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"Who the hell took my iced black tea?" The weather is cold, and almost no one in the serious crime team "steals" Qu Zhi's iced black tea anymore. Qu Zhi often counts the number of bottles, and remembers exactly how many bottles are left in the box .Hua Chong said that he was like a squirrel hiding nuts, and he said it was the fun of life. Hua Chong gave him a glance-counting bottles became fun, and the pursuit of life was so low.

"It's not me. I'm learning from Team Flower and Brother Xiaoliu and drinking health-preserving tea." Zhang Mao patted his cup and raised his eyebrows energetically.

"What kind of bullshit health-preserving tea is that?" Qu Zhi said bluntly, "A large bag of jasmine tea costs 20 yuan, what kind of child do you want?"

"What's wrong with the 20 yuan? Do you look down on RMB?" Zhang Mao took a sip and exhaled exaggeratedly. Drink iced black tea with various spices, and be careful to drink diabetes in a few years."

"Go, go, go!" Qu Zhi waved his hand, "I don't need you to serve me even if I have diabetes after drinking."

Zhang Mao pursed his lips and murmured softly, "I don't know what's good..."

Team members came in from the office door one after another, seeing Qu Zhi looking for iced black tea, they were overjoyed and said, "Why, someone drank it again?"

Qu Zhi joked: "It must be you!"

Someone said: "Is it from the Accumulated Cases Team? Don't they often come to our place recently?"

"Accumulated Cases Team?" Qu Zhi is often out on the job, so he doesn't often meet with the members of the Accumulated Cases Team, and only knows Xiao Chengxin a little better.

"Oh, that's right!" Zhang Mao suddenly remembered the incident when Lu Zhou'an's remains were excavated in Mount Heyong, "Do you think Team Xiao of the Accumulated Case Team has changed a bit?"

"Is there?" Qu Zhi said, "I just want to know if he stole my iced tea."

A member of the team laughed: "Deputy Qu, your box of iced black tea was bought by the Flower Team for you, are you still fussing about it?"

"It's because Hua'er bought it for me, so I have to worry about it." Qu Zhi said.

"Deputy Qu, don't interrupt." Zhang Mao lowered his voice and said curiously: "When I was not assigned to the serious crime team last year, I went to the accumulated crime team to help. Hey, the accumulated case team is called lazy, and Team Xiao doesn't care at all. Do not move."

"It's not that I can't take care of it, it's that I don't want to take care of it." One person said: "The Xiao team has no motivation. In addition, the case backlog team has no tasks and no targets throughout the year. It's like a file management warehouse. It's not like us."

"That's right! That's why I find it strange." Zhang Mao said, "Team Xiao has become 'visible to the naked eye' and has become more diligent. To be honest, Team Xiao has put in a lot of effort in Guo Shu's case. He was the one who found it. The case files from 13 years ago were busy and hard-working. I went to pick up the bones with him, and he also said something in the style of the flower team, as if deliberately imitating the flower team."

"Tsk, that seems to be the case."

"Squad Xiao has become our 'plug-in' these days."

"The backlog team is also more active than before."

"Hey, don't you plan to compete with us for 'business'?"

Everyone discussed it half-jokingly and half-seriously. Qu Zhi listened for a while, then pulled Zhang Mao aside, "Has Team Xiao made any unusual moves?"

Zhang Mao blinked twice, "Abnormal behavior?"

Qu Zhi's face darkened, and he seemed to want to say something, but he just pursed his lips, "It's okay, I'll just ask."

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Xiao Chengxin actually wandered over from the accumulated case team again.

When everyone saw him, they suddenly started booing.

"The Xiao team is here again?"

"Is the air conditioner broken or the water dispenser broken?"

"Come here, here is iced tea, drink whatever you want."

Xiao Chengxin looked at Hua Chong's seat, "Has the flower team arrived yet?"

"Hua'er and Team Chen have gone to the provincial office." Qu Zhi said.

"Oh." Xiao Chengxin really took out a bottle of iced black tea from the box, twisted the cap and said, "Are you busy with a case recently?"

"Don't be crowed." A team member said: "When we are busy, it means that someone is killed again. It's almost the Chinese New Year, so it's better to calm down, and everyone will have a safe and secure New Year."

Zhang Mao looked at Qu Zhi and found that although Qu Zhi was staring at Xiao Chengxin, his attention was not on the iced black tea in Xiao Chengxin's hand.

Strange, someone took iced black tea in front of Qu Zhi, but Qu Zhi didn't respond?

"That's true." Xiao Chengxin smiled, and didn't intend to leave. Instead, he lifted a chair and was about to sit down.

Qu Zhi asked: "Your team has no case?"

"Ah?" Xiao Chengxin raised his head, as if he didn't understand what Qu Zhi meant.

Qu Zhi's tone was relaxed, "Why don't you hurry back and work on a case?"

Xiao Chengxin was a little embarrassed, "I just have something to do with the flower team. If he's not here, I'll go back first and come to him later."

Seeing that Xiao Chengxin came and left inexplicably, the more Zhang Mao thought about it, the more something went wrong, "What's going on with Team Xiao?"

"He and the rest of the backlog team don't seem to be very happy." Yuan Hao also joined the discussion, "Everyone knows how the backlog team is usually. Team Xiao didn't care about things before, but now I don't know if it's influenced by the flower team. Not to mention working overtime by himself, but also dragging others to work overtime together. The people in his team have some opinions on him.”

Zhang Mao laughed, "The flower team is so charming!"

"Yeah, after working with the flower team so many times, it's hard not to be affected." Yuan Hao said again: "I think his whole spirit has changed recently. You think, the serious crime team is What kind of case, and what kind of things does the backlog team usually do? Comparing the two, the sea was once too difficult for water."

"The backlog team is relaxed." A team member said with a smile.

"You can go if you don't mind." Yuan Hao said, "It depends on whether you want to."

"I don't want to." The team member waved his hand, "I'm born restless, I'd rather be busy than die idle."

"That's right. Team Xiao may have suddenly come to his senses."

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Hua Chong and Chen Zheng went to the provincial department for a meeting together, but Chen Zheng slipped away halfway, not knowing why.After the meeting, Hua Chong couldn't get through to Chen Zheng's phone call, so he had to leave alone.

A familiar car was parked outside the provincial office, with the windows down, Liu Zhiqin beckoned: "Here."

Hua Chong walked over quickly, and as soon as he got into the passenger seat, he was stuffed with a hand warmer that was only fully charged.

"Is there anything important to say in the meeting?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

"No." Hua Chong buried his face in the hand warmer, feeling his whole body warm up immediately, "Team Chen has slipped away, so what can you say about it?"

"Team Chen slipped away to inquire about the case of Wutong Community." The car drove slowly onto the main road, and Liu Zhiqin said, "I have something important to report to you."

Hua Chong raised his head, "What's the matter?"

"Xiao Chengxin went to our office last night." Liu Zhiqin looked ahead, "Arrived at 1:21 in the morning and left at 2:03."

Hua Chong put the hand warmer on his lap, frowned, "I remember that no one was on duty last night."

"That's why he went." Although Liu Zhiqin's tone was calm, the atmosphere in the car was a little tense, "I checked the surveillance today, and none of the cameras in the corridor captured him. Obviously, he deliberately avoided those Camera."

Hua Chong propped his forehead and said in a low voice: "What does he want to do?"

"He didn't do anything." Liu Zhiqin said: "Isn't there surveillance in the office? He avoided it and sat in the corner, just happened to be captured by the camera I installed. The video is on the tablet, take a look."

Hua Chong took the tablet and clicked on the video.

In the dark, Xiao Chengxin sneaked into the office and walked close to the wall for a while, looking very cautious.

Soon, he went around the conference table, moved the stool silently, and sat down.

The picture seemed to freeze.When Hua Chong glanced to the lower right corner, he realized that the picture was not still, and it was Xiao Chengxin who did not move.

"Strange." Hua Chong said, "What is he doing sitting there? Sleepwalking?"

"Does sleepwalking deliberately avoid surveillance?" Liu Zhiqin said, "Let's not talk about sleepwalking, even normal people passing through the corridors would not deliberately walk around the camera."

"He looks like he wanted to do something, but he didn't do it." Hua Chong began to fast forward, and Xiao Chengxin in the picture was sitting all the time, without unnecessary movements, at most looking around for a moment.

At the end of the video, Xiao Chengxin stands up, puts the stool back where it was, and returns the same way.

"Is this the end?" Hua Chong was puzzled, "It's kind of weird."

"Finish?" Liu Zhiqin was bending over, without looking at the tablet, "Did you see the iced black tea he took?"

Only then did Hua Chong see that Xiao Chengxin walked a few steps and then fell back, bent down and took out a bottle of iced black tea from the box, stood still and took a few sips before walking towards the door again.

"He came here in the middle of the night just to get Quzhi's iced black tea?" Hua Chong was even more surprised, "Isn't that so?"

"I also think it's weird, and if his purpose is just to get iced black tea, why did he sit for so long?" Liu Zhiqin said: "He turned back when he was about to leave, feeling like he was suddenly thirsty and wanted to drink something water."

"But why did he do that?" Hua Chong thought with his brows furrowed.

"I went to the bureau just now, and Qu Zhi was still asking who got the iced tea." Liu Zhiqin said, "Zhang Mao said that Xiao Chengxin went to see you this morning, and he seemed to have something to tell you. "

"He took the initiative to find me, it must have something to do with the case in his hand."

"Maybe not."

Hua Chong looked sideways, "What else could it be?"

"I don't know." Liu Zhiqin said: "Anyway, the water is coming and the earth is covering the soldiers and the soldiers are coming to block me, so I will continue to stare at him."

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After a day's delay in the provincial department, Hua Chong returned to the Municipal Bureau and it was almost time to get off work.

Sure enough, Xiao Chengxin was in the serious crime team again.

"Flower team." Xiao Chengxin sat on Zhang Mao's seat, but Zhang Mao went somewhere.

"What, what's the matter?" Hua Chong pretended not to know what happened at night, his attitude was the same as usual.

A team member spoke from the side: "Hey, you just came back, Team Flower? Team Xiao has come to see you several times today."

"Oh?" Hua Chong looked at Xiao Chengxin, "Don't tell me there is another case you want to throw on me?"

"No, no!" Xiao Chengxin was still holding the pen in his hand, and what was spread out on the table was a case file. After hearing this, he closed the case file and put down the pen, "Flower Team, are you free tonight?"

tonight?

Hua Chong subconsciously glanced at Liu Zhiqin.

Liu Zhiqin smiled warmly and said, "You don't have enough working hours, and you still want to take the flower team's rest time?"

Xiao Cheng felt embarrassed, and rubbed his hands together in embarrassment, "That's right, that's the one..."

"Shortly." Hua Chong said, "What is it?"

Xiao Chengxin rolled his eyes, walked up to Hua Chong, and lowered his voice as much as possible: "Flower team, um, I, I want to treat you to dinner."

Others didn't hear this, but Liu Zhiqin did.

Hua Chong raised his brows, "You have nothing to do to be courteous?"

"I have something to do!" Xiao Chengxin seemed very worried, and his voice was lowered, "Just have a meal, okay? I really want to discuss something with you."

Hua Chongchong raised his chin outside the office, "Can't we talk to an empty police room?"

"I, I also want to thank you." Xiao Cheng said anxiously: "You helped me solve a difficult case before, and I have never thanked you."

Hua Chong wanted to say "no need", but felt that he should take this opportunity to observe Xiao Chengxin carefully, so he nodded after a short hesitation, "Okay, you decide the place."

Xiao Chengxin was stunned, and his face began to flush, "Eat, is it okay to eat Thai food? I know a Thai restaurant with a good environment."

"I don't care." Hua Chong looked at the time, "Go right after get off work?"

"I'll call and book now!"

After Xiao Chengxin finished speaking, he packed up the file, picked it up and ran away.Liu Zhiqin just approached, "About you to eat Thai food?"

Hua Chong raised his eyes, "How about you too."

Liu Zhiqin smiled, "He didn't ask me out."

"then you……"

"I'll follow you." Liu Zhiqin's voice was very soft, "Now we don't know what his purpose is. I don't worry if you go alone, but if I go too, it might be meaningless. I'll find a place to stay If something happens, it’s good to have someone to take care of you.”

Hua Chong did not refuse, "Keep in touch."

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The Thai restaurant that Xiao Chengxin chose was only three stops away from the Municipal Bureau, and the business was booming, and the lobby was already full of people before seven o'clock.Xiao Chengxin didn't book a box, but fortunately he got a good seat by the window.As soon as Hua Chong sat down, he hurriedly ordered food, and went to get drinks and fruits himself.Beads of sweat were already welling up on his forehead after he was busy all the time.

Hua Chong took the drink and waited for Xiao Chengxin to speak.

"What's inside, Flower Team." Xiao Chengxin raised his glass, "I must first thank you for your help in the past few months. Without you and everyone in the serious crime team, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete this year's task. "

Hua Chong clinked glasses with him politely, "You invited me to dinner today, should you have something else to say?"

Xiao Cheng nodded awkwardly, but remained silent for a long time.

At this time, the Tom Yum Kung Pot was served, and the table was full of dishes. Xiao Chengxin only paid attention to greeting Hua Chong to eat, and lost half of what he said.

Hua Chong simply brought up the topic first, "Did you come to our serious crime team last night?"

Xiao Chengxin was so frightened that he dropped his chopsticks, his eyes widened immediately, "You, you know?"

Hua Chong didn't say that Liu Zhiqin installed an invisible camera in the office, but only said: "I don't sleep in the middle of the night, just to get Qu Zhi's iced tea?"

"No, no!" Xiao Cheng became impatient, "I was just suddenly thirsty, so I drank a bottle of him. Me, I just gave him a box!"

Hua Chong looked at Xiao Chengxin.

The person in front of him is acting strangely recently, as if he is planning something, and also seems to be hiding a big secret, but compared with the "problematic person" that Chen Zheng said, he seems to be far behind.

Hua Chong put down his chopsticks, his eyes gradually turned cold, and he looked very serious.

Xiao Chengxin didn't know if he was intimidated, and stammered: "I, I just feel uncomfortable, and I want to come to your serious crime team for a while. I didn't touch anything else, I only drank a bottle of water."

"Why do you feel uncomfortable and want to sit in the serious crime team?" Hua Chong said, "You didn't work overtime yesterday, did you? You stayed in the bureau in the middle of the night?"

"Isn't this year over yet? I want to hurry up and deal with a few more backlogged cases." Xiao Chengxin lowered his head, "To be honest, the case in Hefu Town gave me a lot of motivation—if Guo Shu hadn't been caught , then Lu Zhouan will have to be wronged forever. There may be many more cases like this, and every time we solve a case, we may be able to bring justice to those who need it, no matter whether the person is alive or dead."

Hua Chong's Adam's apple twitched, but he didn't interrupt Xiao Chengxin.

"As soon as I caught Guo Shu, I started sorting out the next backlog." Xiao Chengxin frowned, "But the people around me didn't cooperate with me, so it was very, very annoying. The task of our team this year has been completed, and now It's the end of the year, according to the previous rules, I really don't need to be busy with cases anymore. But, I still want to handle more cases!"

Speaking of this, Xiao Cheng became excited, "I know what others say about our backlog team, it's just a file management library. I used to think that it didn't matter to be an 'archivist'. Anyway, I'm free and safe. Let me tell the outside world, and I'll talk to you again. The criminal investigation team, the criminal investigation team and the second team are all criminal police officers of the criminal investigation team. But now, I don’t want to live the same life as before! I ran to the serious crime team in the middle of the night, mainly because I was so nervous that I stayed in the case team I don’t feel good about doing anything. I feel better when I go to your place. The team members in my team have problems with me. I don’t want them to know that I went to the serious crime team in a daze in the middle of the night and deliberately avoided surveillance. No, no I thought it was still photographed.”

Hua Chong discerned the truth of Xiao Chengxin's words, and found helplessly that Xiao Chengxin's outburst of emotions at this time did not seem to be feigned.

"I've wanted to talk to you and Team Chen for a long time, but I haven't been able to make up my mind." Xiao Chengxin sat upright, "I thought about it for a long time in your office yesterday, and I think, I don't think I can get through this year without talking to you. good!"

Hua Chong sighed, "Do you want to be transferred to the serious crime team?"

Xiao Chengxin's cheeks were very red, "Yes!"

"Have you talked to Team Chen?"

"Not yet." Xiao Chengxin swallowed his saliva, as if he had finally expressed what he wanted in his heart, "I know this is very abrupt, even willful. I have been abandoned in the Criminal Investigation Detachment for many years, and I have never been motivated , Now I suddenly want to fight, but I am lacking in ability and experience, but maybe even the youngest member of the serious crime team can't match. Flower team, I'm looking for you today, I don't have to ask you to agree to me to come The case team, I..."

"I don't have this right either." Hua Chong raised his hand to interrupt, "The personnel flow of the Criminal Investigation Detachment is decided by Team Chen."

"I know! But I still want to show you my attitude." Xiao Chengxin said, "If there is a chance, I would like to handle the case with you!"

Hua Chong poured some drinks into his cup, "Personnel transfers may have to wait until the end of the year."

Xiao Chengxin paused, "Flower Team, are you willing to let me join the Serious Crime Squad?"

Hua Chongxiao, "It's said that Team Chen has the final say on the flow of personnel. Whether I want it or not is not that important."

"You just meant that you are willing!" Xiao Chengxin's eyes lit up, "Although I still have many shortcomings..."

"Okay, let's eat vegetables." Hua Chong refused to let him continue, "Thanks to your help with Guo Shu's case."

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Leaving the restaurant, Xiao Chengxin insisted on sending Hua Chong home, but Hua Chong talked to him for a long time before persuading him to leave quickly.

Liu Zhiqin came out of the cafe beside him, took off his earphones, and handed Hua Chong a cup of latte.

"Have you heard everything?" Hua Chong asked.

"Hmm." Liu Zhiqin said, "It's not too surprising. It's just a little unspeakably depressed."

Hua Chong took a sip of coffee, puzzled, "What's the depression? Or the depression that can't be said? Is there anything that can't be said about depression?"

Liu Zhiqin looked at him softly, "Flower team, you have attracted the leader of another team to be your subordinate."

Hua Chong was stunned for half a second, "Tsk."

"Still 'tsk'?" Liu Zhiqin took his hand, warmly touching his palm, "You have infected people as unprogressive as Xiao Chengxin. Remember when we first helped the backlog team solve the case?"

"Why don't you remember?" Hua Chong said: "Xiao Chengxin left all the clues to us, resisted going out to the field, and just shrank back when he was asked to be responsible for something. Not to mention timid, he has poor comprehension ability."

"Even Captain Chen said that a criminal policeman like him is suitable to stay in the backlog team." Liu Zhiqinyu exasperated a little, and squeezed Hua Chong's hand, "But our flower team has the ability to force a Colleagues who are passive and sabotage are infected. I just thought about it after he told you this long paragraph today. Guo Shu’s case, and Shen Nonghan’s case before, he was indeed active a lot. It’s very different when viewing the village.”

"It has nothing to do with me." Hua Chong said, "He has spent many years in the accumulated case team, and he has the title of team leader, so he has no chance to get in touch with important cases. Dare to be a policeman, most of them are bloody, he has experienced it. The joy of solving the case, and psychological changes are normal, don't take the credit for me."

"Humble." Liu Zhiqin smiled, "It's because you are so attractive when handling cases, so people around are willing to follow you and listen to you."

Hua Chong turned his head, "Is it particularly attractive to you?"

Liu Zhiqin shook his hand lightly, "I'm different."

"Huh? What's the difference?"

"You are particularly attractive to others when you are working on a case. But you are equally attractive to me all the time."

Hua Chong pursed his lips and smiled.

"So they are your colleagues and subordinates." Liu Zhiqin added: "And I am your boyfriend."

Hua Chong couldn't hold back the corners of his lips, so he pushed Liu Zhiqin, "On the street, don't get sick."

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Xiao Chengxin was humming a song while driving, and he was in a rare happy mood. When he passed a traffic light, he thought about whether to go back to the Municipal Bureau, and then took out the case file in hand to read it again.

These days, he is quite conflicted. He wants to be transferred to the serious crime team every day, but he is also worried that his ability will be rejected by the serious crime team, and he is also worried that he will be squeezed out by the backlog team after being rejected.I used to just dawdle at work and get by, but now I feel restless when I see colleagues who are dawdling.

Worrying about gains and losses, I had a very unhappy life.

Now that I have told Hua Chong all the thoughts in my heart, it feels like a big stone has landed. If everything goes well, I may be able to report to the serious crime team in the next year.

Xiao Chengxin squinted his eyes and shook his head involuntarily.

Maybe he was too excited, but he didn't realize that a motorcycle was quietly following him.