Detective Files II

Chapter 191 Passengers
Lu Xiangdong didn't say a word, and smiled at Master Lu. Tian Mi saw that the old man looked simple and kind, but he was not restrained, so he introduced himself generously: "Hello, Master Lu! My name is Tian Mi! I can be regarded as half of Lu Xiangdong's colleague!"

"Good! Good! Girl, is it your first time to come here? If there is anything you want to eat in particular, feel free to ask! Master Lu has everything here!" The old man also has a straightforward temper, and Tian Mi's non-twitching behavior seems to please him Yan Yuan'er patted Lu Xiangdong while talking, "This is the first time I've seen you come to my place for dinner with other people! Good! Birthday, you still have to be accompanied by someone to be decent!"

"It's your birthday today!" Tian Mi looked at the noodles on the table, and then realized how slow she was, "Why didn't I say it earlier, I didn't have any preparations!"

"It's okay, it's okay! Having someone to accompany you on your birthday is better than any gift!" Master Lu made a round for Tian Mi with a smile, and stood up from the kang.

Lu Xiangdong immediately supported him and sent him to the door of the house, only to be kicked back under Master Lu's refusal.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know beforehand, otherwise I would have bought you a cake or something." Although it's not surprising for those who didn't know, Tian Mi still felt a little sorry.

Lu Xiangdong sat back on the edge of the heating kang indifferently, and picked up his chopsticks: "I don't like sweets at all."

"Are you a regular customer here? Master Lu is the boss here? You have such a good relationship!" Tian Mi, who had no intention of eating at first, was hooked by Caixiang and tasted it with chopsticks. , the taste is very delicious, "How did you find such a hard-to-find place?"

Mentioning this matter, Lu Xiangdong's expression softened.

"This restaurant has been open for many years. The first time I found this place was completely accidental. I just came to City C not long ago." Lu Xiangdong looked at the food in front of him, fiddling with his chopsticks. The noodles and vegetable leaves in the bowl did not look up, but Tian Mi could hear the suppressed emotions in his voice, "At that time, I was a poor student, and the university hadn't started yet, so she gave me a fortune." Buy out the family's fee, but my uncle's family proposed that they should provide some compensation for raising me for so long. In order to prevent the tuition fee that I had earned so hard to be taken away by others, I had no choice but to come to City C early. No When the school starts, the school can’t live there, and the hotel is too expensive, so I have to look around for small advertisements to find cheap houses.”

"Then you happened to rent the house of Lord Lu's family?" Tian Mi guessed casually.

Lu Xiangdong shook his head: "I'm renting a hut near here. Because I have nothing to do, I often walk around. The landlord doesn't provide meals, so I have to find a way by myself. After eating instant noodles for a week, I have dinner one day. Passing by here in time, I saw some diners coming to the door, only to find out that this is a restaurant, so I followed in. After inquiring after I came in, there was no seat at all if I didn’t make a reservation in advance. I was about to leave, but Lord Lu stopped me He asked me, 'Boy, don't you live nearby? Are you a student?' I told him that I rented a private house nearby, and waited for school to start. Master Lu said, 'Let's go to my house, my master Let's have a bite together'."

"Master Lu is really righteous." Tian Mi felt a little sore when he heard Lu Xiangdong talk about the past again.

"Yeah," Lu Xiangdong nodded slowly, "I was very thin at that time, very thin, and I had a body shape that you can't even imagine now. I don't know if Lord Lu looked at me like a hungry person at that time. It was only then that I felt compassion, and from then on, I often came here to eat, until I reported to the J Academy a few days later."

"and after?"

"Later, I came to visit occasionally when I was resting. Every time Lord Lu invited me to eat and chat with me, he insisted on refusing to charge me for the meal until I came back from England to visit him again and tell him that I I have already worked and have a stable income, so he is willing to treat me like an ordinary guest."

When Lu Xiangdong said this, he took a deep breath, wondering if Tian Mi's eyes were dazzled, but she actually felt that Lu Xiangdong's eye sockets were slightly moist.

"Every year today, I come to Lord Lu's place for dinner. Over the past few years, it has almost become a habit for him and me." He rubbed his fingers lightly on the rim of the bowl, "This small courtyard is very Like the one at my grandparents’ house when I was a child, Lord Lu often reminds me of my own grandfather involuntarily. Master Lu joked that my surname is Lu, and his surname is Lu, maybe there was really something involved in my previous life.”

After finishing speaking, Lu Xiangdong laughed lightly at himself.

Tian Mi didn't smile, she looked at Lu Xiangdong and felt that her nose was sore all the time, which made her very uncomfortable.

In fact, even if she is not an expert in criminal psychology and doesn't know how to interpret other people's words and deeds, she can understand just from a woman's delicate intuition that Lord Lu may not be similar to Lu Xiangdong's grandfather, and this small courtyard may not really be like that. Lu Xiangdong's grandparents' house in the countryside, the reason why he has such feelings is because Lord Lu cares about him and makes him feel warm.

Before that, after the ups and downs in his life, the only warm memory he had was the fragments of his life with his grandparents.

From another perspective, how lonely Lu Xiangdong must have been all these years.

From his attitude towards Master Lu, it can be seen that he is not a naturally indifferent person, he can also talk to others gently, and he can also take care of others, just like everyone else.

However, over the years, the indifference of his close relatives made him start to use self-enclosure and alienation to build a protective wall, trapping himself in the middle, and he refused to go out even if others could not come in.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Lu Xiangdong felt a little uncomfortable with Tian Mi's complicated eyes.

"I was thinking," Tian Mi said, hesitating for a moment, but she mustered up the courage to say, "Your mother really doesn't deserve to be a mother, let alone be forgiven."

When Lu Xiangdong heard Tian Mi mentioning his mother, he showed a contemptuous smile.

"When she came to the bureau to direct and act in a bitter drama today, why didn't she remember that today is her son's birthday?! She said so many unconscionable things, but she didn't even see her biting her tongue!" Tian Mi said angrily.

Lu Xiangdong picked up a small bowl, skimmed off the coriander powder floating in the soup, silently filled a bowl and handed it to Tian Mi.

Tian Mi took it, looked at the soup in her bowl, and the emerald green coriander powder floating in the soup bowl, and was a little surprised: "How do you know that I don't eat coriander? Can this be seen from my usual words and deeds?" A clue?!"

"Of course not. When you ate wontons last time, your bowl was full of coriander powder. Unless I'm blind, it's hard not to see."

Tian Mi was silent for a while, took a few sips of soup, struggled a few times in her heart, and finally couldn't help but said, "Don't blame me for what happened today, right?"

Lu Xiangdong raised his eyebrows and looked at Tian Mi: "There are too many things you do every day that I can blame, which one specifically?"

"I don't have every day..." Tian Mi was about to defend herself, but after thinking about it, she brought back the topic that was almost diverted, "I mean, tonight."

"What happened tonight?"

"When I ran back, you and Fayi Wang..." Tian Mi regretted halfway through her words, "Forget it, just pretend that I didn't say anything. I'm not curious about your private life and gossip."

"I'm not curious what you are doing in such a big circle?" Lu Xiangdong exposed Tian Mi without saving face.

Tian Mi paused, not knowing whether it was a guilty conscience or a lack of words, she didn't know how to respond for a while, so she said a little unreasonably, "I'm full, so just ask for fun."

Lu Xiangdong smiled lightly and remained silent.

Suddenly, a loud ringtone rang abruptly, startling the unprepared Tian Mi, and then she realized that it was her mobile phone, her heart sank immediately, and she hurriedly took out the phone from the coat pocket beside her, Looking at the caller ID, it was Tian Yang calling.

"Hey, brother, what's the matter?" Tian Mi breathed a sigh of relief, but she still couldn't be completely relieved.

"Where are you now?" Tian Yang asked on the other end of the phone, "In the office or at home?"

"No, what's the matter? What's the matter?"

"We just caught a suspect in the Jiangkou District Miemen case."

"Great!" Tian Mi was excited for them, "Didn't you say that there was more than one murderer in the murder case? Is this the master or the slave?"

"It's not completely sure yet, but it shouldn't be the biggest fish," Tian Yang replied simply, and then said, "Can you come here for a while?"

Tian Mi was taken aback for a moment, realizing that they must have discovered something related to the case at hand: "Have you discovered anything?"

"Yes, we found a fake ID card on the suspect. The name on the ID card is Guo Weiliang. We wonder if this person is the passenger who took the No. 2 victim Li Yun's taxi that day."

When Tian Mi heard this, her eyes lit up: "Okay! Then let's rush there as soon as possible!"

After hanging up the phone, when Tian Mi's gaze fell back to the bowl of birthday noodles in front of Lu Xiangdong on the table, she suddenly realized that she was too busy getting excited about having new clues, and ignored the fact that today is Lu Xiangdong. birthday question.

"What's the name of this place?" Tian Mi asked while fetching the phone number from her mobile phone.

"Why do you ask this?"

"My brother and the others caught a man with a fake ID named Guo Weiliang in Jiangkou District. I have to go there as soon as possible. You tell me the address here so that I can have An Changpu pick me up!"

"Wait for him to come, it will waste a lot of time, so there is no need to waste it." Lu Xiangdong said as he stood up, took out the money and put it under the plate.

"No, today is your birthday. I didn't even prepare a gift cake, and I couldn't accompany you to finish the meal, but anyway, you are the birthday boy today, so you have to eat and drink well." Tian Mi felt sorry.

"If I live long enough, there are still dozens of birthdays I can celebrate in the future, and this one is not bad." Lu Xiangdong refused to procrastinate, dressed quickly, and walked out of the hut with Tian Mi.

(End of this chapter)