Chapter Twenty-Five: Attracting Bees and Butterflies
Duan Yi pondered for a while, "I haven't seen any suspicious people in the past few days, it seems that he is in our blind spot, I told you a long time ago to engage in monitoring, and you should be able to get it in the next few days." β
Qingchen nodded, got up again,
"Go back early tonight."
She was a little scared in her heart, although Duan Yi was here, but that person was in the dark, they were in the light, and they would always suffer.
Duan Yi didn't speak, just nodded, and then helped her clean up the store.
In the next few days, Qingchen consciously closed the store in advance, and also paid attention to the situation outside the store during the day, but everything was calm and no suspicious people were found.
"Sister, I'll go first, are you okay alone?" Chu Chu asked her as he packed his bag.
"It's okay, I'll be back in a while."
It's not even seven o'clock, the sky is still bright, she should be fine if she is faster, there is something wrong with Duan Yi's company today, and he will not be able to come to the light dust store for a while.
Qingchen asked him to be busy with his business, she would go back safely, Duan Yi seemed to be in a lot of trouble, and hesitated for a while to tell her to close the door and go back to Palm Springs early.
It was close to half past six, the last customer left, Qingchen cleaned up and closed the store, walked to the car, habitually touched the bag, but found that it was not there, so he had to go back to open the door again.
took the bag out, she looked up and inadvertently saw a short man wearing a cap and a mask, dressed in black, not far from her car, looking at her shop from afar, until she looked at herself, and the short man immediately left in a panic.
Qingchen stopped, paying attention to the direction he was walking, which was the opposite direction to Palm Springs, and Qingchen remembered that there was a vegetable market a kilometer further in that direction, and behind the vegetable market were some low-rent houses. There are some migrant workers and some cheap sex workers living in rented houses.
She grabbed her bag, hurriedly closed the door, and drove back to Palm Springs.
Duan Yi didn't go home until it was close to the early hours of the morning, there was a lamp left in the living room, and there was a plate of peeled apples on the table.
"Remember to eat and rest early."
A delicate font from the hands of light dust.
He finished a plate of apples, took a shower, wiped his hair and went upstairs, and as expected, the door was locked, and after standing in the doorway for a while, he went downstairs.
There was his computer on the coffee table, he took out a USB flash drive from the computer bag, plugged it into the computer, clicked his fingers a few times, and a picture appeared on the computer interface, which was the picture at the door of the light dust store, and there was no movement for more than ten minutes, and after a few minutes, a short man in black clothes appeared in the picture.
He zoomed in and looked at it for a long time, the other party was wrapped too tightly, Duan Yi couldn't get any other information except that he could identify it as a man through his hand, and he looked at it several times until the wall clock in the living room pointed to two o'clock, and then he turned off the computer and went to sleep.
When Qingchen got up the next day, Duan Yi was already sitting downstairs eating breakfast, and there were two porridges and some buns on the table, and she walked over to say hello.
"What time did you come back last night?"
"Around twelve."
Qingchen picked up a bun and broke it in half, the meat-filled bun, she handed the half with meat to Duan Yi, there was nothing wrong with it, Duan Yi reached out and took it and ate it.
"Is your company's business settled?" She asked.
He took a sip of porridge, "It's settled, I can accompany you in the store all day today." β
Qingchen unconsciously chewed on the bun, "I saw him last night." β
Duan Yi's action of drinking porridge stopped, "Do you see clearly?" β
She shook her head, "Wearing a hat and a mask." I can't even tell if it's a man or a woman, but I guess it's a man. β
"Can I call the police?" She asked again.
Duan Yi shook his head, "Without sufficient evidence, the police will not waste manpower to investigate, not to mention that he has not done anything harmful to you for the time being." β
Qingchen frowned, and then sighed again, and settled the breakfast in his hand in three or two,
"Did you get the surveillance?"
Duan Yi nodded, "In the computer, you can look at it yourself, C drive." β
There is no video in his C drive that Qingchen wants to watch, but there is a folder called L, and reason tells her that she shouldn't flip through other people's things at will, but there is a force in her heart that pulls her and tells her to open this folder.
"Light dust."
"Ah, um, what's wrong?" She turned her head to look at Duan Yi, only to see him talking while looking at his phone, "I remember wrong, it's not in drive C, it's in drive E." β
"Oh yes, I see." She turned off the C drive, opened the E drive, and called up the monitor to look at it for a while.
"Have you offended anyone before?" Duan Yi asked her while reversing.
Qingchen thought about it carefully, "No. "She has always been cautious in her work, and she doesn't have many friends, let alone offend people.
"In my opinion, he doesn't necessarily want to be unfavorable to you, just look at the things he sends you to know that he understands you, and it is very likely that he is ashamed of you or has a request for you."
"Do you want me?" She was surprised.
"It's just speculation." He smiled, "It can't be ruled out that he covets your beauty." β
Qingchen glanced at him, "Why don't you say that he actually came for your appearance." β
"Oh~" he snorted angrily, "It's not impossible." β
"Then you'll have to stay away from me."
"How can I protect you if I stay away from you?"
"No, I don't."
"It was better to do so."
Qingchen choked and turned his head away from him.
As soon as Chu Chu looked up, he saw this scene, Qingchen walked in front quickly, with a somewhat angry look on his face, Duan Yi walked behind slowly, the corners of his mouth were raised, and he seemed to be in a good mood, and when he entered the store, Qingchen entered the bar without looking back, Duan Yi was still sitting in the position next to the bed, but this time the proprietress did not bring him coffee or small pastries, but was busy herself.
After a while, Chu Chu saw the dynamics of Qingchen in the circle of friends, a questionnaire, the content of which was the spring limited activity she mentioned a few days ago, and Chu Chu clicked in to participate in the answer.
While eating lunch, Qingchen took out her mobile phone to look at the news she received, and read them one by one, all kinds of stories, different answers, some stories and answers even touched Qingchen's heart, stimulating her tears, her fingers suddenly stopped, she saw the L, Zhou Liang, Assistant Zhou, who forwarded her questionnaire without remarks.
She clicked a thumbs up and switched to the chat interface,
Qingchen: Thank you, Mr. Zhou
After a while, Zhou Liang replied to her,
L: You're welcome
Qingchen clicked on his data interface and added a note to him, Zhou Liang.
Putting down the phone and eating two bites of food, she turned her head sideways to look at Duan Yi at the door of the store, he was fiddling with the phone, holding a cigarette in the other hand, after a few seconds, he put away the phone, looked back at the store, and just looked at Qingchen.
He smiled, then turned back and continued to smoke, Duan Yi was tall, like a green pine in winter, ghostly, Qingchen took a picture of his back with his mobile phone.
"Sister, your photography skills are good." Chu Chu came from behind and glanced at the photo.
Qingchen panicked and put the back of the phone on the table, "Don't talk nonsense." β
Chu Chu picked up a bite of noodles and ate it, and said vaguely, "If you want me to say, if you like it, you can agree, life is short, and there are a few years to wait for someone." β
Her words reached Qingchen's heart, her eyes dimmed a little, Qingchen lowered her head and poked her own rice, a hand suddenly stretched out, the rice in front of her was taken away, and Duan Yi pushed his noodles over.
"If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it, who will you poke it for, and if you want to eat me, you won't say it directly." He scoffed.
Qingchen smiled angrily, "I'm afraid you want to eat me, so I don't dare to say it, so I excused myself to say that I want to eat you." β
Duan Yi rarely did not refute, his ears were still suspiciously red, Chu Chu fled the scene with the bowl, Qingchen buried his head in eating noodles, and his ears were quickly dyed with the same color.
In the afternoon, business was much better, most of the people came to the shop, there was almost no place in the store, and Chu Chu even set up some chairs outside.
"No. 66. Number 66? Qingchen called several times but no one responded, and she walked out of the bar to call outside.
There were two girls chatting with Duan Yi, he was half-lying on the chair, his left leg was crossed on his right leg, he was talking and laughing with the two of them with his head sideways, Qingchen glanced at him, called No. 66, and the two girls immediately turned around.
"Can you set us a table outside?" Both girls looked like high school students, dressed younger, looking younger, looking at Qingchen with bright eyes, and their intentions were self-evident.
"Are you sure? It was windy and a little cold outside. "Even though the sun is out today, the temperature is still not very high.
The two girls looked at each other, then nodded affirmatively.
"Okay, I'll ......"
"If there's a place inside, go sit inside." Duan Yi stood up and said to the two girls.
The two smiled shyly, said sorry to Qingchen, pushed open the door and walked inside, Qingchen followed them in to give orders, Duan Yi cleaned up the chair and entered the store.
As soon as he came in, the eyes of the girls in the store all fell on him, and the naked eyes were a little unbearable even at the beginning, but Qingchen looked indifferent.
"Sister, these people are here for your landlord." She reminded Light Dust.
"Really?" She clicked a few times on the computer and counted the bill, "Business is good today, and I have made a lot of money." β
"Sister..."Chu Chu didn't know what she meant, "You shouldn't be waiting to go back and clean him up at night, right?" β
Since the adultery between the two was accidentally broken, Chu Chu regarded the landlord as a brother-in-law.
Qingchen wrote the bill expressionlessly, "Why do you want to clean him up?" We're just a tenant, and he's now acting as a faΓ§ade for me for free, and it's too late for me to be happy. β
Chu Chu looked at her expression of wanting to eat people, he couldn't see a trace of joy, opened his mouth, and finally didn't speak, after all, it was a matter of the little two, and it was nothing for her to interject.