Wang Shiqi lined up the photos of the employees of Jinzhou Business Daily according to men and women on the table, and knew that he was carried in by Cheng Nuo, less than a day had passed, and he had obviously narrowed the distance between him and this beautiful young lady, and he buried it on her shoulder and refused to get off the ground. Wang Shiqi slapped him on the buttocks: "Don't eat Auntie's tofu, the little prodigy is here to do Uncle a favor, please eat ice cream if you do a good job." ”

Knowing that he was really strong, he immediately sat up straight on Cheng Nuo's knees, and his two round eyes swept over: "Uncle wants to catch the bad guys?" ”

"Yes. And this bad guy is only known to us and can be caught. Wang Shiqi squatted down to look at him at eye level: "You said that a colleague came to look for Dad on Saturday, and Uncle Wang wants you to find this person out of the photo." ”

"Daddy he'...... What's wrong? ”

"No, Daddy is playing hide and seek with us, and only the smartest kids can find Daddy."

"If you find the photo, do you find your father?"

"Yes." Wang Shiqi pinched his knowing face encouragingly: "Come on." ”

Knowing the order, he immediately lay on the table and looked at them one by one, and finally looked up in disappointment: "No." ”

"None? If you look closely, you may have taken off your glasses, or you may have different hair or a hat or something. After knowing and reading it again, he still shook his head, Wang Shiqi squatted on the side and followed the temptation: "Men and women, how old are you, you close your eyes and think about it, and your uncle will help you find it." ”

"Hmm...... Male, young, skinny. Dad said...... A colleague came and asked me to eat chicken legs on the side, they had something to say. When he opened his eyes, his gaze fell on the exposed corner of the whiteboard on the other side of the room, and he immediately showed a big smile and raised his little hand to point: "Found it!" ”

Wang Shiqi saw that it was the clue board book that Gu Tianqing's case had not had time to remove, and he couldn't cry or laugh: "That's not." ”

"Isn't that a photo?"

"That's a big case that Uncle Wang solved." Wang Shiqi touched his head: "The photo can only be found on the table." ”

The smile faded, and the puzzled expression deepened: "But...... But is he a bad guy? ”

"Why do you ask?"

Seeing that Wang Shiqi did not deny it, he became nervous, and there was a crying in his small voice. He ...... He's my father's colleague. ”

Wang Shiqi's heart sank - the one in the photo was the victim of the previous case, Xie Li.

***

"Therefore, Xie Li has a private connection with Zheng Yuan." Cheng Nuo stared at Wang Shiqi: "Do you know about this?" ”

"I just found out, too." Wang Shiqi buried his face in his palm dejectedly, and after a while, he looked through his fingers, Cheng Nuo was still looking at him, and his eyes did not move a bit: "You don't think it......" He spread his hand angrily: "You don't think that I have been covering him, right?" ”

"It's hard to come to a conclusion before the matter is clear, but now that Xie Li has met Zheng Yuan in person, it's very troublesome." Her cold fingertips gently clasped Wang Shiqi's fist: "They can't just be friends, lying, drugged, missing, and meeting privately—you don't even know his new address in Jinju, can they?" ”

Wang Shiqi sighed: "Lao Zheng, he is not a bad person. ”

"I know he's not, otherwise I wouldn't have agreed to Xiao Ye marrying him, but this person may be a little more complicated than you think." Cheng Nuo comforted him: "In case the situation is not right, you can quit and let other colleagues take over, and no one will blame you." ”

Quit? Quitting means admitting intimidation, losing his eyes, failing, handing over all the initiative, and watching Zheng Yuan being swayed by fate.

"Never." He gritted his teeth and slammed his fist heavily on the table: "Even if he really kills people and sets fires, I have to take him back personally." ”

Cheng Nuo glanced at his face, understood a little in her heart, and she picked it up: "Then I'll send the child back first, as for you, it's best to think about what these two people are going to do." ”

What are you going to do? Wang Shiqi stared at Xie Li's photo in distraction. It was taken after the hostages were rescued, and at that time he still had shoulder-length hair, probably because it was not convenient to get a haircut during his imprisonment, and he was scribbled with a yellow band, and it was untied to reveal a bright light like scales in ink, and it was a pity when the nurse shaved it off. "This hair is so well raised, it is black and soft, it would be beautiful if it grew on a girl." Xie Li raised his face, there was a little innocent light in his eyes, and he smiled softly: "It's okay, sister, I'm willing." ”

A perfect victim.

What does he want? Revenge? Gu Tianqing, who hurt him the most, has committed suicide, and the temporary workers of the growth center who indirectly hurt him have also paid for their blood debts, and the only thing left is his biological mother. Yes, he also has his mother's responsibility for the lost five years, but it is said that tigers do not eat children, and this boy who is as docile as a sheep will really take revenge on his own mother?

The death of Gu Tianqing's parents was replayed in front of his eyes, and Wang Shiqi's heart suddenly jumped. - Don't take it lightly, he thought, there is no lower limit to how bad people are.

But if he wants to do it, why does he have to pull Zheng Yuan?

What is there that must be done? Yes, Zheng Yuan is smart, meticulous, and has an extraordinary relationship with the police force, but none of this seems to be the motivation for him to personally participate in a crime. Unless......

Unless, there is another possibility: he is the biggest obstacle to Xie Li's next.

Wang Shiqi's mind flashed, he hurriedly turned out the document brought back from Jinzhou and found the screenshot of the email, made a round of phone calls, and relied on the internal network of the police to directly stab the principal's office of Daystar Art School: "This is the criminal police team handling the case, I need to check, around mid-June, someone sent a letter to inquire about the award records of your students, what reason did he find it?" ”

The old man over there looked confused, thinking that he had caused a big incident, and while he was in a hurry, he turned his head to find the director of academic affairs, the director transferred to the propaganda group, the group leader transferred to the admissions team, and finally a little intern girl with a loud voice answered the phone: "I replied to the email." The man said that his friend had studied at our school, but the award photo was missing, and he wanted to find out if we had any files on file to replace it. ”

"Did he say what his friend's name was?"

"No, he said he couldn't remember it either, isn't it quite confused."

"He doesn't even know his name, how did he find you?"

"Oh, recently our school held a children's exhibition, in order to enrich the exhibition hall, we put in the copies of the previous award-winning works, many reporters came to take pictures, he said that he also saw the painting before remembering to contact us."

A picture suddenly flashed in Wang Shiqi's mind: the dim room, the heterochromatic world hidden in the depths of the wardrobe, and the bright white brushstrokes on the indigo background seemed to glow with cold blue light. His breathing became heavy: "The painting he said is not a picture of a scene, a night scene, above which is a valley, and there are many meteors in the sky?" ”

"Ah...... Yes, but at that time, I couldn't confirm what year it was, so I had to send him the list of winners for those years first, and ask him to find out if this person was on it. ”

Wang Shiqi remembered the list of more than 100 people - where to start?

"But ......," the little girl added slowly: "He reminded me that I can make a display of outstanding students on our official website, which can also be regarded as a living signboard of our school." I submitted the proposal to the principal and the director, and everyone was very supportive, and now the project has been sorted out. Her gentle voice suddenly became more pleasant than ever in Wang Shiqi's ears: "I found the student who created that painting, and the photos and materials can be sent to you now." ”

***

Ten-year-old Xie Li stood in front of his painting, a clear smile on his lips.

Compared with the current haggard and pale, although he was still young at that time, he looked extraordinarily radiant. Maybe it's the relationship that won the first place, his chest is held high, waving his palm outside the camera, as if beckoning someone to take a photo together, and his vision echoes the left side of the picture, the silhouette of a woman occupies a small piece, as if he stood up in a hurry and inadvertently blocked the camera.

But he is not Xie Li.

According to official records, his name is Song Anning, born in 1982, he studied in the fifth grade of Zhulanqiao Elementary School in Jinju City, and in 1992, he won the first prize in the children's competition with his oil painting "Meteor Valley". The contact person on the home-school contact manual is his mother Zhu Yun, self-employed, and the woman who is half of the picture in the photo is probably her.

Things became very simple for a while: finding Zhu Yun could confirm Song Anning's identity, and it was confirmed that Song Anning was Xie Li, so the real Xie Li was naturally waiting not far away.

But Zhu Yun couldn't speak anymore.

The investigation showed that Zhu Yun had died in a car accident. At that time, she was driving a family pickup truck to buy goods from Xingsha, and when she was passing through Lianhua Town, she collided head-on with a black Santana with license plate A53239.

It was Xie Qin's car. She is the perpetrator of the car accident that turned Ge Yumei's family upside down.

In the photo, Song Anning and Zhu Yun are still wearing spring clothes, if they are not mistaken, she will embark on the journey of no return in three months at most - Wang Shiqi held a copy of the photo, judging from the picture, this is at least a happy family, the son's feet are wearing the new sneakers at that time, and the innocence between the eyebrows is the result of careful upbringing. Her mother was dressed plainly, but the highly blurry quality of the picture could not block the joy in her eyes. His finger ran over the silhouette: "Maybe this is the last picture she left behind." ”

"The penultimate one." Xu Ye interjected while flipping through his notes: "The last one is a group photo of the two of them." I inquired, this photo was commissioned by the school to be taken by a nearby photo studio, the old man is still there, said that it didn't take long for the family to be on the news, he remembered very clearly, this child came once, lost a lot of weight, and his clothes were dirty and old, and he said that he wanted that negative, and the old man saw that he was pitiful, so he gave it to him. ”

Xu Ye also inquired about something else.

For example, Zhu Yun and Song's father have been separated for many years, and their mother has no skills, and she has to take care of business and children. After Song Anning won the award, the school suggested that he should be trained in the direction of art majors and admitted to a specialized art college, which would be a large expense, so Zhu Yun was busy for a season, and she may have been drowsy when she galloped on that steep road, but she was reluctant to even stop and rest. Maybe she once thought about taking a break and getting a good night's sleep after this trip. Who knew that he would never come back.

Another example is Song Anning's father, Song Youyang, who had already remarried and had children after his wife's death, but he almost never fulfilled his obligation to support his son. "If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather, this old saying is really not wrong at all." Xu Ye snorted his teeth and looked disgusted: "Do you know, I went to his house and asked him if he knew where his son was, and he replied, 'Run early!'" Later, the old neighbor downstairs told me that his son was sent back for a while after Zhu Yun's death, but he didn't deal with Lao Tzu, and he beat the chicken and scolded the dog twice in three days. Later, there was news that he had run away, and the center had come to lose a sum of money, and his father never remembered to look for ......"

As if it was a domino pushed backwards, there was a sudden connection between the scattered information: Zhu Yun's negligence ruined Ge Yumei's family - Ge Yumei used her deceased husband's insurance money to establish a new growth center - Song Anning, who lost the protection of her mother, was sent to the center by her father, and then-

Then it is highly likely that Ge Yumei discovered his background. The son of the enemy fell into his own hand.

For an angry woman, revenge is probably not excessive.

Wang Shiqi recalled Xie Li, no, it was Song Anning's light description at that time, and the back molars suddenly had a yin pain. If he is not Xie Li, but an ordinary student in the center, or a student who is hated by the dean, then how much of what he said is Gu Tianqing's story, and how much is his own experience? How did he go from a promising genius painter to an impostor for Xie Li? If he assumed Xie Li's identity, where did the real Xie Li go?

Wang Shiqi also thought that on the day Ge Yumei first appeared, she greeted Song Anning with great excitement and called him his precious son again and again. Five years can probably change a person a lot, but it will never change to the point where you can't even recognize your own mother. Wang Shiqi can only deduce one result - she did it on purpose.

Song Anning impersonated, but Ge Yumei took the initiative to hide it for him, why was Song Anning so sure that Ge Yumei would not betray him? Why can Ge Yumei be willing to shield the enemy's son?

Wang Shiqi suddenly felt a cool breath crawling up like a snake down his spine. On that day, everyone witnessed the miracle of the reunion of flesh and blood, mother and son embracing, but only the two people in the center of the stage knew that they were acting in a play, because the real Xie Li was no longer there, and they couldn't let anyone know, especially the police.

The blinded shiver prompted him to look through the documents Zheng Yuan had left behind, and as the photos flipped past, the once fleeting intuition revealed its tail again. Wang Shiqi closed his eyes tightly, and cold sweat dripped down the corners of his forehead - I found it! He shouted silently in his heart, he finally found Zheng Yuan's hole cards, but at the same time, he also understood Zheng Yuan's situation.

He did not betray him, but there is a good chance that he is in the greatest danger.

There's nothing scarier than cornering a ruthless opponent.

Wang Shiqi stood up and walked out, with a gust of wind at the corner of his clothes: "Have you found Ge Yumei and them?" ”

"Her secretary said that she was not there recently, and said that she was going to take her son out for a walk - this time is also very good."

"It's okay, it's not just right, let's go to the freshman hospital now."

"Now?" Xu Ye hurriedly packed up his things: "It's all closed, what are you going to do?" ”

"Find someone." Wang Shiqi said: "No, to be exact, to find a corpse." ”