【Ling Li】Greedy Wolf

10. Father and Son ([-])

The deceased's name was Yang Xinchun, who originally came from other places to work locally, and later opened a Spring Breeze grain and oil store in the wholesale market.His circle of activities is very small, and he only has contact with people who deal with business.His wife is a tally clerk in a supermarket, and they have a 10-year-old daughter.

When he saw Ouyang Lin in Yang Xinchun's grain and oil warehouse in the afternoon, Li Xunran went up and beat him up.

Ouyang Lin screamed repeatedly, and swear to God, it's really none of his business this time.This kind of thing happens every day, who would have thought that it was rare for him to be lazy, and he would encounter a difficult one.

This warehouse is not too big, more than half of it is filled with food pockets, and the other small area is separated by plywood for a small living area.Li Xunran and the others looked around, there was only one camp bed, one bedside table, one wooden table, and one simple stove.There were leftovers on the table, and debris piled against the wall under the transom.It rained heavily last night, the transom was not closed, the rain leaked in through the window, and a dark line of water spread down the concrete wall, wetting everything on the ground a lot.

Ouyang Lin leaned over to the table to have a look, then sniffed: "This sweet garlic smells really strong."

Li Xunran kicked him: "Do business!"

The security guard who opened the door and several merchants can prove that the door was locked from the inside.In addition, the deceased's social relationship was relatively simple. The surrounding merchants generally responded that Yang Xinchun was honest and kind. He usually had a good relationship with his neighbors.Based on these circumstances, the possibility of vendetta was basically ruled out, and combined with what the doctor said, the probability of food poisoning was very high.

Ouyang Lin took a little of each leftover on the table and put them into evidence bags, and sent them back for toxicological analysis.He wrinkled his nose in disgust while pretending: "My mother, what the hell is this candied garlic pickled? It's so strong, it makes me sick!"

Li Xunran also felt disgusted.The warehouse was poorly ventilated and half-filled with grain, and a dull gray smell made his throat uncomfortable.He endured this discomfort and went to see if he could find other clues.

He first checked the dead man's bed.The comforter on the bed was thrown back, the sheets were messy and there was vomit on the pillow.According to eyewitnesses, Yang Xinchun was found lying on the ground wearing only a pair of shorts—he probably felt unwell in the middle of the night and wanted to go out for help, but it was too late.

Li Xunran took some samples of the deceased's vomit, and went to check the deceased's bedside table.

There are a lot of things in the bedside table. There are more than 1000 yuan in cash, including bills and small change.There was a notebook for accounting, and Li Xunran flipped through it casually, and found that Yang Xinchun's accounts were recorded very carefully, and every change of a few cents was clearly written.In addition, there are some daily necessities such as pens and mobile phone chargers in the cabinet. There is a box of chocolates in the innermost part. The beautiful box is particularly conspicuous in the dark and messy cabinet.

Li Xunran frowned.

Chocolate is a well-known brand, imported from Italy, with exquisite appearance and good taste. It is a common gift between young couples, but the price is also very beautiful.Of course, Yang Xinchun couldn't even afford such a box of chocolates, but from Li Xunran's experience, people like him would not be willing to buy such expensive snacks unless it was for children.The problem now is that this box of chocolates has obviously been opened, and more than half of it is missing. It is definitely not a gift that Yang Xinchun bought for his daughter.

Thinking of this, he felt a little headache, and even more uncomfortable in his stomach, probably because he was bored in the warehouse for too long.

Li Xunran sighed.It's just a box of chocolates. There is no law that prohibits Yang Xinchun from buying it and eating it. Isn't he a little too neurotic?

After thinking about it, he still took one and brought it back as evidence for testing.Ouyang Lin's work was over, and he was complaining about being disgusted by the smell of sugar and garlic. Li Xunran saw that it was still early, and carried Ouyang Lin to Yang Xinchun's house.

Yang Xinchun's family lives half an hour's drive from the Li Grain and Oil Market.That place is one of the few places that survived the reconstruction project of the old city, and it is full of old-style tube buildings.The building of Yang Xinchun's house was relatively new, and faint cries could be heard from a room on the second floor.

Li Xunran and Ouyang Lin walked in following the sound of crying, the door of that house opened, a crying woman collapsed on the ground, and a little girl in her teens stood beside her.The woman was startled by the two of them, she stopped crying, and asked tremblingly, "Who... are you?"

Li Xunran showed his ID: "We are the police. Are you Yang Xinchun's lover?"

The woman looked at his police officer card blankly, and shook her head after a long time: "I'm not... I'm his cousin, and my sister-in-law has gone to the hospital to deal with my brother's funeral."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but began to sob again, tears streaming down her rough and dark face.Li Xunran heard Ouyang Lin sighed softly beside him.

They can face death directly, but they can't let go of the grief that comes with it, and they can't get used to it no matter how many times.

Ouyang Lin asked a few routine questions, nothing more than about Yang Xinchun's situation.Li Xunran obtained consent and went to Yang Xinchun's room to check the situation.

The bedroom of Yang Xinchun and his wife was very small, barely enough to fit a big bed and a chest of drawers, and there was no TV. Li Xunran looked around and found nothing.After he came out of the warehouse, his chest tightness was much better, but his stomach was still a little nauseous, and he felt dizzy after standing for a long time.If there is no accident in Yang Xinchun's death, it should be caused by food poisoning. It is probably difficult to find any valuable clues in his home today.

Li Xunran thought of this floor, like going out.Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, he saw a small figure standing behind him, and he almost screamed out in fright.

After taking a closer look, I realized that it was the little girl I saw when I entered the door just now.

Knowing that this might be Yang Xinchun's daughter, he collected himself, knelt down, and asked very gently, "What's your name?"

The little girl's eyes were red, but she didn't cry like her aunt.Li Xunran has a niece who is about the same age as her, sweet and soft, and smells like milk.All day long, she thinks about what to eat at night and what to wear tomorrow, looking like a carefree little princess.But Yang Xinchun's daughter is different. In her eyes, there is a kind of maturity that should not be seen in children of this age-children who grow up in this kind of family background are probably born with more sensitivity and less childishness than others. immature.

I just heard her say: "My name is Yang Xiaoxia."

She looked at Li Xunran, her eyes flickered, as if she wanted to say something but dared not say it.

Li Xunran, as the face value of the city bureau, has been responsible for cheating and abducting the masses of women all the year round. He claims to be a murderer from the age of 8 to the age of 80. He has rich experience in fighting wits and courage.The little girl in front of him was obviously within the scope of his dealings.He was not in a hurry, he smiled at Yang Xiaoxia, and lowered his voice, as if afraid of scaring her: "Xiaoxia, what's the matter with you?"

His friendliness gave the little girl courage. Yang Xiaoxia took a breath and said hesitantly: "Brother policeman, my father... what's wrong with my father?"

Li Xunran sighed in his heart, stretched out his hand to touch her hair carefully, thought about the wording, and then slowly said: "Your father, um, there was a little accident. Xiaoxia, I know this is very important to you. It’s hard to accept right away, but…”

Yang Xiaoxia suddenly interrupted him.Her voice was small, but she was firm: "My father didn't have an accident."

Li Xunran suddenly stopped.

Yang Xiaoxia lowered her head, didn't look at him, and continued, "Mom...it must be Mom who killed Dad!"

Li Xunran suspected that something was wrong with his ears.He looked at the thin girl in front of him in disbelief, and was so shocked that he was almost speechless.

Seeing this look in Yang Xiaoxia's eyes, she thought he didn't believe him, so she hastily explained: "Really, brother, I didn't lie to you! Several times when I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard my parents arguing, and my mother scolded my father." , told him to die, and said that sooner or later she would kill Dad! She always refused to let Dad go home, said Dad was sick, and would not let me see Dad... Dad could only visit me at school secretly. She lied to me Yes, I know! She just thinks her father has done something wrong and blames him for embarrassing her..."

She became more and more anxious, and couldn't help crying.

Li Xunran has no resistance to the little girl with pear blossoms and rain.Yang Xiaoxia's words were like a bolt from the blue, knocking him out, but he had to free his hand to coax the girl in front of him.Without a word of consolation, Ouyang Lin pushed open the door and came in. Seeing the scene in front of her, she was also startled, and hurriedly shouted: "I'll go, you beast, what are you doing to the little girl?"

Li Xunran, who was farther than Dou E, sweated on his forehead, and mouthed to him: Stop making sarcastic remarks, come and help!

In the end, Aunt Xia coaxed the girl.The two police comrades left in disgrace.

Li Xunran was careful when he left, and went to the neighbors' houses to ask around.

Neighbors were a little scared when they saw that they were policemen.Li Xunran smiled patiently, explained for a long time that they just came here as a routine to understand some situations, and finally let the neighbor speak.

According to the neighbors, Yang Xinchun is okay, he is honest and kind, and loves his daughter very much. Sometimes when he goes out, his father will hold him in his arms. Very dear.In contrast, Yang Xinchun's wife Huang Qian is not a good person.Huang Qian is a neurotic person, she just doesn't get along well with others, she is suspicious all day long, wishing to follow her husband's ass all day long.Neighbors heard that the husband and wife had quarreled several times. Huang Qian said that Yang Xinchun was "messing around" outside and would not let him in.It's fine for her to be crazy, but she also taught the children badly, preventing Yang Xiaoxia from being with her father.Fortunately, Xiao Xia is sensible, so she was not spoiled by her mother.

When the neighbor said this, there was some indignation in his words: "Lao Yang is an honest man, and he can tolerate his crazy woman!"

After finishing speaking, he felt that something was wrong, and he became embarrassed again: "Comrade policeman, look, I am not..."

Li Xunran smiled understandingly, thanked the other party politely, and said goodbye to Ouyang Lin.

Ouyang Lin couldn't react a bit, Li Xunran told him what Yang Xiaoxia said just now.Ouyang Lin was dumbfounded after hearing this, and said, "My dear! This girl is quite enlightened! She knows how to kill relatives with righteousness!"

The neighbor's words verified from the side that Yang Xiaoxia's statement was not fabricated out of nothing, but it would be too absurd to say that Huang Qian killed Yang Xinchun.

So Ouyang Lin started chattering again: "I wonder if this girl has watched too many Gongdou movies? Does she think it's so easy to kill someone?"

That being said, when they are free, they still have to meet that Huang Qian.

When Ling Yuan went back at night and saw Li Xunran sleeping on the sofa, he couldn't help laughing.He walked over and gently pushed Li Xunran's shoulder: "Xunran, get up, go back to bed and sleep if you're sleepy, don't catch a cold."

He went out to socialize with the people from the bank tonight, drank some wine, his voice was hoarse and heavy, like the god of sleep in mythology.Li Xunran woke up in a daze, saw Ling Yuan, first subconsciously grinned at him, showing a silly smile, then frowned, and mumbled, "Ling Yuan."

The voice sounds very waxy, like a child acting like a baby.Ling Yuan suddenly felt something was wrong, frowned, raised his voice, and asked, "Xunran, what's wrong with you?"

Li Xunran closed his eyes again, unwilling to speak.Seeing his appearance, Ling Yuan felt that there was a problem, and asked again, before Li Xunran raised his hand to cover his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know...I'm not feeling well."

After he finished speaking, he wanted to sleep again, but Ling Yuan refused to let him.He took Li Xunran's hand off his forehead and felt the cold sweat in his hand.Ling Yuan paused, stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, held that hand in his own again, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Li Xunran seemed a little annoyed by him, and it took him a long time to reply: "Sore throat, disgusting..."

Ling Yuan asked again: "What else?"

Li Xunran finally realized that he would not allow himself to sleep well, opened his eyes, and gave Ling Yuan a weak look: "My stomach hurts too... dizziness."

Ling Yuan frowned: "It hurts or what?"

Li Xunran let out a "hmm".

Ling Yuan suddenly realized a question: "What did you have for dinner?"

Li Xunran glanced at him, then turned his gaze away: "I started to want to vomit in the afternoon, my throat still hurts, I can't eat."

So just didn't eat dinner.

Ling Yuan's complexion was not very good, and he asked again: "Then what did you have for lunch?"

Li Xunran didn't know why he talked so much, and finally got angry, and yelled at him in a hoarse voice: "I haven't eaten! I haven't eaten anything since I ate with you at noon! I'm exhausted! Go to sleep! Are you annoying?" !"

After he finished speaking, he took his hand out of Ling Yuan's hand angrily, and turned over with difficulty on the sofa, with his butt facing Ling Yuan.

Ling Yuan was taken aback by him.

Li Xunran heard him sigh behind his back, there was the sound of clothes rustling and footsteps, Ling Yuan should have stood up and walked away.

Inexplicably, Officer Xiao Li felt a little wronged.

After a while, he heard Ling Yuan's voice: "Hello, it's me."

Li Xunran was confused, and it took him a long time to realize that Ling Yuan was on the phone.

I just heard Ling Yuan say: "Are you at home? Come to my house right now and drive over... I drank at night, so I can't drive by myself... Go to the yard... Don't talk nonsense, I'll explain to you when I come."

Li Rui felt bitter.

He was as tired as a dog every day, and after finally getting a night's rest, he was treated like a dog by the leader.The most exaggerated thing is that when he later questioned the leader why so many people did not look for him, but he was the one who was looking for him, the leader was surprised and replied quite naturally: "Aren't you still single!"

...Single dogs also have dignity, okay?

Ling Yuan opened the door to let him in, and Li Rui saw someone lying on the sofa at a glance.

He was startled at first, and then he was relieved when he realized that it was a man.

He asked Ling Yuan: "What's the matter? Call me over so urgently?"

While putting on his coat, Ling Yuan pouted on the sofa: "Something happened, and the symptoms looked like acute gastroenteritis, but he said he didn't eat indiscriminately. I'm not sure, so I sent him to the hospital for a look."

The person on the sofa was turned sideways, Li Rui couldn't see the face clearly, but felt that the back was very thin and beautiful, so he asked curiously, "Who is this?"

Ling Yuan straightened his collar, and said nonchalantly, "Just... a friend."

Li Rui suddenly got goosebumps all over his body.

He vaguely remembered that many years ago, he was still a freshman in medical school, and Ling Yuan was a legendary genius brother.At that time, Ling Yuan and Lin Nianchu had just met each other. Once Li Rui saw the two of them eating together in the cafeteria, and then asked Ling Yuan with a playful smile, who is that beautiful senior?

At that time Ling Yuan also acted nonchalantly, saying in exactly the same subtle tone as now, just... a friend.

It's a pity that Li Rui was young and ignorant at that time, so he really believed his nonsense.

When he saw Ling Yuan softly coaxing the person on the sofa and carefully setting him up, Li Rui suddenly discovered a fact that embarrassed him and shocked him enough.

——He will probably be the only single dog in their circle of friends soon.