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The fragrance of mint diffused lightly, giving Ming Xia the illusion of waking up from a dream.He blinked and saw that Jo-hyuk had jumped off the stage to mingle with his friends.Two young dancers were replaced on the stage to lead the dance, the music was ignited, and the atmosphere became lively again.

On the dance floor, fashionable men and women swayed back and forth tirelessly, but the illusions that Ming Xia saw just now were all gone.There is no tail protruding from the skirt, and there is no dark red dorsal fin slowly opening like a fan behind the man.

Ming Xia's heart was mixed with confusion and horror, but she was not sure if she really should break the casserole and ask the end.

Li Youran reached out and patted him on the shoulder, leaned over and said, "Sit by yourself for a while, I'll go and talk to you." He got up and walked towards the bar.She is a tall girl, and because of her occupation, she has a dashing and heroic spirit that ordinary girls don't have. She is still very attractive just by looking at her appearance.

Although Ming Xia knew who she was, she was a young girl after all, and she came with him, so she would inevitably be a little worried.Seeing Li Youran squeezed in front of Qiao He, and sat down among them with a few sentences, he was slightly relieved, but then felt that he was thinking too much, he was here on a mission, and he was inside But it just serves as an admission ticket, so let's just sit down and cool off for a while.

After drinking a can of Coke, Li Youran didn't intend to come back, but Qiao He chatted more enthusiastically.

Ming Xia wanted to go back a little bit, but leaving the girl's family alone in this kind of place was a bit wicked.Just as she was awkward, she saw a person walking from the direction of the dance floor, and sat down opposite him in a grand manner.

Ming Xia felt that this person looked familiar, so he took a second look and recognized him as Song Qing, the small owner of the milk tea shop next to the supermarket. Last time he bought his milk tea, he gave him a discount.

"It's you," Ming Xia greeted him, "You also know Qiao He?"

Song Qing was about the same age as him, with pretty features and a very cheerful personality. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "I know him. Before he moved to Brother Tu's place, he rented at my place for a few months."

Ming Xia really didn't know, "Isn't he a student? Why has he been living outside?"

Song Qing thought for a while and said: "From what he said, it seems that the school has assigned all the senior students to the branch school. The conditions at the branch school are not good, and many of their students simply come out to rent houses."

Ming Xia glanced at Li Youran's direction, and continued to chat with him casually, "Why didn't you stop after that?"

The structures and sizes of the houses in the old city are similar, and the conditions of Songqing's house are not much different from those in Tu Qing's.I really want to pick out the difference, but the house of Tu Qing's house is facing the square, which seems to be more lively than the street of Song Qing's house

"Oh, don't mention it." Song Qing made a bitter face, "Did you know that there is a dessert shop on the first floor of my house? Usually the business is mediocre, mainly to earn money from tourists on weekends and holidays. The problem is that students are also off on weekends, Joe He Jiantian played "The Butterfly Lovers" and "Sad Serenade" upstairs, and occasionally improvised "The Moon Reflected in the Two Springs" a few times, who can sit still?"

Ming Xia couldn't help laughing.

"Later, I talked to him and suggested that he play "Good Day", "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and "Today You Will Marry Me" when he was at home on weekends. As a result, he was furious and said that I had blasphemed his soul." Song Qing spread his hands. , made a helpless expression, "Then I will quit the rent, saying that I can't stand living under the same roof with a vulgar person like me."

Ming Xia laughed out loud, "Then you're still here?"

Song Qing shrugged her shoulders, and didn't take this little mess seriously at all, "The old city is only so big, you can't see it when you look up. He invited me, why don't I come? Is the performance here still good? .”

This is just for fun.

"Actually, I used to think that Qiao He was a very cold person." Ming Xia took the time to glance in the direction of the bar, Li Youran was patting Qiao He on the shoulder and laughing.Ming Xia was a little speechless and thought, this eldest sister must have drunk too much, and her nature has been exposed.Can she really extract useful information from the target person?

"He used to be quite aloof," Song Qing echoed, "He didn't have a good face with anyone, and he always looked at people like this." He said with a straight face, raised his chin, and threw him an extremely disdainful little girl. eyes.

Seeing this familiar expression, Ming Xia suddenly felt weird.He used to come to Tu Qing often, and he didn't see Qiao He once or twice. This is indeed how Qiao He treats people.Why did his attitude change so much when the old town was hit by a disaster?When Qiao He went back to Tu Qing's place to pack his things that day, Ming Xia didn't think much about it. He just thought that everyone survived a catastrophe, and it was inevitable that they would be a little excited when they saw acquaintances.But looking at Tu Qing again today, wearing a weird long gown, with a big tacky gold chain around his neck, celebrating his birthday in such a way that he shouldn't look down on it... It's really subverting the old ways that this person has left in the past. They were impressed.Of course, it's also possible that Qiao He's personality is just like this. He has one attitude towards strangers, but another in private.

So, what is the reason why Qiao He is willing to show his private appearance to people who are not familiar with them?Ming Xia and Song Qing, one is a stranger who has only met a few times, and the other is a landlord who has had disputes before. From any angle, it is difficult to classify them as friends.

Song Qing followed his gaze and glanced in the direction of the bar, and asked him in a low voice, "What is Officer Li here for?"

Ming Xia was taken aback by his question, "Do you know her?"

Song Qing looked at him with a look of "Don't hide it from me", "Who doesn't know the people who open a store in Yaoxi District."

Hearing his words, Ming Xia felt as if a switch had been pushed in his mind, and suddenly remembered the night when he first met Luo Luo, wasn't it Nan Jiang who brought Li Youran to the store to check his documents?He also read Nanjiang's certificate... It was only a few days ago, why didn't he think of it before?

Ming Xia's heart was pounding, as if his body had received a certain secret, but his brain hadn't reacted yet.

"They... and that Nanjiang, what are they doing?" Ming Xia remembered that Nanjiang's certificate stated that it was the National Security Bureau, but why did the people from the National Security Bureau patrol the streets and check the shops? The urban management should be responsible for doing these things. Work?

Song Qing thought for a while, "It seems to belong to Guoan. I don't know the specific administrative division, but they usually come to Yaoxi District on missions, and they wear police uniforms. I guess they may be similar in nature to riot police—— Yaoxi District is different from other places, whether it is commercial operations or public security issues, it has always been managed by their department. They call themselves the sixth group."

Ming Xia subconsciously asked, "What's the difference?"

"I heard that Lao Tu's girlfriend is your cousin?" Song Qing looked at him with a meaningful smile, "You should know in the future."

Ming Xia had question marks all over her head.What does this have to do with his cousin?

Song Qing smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't think about it blindly. Yaoxi District has its own secrets, and only your own people know."

"Tu Qing also knows? The bar owner also knows Li Youran, right?"

"Of course." Song Qing laughed again, "However, our local merchants have their own set of rules for doing things. They will not inquire about customers' secrets, but they will never interfere with the task of the sixth group of action teams. You must know that we are in Settling down here, family members going to school, getting a job, getting married, having children, registering for household registration...all things are under their control, who would go against their own umbrella when they are full, right?"

Ming Xia felt like opening the door to a new world.Tu Qing also said before that Yaoxi District is very different from other places, so this is the difference he said?

"You haven't answered me yet. What is Police Officer Li here for? I think she and Qiao He are very friendly. Did Qiao He get into trouble?"

Ming Xia spread his hands, "I'm a person who doesn't know the secrets of Yaoxi District, do you think I will know Officer Li's plan?"

Song Qing thought about it too, no longer asked Ming Xia, but looked at the situation at the bar with great interest.He also wanted to get closer to listen to their chat, but Ming Xia desperately held him down.Ming Xia still wants to finish her work early and go home early, but she can't let this curious milk tea brother get sidetracked.

When Ming Xia was about to fall asleep, Li Youran finally came back, carrying Ming Xia out of the Sakura Bar with a smile on his face.Song Qing followed up with a shy face, asking her about Qiao He in a roundabout way.

A few people had already walked out of the bar, and their words were less careful.Li Youran asked him straightforwardly, "As far as I know, you have no personal relationship with Qiao He. Why do you ask him?"

Song Qing looked left and right, squeezed Ming Xia away, and went to Li Youran's side and said, "Didn't everyone be taken to the factory in the east by the action team on the day of the accident? When it was getting dark, some people said that the birds outside They were all dead, I was worried about my family, so I sneaked back."

Ming Xia stared at him with wide eyes, he didn't expect this handsome guy who was smiling all day long to be quite courageous.

Li Youran didn't find it strange. In fact, many people came out of the factory to inquire about the situation that night, but when it got dark, most of them went back to the factory.Because most of the residents gathered in the factory building, it became the key protection target of the action team. Under such circumstances, most people would still feel safer staying with their own kind.

"I went home to pick up some things and planned to go back to the factory." Song Qing said, "As soon as I got to the intersection, I saw Qiao He sitting on the square, under the statue of Nuwa. The power supply had just been restored at that time. , the street lights on this side of the square are on, so I can see very clearly that Qiao He sat cross-legged first, which is the posture of a Taoist priest. After sitting for a while, he began to kowtow to the stone statue of Nuwa, crying Crying, I was so sad that I was crying, and my nose was running all over my body."

Li Youran, "..."

Ming Xia, "..."