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Shen Lin, a criminal police officer of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Qinjiang City, 30 years old, has a complicated family situation and a precocious personality. Both of his parents died when he was young.

Knowing that his little uncle might have something to do with the case, Shenlin didn't hesitate, and proposed to investigate at Yan Peifeng's house before getting off work in the evening.

"Hmm... my little aunt just asked me to go home tonight for a reunion dinner..." Shenlin asked tentatively, "How about... I send a message to tell them? Check it out early and save worry ?”

After going to university as an adult, he moved away from his little aunt's house very quickly. After the internship period, he has been living in the dormitory of the Municipal Bureau, and only went to Qinjiang Villa District to visit his little aunt's family during the holidays. , the investigation may also go more smoothly.

"...?" Yan Cun noticed the word in his words, hesitantly said, "...Reunion dinner? What reunion dinner?"

"Mid-Autumn Festival." Ji Liao replied aloud.

"Yes," Shen Lin nodded, "You forgot? Hmm...won't you go home and have a meal with Fang Ju after checking?"

Ji Liao moved his eyes towards him, keenly noticing something was wrong.

Captain Yan didn't notice this little detail, he let out an "ah" before he came back to his senses.

"I said..." He suddenly realized, "I said why did he suddenly send me a message this morning, saying that he had something to go out tonight..."

He suddenly remembered He Jiu's thoughtless question just now——

Although he sensed that something was wrong with the other party, he didn't say anything.

"It's pretty good," he replied, "I've become more energetic recently, and all the indicators of the physical examination are within the normal range...The last time I saw him, he insisted on dragging me to climb a mountain."

He Jiuhao prolonged his voice "oh", hesitated for a while, then sighed softly and said, "Well...that's good..."

After a long time, she added another sentence: "Then what... another day, another day, if you are free, please... well, can you have a meal with Jiang Huai?"

"Well, that's not necessary," Yan Cun raised his eyes and stared at her for a while, thought for a few seconds, and said in a low voice, "If... If you find out something related to him, don't worry about my feelings, just say yes .”

"Ah..." He Jiao was startled, smiled a little embarrassedly, nodded and said, "Okay... I know, I will check carefully, and if I find anything wrong later, I will tell you as soon as possible."

Yan Cun replied "Yes".

He coughed lightly, quickly returned to the topic, and said hesitantly: "No...it's the Mid-Autumn Festival, I went to your uncle's house to investigate this matter...is it appropriate?"

Today Jianghuai and Zhang Jingze are on vacation. If the investigation is to be carried out soon, Shenlin will probably have to avoid suspicion a little bit, so he has to bring...

Shen Lin didn't speak, he unlocked the phone screen and sent a message to his little aunt, bowed his head and said: "It's okay, go, check it out early and save yourself worry."

"That's fine." Yan Cun agreed.

So at around five o'clock in the evening, he led the young forensic doctor Ji Liao to the Qinjiang villa area with Shen Lin, and arrived at the door of his little aunt Shen Huanyu's house.

After signaling Shenlin to come in and say hello, he and Ji Liao waited outside for a while.

Seeing that Ji Liao seemed to have something to say, he uttered a word directly: "Say."

Ji Liao gave a knowing "Yeah" and asked, "Shenlin doesn't have a good relationship with his aunt's family?"

Captain Yan turned his head to look at him, remained silent for a while, and pretended to be surprised: "Ah?...What? How did you come to this conclusion?"

"..." Ji Liao seemed to be used to him performing anytime and anywhere, and some abnormalities did not cooperate with him, so he asked, "Huh? Isn't this obvious?"

Yan Cun was unable to answer for a while: "..."

The corners of Ji Liao's eyes were inadvertently bent, but his expression was as calm as water, and he asked again: "Captain Yan...are you... hungry? Why didn't you notice this?"

"??" Captain Yan gritted his teeth and replied, "You're just hungry..."

Originally, he was used to Ji Liao calling his name directly, and he didn't care much about others, but now he suddenly called out "Team Yan" respectfully, which actually gave him goosebumps.

He gave a "tsk" impatiently, and deliberately said in a solemn voice, "Should I say it or not!"

Ji Liao stared at him with a smile for a while, as if he saw the invisible hair on Captain Yan's body explode, he laughed for a long time, and then said: "Well... I guessed."

He cleared his throat: "I see that Shenlin just sent a message to my little aunt by himself, and I was eager to ask you to check that Yan Peifeng today. I guessed that he probably seldom goes back to this little aunt's house. It just happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival , simply deal with all the things together, and you can save one visit to my little aunt's house."

Seeing that he finally opened his mouth to talk about business, Yan Cun didn't feel like finding fault with him just now, so he nodded along with his words: "Well, indeed."

Just at this moment, Shen Lin came out to open the door for him and let them in, so he had no choice but to whisper something into Ji Liao's ear: "I'll tell you later."

Ji Liao said "OK".

He seemed to think of something, and asked again: "You... live alone?"

"...???" Yan Cun was taken aback, "Wh...what...alone?"

Ji Liao came back to his senses: "Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

"Oh...oh!" Yan Cun asked, "Why not?"

The two walked towards the house in small steps, and after a short distance from Shen Lin, Ji Liao said, "Last time I said... I'll take you to play."

Last time, the two of them agreed to go out to play the next day, but Captain Yan got a low-grade fever in the rain, and was busy writing the closing report for the next few days. After that, neither of them had a chance to bring up this matter. After all, it still didn't work out ——This time, Ji Liao finally seized an opportunity.

"Huh?" Yan Cun asked, "Aren't you going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Ji Liao shook his head: "Everyone is busy."

He did not lie, Ji Shuwang happened to be attending an event in the next city, and his brother went back to the company to handle related affairs, so he had to go home alone.

"Well," Yan Cun walked in, greeted Shen Lin's family with a polite smile, dragged Ji Liao to sit on the sofa, and waited for Aunt Shen to pour tea for them, Fu Ji Liao said quickly in his ear He said, "That's fine."

He didn't think about "holidays" at first, anyway, it wasn't the first time, and he didn't feel lonely, but he just became interested in the matter of "hanging out with Ji Liao".

The two of them took the teacup handed by Aunt Shen, put the matter of 'playing' behind them for a while, deliberated and prepared to get down to business.

"Yan Peifeng, right?"

Yan Cun took a sip of his tea, put the cup on the tea table, and tentatively said, "We are here this time to ask a little... um... About Gao Kuiliang, it is said that you are old classmates for many years?"

During the short 10-minute drive, Shen Lin had given them some background information—Yan Peifeng, 53 years old, an entrepreneur, and Gao Kuiliang's old classmate for many years, most likely also knew Fang Yushan.

Yan Peifeng's overall temperament is similar to Gao Kuiliang's, and he always looks calm and unhurried.

"Yes," Yan Peifeng nodded lightly, his tone was calm, and he had been smiling since the two of them entered the room, "I used to have a good relationship with him when I was young, but then I gradually became estranged, and now it's just during the holidays I just sent a text message to say hello."

He took a sip of tea, looked Yan Cun up and down for a while, and said with a light smile, "What? Little police officer. Did he...do something wrong?"

Ji Liao frowned upon hearing this.

Captain Yan paused his pen, lowered his head and continued to write down some words in his notebook, and replied, "No, just a routine investigation."

"When was the last time you two saw each other?" he asked.

He noticed that Yan Peifeng tapped lightly on the outside of his leg a few times with his fingertips, squinted his eyes, but didn't say anything.

"Last time?" Yan Peifeng said with a thoughtful look, "I don't remember clearly, I haven't contacted him for a long time."

"Oh, yes!" Aunt Shen Huanyu came out of the kitchen just in time, brought them a plate of cantaloupe, and answered for him, "That's true, hey, he hasn't seen him for almost half a year looking for that Gao Kuiliang Yes, I told him earlier that this man surnamed Gao doesn't look like a good person, I don't like this person very much, let him stop following..."

"Happy words—" Yan Pei interrupted her with a sly smile, and could not refuse, "The dumplings in the pot are almost burnt, go and have a look."

"Ah..." Shen Huanyu slapped his head and said hastily, "Yes, yes, oh, look at my memory...you talk."

Yan Cun pondered her words carefully for a while, lowered his head to remember for a while, and then asked: "Why did you two meet half a year ago?"

He glanced in the direction of the kitchen inadvertently, raised his eyes to observe Yan Peifeng's expression, and noticed from the corner of his eye that Shen Lin who was sitting on the sofa seemed a little tense.

Just at this moment, there was a 'click' from the direction of the door.

The young girl quickly put on her slippers and walked in. Seeing several strangers in police uniforms sitting on the sofa, she froze in place for a while.

Yan Peifeng waved her hand to signal her to go back to the room, the girl nodded, opened the door and walked towards the bedroom.

"Appointment to go fishing," Yan Peifeng replied unhurriedly, "Oh... at our age, is it just a matter of fishing, drinking tea, and eating when we make an appointment?"

Yan Cun moved his eyes to the direction of the girl just now, thought for a while, and then asked: "Well...Has Gao Kuiliang mentioned to you what he is doing recently?"

"No," Yan Peifeng quickly replied, "I don't know him very well either, and we only exchanged pleasantries a few times, and the relationship is not enough to talk about it."

Yan Peifeng's expression didn't fluctuate, he didn't look like he was lying, so Yan Cun could only nod his head in response.

He asked the pre-set questions on the car one by one - but Yan Peifeng was almost impeccable, calm and kind throughout the whole process, answering every question, and couldn't ask any key information for a while.

Seeing that it was getting late, he put away his notebook, got up and prepared to leave Shen's villa with Ji Liao.

After the two of them walked a few steps forward, Yan Peifeng stopped them abruptly, and asked a question tentatively with a smile.

"Why don't you stay and have a meal?"