use it too much." Every time before a big exam, reading a novel is my secret to relaxation, do you want to try it? The next day, the classmate said, "Master, you have ruined me. I couldn't help but read all night and was caught by my father and beaten." Li Qingyao shook his finger like an old god: "Young man, it's okay if you don't have the willpower, but you are so old, and you can still be caught by your father for reading a novel. Do you want me to teach you a few more tricks to hide novels?"
There was a girl from another school who liked Luo Huaizheng, so she found two hooligans to block her. She threw her schoolbag to the ground, clenched her fist, and said, "Come on, but let me tell you first, my dad is a policeman, and my brother is also a policeman. From childhood to adulthood, if someone touches me, they don't like to fight, but go to that person's house to sit in silence. I am also very familiar with the nearby police station, all of them are my uncles, and the food in the police station is not very delicious. Who will go first?

Some people in the class also said that she was arrogant, and she also spread obscene rumors and said bad things behind her back. Someone tipped her off, but she just smiled and said, "It's none of my business, you can say it or not." I can't control whether it rains or not, so why should I care about other people's brains? When this word got out, those people hated her even more, but she also became more popular in the grade.

……

I used to be the kind of person you described. I smiled at whoever I wanted to smile at and ignored whoever I didn’t want to pay attention to. When I was young, I had a clear mind, a heart as far away as a crane, the sky was high and the clouds were vast, and I was full of vigor and vitality.

But later, the white crane broke its wings, and she buried her head in her feathers, becoming what you see now.

Li Qingyao lowered his head and quickly wiped away a tear from the corner of his eye. He subconsciously gave a perfect smile to the mirror, but froze halfway through the smile.

Just at this moment, someone walked into the tea room. He was tall, dressed in black, and had an upright frame.

Li Qingyao glanced at him, and picked up the cup with a calm expression. Chen Pu coughed lightly, and walked to the water dispenser very naturally, looking very focused, holding the cup with both hands to receive the water.

He hesitated for a moment, then tilted his head at a very small angle to glance at her. But by then, she had already walked out of the tea room.

Chen Pu turned his head suddenly and looked at the resolute back. The straight lines of his shoulders suddenly relaxed.

Huh, he exhaled.

This time it’s fatal.

-

As soon as the second team got to work in the afternoon, a murder case came to their attention - a very serious home robbery and murder case occurred in Fuxing Village, Dayong Town, near Mingya Lake.

The second team rushed out in full force. When Chen Pu ran downstairs, he just saw Li Qingyao getting into the police car that Zhou Yang had just driven. He paused and went to drive another police car.

In the past, when this happened, if the personnel had not yet been grouped, Li Qingyao would definitely take his car, and sit in the passenger seat, like a little tail.

Now she didn't even look at his car or himself.

Chen Pu held the steering wheel with both hands, but his eyes were fixed on the police car in front. He thought to himself, Chen Pu, you told her not to flirt with you. Now she behaves properly and steadily, and your relationship is clean and refreshing. Isn't that what you want?
This whole day and night has been so chaotic. What are you so panicking about?
However, after thinking about it for a while, Chen Pu figured it out himself.

He had said this and that, but he just wanted her to adjust a little, that would be all.

He didn't want her to do such a thing!

-

Mingya Lake is located in the north of Xiangcheng. It is a natural lake with a very large area. The entrance to the scenic area is next to Fuxing Village in Darong Town. The other three sides are surrounded by mountains and forests and are not well developed. The main roads and buildings are all on the Fuxing Village side.

The house where the accident happened was on a hillside near the lake. Although the house number belonged to Fuxing Village, when the criminal police arrived, they found that it was not the case.

It is not an exaggeration to call it a manor.

The yard covers at least three or four acres, and there is a small hill inside. There is a big iron gate at the entrance, stone lions, and a special road leading in. There are all kinds of fruit trees and flowers planted inside, and there is a big fish pond in front of the house.

The house was not big, three stories high, French-style, and dignified. The detectives walked into the living room, where a woman in her fifties was sitting on the sofa, wearing cleaning clothes, crying in shock. The district police were trying to comfort her.

"It was this cleaning lady who called the police," the police officer said. "The deceased's name is Luo Hongmin. The owner of this villa is an entrepreneur."

The group went upstairs.

As soon as they entered the master bedroom on the second floor, they smelled a strong stench of corpse and flies were flying around the body lying on the bed.

It was a man, already giant-like. He was wearing black embroidered silk pajamas and lying on his back in the middle of the bed. His feet were tied with plastic cinch straps, and his hands were tied to the headboard rails of the French iron bed with the same cinch straps.

The deceased had a knife stuck in his left chest. In addition, there were several other knife wounds deep enough to reveal the bone. The bed was a mess.

A police officer came over and said, "The safe in the cloakroom was opened and it was empty. According to the cleaning lady, the deceased usually kept valuables and cash in the house in the safe, and the cleaning lady was not allowed to enter the cloakroom in the master bedroom."

Chen Pu stared at the dead body in a daze.

"What's wrong?" Fang Kai poked him with his arm. "Is there something wrong?"

Only then did Li Qingyao give Chen Pu his first serious look of the day.

But Chen Pu did not notice this precious gift. He just frowned and looked at the dead man's face and said, "I seem to have seen him somewhere."