Chapter 29 Chapter 29 The Third Drawing
When Pei Qing and Xu An returned home, they found that Li Muxu had already arrived.
Pei Qing was surprised: "Brother, you came back so early today?"
Li Muxu: "There will be heavy rain at night, there is no need to stay in the company."
He glanced at Pei Qing and Xu An and found that half of their clothes were wet.
Li Muxu asked them to take a bath first.
"Don't catch a cold."
Xu An: "It's okay, just a little rain..."
Li Muxu stared at him, and Xu An had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, I'll go upstairs and take a shower."
After taking a shower, Pei Qing and Xu An went downstairs to have dinner.
While eating, Li Muxu asked the two about the progress of their investigation.
Pei Qing: "We haven't found Xu Qianyu yet. I don't know where she is hiding."
Xu An: "I just asked Jia Yang, Zhuo Pancai and her grandmother haven't bought any big items recently."
Pei Qing was suspicious: "I heard from Jia Yang that Xu Qianyu has not contacted her classmates or teachers. She must have met someone online."
But once you enter the game, it is like entering a deep ocean, with all kinds of big and small accounts emerging one after another, making it much more difficult to find Xu Qianyu.
Xu An: "In the final analysis, Xu Qianyu ran away from home because her family was under too much pressure and her parents abused her. We still need to find out where her parents took Xu Qianyu during the six months they disappeared."
Pei Qing: "I'm just worried that her parents won't cooperate, and this happened 13 years ago, the year before last."
Xu An: "I asked Jia Yang to find a solution. This is his case, not mine. How can he have the nerve to let me do all the work and not pay me?"
Pei Qing smiled and said, "Maybe people will think you are looking for a job."
There was another "boom", the sound of rain outside the window continued, and the smile on Pei Qing's face stopped abruptly.
She took out her tablet again.
Li Muxu: "Eat well."
Pei Qing: "I'll just take a look."
Such heavy rain corresponds to the painting in the draft.
Li Muxu: "The weather forecast says it will rain for the next week. You are starting to worry today. What will you do in the next few days?"
Pei Qing: "Xu Qianyu is not yet an adult."
Xu An: "It's almost time. This little girl is really brave. She didn't ask classmates or teachers for help, but asked people she knew in the game for help. She's not afraid of being sold out."
Pei Qing: "It shows that the police's anti-fraud propaganda has not been done well."
Xu An: "You've been selected. Please be reasonable. There are so many students, and they are still in their rebellious period. How can we make them all obedient? How can we expect us to do what our parents can't do?"
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, Li Muxu knocked on the table and said, "Let's eat."
Pei Qing and Xu An looked at each other and lowered their heads to eat.
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After dinner, it was already seven o'clock in the evening.
Pei Qing sat on the balcony, watching the rain falling outside.
The curtains rustled in the wind.
Amid the sounds of wind and rain, Pei Qing looked at the dark sky in the distance and opened a new canvas.
Try drawing.
Pei Qing said to himself, maybe he could draw something.
The rainstorm started suddenly, then gradually became lighter, stopped for more than ten minutes, and then started pouring down again.
The sky was still pitch black.
There was only a little light on Pei Qing's balcony, which was reflected by her tablet.
When she first started painting, the tip of her pen was stiff, but as the rain got heavier, the pen in her hand suddenly became fluent and she soon sketched out a new painting.
“Boom—”
Pei Qing came to his senses, looked at his freshly finished drawing, hurried out of the bedroom and knocked on Xu An's bedroom door.
A minute later, Xu An and Pei Qing looked at the drawing together.
The drawing is very colorful and takes place indoors, with a group of masked men and women raising their wine glasses under colorful lights.
A waiter in a white shirt was walking through the crowd carrying cups and plates. He was also the only person in the picture who was not wearing a mask.
Xu An: "Bar? What is this?"
Pei Qing: "Masquerade?"
Xu An: "Can we hold a masquerade in this kind of horrible weather?"
Pei Qing: "It's not outdoors, can't an indoor dance party be set up casually?"
Xu An: "Xu Qianyu is also good at choosing places. This mask covers all her facial features. Who can recognize her? Who among these people is Xu Qianyu?"
Pei Qing couldn't recognize her, and she felt more and more that Xu Qianyu did it on purpose.
"She must have carefully selected this place. She ran away from home again and again, repeatedly testing the waters. What on earth does she want to do?"
The two studied the drawing for a while, then opened their phones and searched for "masquerade" on various platforms.
Finally Pei Qing found one.
Xu An leaned over to take a look.
"See you at the wine shop. The event starts at 7pm on August 8th. Isn't that tonight? Hurry up, it's already started. It's already 8 o'clock!"
He hurried downstairs with Pei Qing. Li Muxu saw that he was impatient and reminded him, "Take your umbrella with you."
Pei Qing picked up two umbrellas hanging behind the door and was pulled out by Xu An.
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The tavern is located at the end of an alley, and there is a row of roses planted along the side of the alley, which is in line with the event tonight.
After Xu An took Pei Qing to the tavern, the waiter at the door asked them to show their invitation letter.
What the hell is that?
When Pei Qing saw this event, the application had already stopped, and she had no invitation letter at all!
Xu An took out a wad of cash from his wallet and stuffed it into the waiter's arms. While the waiter was stunned, he pulled Pei Qing in.
The two of them came out in a hurry, without masks, and looked out of place at the party.
Everyone at the party looked at them.
In an instant, masks of various shapes appeared towards the two of them. Pei Qing could only force a smile and tugged at Xu An a few times.
A waiter came over and asked, "What do you two need?"
He also pointed to the counter and said: "If you are not satisfied with the mask you brought with you, you can also go to the counter to buy one. We also have masks of different shapes."
Pei Qing pulled Xu An to the counter. She didn't want to be treated like a monkey and watched by others.
She picked two fox masks at random.
Xu An was very dissatisfied: "It's uncomfortable to have this thing stuck on my face."
Pei Qing whispered, "You are suspended from work now. If you don't stay at home and go out to play, someone might take a video of you and upload it online. Then you will just have to stay at home and be a rich second generation from now on!"
Xu An pulled off the mask and put it on.
Pei Qing picked out two identical masks. After putting them on, she followed Xu An into the crowd.
After putting on the mask, Xu An called the waiter over and asked, "Have you seen this woman tonight?"
He showed the waiter Xu Qianyu's photo.
The waiter put on a standard smile and said, "All guests who came tonight wore masks."
Oh, then they are the only ones who came in without masks.
Xu An changed his approach: "Are there any out-of-towners coming to your event? I have a friend who said he would come over. He might bring a suitcase, blue, and this tall."
He gestured.
The waiter raised his eyelids, a gesture of reminiscence.
Xu An stuffed cash into his pocket.
"Think about it carefully."
The waiter pressed his pocket and said to Xu An, "Yes, there is one person, from out of town. He booked a private room inside and stored his suitcase."
Pei Qing asked: "Did he bring any friends?"
Waiter: "No, he came alone."
Xu An: "Where is he?"
The waiter pointed in a direction: "201, the one at the end."
Xu An and Pei Qing walked over immediately.
The door of the box was closed. Xu An knocked on the door several times, but no one came to open it.
Pei Qing stood aside, Xu An took a step back, then kicked the door open.
With a "bang", the door opened.
Xu An walked into the box. The box was not big and the TV was still on. A man looked at Xu An in surprise as he walked towards him.
When Pei Qing walked in, he immediately saw the blue suitcase next to the coffee table.
The suitcase is clean, the only difference from the drawing, but the style and shape are the same.
There is no blood.
She walked over and picked up the suitcase. It was light, very light.
The man watched their series of actions in amazement.
"Who are you? How dare you barge into my box? I paid for it!"
He was holding a palm-sized mirror in his hand, and there was a pair of glasses on the coffee table.
Pei Qing ignored him and opened the suitcase, which was empty.
There was nothing, and Xu Qianyu was certainly not there.
The mask on Xu An's face made him uncomfortable. It must be a crudely made mask that he bought wholesale from somewhere.
He took off his mask, pulled the man over, and asked, "Where's Xu Qianyu?"
The man's eyes flickered.
Pei Qing heard him say: "Who is Xu Qianyu? I don't know her. How dare you rummage through her things!"
Pei Qing turned the tables and said, "Your suitcase is empty. Why would you bring a suitcase to a bar?"
Man: "Who are you? I'm happy to pull a suitcase, it's none of your business!"
He tried hard to break free from Xu An's shackles, but Xu An was too strong, so he could only howl: "Waiter! Waiter! Is there anyone who can take care of this? I paid for it, and you let people break into the box! I want to complain!"
He has put all his energy into this.
A waiter was called over and seeing a customer holding another customer and refusing to let go, he rushed forward to break up the fight.
"Everyone, if you have something to say, please talk it over nicely. Don't use violence. Harmony brings wealth."
He persuaded for a long time before Xu An let go of his hand.
Xu An patted the man in front of him on the forehead again and showed him the photo of Xu Qianyu.
"Do you know him?"
The man didn't even look at the photo, he just covered his eyes.
"Oh, my eyes hurt, they hurt, they hurt!"
Xu An couldn't stand him: "You are a grown man——"
Pei Qing pulled him.
Xu An wondered: "What?"
Pei Qing: "Let him go. His contact lens is stuck in his eye and he was just taking it off."
Xu An: “???”
Pei Qing: "I can tell you've never worn invisibility."
Xu An: "I'm not nearsighted. Have you ever worn it? You're not nearsighted either."
Pei Qing: "I have worn cosmetic contact lenses."
She sat next to the man and asked him to let go.
The man covered his eyes and did not move.
It's really like trying to cover up something by trying to cover it up.
Pei Qing asked kindly, "Let me help you remove the invisibility."
The man didn't move.
Pei Qing: "You didn't take it out just now? Is this your first time wearing it?"
The man doesn't speak.
Pei Qing pulled his hand down, asked him to open his eyes wide, pulled open his eyelids, and used a small stick soaked in care solution on the coffee table to lightly press it in his eyes, and a piece of invisible mask was removed.
The man didn't feel any pain and he was a little confused.
Pei Qing: "Turn around, the other side."
Under her command, the man sat sideways, and the other piece of invisibility was taken off.
Pei Qing soaked his contact lenses in the care solution and asked, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
The man shook his head and looked at her hesitantly.
"Thank you."
Pei Qing began to ask: "Is this your first time wearing one?"
The man nodded.
Pei Qing: "Who told you to wear invisible ones? I didn't even teach you."
Man: “I bought it myself!”
Okay, I was pretty cautious, but my attempt to get the truth failed.
Xu An showed him Xu Qianyu's photo again.
The man slowly put on his framed glasses, and after looking at it, he shook his head and said he didn't recognize it.
Xu An didn't believe a word he said.
Xu An looked at the pile of Coke and Sprite on the coffee table. There was not even any fruit beer. Who would come to the bar to drink these? Why would a good kid come to the bar?
Xu An waved to the waiter: "How can we not drink when we come to the bar? Come, give him some wine."
The man shook his head anxiously: "I don't drink."
Xu An: "Why come to the bar if you don't want to drink? Where's your ID? You're an adult, right? You can drink if you're an adult!"
Man: “I—”
Xu An: "What are you afraid of? Don't you know me?"
The man swallowed and said, "Why should I know you?"
Xu An: "Oh, it's okay if you don't know me. I'll know you after a few drinks."
Pei Qing wanted to laugh when he saw it, but Xu Qianyu hadn't found it yet. The blue suitcase was clean and quietly lying next to the coffee table. Everything was different from the drawing.
Pei Qing didn't know whether it was her and Xu An's interference that affected the suitcase or whether Xu Qianyu was not in the suitcase in the first place.
Then where is she?
What is the relationship between this man and Xu Qianyu? To be honest, Pei Qing felt that this man was not very flexible. If he entered the interrogation room, Xu An would make him tell him how old he was when he wet the bed.
Where is Xu Qianyu now?
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