"It's been so early." Master Peng said with a greeting.

"yes, you're pretty early, I'm in." Zhao Zimeng trotted all the way into the playground of the material school, the playground was empty, and at this point, most of the people were still asleep.

Zhao Zimeng's strong physique is the result of his long-term insistence on exercising.

He loves running, which is both simple and magical, and Zhao Zimeng feels that running helps him keep his mind clear.

After running every morning, he feels refreshed and has a lot of energy to do all day.

Under his influence, several comrades in the team began to insist on training long-distance running, and Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo also ran from time to time, firstly, it is conducive to strengthening their physique, which is beneficial to their work, and secondly, it can be regarded as preparing for the summer assessment of the Municipal Bureau.

Although Director Xiao Changsong of the forensic office has undergone stomach surgery, he also likes to run, but due to physical relations, he can only jog for a short time and with little intensity, and now his body is much tougher than before.

After running a few laps around the playground as usual, Zhao Zimeng said goodbye to Master Peng and rode his bicycle to a breakfast shop called "Chunyan" near the school.

As soon as I sat down, the proprietress brought over a bowl of soy milk, two pieces of baked cakes and two fritters. She and Zhao Zimeng have long been familiar with each other, and she knows that at this hour in the morning, Zhao Zimeng will come to report for breakfast.

Zhao Zimeng wrapped two fritters in the baked cake and ate them with relish.

At this time, Zhao Zimeng was the only one in the breakfast shop, Zhao Zimeng got up a little earlier than usual today, and there were a few people lined up in front of the oil pot and the baked cake stove in front of the door.

Someone greeted Zhao Zimeng, probably a neighbor at the door.

Although Zhao Zimeng doesn't speak much, it can be seen that he is easy-going and does not put on a show.

Whenever he saw Zhao Zimeng, he was always smiling and very friendly.

After drinking the last sip of soy milk, Zhao Zimeng wiped his mouth, put the money on the table, and then said hello to the proprietress and walked out of the breakfast shop and rode a bicycle.

About half an hour, Zhao Zimeng came to Centipede Mountain Park, which is a citizen park, and Zhao Zimeng once brought his daughter Weiwei to play.

Diagonally opposite the gate of the park is a wide boulevard lined with tall and thick plane trees.

Zhao Zimeng pushed his bicycle across the road.

There is an alley on the left side of the boulevard, and on the wall at the mouth of the alley is written the words "Hoop Barrel Alley".

There are people on both sides of the alley, the door number of a house on the right reads No. 378 Longpan Road, and the house number of a house on the left reads No. 386 Longpan Road.

Zhao Zimeng pushed the cart into the alley.

He stopped in front of the third courtyard gate on the left, there were two iron rings on the courtyard gate, and the house number was No. 384 Longpan Road, which should be the current residence of Mr. Cai's family.

The gate is unlocked.

Zhao Zimeng knocked on the door three times with an iron ring: "Knock-knock-knock."

After a while, a woman's voice came from the courtyard: "Who?" The deadbolt is not inserted, come in. ”

Zhao Zimeng slowly pushed open the door.

In front of the courtyard wall stood an old woman of about sixty-five years old, holding a small kettle in her hand, watering the flowers.

Zhao Zimeng held the head of the bicycle and stood outside the threshold: "Excuse me, is this Professor Cai's home?" ”

"Yes! You are? The old woman looked at the people outside the door.

"Excuse me, do you have anything to do with my lover?" Seeing a man in a police uniform at the door, the old woman asked alertly.

"Auntie, hello, my name is Zhao Zimeng, and I am from the criminal investigation team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau." Zhao Zimeng expected that this old woman was Mr. Cai's lover, Aunt Cai.

"Municipal Public Security Bureau? Please come in. Aunt Cai put down the kettle in her hand, pointed to the empty space in the courtyard and said, "Put the bicycle here." ”

Zhao Zimeng moved the bicycle into the courtyard gate, and looked around at the same time: this is a small courtyard, three main rooms, two side rooms, plus a small shawl, the small cloak may be the kitchen! Some bonsai and flowers are placed in an orderly manner along the courtyard wall. Although the yard is not big, it is well organized, and the ground is very clean.

"You're Aunt Cai, I'm sorry, I'm going to the door so early to disturb you and Professor Cai."

"Don't bother – don't bother. My lover is not at home, and he went to the park opposite for morning exercise, do you have anything to do with him? ”

"There's something I want to ask him, when will Professor Cai come back?"

"It's coming soon—I'm coming back, comrade, you go into the house and sit down, my wife usually goes to the park at half past five, and will come back before half past six."

Zhao Zimeng looked at his watch, and the time was 6:23.

Aunt Cai took out a chair from the east wing: "Comrade Zhao, you sit for a while, and Lao Cai will come back in a while." After Aunt Cai finished speaking, she picked up the kettle and continued to water the flowers.

Zhao Zimeng didn't sit down, he followed behind Aunt Cai, admiring the bonsai and flowers, and wanted to talk to Aunt Cai.

Standing in the courtyard, Zhao Zimeng could smell a relatively strong smell of ink.

He guessed that the smell of ink might be emanating from Mr. Cai's paintings.

There are more than a dozen bonsai of different sizes on the side of the courtyard wall, all of which are very exquisite.

There are unique root bonsai, elm bonsai, sandalwood bonsai, red sandalwood bonsai, pine bonsai, bamboo bonsai and plum blossom bonsai. The most eye-catching are several stone bonsai, the shapes of the stones are different, which has a special taste.

"Auntie, these bonsai and flowers, you are doing a good job."

"Hey! It's okay to be idle at home, and fiddling with these bonsai and flowers is nothing more than killing time. ”

"Are you and Professor Cai living in this courtyard?"

"Yes, Lao Cai usually likes to paint, and we both like to be quiet."

"Oh, I think the life of the second elder is very tasteful."

"Hehe, the old man and I don't like to be idle, he goes to the park in the morning to run, I love flowers, grass, tinkering with these bonsai to pass the time. Children have their own jobs and families, and if you can not trouble them, you will not trouble them. "Aunt Cai mentioned her child.

Zhao Zimeng had already thought about it before he came, chatted with the old couple of the Cai family, and learned more about the situation, but when they met for the first time, they were unfamiliar with each other, and they suddenly asked about the situation of other people's children, which was both abrupt and easy to arouse the disgust of the elderly.

Uncle Cao, Sister-in-law Che and Rao Yanyan have been neighbors with Mr. and Mrs. Cai for so long, and they don't know what Cai Lao's three children do.

It can be seen that either the relationship between these three people and the old couple is generally either that these two old people are very low-key and protect the family's privacy very well, and it may be difficult to know the situation of the children from their mouths.

Zhao Zimeng planned to take it step by step and go deeper slowly. Zhao Zimeng has been engaged in criminal investigation work for many years, which is his tried and tested specialty.

"Your second elder is very good at thinking about the children, and now there are really fewer and fewer good old men like you, take the liberty of asking, how many children do you have in the second elder?"

"Three children, hey, the children can't help their mothers, they have their own lives, and we as elders should also be conscious." Aunt Cai felt that this public security officer was very kind and spoke well.

"Three sons? You two elders are really blessed! Zhao Zimeng said with a smile.

"Hehe, two sons, and one is a daughter."

"Oh, two good plus one, that's good. Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, your three children must be very promising. Zhao Zimeng praised.

"Where, a kid worked in the field and started a family, another kid used to work in the university, and then went to the sea, and his daughter worked as a surgeon in the city hospital." It can be seen that the three children are the pride of Aunt Cai's life.

It is not easy to ask this step, and it is a bit rude to ask further, Zhao Zimeng knows how to measure.

If it is not appropriate to continue to ask directly, you can ask on the side, and Aunt Cai may accept it.

"I really let me say, the three children are really promising, which shows that your second elder is very good at educating children, and he is also very open-minded."

"The task of parents is to help their children on the road, and as for how to get there, that's their own business."

"My sister used to work in a state-run shopping mall and was still a department head, but later under the influence of a friend, she also went to the sea. At first, my family was against it, but it turned out that my sister was on the right path to go into business. "What Zhao Zimeng said is the truth, not nonsense.

In the early 90s, opening up and innovation entered a testing period, and there were many people who threw away their iron rice bowls and went to the sea to do business, and Zhao Zimeng's half-sister was also one of them.

"What kind of business does your sister have?" Zhao Zimeng's words aroused Aunt Cai's curiosity.

Zhao Zimeng was happy in his heart, this trick really worked, and then said: "My sister is to get domestic things to sell in Luosuo country, it didn't go well at first, and after a few trips, the business is finally on track." ”

"My parents were desperately opposed at first, but my sister was determined to break out of her own world, and no one would listen to them. Now, she has opened a trading company. There are dozens of employees under him. ”

"The little girl is amazing! When our family Yaohui went to the sea, the old man and I were also strongly opposed, but the children grew up and didn't listen to us. ”

"By the time we knew, the raw rice had been cooked and he had quit his job and left school." Aunt Cai opened the conversation box by herself.

"What kind of business does your son do?" Zhao Zimeng then asked.

That's the central theme of his work – and it's only logical to ask that question now.

A few years ago, Yaohui and a friend partnered to open an antique shop. Later, he went it alone. ”

Zhao Zimeng immediately became sensitive: dealing in antiques - then there are very likely cultural relics in his shop.

He immediately thought of the ancient tomb and the artifacts inside at the foot of Ion Mountain yesterday.

The old couple lived at No. 117, and under the mound behind the courtyard wall was the ancient tomb, and Aunt Cai just said that his son ran an antique shop.

What a coincidence, isn't it?