Chapter 273 The First Bite
Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang's seats were by the window. One seat over there sat a young man in a suit and tie. In terms of temperament, he was more suitable for the environment of a Western restaurant than Zhou Yi.
But he was obviously waiting for someone. There was a glass of water and an open book on the table. He looked out the window and at his watch from time to time.
Lu Xiaoshuang had her back to the young man, but Zhou Yi could see him clearly.
About two minutes ago, Zhou Yi saw the young man look out the window, then waved to the people outside the window with a smile.
Zhou Yi didn't care and was about to order food with Lu Xiaoshuang when suddenly a woman's voice said in surprise: "Officer Zhou? It's really you."
Zhou Yi looked up and saw that it was Han Jiajia.
"Miss Han? What a coincidence." Zhou Yi stood up and greeted her, then saw that the young man also stood up. It turned out that he was waiting for Han Jiajia.
Han Jiajia smiled awkwardly and said, "Well, I made an appointment with a friend."
Then he looked at Lu Xiaoshuang and asked, "Officer Zhou, is this... your sister?"
Zhou Yi shook his head and said, "Xiao Shuang is my... friend."
"Oh..." Han Jiajia's eyes flashed with a hint of disappointment, and she explained, "I heard Jiaojiao's boyfriend mention that you have a younger sister, and I thought... then I won't bother you anymore."
Then he walked towards the table in the back.
The young man in the suit immediately said, "Hello, I'm Xiao Song, whom Aunt Wang introduced to me. I recognized you right away."
The young man smiled shyly and said, "You are prettier than you look in the photo."
Zhou Yi understood instantly that it was a blind date.
Zhou Yi had just sat down when he heard Han Jiajia say, "Excuse me, can you ask the waiter to change our seat? I... don't really like sitting by the window."
Then, the young man immediately called the waiter and changed their seat. It was farther away from Zhou Yi and the others, but from Lu Xiaoshuang's perspective, she could still see them when she looked up.
Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang were discussing what dishes to order, and Zhou Yi couldn't help laughing at the way Lu Xiaoshuang calculated carefully to save money.
"I think you will be good at managing money in the future," Zhou Yi said.
"How can I afford it? I'm so poor." Lu Xiaoshuang said with a pout.
"There will be bread, there will be milk, there will be everything."
"I've seen this movie called... Lenin in 1918. It was shown in school when I was in high school."
At Zhou Yi's insistence, he ordered a steak for Lu Xiaoshuang.
Then Lu Xiaoshuang also ordered a small cake and asked the waiter if there were any candles.
Zhou Yi knew as soon as he heard it that she ordered it for herself.
I was shocked and quickly stopped him, saying it was too embarrassing to celebrate my birthday in public.
The waiter enthusiastically said that we could play Happy Birthday for the two of them in the background music of our store. Zhou Yi expressed his gratitude and firmly refused.
Soon, the exquisitely presented Western food was served. Seeing that Lu Xiaoshuang was a little at a loss about using the knife and fork, Zhou Yi reached out and took the steak, helped her cut it, and then handed the knife and fork to her.
Zhou Yi ordered a plate of spaghetti bolognese because the dish was on sale today.
He had just picked up his fork and was about to start eating when suddenly a piece of steak was handed to his mouth.
When she looked up, Lu Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "The first bite is for you."
Zhou Yi was slightly stunned, but immediately opened his mouth and bit off the meat without touching the fork. He mumbled, "Thank you."
Just as Lu Xiaoshuang was about to eat, Zhou Yi placed a forkful of rolled pasta on her plate. "Here, the first bite is for you."
On the other side of the restaurant, Han Jiajia absentmindedly listened to the young man talking about his own situation, but her eyes couldn't help but glance at Zhou Yi and the others.
When she saw Lu Xiaoshuang and Zhou Yi talking and laughing and behaving intimately, she sighed in her heart, thinking that she had really been being too sentimental.
Zhou Yi was eating and chatting with Lu Xiaoshuang. It wasn't because the Western food was so amazing, but Xiao Qi's matter made him feel much better.
Furthermore, Wu Yongcheng revealed that the combined first-class collective merit and individual first-class merit would be extremely helpful for his promotion. Especially since Qin Beihai had given him his advice, he had already made up his mind to move up, so getting two first-class merits at this time was truly fantastic.
So this meal can be regarded as an early celebration party for myself.
Looking at Lu Xiaoshuang's appearance, Zhou Yi felt a little emotional. Tang Xue was actually not much younger than Lu Xiaoshuang, but the conditions of the two were very different.
"Xiaoshuang, I want to ask you a question." Zhou Yi suddenly said.
"What's the problem?"
"Maybe... it might be a little presumptuous."
Lu Xiaoshuang thought this was a bit strange, but out of trust in Zhou Yi, she said cheerfully, "It's okay, go ahead and ask."
"That is... in terms of relationships between men and women, have you ever encountered anything special before?"
"Do you mean... falling in love?" Lu Xiaoshuang asked with a slightly blushing face. She remembered that Zhou Yi had asked this question last time in the school cafeteria, but Zheng Jianxin had not handed her a love letter at that time.
But unexpectedly, Zhou Yi shook his head.
Zhou Yi certainly didn't want to ask ordinary emotional questions. In this regard, after the grand case in the previous life, the police had already conducted a very detailed investigation, and even conducted a special investigation into the direction of perverted secret love.
What he wanted to ask was based on the thoughts brought about by Tang Xue's incident. Was there anyone around Lu Xiaoshuang who had coveted her body, but they didn't have any deep intersection and it was hidden very well.
Because, in the grand case of the previous life, the police had already thought of all possibilities.
Among them, there are two directions that the police are highly suspicious of.
First, the murder was indiscriminate. There was no hatred between the murderer and Lu Xiaoshuang. The murderer simply randomly selected the target and chose Lu Xiaoshuang. Therefore, the police later investigated all of Lu Xiaoshuang's interpersonal relationships but found nothing. Because before becoming the target, Lu Xiaoshuang and the murderer had no connection.
In this case, coupled with the method of dismemberment, the murderer must be an extreme psychopathic murderer.
The second possibility was that the man had engaged in an illicit relationship but concealed it thoroughly. This was a possibility that was considered after the initial round of routine investigations yielded no results, but was quickly abandoned because the forensic doctor discovered from the body parts that while the reproductive organs were damaged, the damage to the hymen was caused by cutting with a sharp weapon during the dismemberment process, not by sexual assault.
But after multiple investigations failed, the matter was brought up again, with suspicions narrowed to men who had lost their sexual function due to age or accidents.
However, investigations in this area are extremely difficult because there are absolutely no traces.
It was also questioned within the police because Lu Xiaoshuang had never possessed a large amount of property under any circumstances until she was killed.
Women who are willing to commit themselves to such a situation would mostly do so for financial gain, but Lu Xiaoshuang's situation clearly does not fit this description.
The police have also considered the issue of power-for-sex transactions, such as academic exams.
However, Lu Xiaoshuang's grades were at the top level among those of her major, so there was no such transaction at all.
In this case, the best way is to ask the deceased himself.
But how is it possible to ask such a thing of the dead? Is it a fairy tale?
In this life, after close contact with Lu Xiaoshuang, Zhou Yi discovered that the second of the two special situations described by the police at the time was completely impossible to happen to Lu Xiaoshuang.
Because she can't possibly be that kind of person!
But if it is the first type, where crimes are committed indiscriminately, it would be even more terrifying.
Because there is no trace of the murderer.
Perhaps Zhou Yi could forcibly restrict Lu Xiaoshuang's actions during those few days, so that she could avoid such indiscriminate crimes.
But if that happens, it will only treat the symptoms and not the root cause, and other victims will appear.
In Zhou Yi's eyes, Lu Xiaoshuang is very important, but that doesn't mean he would feel lucky because someone else died for Lu Xiaoshuang.
He is a policeman. Saving lives and catching murderers is his duty.
Lu Xiaoshuang was confused by Zhou Yi's shaking head, "Then...Brother Zhou, what do you mean?"
Zhou Yi cleared his throat and said, "I want to ask, have you ever met anyone who has developed a possessive desire for your... body... that kind of... sexual desire..."
Zhou Yi felt very embarrassed by what he said. After all, Lu Xiaoshuang was such an innocent girl, but he asked such a question.
Sure enough, Lu Xiaoshuang's face turned red immediately.
If someone else had asked her this question, she would have been angry.
But the person opposite her was Zhou Yi, someone she could trust almost unconditionally, and he was also a policeman. She believed that there must be a reason why he asked this.
"Well...it seems not...I haven't even touched another man's hand." Lu Xiaoshuang said with her head down, feeling her face a little hot.
Zhou Yi knew that she felt uncomfortable with this question, but he really didn't have any good excuse to explain it.
But for this kind of thing, the most effective way is to ask Lu Xiaoshuang directly, which is also the part that was completely missing in the police investigation in the previous life.
For a moment, the two fell into an awkward silence, both lowered their heads to eat and didn't say anything else.
After a few minutes, Lu Xiaoshuang suddenly said, "I remember now. This really happened."
Zhou Yi immediately looked up and looked at her.
"It happened last summer, right after the college entrance exam, around mid-July. I went to a job fair, hoping to find a reliable part-time job to help pay for my tuition. Someone then handed me a business card and said they were an etiquette company looking for hostesses."
"I said I had never been a lady of etiquette, and that person said it didn't matter, I could learn it after a simple training. It mainly depended on my good image and temperament..." Lu Xiaoshuang bit her lip, feeling a little embarrassed.
Zhou Yi nodded: "Well, that person has good taste."
"Where is that..."
"Go on."
"I asked him where the hostesses worked. He said they specialized in event services, and they were all formal, like restaurant openings, company conferences, and so on. He said I could go with him to their company to take a look, and they were all very formal."
Zhou Yi immediately asked nervously: "Did you go?"
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