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We originally agreed to meet back in the afternoon, but Lu Lingyou had been busy outside all day, and it was almost dark when he returned.
  Zhao Yue was packing up the information on the desktop when she saw Lu Lingyou going upstairs and ran over quickly.
  "Boss, there's good news and bad news.
  Which one do you want to hear first?"

Zhao Yue knew that he didn't like this kind of choice game, and then asked and answered himself.
  "Then let me tell you the good news first.
  We don't have to work in shifts anymore, the madman's search program has been approved and implanted into our intranet.
  I turn on the computer at night and let it check keywords by itself, and integrate the classification of all cases. Anyway, the ones I am handling now are all from around ten years ago, and they are all electronically archived.
  The next morning we will manually screen it again and refine it."

Lu Lingyou rubbed his neck.
  "You still have to leave someone to watch. You all go back and rest today. I'm on duty."

Zhao Yue shook her head.
  "I don't need you today. You are an old antique and you don't know how to tinker with computers."

At this point, she reflexively hid half a step back. Seeing that Lu Lingyou didn't want to hit her, she continued.
  "Madman and I were on duty today. On the first day of testing, he said he had to be there. If there were any problems, he could solve them and optimize them as soon as possible.
  There will also be technicians from other task forces to keep an eye on them.
  You should take Song Tou and the others back first, I think Captain Wang is still not fully recovered, he keeps coughing."

Lu Lingyou thought for a while and then nodded.
  "Go on."

"The bad news is devastating.
  Zhou Xiaofei's father came in the afternoon.
  Yes, it’s the girl that Captain Wang mentioned before that she was missing and could not be found, Zhou Xiaofei.
  Her father really has a rivalry with Yang Pingping's family.
  Do you know that the money he spends now raising his children and raising his mistress, as well as the money he spends sending Zhou Xiaofei's mother to a mental hospital, are all the pensions the school paid to her family after Zhou Xiaofei disappeared.
  At first, he pretended to ask this and that, asking Zhou Xiaofei whether he could get it back.
  But not long after chatting, the true colors were revealed.
  He suddenly asked Mr. Song, if the school was not the party responsible for Zhou Xiaofei's disappearance, would he ask for a return of the money he had paid to his family?"

Zhao Yue punched the air with her fist.
  "Moreover, he has a very serious tendency to favor boys over girls.
  At the beginning, he was determined to directly sue the school for compensation without any conclusion.
  He even sued the family of the boy who disappeared and later died.
  He said that he secretly fell in love with his daughter and then abducted her, and that's what happened next.
  However, the lawsuit was dismissed by the court because there was no actual evidence to prove that the two children knew each other or were in a relationship.
  I see, how can I take care of my wife who has been severely depressed for three years?
  During this period, I might have already thought of my precious son’s name.”

Lu Lingyou raised his hand and made a gesture.
  "No more nonsense."

Zhao Yue chopped her feet hard.
  "That's what it is.
  Yep, if you don’t say it, don’t say it.
  Anyway, the conclusion is that I don’t want to find another daughter at all, and I don’t really want to take care of my mentally ill wife.
  This new family of three is living a happy life.
  Because after his wife was diagnosed with mental illness, he filed for divorce but was rejected, so he never divorced her.
  Or they have stopped paying attention to it.
  Now my wife is in a mental hospital for a long time, and treatment has been stopped long ago, and she is in a state of living or dying as long as she can."

Zhao Yue followed Lu Lingyou into the office, where Song Sen and Wang Zhao were studying his tea table.
  "Lao Lu, your hair is almost growing on this tea. You don't drink it normally."

Zhao Yue went over and adjusted the power supply for the two of them.
  "No, why is my hair still growing? I've been on a business trip and haven't taken care of it for the past few days.
  It may be that the seal was not sealed properly and got damp.
  You guys just wait, I’ll go to the Bureau Bureau’s office to pick you up.”

Lu Lingyou's quick eyes and hands quickly grabbed Zhao Yue's collar and carried him back.
  "Okay, sneak around in front of me."

Zhao Yue blinked her innocent eyes at him.
  "Boss, didn't you teach us this trick?"

Letting go of his hand, Lu Lingyou gave her a look that would scare you if you dare to say another word.
  "We won't drink anymore, I'll take them away.
  You and Zhao Zifeng will work hard today, and Liu Wei and I will replace you tomorrow.
  If you are hungry at night, you should eat and drink, and I will reimburse you tomorrow."

Zhao Yue smiled, revealing two rows of small white teeth.
  "Okay boss.
  But let me tell you in advance, my mouth is full of food from Fang Ning, and your wallet is in trouble."

Lu Lingyou grabbed his coat and waved to the two of them.
  "Let's go, I have hair-free tea leaves at home."

The three of them drove back to Lu Lingyou's house. As soon as he opened the door, Wang Zhao rushed in.
  "I have to check to see if there are any traces of women living in the old Lu family."

Lu Lingyou turned on the light and shrugged generously.
  "You think I'm like you, someone who loves to flirt with women in school."

He opened the drawer and threw the key in, glancing at the spare key from the corner of his eye.
  Sure enough, I didn't take it away.
  Wang Zhao walked around the house and even searched the bathroom, but found no trace of a woman's life.
  "Absolutely, Lao Song.
  Has Lao Lu really been single all these years?"

Song Sen changed into slippers.
  "I don't know if he is single or not, but I don't think you have the right to tell others.
  Three singles, please stop barking at each other."

After saying that, the three of them laughed together.
  Wang Zhao sat down on the sofa.
  "real.
  It's been years since we chatted together like this.
  When we were in school, the three of us were like conjoined twins every day, walking together wherever we went.
  Even if you are punished, no one can escape, they are all dealt with in one sitting."

Song Sen walked to the kitchen, looked around, and opened the refrigerator door.
  "You don't even have a bottle of beer in the refrigerator?"

Lu Lingyou took off his clothes and put on a clean condom on the balcony.
  "Did you know that there is something called takeout now?
  In this era, you just use your mobile phone to order whatever you want to eat."

Wang Zhao went back to the bathroom.
  "I'm going to the toilet.
  To tell you the truth, I have been in the hospital with a urinary catheter inserted all the time, and I can no longer urinate on my own.
  After I pulled it out, I practiced for several days before I could understand how to urinate."

Lu Lingyou shook his head in disgust and heard a huff from Wang Zhao.
  "Hey, it's not Lao Lu, when did you become so particular?
  Look at your folded clothes, it looks like you just bought them from the mall without unpacking them."

Lu Lingyou was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something and stepped into the bathroom with a quick stride.
  He grabbed the neatly stacked shirts on the cabinet.
  His movements were a bit big, and Song Sen came over curiously when he heard the sound.
  He and Wang Zhao looked at each other.
  "Lao Lu
  You have something going on."

Lu Lingyou grabbed the hand holding his shirt and waved it.
  "How can you two still be so virtuous? You can gossip for miles."

Song Sen leaned against the door and smiled.
  "It has to be smelly for us to smell, right?
  This."

He raised his chin.
  "Has Fang Ning been here?"

Wang Zhao was so excited now that he was not ready to urinate, so he hurriedly came over.
  "Yes, Lao Lu. I've been wanting to ask you before.
  what happened.
  Didn’t she go abroad and you all lost contact?
  I later heard Lao Song say that he had met her once by chance abroad and even changed her name.
  But I don’t know, you two..."

Song Sen was joking from the sidelines.
  "Your Lao Lu has more colorful intestines than you think."

Lu Lingyou grabbed his shirt with one hand and his phone with the other and started ordering takeout. He turned around and left without even listening to the chatter of the two people behind him.
  He went back to his bedroom and closed the door. He thought about the keys in the drawer, looked at the shirt in his hand, shook his head and finally stuffed the shirt into the closet.
  The quilts, pillows and shirts on the bed were given the same treatment, flat and clean, as if they had been taken care of by a five-star hotel cleaner.
  You might say that he has never been here before, but this is not his usual habit of tidying up at all. The difference is clearly there.
  Come on, you say, but Wang Zhao, who has worked in trace inspection for more than three years, walked around the house several times and couldn't see anything wrong.
  He suddenly remembered what Fang Ning said while choking in bed yesterday.
  When she was abroad, she was always afraid of someone following her. In addition to hiring bodyguards, she also began to pay special attention to various details around her.
  She would also do some tricks on the door every time before going out, make a mark on the cosmetic bottle in the bathroom at home that only she could see, and hide a few less obvious hairs in the clothes in the wardrobe.
  Over time, I can be regarded as developing a skill that at first glance seems to be of little use.
  No wonder it was kept so clean.
  About half an hour later, various takeaway snacks and beer were delivered, and the two of them were still chatting on the sofa.
  Seeing that the person was finally willing to come out, he turned around and joked.
  "I thought you were hiding because you were afraid of paying."

Lu Lingyou walked over, opened a bottle of beer and took two sips.
  "I'm sending you this."

Song Sen turned to look at Wang Zhao.
  "He can give you this.
  You forgot, he is actually half a rich man."

Wang Zhao slapped his thigh.
  "I really forgot about this.
  But Lao Lu, is your decoration too simple?
  Don’t clean it up properly, I think the cabinet at your door is very old.”

Lu Lingyou looked at Song Sen with disdain.
  "You call this half?"

When he learned the news about his biological parents, it happened to be not long after Fang Ning left.
  Song Sen and Wang Zhao also knew about this matter, and they even worked with him on some transfer issues at that time.
  Song Sen proudly sat on the floor with Lu Lingyou, picked up a can of beer, opened it and drank.
  "No, compared to Fang Ning, you are not even half as good.
  You can only starve to death."

Okay, the topic has changed again.
  "But Lao Lu, what exactly do you think?
  I was shocked when I heard that Fang Ning was with you in G City.
  I was busy at the time and didn't have the energy to talk to you in detail."

Lu Lingyou drank one can and opened another.
  "You haven't asked in detail yet?
  Why don't you start losing your conscience when you become a leader?
  You have asked me this question over and over again a hundred and eighty times.
  What on earth do you think and what’s going on with you two?”

Wang Zhao watched helplessly as the two drank, and he could only drink mineral water pitifully.
  "No, I didn't know you had talked so much.
  When did it happen? I was in a coma for three days."

Song Sen snorted coldly.
  "There's a lot you don't know.
  When he brought Fang Ning home, he kept his questions secretive and said nothing.
  It's still like this.
  I just teased him and asked him what he thought. He didn't think so, but I did.
  As a result, good guy, he almost fell out with me and even raised his fists."

Wang Zhao's sip of water almost sprayed both of their faces.
  "What?
  Do you like Fang Ning too?
  Damn it, no, when did it happen, what did I miss?"

Wang Zhao is quite good at grasping key points.
  Song Sen straightened his chest generously.
  "That was all from the old almanac a hundred and eight years ago.
  Besides, at that time, you only knew that the girl was beautiful and wanted to pursue her, but your brain was not yet bright, so what could you understand?"

Wang Zhao was not convinced.
  "Brother, you were living among thousands of flowers, but why didn't you become wiser?
  If you two hadn't blocked my limelight, would I have been able to go to college for four years without having a girlfriend?"

Lu Lingyou drank with a smile and shook his head in disgust at him.
  "Just admit that you're a little too good-looking. No one will laugh at you."

Wang Zhao was so angry that he almost jumped up from the sofa, but then he thought about his incomplete injuries, so he sat back down again.
  "Oh shit, you two are hurting me together now.
  Can you blame me?
  Lao Song was very good at pretending to look like a dog. He could put on his glasses casually and make those girls obsessed with him.
  As for you, Lao Lu, please touch your conscience.
  You are more disgusting than him.
  You don't even feel like you don't want to fall in love when you say it, but in private you work hard on your muscles.
  Don't say that your face is still there, you just don't have this face, and what girl wouldn't be confused by that tall, [-]-meter-tall tendons.
  How do you say those two words that are popular nowadays?
  A walking hormone full of sexual tension, a gentle scum with gold-rimmed glasses.
  Good guys, you two have captured all the types of girls in the world, and it just fucking highlights how retarded I am." Lu Lingyou was so amused that he burst into laughter.
  "I didn't expect that you have such a clear understanding of yourself."

After saying that, he and Song Sen looked at each other and clinked their glasses in tacit understanding.
  "Fuck, you two."

Wang Zhao cursed angrily just now, and then Wang Zhao figured out something was wrong.
  "Oh no, you two are.
  Would you like to change the subject with me?"

He glared angrily and quietly touched a can of beer in his hand.
  "I don't, I just want to ask.
  Old Song, when did you fall in love with Fang Ning?"

Song Sen choked, but he didn't expect that this kid's brain was better than before.
  "I'm kidding."

Wang Zhao opened the beer and took a sip.
  "Don't try to lie to me.
  No matter what, I have been working in criminal investigation for so many years, how can I not hear a real joke or a fake one?"

Song Sen glanced sideways at Lu Lingyou.
  "I had forgotten that I asked half-truth and half-falsely."

Lu Lingyou curled his lips and said nothing.
  It’s so half-truth and half-false, so don’t make it too obvious how often you go to his house to show kindness.
  "It's not Lao Lu, you don't say a word about this.
  Don't forget, Fang Ning is no longer the tearful little kid he was back then. He would be completely devoted to you after just a few scares and coaxing.
  I don't need anything now, I'm good-looking and have good conditions, and I'm still single in my prime age.
  But as for you, no matter how old you are, you can still dance in the square."

He deliberately said the word "single" loudly.
  "And I always feel that little girls prefer Lao Song's.
  It’s unfortunate that after so many years, she suddenly finds you unattractive.
  Otherwise, you two haven’t made much progress since you’ve been back for so long.”

Lu Lingyou snorted coldly, thinking that she was only six years old, so why should I start dancing in the square when she is in her prime age?
  "he?"

He glanced at Song Sen disdainfully.
  "He has no chance."

Song Sen also laughed angrily.
  "Why am I out of luck?
  Don't forget, you will be two years late in going to school after returning to China.
  You are the oldest here."

That's indeed the case.
  When Lu Lingyou was sent to school and started over, he was two years behind other students of the same age. Since then, he has always been two years behind.
  Although when Fang Ning was taken in, Fang Ning was about to go to college and he had just graduated. Logically speaking, the difference should be four years, but in fact he was six years old.
  "Then Shen Qingrang is probably better-looking than you, and he is better at homemaking and richer than you.
  He has been chasing Fang Ning for how many years. If he really likes you like this, how can he have a second child now?"

Wang Zhao giggled. Anyway, now that the topic has been raised, no one will stop him from drinking.
  "You mean the owner of the villa where you live?
  Lao Song, have you seen him?"

Song Sen nodded.
  "Before this, when I was teaching students at school, I saw them all watching his lecture on criminal psychology.
  I had some impression at that time.
  Later, I asked him for help once again.
  But Lao Lu, don’t blame me for not reminding you.
  Shen Qingrang persisted for so many years, and now he has returned to China to develop.
  Don't say that he is here purely for his career.
  I calculated that there was only more than half a year between him and Fang Ning when he returned to China.
  More than half a year is just enough time to resign and take over the job there.
  In other words, he has started preparing to return to China since he returned from Fang Ning."

Wang Zhao drank happily and nodded in cooperation.
  "That's true.
  Lao Lu, you need to be more careful. This good girl is afraid of being harassed by men. If she is so persistent, anyone else would have to be soft-hearted."

After three rounds of drinking.
  The ground was densely covered with empty cans.
  Wang Zhao was still holding the original bottle of wine, changing glasses and curling his tongue.
  "I'm telling you, back then."

The two people opposite who were still awake couldn't hear what he was saying at all.
  "Right, you say so."

After Wang Zhao expressed his last emotion, he raised his head and drank the last sip of wine.
  "3, 2, 1."

Just when Song Sen finished counting one, Wang Zhao's head sank and he fell directly onto the sofa behind him.
  This was also the reason why neither of them stopped him from drinking the wine in the first place.
  A cup of Wang is well-deserved.
  Over the years, his drinking capacity has increased significantly from one glass to one can.
  What a big improvement.
  Lu Lingyou smiled and lifted Wang Zhao's feet to the sofa.
  "It's still the same virtue."

Song Sen also laughed.
  "But he has asked me about you a lot over the years.
  But you have been reluctant to contact him, and you are unwilling to get together with old classmates again.
  He has been angry with you for a long time because of this."

Lu Lingyou nodded.
  "I know.
  But you should understand that my frequent contact with you may not necessarily be a good thing for you."

Song Sen didn't answer this.
  After a while, he hesitated and asked again.
  "Have you discussed this with Fang Ning?"

Lu Lingyou hummed.
  "We probably talked a little bit.
  But it wasn’t me who took the initiative to say it, she took the initiative to ask after finding something.”

Song Sen was a little surprised by this.
  "What did you find?"

After a second thought, he suddenly understood again.
  "That gunshot wound of yours?"

Lu Lingyou nodded again.
  "I can't fool you anyway, so I just said it."

Song Sen sighed.
  "I don't know what kind of brain circuits you two have."

He raised his head and took another sip of wine.
  "But, Lao Lu.
  Maybe I did drink a little too much today, that’s why I said this.
  But do you know when I gave up that idea?"

Lu Lingyou touched his can with the can and continued drinking.
  "Didn't you send her a lot of WeChat messages privately?"

Song Sen was shocked.
  "What did she tell you?
  Does she know about this?"

Lu Lingyou shook his head.
  "I don't know, I guess.
  I don’t know you yet.
  Although I know you are not the kind of person who makes small moves behind your back, nor will you do anything to embarrass everyone.
  But where your temper is, you never admit defeat.
  When you were in school, you competed in everything. If you lost once and pretended to be fine, you would be depressed for a long time in private.
  But you are not the kind of reckless person who gets impulsive when your brain gets hot.
  You like to think forward and backward when doing things, so before you are sure, you will most likely try something with unclear purpose.
  If she doesn't reply, just pretend it's nothing.
  When she replies to you, it also depends on her tone and content, and whether she will ask you and me in turn.
  I guess you would choose a day that is not so targeted and give a polite greeting that seems casual.
  It’s nothing more than a holiday.”

Song Sen's mouth opened up and down a few times, and finally he suddenly shook his head in self-mockery.
  "Lu Lingyou, you are such a living father."

Lu Lingyou laughed.
  "But when you asked for greetings during the New Year and holidays, she only replied politely with one or two words.
  Polite and distant, like an old colleague I haven't spoken to in [-] years.
  She didn't mention me in an insinuating way just because she added you on WeChat, nor did she mean to reminisce about old times.
  Therefore, there is nothing you can do."

Song Sen unbuttoned two buttons of his shirt and no longer had the usual rigid look of a business leader.
  "Yes, very polite and distant.
  But that's the problem.
  If she takes the initiative to ask you about it, it means that she really treats you as an ex who just had a relationship with you.
  Later I realized that even if I met her by chance abroad, she was surprised and never took the initiative to mention you.
  If I hadn't taken the initiative to ask before leaving, she wouldn't have said a word.
  This shows that she either didn't take the matter seriously at all, or it never got over at all.
  If anything, I'm not sure what she was thinking before she returned to China.
  But she has gone back to Shencheng, and I am not a fool."

There was another long silence.
  "Forget it, I know you are very clear-minded, so I won't advise you.
  Unlike you, who has been through life and death since childhood, I have already seen these things clearly.
  As for me, maybe in the eyes of others, I have a pretty good family background, good looks, and an okay personality."

Speaking of this, Lu Lingyou burst into laughter.
  "How about you praise yourself in a different way?"

Song Sen clicked his tongue.
  "I want to say that people like me who have been protected since childhood really don't have much awareness.
  Working in criminal investigation is just something left in my family from generation to generation that keeps pushing me forward.
  You talk about life and death over the years, I have seen a lot of them. Seeing my comrades near and far who died in the line of duty, I am indeed sad and tormented. I wish I could wipe out all the crimes in the world.
  But this is a kind of, how to say.
  Something similar to hate, very blind and not concrete.
  But this time when Wang Zhao's accident happened, I realized belatedly what it felt like to have something happen to someone close to me.
  This isn't hate, it's fear.
  When I heard about Wang Zhao's accident, my head was empty. If you hadn't reminded me what to do, I might have acted like a quadriplegic in front of my subordinates and many media."

Song Sen is not exaggerating.
  Whether his personal resume is in reality or placed in some fictional works of art, he is like a male protagonist born from his own mother.
  Needless to say, it has been a smooth process since he was born.
  Not to mention having a good family background, he has never even experienced family conflicts that are common in large families.
  The entire environment in which he grew up can be described as harmonious, happy and full of love.
  Lu Lingyou lit a cigarette and handed one to Song Sen.
  "Fortunately, nothing happened this time, so don't think too much about it."

Song Sen shook his head.
  “This matter has a lot to do with my preliminary investigation work.
  Although there is no accountability from above, I understand that if the troops are not carefully arranged, it will only harm the people around them.
  Since I have to bear this burden, I must be responsible for this."

Song Sen shook his head, which was starting to feel dizzy.
  "To be fair, this is a problem I have to face myself.
  What I want to say is that at first I really couldn't understand why you let Fang Ning go.
  Or why don't you go with her.
  I even think you have a high opinion of yourself, and you have to maintain your useless self-esteem even if you break your tooth.
  I should understand now.
  You have some guesses in your mind, but you are not sure.
  Just for the sake of the one in [-] possibility of this guess, you are determined to avoid the possibility that it may bring a certain risk to her."

Lu Lingyou raised an eyebrow.
  "You told me like a great lover.
  I'm not as great as you say.
  How could a child who grew up in such an environment not have an inferiority complex?"

Song Sen patted Lu Lingyou on the shoulder.
  "So Ah Lao Lu.
  Since you can't avoid this problem, don't hesitate.
  It's a face-to-face situation.
  You two should understand this truth best.
  The so-called one who is protected and left alone in the end is the most difficult to endure.
  Instead of doing this, it is better to stand side by side by each other's side, which is worse than long-term debts and regrets."

Lu Lingyou couldn't help but shudder.
  "If you apply this description to Wang Zhao, it would be really disgusting."