remnants

Nie Qing and Luo Qi spent a whole afternoon at Yuan Liang's house.

Originally, they thought it would be easy to investigate only Lin Nuan's information, but what they didn't expect was that in Yuan Liang's huge information network, there was very little information related to Lin Nuan.

In Yuan Liang's words: It seems that someone has deliberately cleaned it up.

"As for what?!" Luo Qi was stunned when he heard it, "Doing so much to conceal the failure of the operation??"

"The key is not whether or not, but Dean Su's means and influence." Nie Qing frowned and said, "No matter how powerful he is, he was only a deputy dean seven years ago. How could he be so big? authority to do such a thing?"

"Could it be that he asked someone else to do it?" Yuan Liang asked, "For example, someone like me."

"It's possible. But..." Nie Qing left half a sentence behind.

He just suddenly thought of what Ma Weiyuan said to him before: Behind Su Yongdeng, there must be someone more terrifying than him.

And this person is very likely to be an important person who assists Su Yongdeng in burying all these evidences.

Nie Qing chose not to tell Yuan Liang and Luo Qi about this for the time being, because he didn't want them to speculate too much.At the same time, he was also worried that if there really was such a person behind Su Yongdeng, his power and power would probably be far greater than Su Yongdeng's, and he might be burned if he conducted an investigation rashly. Nie Qing didn't want to involve them in the potential in danger.

So at the moment, in these two directions, whether it is the identity of the murderer or Su Yongdeng's backer, Nie Qing intends to find out by himself.

One afternoon passed, and at around [-] o'clock in the evening, Nie Qing finally called a stop, Yuan Liang and Luo Qi's faces were full of frustration.

"It took so long to find out that Lin Nuan was an orphan, and the orphanage he stayed in was demolished 12 years ago, and now it is difficult to find relevant personnel. After all, 12 years ago, no matter who The use of the Internet or electronic storage is not so developed, and many materials are in paper format, and they are lost as soon as they are lost." Yuan Liang said despondently on the table, rubbing his stomach.

"Orphan..." Nie Qing leaned against the floor-to-ceiling windows of the room and muttered, "If Lin Nuan was an orphan, then his life experience would become complicated—and at the same time simpler. At least this would explain why Dean Su told the murderer in advance. I didn't notice the relationship with Lin Nuan, because Lin Nuan didn't have a guardian in name, and I suspect that even Lin Nuan himself may not know his relationship with the murderer."

"Team leader, what do you mean to say that the murderer might be Lin Nuan's family who abandoned him back then, but they didn't dare to recognize him after they found him, and just silently protected and helped him? But he didn't expect that Lin Nuan How could such a thing happen to Nuan... and now he decides to avenge his relatives in a fit of anger?" Luo Qi sat with his legs apart facing the back of the chair, put his chin on the backrest and looked at Nie Qing and asked.

Nie Qing thought for a moment in silence, then nodded slightly, "This is the biggest possibility I can think of right now, but I dare not say it is absolute. Brother Liang, you just found out about the orphan who Lin Nuan stayed with The orphanage is called the Star Orphanage, right? Can you find out more information about this orphanage? I think we can use it as a starting point, maybe we can dig up more things."

"Well, it's much more convenient to find information about orphanages than to find people." Yuan Liang turned his head, and clicked on the black mechanical keyboard that even the words on the keys were almost wiped clean, and then clicked on the screen. Called up several windows and showed Nie Qing: "This orphanage was established in 1990, that is, 26 years ago. The original site was located between No. 220 and No. 230 Wenhua Road, Funing County, Pingcheng City—"

"Where do you think it is located?" Nie Qing abruptly interrupted Yuan Liang's words.

Yuan Liang turned around with a confused expression on his face, "Funing County Wenhua Road..."

"Team leader?!" Luo Qi's reaction was similar to Nie Qing's, and he held back for another two seconds before asking, "Could it be a coincidence?"

"What coincidence? What are you talking about?" Yuan Liang was still confused.

"Brother Liang, the place you just mentioned is not only the former site of the Star Orphanage, but also the place where the two recent murders took place." Nie Qing explained to him with a solemn expression.

"No way..." Yuan Liang's eyes widened, "What's going on? Is the orphanage ruins haunted?"

Nie Qing: "...Don't say it's useless. You can check and see what else you can find."

"Okay, hurry up." Yuan Liang complained and turned back, staring at the screen and read: "26 years ago, the director of the Star Orphanage when it was established was—ah! It turned out to be her!"

"You have to sell it?"

Nie Qing walked over from the window helplessly, and was about to lean over to look when Yuan Liang said: "The director of the orphanage back then is the current director of the Pingcheng Education Bureau and one of the representatives of the People's Congress of our province Y. , Hong Jiajia."

"Hong Jiajia." Nie Qing recited the name silently, and a shrewd and capable female image with exquisite face, graceful figure, and wearing various high-end suits and skirts was active in various occasions all year round.

This Hong Jiajia can be regarded as a well-known figure in Pingcheng and even the entire province of Y.

Nie Qing had heard of her when she was still in high school, and she never faded from people's sight, but became more and more active. It seemed that her career was developing very smoothly.

However, I heard that Hong Jiajia is now at the age of knowing her destiny, but she is still unmarried and has no children. Some people who are jealous of her will inevitably gossip behind her back, sour or astringent, but the theme is nothing more than It was mocking her for forgetting her "duty" as a woman.

Getting married, having children, and having children is what a woman should do.

If there is no complete family, no matter how successful this woman is in her career, she is not worthy of being admired or praised, because she is following "devious ways" and pursuing "ideas outside her job". Heterogeneous.

This is the prevailing perception in society today of women who want to pursue personal and professional success.

A woman who is not married and does not have children sometimes gets even worse evaluations than a woman who is a mistress.

This is really ridiculous, shameful, and sad.

Nie Qing has always been very repulsed by such views.Probably because he himself belongs to the so-called "marginal groups of society", he is very disgusted with this "wall of restraint" built by stubborn "moral barriers".In his view, this is no different from the extremely ridiculous idea of ​​"preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires".

Therefore, although he had never had any contact with Hong Jiajia before, Nie Qing always had a natural affection for her, and he admired her very much.

But now, after hearing that she used to be the director of the orphanage, he respected her even more, thinking that it was probably because she had no children that she would use this method to help the homeless Returning children.

However, what happened to her orphanage?Why was it demolished 12 years ago?Is she related to the current owner of the former orphanage?

These are all things Nie Qing is very eager to figure out.

"Where is Hong Jiajia now?" Nie Qing asked suddenly, "If she is in the Municipal Education Bureau, I can go find her right away."

"What time is it? I'm off work early." Yuan Liang opened a small code window while talking, quickly entered a few characters into it, and hit enter twice, and another pop-up appeared on the screen. Something similar to an excel form, and then he continued: "However, Hong Jiajia is indeed not in Pingcheng today. Her secretary's schedule shows that Hong Jiajia will take the bus early this Monday morning—that is, on October [-]rd. The plane departs for City A at [-]:[-], and I won't be back until [-]:[-] tomorrow morning."

"Okay...then I'll go find her tomorrow." Nie Qing sighed helplessly.

Just as he was talking, Nie Qing's cell phone vibrated suddenly. He took it out and saw that it was a short message from an unfamiliar number, which said: I sent my third brother back to your home.

"Why did you leave the hospital so soon?" Nie Qing subconsciously frowned.

Both Luo Qi and Yuan Liang looked at him: "Who was discharged from the hospital?"

"It's nothing..." Nie Qing thought for a while, replied to the number with "Got it", and then said to Yuan Liang, "Brother Liang, why don't you come here today and let me know if you have any new progress later."

"Okay, okay, it's over! I'm almost starving to death!" Yuan Liang jumped up from the chair, raised his arm, and took down a box of spicy beef noodles in barrels from a cabinet next to the wall. Then he took two more boxes and said, "You two haven't eaten anything today, have you? Let's eat together?"

"I won't do it. I have other things to do. I am in a hurry to go back." As Nie Qing said, he caught a glimpse of Luo Qi's greedy look and dared not say that he wanted to eat, so he patted him and said, "You stay here." Let's eat with brother Liang, don't starve. But it's not delicious, you just make it up, and I'll treat you when the case is solved."

"It's a deal!" Yuan Liang quickly agreed.

Luo Qi also nodded excitedly, he couldn't take his eyes off the instant noodles in Yuan Liang's hand.

Seeing this, Nie Qing said, "I won't hinder you from eating, I'll see you later", then opened the door and left, got into the small old Nissan pickup, and drove home with a bang.

When entering the door, Nie Qing found that the whole room was pitch black, except for a faint light leaking from under the bedroom door, like the light of a desk lamp.

Nie Qing was inexplicably nervous, walked over and knocked lightly on the door twice before hearing Lian Xu's voice, "Come in."

Nie Qing pushed the door open and entered.

In the bedroom, as expected, only one desk lamp was turned on, and it was turned on at the lowest level.

Nie Qing saw Yu Sheng lying sideways on the bed. He couldn't tell whether he was asleep or awake, but felt that he seemed extremely tired.

And Lian Xu was sitting upright on a single sofa beside the bed. When Nie Qing approached him, he found that his eye circles were a little red, and he looked at him with anger and resentment.

"How is he?" Nie Qing was a little uneasy.

But Lian Xu didn't answer his words, but just stared at him, looking at his expression as if he couldn't help but yell at him as soon as he opened his mouth.

Nie Qing had no choice but to give up continuing to ask him, turned around, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down gently, leaned down to check on Yu Sheng's situation, only to find that his face was pale and his forehead was covered with sweat.

"Asheng?" Nie Qing stretched out his hand to cover Yu Sheng's forehead, and found that he was running a fever again, and his heart tightened violently. He turned his head and asked Lian Xu: "How can you send him back when he looks like this?! You should stay here." Infusion in the hospital!"

When Lian Xu heard this, he sprang up like an arrow from the string in an instant, rushed to Nie Qing and grabbed his collar tightly, his eyes were fierce but his voice was extremely low, "You know you are worried now ?? Then what the hell did you do yesterday?!"

"Yesterday..." Nie Qing remembered what happened yesterday, and his heart was overwhelmed by an extremely strong sense of guilt. He didn't resist, let Lian Xu drag him, and whispered: "Yesterday I thought you were with him Together……"

"Think?!" Lian Xu looked at Nie Qing at this moment as if he wanted to kill him on the spot, "What was the condition of the third brother yesterday?? Can you rest assured to let him go out alone just based on a 'think'?!!"

Nie Qing's pupils shrank suddenly, "I know...it's my fault——"

"A 'no' is the end—"

"Well……"

Just when the fuse between Nie Qing and Lian Xu was about to burn out, Yu Sheng lying on the bed suddenly groaned softly.

Nie Qing looked away from Lian Xu's face in an instant, turned to Yu Sheng, leaned over his shoulder and whispered to his ear, "A Sheng?"

"Hmm..." Yu Sheng snorted again, closed his eyes and turned slightly backwards, his voice was still hoarse when he spoke, "Ah Qing..."

"It's me." Nie Qing carefully passed his arm under his neck, then lay down on his side, and hugged him gently from behind, "Asheng... how do you feel now? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine..." Yu Sheng turned back again, leaned into Nie Qing's arms and gasped, "It's just that I'm getting old...injured...and having a fever...I just can't stand it..."

"If you can't resist, why don't you stay in the hospital?" Nie Qing couldn't be strict with him now, so the worry and nervousness in his heart turned into an extremely helpless tone, "When I left this morning, you Isn’t the fever going away? Why is it getting worse now?”

"Because I miss you... I feel hot all over when I think of you... Maybe I have a fever..." Yu Sheng raised his head slightly when he said this, and the hot breath that became hot because of the fever sprayed on Nie Qing's chin Between the neck and the neck, coupled with provocative words, the heart beats faster in an instant.

Unfortunately, now is not a good time for heart-pounding.

Nie Qing's expression couldn't be more helpless, but Lian Xu stood beside him, walking or staying, flushed with embarrassment.

"Asheng...have you eaten today? How about I cook some porridge." Nie Qing resisted the urge to take off someone's pants, put his head back on the pillow, and got down by himself. He got out of bed and stood up and said, "You rest for a while, I'll go get some food, and if your fever still doesn't improve in the evening, come back to the hospital with me."

"Oh..." Yu Sheng replied reluctantly, then hugged the quilt pitifully and turned back inside, wheezing.

Nie Qing looked as if he didn't know what to do, shook his head helplessly, and said to Lian Xu: "Then you stay here with him first, and eat together when it's done."

Lian Xu turned his head away and ignored him.

Seeing this, Nie Qing didn't say anything else, and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

In the bedroom, Lian Xu waited for Nie Qing to leave, then squatted beside Yu Sheng, and asked in a low voice, "Third brother, is it really possible to hide this?"

"Try to hide it... see how long my underground work can last." Yu Sheng said, and took out a small plastic box from under the mattress on the side where he was sleeping. It contained the invisible mask he newly equipped today. Glasses.

"But third brother... If you really wear it, Nie Qing should be able to tell it easily."

"Let's talk after seeing it... Otherwise, do I have any other options?" Yu Sheng sighed.

"How long can I hide it, anyway, I'm afraid it won't take me long..." Yu Sheng's tone was a bit sad, and he hid the contact lens back after speaking.

Lian Xu stared at him intently, with water around his eyes, "Third Brother..."

"Xiao Xu, it's a blessing, not a curse. A disaster can't be avoided...don't cry."