crime shadow [criminal investigation]

Chapter 109 The guest.

Since the beginning of winter, it has been rainy and rainy, and Christmas Eve comes quietly in the fine drizzle. This rain can't quench people's enthusiasm, but adds a wet and romantic atmosphere.

The pumpkin lanterns on the street overflowed with warm light in the rain curtain, and the young couples who went out in the rain exchanged gifts to highlight the useless sense of ritual, so as to create a wonderful feeling of "love is stronger than gold, and the world is old". Illusion, the reality of talking about comforting chicken feathers, at least at this moment, is really peaceful and happy.

Jiang Bei wiped off the mist on the glass window, revealing the beautiful and chaotic night outside. He still had the red apple that Jiangnan gave him when he went out in the morning in his pocket, saying that eating apples on Christmas Eve would bless his life with safety and success.

Xu Shi was infected by the atmosphere outside the window, Jiang Bei accidentally took out the apple, and suddenly there was a "bang", the door of the office was knocked open unexpectedly, Jiang Bei seemed to be eating alone, and someone grabbed the bag, shaking his hand, the apple bone Dust rolled on the ground.

Lin An was wearing his 25 yuan per catty sand-carved leather coat, followed Apple with his eyes, wanted to say something, and suddenly remembered the business, and asked: "Brother Jiang, the show has started, can you watch it?"

The parents of the missing children have only contacted two so far, and the remaining three, whether they have changed their numbers or something, have not heard from them for a long time.After careful consideration, Deputy Bureau Song decided to accept Lin Xiao's proposal and cooperate with the TV station to make a special report, hoping that the remaining family members would contact the Municipal Bureau in time after seeing the program, and spread a wave of precautions on preventing child abduction and loss.

The show started at [-]:[-] tonight, and Lin An was finally rejected by Deputy Director Song on the grounds that he was a "brain fan". He didn't have the chance to be in the same frame as the goddess, so he chose Mighty Will Qu Fugui doesn't know how to be prostitute, and Yang Chao, who treats money and beautiful women like dung, accompanies Lin Xiao on the show.

Jiang Bei picked up the apple on the ground, wiped it with a paper towel, waved Lin An out, and turned on the computer to watch the live broadcast.

Lin Xiao is used to being in Vanity Fair, and she has a strong ability to control the field. She knew that the dry popularization of precautions would not be effective, so she first told her story with earnestness.

In the camera, she wears just the right light makeup, and she looks like an invincible new-age woman. Only when talking about her son, her softness is revealed inadvertently.

At this time, Yang Chao hadn't played yet, so he took the time to send a message to Jiang Bei, saying that as soon as Lin Xiao came out, the number of broadcasts would rise. I'm ashamed to speak.

The rain did not stop.

Jiang Nan just came back from the outside, holding the ingredients bought from the supermarket in his arms, even though he expected that Jiang Bei would not go home to spend Christmas Eve with him, he couldn't treat himself badly, he had to eat and celebrate the festival.

Before entering the door, he took out a handful of the milk box at the door as usual, and as expected, he took out a box of milk, the brand was the same as what he usually drank.

——Cheng Qiong said before that she would not go downstairs to disturb the two young people. Since she moved here, except for a meal, she has never gone downstairs to see it. She was afraid that the young people would worry about her, so she thought of a way. Put a box of milk with stickers at the door every day to prove that she is safe and reassure young people.

Before, Jiangnan always thought that Cheng Qiong regarded him as Cheng Ye, but Cheng Ye didn't like to drink milk, and couldn't get used to the sweet smell. Cheng Qiong's move was not only to reassure Jiangnan, but also to tell Jiangnan with actions that she He was not regarded as Cheng Ye, two people were two people.

Jiang Nan opened the door with still warm sweet milk in his mouth. Dirty Xixi saw that the two-legged beast came back, and closed his eyes to sleep indifferently. Anyway, the two-legged beast would not give it food, so he loved it to death.

"Nizi," Jiang Nan kicked the cat's ass with his toes, "If I hadn't looked at the pet store more in the crowd, would your dad have brought you back? Maybe you were still killed by that Maine Coon cat in the pet store." Big brother slaps, you should thank me for having a cat bed to sleep in and cat food to eat today, but look at your attitude now?"

Dirty Xixi flicked her tail impatiently to express her disapproval: Obviously my dad brought me home because of my strange appearance, and it has something to do with you.

"Be upright," Jiang Nan picked up the cat and put it in his arms.As winter came, the cat's face became darker and darker, as if it had grown from a small coal digger to a mine owner, and the uglier it looked.

Jiang Nan put it back into the cat's litter with disgust: "This beauty is not his own."

Dirty Xixi whimpered.

Do you have that serious illness?

It's a pity that Jiangnan couldn't understand cat language, so he walked into the kitchen with his slippers to work, put the ingredients into the casserole to make soup, while waiting, he turned on the TV, and watched Yang Chao with a straight face talking about the precautions for preventing children from being abducted and lost. The manuscript Song Deputy Bureau wrote to him was too down-to-earth, and it really didn't match his upright sitting posture.

Jiang Nan nestled on the sofa, looked sleepy, and suddenly heard a knock on the door, subconsciously thinking that Jiang Bei had come back, and got up to open the door.

Cheng Qiong was standing at the door holding a large porcelain bowl, carefully looking into the room: "Is Xiao Jiang at home?"

Jiang Nan realized immediately that Jiang Bei would not knock on the door when he returned to his home.He staggered and let Cheng Qiong come in: "No, I'm probably working overtime."

"Oh," Cheng Qiong put the porcelain bowl on the table, "Have you eaten yet? I made some soup and brought it for you two. I remember you like sweets, so I added some jujubes and chestnuts."

Jiang Nan smelled the food aroma wafting from the kitchen, which was the same as the soup Cheng Qiong served.

"By the way, the last time Police Officer Yang asked me about Ono's friend...the one whose surname is Liu..."

Cheng Qiong's sudden visit was obviously not as simple as delivering a soup, she still remembered what Yang Chao had told her.

Jiang Nan poured her a cup of hot water and asked her to sit and talk.

Cheng Qiong showed a sense of embarrassment in breaking into a newcomer's new house, rubbing his hands uncomfortably, and said after a while: "I don't know if it will be useful to you."

"It's okay, you say."

"I remember when I adopted Ono, I met him in the orphanage. At that time, his surname was not Liu, and I almost didn't recognize him when I grew up." Cheng Qiong held the water glass, thinking back to more than ten years ago, "I want to adopt He is a healthy child, and he even went to the orphanage to see him, and he immediately fell in love with Xiao Ye."

Jiang Nan was not surprised at all. Whether he was a child or an adult, Cheng Ye was extremely outstanding in the crowd, and he belonged to the eye-catching category.

Cheng Qiong went on to say: "But that orphanage doesn't allow me to choose children, whoever I get is the one who gets it, saying that adopting a child is not buying vegetables in the vegetable market, every child has the right to be adopted, if everyone chooses , What about the remaining disabled children. At that time, I went to more than one orphanage, and a few orphanages have this regulation, and I can understand it."

"But I finally found a satisfactory one, and I don't want to give up."

Jiang Nan: "What happened next?"

Speaking of this, Cheng Qiong was a little embarrassed, and said "Hey": "I don't know what I was thinking. During that time, I often went to the orphanage to see Xiao Ye. I thought that the relationship would be good. Maybe the dean would allow me to adopt him. Yes. I always thought it was a rigid rule that the orphanage didn’t allow children to be adopted, until one day I saw a pair of parents pick a child away, and the child looked stupid.”

"I was young at the time, so why would someone pick me but I couldn't? I took the information and went to the dean to reason. The dean probably found me annoying and recommended a boy named Liu. He was thin when he was young. Damn, I’ve grown up and grown up, and I’ve only met once, so I didn’t recognize it for a while. You said that adopting a child is such a big deal, and I would definitely not do it if you just push someone to me. After a few days, the dean seemed to want to Got it, let me know that if the information is qualified, Ono can be adopted.”

Jiangnan captured important information at once, that disabled children can be adopted, but healthy children cannot be adopted, unless they fight a protracted battle like Cheng Qiong.

I have to say that the adoption mechanism of orphanages is complicated enough, but what kind of parents would choose to adopt disabled children?Was Cheng Ye really adopted because of Cheng Qiong's insistence?

Cheng Qiong was afraid that Jiang Bei would come back suddenly and disturb their world of two, so he left after speaking.

Jiang Nan fell into deep thought, and didn't come back to his senses until he heard the sound of puffing and puffing from the kitchen, and hurried to clean up the overflowing stove.

At this time, the rain suddenly became heavier, crackling and beating on the roof, and this Christmas Eve was even more humid.

A heavy wine-red curtain was drawn on the stage of the performance hall of the Welfare Institute. The young actors were already ready, and the childcare workers also sat in the auditorium one after another, waiting for the performance to kick off.However, the opening time had already passed, and the curtain remained motionless, as if waiting for an important guest.

The audience couldn't wait, and began to get restless, whispering to each other.

In order to stabilize everyone's emotions, President Qiu Zongfu asked someone to turn on the large-screen LCD TV hanging on the roof.The TV seemed to be broken, and the sound could not be transmitted to the stereo, and there were only a few fixed channels, and the news would come when it was turned on.

——Yang Chao and Lin Xiao on the screen staged a silent pantomime. When Lin Xiao talked about his son, he couldn't help crying. Because there was no sound, he looked extremely funny, quite like a comedian.

Qiu Zongfu didn't bother to fix the broken TV, and was anxious to appease the young actors backstage.

Qiu Xingyu was wearing that red princess dress. Judging from the fabric and threading, it was an expensive dress. She cherished it very much. She was afraid that the skirt would get wrinkled. She didn't even dare to sit down and walked anxiously on a pair of small leather shoes. come and go.

"Dean, haven't you come yet? It's so slow, I'm sleepy."

Qiu Zongfu tightened the bow tie on her head for her: "Hurry up, isn't it raining outside? Get stuck in traffic and wait a little longer."

"Hmph!" Qiu Xingyu stomped her feet, and the silver bell bracelet on her wrist made a jingling sound. She stared at Qiu Zongfu from bottom to top, as if blaming him for not explaining clearly to the guest.

"Hurry up, wait a little longer." Qiu Zongfu perfunctory her, then turned to look for Qiu Feng who was sitting in the corner.

Qiu Feng needs to play Santa Claus to distribute gifts to children on Christmas Eve. He is carrying a red bag full of gifts.

He had seen it, and the gift was the same as Jiangnan sent last time. There was an apple and a box of chocolates. He heard that the price was expensive.

He counted and found that there was an extra serving. He remembered that Jiangnan loves candy, and wanted to give the extra to Jiangnan. Although Jiangnan could afford expensive chocolates, he always felt that the gift from "Santa Claus" had a special meaning.

Qiu Feng took out his mobile phone, quickly found Jiangnan's number, and wanted to invite him to watch the performance, and secretly gave him a gift by the way.

But it's raining.

Do you want to disturb him?

Qiu Feng hesitated, deleted and changed the message in the dialog box.

At this moment, the heavy door of the performance hall was pushed open with a creaking sound.

Qiu Xingyu exclaimed in surprise, "Here we come!"

Not only the young actors waiting for the scene, but even Qiu Zongfu walked around, quickly adjusted his appearance, and hurriedly greeted him out.

The man came in the rain, he was carrying a small child, without an umbrella, his ironed coat was not wet at all, not even a hair was messed up, and he exuded an unforgettable elegant temperament.

A surprise visitor can grab more attention than a silent pantomime on TV.The audience looked sideways one after another, but they couldn't see clearly - the man stood in the dim light, his whole face was submerged in the darkness, and he could only see a tall and straight figure.

The man stood there for a long time, staring at the TV diagonally above. On the screen, the policeman and the actress finally exited, and then they took turns scrolling through the photos of the missing children.The sensational news was just a comedy in his eyes, so he laughed silently.

The little boy in his arms has already fallen asleep, maybe he will wake up when Santa Claus distributes the presents, but this is not important, it seems that something more interesting than presents will happen tonight.

There was a commotion in the backstage, Qiu Xingyu went back and forth, hurriedly fumbled out the lip gloss in her schoolbag to touch up makeup, she was so beautiful, with a plump face, pink lips, and a hint of charm that didn't match her age in her cuteness.

Qiu Feng saw that they had all gone behind the curtain to peek at the excitement, so he followed curiously. He was tall and could easily peep through the gap in the curtain to see what was going on under the stage—it turned out that it was a guest, a strange man.

However, what attracted him even more was the news on the TV opposite. He couldn't hear it, but he could read, and he even recognized who the person in the photo was.

It was his former partner!

The headline "Lost Children" Nuo Da caught the eye, Qiu Feng was startled suddenly, and then looked at the companions around him, none of them seemed to have seen the news, and they were looking excitedly at the man off the stage.

Qiu Feng's hand holding the phone began to sweat, and finally shook, completely oblivious to the person standing behind him.

When Qiu Xingyu came back after finishing his makeup, he asked his companion to go away, followed Qiu Feng's line of sight to see the news, and his face became gloomy.She took off the silver bell bracelet on her wrist, quietly put it in Qiu Feng's pocket, and then went down to the backstage to find the remote control to turn off the TV.

Qiu Feng swallowed heavily as if waking up from a nightmare.He turned on the phone pretending to be calm, and deleted "Are you coming to the show" in the dialog box?Just halfway through the deletion, someone took a picture of the back.

"The performance is about to start," Qiu Xingyu saw that he didn't look back, and stood in front of Qiu Feng, repeating, "The performance is about to start, go get ready."

Cold sweat had already soaked Qiu Feng's clothes. He looked at the little girl in front of him. He used to think that the little girl was just like Qiu Xingran, equally beautiful and self-willed.

Yes, Qiu Xingran!He hasn't seen Qiu Xingran for a long time!

Qiu Feng thought of the news, and also thought of Jiangnan's instructions to him, his heart almost jumped out of his chest. Relying on his remaining composure, he gestured to Qiu Xingyu in sign language in a slightly flustered manner.

[I'll go to the bathroom first. 】

Qiu Xingyu smiled sweetly: "Alright, remember to come back soon."