Pendulum Rider

I took annual leave and went to collect evidence with the private detective Shang Locke. At first I rejected him because I was an outsider and would cause trouble, but Shang Locke said that a beautiful assistant is necessary in the case investigation this time, obviously he is also beautiful. Striking one, my mouth was so sweet that I immediately agreed.

At that time, Xiong Xiong was still teasing and said: "Don't take the opportunity to take advantage of other people's future brides, or I won't call you brothers and sisters anymore, I will eunuch you and treat you as brothers and sisters."

"Who is your future bride!"

"Don't say you forgot the bet between us."

"You may not win the bet."

Shang Locke stopped our bickering in time and made an appointment with me to go out and investigate together.

So I applied for this year's annual leave from the company, and arrived at Nanxiang Subway Station on the agreed date and time. The first object of evidence collection was the prince's sister, Wang Nu. informational.

After I got out of the subway, I found that Shang Luke was leaning on the railing, standing at Exit 2 and looking through a small book intently. He seemed to have nothing with him. I also traveled lightly, only carrying a small messenger bag. .

Although it was the morning rush hour for work, the passengers coming and going at the subway station stopped to take a look at this handsome man leaning on the railing, and then left with some reluctance to go to work.

I walked up to Locke, cleared my throat and said, "Good morning, how long have you been waiting?"

"It's almost seven o'clock." Shang Luoke looked away from the notebook and showed me a charming smile, "Morning."

"You waited for an hour?!"

"The mind is clearer in the morning, let's go." Shang Luke said, closed the notebook, and walked in front of me. I followed behind like a little follower. I followed him out of the subway station and turned right. Entering a bridge hole, there are a few plastic bottles floating on the small river. After removing these unsightly garbage, the path under the bridge looks quite anime-like, as if stepping into a Two-dimensional world. I imagined living in the small river. Two water monsters, whenever the moonlight shines, they will turn into human figures and run out to kiss each other.

When I recovered from my pink thoughts, I found that Upper Locke had already been separated from me by a long distance. I hurriedly avoided the oncoming office workers and quickened my pace to keep up with him. After leaving the path , he led me across a road and ended up in a nursery school.

According to the initial investigation of Shanglock, the princess is now a kindergarten teacher, and we came today to ask her about the situation of our younger brother.When we came to the gate of the nursery school, there happened to be a pair of grandparents sending their precious grandson to school.Although I have only seen the princess a few times, I recognized her immediately. I saw the princess took the child from the grandparents and told the child to say goodbye to the grandparents. Surprised expression, then smiled and said to the child: "Say goodbye to mom and dad too."

"No, you misunderstood, this is not our baby." I quickly explained.

"Really? I'm sorry, because I haven't seen this child's parents. They are all grandparents who came to pick him up. Are you here today to find out about the enrollment in kindergarten? Are you planning to send your own baby over?"

"Hello, Mr. Wang, today I want to know about the situation of your little brother Prince." Shang Luoke said and took out a notebook and a recording pen, and handed the business card in his pocket to the princess.

"What's wrong with my brother?" The princess glanced at Locke's business card and said uncomfortably.

"Your brother is now a suspect. You can say anything you think of. For example, what suspicious things has your brother done recently? What has caught your attention recently?"

"Did he do anything?" the princess asked back.

"He may have killed someone."

"Did you misunderstand something? How could my brother kill someone?"

"Don't answer our questions with questions first, please tell us what you know about the prince's recent situation."

"He is now in his third year of college, and he usually goes out to work to earn some pocket money. He said that he is an assistant to a freelancer, and he earns a lot of pocket money, but he didn't tell me the specific job content. Speaking of recent impressions The deeper thing, probably in July this year, I came home from work on Friday as usual, and found that a boy he liked in high school was also at our house, but the other party didn't look very good, and he even gave him a gift After returning home, I heard that they started dating." The princess looked at me, "You are my younger brother's alumni, right? That boy is your younger brother?"

"Yes, Lin Jiayi is my bamboo horse."

"Lin Jiayi, has he dated many men?"

"No, why did you ask this all of a sudden?"

"My brother has only been dating him for a short time, and he was found to be infected with syphilis in September this year."

"Do you want to say it's Lin Jiayi's fault?"

"No, that's not what I meant."

"You clearly mean that. Let me tell you, although Lin Jiayi's heart is dirty, but his body is very clean, it must be your brother's own fault. Jiayi is fine now, but your brother has contracted syphilis."

"I don't think he is very clean."

"What the hell do you mean?"

"STOP! You all listen to me, OK?" Shang Luoke on the side couldn't stand it anymore, "Mr. Wang, don't you think your brother earns too much money from part-time work?"

"Even you want to say that my brother deserves to be infected because he traded his body for money?"

"Don't get excited, let me ask you another question. When did you know he was gay?"

Although I don't know why Shang Luoke jumped to this question, but the questions he asked should have a certain meaning, so I obediently shut up and stopped arguing. I am really easy-going with people. , I don't look like a Scorpio in an easy-going way, but once someone speaks ill of my bamboo horse, I won't calm down.

Seeing that Princess Wang gradually regained her composure, she lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then raised her head abruptly and said, "It seems to be when I was in junior high school. At that time, there was a parent-teacher meeting. My mother came back from the meeting and asked my brother if he had a puppy love with a girl. My brother said he was not interested in girls. We didn't pay attention at first, until he was in the first year of high school and fell in love with a girl who was better than himself. The freshman senior seemed to be dumped after talking for about a month, but he was very obsessed with that person. In order to go to the same university as him, he took the college entrance examination twice. Recently, he finally got together with that person. He also contracted a disease. My brother is such an ordinary person, but his sexual orientation is different from others, how can you casually slander him and kill him!"

"Has your brother really never dated anyone else?"

When Luke said this, another parent came to send the baby to school. The princess immediately took the baby from the parent with a smile on her face, and then faced us with a sullen expression on her face: "What can I do after I get off work?" talk later."

"I think the sooner this matter is resolved, the better. You don't want to think about it all day at work, do you? Let's find a place to sit down and talk about it." Shang Locke suggested.

The princess took a deep breath, thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go and talk to the head of the garden. I'll give you half an hour to ask slowly, and then go talk on the bench outside."

After finishing speaking, Princess Wang turned and walked into the classroom, and came out again soon.

The three of us came to the bench, and it seemed a little crowded for three adults to sit together, and we were not close enough friends to squeeze on a bench, so I gave up my seat to the two of them and stood on it. Locke watched him ask questions and take notes in a small notebook.

"How was your brother's academic performance in high school?"

"It's not bad, not partial to subjects, and the scores in science and arts are very good."

"What's your brother's best subject?"

"Chemistry and biology."

"He's good at sports, isn't he?"

"Yes."

"How did he do in the first college entrance examination?"

"The test score was high, so he deliberately missed some questions the second time. He is really stupid. He refused to go to a better university for a man, but he almost couldn't go to the school he wanted to go to the second time."

"That is to say, he doesn't need to review much during the year he repeats? So what is he usually doing?"

"Reading in my own room, he is very obedient and can cook." The princess showed a proud expression of having such a younger brother.

"Then do you know what books he usually reads?"

"Military, I'm not interested in those."

"Have you ever seen him cook? When did he learn to cook?"

"It's the summer vacation after the college entrance examination. I cook when I have nothing to do. I've seen it a few times. It's so proficient that I don't look like a layman."

"For example, what are you proficient in?" Shang Locke asked further.

"Knife skills, various carvings and decorations, and the dishes made are also full of color, fragrance and taste." The princess still looked proud.

"It seems that he has a talent for cooking." Shang Luoke smiled meaningfully, and then asked, "Does he usually help with housework, such as cleaning the room?"

"He's been cleaning his own room since he was in elementary school."

"You two have a good relationship, don't you?"

"Of course, it's basically talking about everything. The first wet dream in the youthful growth period came to tell me."

Hearing this, I suddenly thought of my own brother, although he is still a baby now, I wonder if he will cling to me in the future.

"What was he doing in the summer vacation after the second college entrance examination?"

"He's gone out to work, the assistant of the freelancer I mentioned just now, just like you, a small follower." The princess glanced at me as she spoke, and then her tone was somewhat mocking, "As a follower, you still Help this man with his physical needs? My brother is like you, he does all the serious work."

I glared back at her and said nothing.

"After the college entrance examination, he is so free, besides working, will he find friends to hang out with?"

"Yes, he also often went out. At that time, he seemed to know a senior who had graduated from the university he applied for."

"Do you know the name of that senior? I also want to find out about the situation with him."

"He seems to be a pediatrician, probably because his family is rich. After graduation, he opened a pediatric hospital and became the director. His surname is Ju, but I can't remember his name. By the way, he seemed to be in the news last year, because the doctor There is a doctor who was pushed down from the roof by the patient’s family, and as the dean, he will come forward to deal with the media personnel.”

"You're talking about Tachibana Yukito, that half-race doctor."

"Yes, that's the name." After being reminded by Shang Locke, the princess recalled.

Speaking of Ju Xingren, I also thought of something. I heard that the father of the Lin brothers had an acquaintance whose surname was Ju, and that person borrowed a sum of money from Lin's father to open a Japanese grocery store. I don't know if there is any connection between this.

"I'm sorry to ask, do you still have a boyfriend? What kind of job does he do?"

"Why do you want to involve my boyfriend? He is in the management of a car company, what's wrong? Is there any relationship between this?" The princess looked at Locke in puzzlement.

"Will you wash your boyfriend's work clothes for you?"

"He washed it himself."

"Will your brother go to his house to play with him?"

"Occasionally, they have a good relationship."

"Has your boyfriend ever told you about the tragedy that happened in their company?"

"Tragedy? What do you mean?"

"Well, it's nothing. Since he doesn't want to say it to scare you, it's inconvenient for me to tell you. Can you tell your boyfriend, we will also go to him to find out the situation."

"Could it be that you are full of food and have nothing to do. You ask about my brother for a while, and then say you want to contact my boyfriend. My brother really didn't do anything!" The princess became excited again as she spoke.

"Do you know the mystery novel "Sherlock in Shanghai"? It was written by a post-90s generation."

"I heard that, my brother also bought it to see, I went to his bookcase to take it down and look through it."

"How does it feel to look at it?"

"The plot is very realistic, because it is set in Shanghai, so it feels very real, as if describing the real people and events around me, but at the same time it does not lack the sense of tension that mystery novels should have, and the foreshadowing of the mysteries is also well buried. good."

"Thank you for your appreciation, that is my debut novel."

"That's what you wrote?" Unexpectedly, she saw the author herself here, and the princess showed a surprised expression.

"One last question for you, what will happen to you if your brother is arrested by the police?"

"It's impossible! My brother obeyed the law and didn't do anything that would get him arrested."

"Thank you for your cooperation." Shang Luoke said and stood up, "Your brother doesn't talk to you as much as you imagined, and he also has a tendency to have a dual personality. You'd better pay more attention."

After finishing speaking, Shang Locke walked in the direction he had just come from, and I hurriedly followed. Suddenly, I felt like he was Holmes and I was Watson, although I was just a useless decoration, Watson.

"Where are we going next?"

"First go to the car company to find the prince's boyfriend, and then go to Tachibana Yukito's pediatric hospital."

"How did you advertise your mystery novel just now?"

"The murders that happened in that novel were all real events. I witnessed the murder scene with my own eyes. After the novel started to sell well, the murderer found me and threatened me not to write any more novels. The person who threatened me was the prince. Although I have failed the readers' expectations for my second novel, my life still matters."

Unexpectedly, the prince had killed someone before he killed Li Yan, but Shang Luoke was really lucky.

"It's a good thing he didn't kill you in the first place."

"He didn't dare to kill me. The sudden death or disappearance of a best-selling reasoning writer will attract the attention of the society and the police. This means that the murderer in the book has come forward and admitted his crime."

"It's also possible that everyone thinks you're hyping up and disappearing on purpose."

"Even if it's hype, a real person who disappears suddenly for a long time will always attract the attention of the family. My brother doesn't know where he is recently. I've been looking for him for almost two months, and I don't know if he is still alive."

"If you want to find him, I'll ask Lilith for you. Lilith is an informant, although it takes a little money to get the information."

"No, I want to rely on my own strength to find it."

"Even if something happened to him during this period, don't you mind? The sooner you find someone, the better. Don't blindly show off your reasoning ability, only to find your brother's body in the end."

Shang Luoke suddenly stopped, glanced at me, showed an expression of something unspeakable, and said after some deliberation: "Family ugliness should not be exposed."

"Really, I'm sorry to talk too much. Having said that, what good is it for you if you take me to collect evidence? I feel like I can't help at all."

"Seeing beautiful women who are easy to talk to reduces the vigilance of witnesses, and the matching of men and women makes it easy to collect evidence."

"Has anyone ever told you you're sweet?"

"It's surprising that there are very few people who say that about me, because I only tell the truth. I never praise people with low looks."

"Your flirting skills are also full."

"Actually, my flirting skills are already off the charts. When I was in college, I fell in love with a tsundere guy in the school's music club, and then I slipped him a note with a line of words ' 了, L1, U , B, son', and then he read it for a long time and didn't understand what it meant, so he asked other people in the club. A girl who studied Japanese understood it, and told him that it was あいしてる written as アいしてる and finally written as '而L1U伊儿' means I love you. At that time he blushed and played me nine notes on the electric piano, some of which had empty beats. I told him that I have no musical ability, and he I wrote the staves for me, and then I changed the staves into numbered notations, and I knew it was his mobile phone number, with nine tones and two empty beats representing the number zero. He wanted to use his mobile phone to tell me The rhythm of the contact, and then I sent him a text message, and he sent me back a series of numbers, which is the numbered notation of a certain song singing "I like you", thanks to Du Niang and a member of the music club With the help of a lot of god assists, I just found the lyrics, but after we talked for a long time, he was picked up by a new drummer in the band, and he said he thought he played drums Stunned him."

I was engrossed in listening to Shang Luke talking about his courtship and lovelorn experience, he suddenly changed the topic and asked: "By the way, I still have some questions to ask you for evidence."

"If you have anything to ask, just ask."

"Who is Lu Haikong's father?"

"How do you know Brother Lu! It's a pity that I don't know about his father. You can go to the hospital and ask his nurse mother. But is Brother Lu related to this matter? He is no longer alive."

"Since we want to investigate the prince, of course we must first start with the prince and Lin Jiayi's people around him, and things that seem unrelated are actually inextricably linked."

"How much content have you secretly investigated alone?"

"It's not secretly, it's just preparations, just like when the prince is going to kill Li Yan."

"It feels like you are a man with a script in hand, you know everything."

Chatting and chatting, we have arrived at the subway station, the morning rush hour has passed, and after getting on the subway, we got our seats by coincidence.

However, not long after I sat down, a young woman walked towards me, leaned over to my ear and said, "Are you investigating the prince? Let me help you."

"Who are you? How do you know what we're investigating?"

The woman smiled: "If it wasn't for my darling asking me to help you, I wouldn't want to talk to you."