Han Li carefully selected a Huaiyang restaurant on the APP that should meet Zhou Chengyuan's hygiene standards, and was ready to spend most of his salary to invite him to dinner.

Zhou Chengyuan seems to be very satisfied with this store, at least he has not shown much dislike except for bringing his own tableware.

Before he came, Han Li had already ordered the dishes according to the recommendation of the APP, and judging from the number of times Zhou Chengyuan put down the chopsticks, he seemed to be satisfied.

The presentation of this house is exquisite, and the number is not much, even if Han Li shows the greatest sincerity and wants to invite Zhou Chengyuan to dinner, such a restaurant whose pricing is inversely proportional to the amount of dishes, it is estimated that a few dishes are only enough for two people to eat half full.

I'm sorry Boss Zhou, when I get promoted and make a fortune, I will definitely spend more money Bojun smiled!!

"Changchuan is close to Y City, so the taste of eating should be very similar to Huaiyang cuisine, right?" Han Li said, using chopsticks to keep putting vegetables into Zhou Chengyuan's bowl.

Zhou Chengyuan didn't resist and nodded, "Indeed, although I have been in Ancheng for ten years, the taste of food is still light, and I am not very good at spicy food." ”

Han Li was incredible, "You've been here for so many years?!, your accent hasn't changed much, it's still soft and glutinous, I thought you hadn't been here for long." ”

"Soft and glutinous?" Zhou Chengyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, he had never been described by such a "mysterious" word.

Han Li squinted his eyes and laughed, "There is no lack of tough guys in the soft glutinous!

Zhou Chengyuan didn't respond, he hooked the corners of his lips with a smile, and sandwiched another chopstick dish. He seemed to be in a good mood.

Han Li was a little happy.

This seems to be the first time she really fell into Zhou Chengyuan's arms.

But this restaurant is too expensive for her, otherwise she would have invited him to a meal every once in a while, and it would be very pleasing to the eye to see how his eyebrows and eyes were warmed.

No, no, no, a stunner like Zhou Chengyuan is pleasing to the eye.

Han Li laughed.

Zhou Chengyuan glanced at her lightly, "How is your work lately?"

Speaking of work, Han Li couldn't laugh, "I still do logistics chores, it is estimated that I have been doing this kind of work until the end of the internship period." I don't want to think about continuing to work here after graduation, it's boring. Boss Zhou, can you talk to your friend from the criminal police team and give me a chance to take the exam? As long as I can take the exam, I will definitely not let you down. ”

Zhou Chengyuan took a sip of Longjing, "Do you think he has such an ability as a small police officer?"

"Oh, too. Han Li pursed her lips, "I'm so confused, even if I leave the police station, I don't know how to enter the criminal police brigade." ”

Zhou Chengyuan said, "You don't have to go to the criminal police brigade to do what you want to do. ”

"You don't understand. Han Li held his cheeks and waved his hand, "Hey, I can't tell you for a while." ”

Zhou Chengyuan doesn't get to the bottom of it, he has never been interested in gossiping about other people's privacy.

After a short silence, Zhou Chengyuan changed the topic, he pointed to the pendant exposed on Han Li's neck, and asked quietly, "I saw your pendant in Z City before, I thought it was very special, and I always wanted to ask where you bought it." My sister is about to have a birthday, and she also likes knick-knacks like pendants, so I want to buy one for her as a gift. ”

"What are you talking about?" Han Li hooked the rope and pinched the pendant with two fingers, "I don't know where I bought it, I've been wearing it for ten years." I guess it's not anything of value, it's my mother's. But it looks really good, this pendant is still polarized, you look at it this way, there is a red light. ”

Han Li took the pendant off her neck and handed it to Zhou Chengyuan, she was afraid that he wouldn't know how to look at polarization, so before handing it to him, she also turned the pendant sideways.

The pendant carried Han Li's body temperature and fell into Zhou Chengyuan's hand.

The gold background is used as a support, the blue feather is embellished, and the polarized light presents a unique glass color that cannot be compared with any gold and silver jewelry. The delicate kingfisher feathers outline the most beautiful kind of emerald jewelry that Zhou Chengyuan has ever seen - red ears and emeralds.

The hand that caught the pendant trembled slightly, afraid that Han Li would see the clue, Zhou Chengyuan tried his best to restrain his emotions, took a deep breath very lightly, rubbed it on the falling surface a few times, and quickly returned it to Han Li.

He had known it was genuine, but the excitement he felt in his hands was completely different from the feeling he had imagined in his mind after countless sleepless nights of tossing and turning.

Sadness, excitement, nostalgia, and a whole host of unspeakable emotions were intertwined and stacked, and he couldn't calm his heartbeat for a long time.

The things that are in front of you are close at hand, and the truth that has been chasing for ten years seems to be about to come out.

At the end, Zhou Chengyuan asked in a hoarse voice, "You just said that this pendant was given to you by your mother?"

"I can't say my mom gave it to me. Han Li didn't notice Zhou Chengyuan's weirdness, hung the pendant around his neck again, thought about it, and hesitated to speak, "How do you say it...... Actually, I wanted to be a criminal police officer, not only to prove myself, but also to investigate my mother's affairs. ”

"Your mother's business?" Zhou Chengyuan didn't understand her words.

Han Li nodded, "I'm a single-parent family, and there are only my dad and my grandma in the family. My mom didn't divorce my dad, she disappeared ten years ago. ”

When her mother disappeared, Han Li was not yet 11 years old and had just entered the fifth grade. It didn't take long for school to start.

One day when I got home from school, the weather was very hot, Han Li opened the refrigerator and wanted to get a can of iced drinks to drink, but was stopped by her mother. She quarreled with her mother very unhappily, and in Han Li's memory, the two didn't talk again for the whole day afterward.

The next day, her mother went to work and asked Han Li to say goodbye to her, but Han Li was reluctant to speak, and pushed her mother hard and told her to leave quickly.

"After that day, my mom never came home. Han Li sighed.

"I remember this very well, and I still occasionally think of the morning when my mother went to work, and it would have been nice if I had spoken to her at that time. ”

"How could a good person disappear?" Zhou Chengyuan asked.

Han Li shook his head, "I don't know too much about the specifics. My mother is a tour guide for a small travel agency, and she went to the neighboring city that day, and she said that she would come back in the evening. But until the early hours of the morning, she didn't come back, and she didn't call home. My dad contacted their unit and said that the group broke up in the afternoon and that she came back early.

"My dad called the police that night and searched for many days, but there was no whereabouts. Someone in the neighborhood gossiped that my mother was so beautiful and capable, and my father was so wretched, my mother couldn't stand it and ran away with someone. The matter was then settled, and my dad seemed to acquiesce to the fact that my mom ran away with someone.

"But even when I was still young, I felt that such rumors ran away with people were very unreliable, my parents had a very good relationship and never quarreled, the day she left, I recalled it many times, and I felt that there was nothing abnormal, just like every time she left home and left the group. After many years, I was in college, and the day before the report, my dad suddenly called me into my room and told me privately that my mother was not missing, but was killed in the suburbs. He said that I was an adult and that I should know something. ”

"Killed?!" The amount of information was too large, and Zhou Chengyuan couldn't react for a while.

Han Li looked very calm, as if she was talking about other people's affairs, she shrugged her shoulders slightly, "Well, my dad said that, saying that he went to the scene of the crime back then, and the blood stains at the scene matched my mother's blood type, and DNA was also extracted." I later went to the library and looked up old newspapers, and there was a small page that did report the news. It's no wonder that a few months after my mom disappeared, my dad moved, along with the repair shop. I guess I'm afraid I'll hear something bad from my neighbors. The Qi Nan you saw last time was also a new friend I met after moving to another school. The people I knew where I used to live are now all cut off. ”

Zhou Chengyuan thought for a while and asked, "What is the reason for being ......?"

"I don't know," Han Li took a sip of his drink, "My dad himself is confused, and he can't ask why." Not even my mother's body was found. That's one of the reasons why I want to be a criminal policeman, and on the intranet, I can definitely find out the details of this case, and I want to see why my mother was killed. I don't think it's fair to my mother, it's not fair to my father, I want to rely on my strength to find the truth for the whole family...... Hey, forget it, I don't want to talk about Chen Sesame and rotten grain. ”

Zhou Chengyuan looked at Han Li's calm expression and knew that she was actually uncomfortable in her heart, "I'm sorry for talking about your sadness." ”

Han Li's eyes were slightly red, and he laughed a few times pretending to be indifferent, "Hey, it happened eight hundred years ago, not to mention that I forgot it myself, you don't have to take it to heart." My mom was very nice to me, so it was inevitable that I would be a little ...... It's okay! The pendant I was wearing was the one I found in her closet a few days after she disappeared. My mom loves beauty and has a special wardrobe for her beautiful clothes, and she cherishes those clothes very much, and she doesn't like others to rummage through the wardrobe, so I concluded that this pendant must be hers. I found a red rope and put it on. I'm sorry, Boss Zhou, I really can't find the same style, otherwise I'll push you a few jewelry stores that my friends like to go to, and you can go over there to see if there are any similarities?"

"Okay, I'm sorry for you. Zhou Chengyuan bowed slightly.

Han Li stuffed a large mouthful of food into his mouth, "It's not troublesome, I'll send you after eating." ”

Zhou Chengyuan didn't speak again, he was very concerned about the story Han Li just said about her mother, and he also wanted to ask for more details, but Tang Abrupt asked again and again, which would inevitably make Han Li suspicious.

After a while, he asked, "I seem to have read the story of your mother in the old newspapers, do you mind telling me your mother's name?"