Aromatherapy

After Li Xinyun was discharged from the hospital, he asked Li Peifeng to meet again.

The demolition announcement for the area of ​​Li Xinyun's detective agency has officially come down. Because a new developer has taken over, they immediately decided to formally advance the project that originally planned to build shopping malls and office buildings in this area, and reapplied for approval. formalities.Because the developer had run away once before, most of the residents were very cooperative, and the matter went smoothly.

Because Li Xinyun mentioned it to Li Peifeng when they were chatting later, he wanted to go to the detective agency after making an appointment with Li Peifeng to find some evidence that could prove whether Li Xinyun was his "twin brother".In view of the imminent demolition, Li Xinyun's plan to visit the office again had to be on the agenda, so he met Li Peifeng.

Li Peifeng is still a student, and he just returned to school after the winter vacation. Because he is in high school, his schoolwork is very tight, so he has no time to accompany Li Peifeng to Li Xinyun's office, so he said that he would leave school during the lunch break. I lent the key to Li Xinyun and asked him to go and see it by himself.

So the two made an appointment to meet in a restaurant outside Li Peifeng's school.

Li Xinyun specially rushed to the restaurant before Li Peifeng finished class, ordered food, and waited for Li Peifeng to come over.

When Li Peifeng came, he saw what Li Xinyun had ordered, and said, "Brother Yun, why did you order so many dishes? You are too polite... Actually, I told you that I can go back to the cafeteria to eat."

"It's just a little home-cooked food," Li Xinyun said, "I'm bothering you so much, what's the point of having a meal, don't be too polite, just sit down and eat."

After Li Peifeng sat down, he took out a bunch of keys from his schoolbag, handed them to Li Xinyun, and said, "This is the key to my brother's house. The big one is for the big lock of the gate, and the small one is for unlocking the gate." The glass door inside..."

"Thank you." Li Xinyun took the key.This bunch of keys is obviously different from Li Xinyun's previous keys, probably because Li Xinyun's adoptive mother and the others couldn't open his door after Li Xinyun's accident, so they changed the lock.Li Peifeng is so innocent that he doesn't think there is any danger in handing over the key to others so easily.Li Xinyun shook the key in his hand, looked at Li Peifeng's unaware face, and said helplessly: "You child is really unguarded, why did you just give me the key like this? What if I am a bad person? You Are you afraid that I will steal everything in your brother's house?"

Hearing Li Xinyun's words, Li Peifeng seemed a little at a loss. He scratched his head and said, "I've seen it last time. There is nothing valuable in my brother's house, and selling scraps may not be worth much. Money. The most valuable thing now is the house itself, you can't steal it..."

To be honest, Li Xinyun has been working outside for so many years, but now Li Peifeng said that the things in the house were "nothing of value", and Li Xinyun couldn't help feeling ashamed.In the business of private detectives, you basically eat in the face of God. Generally, you don’t have a fixed income. If you have business, you will have money, and if you don’t have business, you will have no money. Li Xinyun’s life is actually very tight. Not even close.Therefore, when Li Xinyun was working and living at home, he bought things as cheaply as possible, and he did not buy any valuables. The most expensive things were the camera that had been smashed to pieces in the accident and the laptop that is now missing.

But looking at Li Peifeng's bewildered look, Li Xinyun laughed: "You're kidding, don't worry, I won't mess with things. I'll go over in two days to have a look, and I'll return the key to you right away after I'm done—eat quickly Well, I remember your school lunch break is very short?"

"Ah, yes... I have to go to class later."

During the meal, they also met a female classmate Li Peifeng knew well, and came to greet him when they saw Li Peifeng.When the female classmate saw Li Xinyun, she asked, "Li Peifeng, are you having dinner with your brother?"

"No, just an acquaintance." Li Peifeng explained.

The friend who was traveling with the female classmate pinched her, and said with a smile to Li Xinyun: "Then eat slowly and don't bother you, let's go first." The friend pulled the female classmate back and said in a low voice, "Are you out of your mind? How could it be Li Xinyun's brother? Didn't someone say that his brother died in an accident before? Why don't you open which pot and carry which pot?"

The female classmate said suspiciously: "His brother passed away? Is it true or not? But I saw his brother before, and he looks really similar to him. Could it be that I remembered it wrong? No way..."

"You must have misremembered..."

Although their voices were lowered, Li Xinyun roughly heard their conversation.

Li Peifeng explained: "They may have seen my brother come to see me before, and saw that you look alike, so they misunderstood it for a while. They were my classmates before I was divided into classes, and they didn't know much about my brother's death."

Although the relationship between Li Xinyun and Li Peifeng is a bit unfamiliar, Li Xinyun did come to Li Peifeng's school occasionally, most of the time because his adoptive mother couldn't get away from work, so he asked Li Xinyun to send Li Peifeng's living expenses or material expenses, probably at that time Li Peifeng My classmates may have seen him.

It's just that although Li Xinyun is still here, it can't be the same as before.Li Xinyun tried his best to smile and said, "It's okay...it seems that your brother and I do look alike."

They quickly finished their meal, and Li Xinyun and Li Peifeng left the restaurant together. He proposed to send Li Peifeng to the school gate, but Li Peifeng did not refuse. He seemed to have something else to say to Li Xinyun, but he seemed too embarrassed to say so.Seeing that Li Peifeng was hesitant to speak all the time, Li Xinyun asked, "Peifeng, is there something you want to tell me?"

Li Peifeng said with a little embarrassment: "I told my mother about meeting you before, and she really wanted to meet you. I don't know if you would like to meet her. Since my brother passed away, she I've always been a little unhappy...Of course, if you find it troublesome, don't worry about it."

Li Xinyun hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "It doesn't matter, you have helped me so much, if...your brother is really my relative, and you are also my relative, if there is a chance, it would be good to meet."

"Thank you Yun."

They quickly reached the gate of Li Peifeng's school. Before Li Peifeng entered the school gate, Li Xinyun called Li Peifeng again.

Li Peifeng retracted the leg he had stepped forward, turned around and looked at Li Xinyun suspiciously, waiting for him to ask questions.

But after saying this, Li Xinyun was silent for a while.His expression was full of hesitation and entanglement, Li Peifeng felt that he was making some kind of difficult decision, so difficult that Li Peifeng even felt that Li Xinyun might not say that question in the end.

The school’s preparatory bell rang, and Li Peifeng had to leave, so finally Li Peifeng heard him ask: “I’m sorry, Peifeng, I want to ask you a bit presumptuous question—have you ever seen your brother’s body with your own eyes? ?”

It's not too presumptuous, but this question is indeed very strange, and Li Peifeng was stunned for a moment.

But he subconsciously reacted to Li Xinyun's question in his heart, thinking about this question, and recalled all the things before and after hearing about Li Xinyun's accident.

Li Peifeng had never seen Li Xinyun's body.

Li Peifeng was a minor, and Li Xinyun was still in school when the accident happened, so the police naturally notified his mother to claim the body of his brother Li Xinyun.And Li Peifeng didn't know that Li Xinyun had passed away until his mother had cremated Li Xinyun's body and brought back the ashes. After his mother finished Li Xinyun's funeral and returned to school, the teacher specially asked him to talk to him, caring and comforting him, Li Peifeng realized belatedly that his brother had already left, and only then with a kind of belated Depressed to review all the things since learning of Li Xinyun's accident.

Li Peifeng didn't know much about the details of Li Xinyun's accident. He only knew that Li Xinyun was retaliated and had an accident. A car accident happened, and the murderer was dead. As family members, they had nowhere to go to resent.Li Xinyun's car exploded after falling down the slope beside the road, and his body was destroyed beyond recognition in the car accident. There was no way to judge his identity by appearance.Because Li Xinyun's body did not have matching DNA information in the database, Li Xinyun was adopted, and his identity could not be confirmed by testing the DNA of family members, so the police relied on the testimony of the accident survivor Yan Xia and the registration information of the vehicle to confirm. Li Xinyun's identity, notified Li Xinyun's adoptive mother to claim Li Xinyun's body.The body has been damaged to such an extent that the adoptive mother can't recognize it, so she can only believe the police's conclusion.

After Li Peifeng briefly stated the information he knew, he saw Li Xinyun closed his eyes, and asked with a visibly trembling voice: "So, neither you nor your mother have personally seen and confirmed me...your brother's body ,Yeah?"

Although Li Peifeng was very surprised why Li Xinyun would ask such a question, but the fact was as Li Xinyun said, so he nodded.He originally wanted to ask Li Xinyun why he cared about this, but when the bell rang again for the official start of class, there were almost no one else at the school gate, only a few students were running towards the teaching building not far away, Li Xinyun's voice was weak Apologizing dumbly to Li Peifeng: "I'm really sorry for delaying your class today. I'm sorry, you should hurry back to class."

Li Peifeng remembered that this class was the class of the chemistry teacher with the most terrifying temper, so he didn't have time to care why Li Xinyun asked such a strange question, said goodbye to Li Xinyun in a hurry, turned around and ran across the school gate towards the classroom, he ran away After a while, thinking of Li Xinyun, he stopped involuntarily and turned around to look back.

He saw that Li Xinyun was still standing there, standing motionless, but it seemed like a skinny tree that couldn't be broken, standing rustling in the cold wind, looking extremely fragile, as if it was about to be crushed by this in the next second. Even in spring, the wind is still cold.