Chapter 6: The Case of the Sudden Disappearance

"Saion knows if he loses his horse, and the old man doesn't deceive me!"

Lighting three pillars of incense on the old man's portrait and urn, and bowing three more times, Hu Yi stroked the old man's photo frame, smiling all over his face.

"Your precious calligraphy and painting are left, and my work has been implemented, you must be bless me, right?"

Hu Yi supported his cheeks with both hands and lied to the photo of the old man.

"I'll be alone from now on, and I'll try to survive." Hu Yi said with a smile, but his eyes began to redden.

Looking back at the eighty-square-meter two-bedroom apartment, Hu Yi suddenly felt that the originally small room was a little empty.

After sniffing, Hu Yi went to wash up, ready to go to bed early, and report on time tomorrow.

"Boss Qin looks very young, but he runs such a large gallery, is he a rich second generation?"

In the bathroom, Hu Yi said to himself while rubbing the shower.

"You're pretty handsome, I don't know if you have a girlfriend? Or, do you have a boyfriend? Hee-hee. ”

A somewhat inappropriate picture suddenly appeared in Hu Yi's mind, causing her to blush for a while.

After cleaning up, Hu Yi adjusted the alarm clock and quickly fell asleep.

At two o'clock in the middle of the night, Hu Yi's text message suddenly rang, but she was already asleep and was not woken up by the short prompt sound at all.

"Little girl, get up early in the morning and go to the thatched house with the night pot..."

At eight o'clock, Hu Yi's alarm clock rang on time.

"Huh... Sms? As soon as Hu picked up his phone and turned off the alarm clock, he saw a text message from an unfamiliar number.

"I'm going to leave for a few days, the access code for the gallery is 1766723, leave after work at five o'clock, don't stay in the gallery for a long time, don't enter the room on the second floor, I will leave you an office space in the third exhibition hall."

"Is it Boss Qin?"

Hu got up, grabbed the satchel, took out the business card stuffed in the inner bag, and checked the mobile phone number on it.

"As soon as I arrived, he left, so he was so relieved to hand over the gallery to me?" Hu Yi pursed his mouth, feeling that this Boss Qin was a little unreliable.

However, the boss is not there, and Hu Yi can update her comics when there are no guests.

Thinking about it like this, I feel that Boss Qin is very reliable.

Hu Yi's home is only six stops away from the Star Gallery, so she got up unhurriedly, packed up, and rode a shared bicycle at the entrance of the community and set off.

After entering the password, Hu Yi carefully pushed open the door of the Star Gallery.

As the door opened, the blue crystal lamp on the top lit up, instantly illuminating the otherwise dim gallery.

"Anyone?"

"Boss Qin, are you really not here?"

Hu Yi shouted at the empty gallery.

After making sure that no one was there, Hu Yi stumbled around the gallery a few times, and then happily ran to his desk.

Qin Yi set Hu Yi's desk in the exhibition area of Chinese painting, which was the smallest, to the right, next to the next building, quiet.

After Hu Yi put down the bag, he found that there was something like a mini monitor on the desk, and when he picked it up, it turned out to be a monitor.

"No wonder you can rest assured that the door is open, there is surveillance!"

I took the monitor in my hand and fiddled with it a few times, and found that although the monitor was small, the lenses in all corners could be switched at will.

After studying the monitor, Hu Yi opened the drawer of his desk to see what was inside.

This desk is very similar to the one in Qin Yan's office, but it is much smaller.

"Huh..."

When she opened the first drawer on the left, she saw a stack of Grandpa Mao lying in it, with a sticky note on it.

"Advances."

Qin Li's vigorous and powerful cursive script came into front of Hu Yi's eyes.

When he was a child, under the persecution of the old man, Hu Yi also practiced calligraphy for a period of time and also had a certain understanding of cursive writing, so after just one glance, Hu Yi knew that Qin Yi knew that Qin Li knew calligraphy, and his attainments were not low.

"One, two, three, four..." put the sticky notes into his satchel, and Hu Yi took out the stack of hairy grandpa.

"Three thousand! That's half a month's basic salary! Hu Yi's face was full of surprise.

Boss Qin is not only reliable, but also generous!

Stuffed Grandpa Mao into his small wallet one by one, looking at the wallet that had become bulging from shriveled to bulging, Hu was satisfied, and hugged the wallet in his arms with a smile.

The warm sun of early spring shines through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, overflowing with warmth and golden light.

A ray of sunlight hit Hu Yi's face, glowing with soft orange, and it was moving...

"You've only met once, so you can trust her to hand over the gallery?"

On the plane, Ke Luo looked at Qin Li, and felt more and more that this person had been poisoned by sweets and became stupid.

"There is no suspicion in employing people, and no suspicion is used." Qin Qi closed his eyes and spoke concisely.

Being dragged by Corot to catch a plane early in the morning, Qin Li was a little irritable, so his attitude towards Corot was not very good, and he blocked his following words in one sentence, leaving him speechless.

Seeing that Qin Li was a little annoyed with himself, Corot didn't say anything more, took out the bag of puffs in the bag, and placed them on Qin Li's small table.

"I don't eat this dessert with preservatives." Qin Qi said coldly.

"Brother, you can just take a moment, when I find that child, I will buy all the tiramisu in Banyan City back to honor you, okay?" Corot flattered.

"Are you sure you can get it back?" Qin Li opened the bag, took out a puff, took a bite, and spit it out.

It's unpalatable!

At the mention of this, Corot began to worry.

A person does not disappear for no reason, and disappearance means many possibilities, one of which is death.

And the other party has been missing for two weeks, and even the local police have not found any clues.

However, as soon as he thought of the other party's mother's bleak face, Corot made up his mind that he must give her an explanation.

Even if the child was dead, he had to find the bones.

Looking at Corot's appearance of frowning and pursing his lips at times, Qin Li raised his eyes and found that the crystal balloon on his head was no longer embedded with the word "strange case", but changed to "found".

Found it, can it really be found?

The night before, just after the early hours of the morning, those people came out of their respective paintings, clamoring to go shopping and eat skewers, Qin Li acquiesced, and after seeing them leave, he returned to the office, ready to sort out some relevant materials of the gallery, let Hu Yi take a look at it first.

"Old Qin, Old Qin!"

Corot's voice came from the hallway, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps.

Qin Bai frowned, put down the information in his hand, looked at the door, and waited for the arrival of the daredevil.

This guy came running in the middle of the night and had insomnia?

"Old Qin, go, follow me to Yunnan Province."

As soon as he came in, Corot rushed to Qin Li's desk, propped up the table with both hands, and leaned over to look at Qin Li, his eyes still shining with excitement.

"Eloped with you?" Qin Li propped his head with one hand and squinted at Corot.

"I'm not interested in your chrysanthemums, I received a disappearance, and the client's son has been missing for two weeks." Corot sat down on the table and turned his head to Qin Li.

"Someone else's child is lost, why are you so excited? Doesn't your conscience hurt? Qin Qi said lightly.

"It hurts, it hurts, I don't believe you touch it." Corot grabbed Qin Li's hand and touched it towards his chest.

Qin Li shook it off in disgust, took out a piece of paper and wiped it vigorously on his hand, then crumpled the paper into a ball and smashed it towards Corot.

Corot took the paper ball, spread it out, folded it, and used it to blow his nose.

After blowing his nose, he threw the paper into the trash can next to him.

"I'm sorry, but I got the rhinitis." Corot rubbed his reddish nose.

Qin Li closed his eyes in disgust.

"It was because of heartache that I vowed to get that child back!" Corot put away his casual attitude and said seriously.

"Didn't they call the police?" Qin Qi said curiously.

It stands to reason that after two weeks of disappearance, a case can be filed.

"I reported it, but after a few days of searching, the local police did not find any clues, so they gave up, saying that the child may have returned home, maybe something happened on the way home." Corot said.

"I feel that this kind of rhetoric is a bit perfunctory!" Qin Li got up, walked to the coffee machine, poured some coffee beans into it, and began to make coffee.

Corot shook his head and said, "I can't say that completely, after all, the local security is limited, and the child is a foreigner, even if he is missing, he may not really be missing in the local area." ”

"Didn't you report the crime locally in Rongcheng?" Qin Qi asked.

"I reported it, because he disappeared in another province, and the police here can only contact the local police and urge them to continue to find the whereabouts of the child. After all, it's a case, and it can't get the attention of this side, plus the child is an adult and has the ability to be autonomous, so it's indeed possible that he didn't go missing, but went to play elsewhere on a whim. Corot said.

"And what do you think?" Qin Li looked at Corot and felt that since he had taken over, he must know that this matter was not as simple as it seemed.

"I don't think the kid went somewhere else to play, I think he must have been trapped, and probably in that ravine." As he spoke, Corot handed a stack of materials to Qin Li.

The information was sorted out by Corot first, and it was a bit messy, but it was basically there.

"Qu Xiaobo, 19 years old, a native of Rongcheng, was a freshman at Rongcheng Normal University, and took advantage of the winter vacation to go to Ningxiang Town, Jin City, Yunnan Province to do volunteer teaching work..."

It was not only Qu Xiaobo who went there for the teaching experience, but also several other students in the class, but after arriving in Ningxiang Town, they were frightened by the difficult and backward environment there, and several of them immediately turned around and returned to Rongcheng, and a few students chose to quit halfway, only Qu Xiaobo and another classmate persevered.

Another classmate was taken back by his parents a week after Qu Xiaobo's disappearance, he was not from Rongcheng, so Corot did not have a chance to interview him, only a copy of his confession to the police.

This information was obtained by Corot through a relationship, but just looking at the information, there seemed to be no clues, Qu Xiaobo seemed to have evaporated from the world.

"What do you think?"

Seeing that Qin Qi closed the information, Corot immediately asked.

"Go to Ningxiang Township, I guess he was either kidnapped, killed, or had some accident, like you said, he was trapped and couldn't get in touch with others, but in either case, he should have disappeared locally, and the clues must have stayed in the local area." Qin Bai analyzed.

"The local people are quite simple, so they shouldn't be persecuted, and the other party is still a student from other places to teach." Coromo rubbed his chin and said.

"There are always bad people in good people, and no matter how kind people are, they also have a vicious side, and human nature cannot stand the test the most." Qin Qi poured a cup of coffee and handed it to Corot.

Looking at the steaming coffee, Corot fell into deep thought......