Didn’t expect to finish it by today. So here it is. Happy New Year 🤗

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Chen Li picked up her child from school and came back. When she arrived at the door of her house, she saw a car. She didn’t care, and just pushed the electric bike towards the corridor. It wasn’t until someone shouted her name from behind that she stopped and looked back.

Zhang Yiming closed the car door and walked over and introduced himself to the middle-aged woman. Even though his attitude was already very gentle, when he took out his ID, the woman still took a step back and assumed a posture of self-protection.

Chen Li asked, “Officer Zhang, excuse me, but why do you want to see me?”

Zhang Yiming took back his ID and said, “It’s about your ex-husband.”

Chen Li looked indifferent and asked unconcerned, “What’s wrong with him?”

Zhang Yiming said, “He was killed some time ago.”

Chen Li’s expression changed. She probably knew that her daughter was present and it was inappropriate to continue, so she fell silent.

The little girl standing in front of the electric bike looked at Zhang Yiming, a strange uncle, with her big, round eyes. He smiled kindly and took out a lollipop he had bought in advance from his pocket and handed it to her.

The little girl’s eyes were fixed on the lollipop. She did not reach out to take it, but looked at her mother to ask for permission.

Chen Li shook her head.

The little girl pursed her lips and lowered her head unhappily.

Zhang Yiming felt that the middle-aged woman was too harsh. Besides, he had already revealed his identity and was not a bad person. “Ms. Chen, this is just a lollipop.”

Chen Li pressed the elevator button, “Officer Zhang, you’re not a father yet, are you?”

Zhang Yiming didn’t know why but said, “Correct.”

Chen Li showed an understanding look, “Raising children is no easier than you guys solving crimes. If you don’t become a parent yourself, you won’t understand how it feels. If you set rules for your children, you can’t make exceptions, not even once. You probably won’t agree with what I’m saying either.”

Zhang Yiming touched his nose, took off the wrapper of the lollipop and threw it into his mouth. When he saw the little girl peeking over, he shrugged embarrassedly, as if saying that he was helpless.

When the elevator reached the first floor, Chen Li pushed the electric bike inside, and then hugged her daughter who was standing in front of her holding her hand. Zhang Yiming then walked in.

The numbers kept rising, and the silence in the cramped space became excessive.

The elevator stopped at the eleventh floor. Chen Li parked the electric bike in the corridor. She opened the door and entered the house, getting painting tools for her daughter. “Mommy and Shushu are chatting outside for a while. You can paint in the room. Don’t run around.”

The little girl pulled away the painting brush, “Then when can mommy come in to accompany me?”

Chen Li touched her daughter’s hair and said softly, “Once Niuniu finishes painting the apple orchard, mommy will come to accompany you.”

Zhang Yiming was standing at the door. The ex-wife of the deceased, Old Zhang, surprised him. It was a little different from what he had imagined. She had a miserable face, with deep lines at the corners of her eyes, which gave people a very miserable feeling, and she had a submissive character.

Old Zhang is dead, and very little can be found out about the past between the couple.

Coming here this time, Zhang Yiming’s major concern was the relationship between this woman and Sun Siqing.

Chen Li made a cup of tea for Zhang Yiming. She sat on the chair across the table and spoke proactively, “I haven’t contacted Old Zhang since we divorced. I don’t know anything about his situation. Officer Zhang, you ran here in vain this time.”

Zhang Yiming said, “Ms. Chen, can you tell me why you got divorced?”

Chen Li asked, “Is this related to the case?”

Zhang Yiming smiled and said, “Before the case is solved, everything matters.”

Chen Li smoothed the wrinkles on the tablecloth, “Couples will get divorced because they have to make a choice when they can no longer manage a marriage. Otherwise, who would get divorced if they were living a good life?”

Zhang Yiming said, “Ms. Chen, can you be more specific?”

Chen Li glanced at Zhang Yiming at this time. She lowered her eyelids to fix the tablecloth again, appearing to be thin and weak when not speaking.

Zhang Yiming didn’t urge as well. He picked up the tea cup and blew the hot tea inside. A calm voice sounded from the other side, “He had domestic violence behavior continuously.”

The atmosphere on the table changed slightly.

Zhang Yiming’s hand holding the tea cup paused, domestic violence? They didn’t find this one.

Chen Li seemed to read Zhang Yiming’s thoughts, “Family scandals should not be made public, Officer Zhang, you have heard this sentence before, right?”

Zhang Yiming said, “You just said that Old Zhang has always had that kind of violent behavior. Why didn’t you choose the law to protect yourself at the beginning?”

Chen Li laughed and said, “Officer Zhang, do you think I haven’t called the police?”

Zhang Yiming choked.

Chen Li got up to pour herself a glass of water and came back. She took a few sips and said, “You can’t always rely on the law.”

As a law enforcement officer, Zhang Yiming did not respond.

After a brief silence, Chen Li talked about the people and things that had been left in her memory until they became moldy and rotten, “My ex-husband and I were introduced to each other by the elders in the family. Before we got married, we had a very good relationship, able to miss each other in everything. The first time he hit me was during the Spring Festival of the year we got married. The reason was ridiculous. He saw me talking to a friend of the opposite sex on the roadside, so he dragged me home and slapped me in the face, saying I am unrestrained, seducing others in broad daylight.”

“It was also at that time that I realized that he was not normal.”

Chen Li paused for a moment, with a self-deprecating expression on her face, “Afterwards, he apologized to me and said he would never do it again, and I forgave him. In the years that followed, he did it again and again, and I forgave him again and again. In the end, I was to blame for the fact that he and I were able to get to the point and cannot blame anyone else. I’m very clear about that, and it comes down to that we’re not suitable.”

Zhang Yiming was making notes in his notebook, “You didn’t take him to see a doctor?”

Chen Li said, “See a doctor? My ex-husband thought he was not sick. He hit me because he was nervous about me and didn’t want me to have contact with others, even if it’s a few more words or a few more looks. He stubbornly thought so, and wouldn’t listen to anyone’s advice, how could he go see a doctor?”

Zhang Yiming said, “You thought so too at first?”

A self-deprecating expression appeared on Chen Li’s face again, “Yeah, now that I think about it, I feel pathetic and ridiculous myself.”

Zhang Yiming asked, “So you divorced your ex-husband because you couldn’t stand his torture on you anymore?”

Chen Li did not give a straightforward answer, but said, “I am not good at making decisions. Every time I want to divorce him, I hesitate, waver, and worry about many things, including my parents, friends, and child, work, future life, etc. In the end, I would give up the idea and do this over and over again, never taking that step forward.”

Zhang Yiming heard the intrigue in her words, “Did your ex-husband bring it up?”

Chen Li rubbed the glass, “I’m very grateful to him. If he hadn’t forced me to divorce him, I would still be living with him.”

Zhang Yiming’s pen couldn’t produce ink next. He poked it on the paper several times before it got better. The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, but the differences between people are actually very big, impossible to describe and summarized in just a few words. .

Every choice is self-picked, and other people’s opinions and ideas are meaningless.

Zhang Yiming turned the page and said, “Your ex-husband would accuse you of being unfaithful just because you were in contact with others, which shows that he cares about you. Later, why did he force you to divorce him?”

Chen Li said, “Thing.”

Zhang Yiming didn’t understand, “What?”

Chen Li said, “I was just a thing that my ex-husband regards as private property, nothing more.”

Zhang Yiming frowned incomprehensibly, and the probing in his eyes became a little deeper, “Since it’s private property, it’s even more impossible to……”

Chen Li interrupted the man opposite for the first time, “Because he doesn’t want it anymore.”

Zhang Yiming vaguely felt that there was something hidden, so he changed the topic, “Ms. Chen, do you know that your son has a bad relationship with your ex-husband?”

Chen Li slightly opened her eyes in surprise, “Not good? How could it be? My ex-husband saw, heard and obeyed his son and bought whatever he wanted, and had unusually patience with him. This was also the reason why I could continue to live with my ex-husband. He really loves his son and never hits him.”

Zhang Yiming said, “Based on what we learned from the neighbors, the father and son really don’t get along. Your son is a residential student and doesn’t go home on weekends. When he comes back every once in a while, he always gets into arguments with your ex-husband.”

Chen Li sighed softly, “Officer Zhang, I have been away from their lives for many years, and I don’t know the reason. My neighbors know more than me.”

Zhang Yiming asked, “Ms. Chen, although I haven’t married yet, however, I personally feel that divorce satisfies the couple, but the consequences should not be borne by the child. Haven’t you missed your son all these years?”

Chen Li smiled bitterly, “He wouldn’t let me see my son. He said he would beat me every time I saw him.”

Zhang Yiming was stunned.

He swirled the pen, Old Zhang is dead and his son has absolutely no idea what’s going on. Now he only has one side of this woman’s story, and can’t determine whether it is true or not for the time being.

Chen Li knew what Zhang Yiming was thinking, “It’s been so many years and I have my own family. There’s no need to lie, it won’t do me any good, right?”

“Moreover, a couple for long, and the other person passed away, I will not accuse him groundlessly. Every sentence I said is entirely true.”

Zhang Yiming picked up the key points and recorded, “Ms. Chen, in your impression, what kind of temperament does your son have?”

Chen Li said, “That child is a little naughty, but not bad-tempered.”

Zhang Yiming asked, “Naughty in what way?”

Chen Li said, “Just open and close the drawers at home and think the sound they make is funny, take out the things inside and put them on the floor, put his hand into the fish tank to catch fish, use a broom to sweep the cat into the dustpan, crawling around on the bed without taking off his shoes and stuff like that. He was very active and never did anything out of the ordinary.”

Zhang Yiming raised his eyelids and said, “I recently went to see your son. He works part-time in a bookstore. When I talked to him, he didn’t dare to look into my eyes, seemed very shy and also introverted. According to the reactions of school teachers and classmates, he is indeed that kind of person, relatively isolated.”

Chen Li didn’t think there was anything strange, “He was still young at that time. After so many years, as he grows up, his personality must have changed to some extent.”

Zhang Yiming said, “Is it possible that your child’s temperament changed drastically because of your divorce?”

Chen Li said, “Parents’ marital problems will have an impact on their children to some extent, but not all. Many children who grow up in single-parent families can also grow up healthily, and are no worse than anyone else.”

Zhang Yiming said, “Now there is no single parent for your son.”

Chen Li understood what Zhang Yiming meant, and she suddenly lost her voice.

The father passed away, the mother already had a new family and no longer interfered with his life. From now on, the child will be alone, whether he lives well or not, he only has himself.

Zhang Yiming said, “Something happened to your ex-husband and the child is still a minor, what are you going to do? Continue to ignore him regardless?”

Chen Li moved her lips and wanted to say something, but she didn’t say it.

Zhang Yiming did not question intensely. He had already looked at the house when he entered. It was very warmly decorated and smelled like home everywhere. This woman’s current husband is a worker in a repair shop. He is a few years older than her and he is honest and straightforward. The other party also married once.

The couple lived a simple and ordinary life.

Zhang Yiming nibbed on the paper with a pen. Sometimes mentioning a name can open people’s scar slightly, “Are you and Sun Siqing still in touch?”

Chen Li was startled for a moment, then accidentally knocked over the glass and spilled water on the table, and she also forgot to get something to wipe it.

Zhang Yiming looked left and right, grabbed the rag on the coffee table and threw it on the table, quickly wiping away the water stains, “Sun Siqing is missing.”

Chen Li raised her head, a blank look in her eyes.

Zhang Yiming sat back on the chair and looked at her carefully, “Ms. Chen, can you tell me about Sun Siqing?”

Chen Li held her forehead, “I don’t understand, what does Old Zhang’s death have to do with him……”

Zhang Yiming said, “First, you and Sun Siqing had a relationship for a period of time. Second, Sun Siqing had an episode with your husband. Third, his current whereabouts are unknown.”

Chen Li’s face turned a little pale, “Officer Zhang, since you have found out everything, why are you still asking?”

Zhang Yiming smiled and said, “Limited finding. I hope Ms. Chen can provide us with some clues.”

Chen Li fell silent.

Zhang Yiming stood up and looked at the paintings on the wall. All the colors in profusion, without a trace of gray or heaviness. “Ms. Chen, are these paintings all painted by your daughter? She has made great progress, ah!”

Chen Li said calmly, “Only a blind drawing.”

“Is this the animal world?”

Zhang Yiming stopped in front of a painting and sighed, “Children have such rich imaginations that we adults cannot compare to, including kindness. Ms. Chen, do you think that as people grow older, the more selfish and indifferent they become?”

Chen Li said, “Simply a lot of misgivings. That’s all.”

Zhang Yiming said, “That’s merely a pretext.”

Chen Li stopped talking again.

Zhang Yiming also didn’t say anything again. After looking at the paintings on the wall one by one, he felt more and more that the world of children is the simplest and cleanest. As people grow up, pressure, grief, regret, desire and other things all appear one by one, making simple things complicated.

“I met Sun Siqing in the fifth year of my marriage.”

Chen Li’s voice sounded, “He had a very good personality and knew a lot. When we got along, I didn’t have to worry about running out of topics to talk about. I was very relaxed, which was something my ex-husband couldn’t give me.”

“In the first few months, we were friends who talked about everything. Whenever I had something, I would tell him, and he would analyze it for me, help me find a solution, and comfort me. I had a very great time during that period, it felt like self rejuvenating.”

Zhang Yiming listened without interrupting.

Chen Li’s gaze fell on the void, “Officer Zhang, do you know? People are dependent by nature. Slowly, I developed that kind of mentality towards him. By the time I realized this, I couldn’t turn back.”

After saying this, Chen Li showed no sign of speaking for a long time. Talking about her husband’s violence or her extramarital affair, speaking about any of these would not sound good.

Zhang Yiming waited, but before the middle-aged woman could follow up, he mentioned the key sentence, “You lent Sun Siqing a sum of money.”

Chen Li came back to her senses and smiled meaninglessly. “He was good at everything, but he only had one problem. He loves to drink, and even talks drunkenly after drinking too much. This must have been something he let slip at the wine table and you guys found out.”

Zhang Yiming does not deny it.

Chen Li went to the kitchen to bring a water bottle and refilled Zhang Yiming’s tea cup. “When he was doing the building materials business, he had no experience and didn’t think it through. He spent all his savings in the early stage and didn’t have enough funds in the later stage. He said he couldn’t give up, otherwise the previous investment would be in vain.”

“He was having a hard time at that time. Every time I went to see him, I found that he was thinner than the last time. He said he didn’t want to believe in fate, and said he wanted to work hard again for our future.”

After a pause, Chen Li said, “I believed him, so I lent him a sum of money, a total of 300,000.”

Zhang Yiming stopped tapping on the table, at that time 300,000 was very valuable. One could buy a house in a first-tier city, decorate it as pleased, buy furniture as pleased, and there would still be some left after it’s over.

“It’s my parents’ house. My ex-husband didn’t know, and no one else knows.”

Chen Li lowered her eyelids, “That money helped him tide over the difficulties. The business gradually grew bigger, and more and more money was thrown into it. While I supported him, I was also worried that he would be dazzled by the immediate benefits, or that he would be deceived by being too trusting to his friends. I was afraid that he would suffer a blow and be devastated.”

Zhang Yiming said, “He didn’t pay back the money.”

“I don’t know much about business matters. At first, he said that the company had just started and was not on the right track yet, and couldn’t get that much working capital, so he asked me to give some more time, and he would definitely give it back to me without expenses on my money, later he changed his statement and said that he would give me the company’s shares, and the company would be ours from now on, and asked me to believe him.”

Chen Li said, “Paper can’t contain fire, and it’s only a matter of time before the fire breaks out. My ex-husband started to get suspicious of me. I was afraid that the matter of using the house mortgage and lending money to Sun Siqing would be exposed, so I went to him to find a way, but he said……”

Zhang Yi recorded, “Said what?”

Chen Li had memories in her eyes and her fingers were trembling a little, “He said it would be better to find a few people to make my ex-husband disappear so that we can be together.”

Zhang Yiming’s eyes flashed, “So what was the reason for Sun Siqing not doing that?”

“It was me. I stopped him. I said that murder is against the law, life has finally gotten better, and we shouldn’t throw everything in for the sake of my ex-husband. He was persuaded by me and didn’t think about it anymore, and just found someone to create some trouble for my ex-husband behind my back.”

Chen Li said, “My ex-husband was trying to deal with the trouble and didn’t have the mood to care about me anymore.”

“At that time, Sun Siqing would listen to whatever I said. He never treated me in a perfunctory manner. He respected me very much.”

Zhang Yiming said, “But you still trusted the wrong person.”

Sun Siqing had a marriage that time. He went bankrupt and wife swept away his last possessions and ran away. Before that, they were a very loving couple.

This is enough to show that Sun Siqing betrayed the middle-aged woman sitting opposite. How much of it is pity, sympathy, mercy, and exploitation, the implicated party even not necessarily manages to realize.

All the color drained from Chen Li’s face in an instant. She met two men in the first half of her life, neither of which ended well. Those years of her life were just a joke.

“Officer Zhang should have thought about what happened next. Sun Siqing’s company was developing very well. He was becoming more and more distant from me, had no patience to listen to me and no time to meet me. I was also not stupid, and knew that his heart was not with me.”

“Later, he changed his address and phone number, and I completely lost contact with him. It wasn’t until a year later that I pushed my child to go out and accidentally learned from a friend that he was married and the wedding party was held. ”

Zhang Yiming asked, “You didn’t expect that you would be neighbors.”

“It’s unexpected.”

Chen Li murmured, “I also never expected that when I took my kid to knock on the neighbor’s door to say hello politely, it was him and his wife standing at the door. It was so dramatic, just like a TV show, so unreal.”

Zhang Yiming also thought it was fortuitously, “It was only after you guys became neighbors that your husband found out about the past between you and Sun Siqing. Was this also a major factor in your divorce?”

Chen Li nodded.

That day, Chen Li returned from sending her child to kindergarten, and met Sun Siqing, who had drunk too much, in the corridor. She had nothing to say to him, and just planned to cross over to the other party to go upstairs, but was grabbed by the hand.

Sun Siqing pulled Chen Li aggressively in the corridor. He spoke about everything in disorder in a drunken state, saying that his company was in trouble again, if she could lend him another sum of money. He’s ruined, and shameless, not a human, and said it’s not about the money anymore and wanted to get back to the original relationship with her.

Chen Li thought Sun Siqing was crazy, and reminded him that he already has a family, forget the past, no one should not mention it again, just let it rot in the stomach and treat it as if it never happened. She didn’t even want to get the money back, and just wanted to erase all the past with him, because once discovered, they both would be doomed.

Sun Siqing didn’t know Chen Li’s concerns. He said that when you were hooking up with me during the day, didn’t you sleep with your husband when you went back at night.

Chen Li’s sky spinned and the earth went round, and then she slapped Sun Siqing on the face. The other party sobered up a little, then became drunk again, and said incoherently that his wife was infertile and asked her to give him a child.

Fortunately or unfortunately, it is all arranged by God.

Whatever the case, Chen Li never anticipated that her ex-husband was not feeling well that day and asked for leave to go home. The argument and entanglement between her and Sun Siqing in the corridor was seen and heard by the other party.

That night Chen Li was almost smothered to death with a pillow by her ex-husband.

The ex-husband was extremely face-saving. Even if he was cuckolded by his wife, he would still return to normal after leaving the house, but once he entered the house, he would find new ways to vent his anger on Chen Li.

Several times, Chen Li lay on the bed at her last breath, thinking that she would not survive, but didn’t expect herself to be able to survive.

Home no longer looks like home. Adult quarrels and depression affect the young and ignorant child. Everything will never be the same again.

The divorce was brought up by the ex-husband. He did it for the sake of his son and said he didn’t want his son to be gossiped about one day. Also said that after divorce, it would be up to her to decide which man she would sleep with or how many men she would have a relationship with, and ordered her to get out of here without delay and never appear in their father and son’s lives.

Chen Li was reluctant to give up her son and refused to divorce Old Zhang, so Old Zhang kept forcing and torturing her. She ended the riddled marriage with him, covered all over with cuts and bruises, became nothing.

After she really took that step, Chen Li discovered that all her worries in the past were due to her lack of independence. Before she had children, she revolved around her ex-husband, and later around Sun Siqing. Once she had a child, she centered around her child. She had no ideals and goals of her own, and lived a very meager life with no sense of security, always relying on getting it from others, and never thought that it should be given by herself.

After returning to her thoughts, Chen Li said, “Officer Zhang, I don’t know what happened after that.”

Zhang Yiming said, “Old Zhang found out about your affair with Sun Siqing. Has he ever gone to find Sun Siqing?”

“Yes.”

Chen Li recalled, “My ex-husband asked Sun Siqing to pay back the money as soon as possible. He also said that the 300,000 yuan at that time was already worth one million.”

Zhang Yiming said, “When you lent money to Sun Siqing, you didn’t ask him to write an IOU, right? Would he have agreed to pay back the money?”

Chen Li nodded, then shook her head, “I don’t know the specific situation. I only know that he got part of it back from Sun Siqing, and was very anxious for the rest. The neighbors only knew that our two families had little contact, but they didn’t know that there was such a tangle of cause and effect in it.”

After speaking, she smiled sadly.

Zhang Yiming said thoughtfully, “Your ex-husband held something against Sun Siqing and forced him to pay back the money.”

Chen Li didn’t say anything, which was regarded as acquiescence.

Zhang Yiming asked, “How was your property distributed when you got divorced?”

Chen Li said she didn’t want anything. “My ex-husband didn’t mention it either. He said that the money Sun Siqing borrowed would be for his son’s use if get back.”

Zhang Yiming raised his eyebrows, “Have you never thought that he wants to keep it for himself?”

Chen Li said, “Have or haven’t, that’s all in the past.”

Zhang Yiming hesitated to speak, “Then your son……”

Chen Li said, “My ex-husband’s.”

Zhang Yiming stared at the middle-aged woman, “You guys usually quarrel, and your ex-husband hits you. How did your son react?”

Chen Li said, “My ex-husband never touched me in front of my child.”

Zhang Yiming asked, “Then does he know what happened between you and Sun Siqing?”

Chen Li didn’t quite understand, “Is Officer Zhang kidding? What will a child understand?”

Zhang Yiming shrugged, and this time he really joked, “Isn’t there a saying on the Internet? There is a kind of ignorance, which is that adults think I don’t understand.”

Chen Li didn’t seem to be exposed to anything on the Internet. She showed a look of bewilderment and confusion, “What?”

Zhang Yiming coughed and said it was nothing, “Don’t you want to know how Sun Siqing has been doing these years after you left?”

Chen Li said indifferently, “I have been extremely benevolent to him before. How he is doing has nothing to do with me, and I don’t want to know either.”

Zhang Yiming said self-consciously, “His company failed to manage well and went bankrupt, and his wife ran away secretly. After that, he idled around, drank and gambled, and lived a miserable and decadent life.”

Chen Li looked incredulous, as if they had indeed never had any contact with each other.

After a while, Chen Li sighed, “It’s all fate.”

Zhang Yiming disagreed and also expressed what he was thinking, “I don’t think it’s fate. It’s just that the cards are not played well, reaping what he sowed.”

Chen Li said, “It’s not me anyway. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to start over.”

She stood up and said, “Is there anything else to ask? If not, then I request Officer Zhang to leave. I’m going to accompany my daughter.”

Zhang Yiming tore off the piece of paper with his mobile phone number and handed it over, “If Sun Siqing comes to see you, please contact me as soon as possible.”

Chen Li didn’t answer, “He won’t look for me.”

Zhang Yiming said, “Ms. Chen, I’m talking about if.”

Before leaving, he pressed the piece of paper under the fruit plate.

Chen Li sat back on the chair, clasping her hands together. She was in daze, immersed in those long-lasting memories.

“Mommy, is that Shushu gone?”

The voice in her ear made Chen Li jump. She put her daughter on her lap and said, “Yeah.”

The little girl asked curiously, “Will he come again?”

Chen Li said, “Not anymore.”

The little girl was going to get the piece of paper on the table, but Chen Li took it first and threw it into the trash can.

Zhang Yiming’s car left the community and followed the navigation system onto the highway. Sun Siqing had a motive for murder. Maybe everything will be clear after finding him.

Back in T City, Zhang Yiming went straight to the bureau and handed the transcripts he brought back to his subordinates to print. Then he notified people in the team to hold a meeting to share the clues obtained.

“Is there any news about Sun Siqing?”

“Not yet.”

“If he really wants to hide and look for a secluded, sparsely populated, and backward mountain village and hide his name anonymously, all along not using documents related to identity information. It will be difficult for our people to find him.”

“Nevertheless, try to catch him!”

Zhang Yiming pulled his hair and said, “Order a few people to monitor the deceased Old Zhang’s ex-wife Chen Li and his son Xiaojie.”

“Captain Zhang, will Sun Siqing go to look for them?”

“With no further clues now, we can only use what we have so far.”

Zhang Yiming held his head with one hand and tapped the table with the other, muttering to himself, “Suppose Old Zhang used something to blackmail Sun Siqing to pay back the money, but he couldn’t pay back. When cornered, he killed Old Zhang right away……”

He paused for a second or two and then said, “So what’s with Liu DaNiang’s death? What was Sun Siqing’s motive for killing her?”

Seeing that the others didn’t even fart, Zhang Yiming knocked on the table a little louder, “Say something already, unleash your imagination, everyone stop playing deaf and dumb.”

Someone spoke out the investigation information, mixed with his own conjectures, “The deceased Liu DaNiang had a shortcoming of talking nonsense during her lifetime. This may be the reason why she was killed.”

Someone immediately said, “It’s not surprising, most old people have this problem.”

That man showed an unfathomable expression, “In general, people will feel irritated, depressed, and unhappy at most when they are talked about. The most serious is to simply take a detour when seeing each other, and pretend not to know each other if they come across. However, if the other person has a paranoid personality, it’s hard to say.”

“Killing just because of something like this? Impossible, right?”

“Why is it impossible? The teacher said in class that anything may be the root cause of crime. My premise is paranoid personality patients. Do you know what a paranoid personality is? Paranoid personality is also called delusional personality, sensitive and suspicious……”

“Okay, don’t explain in detail, we all know it, just focus on the key points.”

“The murderer has a hidden paranoid personality. Not to mention being criticized, even if someone takes a second look or reaches out to touch him, it may stimulate the other person’s allergic sensory nerves, leading to extremely crazy behavior. ”

A fat man rolled his eyes at the ceiling when he heard this, “You guys call me fatty all day long, but I didn’t do anything to you.”

The atmosphere in the conference room became relaxed, everyone laughed and joked, “This only shows that you are a normal person.”

“No, this only means that I am indeed a fat man.”

“……”

Zhang Yiming signaled the booing people to quiet down. He raised his chin and said, “Continue.”

That man continued, “Perhaps Liu DaNiang was also present when Sun Siqing and Chen Li were arguing, and she heard it, or she found out that Old Zhang and Sun Siqing were arguing about money, so she went to gossip. After all, some people can’t hide things.”

“It is well known that Sun Siqing has been drinking alcohol all year round and has a bad temper. It is not impossible that he was angered by Liu DaNiang and accidentally killed her.”

Zhang Yiming asked, “Then why did Sun Siqing wait until recently to take action?”

That man was stared at by his colleagues, and he scratched his head, “I guess Sun Siqing didn’t notice it before, or perhaps Liu DaYe asked Liu DaNiang not to tell anyone, she kept it secret before but accidentally let it slip.”

“None of these possibilities of yours can hold water.”

Zhang Yiming said eloquently, “First of all, Sun Siqing had an alibi of the night when Liu DaNiang’s body was found. He and Ji Shiyu were drinking in the living room at that time. There is no doubt about this because Ji Shiyu doesn’t need to lie for him. Secondly, If Liu DaNiang really told the outside world, then the neighbors would know about it, but that is not the case. This clue was found from Sun Siqing’s hometown.”

That man’s face flushed then his eyes lit up, “What if Liu DaNiang leaked the information to Zhou Chunlian? She knew about this matter, that’s why she rebuked Sun Siqing by saying, don’t think that I don’t know about Old Zhang’s matter like this, Captain Zhang, this clue was provided by Ji Shiyu, it can’t be wrong, right?”

“Moreover, Liu DaNiang’s body was found at night, but her death time was in the morning. Sun Siqing said that he was sleeping at home at that time, but no one testified for him.”

Someone quickly concluded, “So the inference now is that Sun Siqing killed Old Zhang because of the debt and the past scandal, Liu DaNiang found out about it, and broke it while chattering. He thought it’s a kind of ridicule and insult and killed her angrily?”

There are very few clues at present, and can only rely on guesswork to move forward.

Zhang Yiming asked a DiXiong for a cigarette, “Is there any progress on the corpse dismemberment case in the mountain region?”

The two people in charge of the investigation said they had, “The suspect has been identified, it’s the deceased’s ex-boyfriend. The other party wanted to rekindle his relationship with her, but she did not agree and was brutally killed and buried.”

Zhang Yiming licked his dry lips and had a splitting headache. “Other cases are much easier to solve. Why are the two cases in the old building so difficult to solve?”

Others couldn’t figure it out either. It was as if they had encountered a ghost wall, trapped inside and unable to find the exit. Maybe the exit was right in front of them.

Zhang Yiming returned to the office and called Lu Fei, “Come out to have a meal.”

Lu Fei on the other end was breathing heavily, in an irritated mood, and extremely unhappy, “Damn it, Zhang Yiming, you didn’t hit me up sooner or later, but hit me up at this time, and I almost got killed by you!”

Zhang Yiming’s face flushed with anger when he heard this, and couldn’t even hold his tongue straight. He was distracted by the torrent of abuse, and managed to react just now. He was not easy to deal with either, and quickly counterattacked, “Lu Fei, are you still a human? Ah! Xiao Ji’s injuries haven’t healed yet, and you already touched him?”

Lu Fei snorted and took a few breaths before saying, “His injury healed or not, am I not more clear than you?”

Zhang Yiming couldn’t believe it, “Wait, Lu Fei, you cry?”

Lu Fei yelled angrily, “Cry your ass!”

Zhang Yiming wanted to say something else, but the caller on the other end had already hung up. He held the phone in a daze for five minutes, “Fuck, Lu Fei, that guy really cried, and was still doing that kind of thing, tsk tsk, I can laugh at this joke forever.”

Wanted to make up for it, but Zhang Yiming again felt himself too much to be a XiongDi, then forcibly held back. He walked to the table, reached into the glass tank and poked the motionless tortoise, “Xiao Cao Ah, do you think it’s time for me to find a companion, Eh?”

“Forget it, forget it, I can’t even take care of myself. How can I take care of others? However, if the other half is a man like me, I don’t need to take care of…..”

The words stopped abruptly, Zhang Yiming turned his head and spit several times on the ground, and even slapped himself on big mouth, “Let you be despicable!”

On the other side, Lu Fei was sitting on the floor with red eyes. He inserted his knuckled hands into his wet short hair and pushed the hair back. His chest rose and fell greatly due to the intense emotions.

Huang Dan, who was lying on one-side of the bed, turned to look at him, “Are you okay?”

Lu Fei frowned and breathed loudly into the air. He inhaled and the corners of his eyes became wet.

Huang Dan also sat on the floor, stretched out his arms to hug the man, patted his sweaty back, and touched his tight muscles with his fingertips, knowing that the man was trying his best not to cry, “I hurt you, right?”

Lu Fei’s sweaty face darkened. Why did these words sound so awkward? Who fucked whom?

The pain is naturally different from that of ordinary people, and it’s really fucking painful.

The outline of Lu Fei’s face was tense, and his lips were pursed tightly, fearing that he would groan if he opened his mouth.

Damn, the phone rang suddenly, and he was frightened from it and sprained himself. It hurt like hell.

Huang Dan has used a lot of chrysanthemum spirit, and now the medicine has taken effect. He feels uncomfortable, feels uncomfortable from head to foot, “Tell me as soon as it doesn’t hurt anymore, we will continue. Lu Fei, I want it so much.”

Lu Fei was in severe pain. When he suddenly heard these words, he felt even more pain, but the corners of his lips curled up excitedly, “Want what?”

Huang Dan said, “Want you.”

The temperature in Lu Fei’s eyes was rising rapidly, like a pot of boiling water, a person would not dare to touch the scalding hot for a while. He was looking forward to it and also full of teasing, “What do you want from me?”

Huang Dan said, “You know.”

Lu Fei continued to play dumb, “If you won’t tell me, how would I know?”

Huang Dan said, “Don’t want to talk to you anymore.”

Lu Fei put his chin on the young man’s shoulder and laughed hoarsely, “Stop! Say something to Gege, Gege really didn’t understand.”

Huang Dan pinched the man’s rolled Adam’s apple with his fingers and gently scratched it with his fingertips.

That part of Lu Fei was very sensitive, and just one touch could take his life. He grabbed the young man’s dishonest hand, put it in his mouth and nibbled it a few times, “Say you want Gege to fuck you.”

Huang Dan shook his head, “I won’t say.”

He can’t utter. In the previous few worlds, the man had used various methods, but he never said it once. No matter what, it didn’t work, and just got stuck upto there.

For Huang Dan, making love means that both parties desire together, but the word “fuck” is different, it is one-sided, more about fun and ambiguity, and there is a strong vulgur sense in it.

Lu Fei was not going to let the young man go like this, “Saying or not?”

Huang Dan insisted, “Not saying.”

Lu Fei raised the corners of his lips and smiled. He smiled charmingly, but also in a evil way, “Okay, Ji Shiyu, I presume you won’t say no matter what, okay, then I won’t fuck.”

Huang Dan was threatened by the man, “Okay.”

Lu Fei’s temples were twitching, and he had an expression of waiting to watch a show.

Huang Dan asked San Ge to play an art film for him, no supporting role, just a protagonist. That person closed the curtains and danced alone, very elegantly, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, from lying to sitting, and then lying down, the dance movements changed greatly, step by step.

System said, “Xiao Di, look as you please, San Ge has a lot of them here.”

Huang Dan thanked him and began to watch and learn at the same time. He had a very strong learning ability and could imitate everything at a terrifying speed.

The scene in front of him was so stimulating that Lu Fei even forgot about the pain. He stared, cursed harshly for a while, and then directly pulled the young man with hazy eyes into his arms, restrained the hand that was just acting recklessly, and cursed fiercely, “Little thing, you don’t want to live. That place is mine, who let you touch it?”

Huang Dan swallowed his saliva, and when the man kissed him, just raised his head to cooperate, “It’s not yours.”

“Why not? Your whole body is mine, down to every hair.”

Lu Fei bit the young man’s lips and breathed heavily. He was furious and helpless, “Ji Ji, you refuse to say a single sentence, why are you so unbehaved?”

Huang Dan couldn’t obey those two words and always thought about unhealthy things. He didn’t bite the man back, but just swiped the tip of his tongue, “When I can say it, I will say it, and will tell you every day.”

Lu Fei’s chest shook, and a laugh burst out from his throat, “Say everyday? Can’t tell, but you have a big appetite. You have bad intentions and want to squeeze me dry. You are really bad.”

Huang Dan，“……”

Lu Fei left the young man’s lips without hesitation, lowered his head to bite his neck, and swept away the fine sweat that fell on it, “I don’t feel so much pain anymore after being messed by you like this. Go on, look at you so wet, almost turning into a puddle of water.”

Huang Dan knew what the man was referring to. He opened his eyes and told lies without changing his expression, “That’s sweat.”

Lu Fei’s face twitched and he said with a muffled smile, “Umm, sweat. Girls don’t sweat as much as you.”

Huang Dan said, “Really? You know so much, I don’t know at all.”

Listening to the young man’s tone, Lu Fei’s eyebrows almost start burning. He pushed the person away and stared at him with lowered eyes, “Ji Shiyu, you’re not even jealous at all, want to piss me off, right?”

Huang Dan almost melted, so he said patiently, “You merely said it without thinking through, it’s not true. I don’t need to be jealous.”

Lu Fei held up his forehead. Damn it, in previous life, he must have fallen into the hands of this guy, so in this life, unwaveringly eaten by him. He took a deep breath and said, “Then when will you be?”

Huang Dan frowned, “You want to give me a chance to be jealous? Lu Fei, I advise you not to do it. If I really get jealous, I won’t pay any attention to you.”

Lu Fei’s eyes changed, and he tightened his jaw in anger and roared, “Ignore me? You dare!”

He pushed the young man to the bed and bit on the sweaty back, his hot breath sprayed out, and his eyes were burning with desire, “Look how I fix you!”

Huang Dan didn’t waste much time. He asked San Ge to replace the art film with action film and teach the man what he had learned. In the end, the profits came back to him.

Lu Fei used the big one to bully the little one, skillfully.

After the two people indulged, what was left was a mess of more than two hours that passed by in a hurry.

Lu Fei looked at his phone and saw a text message sent by Zhang Yiming. The content was the place and time of the meal. He barely saw it, “Ji Ji, what are you looking at on the toilet again? Embroidery?”

Huang Dan in the bathroom was scrolling through his phone to read news, “I’m still not done.”

Lu Fei put on his watch and shouted to the bathroom, “Hurry up, Zhang Yiming is waiting for us in the hotel.”

When Huang Dan heard this, he immediately put away his phone and said, “Okay, I’ll be out right away.”

Lu Fei，“……”

After Huang Dan came out, he said to the man seriously, “Don’t call me Ji Ji, I don’t like it.”

Lu Fei buttoned up his shirt, “Then called you what? Honey? Dear? Wife? Ji baby? Little sweetheart?”

The corner of Huang Dan’s mouth twitched, “Don’t fuss, the name is already good.”

Lu Fei shook his head and said domineeringly, “I don’t think it’s good. Names can be called by everyone. I must have an exclusive one, it’s up to you.”

Huang Dan didn’t want to talk to him.

Lu Fei suddenly said, “It would be better to call Mrs. Lu then, right?”

Huang Dan’s eyelids twitched. The man had a premeditated plan, even if pretended to have a flash of inspiration, it couldn’t be concealed. He pursed his lips and said, “Called me by name outside, but I am your Mrs. Lu in private.”

Lu Fei’s breath was stagnant and he spoke in a hoarse voice, “I presumed you are not well behaved, and yet you’re so good that I want to lick you. I presumed you’re obedient, but sometimes you’re stubborn and insist on going against me.”

Huang Dan said internally that it was all because of tasks. If there was no task, he would be willing to be more obedient in front of this person.

But without the mission, can they meet again?

Huang Dan put away his troubled thoughts and thought of completing the task first. He didn’t like regrets, didn’t quite like it, let alone regretting things for the rest of his life.

Lu Fei watched the young man find his jeans and put them on. He walked to the back, his eyes fell on the scar, and he subconsciously asked, “Does it still hurt?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Fei had the character “川” between his eyebrows.

Huang Dan comforted him, “I just don’t feel any pain. I’ll take note, and you will also help me pay attention. It’ll be fine.”

Lu Fei hugged the young man’s waist from behind. He bent his back and pressed his chin on shoulder, and said with a low voice, “Don’t let it happen again, or my heart will really hurt.”

“Okay, I promise you.”

Huang Dan said after momentarily speechlessness, “Lu Fei, put your gun away, Zhang Ge is waiting for us to come over for a meal.”

Lu Fei turned a blind eye and threatened with a gun as before, “Kiss me before leaving.”

When the two of them arrived at their destination, the lights were already on.

Zhang Yiming, who was in the private room, saw the two people who came in through the door. The two glasses of water he drank were tumbling in his stomach. “What time is it? You guys really are shameless. Why not simply come over later for a midnight snack?”

Ignoring his flame-shooting eyes, Lu Fei pulled out a chair for the young man, “The situation is special, both are men, also it’s not like you don’t know.”

Zhang Yiming almost choked on his saliva, “One hour, I waited for a whole hour!”

Lu Fei sarcastically said, “Back then, when you were chasing the school beauty, you waited for her in the rain all afternoon, getting soaked like a drowned rat. Then you saw her and a boy from another school passing by you with an umbrella.”

Zhang Yiming’s face was dark, and he couldn’t bear to look back on the past. Whenever he looked back, he wanted to slap himself to death. He folded his legs and groaned, “Who hasn’t been a fool at some point?”

Lu Fei glanced at him sympathetically and contemptuously, as if to say, “I haven’t.”

Zhang Yiming refused to give face to his old friend, “You are now.”

Lu Fei glanced at him coldly.

Zhang Yiming suppressed a laugh. If the young man was not present, he would have thrown out the cries he heard on the phone and avenged the oppression he had suffered over the years.

In this round of competition, Lu Fei did not win. The word idiot is not enough to describe his current state. It only happens once in a lifetime, and it will never happen for the second person.

Huang Dan sat down and waited for the meal. He was hungry.

Zhang Yiming saw it. He carefully looked at the young man’s sitting posture. It must be difficult for the one who suffered it, “Xiao Ji, are you okay?”

Huang Dan replied absentmindedly, “I’m fine.”

Zhang Yiming thought that the young man was shy, but found that he was not. He was very calm, as if nothing was wrong. However, his old friend next to him didn’t look very well, “Lu Fei, why are your eyes so red? Are you still okay?”

Lu Fei’s expression darkened and he said coldly, “I’m fine, you should just worry about yourself, Officer Zhang.”

Zhang Yiming thought of the case, and he frowned, “Sun Siqing hasn’t been found yet, and I don’t know where he is hiding. I suspect that he is no longer in the city. My people have also visited his hometown, but there are no clues. ”

Huang Dan’s attention was focused on Zhang Yiming’s words.

Lu Fei curled his fingers and knocked at the table, “Zhang Yiming, you ask us to come out for a meal, or are you here to analyze the case?”

Zhang Yiming said with a smile, “Let’s chat while we eat. That’s right, Xiao Ji.”

Huang Dan nodded, “Mmm.”

Zhang Yiming shook his head, approached the young man and said, “Xiao Ji, you are still reasonable.”

Lu Fei pulled Zhang Yiming away, “As the captain of the criminal police team, shouldn’t you do a better job of keeping things confidential?”

“Some of it is kept secret, and some of it can be shared with others.”

Zhang Yiming clicked his tongue twice, “Lu Fei, your consciousness is not as high as that of your family’s kid. Citizens should unconditionally support the police’s investigation work anytime, anywhere.”

Lu Fei said, “Can you be transferred here without my support?”

Zhang Yiming rolled his eyes at him, “Don’t mention this to me, my liver hurts. After taking on these two cases, I haven’t slept well at all. If this continues and the case remains unsolved, my reputation will be ruined.”

The waiter brought the food and wine to the table, and Huang Dan lowered his head and started eating.

Zhang Yiming said jokingly, “Xiao Ji, has Lu Fei mistreated you? Or does he want you to lose weight? Slim down to a small waist?”

What is a small waist? Huang Dan temporarily threw it to the back of his mind, “No.”

Zhang Yiming looked at the young man’s bulging cheeks and thought it was quite funny, and wanted to poke or pinch them. It’s good to only think about it. If he really dared to do that, his jealous old friend would definitely fall out on the spot, and brotherhood of more than ten years would be in jeopardy.

The young man was still eating, but in fact, he was not eating fast, chewing slowly and couldn’t compare with wolfing down. Zhang Yiming was still having fun and wanted to tease him, but he always felt that the other person was different from his peers, “Then why are you acting like this, like a starving ghost reincarnated?”

Lu Fei glanced at Zhang Yiming, who was putting food in his mouth, “Why are you talking? I think you are the reincarnation of a starving ghost.”

Zhang Yiming’s mouthful of food got stuck in his throat and almost choked him to death. Damn it, that’s enough. What the hell is wrong with his brain, instead of drinking beer and eating fried chicken with a few DiXiong, he had to rush to eat dog food. It’s still a whole bucket of feeding, without considering whether the person eating it will suffer from indigestion.

There was an extra spoonful of shrimp in Huang Dan’s small bowl. He picked them up one by one and ate them, “Zhang Ge, I’m simply hungry.”

Zhang Yiming was just teasing. Hearing the serious tone of the young man, he was a little stunned for a moment, and had the misperception of bullying a good student, “Ohhh, hungry, ah! Then you eat more.”

Huang Dan put down his chopsticks when he was half full, “Zhang Ge, what did you ask from Old Zhang’s ex-wife?”

This matter does not need to be kept secret, Zhang Yiming briefly explained.

Huang Dan’s interest was a bit biased. He didn’t pay attention to whether Chen Li lied, but focused on the paintings on the wall, “What paintings are they?”

Zhang Yiming smiled awkwardly, “I saw it and then forgot about it, didn’t bear in mind.”

Huang Dan’s mouth twitched slightly, “Not even one?”

Zhang Yiming shakes his head. He is just the eldest master in his family, not that meticulous. Moreover, there were so many paintings, from where can it be described, “The colors were all bright and imaginative. I can’t remember anything else.”

Lu Fei gave his lover a piece of beef and said, “Eat this and don’t embarrass Officer Zhang. His brain is not good. If you keep asking, he will hide under the table in shame.”

Zhang Yiming，“……”

Huang Dan looked at the beef, “I’m full.”

Lu Fei frowned, “It’d be a wonder if you eat till full. Eat the beef quickly and replenish the blood.”

Huang Dan ate obediently.

Zhang Yiming’s eyes hurt from looking at them. He vowed never to come to have a meal with these two people alone next time. He was really looking for abuse. “Xiao Ji, why do you ask about painting?”

Huang Dan said, “Didn’t think it over.” He was telling the truth.

Zhang Yiming thought he would get something that he hadn’t heard in the conference room, but he never expected such a childish answer.

After swallowing the beef in his mouth, Huang Dan asked in a casual tone, “Zhang Ge, did you capture anything on the surveillance camera in that building?”

“There are too many.”

Zhang Yiming said while eating, “Some of them scratched their butts while going up the stairs, and then scratched their faces and picked their noses. Some even were kissing in the corridor with their clothes lifted up.”

Huang Dan said, “The neighbors don’t know that they are under surveillance?”

Zhang Yiming sighed, “Can they not know? It’s impossible to hide such a big thing. The neighbors all have loudspeakers on their mouths. If one person knows about it, not to mention the entire community, even the people in the opposite community will know about it.”

He continued in one breath, “Besides, there are some hidden spots, but the problem is that if installed on the hidden spot, it’s impossible to capture the movement in the corridor, so it’s not very useful.”

Huang Dan said, “Those people knew that they were under surveillance but didn’t pay attention?”

Zhang Yiming ate a large piece of fish and said, “Must be warned to pay attention, but then there is no movement at all. I think until the surveillance is not removed, the murderer will not make another move.”

Huang Dan said, “It may not happen even if it is withdrawn.”

If the person he wanted to kill has been killed, the murderer must be living peacefully. In order to avoid attracting attention, he will not move out yet. When the noise subsides, he will move to another place, as if nothing happened. How can it be possible to come out yet?

Zhang Yiming also thought about it. Now he has to use all his tricks, just in case something goes wrong and he captures something valuable. “My people said that Liu DaYe is crazy, talking nonsense, making no distinction between male and female. He mistook a boy for a girl, and even dragged a boy from a family to another house, saying that it was his home. The neighbors all have objections. If the old man continues to make trouble like this, they will drive him away. ”

Huang Dan said, “DaYe can recognize people sometimes. That day he told me to leave and not come back again. He was probably worried about me.”

Zhang Yiming smiled and said, “I guess you are overthinking it. Liu DaYe’s son took him to see a doctor. He is indeed delirious. It’s similar to Alzheimer’s disease but also different. There is no way he can come to his senses.”

Lu Fei listened for a long time, his brows were so furrowed that it could kill a fly, and he said impatiently, “Are you two still not done?”

Huang Dan said, “If you don’t want to hear it, just go and walk in the lounge.”

Lu Fei said nothing, both angry and aggrieved.

Zhang Yiming had just taken a sip of soup, and he spat it out regardless of his appearance. Fortunately, he turned his head in the flash of lightning and did not spat it on the table.

Wiping his mouth with a tissue, Zhang Yiming squatted down and wiped the soup on the ground, smacking his lips in disbelief, “Lu Fei, you also have this day .”

Lu Fei turned a deaf ear.

Huang Dan’s preface didn’t match the postscript, “Could there be two murderers?”

Zhang Yiming stopped wiping the floor suddenly and sat back, “What did you just say?”

Huang Dan repeated that sentence and added, “Zhang Ge, if the two murders were not committed by the same person, then our previous speculations were all wrong.”

Zhang Yiming immediately asked, “How to interpret those slippers?”

Huang Dan expressed the conjecture that had been accumulating in his mind for a long time, “I don’t rule out that the murderer was trying to trick us and deliberately provided us common ground between the two cases in order to mislead us.”

Zhang Yiming stood up in a hurry and hurriedly picked up the car keys on the table, “The bill has been settled. I have to go back to the office beforehand. You guys eat slowly and we will meet again next time.”

The light bulb on the table went out, and Lu Fei’s hands and feet were entangled, “Mrs. Lu, come with me to watch a movie.”

Huang Dan said, “I won’t go.”

It was the first time in Lu Fei’s life that he wanted to go to the cinema, but was rejected. His face was very ugly, “Why?”

Huang Dan said, “There are a lot of mosquitoes in the cinema, and it will hurt if you are bitten.”

Lu Fei was stunned for a moment, and his expression became cheerful, “But what should I do? I want to go on a date with you.”

Huang Dan said seriously, “Let’s make another appointment in the autumn. The weather will be good then, not too cold or too hot, and there will be far fewer mosquitoes. It’s also fine in winter, and you can see the snow scene.”

Lu Fei，“……”

So Mr. Lu’s first date was postponed until autumn.

Not long after returning to the hotel, Father Lu called and asked Lu Fei to come to his dinner party and asked him to hurry up.

Lu Fei said he had eaten.

Father Lu’s attitude was unyielding, “Eaten? You have to come even if you are full. Your Dad, your Jiu, and several of your Shu, Bo are all here. As a junior, do you have the nerve to let them wait?”

Lu Fei said casually, “Dad, I know what you’re up to, just an excuse to introduce a girl to me. Isn’t. Even if I were to go there, the scene will be embarrassing and you won’t be able to save your face.”

When his son exposed his little idea on the spot, Father Lu became furious and hung up the phone.

Lu Fei knew that there would be no further details about the introduction of the related target. He had to show up at the dinner, “I’m going out and will be back soon.”

He kissed the young man’s forehead and said, “Mrs. Lu, you taste so salty. Take a shower, lie down and watch TV. Don’t run around. If you dare to disobey, you will be spanked when I come back. Do you hear me?” ”

Huang Dan said he heard it and said, “Buy me a watermelon on your way back.”

Lu Fei put on his leather shoes and said, “Why eat watermelon at night. It has no other benefits except being diuretic. You’re also not afraid of the trouble of going to the toilet.”

He grabbed the person’s collar and kissed him again, “Do you want one with seeds or one without seeds?”

Huang Dan said seedless.

Lu Fei kissed the man until his mouth was swollen, and couldn’t help but nagged a few times, just saying about not allowed to go out and had to be good. He closed the door and went out, rubbing his forehead in the corridor. Although he was thirty years old, he was as verbose as an old man.

Huang Dan took a shower and lay down. He still had nine days left, and now he was counting his days.

Having done everything he could, Huang Dan couldn’t think of what else he could do. The murderer was hiding too deeply. He wanted the other party to make a mistake in judgment and expose himself, which felt like a dream.

“San Ge, I don’t want to fail.”

System, “Pray.”

Huang Dan said, “That’s useless.”

System, “How will you know whether it works or not if you don’t try it?”

A possibility flashed through Huang Dan’s mind, “San Ge, have you tried it?”

System said, “Uh-huh.”

Huang Dan asked, “San Ge, have you succeeded?”

System said, “Uh-huh.”

Uh-huh, does it mean success? Huang Dan frowned. Only a child would believe something like this. He would give it a try this time, “How do I pray? I don’t know how.”

System, “I’ll teach you.”

Huang Dan silently read a large paragraph of text in his mind and just memorized it, “San Ge, are you a Christian?”

System said, “No, it depends on my mood.”

Huang Dan，“……”

He didn’t talk to San Ge anymore, but sincerely prayed.

Not sure what happened, but after praying, Huang Dan didn’t feel at ease, on the contrary, felt that this task was even more worrisome.

Lu Fei came back an hour later, accompanied by his father.

Huang Dan received a call from Lu Fei in advance, so he stood in the living room neatly dressed.

Father Lu walked to the young man and stopped in front of him. He didn’t say anything, just stared at him, his eyes were particularly sharp, filled with incomprehensible anger.

Huang Dan felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, but he didn’t avoid it.

Father Lu looked away and left without looking back. He didn’t even close the door. He never said a word from the beginning to the end.

The footsteps in the corridor didn’t go far before they came back again.

Father Lu left and came back again. As soon as he entered the door, he raised his hand and waved at Lu Fei’s back. He did not slap him in the face either, and felt that doing so would affect the relationship between father and son and was very childish.

All of a sudden, Huang Dan was the one who was hit, he didn’t feel it, so it doesn’t matter. But if the man was hit who is extremely sensitive to pain, it will hurt to death.

Lu Fei was caught off guard and suddenly became furious, “Ji Shiyu, who asked you to block it for me?”

Huang Dan cast an “I’m fine” look.

How could Lu Fei not know the young man’s thoughts, it didn’t matter if he couldn’t feel the pain, didn’t even think about it, he didn’t care. Then what about him? How much does it hurt to just watch from the sidelines?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Regardless of his father’s presence, Lu Fei lifted up the T-shirt on the young man’s back to check his back. Sure enough, it was red.

At that moment, Lu Fei’s eyes turned red, and he yelled angrily, “You idiot!”

Huang Dan glanced at Lu Fei’s father with his peripheral vision, expression on that face was not ordinary ugly.

Father Lu was in a bad mood at the moment. He believed that the young man did this on purpose to get more love and affection from his son. He has been through this before and knows the calculations inside.

Thinking of this, Father Lu’s eyes became sharper, “I’m teaching my son a lesson, what are you doing here?”

Huang Dan said, “Bobo, Lu Fei is afraid of pain.”

Father Lu didn’t expect to hear this reply. He didn’t know whether to be angry or laugh. A 30 year old person, can’t even take a hit? He said, “Lu Fei, when did you become a porcelain doll?”

Huang Dan was stunned and looked at the man the next moment.

Lu Fei said nonchalantly, “Dad, there is someone who cares about your son. Shouldn’t you be happy?”

All of Father Lu’s words were stuck in his throat. He took a deep look at the young man standing next to his son, left without saying a word, and did not come back this time.

Lu Fei closed the door, “I told my parents before, but they didn’t believe me, and then I was too lazy to tell them.”

Huang Dan touched the man’s hair and said, “I believe it.”

Lu Fei curled his lips and said, “Speaking of it, it is also strange, others didn’t believe it, but you do.”

Huang Dan pursed his lips and said to himself, the pain you feel is what I have been enduring, so I can feel it.

With a cold feeling on his back, Huang Dan asked, “What’s wrong with your dad?”

Lu Fei gave the young man some medicine, “He still can’t believe that his son will be with a boy. It’ll be okay. He can recognize reality after seeing it a few more times. He’s not a child, so escaping is useless.”

Huang Dan said, “Aren’t you worried about your parents? What will you do if they keep refusing to accept us?”

Lu Fei made an understatement, “There is a saying, it is said that, there is no major event in life except death. If they don’t accept it, they will naturally find a way not to accept it. As for me, if the sky falls, I, who is a head taller than you, will hold it up for you. ”

Huang Dan said, “Oh, That’s right.”

Lu Fei pinched the young man’s arms and legs, picked him up and weighed him twice, “I feed you well every day, why are you still losing weight?”

Huang Dan said, “It’s easy to lose weight in summer.”

Lu Fei carried him to the bedroom, kissing him as he walked, and said in a muffled voice, “Autumn, come quickly, I’m still waiting to date Mrs. Lu.”

There are only twenty-four hours in a day. This is fixed. There will never be an extra hour or an hour less on any day. Whether time passes slowly or quickly depends on personal impression.

The police are working hard to investigate the case, but the pace of life of the neighbors remains unchanged. Housewives buy groceries, pick up and drop off their children as usual, the elderly still play with their children, and those who go to work continue to work hard.

Zhao Xiao worked overtime until nine o’clock in the evening, and it was almost ten o’clock when she came back. She wiped the house several times as usual, and went to the bathroom to take a shower tiredly.

The bath towel on the shelf was used yesterday, so Zhao Xiao threw it away and replaced it with a new one.

She changed it frequently because if she didn’t change it, she would feel that all the germs of her body in the bath towel would come back to her body if she used it again. She couldn’t bear to think about it.

Zhao Xiao suddenly froze in the glass partition. She turned off the shower, not sure if she heard it wrong just now, but she seemed to hear footsteps.

Hoping it’s because she is too tired and has auditory hallucinations.

But in less than three seconds, Zhao Xiao’s hope was dashed. This time, without the interference of the sound of water, she heard the footsteps clearly.

The footsteps became clearer and louder, heading towards the bathroom.

The footsteps were slightly heeled, like women’s shoes.

Zhao Xiao held her breath and widened her eyes. She stood motionless under the shower head. Her mind went blank and she couldn’t think of a way to protect herself.

Just then, footsteps stopped at the door of the bathroom.

Zhao Xiao’s nails dug into the flesh of her palms. Just when she thought she was in danger this time, she saw a note being shoved through the crack of the door by the owner of the footsteps outside. She covered her mouth with all her strength to stop the scream.

The footsteps disappeared, and Zhao Xiao squatted down against the tile wall unsteadily, her legs were weak, and her face was covered with cold sweat.

The doors and windows are closed, how can that person still come in? Is it still possible to live in her home?

Zhao Xiao grabbed her hair hard and dug her fingertips into her scalp. She wiped her face, and walked out of the cubicle trembling, walked to the door step by step, picked up the note on the ground and held it in her hand.

Just the touch of ordinary paper, why does it give people such a strong sense of fear? Zhao Xiao stared at the piece of paper for a while before spreading it out to look at it.

The line of words above fell into Zhao Xiao’s eyes, her hand shook, and the paper fell lightly at her feet.

Crooked handwriting seems to have been deliberately written by someone, but she can still tell that the content is a threat: You bitch, don’t think I don’t know what you want to do, get out of here immediately, or I will kill you!

“What do I want to do? What can I do?”

Zhao Xiao couldn’t figure out who she offended because she was at the company during the working day and at home on the holidays, regardless of other people’s affairs……

Must be a psychopath!

Zhao Xiao hurriedly called the police, saying that she was being threatened. The police accepted the case and suggested that she stay at a friend’s house for a while.

Without friends of that level, Zhao Xiao went to the hotel. She wanted to move, she had to move, and she couldn’t live there any longer.

The surveillance camera captured the scene of Zhao Xiao coming out in horror and stumbling down the way. Zhang Yiming told Huang Dan about this, and he subconsciously felt that the other party could help him.

This time Zhang Yiming guessed it right.

Huang Dan dug out the memory of the original owner and found the note at home. The content was similar to that of Zhao Xiao. It threatened him and told him to leave, otherwise he would be killed.

The original owner took the note as a prank, but someone broke into his home and beat him to death.

Huang Dan said, “I was injured that night, and it was probably the owner of the note who did it. Zhang Ge, if we find this person, the case could be solved.”

He suppressed his joy, finally seeing signs of completing the mission.

Zhang Yiming took the note to the bureau to compare it and found that it was written by the same person.

This development has nothing to do with Sun Siqing.

Zhang Yiming thought that the kid of Lu Fei’s family was right. There might be more than one murderer.

Two nights later, surveillance cameras captured a figure appearing in the corridor. Judging from the figure and clothing, it was Zhou Chunlian.

The angle was limited, and the sensor light in the corridor was not on, so the picture was not very clear. It only captured Zhou Chunlian walking around in the corridor and then disappeared from the surveillance camera.

Zhang Yiming transferred it to Huang Dan after receiving the video.

Huang Dan leaned in front of the screen. After watching it twice, he said, “Play it back again.”

Zhang Yiming followed the instructions, “How is it? Did you find anything? Xiao Ji, you have been in contact with her a lot, have you ever seen her come out so late at night?”

Lu Fei looked unkind. Their world was interrupted from time to time, so it’s strange that he could feel comfortable. “Are all the people in your police force freeloaders?”

Zhang Yiming patted him on the shoulder and said, “It’s the most capable people who do the most work. Xiao Ji has talent.”

Huang Dan has no talent. He is just more anxious about the progress of the case than others, “Something is wrong.”

Lu Fei and Zhang Yiming said in unison, “What?”

Huang Dan said, “I can’t explain the reason, just an intuition.”

He stretched out his hand and pointed at the blurry figure of the woman with her head lowered in the image and muttered to himself, “Zhou Jiejie, it’s past three in the morning, what are you doing out here……”