Mysterious level up! Shen Ye cries and begs for reconciliation again

"friend?"

Qi Yan frowned slightly, his tone doubtful.

The man glanced around.

"There's no one else here, just speak your mind."

Qi Yan closed the stove lid, and the scorching flames disappeared from his eyes, leaving only endless indifference.

The man approached her cautiously and lowered his voice, "I wonder if Miss Qi... has ever heard of the Xie family."

Qi Yan's pupils paused slightly, and she met his anxious eyes, her brows deepened.

"Who?"

The man rubbed his cold hands. "You are not from the imperial capital, so it is normal that you don't know. This is old news for many years. The Xie family used to live in the same military compound as your mother, but..."

He paused deliberately, a vicious smile instantly appearing on his face, "The current Xie family no longer exists. They were not as lucky as the Shen family. They had the protection of the Qi family, but they were wiped out more than ten years ago. Hahaha..."

His shoulders shook with laughter, as if he had told some great joke.

Qi Yan looked at him calmly until the ridicule stopped, then he spoke.

"so what?"

The three cold words did not sound like a story of a family massacre, but rather like a cold joke.

"..."

The man choked, stared at her calm expression, and restrained his smile.

"You are so cold-blooded. Aren't you curious about how they wiped out the whole family?"

"Not curious."

Qi Yan shook his head and said seriously: "Just get to the point."

"..." He was silent for a few seconds and then talked about something else, "I heard... you have a good relationship with the eldest son of the Shen family?"

Qi Yan's clear and indifferent eyes were instantly filled with coldness when she looked at him again. Her voice was still steady, but with a hint of coldness.

"Why are you asking this?"

Seeing her like this, the man knew that he was right and it was fun to watch the fun.

"Then your relationship is not going to be easy."

Qi Yan tapped the phone screen with her knuckles, pressed her lips into a line, and narrowed her eyes, "I don't like listening to riddles."

The clear voice was like spring water hitting ice, mixed with ice chips and piercing people's hearts.

The man took a deep breath, looked into her eyes, and tried to suppress the malice in his mouth, "Because the death of the Shen family couple was not completely unrelated to your mother..."

"..."

The silence was spreading, like a suffocating vine tightly wrapped around one's throat, making it difficult to breathe.

Qi Yan's fingertips holding the phone turned slightly white.

After a long time, a cold voice broke through the silence and cut off the vines.

"Tell me everything you know."

……

Nearly an hour later.

The man put on his cotton hat to cover the redness and swelling on his forehead. He turned around to look at Qi Yan, who had remained silent after hearing the whole story, and pointed outside.

"Miss Qi, let's go."

"……Um."

Qi Yan put down the hook for hooking charcoal and stood up only after making sure that there would be no risk of fire.

The man walked beside her and smiled leisurely: "Tell me, if I cooperate with the police, is it possible to avoid the death penalty?"

"Respite."

Qi Yan only replied with these two words.

"Death penalty with a reprieve, death penalty with a reprieve, if it's a reprieve then it can become life imprisonment, life imprisonment, if you behave well then the sentence can be reduced, you can be out in a dozen years at most."

The man shook his head.

"You feel it very clearly."

Qi Yan frowned.

"That's natural. We in this industry have all thought about the day when we will go to jail."

The man stretched out his hands and placed them in front of her eyes, "Handcuffs? I understand."

Qi Yan shook his head. “I’m not a policeman. I don’t have that kind of thing.”

"..." He stared at this woman who had remained indifferent from beginning to end and sneered, "How ridiculous."

Outside the courtyard gate, the children's laughter had long gone, leaving only the remnants of firecrackers lying alone on the ground.

The man looked around the alleys where the doors were closed.

"Are you afraid that I will take the children hostage?"

It wasn't a question, but a tone of certainty.

Qi Yan didn't answer, and he didn't ask any further questions. He picked up the half-burned fairy wand on the ground and turned to ask.

"The New Year is coming soon, Miss Qi, do you miss home?"

He didn't wait for Qi Yan to speak, and continued to talk to himself: "I miss him very much. The child outside just now looks like my son. I can only fly over to accompany him during the Chinese New Year every year... Now there is no chance at all..."

Although he said that he was giving a suspended sentence, he knew best how many crimes he had committed and he could not bear the consequences.

"So you have to cherish the people around you, otherwise you will end up like me..."

Before he could utter the word "regret", the fairy wand in his hand suddenly fell off, his face turned blue, and he fell to the ground, clutching his throat tightly.

Qi Yan was stunned for a moment, then reacted and quickly helped him up.

He clutched her arm tightly, foaming at the mouth and staring at her with bloodshot eyes.

"You...why, why...I...clearly..."

Qi Yan took out the pager and asked for an ambulance to come over. At the same time, she frowned and replied, "It wasn't me."

She still needed clues and confession from him, so there was no need to poison him.

Fortunately, the poison had not yet attacked his brain. The man reacted immediately and foamed at the mouth even more fiercely, "In the cake...in the cake..."

He didn't have the strength to finish his words and fainted completely.

"It's really not me, I am innocent!!"

In the interrogation room, the police officer who went to sell pancakes today was being interrogated.

"Li Ze, leniency to those who confess and severity to those who resist. You should know that the team leader is still in the hospital for emergency treatment. After testing, a compatible toxin was found in the stuffed pancakes you made. Where did you get those drugs from?"

The middle-aged policeman looked serious.

"I am really innocent! I didn't poison him, and I don't know how he got poisoned!"

Li Ze cried out for injustice.

“These ingredients have only passed through your hands, who else could it be but you?”

The middle-aged policeman said.

"It really wasn't me. I went on duty after I put the things away yesterday. I don't know how it got poisoned. I was really wronged! I have no grudge against the prisoner. He was a third-class meritorious official. There was no need for me to harm him!"

"..."

Qi Yan stood outside the one-way glass, looking at the situation in the interrogation room. The door behind him was opened, and the police officer handed over the information and reported.

"Advisor Qi, we checked the surveillance footage last night and found that no one entered the materials room. However, the two surveillance videos with a duration of five minutes between 11pm and 11:05pm are missing."

"Gone?"

Qi Yan looked up from the information, "Why is it gone?"

"It was said that the duty room accidentally deleted it..."

"Who was on duty last night?"

"..."

The police officer didn't say anything, but moved his eyes to Li Ze, whose face was red and neck was thick, through the one-way glass.

Qi Yan also followed his gaze and asked, "He has a mission the next day. Who arranged for him to be on duty at night?"

The police station operates on a 24-hour shift system, but Li Ze has other tasks to complete and will not arrange a time for a collision.

"Li Ze sets up shop in the morning, takes a break at noon, and returns to the bureau in the evening. He said he was here to fill in for someone else."

"For whom?"

"Gong Wei is a senior police officer in the bureau and the captain of the second criminal investigation team."

"Where are the people?"

"That's exactly what I was going to tell you," the officer took a deep breath. "He's dead."

"..."

Qi Yan closed the document with a snap.