Aromatherapy

"How did you see the house yesterday?" Chen Hongting asked Li Xinyun during breakfast.

Hearing Chen Hongting's sudden question, Li Xinyun was stunned for a moment, then slowly said: "...still watching."

Li Xinyun went to meet with Li Peifeng yesterday, and the reason he told Chen Hongting was to go outside to see if there was any suitable place for his plan to become a private detective. Chen Hongting also said that he had several sets of spare sets under his name For the storefront, if Li Xinyun is willing, he can give it to Li Xinyun to open the office.

Not to mention looking at the house is just Li Xinyun's excuse, even if Li Xinyun really wanted to rent a space to open an office, he would not be able to accept Chen Hongting's proposal, so Li Xinyun rejected Chen Hongting, saying that he did not want to rely on Chen Hongting for everything.

Chen Hongting said again: "Actually, I can accompany you." Seeing that Li Xinyun had finished the porridge in the bowl, he brought his bowl over and filled him with a new half bowl. He was already familiar with Li Xinyun's appetite. Heart.He filled the porridge and handed it to Li Xinyun, saying: "Ayun, you can rely on me more...I want you to rely on me more, even if only a little bit."

His tone and demeanor were extremely gentle, as if he didn't mean that he wanted Li Xinyun to rely on him, but that he wanted to rely on Li Xinyun.

Li Xinyun opened his mouth, and almost blurted out some questions buried in his heart, and said reluctantly: "It's okay, I can do it myself... I have to do some things by myself."

Chen Hong was helpless, but didn't say anything, and asked instead: "I heard from my uncle and aunt that you went to visit them yesterday, why didn't you tell me, I should go with you."

"I didn't go there on purpose, but I suddenly remembered it, so I stopped by to see it." Li Xinyun paused for a moment, then raised his head to look at Chen Hongting, and asked, "But...you are in constant contact with them ?

Chen Hongting's expression was as usual, he smiled and said: "Although my uncle still doesn't like me very much, my aunt is very kind and she is still willing to chat with me. You always encounter things that you don't want to tell them, they are worried about you, Just come and ask me."

"Really?" Li Xinyun said, "It's hard work for you... You are so busy with work, and you still have to deal with them."

"I don't find it hard to do things related to you." Chen Hongting said with a smile.

Hearing such words in the past, Li Xinyun would only feel that Chen Hongting had such a warm heart, giving everything for the one he loved wholeheartedly; but now hearing such words, Li Xinyun only felt a chill run down his spine Getting up made him extremely terrified.

However, even so, Li Xinyun's heart could not help but break his heart for such touching words when the chill rose up his spine.Li Xinyun's soul seemed to be split into two halves. One half was trying to use reason to analyze whether there was something terrible hidden behind Chen Hongting's sincere and warm eyes and words, while the other half was uncontrollably sinking into Chen Hongting's heart. Gentle and affectionate.

Li Xinyun lowered his head, not daring to look at Chen Hongting's face. The person who is full of doubts is Chen Hongting, but the person who is guilty and afraid has become Li Xinyun. Look at every minute and every second of Chen Hongting , he seemed to be unable to maintain a calm posture.

After asking that almost weird question from Li Peifeng and getting Li Peifeng's answer, Li Xinyun came up with an almost absurd guess that he didn't dare to think about. This guess almost shattered all his current life and thoughts.

But if everything is really what he doesn't even dare to think about, how can Chen Hongting face himself so calmly and with ease?

Yes, Li Xinyun is still imagining "what if".

A great fear arose in Li Xinyun's heart.He is afraid of the terrible truth that may exist under Chen Hongting's gentle mask, and even more afraid of...even though he already knows that there are so many doubts, Li Xinyun still has a certain kind of luck in his heart—he is still thinking about it , Maybe I thought too much, there was no evidence for everything, it was just Li Xinyun's unfounded speculation.

But what if there is evidence?

Li Xinyun had occasional clients like this in the past. They did not come for themselves, but entrusted Li Xinyun to conduct investigations for friends or relatives. The collected evidence was directly displayed in front of friends or relatives, and their relatives and friends refused to believe it, and insisted on continuing to maintain the relationship that was already riddled with holes.

Li Xinyun never thought that one day he would become such a self-deceived person, not daring to see some amazing truth hidden in his life, he didn't dare to take a look out of the cracked glass cover, once After looking at it, I am afraid that he will never be able to sit in front of Chen Hongting as usual.

Li Xinyun used to think those people were ridiculous, but now there seems to be no difference between him and them. Obviously the sandstorm is close at hand, but he still stubbornly acts like an ostrich, burying his head in the sand, as if if he doesn’t look, the sandstorm will not drown him Own.

But sooner or later the wind and sand will overwhelm him.

After breakfast, Chen Hongting went to the company as usual, and Li Xinyun also went out immediately after he left, took the key that Li Peifeng gave him, and took a taxi to his former detective agency.

Standing in front of the office this time, Li Xinyun was closer to his hometown than last time.

For the first time, Chen Hongting found him here who escaped from the hospital; for the second time, he met Li Peifeng here again; and this time, Li Xinyun came here alone.Since waking up, Li Xinyun has stood here for the third time, more at a loss each time, and more afraid to step into this door each time.

But Li Xinyun still has to step into this door in the end.

He took the key and opened the door, and Li Xinyun walked into the office. He stood in the living room for a while, remembering that he was here, sitting behind that desk, and had received countless indifferent or sad clients; He didn't bother to walk the few steps to the bedroom, and he just took a rest on the sofa... He thought of the countless real days he had been here, but it seemed to have become an illusory scene, and he had no sense of reality; and Chen Hongting's short and illusory time together has left countless vivid and real marks on his body and memory.

Li Xinyun was out of his mind for a while, and then began to search in the room.

Li Xinyun searched every corner of the house, but couldn't find his laptop, and the expectation that "maybe he remembered wrongly, he didn't put the computer on the desk" in his heart was completely lost. The failure of this expectation also proves that what Lu Cong told Li Xinyun was not just groundless speculation, but also proved that even the luck that Li Xinyun had before was about to come to nothing.

He could no longer lie to himself.

Li Xinyun sat in the bedroom for a long time, his thoughts seemed to be in a swamp, something in his heart was sinking gradually, sinking endlessly.

If it wasn't for Lu Cong's call, Li Xinyun didn't know how long he would have to sit like this.

Li Xinyun has been in contact with Lu Cong recently.Although Lu Cong always advised Li Xinyun not to get involved in this matter, but if one of Li Xinyun wanted to get involved, he couldn't stop him. For himself, having multiple helpers was of course better.Lu Cong is still following Yan Xia, compared to his current breakthrough only Yan Xia, but he recently accidentally asked Yan Xia to find out that he was following her, so Yan Xia called the police and sent Lu Cong to the police station. It is inconvenient to disclose what he is investigating, so he can only recognize the title of "stalker with evil intentions" first, and squat in the police station for several days. It was he who contacted Li Xinyun, and Li Xinyun went to the police station to guarantee his rescue. of.

After Lu Cong came out of the police station, Li Xinyun lied a little, saying that he had asked Yan Xiadang for the detailed information of the private detective who helped Yan Xia investigate, and that there should be a way to find some new clues, so that Lu Cong should not follow him any more. It's Yan Xia's time. If there is really something wrong with the original accident, he doesn't want his "friend" Yan Xia to be involved again.

Lu Cong has been investigating Yan Xia for so long, but there is nothing to gain, so he temporarily stopped the investigation of Yan Xia, waiting for news from Li Xinyun.

"Have you found the private detective's computer?" Lu Cong asked Li Xinyun.

Li Xinyun said no, Lu Cong felt a little regretful, saying that the clues seemed to be broken, and it seemed that he could only resign himself to fate.Li Xinyun hesitated for a moment, then said: "No, I can still look for it."

After hanging up Lu Cong's phone, Li Xinyun took a chair, took out a toolbox from the cabinet, got up and went to the kitchen.

He dragged the chair to the kitchen vent, put the chair under the vent, then stood up, unscrewed the shutter of the vent with the screwdriver in the tool box, then reached into the vent and touched a Rusty iron box.

At least this thing is still there.

When he came to look for the computer, although Li Xinyun still had a certain kind of luck in his heart, he actually knew deep down that after today, his luck would probably be unsustainable.

He didn't come to find a computer in the first place.

The brilliance of the setting sun faintly falls in from the air vent, setting off the rusty iron box with a shining brilliance. Li Xinyun held down his trembling fingertips and opened the iron box. The sound of the iron lid leaving the box was like a thunderclap , exploded in a quiet and small space.

Inside the iron box is a hard drive.

Because the office was smashed several times, his camera and computer were often murdered, so in order to back up the files, Li Xinyun specially prepared a hard disk to back up the files. Every time before handing over the final data to the client, he will back it up specially Take a look at the files just in case, and there are not a few customers who encounter rascals in this kind of gray business. He often needs to keep evidence, and the role of hard disk backup lies in this.Because he basically doesn't use the kitchen, he hides the hard drive in the kitchen vent.

The hard disk is still there, which means that the person who took away his computer did not discover Li Xinyun's habit, so there is a high probability that the backup files on the hard disk are still there.

Li Xinyun found what he was looking for, but there was no joy or excitement in his heart.

He only felt that the thing that fell into the swamp in his heart just now had fallen into the deepest place, and there was no way to break free from the swamp.