【Ling Li】Greedy Wolf

12. Father and Son ([-])

Li Xunran walked out of the hospital and went straight to the grain and oil market in the west of the city.

Yang Xinchun's warehouse has been temporarily closed. Since there is a camera opposite the door of his warehouse, no police were arranged to stay behind. He only coordinated with the grain and oil market and transferred a security guard to watch.The security guard recognized Li Xunran, saw him coming, greeted him, and let him in.

After being reminded by Ling Yuan, he didn't dare to go in hastily, and stood at the door to let the air circulate for a while before going in to check the situation.

The air in the warehouse was better than when they came last time, but Li Xunran still didn't dare to be too careless.He tried his best to hold his breath, walked quickly to the sundries piled under the transom, squatted down and began to look through.He peeled away the messy things on the top layer, and saw a lot of small paper bags scattered randomly at the bottom, all of which had been soaked by water.When I touched it with my hand, there was something like a tablet inside.Li Xunran frowned, packed one of the papers into an evidence bag, and prepared to bring it back to the bureau for testing.

He can't stay here for long, after finishing these things, he stands up and prepares to leave.Just turning around like this, he suddenly saw with sharp eyes that there seemed to be something hidden behind Yang Xinchun's crude bedside table.

Li Xunran subconsciously walked over.The bedside table is made of plywood. The back layer of thin board has cracked and warped over time, forming a small gap with the main body of the cabinet.In the dark gap, a layer of white edges can be vaguely seen.Li Xunran reached in to touch it, and found out a thin notepad.

Notepads are very common, just the popular ones that cost two yuan a copy in stationery stores.But it is hidden here, it can only show that it hides a very unusual secret.

A bad premonition suddenly rose in Li Xunran's heart.

The notebook is written in Yang Xinchun's handwriting, but each line has only three numbers.The first should be the date, followed by two numbers, the first one is usually 1, occasionally 2.The last number is irregular, there are all kinds of numbers, but they are all four digits.

Yang Xinchun, an ordinary grain and oil businessman, is hiding any secrets that need to be written in code?

Li Xunran flipped through it briefly. Most of the book has been written. The only date that I can understand is irregular. Some are two or three days apart, and some are half a month apart. The earliest date was probably more than a year ago .The last four digits are repeated from time to time, but there are no clues to be found.He looked at a series of clueless dates and numbers, and felt a slight pain in his head.

Then he suddenly realized that this might be a symptom of poisoning, quickly put away the notebook, and hurried out of the warehouse door before he dared to take a deep breath.

Li Xunran slowed down and felt better.He looked up and glanced around, and found that the security guard hadn't left and was smoking a cigarette opposite, so he went over and asked, "After we left yesterday, did anyone come?"

The security guard thought for a while and answered him: "Lao Yang's wife came here and said she was here to pack up her things. I told her that the police had sealed off the place and no one could enter. She just left without saying anything."

He sighed: "She is also a poor person! Lao Yang is a good person, why just say nothing and disappear?"

Li Xunran asked a few more questions, but found no other clues.He touched the notepad subconsciously, and it seemed that the matter of visiting Huang Qian had to be put on the schedule as soon as possible.

He told the security guard and was about to leave.As soon as he turned around, he saw a six or seven-year-old girl hiding behind the corner of the nearby grain and oil store, looking at him timidly.

Li Xunran was happy.He waved to the little girl, and the little girl looked at him for a long time, probably thinking that such a handsome uncle should not be a bad person, so she ran towards him without much hesitation.

She was not well dressed, with the simplicity and casualness of a child from a small businessman's family. There were dust rubbed on her clothes, which showed a certain degree of neglect by her guardian.But the little girl was raised very well, she was white and fat, her hair was neatly tied up and beautiful, and her eyes were big. She was a child who would make people want to kiss her apple face when they saw her.

Li Xunran squatted down, only to hear the little girl ask: "Has Uncle Yang moved away?"

Obviously, the adults in her family didn't know how to explain such a serious topic as life and death to the children, so they could only choose to make up a less blunt lie.Li Xunran could only follow her and say, "Yes, I moved to a place far, far away."

The little girl looked disappointed: "Isn't he coming back?"

Li Xunran sighed silently, patted her head: "Well, I won't be coming back."

After hearing her words, the little girl muttered something in her mouth, but Li Xunran didn't hear clearly.He looked at the little girl's sad look, thought for a while, and took out two chocolate balls from his pocket and gave them to her: "Don't be sad, brother will give you some candy."

He wasn't embarrassed at all, he called himself "brother" taking advantage of his young age and ignorance, at an age when he could be a father.The chocolate ball was freshly taken out of a high-end wedding candy box, and Ling Yuan stuffed it for him when he left the hospital in the morning, saying that he was afraid that he would have a light breakfast, and if he got hungry halfway, he could take the cushion first.

The little girl's eyes lit up when she saw the golden wrapping paper of the chocolate ball, and she stretched out her hand to grab it, but shyly withdrew her hand back.

Li Xunran teased her: "Thank you brother, brother will give it to you, okay?"

When he said this, the little girl opened her arms to him, and said obediently, "I'll give you a kiss and a hug."

Li Xunran laughed at first, but then stopped laughing.He stuffed the chocolate ball into the little girl's hand, and said to her patiently: "Honey, from now on, don't kiss and hug other boys except Dad - even if you are so handsome, remember ?"

The little girl nodded ignorantly, Li Xunran didn't know how much she remembered, so she reached out and scratched the little girl's nose before going back to the police station to report.

He handed over the things he brought back for testing, and in the afternoon, Ouyang Lin came with the testing report.

Ouyang Lin's complexion was not good, and Li Xunran rarely felt a little compassion for him: "Didn't you ask for leave? Why are you here so soon?"

Ouyang Lin chuckled: "I'm not thinking about the case."

After finishing speaking, he threw the test report on Li Xunran's desk: "Tell me, what's going on?"

Li Xunran gave him the notebook he found today, and repeated what Ling Yuan said—the report showed that the main ingredient of what he brought back was indeed aluminum phosphide.

Happiness came so suddenly, Ouyang Lin was a little confused: "So... this is the case closed?"

Li Xunran was not so relaxed, he supported his chin with one hand, and knocked subconsciously on the table with the other hand: "...I always feel that this matter is not so simple."

Ouyang Lin flipped through the incomprehensible notepad: "You mean the things Yang Xinchun memorized?"

He frowned: "To be honest, no matter what he remembered these things for, I don't think it has anything to do with his death—it's just an accident."

Li Xunran was not relieved by his words: "More than that. I remember you told me at the time that the first person who found the body was the purchaser who went to Yang Xinchun to get the goods. Xinchun called—this means that Yang Xinchun was alive at least the night before. But it has been raining for the past few days, in other words, the leaking window was only opened on the night Yang Xinchun died—he Why do you have to open the windows on a rainy day?"

Ouyang Lin didn't think about this level, and after listening to Li Xunran's analysis, he also felt that something was wrong, and asked after a while: "Could it be that the windows have been open for a long time... and he just put the insecticide on that night?" Put it there?"

Li Xunran thought for a while: "No. If that window had been open all the time, then the water must have leaked in long ago. If it were you, would you put things wrapped in paper on the wet floor? What's more Yang Xinchun is in the grain and oil business, so it is impossible for him not to know that this kind of insecticide cannot touch water."

They looked at each other and remembered Yang Xiaoxia's words at the same time - mother killed father.

Ouyang Lin murmured: "It seems that I really have to see Yang Xinchun's wife."

The door of Yang Xinchun's house was closed and there was no one there.Fortunately, the two of them had already inquired about where Huang Qian worked before they came. It was a small supermarket not far from her home.The owner of the supermarket was a short, fat, middle-aged man. When he heard the police coming to look for him, his face showed a mixture of panic and suspicion.Li Xunran told him calmly that it was because Huang Qian's family had an accident and they just came here for routine questioning.The boss obviously knew the news of Yang Xinchun's death, so he breathed a sigh of relief, told them to wait, and went to the small warehouse at the back to call for someone.

After a while, a woman came out. When she saw them, she had no expression on her face and asked indifferently, "What do you want from me?"

Huang Qian is a very thin and shriveled woman, not too old, but there are already withered wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and mouth.She didn't look sad, she didn't look like a husband who had just died, and she didn't look "crazy" as her neighbors said.Ouyang Lin couldn't help asking: "Are you still coming to work now?"

Huang Qian looked up at him, and said coldly: "Lao Yang is gone, and our mother and son have to live. I don't go to work, are the orphans and widows waiting to drink the northwest wind?"

Ouyang Lin hit a snag, but couldn't find any rebuttal, a little annoyed.Li Xunran pinched him from behind, and said with concern: "If you have any difficulties, you can tell them. If we can help, we will try our best to solve it for you."

Huang Qian paused, and her attitude softened a bit: "No... my family is fine, I can get by. The boss gave me half a month's leave, but I couldn't find anyone to take care of it for a while, so I'll come today and tomorrow. I won't come anymore... Cousin Lao Yang is a good person, and she is also helping with family affairs, so don't bother others."

Li Xunran asked some more questions, nothing more than Yang Xinchun's relationship with the people around him, and whether there was any abnormal behavior before the incident. Huang Qian's answers were all within their expectations.The situation was almost understood, and it was getting late, so they were ready to go back.Before leaving, Li Xunran asked casually: "You moved here from a neighboring province, right? Your place is a good place, why did you think of coming to us?"

Huang Qian's eyes flickered quickly, her hands unconsciously clenched into fists, and then she let go, and replied: "There are times when you can't live in a good place. It just so happens that Aunt Xia is working here, and she thinks it's okay to earn money, so we will came with her."

Li Xunran let out an "oh" and said, "It was not easy at first, right? You husband and wife must have a good relationship, otherwise how could you share joys and sorrows like this."

Huang Qian lowered her head and said "hmm".

Li Xunran sighed, and said sincerely: "Things have already happened, you should mourn, just for the sake of the child, and live well."

Huang Qian raised her head, with a faint light in her eyes: "Yes...for the child."

On the way back, Li Xunran drove with a straight face, Ouyang Lin realized something was wrong, and hurriedly yelled: "Hey, you are going the wrong way! This is not a left turn!"

Li Xunran said calmly, "Huang Qian has a problem. I'm going to the grain and oil market again."

He also said: "Yang Xinchun's family moved to this city, there must be something wrong inside. By the way, do you remember, Yang Xiaoxia said that her father 'made mistakes'-I suspect that Yang Xinchun has a criminal record. Don't you have a classmate? Is it in the Public Security Bureau of the neighboring province? Ask him to do a favor and investigate this matter."

He stopped in front of the red light, and kept rubbing the steering wheel with his fingers anxiously:

"I have a hunch that Yang Xinchun's death may be more complicated than we imagined."