Chapter 86

These days, Li Qingyao's pace of life is no different from before.

She gets up at 7:15 every day. Before she came to the front-line criminal police team, she spent half an hour washing and dressing up every morning. Now it only takes 5 minutes, and if she is fast, 5 minutes is not impossible. When there is no case, she will tidy up the house and clean up. It takes minutes to walk to the rice noodle shop or the steamed bun shop, and eat whatever she wants according to her mood. After all, she is alone and can eat whatever she likes. Even though her appetite has increased by at least half, she is calm. She eats faster than before, but... she still can't catch up with a certain glutton.

After breakfast, I walked to the office for another 5 minutes, made some tea, fetched some water, chatted with my colleagues, and then it was time to go to work. In the past few days, the people in the team inevitably talked about the two people who were on a business trip to Yunnan. I heard that they found the snakehead, that the desperate couple really left the country, and that Chen Pu had brought honor to the second team again and found the hiding place of Lu and Li... Li Qingyao was listening quietly beside them.

Once, Yan Yong asked her, "When will Chen Pu and the others come back?" Li Qingyao said, "How would I know?" Yan Yong, who was straightforward, smiled and said, "I thought you were in contact with Chen Pu more often." Li Qingyao laughed and punched him, saying, "That's your illusion. Apart from work, I never take the initiative to contact him." Yan Yong felt sympathetic. Yes, he also treated you like a donkey."

The homicide case that was newly assigned to the second team was not complicated. Fang Kai led a few of them and quickly identified the murderer. During this period, Li Qingyao went out early and came back late, fulfilling her duties and working hard. The investigative work and files she handled were meticulous and comprehensive, winning unanimous praise. Even the captain of the first and third teams took advantage of Chen Pu's absence to flirt with her: "Hey, I heard that your new policewoman is smart and awesome, but she's still single? We have a few young talents in our team, do you want to get to know her?" "Who did you ask who said she was single? Old Ding said it, haha."

Yan Yong brought a few strong men and angrily blocked the group of flies. Although the second team, under the leadership of Chen Pu, has always been a 24K steel straight man style, no one has ever had any tricks on Li Qingyao (of course, Chen Pu only played the cuckold for a month and suddenly became Li Qingyao's regular partner, which is also one of the main reasons). But if people from other teams want to poach players, the second team will definitely not let the benefits flow to outsiders.

Yan Yong also secretly sent a message to inform Chen Pu: [Boss, the captains of Team 1 and Team 3 are not human beings. They want to introduce their team's big head, Liu Meng, Little White Face, etc. to Li Qingyao. They also said that there are many types of girls, fat and thin, black and handsome, white and beautiful, for you to choose from. If they succeed in stealing the house, where will Team 2 put their face? Where will you put your face? ]

If this happened in the past, when Chen Pu was not so busy, he would definitely do something to retaliate and find ways to suppress the other teams. But this time, Yan Yong's message had been sent for a few days, and Chen Pu hadn't said a word. Yan Yong and several military advisors in the team came to the conclusion after researching: life on the border must be too hard, and Chen Pu must have become depressed. The second team had to put the revenge action on hold until Chen Pu came back and recovered his energy.

Li Qingyao was not unaware of some of the commotion, but she didn't care either. It was nothing more than that she met more young male detectives from other groups on the road, and more people talked to her. But since Chen Pu pierced her mask last time, she no longer had the leisure to pretend to be a gentle little white flower. You have to know that Li Qingyao can be very cold. Obviously, her words are very polite, but they give you the refreshing feeling of an iceberg hitting you in the face. So soon, Li Qingyao and Chen Pu were thousands of miles apart, but she also gained a new nickname - Smoothie Beauty. Smoothie means that it looks cool and delicious, but it is actually freezing.

Yan Yong passed this nickname to Chen Pu again, and this time Chen Pu responded: [Haha, that’s appropriate.]

Yan Yong was a little confused: His feeling was right, right? Was Chen Pu being sarcastic?

Let’s talk about Li Qingyao.

After get off work every day, her life rhythm has changed. In the past, she would either work overtime with Chen Pu or eat out. Most of the food they ate was street food stalls and fast food. Even if they didn't have to work overtime, the two of them would eat, digest the food, bicker, or continue to investigate their brother's affairs together. The evening time always passed quickly.

But recently, the case is not busy, and Li Qingyao has nothing to do after work. Fang Kai has a wife and children, so he runs away after get off work. Li Qingyao doesn't have the energy to find a place to eat, so she just eats around the community or orders takeout. It is usually around 7 o'clock when she finishes eating and taking a shower, which is 12 hours before her normal bedtime of 5 o'clock.

Li Qingyao suddenly realized that the night was so long.

The next day, she went to report to Ding Guoqiang and asked him to continue investigating Xiang Siling privately. Ding Guoqiang looked at her in surprise: Chen Pu said the same thing before he left, and he would investigate when he came back. What, didn't you two discuss it?

Li Qingyao nodded and replied: It is true that we don’t have much tacit understanding.

The old man agreed, and Li Qingyao devoted all her time after get off work to Luo Hongmin and Xiang Siling. She began to use her expertise to investigate these two people in depth and detail. At this time, she also realized that although she had only worked with Chen Pu for a few months, his influence on her was subtle and silent. For example, now that she started investigating alone, the first thing she thought of was not to have too clear a purpose, but to find the "story" of Luo Hongmin and Xiang Siling. So she started with the deceased Luo Hongmin.

Luo Hongmin had a long entrepreneurial history and a lot of company information. He owned dozens of properties in Xiangcheng alone, and apart from those that were rented out, there were more than a dozen that he lived in and left idle. Li Qingyao flipped through the information page by page and checked each house. With Ding Guoqiang backing him up, and Xiang Siling cooperating as usual, as if she was not afraid of their investigation at all, these tasks progressed smoothly.

Sometimes Li Qingyao would go home at 11 or 12 o'clock, and if she was still not sleepy, she would sit at the table and continue to read the materials related to her brother's case. So in short, these days, from morning to night, she lived a fulfilling and peaceful life, with clear goals and no waves in her heart, and she didn't waste a minute on people and things that shouldn't be wasted.

One time, she looked through the personal work record book her brother left behind before he disappeared. It was the same style as the second team's, a palm-sized all-black book. At the back of the book, she saw a page of paper with lyrics handwritten by her brother. It was the song "Angel". She had found it before, but didn't see any clues. This time, she was stunned.

She turned on the music on her phone, played the song out loud, closed her eyes, lay on the bed, and placed her hands on her chest. The song looped for the second time, and halfway through, she suddenly opened her eyes, turned off the music, and snorted heavily with a cold face. During the weekend, Li Qingyao went home for dinner and stayed overnight. Her father, a criminal policeman who was about to retire, happened to be on vacation as well, and he cooked a few of his signature dishes himself. The family of three was happy and talked about their respective jobs and recent interesting things. Li Qingyao was very cheerful, happy, and in high spirits.

However, after dinner, when her father went to wash the dishes, her mother suddenly wanted to check her pulse. Li Qingyao calmly played with his mobile phone and let her do it, and then he showed her his tongue. Then Yuan Ling clicked her tongue's tongue's tongue's tongue's tongue's tongue's tongue's tongue coating. The pulse is also very stringy and hard, bang bang bang. The liver qi is severely stagnant, and you stayed up late, right? Can't sleep? Look at your weak kidney pulse. I noticed it when we were eating just now, and you were forcing a smile. Who made you angry? Or is your work not going well? Talk to mom?"

Li Qingyao opened his innocent eyes and said, "No, I'm very smooth and I'm praised every day. Who can make me angry? Who dares to make me angry?"

This was obviously an expression of anger. Yuan Ling then said, "Isn't Chen Pu your leader? He doesn't protect you when you are wronged?"

Li Qingyao: "Haha, Mom, it's better to rely on yourself than on others. He is very generous, how can he control everyone?"

This was a bit sarcastic. But the child is grown up after all, and Li Qingyao was in such a bad state in the past few years. In the past two years, she finally showed signs of improvement, so Yuan Ling couldn't force her to ask. In the end, Yuan Ling gave her a comment of "strong on the outside but weak on the inside", and stuffed five boxes of Jiawei Xiaoyao Pills into her pocket, shaking her head and saying: Taking medicine can only make things better, but you still have to think it through. If you have any problems, solve them, and tell your parents when you are willing. Don't hold it in your heart anymore.

Li Qingyao was silent for a while and said okay, actually there was really nothing to worry about.

When she returned to her rented house, she chewed the Xiaoyao pills her mother gave her and cursed Chen Pu in her heart again. This was also the time when she thought of Chen Pu regularly every day, not often, three times a day, two bags each time, and a bag of 100 pills.

The night before he sent those two text messages to Chen Pu, Li Qingyao might have chewed too many pills and was full of energy. At 12 o'clock he was not sleepy at all, so he simply stayed in the old house under Luo Hongmin's name and searched for things.

That was the commercial house that Luo Hongmin bought 10 years ago. It was over 100 square meters. It might have been considered good many years ago, but now it seems that only the location is good, but the house is too old. Luo Hongmin lived here for two or three years on and off, and moved out six years ago. The old furniture in the house was kept, but Luo Hongmin probably didn't want it anymore. There were not many items, just a few quilts in the closet, a dozen clothes, and all the home appliances were moved away. There were some pots and pans, and some books and sundries on the bookshelf.

This house had probably not been occupied for several years, and there was a thick layer of dust everywhere. Li Qingyao searched carefully, and given her style, it was no exaggeration to say that she dug three feet deep without leaving any trace.

The photo of Luo Hongmin and Liu Huaixin at the same time was found in the interlayer behind a photo in an old photo album. If someone else had come, they might have missed it if they were more impatient and pressed for time. But in the past few days, what Li Qingyao lacked the most was time.

Originally, Li Qingyao would definitely call Chen Pu for such a big deal, but when she looked at her phone, it was past 3 a.m. and he was far away in Yunnan. Even if he had wings, he couldn't rush over immediately. And thinking that with his workaholic personality, he might sleep very late, she sent him a message first.

After sending it, she sent the same photo to Fang Kai and asked for leave to arrive at the office late tomorrow.

By the time she took the hot evidence, locked it in her office drawer, and went home to take a shower and get ready for bed, it was already 5 a.m. She looked at her phone again. Chen Pu hadn't replied yet, so she cursed him softly, "Pig," and fell asleep.

The next day, Li Qingyao went out with dark circles under her eyes. She had no appetite for breakfast after staying up late, so she just bought a piece of sugar-free and oil-free bread on the roadside. By the time she walked into the second team office while chewing on the bread, it was already past 10 o'clock in the morning.

She walked to her seat listlessly and sat down. Suddenly she remembered that she left in a hurry this morning and forgot to take Xiaoyao Pills. She felt annoyed and scolded Chen Pu as usual. Then she took a bite of bread and suddenly felt something was wrong.

She looked up.

A dusty man sat on the seat that had been vacant for almost a week. Chen Pu's suitcase was still on the table, and a jacket was draped over the back of the chair. He was still dressed in black, a black T-shirt and black pants. His hair was a little messy, but his face was clean. He had the same dark circles under his eyes as hers, and he was looking at her quietly.

Ahhh, I went to WLMQ's Grand Bazaar and Jinquan Shopping Mall during the day, and only started writing in the afternoon. Sorry for the late update.