Qin Guan answered the phone almost immediately: "Are you home?"
Lin Jiaqiao heard the sound of toasting and drinking and asked, "Are you at the drinking party?"
Qin Guan responded, "Wait for me at home, I'll be there soon."
Lin Jiaqiao was restless at home and kept harassing Lin Dapeng.
She knocked on the study door:
"Lao Lin, why are you locking the door?"
"Lao Lin, tell me whatever's on your mind. Am I not your little cotton-padded jacket?"
"Lao Lin, I'm serious with you. You should stay at home today and don't go out."
…
She shouted for a long time, but Lin Dapeng didn't come out, so she called Ms. Qiao over first.
Ms. Qiao suggested: "When you finish your work, go and play with Qin Guan instead of wasting time at home."
Lin Jiaqiao was dissatisfied: "I am just concerned about Old Lin."
Lin Dapeng came out of the study and rolled his eyes at her: "With your concern, I will live fifty years less."
"What are you talking about!"
“Nonsense!”
Lin Jiaqiao and Ms. Qiao said at the same time.
Ms. Qiao glared at Lin Dapeng, "It's New Year's Day, can you speak?"
Lin Jiaqiao also glared at Lin Dapeng, "You will be fine. You are blessed with a long life and can live to be a hundred years old."
She was very excited and her eyes were red.
Lin Dapeng was surprised: "Why are you so sentimental today? It's been less than an hour and you've already cried twice."
Ms. Qiao said firmly: "It must be the contact lenses that are piercing your eyes. I have told you so many times that you shouldn't wear those things."
All the sentimentality disappeared.
Lin Jiaqiao looked at her father, "Do you still remember my dream about Old Lin getting into a car accident? It seemed to be today."
After being married for a long time, they have some tacit understanding. Lin Dapeng and Ms. Qiao exchanged glances and immediately started to criticize Lin Jiaqiao for his bad mouth during the New Year.
When Qin Guan entered the room, he saw the mixed doubles and immediately joined the battle to protect Lin Zhizhi. He protected Lin Jiaqiao behind him and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you doing? You're attacking a child before the end of the first month of the year."
Lin Jiaqiao poked his head out from behind Qin Guan and said, "Anyway, Old Lin can't go out today."
Lin Dapeng was speechless. "I have a day off today, where can I go?"
Lin Jiaqiao held his head and said, "Don't go even if Uncle Lu asks you to."
Lin Dapeng was too lazy to pay attention to her and sat on the sofa watching TV.
Lin Jiaqiao pulled Qin Guan into the house and said in a low voice: "I came back from the future."
"Old Lin will die tonight."
Qin watched her for a while and asked, "So, what do we need to do."
Lin Jiaqiao was surprised, "You believed it."
Qin Guan said: "Even for you, this kind of talk is too outrageous."
"I can see you're not lying."
"This is the fifth time, right?" Qin Guan said, "I remember this is the fifth time you said that Lao Lin would die in a car accident."
Lin Jiaqiao was even more surprised, "You remember everything!"
Qin Guan rubbed her head and said, "There is no time to waste now. Tell me what you know."
Lin Jiaqiao then explained everything. She looked at him hopefully: "What do you think?"
Qin Guan frowned, "Since Lao Lin is not taking over any cases now, then there are only two options."
"First, the Municipal Bureau really had something urgent to do, and it was an important matter, so they called Lao Lin away."
"Secondly, he has an unsolved case and important clues, so he has to go."
Lin Jiaqiao felt that both of these matters were very troublesome to deal with, so he suggested: "Otherwise, I will remove the wheels from his car."
Qin Guan thought about it and said, "It seems to be a solution."
He asked, "You just said where did Lao Lin get into trouble?"
Lin Jiaqiao was a little ashamed: "... I'm not sure."
"On the Seaside Boulevard, the road to the cemetery, or the bridge over the sea. I'm not sure."
Qin Guan reminded: "You can only die once."
Lin Jiaqiao told him about his dream, "But, in my memory, Lao Lin died in a different place every time."
Qin Guan had no reasonable explanation and could only comfort him, "It might be a kind of PTSD. Let Lao Gu take a look at it later."
Speaking of Gu Yiming, Lin Jiaqiao thought of the footprints in the snow again.
She never believed that Gu Yiming would harm her, so she forced herself to forget about it and focus on Lin Dapeng.
They agreed to try to get Lin Dapeng to talk to them and first determine if there was any old case.
After everything was arranged, Qin Guan suddenly asked: "Do you feel that it is very quiet today?"
"Usually when we are alone at home, Lao Lin or Gu Yiming always comes and knocks on the door."
The two looked at each other and immediately ran to the living room.
Lin Dapeng is missing.
Lin Jiaqiao shouted to the kitchen, "Mom, where's my dad!"
Ms. Qiao was humming a song while leisurely picking vegetables: "I just received a phone call and went out."
Her words were like a bolt of lightning, striking Lin Jiaqiao on the head.
Qin Guan held her hand and said, "It's okay, that will happen at night."
Lin Jiaqiao said: "What if the butterfly effect..."
She was vague in her words, but Qin Guan understood what she meant and his expression became serious.
Ms. Qiao was puzzled: "Do you need help from your father? Just give him a call."
Qin Guan hung up the phone, "No one answered."
Although Ms. Qiao didn't know what they were doing, she was infected by the two and became nervous: "I, I have the location of his phone on my phone--"
Lin Jiaqiao asked: "Couple location?"
"Yes, yes, that's it." Ms. Qiao explained a little embarrassedly, "What couple positioning? I just want to find my phone more easily."
Lin Jiaqiao didn't have time to tease her and quickly asked, "Where's your phone?"
Ms. Qiao pointed to the bedroom and Qin Guan, with his long legs, had already rushed in.
Lin Jiaqiao followed her into the bedroom and heard him yell, "My phone is dead!"
Lin Jiaqiao made a decision immediately: "You charge your phone and locate it, I'll go to the study to look for clues."
Lin Dapeng has a bad habit of not tidying up his desk immediately after use.
Lin Jiaqiao rushed into the study room. The desk was very clean and seemed to have not been used by anyone.
Lin Jiaqiao looked around but didn't find any clues, so he could only rack his brains:
Lin Dapeng doesn't have the habit of carrying a briefcase, so what was he doing in the study? He even locked the door on purpose so as not to be seen by me.
Instinctively, her eyes drifted to the bookshelf.
Before, Lin Dapeng put his notebook here.
Lin Jiaqiao was searching in a hurry and with great force, and the notebook and dictionary fell down together, with a tear on the inner page.
Lin Jiaqiao didn't bother to remedy the situation and immediately opened it to read.
The notebook was unchanged from when she got it, except that the page "Death of Lin Dapeng" was missing.
At this time, Qin Guan came in and said, "We found Lao Lin."
Lin Jiaqiao stuffed the notebook back and the two of them hurried out.
Ms. Qiao shouted from behind: "Be careful!"
After shouting, I was also wondering: "What are these two people doing?"
Lin Dapeng didn't go far, he was in the nearby woods.
Lin Jiaqiao and Qin Guan saw him from a distance. He was entangled with a stranger and seemed to be about to fight.
I don’t know if it was because he saw Lin Dapeng coming to help, but when the two of them ran up to him, the man had already escaped, leaving only an unpleasant smell in the air.
Qin Guan complained: "Is this person living in a garbage dump?"
Lin Jiaqiao sniffed the air again and found the smell familiar.
She asked Lin Dapeng: "Dad, who was that person just now?"
Lin Dapeng said: "I was just passing by."
The anger on his face had not yet dissipated, but he was trying to show a kind expression, which looked a little weird.
He also knew that this lie was not sincere, so he calmed down for a moment and said, "Let's go home."
It was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
Nothing happened the whole afternoon. Lin Dapeng drove Ms. Qiao out of the kitchen and stayed inside himself.
He looked calm, but everyone knew he was angry.
Lin Jiaqiao wanted to ask him about the notebook, but after trying several times, he was kicked out by Lin Dapeng before he could even open his mouth.
At 7pm, Gu Yiming came back from get off work. As soon as he entered the door, he was complained, "It's New Year's Day, and you're still being irritated by your own child."
"I can understand being angry about not getting married or having children, but being angry about your children not liking your cooking is not tasty—"
He finally realized that the atmosphere was not right and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"
Qin Guan looked at him and said, "Old Lin got mad at the rag collector."
"Why, the scrap collector owes him money—" Gu Yiming seemed to remember something halfway through his sentence, and his expression became a little subtle.
Lin Jiaqiao kept staring at him, and although it was only a short moment, she still noticed it.
She asked, "What's wrong?"
Gu Yiming forced a smile and said, "It's okay."
He saw the package on the shoe cabinet and probably wanted to change the subject, so he asked, "Whose package is this?"
"mine."
I don’t know if it’s because of preconceived ideas, but Lin Jiaqiao always feels that his behavior today is very strange.
She was about to ask something when the kitchen door opened and Lin Dapeng asked, "Gu Yiming is back!"
Gu Yiming didn't say anything, just looked at him.
Finally, Lin Dapeng compromised first. He sighed softly and said, "Come in and help me serve the dishes."
The remaining three people exchanged glances and tiptoed to the kitchen door, trying to eavesdrop on their conversation.
But the kitchen was always quiet.
Ms. Qiao whispered, "It's you two who are causing this, why do you have to involve Mingming?"
Lin Jiaqiao immediately thought of the case in the notebook.
Only then did she slowly realize that, besides Zhao Ruihe, the only person involved in everything was Gu Yiming.
Why did Lin Dapeng get angry and why did he investigate the matter? Did he discover something
The three of them were talking openly in private. Lin Dapeng heard everything clearly and said unhappily, "Come in and eat."
This was the most depressing meal the Lin family had ever had.
After dinner, everyone watched TV on the sofa as usual, but the atmosphere was really weird.
Lin Dapeng and Gu Yiming were both staring at the TV, each thinking about their own thoughts.
The remaining three people exchanged glances, hoping that the other party would step forward to ease the atmosphere.
Finally, Lin Dapeng stood up and said to Gu Yiming, "Come out with me."
Gu Yiming roughly guessed what he wanted to say and replied, "We can do it in the study—"
Lin Dapeng said firmly: "Let's go out and talk."