Chapter 22 Tracking

As Ling Li expected, the house was calm all night, and even the footsteps of drunks who used to sound in the stairwell in the middle of the night disappeared today.

Only the sound of the wind and the rustling of the leaves from time to time lingered in my ears.

In the past, it was a good night to sleep. It's just that, because of the anonymous letter, Ling Li is still so nervous that she can't sleep.

Even if you are really sleepy, you can only squint, and your mind is full of bizarre dreams, and you can't rest well at all. It was almost dawn, Ling Li was really tired to the extreme, listening to the voices of people downstairs gradually boiling, and then looking at the sky outside the window that began to whiten, the tight strings in her brain gradually relaxed before she finally fell asleep.

She slept soundly, and when she opened her eyes again, it was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

The warmth and soft touch in the quilt made Ling Li want to rely on it for a little longer. However, his stomach rumbled in protest, and his stomach was so hungry that it hurt a little. If you don't eat again, there is no guarantee that you will not be able to get out of bed with low blood sugar.

Ling Li easily got out of bed, simply cleaned up and went downstairs to eat. After eating, she didn't go to work.

Because of the threatening letter, she was a little uneasy, and the lawyer had flexible working hours, so she simply helped out in her uncle's shop for a day.

It's just that when it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, Ling Li missed the two fluffy Wang Xingren a kilometer away.

Behavioral psychology research has shown that repetition of more than 21 days will form a habit, from Ling Li began to take care of Mi Li and Guli to today, is it exactly this number?

Although Nan Zhiyi thought that Ling Li was sick and disliked her and said that she didn't need her to walk the dog, but she was obviously not sick, why couldn't she go to see Mi Li and Guli?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt justified and rebellious.

You won't let me see it, I want to see it, I'm angry with you!

Ling Li looked at the still bright sky, and thought that there were people all the way, and gradually convinced himself that he didn't have to worry about the anonymous letter. After that, I couldn't resist the biological clock formed these days, so I hurriedly said hello to my uncle and went out to walk the dog.

Because he was afraid of being preempted by the stealing neighbor of 1802, and he didn't want to meet this kind of morally corrupt person, Ling Li trotted all the way and hurried, and finally arrived at Nan Zhiyi's house before six o'clock.

Wang Xingren heard her familiar footsteps, and shouted excitedly, as soon as Ling Li opened the door, he saw two huge hairballs that pounced up, the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl, and he hugged them and made love.

wrote a note and pasted it at the door of 1802, and Ling Li went out with Mi Li and Guli.

Looking at the huge size of the two Wangs, she only felt a sense of security that she had never felt before. With these two big guys here, I'm afraid that the people who intimidate her won't dare to do it!

By the time she finished walking the dog and sent it home, it was already completely dark, but after spending an hour with Wang Xingren, Ling Li was in a very happy mood, and the vague fear she had before disappeared.

After all, the thief has a weak heart, as long as she doesn't go to a sparsely populated place, that person has no chance to do it, and her personal safety will definitely be fine.

However, when they were about to get home, Ling Li suddenly found that she seemed to be being followed.

At first, she thought it was her own delusion, but the rustling sound that kept ringing in her ears was like footsteps mixed with the sound of clothes rubbing.

No matter how fast or slow her steps were, and after a few turns, the voice always followed. Several times, however, she turned her head, only to find that there was nothing behind her.

The night is getting thicker, the chill is getting heavier, the pedestrians on the road are getting fewer and fewer, and a thin layer of twilight seems to rise in the green belt in the distance, and the shadow of the street lamp is also blurred.

As if sensing that there was danger lurking in this silence, Ling Li's heart beat wildly uncontrollably, and she hurriedly quickened her pace and hurriedly ran in the direction of home.

Seeing that there were still one or two hundred meters to get home, Ling Li's mood gradually settled down.

After running for a while, she gasped slightly, and when she raised her eyes, she saw a corner in front of her, and at the other end of the corner was a lively teahouse that was open until two or three o'clock, and suddenly had a plan.

Ling Li slowed down, deliberately turned the corner slowly, and then immediately ducked behind the stone table outside the teahouse, squatting down to cover herself.

After more than ten seconds, a tall and thin figure came from around the corner, and after a few steps, it froze in place, its head turning from side to side as if looking for something.

It wasn't real in the night, but the figure matched the suspicion in her mind.

If the fact that he is following her is confirmed at this time, the police are called to attract the police, and Shun Teng will find out if he continues to investigate, maybe there will be a breakthrough.

Ling Li was a little excited, and relying on the large number of people around her, a burst of courage appeared in her heart, she stood up and rushed over, grabbed the man's arm and dragged it back, and said with hatred in her mouth: "Why are you following me?" What are the attempts......"

She was stunned before she could finish her sentence. The young face and bright eyes in front of her were obviously not the ones she suspected.

Ling Li was speechless in a daze, and let go of her hand for a long time, her voice was full of disbelief: "How could it be you?" Aren't you in the imperial capital? ”

Nan Zhiyi rubbed his shoulders and grinned and said, "Strange power girl, with your jade hand, the Transformers have also been pinched into a Coke can!" ”

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At the innermost table in the shop, Zhang Shouzhen wiped the table top again and again for fear of being a little greasy, and after repeatedly confirming that it was clean and would not stain Nan Zhiyi's seemingly expensive coat, he finally served three dishes and one soup.

Fungus back to the pot meat, spicy chicken, sweet and sour lotus white, and a big bowl of crispy broth, the soup is scalded with fresh and tender pea tips, and the unique fragrance seems to be full of green, straight into people's nostrils.

It's all home-cooked food, but the craftsmanship of the spoon is excellent, and it is obviously an ordinary ingredient, but it can make a different taste.

Seeing Nan Zhiyi holding chopsticks and about to do a big job, Zhang Shouzhen put another steaming pot of rice, with a polite and courteous attitude.

Nan Zhiyi took a large chopstick pea tip and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it like a rabbit eating grass, swallowed it for a while, and his face was full of satisfied expressions: "This is what I want most." ”

looked at Ling Li who was standing on the side with an apron: "Fan girl, don't you really eat it?" ”

Ling Li was cleaning up the leftovers from the next table, and when she heard this, she turned her head and smiled at him: "I'll eat with my uncle and aunt in a while, you don't have to worry about me." ”

She smiled again, raised her hand and brushed a strand of broken hair behind her ear: "What else to eat, just say." ”

Nan Zhiyi nodded: "Then I'm welcome." Anyway, I was beaten by you again today, and I have to eat it back. ”

Ling Li hugged the tray and laughed a little embarrassedly.

After that phone call last night, Nan Zhiyi was not very relieved about his dog, and hurriedly finished his work in the imperial capital and rushed home. Originally, he planned to walk the dog by himself in the afternoon, but he didn't expect to go home at seven o'clock and find that Ling Li had taken the lead.

Later, he saw Ling Li leading the dog home from a distance on the balcony, and hid on a whim, and after that, it was a matter of pretending to stalk Ling Li to scare her.

As for why he was playing such a prank, Nan Zhiyi had a good reason: "You don't know what kind of panic I made when I went home and didn't see Mi Li Guli?" If I don't scare back, how can I be willing? ”

This convulsive behavior scared Ling Li a little, but he himself was unlucky, his hand was pinched down by Ling Li's paw, and it almost swollen.

Although Ling Li didn't take care of this matter, she has always been a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and she was defeated by Nan Zhiyi's understatement of complaint.

In terms of lip service, she can't fight Frankenstein like Nan Zhiyi, and she is also very aggrieved.

Later, it happened that Nan Zhiyi hadn't eaten yet and said that she wanted to go to her uncle's shop for dinner, so Ling Li offered to invite him to eat to make amends.

Nan Zhiyi gladly accepted and ate unceremoniously, Ling Li looked at his eating appearance and frowned.

He didn't eat rudely, but he was extremely fast, and he could wipe out a bowl of rice in a few minutes.

Ling Li was trying to persuade him to eat slowly, but he felt that he had too much to do, so he forced himself to withdraw his gaze from his back, and when he looked up, he saw a somewhat familiar figure on the side of the road more than ten meters away.

It was a haggard middle-aged man. Wearing a thin coat, it was covered with gray and paint, and the original color could no longer be seen in the night, but the anxious and gloomy look made people frown after him.

Ling Li tilted her head and thought for a while, feeling that this person was very familiar. After thinking about it for a while, I was sure that he should have come to the restaurant to eat before, but at this time, he looked so depressed, and I don't know what happened.

She suddenly put down what she was doing and went into the kitchen for a while.

When she came out again, she was holding a sea bowl in her hand, holding a large bowl of rice, almost no vegetables, and a few pieces of yellow-colored pickled radish skins floating on the top.

Ling Li walked up to the man just now with the bowl, not knowing what to say to him, and the movements between the two seemed to be prevarication and refusal.

After a while, Ling Li finally poured the food into the tin lunch box that the man was carrying, and the man kept nodding as if in thanks, and then squatted on the side of the road and ate his food.

Her behavior of going in and out was seen by Nan Zhiyi, who was a little puzzled at first, and then a little enlightened, shook her head and said to herself: "It's hard to protect yourself, and you still have the leisure to help others." ”

Seeing Ling Li come back with an empty bowl, he hurriedly lowered his head to prevent her from realizing that he was looking at her just now.

However, he was not the only one who saw the scene just now. Ling Li had just put down the bowl, and the woman who had been sitting by the door with a little boy in her arms spoke, her voice was a little sharp: "Lawyer Ling, you should take your own money for doing good deeds, what is the reason for being generous to others?" ”