Lin Jiaqiao immediately added 'call Xiang Xiaoyuan' to the memo: "No, I promise. ... It's strange that you haven't, I've already started missing you."
Xiang Xiaoyuan sighed: "Me too."
Lin Jiaqiao whispered, "Actually, I've always been curious about why you like Ying Zhiwan."
"It's not that Ying Zhiwan is bad. It's just that he doesn't seem to be particularly good. Why is it him?"
Xiang Xiaoyuan did not answer her, but asked: "What about you, why do you like Qin Guan?"
Lin Jiaqiao thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. If I have to find a reason, it's probably because we've always been together."
"He has been with me since I can remember, and then one day, I found that I couldn't live without him."
"Then he confessed his love to me, and we got together."
Nodding to Xiaoyuan, "You two are indeed childhood sweethearts."
Lin Jiaqiao was surprised, "I never told you."
Xiang Xiaoyuan said: "There was no formal introduction. But I guessed it."
She couldn't help laughing. "You, one day you directly pulled Qin Guan in front of me and said he was your boyfriend. You didn't even introduce us to each other and dragged us to sing KTV together. It was so embarrassing."
Lin Jiaqiao recalled carefully, and it seemed that this happened. She said, "But I remember that we all had a lot of fun."
Xiang Xiaoyuan replied: "Because Qin Guan and I both want you to be happy, we just bite the bullet and try to liven up the atmosphere."
She added: "Actually, I have always been curious about your love life, but I felt that it was your privacy, so I didn't dare to ask."
"I also discussed this with Ying Zhiwan, and he told me to ask you directly. But at that time, you know, you are my first friend, and I know how to get along with friends. I don't know if my question will offend you."
"Besides, I'm also afraid that you might misunderstand that I'm interested in Qin Guan."
"You're so nice. I'm afraid of losing you, so I'm always so careful, afraid of making you angry."
Thinking back to his youth, Lin Jiaqiao admitted that he did live a rough life and always ignored the feelings of people around him. In fact, he still hasn't gotten rid of this bad habit.
She was always lucky enough to receive a lot of love, and over time, she took this love for granted.
I must correct this in the future, she said to herself.
Lin Jiaqiao shook his head: "I really didn't notice anything. - Wait a minute."
Lin Jiaqiao glanced at her, "You wouldn't fall in love with Ying Zhiwan just because he gossiped with you, would you?"
He gestured to Xiaoyuan about losing the Korean male market, "This is only a small part of the reason."
"Actually, I don't know how I fell in love with him. Anyway, when he said he wanted to confess his love to me, I was very happy and wanted to agree to him on the spot."
"Maybe it's because he gives me the feeling of home."
"I really didn't like him in the first place. We lived together for a month and I even kept pepper spray under my pillow."
"Then one day, I saw Liu Yang bullying someone at school."
"You still remember the old man who picked up rubbish near our school? He was the one with a confused mind."
"That day, Liu Yang brought a box of biscuits and asked the old man if he wanted to eat them. The old man said yes, so he dumped the biscuits on the ground and asked the old man to pick them up and eat them. Ying scolded Liu Yang that night, saying that Liu Yang was sick, and went to the convenience store to buy a box lunch for the old man."
Lin Jiaqiao probed: "And then you fell in love with him?"
Xiang Xiaoyuan: "Not really. I felt that he was a bit like you, so I wasn't so averse to him anymore."
Lin Jiaqiao pondered for a while and asked seriously: "Is it possible that the person you love is actually me?"
Xiang Xiaoyuan also thought seriously: "… It's not impossible."
Lin Jiaqiao was very regretful: "I wish we had discovered our feelings for each other earlier. You are prettier than Qin Guan, and your breasts are bigger than Qin Guan's. I would definitely prefer to spend my whole life with you."
Xiang Xiaoyuan cooperated with her: "Who said it wasn't true? You are cuter than Ying Zhiwan, and your personality is better than his. I want to marry you more."
Qin Guan and Ying Zhiwan had just come out of the bathroom when they heard these green words.
Ying Zhiwan was curious, "Why did you come here today? Are you afraid that I will live a few more days?"
He said dissatisfiedly, "Where can we go with Fairy Gu? You can't even help me go to the toilet."
"What do you mean by Fairy Gu? She is the adopted son of our Lin family." Qin Guan muttered, "He was just here, but he went downstairs after receiving a phone call."
He glanced at her and replied, "Do you think I'd like to go to the bathroom with you?"
Xiang Xiaoyuan lined up the suitcases and labeled them with numbers. The cardboard boxes were visible behind the suitcases.
Lin Jiaqiao was curious: "What's in here? Don't we need to take it?"
He glanced at Xiaoyuan and said, "Evidence from the crime scene."
Lin Jiaqiao was puzzled: "What?"
Ying Zhiwan coughed lightly and said vaguely, "… Captain Lin and his men returned the things in the maze to me after they checked them."
The box was a cardboard box without a lid. Lin Jiaqiao saw several empty bottles of famous liquor and various brand-name jewelry at a glance.
She understood that it was the thing that Liu Yang and his friends dropped into the maze.
The police didn't know whether it belonged to Ying Zhiwan or someone else, so they simply handed it all over to him and let him deal with it himself.
Lin Jiaqiao took out a black baseball cap and asked, "Whose is this?"
This hat is very old, not made to be old, but it has been used for a long time. The hat is torn around, revealing a circle of raw edges, and the "y8l" on it has faded due to washing.
Lin Jiaqiao asked, "Is this a new trendy brand?"
Ying Zhiwan rolled his eyes and said, "You're overthinking it. It's just a copycat."
Lin Jiaqiao was puzzled: "Whose is this? None of you partners want to use knockoffs."
This small group of people doesn't seem to be short of money. And even if they buy fake goods, they won't buy such fake ones.
Ying protested at night: "Who is in the same group with them?"
He said: "They were all without hats, probably left there by homeless people who stayed overnight."
Xiang Xiaoyuan also came over to take a look: "Oh, a Bulgari ring, a Tiffany bracelet, and a Van Cleef & Arpels necklace. He is indeed a rich man. - Eh?"
She picked up half of the jade Buddha from the box. "This one is broken. Where's the other half? What a pity. It's so green. It must be worth a lot of money."
Lin Jiaqiao took a closer look and exclaimed: "Wow, it's so green, it must be some old variety. Is this Xu Yalan's?"
She asked Qin Guan, "Is it hers? I didn't pay attention."
Qin Guan was dissatisfied: "Why would I look at Xu Yalan if I have nothing to do?"
Ying Zhiwan turned his wheelchair over and held Xiang Xiaoyuan's hand, "Let me see—"
He glanced at the jade Buddha, then at Xiang Xiaoyuan, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Asked Xiaoyuan: "What do you want to say?"
Ying Zhiwan was afraid of hurting her self-esteem, so he carefully reminded her: "Is there a possibility that this thing is actually made of plastic?"
Xiang Xiaoyuan and Lin Jiaqiao looked at each other, and the two country bumpkins who had never seen the world shouted, "Oh my God, counterfeiting technology is so advanced now!"
Qin Guan was also surprised, "Is it fake? But it's really green."
Ying Zhiwan was shaken by the shouting of the three people. He said uncertainly: "It should be fake. I can still tell the difference between the feel of jade and plastic."
The four were discussing this half piece of the Buddha when the attending physician, who was due to arrive that evening, arrived.
He asked Ying Zhiwan: "Officer Lin and that kid named Gu are chatting in the small garden. How cold it is. Didn't you tell them that we provide the conference room for free?"
As soon as Gu Yiming arrived at the small garden, he saw Lin Dapeng sitting on the bench.
The sun was shining brightly today, and the temperature was a little higher than yesterday. He was wearing the hood of his down jacket, squinting his eyes, looking half asleep.
Gu Yiming became playful and approached him quietly, putting his cold hand on his neck.
Lin Dapeng shivered with cold and wanted to curse, but when he saw him, he swallowed back all the curse words in his heart and just said unhappily, "You are so lively, Gu Mingming."
Gu Yiming smiled with two rows of small white teeth and handed him the hot drink. "What do you want from me? You're so mysterious."
Lin Dapeng took the drink but didn't drink it.
He asked: "Are you in touch with He Youwei?"
Gu Yiming said: "I need to explain."
"First, it was He Youwei who approached me. Second, I didn't want to talk to her at all. She insisted on leaving me her contact information, but I had already blacklisted her."
Lin Dapeng looked at him for a while and asked, "Do you hate her?"
Gu Yiming answered without hesitation: "Hate."
"But she is not the most hateful one. I know that the culprit is Wang Ruile."
Lin Dapeng looked at him for a while, sighed, and did not continue the topic.
He asked again: "Zhao Ruihe, what are you doing recently?"
Gu Yiming frowned: "I haven't contacted him for a long time."
"He seems to be very busy. I call him but he never answers."
It seemed that he had just realized that this conversation had a deeper meaning. He asked uneasily, "What happened?"
Lin Dapeng said: "Don't call him recently. If he contacts you, remember to notify me."
He stared into Gu Yiming's eyes and said in a deep voice, "He Youwei is missing."