Tang Yourong and Jiang Ya met when they were in college, lived in the same dormitory, and had a very good relationship. The two of them went in and out together like conjoined twins. Although they were separated after graduation, they never lost contact with each other. Xu Man's internship was arranged by Tang Yourong and Jiang Ya. Although she ended up joining the detachment by mistake and not the municipal bureau, the two of them did not develop a rift because of this. Instead, they contacted each other more diligently.
It was the same this time. As soon as Xu Man hung up the phone, Tang Yourong called Jiang Ya's cell phone number and told her that her daughter had been left in the detachment.
It was originally just an ordinary chat between best friends, mixed with some selfish thoughts on Tang Yourong's part. She thought that since the other party knew that her daughter stayed in the detachment, she would definitely ask her son to take good care of her, so that her daughter's work in the detachment would be smoother in the future. Unexpectedly, Jiang Ya misunderstood her and thought that she was expressing dissatisfaction with this, so she called Qin Shen directly.
"Son, what's wrong with you? Didn't mom tell you to send the little girl to the city bureau? Why are you so addicted to keeping her and leaving her in the detachment?"
Qin Shen finally finished a busy day at work and was about to go to bed when he was woken up by a phone call and scolded. He felt confused: "What do you mean by being addicted to keeping people? Mom, what are you talking about?"
"You're still pretending. Let me ask you, is that little girl named Xu Man still staying with you?"
"..." He was silent for two seconds, "You called me in the middle of the night just to ask me this?"
Jiang Ya: "Don't change the subject. Just tell me if she is with you."
"Yes. Where else could she be if not with me?"
"Nonsense, of course it's the Municipal Bureau. Didn't Mom tell you before that you got it wrong? She's not here to do criminal investigation, she's going to the Municipal Bureau. Why can't you understand?"
Qin Shen was about to be confused by her: "No, she is staying in the detachment now and will not go to the Municipal Bureau."
"Mom is here to tell you about this." Jiang Ya's momentum did not diminish at all. "Are you short of manpower? Why is a little girl being kept as a conscript? Her mother told me that it's been almost a month and you still haven't brought her daughter to the city bureau. Are you so busy that you can't even spare the time to handle the transfer procedures?"
The more Qin Shen listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He frowned, "How did it involve conscription? I discussed with her about her staying in the detachment. What's wrong with that?"
"…Have you discussed this?"
He hummed, put his left hand into his hair, pulled back his bangs, closed his eyes and leaned against the pillow to answer: "I told her at the beginning to stay in the detachment for a few days to see how things went. If she felt it was okay, she could stay. If not, she could go to the Municipal Bureau. Later, she thought that criminal investigation was not a bad job, so she stayed. It was completely voluntary, and there was no element of coercion at all."
After explaining, I asked her, "Mom, where did you hear this?"
The voice on the other end of the phone was quiet for a moment, and when it spoke again, it was obviously less powerful than before: "Didn't I mention this when I was chatting with her mother just now... Strange, if she volunteered, why did her mother complain to me? Are you sure she volunteered?"
Qin Shen was helpless: "Mom, you should at least have some confidence in your son. Do I think he is the kind of bandit who would force a girl to stay in the team? Even if I am short of people, I will not be unethical. Besides, she decided to stay more than half a month ago. If she is dissatisfied, why would she wait until now to say it? You must have misunderstood something."
"Maybe." Jiang Ya muttered, her voice unclear, no longer as confident as before, "But you too, the Criminal Investigation Brigade has a lot of work to do, and they have to go to the scene from time to time. Why do you want a little girl to stay here? In my opinion, it's better to transfer her to the Municipal Bureau. Otherwise, if she gets injured during a mission in the future, I won't be able to explain to her parents."
Qin Shen clicked his tongue and said, "How can this be possible? She is doing well here, and if I suddenly transfer her to the Municipal Bureau, what will she think? She will definitely think that I don't want her because she is not doing a good job."
"It's all your fault." It would have been fine if he hadn't said this. As soon as he said this, Jiang Ya got angry again. "If you had listened to your mother's words and taken them to heart, the girl would have settled down in the Municipal Bureau a long time ago, and there wouldn't be so many troubles now. At the beginning, her mother told me that her daughter wanted to work in administrative logistics and didn't want to do criminal investigation. She emphasized this to me, and I promised her everything. In the end, you messed up everything for me. It's not my fault that I misunderstood you today. It's your fault that you have a criminal record."
Qin Shen: “…”
"Honestly," Jiang Ya asked him, "you really don't want to consider transferring her to the Municipal Bureau? After all, she's a young girl who hasn't graduated yet. She might stay with you because of a momentary impulse, and regret it after a few days when the enthusiasm fades. But she's too embarrassed to tell you, so she can only wait like this. Why don't you go and ask her what she thinks tomorrow? Maybe she's also worried about how to ask you to transfer her to the Municipal Bureau."
"No." Qin Shen refused.
"Why is it not possible?" Jiang Ya wondered, "Mom just asked you to ask, I didn't ask you to chase them away directly."
He lowered his head and smiled in the dim room: "If she is transferred away, where can I find a wife for you?"
It took the person on the other end of the phone two seconds to react: "...What did you say?"
Qin Shen just smiled and said nothing.
Jiang Ya didn't insist on him confirming it again. She heard what was said clearly, but the shock was too great and she couldn't believe it for a moment. Her son has a wide range of interests, from solving crimes to military affairs to model airplanes, he can talk to you about anything, and he sounds very knowledgeable about it, but the only thing he has no interest in is love. Other mothers worry that their son will fall in love too early in high school, but she is worried that her son will not have a partner after graduation and will not know where to get married. Now, when she suddenly heard such a voice, she was stunned.
"You...are attracted to that girl?" she asked tentatively on the other end of the phone.
"Yeah." Qin Shen replied with a smile, "You won't be dissatisfied, will you, Mom?"
"How could that be?" Jiang Ya finally understood, and said with suppressed excitement, "Mom is so happy! You don't know, when the mother came to me to introduce a job to her daughter, when she heard that she was two years younger than you and was in the same school and major as you, Mom became interested and asked for her photo. She was so beautiful, and Mom fell in love with her at first sight. At that time, I thought, it would be great if such a fairy-like girl could be Mom's daughter-in-law. Unfortunately, you have never been interested in this aspect. Mom was afraid of arousing your disgust, so she held back and didn't say anything, but she still had some expectations in her heart, hoping that the two of you could get together on your own."
She became more and more excited as she spoke, her voice distorted. "I didn't expect that my mother would actually be looking forward to it. How is it, does the girl have a good impression of you? Do you need your mother to help you with some support?"
"Don't." Qin Shen hurriedly stopped him, "I can do the chasing girls myself. There's no point asking my parents for help with this kind of thing."
"So how's your pursuit going? Have you gotten any results?"
“…I guess so.”
"What do you mean by considered? Is it true or not? Mom is telling you, this kind of thing cannot..."
That night, Qin Shen finally witnessed the terrible power of "Mom's questioning". Questions were thrown out one after another, and he didn't know which one to answer. He was not satisfied if he answered, and he was even more dissatisfied if he didn't answer. In the end, he had no choice but to make a one-size-fits-all decision: "Okay, Mom, don't ask anymore. There are only two results in the end, success or failure. You can't get an answer by asking me now, because I don't know either."
His call finally calmed Jiang Ya down a bit. "Okay, I won't ask you any more questions. But if you feel any difficulty or can't make up your mind, just tell me and I'll work with you to find a solution. The girl is pretty and clean, has good grades and is polite. Her mother and I have known each other for a long time. How great! You can't miss her."
"Okay, I'll remember that." Qin Shen said perfunctorily. In fact, he didn't even know what Jiang Ya said. It was not his fault. Jiang Ya kept chattering in his ear for more than ten minutes. At first, he could barely listen carefully, but later he just didn't have the patience. "That's it. It's getting late. I have to work tomorrow. I'll hang up first."
…
Xu Man knew nothing about the midnight phone call from the mother and son of the Qin family. She woke up after a sweet sleep. Most of her physical fatigue had disappeared and her spirit had returned to a good state. She washed and dressed on time, went to the balcony and saw the familiar black SUV parked downstairs.
Over the past half month, Qin Shen basically came to her community every day to pick her up for work. The few times he didn't come was because he was really busy and couldn't get away. It was even more common for him to send her home at night. At this point, if she said she was still not sure that he had a good impression of her, she would be completely deceiving herself.
But the problem was that Qin Shen only acted but never spoke, and he never explained why he did this. Once she mustered up the courage to ask him, but he asked her a question in return to change the subject. So she understood his attitude and stopped asking questions, letting the confusion linger in her heart and keeping her from expressing it.
It's not that I haven't been discouraged, wondering what he really meant and when this situation would end. Fortunately, although Qin Shen was ambiguous towards her, he was only like this towards her and kept a certain distance from other women. Especially Guan Shuiyun. When faced with the latter's proactive approach, he always responded briefly except for business matters. Unlike when he was with her, he would not take the initiative to bring up topics and never let the atmosphere cool down.
It was precisely because of this that Xu Man felt a little relieved and silently accepted his kindness towards her. Otherwise, she would have ignored him and would have distanced herself from him as much as possible.
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