forensic hunter

Luo Jianan doesn't intend to sacrifice his precious rest days to repay Qi Ming's "shit kindness", it's an equivalent exchange, isn't it?Don't think that you can buy him off by writing a report for him. If you want to repay him for such a small favor, if Qi Ming does something else for him in the future, you can't afford it?

"No." Luo Jianan threw out the words sideways, regardless of whether it would embarrass Qi Ming or not.

"It's not a request." Qi Ming looked at him coldly, "it's an order."

"Hey, do you really think of yourself as a leader? In addition to Team Chen's order, I also—" Luo Jianan half-spoken, took out the phone that was constantly vibrating in his pocket, glanced at the caller ID, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. "Hey, Mom, what's the matter?" He gestured to Qi Ming to silence him.

My mother babbled on the phone for a long time, causing Luo Jianan to move the receiver away from his ear, and it was his turn to interject after a while: "No, I won't rest tomorrow...yes, work overtime...don't! You Don't call our captain! It's not about the team! It's—" Luo Jianan glanced at Qi Ming with frustrated eyes, "The new one, uh, the leader, needs to move, and I have to help...Dinner? I'm not free either... I'll be on duty the day after tomorrow... next week? I don't know what's going to happen next week.

After hanging up the phone, Luo Jianan had an expression of "I can't fucking drink cold water to clog my teeth".My mother called him specifically to ask him to go home for lunch on weekends. This was definitely a blind date.He would rather help Qi Ming move than to make his facial muscles twitch with a smile in front of a girl he doesn't know.

"Okay, it's up to you now." Luo Jianan said to Qi Ming.

"Your mother told you to go back for dinner?" Qi Ming asked.

Luo Jianan nodded.

Qi Ming lowered his eyes and said, "You should go back to eat and spend more time with your parents."

"Hey! You—" Luo Jianan's face was full of helplessness, "Didn't I just use you as an excuse not to go home!"

"Why don't you want to go home?"

"My father is fierce, and my mother is nagging." Luo Jianan snorted.Qi Ming sighed slightly, raised his eyes and said with a wry smile, "You don't know how to be blessed when you are in the midst of blessings."

Luo Jianan was just about to reply, "If you have the ability, try spending two hours with them", when she suddenly bit the inside of her lip to hold back the words.

Really, how could he forget, Qi Ming's parents are gone.

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When it was time to get off work, Luo Jianan had something to do, so he had to work overtime. When he finished his work, he looked up at his watch and found that it was almost eight o'clock, but Qi Ming didn't come up to him to take him back to the hotel.He ran to the forensic office on the second basement floor, but the door of the office was locked.After hesitating for a moment in the corridor, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Qi Ming's number.

The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. "Where did you go? Why didn't you call me when you left?" Luo Jianan asked.Qi Ming was silent for a while, and said, "I don't need to report to you wherever I go."

Hearing this makes me pissed off.Luo Jianan frowned and kicked the wall, he felt that Qi Ming was making a fuss.Hearing the sound of ocean waves in the background, he suppressed his temper and asked, "Are you at the beach?"

"Yeah." The other side responded indifferently.Luo Jianan could hear that Qi Ming was in a bad mood. In fact, after answering his mother's phone call in the morning, he found that Qi Ming was in a low mood.Qi Ming lost his parents when he was a child. At this point, Luo Jianan can't empathize with the other party's feelings, but as a friend, he should do something: "Send me the location, and I will pick you up."

"No, I want to be alone."

"Aren't you going to help you move tomorrow? I haven't had dinner yet, so why don't you have a meal first? How can you work if you're not full?"

"Go to the hotel downstairs to eat by yourself, and sign my room number."

"You're so disingenuous." Luo Jianan said as he walked towards the elevator, "Besides, today Friday, beer-grilled crayfish skewers are the real thing, so don't try to send me away with an insatiable set meal."

There was silence in the receiver, just when Luo Jianan thought that Qi Ming's line was disconnected, he suddenly heard the other party say: "Send me the store name and address."

"It's old B, you remember?"

"Well, see you later."

"How about calling Xiao Xu, Dawei and my master? There are so many people, and you just happen to get acquainted with everyone."

"can."

After hanging up Qi Ming's phone, Luo Jianan called the others separately.Xu Jie couldn't come because he had something to do, so both Qiao Dawei and Miao Hong went.

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On Friday night, the business in the old store B was very hot. When Luo Jianan arrived there, the tables were already full.Old B borrowed a table from a nearby shop, set up stools and beckoned him to sit down.Qiao Dawei also arrived within a few minutes, followed by Miao Hong.Qi Ming didn't show up until about half an hour later, his suit and leather shoes seemed a bit out of place with the atmosphere of the night market.

"Are you still drinking while driving?" Seeing Luo Jianan picking up the beer bottle, Miao Hong held down his wrist.

"I'll call the driver later." Luo Jianan chuckled, took the bottle and touched the one in Qiao Dawei's hand, "Dawei, take one?"

Qiao Dawei drank the whole bottle of beer without saying a word.Miao Hong peeled a lobster tail and put it on the plate in front of Qi Ming, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Qi, don't you want to drink?"

"I don't drink beer." Qi Ming glanced at the lobster tails on the plate, and nodded at Miao Hong, "Thank you."

Luo Jianan also saw the shrimp tail, and the corners of his mouth dropped, pretending to be angry: "Master, you are biased, and you won't peel it for me!"

"Crippled, I don't have long hands?" Miao Hong rolled his eyes at him, and continued to ask Qi Ming: "Then what would Teacher Qi want to drink, I'll accompany you."

"My master is obsessed with sex..." Luo Jianan complained to Qiao Dawei in a low voice, and immediately kicked Miao Hong.Fortunately, Miao Hong was wearing flat shoes, otherwise there would be a hole in his foot.

Qi Ming glanced at the counter and said, "I guess there won't be any whiskey here. Whatever you want, I can do it."

"Old B." Miao Hong waved at Old B, "Give me a bottle of white."

Luo Jianan stared: "Master, you are going to get our consultant drunk and then take the opportunity to—"

"If you talk nonsense again, I'll hit you with a beer bottle, brat." Miao Hong slapped the table.She is a girl from the Northeast, she has a good capacity for alcohol, and it is no problem to drink half a catty. "I'm usually busy with work and don't have much time to relax, so I'll treat it as an orientation meeting for consultants today. It's settled, I'll treat you to this meal."

"I ask, Officer Miao, it is a shame for a man to ask a lady to pay." Qi Ming continued.

Hearing this, Miao Hong said with emotion: "Hey, I pray that the history of the shame of the two people across from you can be written in a book. Only Xu Jie is not here, or the three of them can come up with a bound book."

Luo Jianan and Qiao Dawei each turned their heads and rolled their eyes.

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In addition to the flower sellers in the night market, there are always singers who line up tables and sing.Ten yuan and 20 yuan for a song. If you think the singer sings well, you can give more. Those who often come to the night market know the rules.A girl in her early twenties came to Luo Jianan's table with a guitar in her arms and asked if she wanted to order songs.Generally speaking, Luo Jianan doesn't want to order songs. It's not that he loves money, but he just thinks that in this situation, he looks like an old man who listens to music in the old society, which is weird.But seeing the little girl's expectant expression, he lit a cigarette and raised his chin at Miaohong.

"Master, you order, I ask."

Miao Hong's face was flushed from drinking, and when she heard Luo Jianan's words, she turned her head and asked the little girl, "What's the name of the theme song of "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts"?"

The girl thought for a while, then shook her head.

""Unchained Melody"." Qi Ming said.He drank about two or three taels of white wine, and now his face was flushed.

"Yes, that's the one." Miao Hong's eyes were full of melancholy, and she immediately dismissed it with a smile, "Can you sing, girl?"

The girl continued to shake her head, and said with a little embarrassment: "Only Chinese songs...it's okay..."

Miao Hong's expression instantly turned lonely.Just when she was thinking of changing a song, she saw Qi Ming reaching out to the little girl: "Lend me the guitar."

After tuning the cheap guitar, Qi Ming smiled at Miao Hong: "Officer Miao, I can't sing "Unchained Melody" well, but I hope this song "Boy's Round Here" can make you happy."

After speaking, he played the prelude with a pick.As soon as Qi Ming's singing came out, Luo Jianan immediately thought "I should go to participate in the good voice" in his heart.Thanks to his ex-girlfriend who is an English major, Luo Jianan's English is still OK. Although he has never heard the song sung by Qi Ming, he can understand it roughly. It is the theme of boys chasing girls.The country style, light and sweet, is completely different from the indifferent attitude Qi Ming showed before.Luo Jianan didn't recover from the shock until his hands were burned by the end of the cigarette.

After Qi Ming finished singing, Miao Hong took the lead in applauding. "Mr. Qi, you sing really well. Is there anything in this world that you don't know?"

Qi Ming handed the guitar back to the girl and smiled shyly: "I don't know how to drive."

"I'll teach you, I guarantee it will be done in two hours." Miao Hong gave Luo Jianan a sideways look, motioning him to pay.

After Luo Jianan took out his wallet, he hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to give it to the girl or Qi Ming.

After eating and drinking enough, Luo Jianan called a valet driver and took Qi Ming back to the hotel by the way.Sitting side by side in the back seat, Luo Jianan stared at the receding street scene outside the car window, turned to Qi Ming when there were two traffic lights away from the hotel, and asked, "Are you trying to chase my master?"

Qi Ming shook his head calmly. "Officer Miao has someone in his heart."

"Don't be funny, why didn't I know she had someone in her heart?" Luo Jianan's expression was slightly horrified.He really couldn't imagine what kind of man it would be for Miao Hong to pretend to be in his heart.

"If you guess correctly, that person is no longer here." Qi Ming pondered for a moment, "Tell the truth after drinking, listen to the song she ordered, and the expression on her face at that time."

"That's it, I didn't pay attention." Luo Jianan tried hard to recall Miao Hong's expression at that time, but couldn't remember.Of course, he will not ask Miao Hong about this matter, this is the other party's privacy.

"Master, here we are, this is it."

Qi Ming patted the back of the driver's seat.The car stopped on the side of the road, he opened the door and was about to go down when suddenly Luo Jianan grabbed his arm.

"What time is it tomorrow?" Luo Jianan asked.

Pushing away his hand, Qi Ming said: "You go back to accompany your parents after dinner and then come back. I called Shao Chen to help."

"Shao Chen? Oh, the manager of the business department of the hotel." Luo Jianan raised his eyebrows, "I'm sure I won't go home for dinner, so just tell me what time it is."

"Nine o'clock, go directly to my apartment. I don't have any luggage. I mainly assemble furniture." Qi Ming pointed back at the community across the street behind him, "Building No. 1808, Room [-], you have the key. If we haven't arrived at nine o'clock, Go in and wait by yourself."

Luo Jianan froze immediately - yes, Qi Ming gave him a key, but it seems that he has never seen that key since he slept in the living room of Qi Ming's room!

The author has something to say: I don’t know what crayfish and whiskey taste like...