Lin Qin-Arakawa

(When I posted yesterday, I actually forgot to tag it, and it didn’t show up when I re-tagged it, so I had to re-post it. I’m guilty!)

Lin Tao still didn't recognize him, not ten years ago, nor ten years later

After a case is over, the criminal police team theoretically takes a break, but it is only theoretical. Once a case occurs, they must return to the team as soon as possible.

It was originally Lin Tao's turn to rest today, so he thought it would be a rare opportunity for him to go shopping, and he didn't go too far, so that he could hurry back when he had something to do.

Lin Tao wandered absent-mindedly on the street. As he walked, he came to the restaurant where Qin Ming was invited to dinner last time. He looked up at the signboard of the restaurant. I thought I had nothing to do today and went to see if the little girl was there.

When Lin Tao arrived at the door of the store, Guo Motong just came out of the store. When he saw Lin Tao, he greeted him happily: "Brother Tao! We meet again. Why, are you resting today?"

Lin Tao nodded and said, "Well, theoretically yes. If you have time, I'll treat you to a cup of milk tea to catch up."

"No, Brother Tao, I have a roommate who works in a nearby convenience store. We made an appointment to leave work together. I have to go find her first."

"Your roommate? Is it convenient, together."

"Hey? Is it okay, Brother Tao! That's great, my roommate adores the police!"

Lin Tao followed Guo Motong to another street. As soon as he reached the intersection, he saw many people gathered around the intersection. Lin Tao patted a middle-aged man on the shoulder and asked, "Brother, what's going on in front?"

"A mental patient ran into the convenience store in front and insisted on buying some space superhuman aircraft. The clerk said there was no such thing as him, so he would make a fuss inside, and insisted that the people around him were all... Yes, they were all space destroyers from the planet F22, Delay him from saving the planet or something."

"Huh? Cosmic superman aircraft? Space destroyer? And save the earth?" Lin Tao was stunned when he heard it.

The middle-aged man said again: "He is still holding a fruit knife, it seems that several people have been injured."

As soon as Guo Motong heard that someone was injured, he broke through the crowd and was about to rush in, but Lin Tao grabbed him: "What are you doing?"

"Brother Tao, Xiaoya is working in this convenience store, I have to go and see if she is okay!"

"You wait here! I'll go over." Lin Tao squeezed through the crowd as he spoke.

In the convenience store stood a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy who was fat and white, holding a fruit knife in his hand.From the outside, it can be seen that it is a child with mental retardation, not a mental patient. There are already two policemen trying to persuade them, but it seems to have no effect. There are two other people wearing convenience store uniforms outside the store, who were scratched. Clerk with broken arms and palms.There was also a young girl in a convenience store uniform holding a small first aid kit and treating the wounds of her colleagues.

Seeing Lin Tao approaching, the police hurriedly stopped him and said, "Comrade, it's dangerous here, please go outside."

Lin Tao took out his ID and said, "Lin Tao, Captain of the Criminal Police Detachment of Longpan City. Pass by, come and help me. Is there anything I can do for you?"

The policeman sighed and said, "Captain Lin, this situation is difficult to deal with. This kid has mental disabilities, and it doesn't make sense to talk to him. Just take it off. He has a fruit knife in his hand in case he hurts himself again. Look at this..."

Lin Tao glanced inside, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "I'm here, I guarantee that no one will be hurt!" As he said that, he was about to go in and subdue the boy who was emotionally holding a fruit knife, but he was stopped by someone, and he looked back. Guo Motong didn't know when to follow her.Lin Tao scolded, "What are you doing here? I don't know the danger. How can I see your brother after I hurt you!"

"Brother Tao, get out of the way, I'll come! I know this kid!" Guo Motong let go of Lin Tao and walked to the door of the convenience store, and said softly, "Is that kid Zhang Chao inside?"

The emotional boy froze for a moment when he heard Guo Motong's voice, and then said, "I'm Zhang Chao, who are you?"

"Little Zhang Chao, I'm Teacher Guo! Why don't you know me?"

The boy dropped the fruit knife and took two steps forward, saying, "Teacher! Teacher! Xiaochao misses you!"

"Really? But how can children go out by themselves, where are your parents?"

The boy burst into tears when Guo Motong asked his parents. He ran over and threw himself into Guo Motong's arms: "Teacher, Mom and Dad don't want me anymore. They haven't come back after going out for several days. Teacher, where are Mom and Dad?" It’s not that they were captured by aliens, I want to buy a cosmic superhuman aircraft, and I’m going to save them!”

Lin Tao saw that Guo Motong was quite effective in dealing with the current situation, so he asked the policeman beside him, "Have his parents been notified?"

The policeman shook his head and said, "We found someone who knew the child, but the parents couldn't get in touch. We got in touch with other relatives, who heard the situation and rushed over from Linshi."

"The child said that his parents hadn't come back after going out for a few days, and now they can't be contacted." As a criminal policeman, Lin Tao has already begun to suspect in the wrong direction.

Under Guo Motong's persuasion, the boy had calmed down. Guo Motong was still comforting him patiently. Lin Tao said, "Tongtong, ask him what happened to his parents? Where do they live?"

Guo Motong patiently inquired about the situation at the boy's home, and the girl who treated the wound of a colleague before also came to help apply medicine to the boy's bruised finger. It turned out that this girl was Guo Motong's friend Fang Ya.

After Guo Motong asked about the boy's basic situation, he was led back to the police station, and Fang Ya accompanied the boy.

Lin Tao asked Guo Motong: "Tell me, what about his parents?"

"Xiaochao attends a special education school in Longpan City, and I often do volunteer work. I have met his parents. They run a clothing store at home, so they are usually busy, but the parents love this child very much, no matter how busy they are. He also personally sends the child to school every day. Five days ago in the morning, his parents said they went out to the store, which is normal in normal times, but they never came back after going out this time.”

"Are you sure it was five days ago?"

"Yes, sure, because the school has some problems and needs to repair the water, so the students are given a holiday, which happened to be five days ago."

Lin Tao nodded and remained silent.

Guo Motong wanted to ask Lin Tao if he suspected that something happened to Zhang Chao's parents. Before he could ask, Zhang Chao's aunt and uncle came to the police station. Ask where Xiaochao is and if there is anything wrong.Hearing that the child was fine, he kept bowing to the police, saying that the child was causing you trouble.

Lin Tao asked, "I heard that you came from Linshi?"

Zhang Chao's aunt said: "Yes, comrade policeman, I immediately called Xiaochao's parents, but no one answered my calls, and no one answered the phone in the store, so the two of us hurried over by car."

"Is it possible for his parents to abandon the child?"

"Impossible, impossible! My sister and brother-in-law treat Xiao Chao like a treasure. Although you have also seen that Xiao Chao is different from other children, it is absolutely impossible for my sister and brother-in-law to leave him alone!"

"When was the last time you met?"

"The last time we met...was on the fourth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It was my mother's birthday that day, and all the family members came. I haven't seen each other since then."

"Do you usually have a phone call?"

"Yes, yes, we have more contact with each other, and we often call."

"When was the last call?"

"Monday morning. My sister called me and said that Xiaochao's school had some problems and they had a temporary holiday, and asked if we had time to see him for a few days. Our company was very busy those two days, so we asked whether we should let the child go." Come to my mother's house. My sister said she would call the old lady later and ask."

"Could you please call your mother to confirm?"

"Okay, okay!" Zhang Chao's aunt took out her mobile phone and dialed a landline number. Just a matter, has Lily called you recently?"

The old lady on the phone said, "No, Lily hasn't called me for half a month. What's the matter, what happened?"

"It's okay, I'm just asking, I'll hang up first, and I'll call you later."

Lin Tao pointed to the phone and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Sure, Comrade Police. My mom has a wall calendar. Every time we call her, she happily marks it. It can't be wrong. Comrade Police, is something wrong with my sister? If she What will happen to the child if something goes wrong?"

Lin Tao felt a little headache. He was not very good at dealing with this kind of situation. His specialty was investigation, dealing with criminals, and comforting family members was not his specialty.

Fortunately, comforting women and children is Guo Motong's specialty, and she quickly relieved Lin Tao.

Lin Tao told the police colleagues at the police station: "The child's parents have been missing for five days, and there was no contact during that time. I suspect there may be a case."

The policeman said: "You have to find someone first, so you criminal police can take over?"

Lin Tao took out his mobile phone and looked at it. No one called him during this time. He put away his mobile phone and said, "I'm on vacation today, and I'll help."

The policemen went to Zhang Chao's home and their clothing store in two ways. Lin Tao followed to the clothing store. When he arrived at the door of the clothing store, he found that the door of the clothing store was closed. He asked the owner next door, who said that the store was closed. It has not been open for business for a few days.

Lin Tao looked at the shutter door with his hips on his hips, and said, "Generally, when this kind of store is temporarily closed, there will be a notice posted to inform them of the closing time. They didn't post a notice, and there was no sign of closing. I think we need to go in and have a look. And , I seem to smell blood."

Lin Tao went to pick the lock without saying a word. At this time, the police who went to Zhang Chao's house called to say that there was nothing unusual there.When the phone was dropped, Lin Tao had already pried open the lock of the shutter door, and when the shutter door was opened, there was a bloody handprint on the glass door inside.Lin Tao didn't bring a gun, so he raised his spirits and pushed open the glass door to enter the house. The moment the door was pushed open, there was a strong smell of blood rushing towards his face.

There were bloodstains left by dragging on the ground, and Lin Tao followed the bloodstains all the way to another room behind the shop that was used as a warehouse, and found two dead bodies, a man and a woman, in the corner of the room.

Lin Tao went back outside, called for backup, and then called Qin Ming.

Qin Ming was cutting the fabric when he received the call from Lin Tao, and answered the phone habitually, "I'm Qin Ming."

Section Chief Qin was never late, especially when he was out on site, so he arrived at the site quickly.

After preliminary inspection, the time of death was about four days. Since it was already autumn and the murderer turned on the air conditioner in the store, the degree of corruption of the corpse was much lighter and there was no serious corpse odor.

The police collected the evidence at the scene one by one, and took photos of all the traces. Qin Ming took off his gloves and stood next to Lin Tao who was looking at the door of the clothing store. After looking at it for a while, he said, "This rolling door is very Special, it can be locked from the inside and outside. This kind of shops transformed from residential buildings facing the street have a back door, so the murderer probably didn't enter through the front door. The good news is that I just checked it, and the surveillance The drive's hard drive is still there."

Old Chu said that Section Chief Qin sometimes cherishes words like gold and sometimes makes long speeches. He has learned how to cherish words like gold. Lin Tao was very curious about this long speech, so he said, "Old Qin, if you find anything else, let's talk about it!"

Qin Ming put his hands on his hips, pointed at Lin Tao, and said, "You are a criminal policeman." Then he pointed to himself: "And I am a forensic doctor."

"Understand!"

The case was not complicated and with the surveillance video in the store, it was quickly solved. It was a simple robbery and homicide case.It's just that the poor child became an orphan.

Zhang Chao was finally sent to the orphanage, accompanied by Lin Tao and Guo Motong, none of the child's relatives showed up, and those adults who had been very kind before were hiding from this newly orphaned child like a plague god. child.

Qin Ming appeared in the orphanage for the first time. Lin Tao saw him at the gate of the orphanage. Lin Tao was surprised and asked Qin Ming, "Old Qin, why are you here?" As far as he knew, Qin Ming had always been unwilling to appear here. Such an occasion, not to mention that this matter is not something he has to participate in.

Qin Ming shook his head and said, "It's nothing." Qin Ming turned around and was about to leave.

Lin Tao grabbed Qin Ming and said, "Old Qin! You're here, why don't you go in and have a look?"

Qin Ming still shook his head, he didn't need to go in, he didn't sympathize with the child, and he didn't have to come to witness anything, he came here more like he came to greet his former self.

Qin Ming thought again when he was a teenager. After his parents passed away one after another, no relatives were willing to take him in. He was taken back to the countryside by his elderly grandmother. He used to think that he could slowly heal the wounds in his heart. He studied hard and hoped to become a forensic doctor one day. , He thought he could repay grandma's kindness.

The death of his grandma in the second year of high school gave him another heavy blow. He remembered that it was also a night of heavy rain.

Later... it was Lin Tao who gave him new hope. He liked Lin Tao, his youthful appearance on the court, and his heartless smile at any time, like a lighthouse in the dark night, which gave him hope. Light and redemption.

"Old Qin! Old Qin! Qin Ming!"

Qin Ming was a little lost in thought, and he didn't come back to his senses until Lin Tao called his name.

Meeting Lin Tao's gaze, Qin Ming said, "It's nothing, I was just thinking that there is another person like me who is an orphan." Qin Ming's tone was very flat, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

Lin Tao had heard a little about Qin Ming, but Lin Tao was not born to comfort others. He scratched his hair for a long time before he could say: "Don't be sad, don't you still have me!"

Yes, and Lin Tao.Even if Lin Tao just treats him as a friend, that's enough.

There was no case, and everyone in the criminal police team got off work on time. Lin Tao sat alone in the criminal police team's office and repeatedly watched the surveillance video in the clothing store.Looking at the bloody murder scene, Lin Tao felt that there was no wave in his heart. Could it be that he was really numb to the blood?

Lin Tao turned off the video and stretched, suddenly remembered that he hadn't gone to Lao Chu to talk about Qin Ming, but Lao Chu had already left work.Lin Tao felt a little bored and wanted to sit in the office for a while. Anyway, he was alone at home and had nothing to do.

"Aren't you going?" Lin Tao was startled by the voice behind him, and almost fell off the chair. He supported the chair and turned around. Qin Ming stood two steps away behind him.

"Old Qin, when did you come?"

"After get off work."

Lin Tao raised his wrist and looked at his watch. Four or ten minutes had passed since the off-duty time.

"Old Qin, are you...waiting for me?"

"Thank you for sending me home last time. As a thank you, I sincerely invite you to my house for a cup of coffee." Qin Ming said it was a sincere invitation, but there was no expression on his face.

Lin Tao became interested, and said with a mean smile: "There is nothing to show courteousness to, either adultery or robbery. That's what you said!"

"Then, forget it." Qin Ming showed a sincere and hypocritical smile, turned and left.

Lin Tao stopped Qin Ming and said, "I'm just kidding! How can I not go when Section Chief Qin kindly invites me!"

Qin Ming glared at Lin Tao, thinking that he looked like a Shiba Inu.

Qin Ming's home has a simple industrial style, heavy iron doors, metal-style furniture, and the cold touch seems to be quite in line with Qin Ming's personality.

Qin Ming went to the kitchen to prepare coffee. Lin Tao was an acquaintance, and he was not polite in Qin Ming's house. He touched left and right, and shook hands with Qin Ming's bone specimens. After shaking hands, he yelled: "Old Qin , your little skull feels good!"

"Don't mess with Evan."

Evan?Does this little skull have a name?Lin Tao crossed his waist and looked at the skeleton specimens in front of him in disbelief. After watching for a long time, Lin Tao started to play with the skeleton specimens on a whim.

When Qin Ming walked out of the kitchen with two cups of coffee, he saw Lin Tao standing in the middle of the room, admiring Evan with satisfaction. When Qin Ming followed Lin Tao's gaze, the expression on his face froze instantly. Out of Yue Yunpeng's classic movements, as if he was standing there and said: My God!

Lin Tao didn't notice Qin Ming's expression. He was still immersed in the design he was satisfied with. He stood still and looked at Qin Ming's house, and said, "Old Qin, you are quite big!"

Qin Ming put the coffee cup on the coffee table and said coldly: "After drinking this cup of coffee, don't come here again! Goodbye!"

"Don't, don't!" Lin Tao came out from the side of the bookshelf, sat down on the sofa, picked up the coffee cup and said, "I was wrong! I will never mess with your things again!" After saying that, he drank After taking a big sip of coffee, he felt a very strong bitter taste in his mouth as soon as he drank it, which made Lin Tao almost spit out the coffee.

After finally swallowing this mouthful, Lin Tao asked Qin Ming: "Old Qin, did you add sugar?"

"It's for you. But you're drinking my cup."

Lin Tao was suddenly speechless, looked at the coffee cup in his hand, at the cup on the tea table, and then at Qin Ming, before saying, "Old Qin, eat more apples...how good! "

Seeing that Qin Ming didn't speak, Lin Tao said again: "Old Qin, what are we having for dinner?" After speaking, Lin Tao felt that what he said was wrong, and the tone just now seemed to say: Wife, what do we have for dinner at home?

Qin Ming didn't care at all, pointed at the door and said, "The coffee is over, let's go!"

Lin Tao was kicked out by Qin Ming just like that. He stood at the door of Qin Ming's house facing the heavy iron gate. Instead of getting angry, he laughed instead. He thought Qin Ming was so interesting!

Qin Ming, who drove Lin Tao out of the house, didn't find it interesting at all. He sat on the sofa and buried his face in his palm. Lin Tao still didn't recognize him, neither ten years ago nor ten years later.

No one knew how excited Qin Ming was when Director Tan introduced his new colleagues to everyone, just like when he saw Lin Tao by the basketball court when he transferred back to Longpan No. [-] High School in his sophomore year.This can explain why Section Chief Qin, who has always been aloof, accepted Team Lin's invitation, and it can also explain why Qin Ming, who has always been indifferent to others, took the initiative to invite Lin Tao to his house for coffee.

Qin Ming recalled things from a long time ago, so long that he hadn't moved out of the compound, so long that his father was still alive.When he was a child, Qin Ming was very different from now. At that time, he was a lively and active boy like his peers. He had a good friend who was about the same age as him. The two played together every day, mischievous and troublesome together.

Later, Qin Ming's father had an accident, and he left Longpan City, and when he grew up, he returned to Longpan City.