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In recent days, the weather in Qinjiang has indeed been sunny and the temperature has been slightly cool, showing signs of autumn.

The National Day holiday comes soon after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Everyone in the city bureau continued to be restless for several days, and finally waited for the first long vacation in half a year. However, as criminal policemen, their work was of a special nature, and they couldn't really be released for seven days. Everyone had to go back to the bureau to be on duty for a day or two.

In order to care for Yan Cun, the captain of the criminal investigation team who hardly had any entertainment activities, the little forensic doctor Ji Liao cleverly hinted a few words in the small group of the eight-person investigation team at the cost of the collapse of the human setting. Zhang Jingze quickly understood and said directly in the group: " Team Yan has no one to invite out to play."

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So the Criminal Investigation Office and He Jiu tried to ask him out for a play - but Ji Liao was not there.

OK, fine.

I have a little temper.

He thought back for a while, and vaguely remembered that Ji Liao had said to him, "Anytime is fine, I'll take you to play", so he took the initiative to invite Ji Liao out on the last day of the National Day holiday—on duty .

So the two of them spent the whole day in the office extremely bored, and no one reported the crime. In the end, they had to find a few small movies from their mobile phones to kill the last vacation time.

He casually dialed the phone and asked about the result of the last kidnapping incident he encountered - that person seemed to be just a whim, committing the crime for the first time, and no trafficking gang was found in the end.

Then he suddenly remembered the movie that night, and asked Ji Liao about the final ending of the movie. Ji Liao told him that "the little boy and the program finally lived a happy and shameless life." He didn't quite believe it, but This ending seems to be good, so I didn't check it online.

After finishing his shift that afternoon, Ji Liao went home, had a meal with his brothers and sisters, and drove to the villa area to look for Xiao Zhiyu after the meal.

"Well... a few days ago, I asked someone to check the registration information of Zhaoyuan Group. There are three registrants, namely Yan Zhao, the chairman of the group, the vice chairman... your father Ji Cheng, and the wife of the chairman. Geng Ziqi."

Last week, Xiao Zhiyu suddenly received a message from Ji Liao, mentioning that the chairman of Zhaoyuan Group’s family experienced a fire 20 years ago, and asked him to help check the group’s structure back then.

While talking, he took the documents from Ji Liao and weighed them: "...So many?? Your brother really asked you to check?"

Ji Liao sat upright, opened the copied relevant materials on his laptop, and replied, "I took it myself."

This time it was indeed 'take', just now he directly entered the study in front of Ji Heng, and he was not as sneaky as last time.

"I guess he also wants to check it himself, but it's not convenient, so he just allows me to check it."

He opened the only photo in the album folder, squinted his eyes, and saw the young Yan Zhao couple and his father clearly in the photo.

Xiao Zhiyu said "Oh", glanced at the phone screen, and continued: "At the beginning, Mrs. Geng Ziqi was in charge of many company-related affairs, but it is said that Geng Ziqi's physical condition was poor after she became pregnant, and she was admitted to the hospital several times, plus... ...well... her son... seems to have a little problem..."

Ji Liao gave a calm "hmm".

Xiao Zhiyu raised his eyes and looked at him: "Just... Geng Ziqi has been taking care of the children by himself in those years, but in fact he didn't have the energy to participate in the company's affairs at all. Well, maybe he has the same name? Geng Ziqi's son..."

"It's not the same name, it's him," Ji Liao said, "Our detachment leader."

"Hmm... I think so too. It is said that he was adopted by Fang Yushan back then..." Xiao Zhiyu had already noticed that something was wrong with Ji Liao, and after finding out about these things, he struggled for several days, and then asked tentatively. "You...what's the matter with you...huh?"

"……what?"

"It's just your captain!" Xiao Zhiyu frowned, "No... I wouldn't be surprised if you check something else... You check this? Isn't it a little long ago? Does this have something to do with...? Why? He checked? What do you want to do?"

Ji Liao had a headache from this series of questions, so he gave a "tsk", and didn't want to talk to him too much.

"Are you bent?" Xiao Zhiyu seemed to have seen through everything, staring at him for a while, "When did you bend?"

"..." Ji Liao raised his forehead, "Is it okay to talk about business? Geng Ziqi has no energy to participate in company affairs, and then?"

"This matter is very righteous!" Xiao Zhiyu shouted, "I have already seen that you are in trouble! Don't lie to me!"

"Hey, then you're pretty good!" Ji Liao sneered, copied a pen and threw it at it, and could only say, "I'll tell you later! Let's talk about the Zhaoyuan Group first!"

"Okay...!" Xiao Zhiyu compromised, swiped his fingertips on the screen, and said faster, "Who was... right! Fang Yushan! The specific reason has not been found out, anyway, he seems to have been involved Zhaoyuan Group's top management made decisions, but he had already joined the Municipal Bureau as a criminal policeman that year, and due to work, it was obviously inconvenient to participate in company affairs, so I guess...Geng Ziqi's skin should be because he didn't run away."

Ji Liao thought for a while, then nodded.

"Hmm..." Xiao Zhiyu seemed to think of something, and asked tentatively, "Then what... um... Fang Yushan..."

Ji Liao seemed to think of something, and interrupted him: "What's the situation with Gao Kuiliang?"

"...Ah?" Xiao Zhiyu didn't realize who this person was for a while, "Ah? Gao Kuiliang? Who?...Ah?! Gao Kuiliang? It's that Gao..."

"Is someone trying to find out something?" Ji Liao asked directly.

On the first day he joined the criminal investigation team last month, he suddenly heard someone shouting the word 'Gao Kuiliang'. It took him a long time to react, and he quietly observed from the dark for a few days.

Xiao Zhiyu came back to his senses, and frowned: "Yes... what is involved?"

"Drugs," Ji Liao opened the official notification pages of the previous two cases, turned the screen to Xiao Zhiyu, and asked, "He Jiao, do you know?"

Xiao Zhiyu took a step forward, narrowing his eyes to scan the text on the page for a while: "The captain of the anti-drug detachment?"

"Well," Ji Liao said, "I had someone do a little research before. The anti-drug detachment found Gao Kuiliang half a year ago, but the involvement was not deep, but there was evidence to prove that 'Gao Kuiliang was involved with drug addicts'. I have been paying attention to Gao Kuiliang many times, but I haven't been able to get a thorough understanding of his network - the criminal investigation detachment doesn't know much, and the information between the two parties is not equal. Although this time involves a criminal case, He Jiu didn't Tell Yan Cun specifically."

"You mean..." Xiao Zhiyu tentatively said, "Someone has created cases many times, trying to attract the attention of the anti-drug detachment and the criminal investigation detachment, and use the police to find something from Gao Kuiliang..."

"Well," Ji Liao's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said, "Dog bites dog."

"..." Xiao Zhiyu echoed, "That's outrageous."

Xiao Zhiyu was dumbfounded for half a minute before realizing something was wrong. He stared at Ji Liao in disbelief for a while: "No, it's not... What do you mean...?"

"..." It took Ji Liao a long time to let out a soft breath, "I'm not on either side, but Gao Kuiliang's side has to be investigated to the death."

"Well," Xiao Zhiyu replied solemnly, "I'm not on any side, I'm only on your side...so you can say, what's going on? You and that captain..."

He was startled for a moment: "Isn't it? You can't be..."

"How is it possible?" Ji Liao said "tsk", looked at him with some distaste for a while, and said, "Well... To be honest, it's a bit complicated."

Xiao Zhiyu: "?"

"I'm persuading him, but I'm also persuading myself," Ji Liao closed his eyes slightly, "I always thought that 'multi-party checks and balances' was a good state, and it wasn't... At that time, I didn't have the ability to break this 'checks and balances', But at least no one can take a step forward—since I can’t hold my breath now, I have to give it a try and try to hold the initiative in my hands first.”

"I don't understand," Xiao Zhiyu didn't want to listen at all, "Let's talk about love first."

"..." Ji Liao turned off his laptop and made a gesture to leave, "Goodbye."

Xiao Zhiyu stopped him, without any intention of joking, and said seriously: "When did you bend?"

"When you don't know."

Ji Liao replied, seeing Xiao Zhiyu quickly took out the key and locked the door, he sighed helplessly, took a step back and sat on the sofa: "Don't ask for permission yet? I'll tell you when I think it through."

"..." Xiao Zhiyu raised his eyes and stared at him for a while, then said with difficulty, "Let me just ask, to what extent has it developed?"

If the development is not deep, it can be blocked.

Ji Liao was stunned, as if recalled, remembering the bad thing he did last time, he didn't feel embarrassed and said, "I just hugged it."

"It means not together."

"In the future," Ji Liao replied seriously, "we will be together in the future."

Seeing that Ji Liao seemed serious, Xiao Zhiyu let out a long breath, thinking a little too much for a moment.

Not to mention that Captain Yan had a little problem when he was a child, he was biased, in fact, it was mainly because of the twists and turns involved.

"No... think about it carefully, why does it have to be him?" Xiao Zhiyu said with a serious expression, "Can't it be him? Can't you change someone? I don't recommend you to get close to him just because of the 'standpoint', let alone Don't talk about supporting the two of you in dating. Have you thought about the future? Tell him everything you know? What if you two have conflicts in decision-making? And I heard... um... just in case……"

"He's fine." Ji Liao said helplessly, "I haven't written my horoscope yet, so don't think too much, you may not be able to catch up, let's get down to business first."

The wall between the two of them is still very thick, and it's too early to think about it.

"..." Xiao Zhiyu finally said something more, "I still suggest you, think about it first, don't wait until you really have to make a decision...it's easy to get into trouble."

He seems to be direct and decisive in his company's decision-making on weekdays, but in fact he always has the problem of thinking too much, and he always presets several outcomes before "bad things" happen--while Ji Liao is completely opposite to him.

In fact, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ji Liao quickly figured out how much resistance there was between him and Yan Cun, but he hardly hesitated, accepted his feelings very frankly and made a decision, which was much more decisive than Xiao Zhiyu.

"I know," he raised his hand to look at his watch, got up from the sofa, unwilling to continue, "it's getting late, let's go first."

On the surface, Ji Liao is thoughtful, but in fact, sometimes he is extremely stubborn. If he really meets what he wants to do, he will not be able to turn his head back until he hits the wall.

Xiao Zhiyu also understood this, and felt a little complicated, so he stared at him for a long time before saying "hmm".

When Ji Liao had almost reached the parking lot, Xiao Zhiyu seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly chased him to stop him: "Oh... that's right! Who's coming from your detachment, it seems to be called Shen Lin, right?"

"?" Ji Liao asked, "Why?"

"There's... something wrong with him."

Chapter 53 Mu Huo Nine "He painted a painting a long time ago, and the name was 'Lian Lun'."

"The last time you asked me to check on Yan Peifeng, the people on my side found that Yan Peifeng's elder nephew, who is a criminal policeman, was also secretly investigating," Xiao Zhiyu said, "It was said that it was from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Qinjiang City, so I specially asked People have been following him for a few days, and his investigation... seems to be quite in-depth, why don't you remind your captain to keep a close eye on him... After all, if you really want to find out something, you may not know which side he is on."

"..." Ji Liao remembered that there was still such a thing, "Yan Peifeng...how is he?"

"He also has some problems," Xiao Zhiyu quickly replied, and then corrected, "Well... not a little, but a lot of problems... It is estimated that those people will find a breakthrough from him in the near future, so pay more attention."

"Yes," Ji Liao nodded, "Understood."

After he fastened his seat belt and started the car, Xiao Zhiyu raised his hand and tapped on the glass window again, tentatively asking, "Are you... are you going to tell him about the Zhaoyuan Group?"

"No," Ji Liao said, "What can we know with this little information? Let's find out. I'll just tell him to keep an eye on Shenlin."

"That's good," Xiao Zhiyu breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought you were really demented."

"..." Ji Liao didn't want to talk to him. After editing the message and sending it out, he waved at Xiao Zhiyu and said "Let's go" before driving out of the Xicheng villa area.

After a while, the phone quickly "ding" and received a reply.

Ji Liao glanced at the lit screen, the message box showed that the file was received successfully, and the next message appeared in the dialog box——【Look at it yourself, don't post randomly. 】

He concentrated on driving forward, parked the car in front of his house, and replied "OK".

The night before, Ji Liao had just sent a message to Yan Cun, reminding him to "keep Shenlin close". After less than eight hours, when he arrived at the Criminal Investigation Office the next day, Wen Lianyi immediately said to him: "Brother Yan, Just now Shenlin sent a message saying that he wants to ask for three days off, let me tell you."

The two looked at each other inadvertently, and for a moment a bad feeling appeared in his heart. Yan Cun asked a little anxiously: "...Three days? What did he do? Please take so long?"

"Well," Wen Lianyi replied, "He said he had a little fever."

"..." Yan Cun took a deep breath, "tsk", and his tone became a little cold, "What? Are you reluctant to send a message when you ask for leave now? Do you have to ask someone to do it for him?"

"He said that no one answered your call..."

Before Wen Lianyi finished speaking, the good-tempered Captain Yan immediately took out his mobile phone to look, there was a missed call from P, and he couldn't stand it: "How many times have you used this excuse?!"

"...Ah?" Wen Lianyi was taken aback, realized the seriousness of the problem, and panicked, "Ah...I...he...Captain Yan..."

"Tsk..." Yan Cun just opened his mouth and uttered a syllable. Seeing Ji Liao tugging on his cuff, he calmed down, grabbed his phone and went out, "Forget it, I'll tell him directly."

Without waiting for Wen Lianyi to say anything, he went directly to the window sill outside the corridor, and quickly dialed the phone.

The moment he was connected, he noticed someone approaching behind him, turned his head and looked at Ji Liao, and gestured to him that he was 'all right', then said coldly to the phone: "What's the matter? Huh? How high is the fever? Call I didn't answer the phone?"

Ji Liao moved his ears closer.

"..." The other end of the phone didn't speak for a long time, and his breathing was a little messy, and then he answered, "Three... 37 degrees eight..."

"Take the electronic thermometer..."

"I, I'll post it now!" Shen Lin admitted his mistake first, and said sincerely, "Yes... I'm sorry Yan Dui, I really have a fever, I thought... just... I didn't have time to tell you... Next It will definitely not be the case.”

Before the two of them could react, the mobile phone attached to their ears suddenly rang with a "ding", and soon received a picture of an electronic thermometer.

"you……"

"My aunt also asked me to come this morning, so I took pictures in advance," the other end of the phone explained at a faster speed, the background sound seemed a bit noisy, "I...I'm registering at the hospital now..."

Yan Cun was speechless for a moment, the reason was too impeccable, as if he had prepared it in advance.

"You... okay." He received Ji Liao's eye signal, saw his mouth clearly, and asked casually, "Have a good rest, what time will you go home?"

"Ah?" Shen Lin was stunned for a while, looking as if he was carefully considering his words, and replied, "It should be at night... right? My aunt asked me to go back to her house to have porridge after I finished my illness, and make me some soup." with..."

Yan Cun thought quietly for a while, then answered "OK", hung up the phone and immediately said to Ji Liao, "This excuse is too obvious."

At this time, the phone made a "ding" sound again, and he opened the message box. After watching the newly received short video of Shen Lin's body temperature measurement, he became even more skeptical: "Isn't it too deliberate?"

"Yeah," Ji Liao nodded and analyzed, "But I heard the background sound just now, and I was indeed in the hospital, as if I heard the doctor's call."

The two walked towards the office, and met Wen Lianyi's restless eyes at the desk. Captain Yan, who was a little angry just now, gave her a comforting look, and said with a light smile, "It's nothing." .

He whispered to Ji Liao: "Shen Lin's house is not far from here, I'll go and see him when I get off work later."

Shen Lin moved out of the Municipal Bureau's dormitory at the beginning of this year, and rented a house outside. He happened to live on the same street as Zhang Jingze's family and Fang Yushan's family, and they were both located near the Xicheng villa area.

And Ji Liao didn't care about the distance, and quickly replied "Yes".

The two went back to their desks, told everyone about today's tasks, and started to sort out the police dispatch situation during the National Day.

Although it was only on duty, in fact, there were too many people on holidays, so it was easier for something to happen. Except for the lucky day when he and Ji Liao were on duty, the calls for reporting the crime almost never stopped in the rest of the days, even though they were all thunderous and heavy rain. It's a small, innocuous case, but it has accumulated too much work.

In the evening, when the others got off work early, Yan Cun specially waited for the criminal investigation office to tidy up for a while, and it was not until eight o'clock in the evening that he had time to catch his breath.

He got up and yawned, and found that Ji Liao was still sitting quietly at the desk, and asked, "Huh? Why are you still here?"

"Wait for you," Ji Liao got up and said, "I'll go with you."

"Hmm..." Yan Cun thought for a while, "That's fine."

He tapped on the phone screen with his fingertips, edited a message and sent it to Shen Lin, and asked casually, "Are you hungry?"

"It's okay," Ji Liao asked, "How about having a meal before going?"

Yan Cun nodded and said "yes": "I'm really hungry, just eat something at the door."

Ji Liao replied "OK", and the two of them went to the street corner restaurant outside the Municipal Bureau together, ordered two sets of braised chicken and rice, and picked a seat to sit down.

Before he had time to take a few bites, Yan Cun's phone rang "Ding", and the two of them glanced at the message box of the phone at the same time, and then a voice call appeared on the screen.

Seeing the words 'Wen Lianyi' on the top of the voice call, the two suddenly had a bad feeling and hurriedly pressed the connect button.

"...Brother Yan," the background voice on the other end of the phone was too quiet, and his voice was soft, as if deliberately suppressing his own breathing, "I...I think I still have to report to you..."

There seemed to be some unexpected situation on the other end of the phone, and they stopped breathing for a while, and neither of them dared to speak to distract each other, and it took a long time to hear Wen Lianyi say: "Actually... Actually, I also feel that Shen Lin is not very good these days. That's right, I went to check on his house after work just now, and just happened to bump into him going out, so I followed him carefully for a certain distance, and I followed him to the suburbs."

Yan Cun's heart stopped beating, he took out a Bluetooth headset from his pocket and connected it, gave one to Ji Liao, and quickly asked, "Where are you? Are you in danger?"

Only then did he recall that in the small group of eight members of the investigation team, apart from Ji Liao, it seemed that Shen Lin was the only one who didn't ask him out, and didn't even post a message in the group.

So I haven't seen Shen Lin for a week.

"I'm... sending you the location," Wen Lianyi said, "Now...there should be no danger for the time being."

Yan Cun calmly gave a "hmm", and walked towards the parking lot with Ji Liao, switched the screen and entered the location address into the navigator: "Tell me, what's going on."

The navigator shows that the coordinates are located near the urban-rural junction on the border of Xicheng District, and the location marked on the map is 'Qinjiang City Ping An Welfare Institute'.

Ji Liao: "..."

Wen Lianyi said: "Just... I was typing hard on the keyboard this morning, remember? Jiang Huai still said I was coming."

"???...What?"

"You were busy sorting out the files today, so you didn't hear it," Ji Liao reminded, "The mechanical keyboard was always ringing when she took pictures, and Jiang Huai said that he was so blatant in surfing the Internet, and asked her to change to a silent keyboard."

"Who? Who's next to you?" Wen Lianyi was alert.

"..." Yan Cun quickly replied, "Forensic."

"Ah? Ji Liao? Why is he..." Wen Lianyi was taken aback for a moment, but soon remembered that the two of them had gone home together many times, and when she realized it, she let out a meaningful "oh".

"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Yan Cun coughed lightly, "Let's get down to business! The cause passes through the result! Hurry up!"

"Hey... good good! I, I'm going to make a long story short!" Wen Lianyi organized his words for a while, "Just... on the third day of the National Day holiday, he suddenly asked me if I could help him crack something, saying that he didn't know much about computers... ...cough... I thought about what was going on, so I agreed to help him solve it, but I found it difficult to open it, so I asked him to wait for a few days. Later, I found that the code arrangement was familiar, as if... It was the same as the one in the blue and white porcelain USB flash drive at that time. The things are a bit similar, and I just saved a copy, anyway, it’s boring, so I’ll try to combine them and crack them.”

Yan Cun's heart sank, and he hurriedly asked, "And then?"

"Hmm... I deciphered the word 'Lianlun' from the two strings of codes," Wen Lianyi said, "I remembered when I checked Su Haiyuan back then, I remembered that he drew a painting a long time ago, and the name was ' Ripples'."