Captain Xing looked at me with a smile on his face, but the words he said were prickly and completely inconsistent with his smile.

Although I knew that my rash intervention in the case would definitely cause dissatisfaction from the brother police station, I didn't expect that as soon as I came, Captain Xing directly gave me a dismissal.

I said helplessly: "Is this necessary, Lao Xing, I'm just a consultant." ”

Captain Xing's face was full of smiles: "I know the name of Consultant He, I have come here, and it is rare for you to come this time, I told my subordinates that I should cherish this opportunity to investigate the case with Consultant He, and study hard." ”

I was even more helpless: "Don't say these words, Lao Xing, you know that I am a person, and I don't want to interfere, but this matter was sent down from above, I refused, it's useless." ”

Lao Xing and I once met in a certain meeting, and we sat together and chatted for a few words, and we both had a good impression of each other, but I didn't expect to have a-for-tat confrontation today.

Lin Yi, as my apprentice, was angry at the embarrassment I received: "If you are dissatisfied, you can directly respond to the higher authorities, and it's not that my master himself has to come here to investigate the case, we don't want to investigate it yet, do you know that the criminal in the case we solved last time was killed by a clown, just in the detention center, we wanted to investigate the case, but we were transferred to you, you are not happy and we are not happy." ”

"Lin Yi." I turned my head and shouted.

There's no need for this, everyone is a person who eats public dinner, and they all want to solve the case as soon as possible, and think about it if you put yourself in your shoes, if I were Captain Xing, I would be unhappy, and a person came down out of thin air, what do you want to do.

Lin Yi was stopped by me and muttered, "I didn't do anything and refused to go up, so I was angry at us." ”

"I'm sorry." I turned to Captain Xing: "Actually, I'm also very embarrassed about this matter, Lao Xing, since we spread it out, then the Ming people don't say dark words, I promise that I won't take credit from you, in fact, I can't take the credit either, you have already investigated it very deeply, and I have done so much preliminary work, and I can't intervene temporarily." ”

"As for this matter." I glanced at the teacup placed on the table and said, "Just don't do it, there's no need to do this." ”

Lao Xing finally stopped smiling, and looked much more serious and sincere.

"He Yang." He no longer politely called me Advisor He, but called me by name as he did when he first met: "I know what you mean, but I'll also be honest with you, you still have to do this, and my brothers are watching." ”

I followed his gaze and looked at the door of the conference room, which was ajar, and there was no one in the hallway in my sight, but there were several elongated shadows reflected on the ground under the crack in the door.

Good guys, is this pretending to leave but hiding outside the door and eavesdropping on our conversations?

I swept Lao Xing and found that there was also a look of helplessness in his eyes.

Okay, I understand, he also has his difficulties, maybe these guys had the idea of embarrassing me in person at the beginning, but they were stopped by Lao Xing, and they were eavesdropping outside, leaving only me and Lao Xing in the conference room.

In this way, no matter what the result is, on the surface, it is what happened between me and Lao Xing, whether we win or lose, the faces of both parties can be rounded up, and they will not tear their faces.

I sighed and confirmed one last time, "Is it really inevitable?" ”

Lao Xing shook his head resolutely.

If you can't avoid it, you can only roll up your sleeves and do it.

Although I am not a young and frivolous person, but I am not completely indifferent to being bullied, since this matter must be faced, then beat them to the ground, and when they see me in the future, they have to obediently call Consultant He!

With that in mind, I picked up the teacup that had been placed on the table.

It is actually inaccurate to say that it is a teacup, because this is an old stainless steel thermos cup, normal size, with a handle, I picked up the handle with my left hand, and found that the place where my fingers were pressed was obviously more worn than the other side, so it can be seen that the owner usually drinks tea with a thermos cup in his left hand.

"You want me to find out who owns this thermos?" I recalled the sitting order of the meeting just now, and found that no one was seated at the location of the thermos cup, and it remained alone in a corner of the round conference table throughout the meeting.

Of course, I didn't expect to try to find its owner an hour later, so I didn't notice if anyone in the meeting had ever been looking at it.

Lao Xing let out a "hmm".

"There's no tea dirt in it." I turned the lid of the cup and looked inside, there were a few drops of water in the cup, but the bottom of the cup was clean......

I reached in and touched the bottom of the cup, and I felt something black inside, a little smaller, like it had been inadvertently left over from rinsing the teacup.

I sniffed it under my nose and I was sure it was a fully soaked tea powder.

It's a bit interesting, there are tea residues left in the cup, but the bottom of the cup is very clean, if it is not washed in advance, in fact, this thermos cup is not usually used to make tea.

"The appearance of the cup is relatively old, which shows that the owner usually does not deliberately maintain it, but even if it is usually used to hold water, there should be some limescale."

I walked to the window and rotated the angle to the daylight, and clearly saw the scratches on the bottom of the cup, and I knew in my heart: "I can make such a guess, that is, the cup is usually filled with neither plain water nor tea, and its owner should usually like to drink carbonated drinks, such as Coke, Sprite, etc., these carbonated drinks can dissolve limescale, and because you drink these often, you can smell a little taste......"

Yes, I'm pretty sure I smell a little bit of the residue from it.

Captain Xing followed to the window and said, "Go on." ”

There was a hint of a smile in his voice, and his eyes glanced visibly towards the door.

I didn't have the ability to guess the expressions of the people outside the door from the shadows, so I continued to reason at my own pace.

"Judging by the appearance of the thermos, I speculate that he should be a young man who likes and regularly drinks such drinks, so he should not be lightweight, at least not skinny. Why would a young man who doesn't like to drink carbonated drinks choose to drink these in a thermos cup, obviously to hide people's eyes, what kind of unit needs to be so deliberately disguised?

The thermos cup is just a very common tool for holding water, and the reason why he chose this ordinary appearance is precisely because he doesn't want to attract the attention of others, so the surrounding environment he is in should be relatively depressing, or someone is watching over him and not allowing him to drink these. ”

"Captain Xing, I don't think the police department should have made such detailed regulations on the hobbies of the police, right?"