Chapter 20
Team Two spent the entire morning in peace and quiet.
This was also the first time Li Qingyao came to the second team. He did not actively pay attention to anyone's needs, nor did he smile much. He was quiet and focused on his own business. But she also realized that there was actually... nothing wrong with this. We should communicate with her, and we don’t think there is anything wrong with it. And she was actually quite comfortable.
Tired from work, Li Qingyao picked up the teacup and went to the tea room to get some fresh air.
There was no one in the tea room. She put the cup under the water dispenser to get hot water, put her hands on the countertop, and looked up at the glass door on the cabinet.
The person reflected in the glass is not clear. Because of the light, half of the face is bright and the other half is dark, making the face look even duller. She looked at her straight brows, quiet eyes, and drooping mouth corners, and suddenly felt a strange feeling.
[Li Qingyao?] Are you really such a person? 】
[Be what you are.] If you are unhappy, don't smile. If you want to care about someone, just pay attention to them. If you don't want to care about them, just be cold. 】
What kind of person am I?
Many distant images and sounds suddenly flashed through my mind:
Seventeen-year-old Li Qingyao was leaning on a simple iron chair in the classroom, holding a martial arts novel in his hand, reading leisurely in the sunlight by the window. A classmate asked, "Aren't you going to review?" She said, now is my time to relax, my brain will get rusty if I use it too much. Reading a novel before every big exam is my secret to relaxation. Would you like to try it? The next day, that classmate said, "Master, you have caused me so much trouble. I couldn't help but watch it all night and my dad found out and beat me up." Li Qingyao shook his finger like an old god: Young man, it’s okay that you don’t have enough self-control, but you are such a grown-up, and you still get caught by your father for reading a novel. Do you want me to teach you some tricks on hiding novels?
There was a girl from another school who liked Luo Huaizheng, so she found two thugs to block her. She threw her schoolbag to the ground, clenched her fists, and said, "Come on, but let me tell you first, my dad is a policeman, and my brother is also a policeman. From childhood to adulthood, if anyone touches me, they won't resort to violence, but will just go to that person's house and sit in silence." I am also very familiar with the nearby police station. All of them are my uncles and aunts. The food they provide is not very tasty. Who goes first?
Some people in the class also said that she was arrogant, spread obscene rumors, and talked bad about her behind her back. Someone tipped her off, but she just smiled and said, "It's none of my business, you can say it if you want." I can’t control whether it rains or not, so why should I care about other people’s brains being flooded? When word got out, those people hated her even more, but she also became more popular in her grade.
…
I used to be the person you described. Smile at whoever you want to smile at, and ignore whoever you don’t want to pay attention to. When I was young, my mind was clear, my heart was like a distant crane, the sky was high and the clouds were vast, and I was full of vigor and vitality.
But later, the white crane broke its wings, and she buried her head in her feathers, becoming what you see now.
Li Qingyao lowered his head and quickly wiped away a tear from the corner of his eye. He subconsciously gave a perfect smile to the mirror, but froze halfway through the smile.
Just at this moment, someone walked into the tea room. Tall, wearing black clothes, with an upright frame.
Li Qingyao glanced at him, his expression indifferent, and picked up the teacup. Chen Pu coughed lightly, then walked to the water dispenser with a very natural look, looking very focused, holding the cup with both hands to receive the water.
He hesitated for a moment, then tilted his head at a very tiny, inconspicuous angle and glanced at her. Unexpectedly, at this time, she had already walked out of the tea room.
Chen Pu turned his head suddenly and looked at the resolute back. The straight lines of his shoulders suddenly relaxed.
Huh, he exhaled.
This time it’s fatal.
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As soon as the second team got to work in the afternoon, a murder case came to their attention - a very serious home robbery and murder case occurred in Fuxing Village, Dayong Town, near Mingya Lake.
The second team came out in full force.
When Chen Pu ran downstairs, he just saw Li Qingyao getting into the police car that Zhou Yang had just driven. He paused and went to drive another police car.
In the past, when this happened, if the personnel had not yet been grouped, Li Qingyao would definitely take his car, and sit in the passenger seat, like a little tail.
Now she didn't even look at his car or himself.
Chen Pu held the steering wheel with both hands, but his eyes were fixed on the police car in front. I thought to myself, Chen Pu, it was you who told her not to flirt with me. Now she behaves properly and steadily, and your relationship is fresh and clean. Isn't that just what you want?
This whole day and night has been so chaotic. What are you so panicking about?
However, after thinking about it for a while, Chen Pu figured it out himself.
He had said this and that, but he just wanted her to adjust a little, that would be all.
He didn't want her to do such a thing!
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Mingya Lake is located in the north of Xiangcheng and is a vast natural lake. The entrance to the scenic area is located on the other side of Fuxing Village in Dayong Town. The other three sides are surrounded by mountains and forests and are not very developed. The main roads and buildings are all on the Fuxing Village side.
The house where the accident happened was on a hillside near the lake. Although the house number belonged to Fuxing Village, when the criminal police arrived and took a look, they found that it was not the case.
It is not an exaggeration to call it a manor.
The yard covers at least three or four acres, and there is a small hill enclosed within it. There is a big iron gate and stone lions at the entrance, and a special road is built to get in. There are various fruit trees and flowers planted inside, and there is a large fish pond in front of the house.
The house is not big, it is a three-story French-style building, solemn and majestic. The detectives walked into the living room, where a woman in her fifties, wearing cleaning clothes, was sitting on the sofa, crying in shock. The area police are trying to calm them down.
"It was this cleaning lady who called the police," the police officer said. "The deceased's name is Luo Hongmin. The owner of this villa is an entrepreneur."
The group went upstairs.
As soon as they entered the master bedroom on the second floor, they smelled a strong stench of corpse and flies were flying around the body lying on the bed.
It was a man, already showing signs of giantism. He was wearing black embroidered silk pajamas and lying on his back in the middle of the bed. His feet were bound with plastic cuffs, and his hands were tied to the headrails of the French iron bed with the same cuffs.
The deceased had a knife stuck in his left chest. In addition, there were several other knife wounds deep enough to reveal the bone. The bed was a mess.
A police officer came over and said, "The safe in the cloakroom was opened and it was empty. According to the cleaning lady, the deceased usually kept valuables and cash in the house in the safe, and the cleaning lady was not allowed to enter the cloakroom in the master bedroom."
Chen Pu stared at the dead body in a daze.
"What's wrong?" Fang Kai poked him with his arm. "Is there something wrong?"
Only then did Li Qingyao give Chen Pu his first serious look of the day.
But Chen Pu did not notice this precious gift. He just frowned and looked at the dead man's face and said, "I seem to have seen him somewhere."
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