Yu Qian's mental state has been very poor in the past two days.

Stalking this kind of thing, I haven't done it myself for a few years. Yu Qian has always believed that he is in the prime of life, and he is still in his military career, when he is sleeping on the ground and conducting field training in the wilderness of Inner Mongolia.

After staying up for two nights, he had to admit that he was indeed a little old.

Maybe it's not the shēn body that's old, it's something else. Despite struggling to regain his spirits, he knew that there were some things that he couldn't think about, and he didn't want to admit that he had broken his spirits. His faith was like porcelain reglued, and the cracks that were all over the place could not be erased, and little by little his anxiety and uneasiness oozed out.

On the contrary, Bai Tianqing was full of interest, and Meng Fusheng still went offline on time at eleven o'clock the next day, but the chat content had already taken a big step. The agreement between the two parties to meet was completely ruined, Meng Fusheng revealed his unspeakable secrets, and Meng Wei did give her a foot order not to go out.

This is indeed a very serious problem for Yu Qian and Bai Tianqing. In any case, it is impossible to knock on the door of Meng Wei's house, and then forcibly take Meng Fusheng away. However, there is good news, Meng Wei's behavior of asking Meng Fusheng to tamper with his confession undoubtedly reveals that Meng Wei and Li Yaozhan are by no means unrelated.

The night's stalking ended in nothing, there were no personnel to take over, Bai Tianqing, who was still young, could still support it, and Yu Qian was really a little unbearable.

"Uncle Yu, what's the use of us staring at it like this? During the day, it is impossible for us to follow up on Meng Wei's company, and at night people are sleeping, and we are freezing outside. Bai Tianqing yawned and rubbed his neck vigorously with his hands, Bai Tianqing, who was used to sleeping Simmons, finally succeeded in falling into his neck the next night.

"You think I'm just staring?" Yu Qian sneered, "During the day, I and the little girl are on WeChat, and at night, I am watching after eating, sleeping, and eating, what use do you say." ”

Bai Tianqing was embarrassed not to look over, pretending to look at the scenery outside the car window.

"It's not every day, I estimate that there will be five more days at most, and if it is less, there will be no need to continue staring at two days." Yu Qian said slowly

"Why?" Bai Tianqing asked strangely

"Let me ask you, why did Meng Fusheng reveal to you that she was (jìn) enough, and said that Meng Wei told her to lie?"

"emmmm to escape from Meng's house?" Bai Tianqing asked tentatively

"You're smart." Yu Qian nodded, "I have observed several villas around Meng's house in the past two days, and noted down the change of shifts of night duty personnel, I think if it is not a three-day change period, it is a seven-day change." In short, we need to find a safe route. ”

"Uncle Yu, you don't plan to..."Bai Tianqing's face changed when he heard this

"Or else? Do you expect Meng Fusheng to escape on his own? Can she escape and look for you? ”

"But this... This one... Isn't it normal? Bai Tianqing swallowed his saliva and said, "Aren't we a bit like human traffickers doing this?" ”

"Do you think that under normal circumstances (qíng), there would be a daughter who secretly contacted the police and made up lies to escape her biological father's mansion?" Yu Qian sneered: "Meng Zhai, with my observation in the past two days, everything is not normal!" Is there still a shortage of lawyers in the Meng Group? Meng Wei shouldn't have appeared at the police station in person that day, he definitely had some shady deeds, but we haven't found out yet. ”

"For example?"

"For example, it's not even convenient for her own daughter to see and know, and when she sees and knows, she can't let her go out of the house." Yu Qian said firmly

"What could that be?" Bai Tianqing thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of what it would be: "tax evasion bills?" Ironclad evidence of drug smuggling and trafficking? A scandal that shook the city? There's no such thing as a daughter going to blow it out and pit her father, right? ”

"How do I know? If I found out, I would still be stalking all night? Yu Qian said angrily: "Anyway, I'm just checking something abnormally now, I don't believe it, I can't find a clue." ”

Bai Tianqing thought for a while, and said tentatively

"Do you want to tell this clue to the task force from the provincial department?"

Yu Qian frowned and shook his head

"Don't say? I also don't think I should tell them, I can't trust them..."Bai Tianqing saw that Yu Qian shook his head and hurriedly echoed the rudder

"That's not what I meant." Yu Qian sighed and said, "I don't know if I should tell them this, I believe in the ability of the task force, but I can't trust myself, let's wait until I find any clues." ”

Bai Tianqing closed his mouth in amusement and stopped discussing this topic. He obviously felt that something had changed in Yu Qian since that day, but he couldn't say it, at least he understood that it would not be wrong to mention the task force less. Seeing that the scenery outside the car window was becoming more and more unfamiliar, Bai Tianqing couldn't help but ask curiously

"Uncle Yu, where are we going?"

Yu Qian smiled lightly and said, "I've stayed up for two nights in a row, I'll take you to eat something to lift your spirits." ”

…

Yu Qian drove out of the bustling city and came to an area at the junction of the suburbs. The average height of the buildings here has been significantly reduced, and the architectural style is no longer full of cutting-edge modernity like the city center, and you can see the traces of the architectural styles of various provinces and cities on these slightly dated buildings.

"It's pretty close to the second team's bureau." Bai Tianqing looked left and right, and roughly determined the direction.

"This used to be a gathering area for migrant workers from all over the country, so there are many places here that are different from the living and eating habits of the people of the old S City." Yu Qian said and parked the car next to a small restaurant that was not good-looking, found a place to park it, and motioned Bai Tianqing to get out of the car: "The parents of the owner of this shop are authentic Chongqing people, and his hot pot is very different from the old soup hot pot in our S city." ”

Bai Tianqing got out of the car and looked at the slightly old hot pot restaurant in front of him, perhaps because it was still morning, there were only a few idlers in the store dining, with two plates of side dishes in front of him, and two bottles of inferior liquor chatting lazily. The door of the store was clean, and a middle-aged man with a big belly who looked like a boss was sitting at the door with a very short shaved hair to reveal a shiny scalp, and a piercing yellow outer (tào). While squinting at the passers-by coming and going, he turned his head and said a few words to the idle man at the table.

"Yo, the old fish is here." The boss saw Yu Qian and greeted him with a busy (rè) (qíng).

"Well, let's get some food." Yu Qian replied with a smile on the black circles under the eyes like two pandas

"It's all night again." The boss stood up with his hands on his knees and laboriously (tǐng) on his stomach, "Still the same as before?" ”

"It's the same way, it's okay for two." Yu Qian nodded and walked inside, and sat down at a table on the first floor with a fire escape. The boss walked leisurely to the back kitchen, and the proprietress and waitress at the counter seemed to be very familiar with Yu Qian, and sat there chatting steadily, without asking for any drinks. He only greeted Yuqian twice from afar, and there was no sweetness of Wu Nong's soft words in his words, but with some crispness of the land of Bashu.

Bai Tianqing sniffed the spicy air, which was repeatedly stir-fried and cooked in an iron pot filled with chili peppers and wide oil, and just smelling it made people's noses tighten, and the unnatural flooding under the tongue made the stomach contract. He didn't like spicy food, and his face was slightly distorted.

As if seeing Bai Tianqing's embarrassment, Yu Qian said, "Don't worry, I ordered a mandarin duck pot." ”

Hearing this, Bai Tianqing's hanging heart relaxed slightly.

"This authentic Sichuan cuisine is not spicy, it is characterized by its fragrance." Yu Qian lit a cigarette and said to Bai Tianqing while waiting for the dish, "The characteristic of Sichuan cuisine is that the aroma of chili peppers is extracted through stir-frying and other techniques, and the ingredients are fully mixed, and the hemp degree is enhanced with peppercorns. Therefore, authentic Sichuan cuisine cannot be eaten spicy, only fragrant. The dishes in this store are all inherited by the owner of his father's craftsmanship, and he can't find such an authentic taste in S City. ”

"Uncle Yu, do you come to eat often?" Bai Tianqing said curiously

"I used to come a lot, but in recent years I have come less." Yu Qian stretched out his hand and touched the table with dark gold brilliance soaked in red oil, and said with emotion

"I retired from the field army, and in those years I ran to the Gobi Desert, and my taste was rough. When I first recovered and returned to S City, I wasn't used to eating light dishes. When I got off work in the evening, I looked for restaurants everywhere when I got off work in the morning. Now the captain of the second team, Lao Chi was still on the same team as me at that time. There are a few more people, and you, Uncle Liu, we found this store at that time. ”

"It turns out that this store is not so big, it is a small shop. Later, the boss took down the front door of the house next to it and redecorated it. The proprietress took care of the accounts, and his girl's son helped in the store. In the past two years, the boss's son has studied abroad, and only his daughter is left in the store. ”

Saying this, Yu Qian paused slightly, as if he remembered something, and there was a melancholy in his tone that was so thick that it could not be dissolved.

The owner of this shop used to be a stocky and handsome young man, and his father, who had a loud voice, Old Man Huang, was in charge. Yu Qian and Liu Zhengming were at the age of high spirits at that time, and they were full of blood (rè) and had nowhere to spill it. Several people often gather with their families in this store, chewing hot and spicy belly slices and drinking 60-degree soju.

On his left hand sat his brother who was born and died, and on his right hand was his wife who was holding Yaoyao, coaxing his daughter to babble, while frowning and persuading himself to drink less. After eating and drinking, the women hugged their children and shared the parenting Bible, complaining about their man's carelessness. The men, on the other hand, continued to sip white wine with a few side dishes, and loudly waved the dragon gate array with red necks and faces.

Every now and then, Xiao Huang, who was busy with the work at hand, sat down, drank two cups together, and always patted Yu Qian's shoulder vigorously when they talked about it, asking him to marry Yaoyao to his son in the future. But he is a person who is afraid of his wife, and he is often dragged off the table by his wife without taking a few sips.

More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the little boy who was holding his homework book and calling him Uncle Yu was already a tall and strong young man. Whenever the boss mentioned his son, he scolded this little rabbit cub all year round and couldn't remember to call home except for asking for money, but his face was full of proud smiles.

And his Yaoyao stopped forever on that morning ten years ago.

"Uncle Yu? Uncle Yu? Bai Tianqing shouted quietly

"Huh?" Yu Qian suddenly woke up from his memories and subconsciously asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"How. Stayed up all night? I'm going to fall asleep in the morning. Boss Huang asked with a smile while holding the gurgling hot pot.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay." Yu Qian straightened up (shēn) to make way for Boss Huang to sit the hot pot firmly on the table.

"Old fish, you haven't been here for a while." The boss turned the fire head and said

"Well, I've been a bit busy lately."

"What is this?"

"A newcomer to my team."

"The boy is not bad-looking." The boss laughed heartily a few times, and Yu Qian seemed to be driven by the boss's (qíng) thread, and his tight skin gradually eased.

In a small copper pot, a curved (yīn) yang line draws a white and red soup base, and the numb, spicy, and salty red soup is tumbling with bright red peppers and black peppercorns, like a thick and gorgeous blanket covered with a dense layer. The wafting water vapor pours a strong and stimulating aroma into the nostrils of diners, making people can't help but eat (yù) wide.

"I'll get you food." The boss placed the two oil dishes in front of Yu Qian and Bai Tianqing, threw the towels on his shoulders, and prepared to walk to the back kitchen.

At this time, a man pushed the door and walked straight to Yu Qian's table. Pulled out a bench and sat down, stretched out his hand and knocked on the table, and said to Boss Huang who was about to walk back in Bai Tianqing's surprised gaze

"Brother Huang, don't worry, for three people, don't forget to add more sesame seeds to my share of dry ingredients!"