The three of them walked cautiously towards the old house from the weed-covered and dilapidated gravel road at the entrance of the village. In this environment, women are more likely to be affected by the environment, and Chen Xinying held Wu Shaodong's hand a little nervously.

Wu Shaodong felt that Chen Xinying's palms were slightly sweaty, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Chen Xinying's expression was a little stiff and replied, "Brother-in-law, I'm a little nervous, why don't you let Li Rusong go to the front?" As he spoke, he glanced at Li Rusong, who was walking at the back.

The corners of Li Rusong's mouth twitched, and he didn't wait for Wu Shaodong to speak, he consciously squeezed around the two of them, and muttered to himself, "Damn!" It was the same with Lao Cheng last time, I recruited who provoked whom."

Wu Shaodong saw that Li Rusong consciously walked in the first place, smiled and said, "Rusong, don't go directly to the old mansion, observe first." ”

"Okay, you're the boss, you have the final say!" Li Rusong replied helplessly, Chen Xinying saw that he was deflated, and her mood was relieved and she burst out laughing.

Walking to the half-open wooden door of the old house, Wu Shaodong protected Chen Xinying behind him, and motioned Li Rusong with his eyes to take a look at the situation inside the door.

Li Rusong leaned sideways against the door frame, revealing one-third of his head, and carefully looked at the interior of the old mansion. The furniture and other large items in the old mansion have long been gone, and Li Rusong can observe in the empty old mansion without visual impairment. Just as he turned his gaze to the left corner of the old mansion, he suddenly saw a woman in a long white dress lying on the ground in the corner of the wall through the dim light.

Wu Shaodong saw Li Rusong standing still, felt abnormal, and asked anxiously, "What do you see?" ”

Li Rusong didn't reply, pushed open the wooden door, and rushed in quickly. Wu Shaodong frowned when he saw this, and pulled Chen Xinying to follow.

After entering the old mansion, Wu Shaodong saw Li Rusong squatting next to an unconscious woman in white in the corner, opened his eyes and scolded, "Damn!" Let go of the hand holding Chen Xinying, rushed to Li Rusong's side and asked, "How is it?" ”

"Still alive, guess who?" Li Rusong got up and asked Wu Shaodong with a somewhat gloomy face.

"Zhou Mengdie?"

Li Rusong nodded and admitted, and said with a dark face, "I remember that she was in the hospital in the past two days, and the police station also arranged for police officers to protect her 24 hours a day, hehe......"

Wu Shaodong also had a gloomy face, asked Chen Xinying to check Mengdie's physical condition next week, and asked Li Rusong to contact the hospital, and then turned around and walked out of the old house. At the door of the old house, he took out a cigarette and lit it, took a few deep breaths, and dialed the head of the police station:

"Hello? Who is it? A middle-aged man's voice came from the phone.

Wu Shaodong restrained his anger and tried his best to answer in a calm tone, "I, Wu Shaodong!" ”

"Oops! Team Wu? What do you have for advice? ”

"Don't dare to advise, let me ask what is the current situation of Zhou Mengdie, who asked you to arrange protection?"

"Is that the woman in the hospital?"

Listening to the director's tone, he couldn't remember clearly, Wu Shaodong habitually frowned and continued to answer calmly, "Well, it's her, I have some questions to ask her now, is she still in the hospital?" ”

"Oh, wait a minute, leader, don't ask me yet."

Not long after, on the phone, Wu Shaodong vaguely heard the voice of the director talking to someone on the phone, "What?" What did you say? The man is gone! You won't look for people when they're gone! What do you do to eat......"

Wu Shaodong silently cut off the phone, returned to the old house with anger, and asked Chen Xinying, "How is she?" ”

Chen Xinying sighed and said faintly, "There is a slight dehydration, but it is not serious." ”

"How long will it take for the ambulance to arrive?" Wu Shaodong breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and asked Li Rusong.

"About half an hour, Boss Wu, I just don't understand, why did this woman come to this place three times and twice?"

"I'll have to ask her herself!" Wu Shaodong pointed to the unconscious Zhou Mengdie.

Li Rusong thought for a while, and then asked, "I said, is Lao Qi's mental assessment of this woman accurate?" It always feels a little weird! ”

Wu Shaodong's mind was full of anger, powerlessness and doubts for a while, and he didn't know how to answer Li Rusong, so he said casually, "You take care of her first, and I'll go out and see through!" ”

It stands to reason that Teacher Qi would not make such a low-level mistake, but Zhou Mengdie's behavior is not like a normal person. If you just pretend to have amnesia, why is there any need to go to the old mansion again and again. If it hadn't been for the sudden decision to come here to check, two days later might have lost a single life.

"Brother-in-law, come here, there is a discovery!"

Wu Shaodong was smoking at the door, when he was interrupted by Chen Xinying's sudden shout, and then extinguished the half-smoked cigarette and returned to the old mansion again.

"Xiaoying, what did you find?"

"Brother-in-law, look over here!" Chen Xinying pointed to the ground under Zhou Mengdie and said.

Wu Shaodong walked over and looked at the ground pointed by Chen Xinying, and found that under the unconscious Zhou Mengdie, a corner of a thin iron plate full of rust was exposed. Most of the iron plate was pressed under Zhou Mengdie's body, revealing about one-fifth of its size, a bit like the feeling of a cellar lid.

"Rusong, didn't you find out with Lao Cheng last time?" Wu Shaodong pointed to the iron plate with some dissatisfaction and asked Li Rusong.

Li Rusong looked at the position of Wu Shaodong's finger in embarrassment and explained weakly, "Boss Wu, what's that, she wasn't in this position last time, we didn't expect this to happen, I was just in a hurry to send her to the hospital, but I didn't expect the current case to be ......"

"Forget it, I don't blame you, it wasn't that you came over on a whim that day, it is estimated that this woman died a long time ago." Wu Shaodong knew that it was no wonder that Li Rusong was not here to investigate any case when they came over two days ago, and Zhou Mengdie was unconscious at that time, and it was normal to be negligent.

Seeing that Wu Shaodong didn't blame himself, Li Rusong breathed a sigh of relief, "Boss Wu, do you want to move her away first?" ”

"Don't use it yet, just call the trace department for support."

"That's okay, I'll call first" After speaking, Li Rusong immediately took out his mobile phone and contacted the trace examination department.

Wu Shaodong stood up, stared into the distance in the direction of the door, and said to himself, "Lao Cheng, Lao Cheng, you have a problem for me......

At the gate of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, I sat in the car, smoking a cigarette and thinking about my thoughts, waiting for Zhao Linger boredly.

"Brother Cheng has been waiting for me for a long time?"

I was interrupted by a greeting, and when I looked up and saw out of the car window, Zhao Ling'er was wearing a more formal suit and skirt, and her hair was no longer the double ponytail that we had last met, and it was draped behind her.

Zhao Ling'er saw me staring at her, waved her hand at me, and said happily, "Hehe, don't you recognize me?" As he spoke, he went around to the passenger seat and pulled the car door and sat down.

I started the car and asked her how she was dressed so formally, Zhao Linger glanced at me and said, "Eat steak, can you wear yesterday's body?" No, big brother, invite a girl to eat steak at noon, you are the first person. ”

I smiled awkwardly and replied, "I don't understand this, I don't often invite people to dinner." Buckle up and drive. "That's what I said, but in fact, I despised her fiercely in my heart, not for the case, I'm okay to invite you to eat steak.

In Moulton's steakhouse, we found a location where we could see the scenery by the window, and while Zhao Linger lowered his head to study the menu, I looked at the scenery outside the window and thought that this place is good, next time I will bring Jiang Lina to it.

After Zhao Linger decided on the menu, she called the waiter, ordered a seafood salad, a medium-rare ribeye steak, an after-dinner dessert and two lattes, and then closed the menu and handed it to the waiter.

I saw her give the menu to the waiter, and asked her with a smile, "That Ling'er, it seems that I haven't ordered it yet, right?" ”

Zhao Ling'er looked at me like an idiot and said, "I've got you something!" ”

I pointed to the free meal bag on the table with a black line and said, "You ordered two lattes, and you let me nibble on bread with coffee?" ”

Zhao Ling'er squinted at me with a tangled face, and replied with a wicked smile, "Brother Cheng, don't worry, bread is free, and if it's not enough, you can ask for it again." ”

Soon, the waiter brought a large plate of salad and two cups of coffee, and then began to naturally cut a huge steak, divided it into two portions and put it in front of me and Zhao Ling'er respectively, with a professional smile and said, "Happy dining, you need dessert after the meal, please ring the bell." After speaking, he bowed slightly and left the table.

After the waiter left, Zhao Linger looked at me with a confused look, and with a smile, she divided the salad into my plate and said "soil buns".

After the meal, I watched Zhao Ling'er enjoy eating a huge plate of sundaes, thinking that this woman is really able to eat, no wonder the two little white rabbits are developing so well.

Taking advantage of her good mood, I handed the portrait painted by the yellow lion tiger to Zhao Ling'er, she looked at it for a while, with a spoon in her mouth, and said indistinctly, "Isn't this Liu Jie's wife, Zhou Mengdie?" ”

I have seen Zhou Mengdie, and I feel that these two people are not compatible at all, they are not a person with a temperament, and the woman in the portrait has much longer hair than Zhou Mengdie. Zhao Ling'er listened to my explanation, smiled disdainfully and said, "Big brother, what do you think is the difference between me and yesterday?" Don't you know that women are changeable? And after so many days, she can't cut her hair? ”

The corners of my mouth twitched and said, "But, didn't you see a mysterious woman that night, why didn't you recognize it as Zhou Mengdie?" ”

Zhao Linger dug a mouthful of the sundae with the spoon she had licked and stuffed it into my mouth, and said disdainfully, "Didn't I say that it was too far away and didn't see it clearly."

I swallowed the sundae numbly, only to realize that she had licked the spoon, and I was a little embarrassed to look at her. Zhao Ling'er saw my appearance and said faintly, "Brother Cheng, is this an indirect kiss?" ”

"I, I'm that, don't count......"

Seeing my incoherent appearance, Zhao Ling'er let out a lark-like laugh, and after a while, she stopped and said to me, "Okay, I won't tease you." Look at you scared, like I'm going to eat you. After speaking, she looked at the portrait carefully, and said with certainty, "It should be Zhou Mengdie, but the temperament is a little different."

I'm still a little confused, so it's clearly two people.

Zhao Linger saw that I still didn't understand, so she explained to me, "I studied art, and I am more sensitive to the faces of characters. I don't know what the person who painted this portrait had in mind at the time, but if you take it out as a police officer, it should be the portrait artist in your bureau. This portrait is barely qualified as an artistic creation, but for the purpose of handling cases, you can fire him. ”

"Why do you say that?" I asked a little curiously.

"What is required for handling cases is truthfulness, which is convenient for comparing suspects. As long as the facial features of the characters are depicted, it is like a passport photo, so I say that you portraitists are not qualified at all. ”

"Then the person I once gave to guide this portrait has seen a photo of Zhou Mengdie, and he didn't recognize it?" I asked, a little reluctantly.

"Brother Cheng, may I ask under what circumstances did you take the photo you showed that person?" Zhao Ling'er is stubborn with me, and she hates iron but not steel.

"She was hungry for a few days and had just come out of the hospital...... You mean? ”

Zhao Ling'er nodded, indicating that this was the case.

I asked Zhao Linger why a person has several different temperaments, and Zhao Linger asked me to find a well-known actress by myself and watch a few more of her movies when I go home.

After eating, I asked her to go to the school to take me to visit, and Zhao Linger said, "Brother Cheng, didn't you go to college?" If there is such a beautiful woman at school, do you think it will be unknown? Then he looked at me with a smile and said, "Or you know, just looking for an excuse to visit my dormitory, after all, we already have a skin-to-skin relationship." ”

I was speechless and said, "I have a skin-to-skin relationship with you!" ”

"Oh? Have you forgotten my spoon taste? I'm so sad, ...... huh," she said, pretending to be sad and crying.