【Ling Li】Greedy Wolf

13. Father and Son ([-])

Li Xunran and Ouyang Lin went to the grain and oil market to monitor and control.

On the way, a text message came in from the mobile phone, Li Xunran was busy driving, and only took out the phone when he got to the place, it was a text message from Ling Yuan:

——I'm going to Beijing for a meeting, and the plane is at six in the evening.I'll be back the day after tomorrow.Dinner is on the table, go back and heat it yourself.

The corners of Li Xunran's upturned mouth drooped.

He looked at his watch, Ling Yuan was probably about to leave for the airport now.Counting the days, the day after tomorrow is Saturday, if Yang Xinchun's case can be concluded, he should still have a day off.So he texted back:

— Got it, have a good trip.When will you be back?I pick you up at the airport.

Not long after, a text message from Ling Yuan came:

——No, I'll take a taxi back.

Li Xunran felt a little disappointed that he could feel the cold rejection even through the phone.

As soon as he stuffed the phone back into his pocket, the thing vibrated again as if it had been injected with chicken blood.

Pulling it out, it was still a text message from Ling Yuan:

——Clean up and wait for me at home.

Li Xunran felt that his ears were burning hot, and cursed secretly: You are old and unscrupulous.

Ouyang Lin waited impatiently, and leaned over to take a look: "Who are you chatting with, with a lewd smile on your face."

Li Xunran hurriedly put the phone back into his pocket, and slapped him on the forehead: "Get out! Are you saying something for a glorious comrade of the people's police! You are as dissatisfied as everyone else!"

He quickly hit the heartbreak of the majority of single dogs.Ouyang Lin was furious, grabbed his sleeves and wanted to beat him up, but was kicked by Li Xunran, to be honest, he went to the security department to find someone.

After dismissing Ouyang Lin, it took Li Xunran a while to control the expression on his face, at least not so obvious that even Ouyang Lin could see it.He took out his mobile phone to take a picture, and felt that the clothes were perfect, and he was still as handsome and handsome as before, so he followed in calmly.

The person in charge of monitoring is an elderly comrade, whose hands and feet are not as sharp as the young man's, and he walks slowly.Li Xunran and the others are not easy to urge, watching the old man wearing a pair of thick glasses, slowly adjusting the monitor, muttering: "3012...not right, um...1087...not right...4063... ..."

Li Xunran always felt a subtle feeling of déjà vu when he heard the numbers from his mouth.Then he suddenly realized where he had seen it before.

——On Yang Xinchun's notebook, the same four-digit password.

He stepped forward abruptly: "Master, what do those numbers you just mentioned mean?"

The old comrade was taken aback by him, and it took him a while to recover. He pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, and said slowly: "Oh, that's the number of the storefront in our market. Otherwise, who would be able to tell the difference between so many shops?" Which is which?"

It was dark when they left.Ouyang Lin copied all the surveillance videos captured by the camera opposite Yang Xinchun's grain and oil warehouse, and Li Xunran got a large floor plan of the grain and oil market, which marked the distribution and number of the entire market in detail.

Ouyang Lin complained casually: "It's time to turn on the lights and fight at night—start the cafeteria?"

Li Xunran thought for a while: "No, I'd better go back, there is food left at home."

Ouyang Lin, a young man from other places, said that you locals should get out of here quickly. If you have the skills, let your parents take care of your meals, and if you have the skills, let your girlfriend take care of you!

Li Xunran exhausted all his self-control, so he didn't throw the sentence "my boyfriend takes care of the food" at his face.

The meal is on the table.Ling Yuan made two dishes and one soup for him, fried pork slices with bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms and cabbage, cucumber and egg soup, which perfectly catered to Police Officer Li's taste.He emptied all the dishes contentedly, went to wash the dishes with a full belch, and then slumped on the sofa, guessing that Ling Yuan should have breathed the air of the capital's specialty, so he took out his phone and started making trouble out of no reason:

——The workmanship has deteriorated, and the dinner is mediocre.

He hugged his phone for a while, and then received a text message from Ling Yuan:

--good.I miss you as well.

Officer Li smirked while holding his phone, his ears slowly turning red.He moved his fingers and sent another message:

——On the first day of my boyfriend's business trip, I miss him.

Soon Ling Yuan's text message came again:

—— On the first day of a business trip, I miss my boyfriend.

Li Xunran laughed and collapsed on the sofa.

When he went to work the next day, he had dark circles under his eyes, but he was very energetic, which was in stark contrast to Ouyang Lin who was like a dead dog.

Ouyang Lin was listless, and he didn't know what time he fell asleep last night.The monitoring of the grain and oil market can only store up to 7 days of video. Even so, it is still a lot of work to watch all of them. I don't know how Ouyang Lin did it.He said wearily, "I've seen all the monitoring. On the evening of Yang Xinchun's death, Huang Qian went to the grain and oil warehouse."

While talking, he called up the surveillance on the computer.The resolution of the video is not high, the shooting is very blurry, the sky is already dark, and it is raining again, and everyone is holding an umbrella, but Huang Qian can still be distinguished.Yang Xinchun was not there, so she opened the door and went in, and came out after staying for less than 10 minutes. It seemed that there was nothing unusual.

But Ouyang Lin paused the video at a certain frame, and pointed to the shopping bag on Huang Qian's shoulder. Qian took it from the small supermarket where she worked.The bag is not transparent, so you can't see what's inside.Ouyang Lin called up another frame, which was Huang Qian's appearance when she left.The picture is basically blurred by now, but it can still be seen that the bag she was carrying earlier was carried in her hand.

Li Xunran murmured: "Holding it instead of carrying it...it means that the bag probably had weight when she went in, but it was gone when she came out...she left something in the warehouse ?”

Ouyang Lin asked: "You said that Yang Xinchun's warehouse has a lot of that kind of insecticide—about how many?"

Li Xunran made a guess: "It's quite a lot... Anyway, two or three catties are indispensable."

Ouyang Lin said with a sullen face: "I checked it on the Internet last night. This stuff is very toxic, and the dosage is strictly limited. A little bit can smoke hundreds of catties of grain——Yang Xinchun bought so much because he planned to Are you keeping the heirloom?"

Li Xunran continued his words: "...Or maybe it is to generate enough poisonous gas to kill an adult in a space like a warehouse."

He and Ouyang Lin looked at each other: "Huang Qian is suspected of committing a major crime."

But what about motives and evidence?

Ouyang Lin asked again: "What about you, what did you find out last night?"

Li Xunran frowned, and took out a sketch map drawn by himself from his pocket.His painting skills are not up to the mark, soul painting level, the lines are all crooked, barely readable: "I checked, the numbers in Yang Xinchun's notebook and the number on the facade all match up, it should be referring to this."

He spread out the schematic diagram, which was a simple floor plan of the grain and oil market, with many small Xs on it: "These shops are all over the whole market. I thought about it all night, but I couldn't find a pattern."

Ouyang Lin tentatively said, "How about we go there again?"

Li Xunran went to take out the car keys: "Let's go."

They visited the shops indicated in Yang Xinchun's notebook.Business in the grain and oil market is booming, and most of the stores still hold a secretive attitude towards the police and are reluctant to say more.Li Xunran and Ouyang Lin went to several houses, but without any results, they went out awkwardly.

Obviously the clue is there, almost touch it, but always miss it.Li Xunran was so anxious that he wanted to punch the wall hard, and subconsciously reached into his pocket to touch the cigarette.

When I picked up the cigarette, I somehow thought of Ling Yuan again.

Before Qian Fangsheng's case was solved, he was under too much pressure and couldn't sleep all night. He sneaked to the balcony to smoke a cigarette, but Ling Yuan who got up in the middle of the night to drink water saw him.Ling Yuan didn't say anything, went to the balcony to ask him for one, smoked together silently, and then told him that he should smoke less in the future, it's not good for the lungs.

Ouyang Lin is also addicted to cigarettes. He didn't bring a lighter, and he waited impatiently for a light.But seeing Li Xunran standing there in a daze, he slapped impatiently and greeted him: "Stupid?"

Li Xunran was suddenly sobered by him, and he kicked him: "It's against you!"

He was making a fuss, but he saw a familiar little girl standing not far in front of him, looking at him timidly.

Li Xunran tossed the lighter to Ouyang Lin, put the cigarette away again, happily ran over and squatted down, and greeted the little girl: "Meet you again!"

The little girl said softly, "Brother, what are you doing at my house?"

Li Xunran was taken aback.

The little girl pointed to the shop they came out of just now: "That is my home."

Li Xunran acted as if suddenly realized, and asked with a smile: "Then why didn't I see you just now?"

The little girl then pointed to a store diagonally opposite: "I went to see Feifei just now, but she's not here."

When Li Xunran raised his head, he was taken aback again.

The little girl was referring to another store that appeared in Yang Xinchun's notebook.

In the blink of an eye, he was enlightened.

Suddenly, an uncontrollable anger and nausea almost surged up in his chest, the blood all over his body rushed into his head, and his eyes began to turn black.Probably because his expression was too ferocious, the little girl had a frightened expression on her face, as if she wanted to run away.

Li Xunran took a deep breath, barely controlled his emotions, touched her head twice, smiled at the little girl again, turned his head and growled: "Ouyang! Ouyang!"

Ouyang Lin hid aside and smoked, turned around to look, was startled by his face, and trotted over: "What's wrong with you?!"

Li Xunran said in a low voice: "Help me, I... can't stand up anymore."

Although Ouyang Lin was rough, he was never ambiguous about right and wrong, so he immediately pulled him up from the ground.Li Xunran's mind was buzzing, and it took a long while before he came back to his senses.

He bent down, and said to the little girl who was still standing there, looking at him curiously: "Do you... like Uncle Yang?"

The little girl hesitated for a moment, but nodded: "I like it."

Li Xunran closed his eyes and asked again: "...why?"

This time the little girl answered quickly: "He will give me chocolate!"

Ouyang Lin was listening all the time, he seemed to understand something, his eyes widened suddenly.

I just heard Li Xunran continue to ask: "Then...will he...will... kiss and hug you?"

He almost gritted his teeth to say the last few words.

The little girl nodded and said innocently, "Yes."

Ouyang Lin's face was pale.

They went to visit all the shops that appeared in Yang Xinchun's notebook, and the results confirmed their conjecture.

——The owners of all these shops have daughters who are no older than 10 years old.

The box of imported chocolates that suddenly appeared in Yang Xinchun's bedside cabinet, and Huang Qian's suspicion and unreasonable troubles in the mouth of Yang's neighbors were finally connected by this last clue.The strange numbers in the notebook most likely represent the number of times he "successful" and the target of his attack.

Ouyang Lin's cell phone rang suddenly.

He answered the phone with a sullen face, and when he came back, his whole body was like an icicle, cold and hard.

He said coldly: "The matter you asked me to investigate has come to fruition - four years ago, Yang Xinchun molested a girl in their village, was discovered by that adult and called the police. Later...you know , The family members of the victims of such things often feel ashamed and don't want to make a big deal, and finally the two families reconciled. But he probably has no face to stay in the village any longer, so he moved away with his family."

Li Xunran heard him curse in a low voice: "Bastard!"

Huang Qian and Yang Xiaoxia were having lunch when they came to the door.The meals on the table are very simple, one red and one green, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, vegetable tofu soup.

Yang Xiaoxia's arrival of the two policemen was very puzzling. She stood up and wanted to ask something, but Li Xunran smiled and said embarrassedly: "It seems that the time we came is not right... you eat first, we will come back later .”

He pulled Ouyang Lin around and left.

When he went downstairs, he restlessly picked up the unsmoked cigarette in the morning, and stretched out his hand to Ouyang Lin: "Fire."

Ouyang Lin didn't move: "...You are violating discipline like this."

Li Xunran remained silent, seeing Ouyang Lin not moving, he simply went to his pocket to find the lighter.

He lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, his lungs were almost throbbing, and he said in a hoarse voice: "...I know. Don't worry, if anything happens, I will bear all the responsibilities."

Ouyang Lin raised his voice: "Li Xunran!"

Li Xunran glanced at him, showing no expression: "I just want them to have a good last meal."

Ouyang Lin was speechless.

They waited across the street for almost an hour, watching Aunt Xia pick her up.The girl looked back at them several times along the way, but she never came over.Then Huang Qian went downstairs and walked straight towards them.

She said blankly, "I'll go with you."

Her husband is honest, doesn't talk much, and can bear hardships. Before that incident, people in the village said that she married a good man.Even after that incident, many people in the village spoke up for him, saying that he just wanted to see other girls as cute and close.Who knows what the family is making a fuss about, maybe his daughter is the most precious in the whole world, and she can't be touched.

So she forgave him.

Later, after a few years of Ansheng's life, she almost forgot about it.

But God let her find the notebook.

She also found that the way he looked at his daughter was becoming more and more wrong.

He is a beast, not a man.

Damn him.

So that night, she deliberately said she was uncomfortable and asked him to hold a parent-teacher meeting for her daughter.Without a shadow of doubt, he happily went.While he was away, she secretly put the insecticide she bought under the window, then climbed up and pushed the window open, laying a death trap for him.

Huang Qian's fingerprints were found on the transom, and Huang Qian also confessed to her crime.

She silently signed and stamped her handprint on the record, but Li Xunran suddenly said to her: "You love Xiaoxia very much."

Huang Qian's expressionless face was finally distorted, and two lines of tears flowed down her dry skin, like a dried petal falling into the water, revealing a bit of fatigue and despair.

She broke down in tears: "Please don't tell her...I'm sorry for her...I'm sorry for Xiaoxia..."

Heart-piercing cries echoed throughout the corridor, Li Xunran suddenly wanted to run downstairs and make a phone call.

Ling Yuan went back to the hotel after driving for a day, and just after taking a shower, he heard the phone ring, it was Li Xunran's exclusive ringtone.

He hurriedly wiped his hair in the theme song of Sheriff Black Cat, and rushed out to pick it up with only a bath towel around his waist in time: "Xunran?"

It took a long time for Li Xunran to reply to him: "...Ling Yuan."

Ling Yuan could tell something was wrong with just one sentence. His little black cat Sheriff was depressed, his voice was hoarse, and he needed someone to comfort him.

So he softened his voice and replied gently, "Well, I'm here."

Li Xunran seems to be talking to himself: "There is a person, she did something wrong. People all over the world think she is heinous and insane, only she knows that she is desperately protecting everyone—you say Is she stupid?"

Ling Yuan's heart tightened suddenly.

In an instant, many pictures flashed in his mind, Teacher Liao, Lin Nianchu, Wei Tianshu, Qin Shaobai, Li Rui, and many others.Ling Yuan sometimes thought that if his brainwaves had frequencies, he might not be on the same channel as them, otherwise how could he explain that his original intentions were always being spoiled and good intentions were always being misinterpreted.He is like that lonely whale whose song is never heard by his kind.

Some words and things pierced into his heart as precisely as a knife, and the bloody touch hurts.But even though he was trembling with pain, when he saw them, he still gritted his teeth and smiled generously.

Forget it, who made him love them.

So he said to Li Xunran: "Even so, Quasimodo still loves Esmeralda."

He stopped talking over there, and from his deep and shallow breathing, he knew that Li Xunran understood.

He didn't speak, and the breaths of the two people who were thousands of miles apart were intertwined through radio waves, and there was a little taste of being dependent on each other.

After a long time, Li Xunran said sullenly, "Ling Yuan, I really miss you."

Ling Yuan chuckled lightly: "I know."

Because I miss you too.

Father and Son (End)