Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

After the father and son, who hadn't been in contact for a long time, exchanged pleasantries, Shao Haifeng got to the point.

"Linlin, it's like this. Your younger brother won the city's first prize in the Olympic mathematics competition this year. The teacher recommended him to participate in the 'Flying Boy' Cup International Math Competition. The whole Yanquan only recommended five people!" Shao Haifeng's words were filled with the pride of his old father, "You know about that math competition, right? The Huaguo team has training before selecting players, and it's this winter vacation, training at Yanda University."

"But it's the end of the year, I'm very busy with work, Jingjing also has a teaching and research meeting, and I can't go. Xiaoyuan has never traveled far alone before, and you happen to be in Yan'an. I was thinking, what if Xiaoyuan is a little What's the matter, it's good to have someone to take care of it. The training camp will arrange a dormitory, but I don't know if it's convenient for you to watch over my brother..."

"Convenient. When will Xiaoyuan come?"

Shao Lin's tone was very gentle, and he sounded like a warm-hearted big brother, but only Xia Yi could see clearly that Shao Lin was terribly depressed on the phone, almost hopeless.

"Okay, then I'll send you their schedule later!" Shao Haifeng seemed relieved, "I'm really sorry to trouble you!"

"No trouble, it should be."

Shao Haifeng continued cheerfully: "The training camp is also tightly grasped. The holidays are only held in the third grade of junior high school, and classes will continue after returning to the fourth grade of junior high school. But there is no way, the competition will start in the spring! I think you might as well go with Xiaoyuan during the Spring Festival Come back, our family hasn't celebrated the New Year together for a long time."

"Okay. I'll pick up Xiaoyuan at the station then."

Shao Lin hung up the phone and sighed softly.

Xia Yi was curious: "What's wrong?"

Shao Lin repeated it succinctly, with a faint look on his brows, as if he was not very happy.

"Your home in Yanquan?" Xia Yi asked tentatively, "You have a younger brother? Why have you never heard of it?"

Shao Lin nodded: "I'm 13 years old. I went abroad and he hasn't gone to elementary school yet. What can I say?"

Xia Yi thought of Shao Lin's file again.He once thought that the file might be all fake, just the kind that only existed in the database to pretend.But now it seems that Shao Lin does have a home in Yanquan City.

It seems to be a family with a very bad relationship.

Someone in Xia seemed to have developed a strong interest in Shao Lin's younger brother, asking around all day long, and finally——

"When will that brother of yours arrive? If you arrive early today, and you just don't have class, I'll invite you to have a good meal together?" Xia Yi opened his mouth and mentioned a famous Michelin restaurant in Yan'an City, "Long Sheng How about the king crab?"

"The King Crab of Longshengji?" Shao Lin had just taken back a basket of clothes that had been sun-baked, and was folding the clothes at the moment, with a cool tone, "I haven't eaten it in Yan'an for so long, thanks to my brother's blessing." gone?"

Xia Yi smelled a taste of food in that tone, and was immediately happy: "Don't? If you want to eat, just tell me, but if you say a word, I will buy Longsheng Ji for you every day!" Xia Yi said Yi showed an expression on his face: But I don't think that your usual cooking is better than other chefs..."

Xiaoha's ears perked up, showing an expression of "噫", and turned his head away in disgust.And Shao Lin kept his face sullen, trying not to raise the corners of his mouth, and kept busy with his hands.

"I'm serious, come all the way to Yan'an, let's take my brother to eat something good."

"If you are so enthusiastic, I will give you a younger brother for nothing."

"That's what I said. Shao Lin, your friend is my friend, your brother is also my brother, your—" Xia Yi suddenly paused, his eyes fell into the clothes basket, and he reached out to pick out a pair of clothes with light yellow printed on them. boxer pants: "Why is there a little penguin printed on your trousers?"

Shao Lin snatched his trousers back, his face was a little uneasy: "My little penguin is not your little penguin!"

Xia Yi burst into laughter when he heard this, startling Ha Zai next to him.

Shao Lin was helpless: "Why are you so interested in my brother?"

Xia Yi blurted out frankly: "Because I want to know you better?"

Shao Lin's hands in folding clothes paused, his slender five fingers gripped a bath towel and then relaxed.At that moment, the ice and snow in his light amber eyes seemed to melt, but the gentle ripples were fleeting, and soon returned to indifference and calm.For no reason, a sharp voice sounded in Shao Lin's mind: No, you don't want to.

Shao Lin suddenly turned his head and looked straight at Xia Yi: "But, is my past important?"

Xia Yi opened his mouth, forgot the words for a while, and just looked at him in a daze.

Shao Lin suddenly felt a little disappointed, threw Xia Yi's clothes on the sofa, picked up his own and went back to the room.

……

In Xia Yi's memory, Shao Lin has always been a very patient person, or someone who pretended to be very patient.No matter how unreasonably the other party made trouble, he could still put on a standard professional smirk.This can't help but make Xia Yi curious, what kind of brat Shao Yuan is that can make Shao Lin so disgusted.

Who knew, Shao Yuan wasn't a bear at all.

The two picked up someone at Yan'an South Bus Station.Shao Yuan looks like an ordinary junior high school boy, of course, he doesn't have the slightest resemblance to Shao Lin.The child is not particularly tall, nor is he particularly thin, his appearance is unrecognizable, and his voice is in the period of changing voice.Shao Yuan's tutor is very good, and he speaks decently and politely, even a little too politely, he can say "thank you" a hundred times for nothing, even to his brother, with a layer of alienation.

But with Xia Yi here, there is no such thing as a standoff: "First prize in the Olympic mathematics competition, you are so good! I also did the Olympiad when I was young, and I still remember the question, what is counting chicken feet, counting rabbits?" Head or something, I was thinking silently in my heart at that time, rattan pepper chicken feet, spicy rabbit head..."

Shao Yuan glanced at him vigilantly, as if he was very worried that the mental retardation would be contagious: "You, you are talking about the problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage, right?"

"That's right, that's right," Xia Yi couldn't help boasting, "Hey, your family's genes are really good, and your brain is so good. Your brother is smart, and you are smart too."

Shao Yuan lowered his head when he heard the words, but didn't answer.

Shao Lin was keenly aware that he seemed to be unhappy.

Sitting at the banquet, Xia Yi deliberately sent Shao Lin to the front desk to order dishes and choose seafood, then he sneaked up to Shao Yuan's side: "Hey, let me say, Xiao Yuan, why don't you look like your brother at all? "

Shao Yuan still looked at Xia Yi vigilantly: "Why don't you ask my brother yourself?"

"Hey, why don't we just chat with you casually." Xia Yi smiled enthusiastically, "How embarrassing would it be if I didn't talk?"

Shao Yuan blinked and said softly, "It's not my brother."

"Oh?" Xia Yi pretended to be curious, "Then when did he come to your house?"

"I don't know, I wasn't there at that time." Shao Yuan lowered his head and played with his mobile phone, obviously not wanting to continue this topic.

Xia Yi sneaked a glance at the APP installed in his phone, and found a breakthrough point very professionally: "Huh? You also eat chicken?"

"Eat!" Shao Yuan raised his head, suddenly interested, "Do you want to play too?"

After all, he is just a 14-year-old kid with no intentions, no matter how much he pretends to be a "little adult", his happiness and unhappiness are all written on his face.

"Let's play! Brother, I am the Invincible God of War last season, okay. This restaurant is slow to serve food, why don't we start a game first?"

Shao Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard the rank of "Invincible God of War", but he soon showed an annoyed expression on his face: "My mother put a minor lock on my mobile phone, if I play now, she will find out! I Only available on Friday nights."

"It's so miserable." Xia Yi gave a sympathetic "tsk" twice, took out his phone and unlocked it, "Why don't you use mine? I'll use your brother's phone to play with you later?"

Shao Yuan nodded excitedly.

After talking, Xia Yi's topic turned back to Shao Lin: "Your brother doesn't usually play games with you?"

"He won't accompany you." Shao Yuan opened the game skillfully, and his mouth suddenly relaxed a lot, and he sold his brother outright, "My brother went out to study when I was very young, and basically existed in me. In my mother's nagging, every day is "your brother was a child". Anyway, if the grades are good, the grades are good. My dad said that he is the child of overseas relatives, and his parents had a car accident in country S. No one took care of them, so they were thrown here. I'm home."

Xia Yi's heart moved - from this point of view, although Shao Lin was not born to Shao Haifeng and Zhang Jingjing, he was indeed a child who grew up in Yanquan City.As for the rhetoric of "overseas relatives", it can also be matched with Shao Lin's half-hybrid aspect and his deceased mother... No.Xia Yi thought about it again: If it was just an ordinary relative, Shao Lin would just say that it was "my uncle's house". What's the inconvenience of telling him?

"My dad usually doesn't let me mention this, you know? We don't mention it at home, because I'm afraid that my brother will be sad." Shao Yuan gave Xia Yi a warning look, "Can you tell me how many times it takes to become the Invincible God of War?"

"I'll take you, soon." Xia Yi reached out and patted the child's head, pointed to the game screen, and said there was a silencer over there, don't forget to take it.

After all, children are so coaxing.Xia Yi used Shao Lin's mobile phone to accompany Shao Yuan to double-deck two sets of peace elites, one of which even brought someone to eat chicken.Immediately, Xia Yi's identity was upgraded from "a strange uncle who seems to have cerebral palsy" to "the best big brother in the universe".

After dinner, the two sent Shao Yuan to Yanda's Mathematical Olympiad training camp.

Watching the days go by...

While flipping through the calendar, Shao Lin discussed the plan with Xia Yi: "New Year's Eve the day after tomorrow, Xiaoyuan will have his last class tomorrow. They are on vacation, so I will send him back to Yanquan, and I will send him back three days later."

Xia Yi hurriedly took out two bags of red-packed New Year's goods: "It's rare to go home again, and give my parents a new year's greetings? This nourishing food is most suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. I have to go home for the Spring Festival exam tomorrow. Prepare a car for my seven aunts and eight aunts!"

Shao Lin: "..." Forget about being my son.

"It's okay, let it go, let it go, my family doesn't like this..."

Shao Lin packed his luggage and gifts, and at around ten o'clock in the evening, his cell phone rang suddenly, it was an unfamiliar number.The other party sounded very anxious, and introduced himself straight to the point. It turned out that he was the head teacher of Shao Yuan's training class.The child's parents are far away in Yanquan. After all, far away water cannot save a nearby fire, so the "emergency contact" of Shaoyuan's training class is filled with Shao Lin.

"What?" Shao Lin frowned slightly, "Haven't you returned to the dormitory after this o'clock? Where did he go?"

"Here," the head teacher also paused, "I have to ask you this?"

Shao Lin was at a loss: "Huh?"

"Tomorrow is the last day before the holiday. We have arranged a staged test, so there is no class this afternoon. It is self-study and answering questions. Shao Yuan asked for leave and said that his brother would take him out to buy new year's goods? When the camp opens Son, we have met, his brother who works in Yan'an City, is that you?"

"But I didn't..." Shao Lin suddenly stopped, and a bad premonition crept into his heart, "When did he leave?"

The head teacher said anxiously: "Noon. I will ask for leave after lunch!"

It has been more than eight hours since noon.

Shao Lin put on his down jacket and went out: "Xia Yi, I'm going to Yanda."

Among other things, he still knows Shao Yuan.

Shao Yuan was a very well-behaved good student at school, let alone making up excuses to skip class, he probably never missed a single assignment in his life.Moreover, a 14-year-old kid has no classmates or friends in Yan'an City, and even his change card needs to be remotely approved by his mother to be used. What can Shao Yuan do to play when he skips class? !What's more, even if you really went out for a walk, you should be back...