Chapter 94: My Missing Brother's Boyfriend
The atmosphere in the coffee shop was warm, and the sudden temperature difference when opening the door made people unconsciously feel refreshed.
Lin Zhi looked at the time on his watch and looked at the girl walking out of the building.
As the girl approached, Lin Zhi stared at the contents of her canvas bag.
It was a long and narrow black box, which was longer than the canvas bag and was exposed to the air.
This was something she didn't have before the class, and the shape of the box made it hard not to imagine what was inside, most likely a non-foldable scroll.
Is that the ancient painting?
No, it's impossible. If it was really her, why would she take it out so obviously? Wei Jinrong resigned half a month ago. If he returned here and put the thing here, the company would have found it long ago.
Was this a deliberate arrangement by Wei Jinrong? Hasn’t Wei Jinrong run away yet? Hasn’t the goods been delivered to others yet?
In just a few moments, several thoughts flashed through Lin Zhi's mind. Both he and the company knew that Wei Jinrong had escaped with the goods, and it was a carefully planned plan. However, the company did not admit this to the employer, because if so, the responsibility would be entirely on the company, and they would rather Wei Jinrong be killed.
Nie Jingwen stopped when she saw the black-haired young man standing at the bottom of the stairs and looking at her.
Lin Zhi said, "Can we talk more?"
Nie Jingwen didn't really want to talk much with this young man who claimed to be her teacher's boyfriend. After all, she never knew her teacher had a boyfriend, and her teacher had never shown any signs of having a lover. There was no trace of this person in his life at all. How could she believe him when he just showed up like that?
Furthermore, even if he really is the teacher’s boyfriend, he is not aware of the teacher’s affairs and the teacher has not told him, which means that this person is not important to the teacher at all.
But he was very handsome, and when he looked at her, she felt ashamed and afraid.
So when she heard the young man's voice, her response was somewhat impatient and irritable.
"I told you I don't know where the teacher has gone, and we haven't been in touch at all, so please stop asking me!"
Lin Zhi didn't care about her bad attitude. The more tense her attitude was, the more problems there were.
After all, he wasn't really here to stage a scene of the queen tearing someone apart. He curved his lips towards Nie Jingwen and said, "Didn't he tell you before he left that he was going to do something very important?"
Nie Jingwen said without hesitation: "No."
Lin Zhi sighed lightly. Nie Jingwen's reaction was so easy to guess. What was Wei Jinrong's intention?
"Then it seems that you are not important enough to him. He mentioned you in front of me. I thought... now it seems that you can't help much. I thought you would at least worry about his safety."
Lin Zhi made up lies at random, observing Nie Jingwen's reaction, and said ambiguous words that seemed to contain information but also seemed to contain nothing.
Nie Jingwen couldn't help but say, "Wait, what do you mean by that?"
"The teacher mentioned me to you. What did he mention about me?"
"What happened to the teacher?"
She asked the questions in rapid succession, her fingers nervously gripping the edge of the canvas bag.
"You know, he's missing."
Nie Jingwen felt relieved when she heard this, but her heart sank when she saw the young man's eyes that seemed to be able to see through her thoughts. She subconsciously wanted to explain, but she heard the young man speak again.
"I mean he's really missing, maybe in danger. No matter what he told you to make you think he's safe, that's all in the past. Otherwise I wouldn't have come back from abroad to look for him. Do you understand me? If you know anything, tell me. Maybe it can help him."
"As for what he said about you, do you really want to hear that?"
Lin Zhi was good at guiding people to react as he wanted. He had almost guessed the situation between Nie Jingwen and Wei Jinrong when they first met two hours ago. In short, no matter what stage their relationship was at, Nie Jingwen had never been able to become a legitimate lover. It was more like an underground relationship, or worse, it might still be an ambiguity or unrequited love.
Nie Jingwen knew nothing about Wei Jinrong's true identity. She liked him but was not worried about his disappearance, which explained what Wei Jinrong had said to her.
It was very obvious that Wei Jinrong wanted to use this girl, who couldn't hide anything after being questioned a few times in front of the BV company or the police, for something, not to mention that she was holding a box that was suspected to contain goods.
Nie Jingwen was a little confused, with the words of the young man in front of her and her teacher intertwined in her mind.
"I don't know anything. The teacher didn't tell me anything. I have to leave first."
She shook her head and walked away quickly.
She seemed to be worried about being caught up, so she almost jogged away.
Nie Jingwen walked forward with her head down, when suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder and fell to the ground.
The canvas bag in her hand was torn away, the paper and pen inside were scattered on the ground, and the black box was nowhere to be seen.
Nie Jingwen pressed her hurt shoulder with her pupils dilated, and in a trance she saw someone running past her.
The person who took the box was a man in a brown jacket. Lin Zhi could see clearly that the man had a clear purpose, so Lin Zhi immediately followed him.
The fact that the goods were targeted while being escorted abroad does not mean they are safe in China. Even if they are in the hands of the employer, there will probably be people who want to steal them.
More than one group of people are looking for Wei Jinrong's whereabouts, besides the company and the employer, there are other people too!
The moment Lin Zhi started chasing the person, he pressed the contact button on his body and sent a signal to the company.
The man in the jacket was very familiar with this street. Fortunately, Lin Zhi had 01 to help, otherwise he would have lost him soon.
Lin Zhi chased him into a large shopping mall. It happened to be Sunday and there were a lot of people. Lin Zhi chased him into the fire escape. Feeling the attack, he subconsciously dodged to the side.
The two men started fighting in the narrow stairwell. The original owner's physical fitness was not as good as the man in the jacket. Lin Zhi punched the man and his hand was numb. The other party was also a professional. Fortunately, Lin Zhi had formed some conditioned reflexes in controlling his body when he was a fox in his previous life. He dodged his fatal attack very flexibly and the blade between his fingers slashed towards the man.
The blade cut the man's clothes. He used the box to block Lin Zhi's attack and jumped downstairs.
Lin Zhi chased the man to the end of an alley, and the man climbed over the wall. When Lin Zhi jumped down, a man jumped down from the second-floor balcony and swung a knife at Lin Zhi's back.
Lin Zhi elbowed the man behind him and started fighting with him. The man in the jacket had already disappeared at the end of the road with the black box.
The people who stopped Lin Zhi did not bother with him for too long. After seeing their companions leave, they also left as soon as possible.
On the other hand, BV’s domestic headquarters immediately arranged for someone to pick up Lin Zhi after receiving the signal.
Lin Zhi's signal point had been moving quickly. When several people from the company rushed over, Lin Zhi's signal point had stopped for nearly a minute.
When they heard the footsteps, several people clenched their weapons. When they saw that it was Lin Zhi who walked out, the woman in the lead asked about the situation.
"What's going on?"
Lin Zhi frowned slightly and explained the whole story. The woman told someone to restrain Nie Jingwen into the headset and looked at Lin Zhi.
"You seem to be injured, do you want to go get some treatment?"
She smelled blood. Fortunately, she was in the country and it was daytime, so the robbers would not use prohibited guns, otherwise it would be hard to say whether Lin Zhi would be dead or alive.
Lin Zhi shook his head: "No, Xiaoshang, I will go with you."
After her things were stolen, Nie Jingwen stayed there for a while in a daze. Unable to wait for Lin Zhi to come back, she returned to school in a daze.
Today is Sunday and none of her three roommates have returned to the dormitory, so she didn't think much when the dormitory door was pushed open until she saw the face of the strange woman.
"Nie Jingwen, we have something to ask you. Please come with us."
The woman showed her ID. Nie Jingwen was a little confused. She put on her clothes and shoes and followed her out.
After entering the interrogation room of the police station, Nie Jingwen could not hide her nervousness at all, and she spoke incoherently and haltingly as she explained what happened.
"I don't know what's in the box. The teacher asked me to take the box away today and mail it to a place. He told me not to open it, so I didn't. The box was very light, as if it didn't contain anything."
"I have the address I sent it to in my phone. Before he resigned, the teacher told me that he was going to do something very important. I didn't need to ask any more questions, I just had to do what he said. He said that after he finished that thing, he would take me abroad and lead me to a good life."
"He told me it was okay if my stuff was taken, and I just had to tell the truth if someone asked me about it."
Outside the interrogation room, the head of BV in China stared at the girl inside with an expressionless face and said coldly: "I thought he was in the same group with the bugs that were pestering us. It seems that his employer is someone else."
When the goods reached Wei Jinrong's hands, besides the people from BV Company, there were also other people who were eyeing the goods. BV Company thought that Wei Jinrong had colluded with others to betray the company. Now it seems that the situation is extremely chaotic.
Lin Zhi did not respond. Everyone here could see Nie Jingwen's naivety. No matter whether Wei Jinrong successfully escaped or not, he would never come back to pick up Nie Jingwen. He just treated Nie Jingwen as a chess piece that had been arranged long ago and did not care about her life or death at all.
There was probably nothing in that box. The person who stole the box would come back and interrogate Nie Jingwen if he found out that he had been tricked.
Even if she was discovered by their people, Nie Jingwen could not escape the current result of being interrogated and detained.
The interrogating police revealed the truth to Nie Jingwen, telling her that Wei Jinrong had stolen something very important and was being wanted, and that other bad guys were also eyeing that thing and they might cause trouble for her later.
Nie Jingwen was obviously shocked and fell into confusion, muttering "impossible" and "how could this happen", and her emotions were somewhat out of control.
When it comes to love and country, Nie Jingwen naturally believes more in the latter, who she trusts. After taking a long time to calm down, she told him everything.
She met Wei Jinrong when she was giving him extra lessons a year ago and had a crush on him. Coincidentally, Wei Jinrong's attitude towards her was also somewhat ambiguous.
"The teacher didn't want to date me. He said he didn't like that kind of relationship. He treated me very well and gave me a lot of money to spend. Sometimes I felt like I was his mistress, but more often I told myself that he liked me but I just didn't like being bound by others."
"He is very busy and we don't always see each other. This time he said that as long as he finishes that thing, he will be with me. He also told me not to worry and not to believe anyone who comes to ask him if he is missing or in trouble."
"He asked me to choose a teacher as usual, so instead of refunding my money, I transferred his class to another teacher's class, and today, the last class, I took the box he had put in a locker and mailed it to a place."
"We haven't had any contact since he resigned. I don't know anything else. Police officer, I really didn't know he was the kind of person who would do such a thing. I really didn't know."
Nie Jingwen was about to cry. She suddenly thought of something and said immediately, "You can go ask a man. I don't know his name. He said he was the teacher's boyfriend. He came to see me today. I don't know if he was real, but he seemed to know what the teacher was going to do. He also chased after the person who took the box. You can go investigate him."
The police used rhetoric to grasp some points and repeatedly asked to confirm the authenticity of Nie Jingwen's words. As for the address provided by Nie Jingwen, someone had already been there.
When Nie Jingwen was taken out of the interrogation room, she saw Lin Zhi outside and said with wide eyes, "It's him!"
However, when they saw that the people around them did not react, even the most dull-witted person would understand the situation.
As an ordinary person involved, Nie Jingwen looked distressed.
Which of these people's words is true?
Lin Zhi asked, "Have you ever bought apples for Wei Jinrong?"
Nie Jingwen shook her head and said, "The teacher doesn't eat apples very often, and I've never bought him any."
Lin Zhi didn't ask any more questions. He didn't care much about the whereabouts of the painting, but he did care whether Wei Jinrong was dead or not.
This determines whether he will take the route of a widow or a desperate housewife.
As the sky darkened, the street lights came on.
Jing Xun looked at the time and frequently glanced towards the gate.
At about nine o'clock, the doorbell rang.
Jing Xun walked to the door in a hurry, then slowed down and opened the door.
The young man, who had been out all day, looked a little tired and greeted him softly.
Jing Xun asked in a low voice: "Any news?"
Lin Zhi shook his head, obviously very depressed.
"I want to use the bathroom to take a shower first."
Jing Xun nodded and said, "In my room."
The washroom in the living room is just a public toilet and there are no bathroom facilities inside.
"Thank you. Sorry for the trouble. I'm afraid I'll have to bother you all night. I'll move out tomorrow."
"It's okay, I can help you clean up the guest room."
Between rejection and acceptance, Jing Xun chose the latter.
For Jingxun, painting is the most important thing in life, and he won't look away from anything that could potentially help him create a perfect painting.
Seeing the surprise on Lin Zhi's face, Jing Xun explained stiffly: "After all, it's my brother's business, I will help to find out."
"Sorry for disturbing you. I'll try not to disturb you. I know artists don't like to be disturbed when they are creating. You can ignore me."
My brother's lover was overly polite, and even though it was understandable that he was staying with me, he still looked a little apologetic.
How could he know that from the moment he stepped into the villa, every operating camera inside was there to spy on him.
Jing Xun did not answer and watched the young man take the clothes and go to the bedroom.
The moment he passed by him, Jing Xun smelled a very faint smell of blood.
Having been immersed in this smell for a long time, he is particularly sensitive to it.
So when Lin Zhi walked into his room, he immediately looked at the surveillance screen.
But he realized later that he didn't load anything in the bathroom.
While hesitating whether to pretend, the young man in the picture unbuttoned his coat outside the bathroom and stopped in front of the dressing mirror in the room.
The black sweater was taken off, revealing vertical bloodstains on the fair back.
The young man's beautiful face no longer had the softness and tiredness that it had in front of his uncle. He frowned slightly, as if he was bothered by this trouble.
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