The next day, April 14, the weather was gloomy, a stark contrast to the bright sunshine of the previous day.
Li Nan yawned and woke up from her deep sleep.
I reached for my phone, which I usually kept on my bedside table, but it was empty.
While exploring left and right, he accidentally used too much force and rolled onto the ground.
"ah!"
The pain brought Li Nan back to her senses. When she opened her eyes, she realized that she wasn't in bed at all; she was lying on the living room floor.
"Oh, so I spent another night on the sofa!"
Li Nan then remembered the embarrassing situation she had caused last night by getting drunk after just two glasses of red wine. Sigh, the original sin of having such a low alcohol tolerance.
Hearing the commotion in the living room, Qin Wen, still in her pajamas, slowly walked out of the bedroom and joked, "Our high alcohol tolerance makes us sober up early!"
"Waaah, honey, please don't make me drink anymore..."
"Look at you, such a spineless coward, you can't even outdrink your wife!"
"Honey, I was wrong. I'll never drink again!"
Qin Wen took a glass of warm water and placed it in front of Li Nan. "Drink, why aren't you drinking? Your alcohol tolerance is built through drinking. If you can't even finish one glass, how will you complete your tasks at the dinner table in the future!"
Li Nan took the water glass and said, looking aggrieved, "Wife, I know!"
After Li Nan finished getting ready and washing up, it was already past eight o'clock. Qin Wen, unusually, went downstairs to buy breakfast and came back.
Li Nan had just woken up from a hangover and didn't dare eat the greasy fried dough sticks, only drinking half a bowl of congee.
"By the way, honey, did you find anything upstairs yesterday?"
Qin Wen rolled her eyes at Li Nan as usual, "Li idiot, all you ever think about is work!"
"I can still eat!" Liu Nan slurped up another mouthful of porridge.
“Yesterday, Peng Yuanyuan only showed me the bedroom and studio on the second floor. Apart from daily necessities, there were only Peng Yuanyuan’s paintings.”
Qin Wen recalled, "Peng Yuanyuan's drawings are indeed quite good, no wonder her comics are so popular!"
Women, are these the key points?
Remembering the fish tank on the first-floor balcony, Li Nan asked, "By the way, have you seen any of Peng Yuanyuan's fish on the second floor?"
“There’s no fish tank. The second floor is almost entirely paintings, there are no fish…” Li Nan’s question reminded Peng Yuanyuan of the excuse she used to leave last week.
"By the way, she doesn't seem to keep fish, so why did she say she was coming back to feed them?"
Li Nan took out her phone, showed Qin Wen the photos from yesterday, and handed them to her. Qin Wen reacted quickly and immediately understood, "This fish tank must have originally housed blue-striped pufferfish! When she heard we were going to her house, she disposed of the fish, but the tank was too big for her to handle!"
Qin Wen was indeed clever; she deduced the truth in a short time.
Li Nan gave Qin Wen a thumbs up and said, "Honey, you're really underutilized in the Trace Evidence Department. How about I, the specialist, do it for you?"
"Get lost! You're nowhere near as cute as a cadaver!"
"Honey, I'm still eating..."
After having breakfast, and seeing that it was almost time, Li Nan dialed Gao Siming's number.
"Li the Fool, you're awake so early?"
As soon as the call connected, Gao Siming delivered another blow to Li Nan.
"Brother, can we just eat and not drink from now on?"
"Sure, just remember to do the dishes if you don't drink!"
"My wife was right, I need to start working on my alcohol tolerance!"
"Good idea! Remember to prepare plenty of peanuts and glucose!"
"Why?"
"Peanuts with alcohol, glucose to the rescue!"
The two burst into laughter, and Gao Siming got back to the main topic, "What did you discover yesterday?"
Li Nan told Gao Siming about her discussion with Qin Wen and also sent him a few photos.
"I don't need to look at the photos; I saw this empty fish tank yesterday too!"
Gao Siming paused for a moment, then continued, "Didn't you find anything else?"
Li Nan smiled wryly, "Brother, I don't have Sherlock Holmes' ability to discover the truth just by taking a stroll around!"
Gao Siming deliberately asked, "I suddenly had a thought: could Peng Yuanyuan own more than just this one house?"
Li Nan hadn't really thought about this. In his view, Peng Yuanyuan was already living in an eight-million-dollar mansion. She was just a comic artist, so she probably wouldn't have any other houses.
Didn't their family used to live with you in the government compound?
Gao Siming deliberately pointed, and Li Nan suddenly realized, "Yes, the house Peng Yuanyuan is living in now was actually bought by her parents many years ago."
Her parents were a businessman and an education official, respectively, plus her grandfather was a politician, so her family must have been quite wealthy.
As for Peng Yuanyuan herself, she doesn't even know how much additional investment she made to achieve the so-called explosive popularity of her comics.
Li Nan had read the comic and knew about this thing; it was probably something Peng Yuanyuan deliberately created to annoy Gao Siming.
People who are both rich and educated have truly unique thought processes!
"Yes, Brother Gao's reminder was timely. I'll go check with the Anding Division in a bit!"
Gao Siming didn't forget to remind her further, "I remember Peng Yuanyuan seems to have inherited several companies, don't forget to check them as well."
"Absolutely, Brother Gao, leave it to me!"
After hanging up the phone, Li Nan explained the situation to Qin Wen. She had originally planned to go directly to the Anding Division to check the information, but Qin Wen dealt her another blow.
"Li the Fool, it's Sunday today, are the technical department and the archives department closed?"
"Oh right, look at my memory!" Li Nan chuckled, glanced at the time, and said to Qin Wen with a wronged expression, "Honey, it's still early, can we ask to go back to the room for a nap?"
"Go take a shower first, you reek of alcohol, you stink!"
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