"What should I do?" I was so anxious that tears were falling.

"Let's talk about the advanced tea house." Team Xiao saw that I was in a hurry, and it was not good to blame us for acting on our own.

When Team Xiao and I entered the tea house again, our mood was completely different from just now, and Team Xiao took out his ID: "I'm looking for someone." ”

The waiter at the door was the one who said that Li Jing and I were wasting tea just now, he glanced at me, and then carefully looked at Team Xiao's documents, and reluctantly invited us to an empty table. The other tea guests at the tea house kept watching us whispering.

After a few minutes, an old man came out of the inner room, he nodded slightly at Team Xiao, and sat down opposite us: "May I ask what is the matter with Comrade Police looking for a small shop?" ”

"A colleague of mine has disappeared from you." Team Xiao was not verbose, and directly explained the intention, "I hope the old man can help find it." ”

The old man on the other side raised his eyebrows after hearing this, "Oh? And there is such a thing. When did it happen? Since the opening of the Society, there has never been a disappearance, and I think this comrade police officer made a mistake. As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a waiter came over with a pot of fragrant tea, and served it to us one by one.

I pressed Team Xiao's hand under the table, and Li Jing should have drunk their tea before it became wrong. Team Xiao understood what I meant, and instead of touching the teacup, he asked the old man: "May I ask if the old man saw this tea guest today?" He took out his mobile phone and showed the old man a photo of Li Jing.

The old man shook his head, picked up the teacup and blew the rising smoke.

"What about this man?" Team Xiao used his mobile phone to show a photo of the boy in blue.

The old man blinked a few times and lifted his eyelids: "I'm not usually in the store, and I'm not familiar with the situation here, so you can ask them." The old man pointed to the attendants around him.

He's lying, I said to myself. His reaction told us that he clearly knew the boy in blue, and I looked at Team Xiao when Team Xiao's cell phone rang. Team Xiao picked up the phone, his expression became more and more uncertain, and before hanging up the phone, he said, "Let Lao Zhang help apply for a search warrant." ”

Hanging up the phone, Team Xiao whispered to the person opposite with a gloomy face: "I advise you to let our people go, we have found out that he has an excessive amount of zolpidem in the tea he drank here, I think you know better than I will know the function of this ingredient." I don't want your tea customers to think that there is a problem with the tea in your shop, do I? So I still hope that you can cooperate with us to release the people. ”

The old man looked at Team Xiao for a while before sneering: "Hmph, I didn't expect that kid to keep a hand." He turned to me, "Little girl, I think he gave you something, right?" ”

I understood that he was referring to a handkerchief that Li Jing had left as evidence of his visit, and he noticed something was wrong when he came in, and he deliberately dipped some of the tea on the handkerchief at that time, so that I could take it to the police station in time for testing after I got out. I tried to stay calm: "I just took what I was supposed to take and confirmed his guess. ”

"They're all smart kids." The old man applauded lightly, "So I hope you don't do stupid things, you can let people go, but the little girl can only come with me alone." Don't worry, this policeman, I won't hurt the two children, I just want to teach these two people a lesson today, and some things are good to stop. Come with me, child. The old man stood up, and came to a small door on crutches.

The team was still not very happy, and the old man smiled: "After a while, all of you will be here, what do you think I can do as an old man who is about to die?" ”

"I'm fine." I said with a smile.

"Be careful yourself." Team Xiao is still not very reassured.

This small door is actually the entrance to the entrance, and when it opens a door is a downward ramp, and the old man is sitting in a wheelchair next to him with a cane. "Push me down." The old man motioned for me to come over.

I pushed the wheelchair and the old man through the tunnel.

"You retreated too fast, and this tunnel was built too quickly, so it was repaired with potholes. If you push your wheelchair so fast, it's going to be very uncomfortable for people in wheelchairs. The old man tapped his fingers on the armrests on both sides of the wheelchair.

I slowed down and asked him, "Is this okay?" ”

The old man smiled and nodded: "The speed of the wheelchair is down, but the ground is still potholed." Maybe I'm old, I always feel that your life is too fast, thinking that everything will be done according to your own ideas. So once you are frustrated, all good appearances will be shattered by you yourself. Okay, here we are, you see, we're really too fast now, I haven't finished telling you the big things about life, we're going to do another thing. ”

In front of us was an upward ramp, and there was another door at the end, and I didn't open the door, but went around in front of the old man: "You have something to say to me, so you broke up the Xiao team." ”

"I said you were smart, but you're in too much of a hurry." The old man looked at me.

"My friend has gotten to me by you, and of course I'm in a hurry. If you have something to say to us, you can have reached us straight to us instead of using it. I pondered the words, "This trick has tricked us." ”

"Only then will you listen to me, an old man, well, push me in. You'll meet the people you want to see the most right now. The old man motioned for us to continue.

I pushed him uphill. The old man's voice came from the front: "Because you just talked to me, I guess he should be in a hurry when we arrive." ”

"Sure enough, it's you." I muttered.

"As I said earlier, although the means are not very good, you still need me to tell the story, but my story can be related to what you are looking up now. I love the unexpected look on my sweetheart's face. "The old man's current state is completely different from that in the tea house just now, if he was described as a cautious old fox before, then now he looks like an old urchin.

We finally reached the end, when the old man got out of his wheelchair, shook off his trousers, and opened the last door on crutches. Contrary to what I imagined, there was a fairly wide yard outside the gate, and the yard was planted with orchid grass, probably not yet in the season of flowers, only a few black orchids spitting a dark purple fragrance.

Maybe the sound of the door opening alarmed Li Jing in the courtyard, and when I opened the door and saw him for the first time, he was still shocked and vigilant.

"Why are you here?" He asked me.

I pointed to the old man: "He brought me in, and he said that there was something to sue us." ”

"The person you asked me to wait for is Xiaozhi?" Li Jing pointed at me and asked the old man.

The old man patted his head and replied: "Ah, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Li You, and I am the younger brother of Li Chi, the patriarch of the Chili clan." I'm sure you've heard our story before. Unlike other tribes, our leader is made up of two brothers, and we believe in Chiyou, and we believe that even if the body is separated, when the two are united again, Chiyou will come back to life. Therefore, we will elect two patriarchs, who must be related by blood, just like Chi You's body, with the elder brother as the head and the younger brother as the body. Only when two people are together, the Chili clan will last forever. After we become the patriarch, we will abandon the past name and inherit the name of the previous patriarch, the Hungarian name is Chi, and the younger brother is called You, and we will also abandon the original surname and change the traditional surname of the Jiuli people, Li. ”

The old man found a stone bench and sat down: "You also sit, I have to tell this story for a long time." Before I tell my story, I can ask you three questions. ”

I looked at Li Jing and asked the first question: "Isn't Li Jing stunned by you, why is he still alive and well?" ”

Li Jing knocked on my head: "I'm stupid, I didn't have that sip of tea at all, and the one I sipped was all on the handkerchief that you took back for testing." Really, a wasted question. ”

I stuck out my tongue.

"But the old man still found someone to make me some small orchids to make me sober up faster."

"But your phone fell to the ground! If you are a normal person and very polite, please come over, you should not lose the phone. "I remembered the phone that Li Jing dropped on the ground.

"It's really not polite to please." Li Jing looked at Li You with a little anger in his tone.

"That's why I say that young people are in a hurry to do things, and they hear that they want to hear you come over, but they ignore the word 'politeness' that I said." Old Man Li You still smiled, "Okay, you've already asked a question, and you still have two chances." ”

"Do you have anything to do with the case we're looking into?" Li Jing didn't allow me to open his mouth this time, and took the first step. Actually, I want to ask this sentence too.

"Yes and no." The old man Jiang Liyou replied, "Yes, it is because the calamity did originate from the Chili tribe; No, it's because what you're investigating wasn't done by the Chili tribe. After the old man finished speaking, he made a three, and motioned for us to ask a third question.

Li Jing thought for a moment and said to me; Xiaozhi took his mobile phone and asked Shi Hao to send the photos of the 7 people we found. I'm going to take a picture of them together. ”

More than ten seconds later, there was a prompt sound on the phone, and I handed the phone to Li Jing. Li Jing took the photo and showed it to the old man: "Are there any people from your Chili tribe here?" If so, please sue me. ”

Old man Li You glanced at the photo and pointed to the two people: "It's just the two of them." ”

One is the man in blue we're following, and the other is the man we're having dinner with this morning. Li Jing nodded and returned the phone to me: "Now it's time for us to listen to your story." ”

"Wise people, you are very trustworthy." Old Man Li You looked at Li Jing in admiration, and then shouted into the room: "Wu Zhen, serve tea." ”

A boy walked out of the house, and when he looked closer, it was the man in blue we were following. When the man saw us staring at him, he smiled shyly, made our tea, and went back into the house.

"This is my son. My surname was Wu before I became the patriarch. The old man took a sip of tea.

"Will your son succeed you as the patriarch?" I asked him curiously.

"You can't ask questions anymore, remember?" The old man smiled and replied, "But what I'm about to say really has something to do with your question." ”