your voice my world

Chapter 11 Tacit Rescue
The car arrived at Xu's villa half an hour later.

The Xu family villa is still in its original place.After nearly 20 years of development, the former wealthy district has become more and more prosperous.

After Lu Miao left here, he hasn't been here for nearly 20 years, and he hasn't even been close to it.

The memory before the age of six should not be deep, but as the car approached step by step, all the memories of the past became vivid, especially when the car passed by the kindergarten that year.

The kindergarten is still there, but the once low, snow-white bungalow has been replaced by a brand new three-story building, the walls are warm cream yellow and sky blue, and the rusty gate has been replaced with a black and shiny carved iron gate.

The bus stop opposite the kindergarten is still there, and the platform has been replaced with a silver ceiling and an advertising light box. On the light box is Li Junhao's latest beverage endorsement advertisement. Youthful and fashionable, it is no longer the dilapidated whiteboard worn by wind and rain, and the red line. Italics: "If one day, you suddenly don't know who you are..."

Lu Miao didn't know why he remembered the words on that advertising board so deeply. When the car passed by there, the self who was waiting for the pick-up behind the iron gate naturally came to mind.

This kind of memory doesn't taste very good, especially as the car approached Xu's villa step by step, Lu Miao became more and more confused.

For the first time, she discovered that she was resisting approaching here.

After the car stopped, Xu Jiayan quickly got out of the car, but Lu Miao sat in the car without moving.

Her palms were a little wet, and she took a deep breath, trying to overcome the resistance in her heart.

Xu Jiayan walked around the front of the car and opened the door for her.

He was full of thoughts about the missing Xu Jiaqian, but he didn't notice anything strange about her.

Lu Miao repeatedly repeated Qiao Ze's "professionalization" in her heart. She told herself that she was a policeman, and she came to understand the case. Judging from Xu Jiaqian's contact with her a few days ago, the inside story she knew might be More police officers than the case, she was just helping to save an innocent citizen.

Under such psychological construction, Lu Miao got out of the car and entered with Xu Jiayan.

The Xu family villa has been refurbished and rebuilt, but the layout of the house is still the same as before. As soon as people walk to the door, a sense of familiarity follows.

The only unfamiliar thing is that the dog hole next to the gate is already empty, and the Labrador that accompanied her for more than five years is no longer there.

It saved her life, but she didn't even say goodbye to it.

Lu Miao remembered the morning when she left, it followed her around in a circle.

At that time, she really thought that she could go out to play with her parents. She was so happy that she even forgot to say goodbye to it, and she didn't have time to talk to it, so she got into the car.

She only remembered that when the car was about to drive, it stood far away at the door, shaking its head and tail at her in the car.

It probably didn't expect that after that time, it would never be able to wait for her again.

The average lifespan of a Labrador is only twelve to 14 years, and it won't live that long for her to come back.

"It died in the second year after you left." Seeing her staring at the place in a daze, Xu Jiayan said suddenly, "It died on a hunger strike."

Lu Miao looked at him in surprise.

Xu Jiayan turned his head away: "It went crazy for a while, went to the car all day long, scratched the windows or seats with its claws like crazy, broke several seats, and then became depressed, I stopped eating and died within a week."

Lu Miao suddenly felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry.

Xu Jiayan entered the room without further words.

Chen Qi was walking back and forth in a hurry, and when she saw Xu Jiayan, her emotions that had been struggling for a whole morning suddenly collapsed.

"Jiayan, you're finally back." Chen Qi burst into tears as she spoke, and hurriedly walked towards Xu Jiayan, "What's the situation with your sister? Is she okay?"

"Mom, don't worry." Xu Jiayan comforted her in a gentle voice.

However, Chen Qi stomped her feet: "How can I not be in a hurry, if something happens to Qianqian..."

Halfway through the conversation, she choked up and couldn't continue. She was about to raise her hand to wipe her nose when she caught a glimpse of Lu Miao who was following Xu Jiayan. She sniffed her nose, turned cold, and looked at Xu Jiayan: "She How did you come here?"

Xu Jiayan frowned: "Mom."

Lu Miao glanced at her, turned her gaze away, looked at the police officer who was handling the case, walked over, and asked him softly, "What's the situation now?"

The policeman who handled the case was a policeman from a nearby police station. He had never dealt with Lu Miao before, nor did he know her, so he frowned at her: "You are?"

"She is a family member." Xu Jiayan took the words and walked over, "What's the situation now?"

Compared to Chen Qi's collapse, Xu Jiayan was much calmer.

"Judging from the signs at the accident scene, it should be kidnapping." The police officer said, "We are currently investigating suspicious persons one by one."

Lu Miao frowned: "Can you check the celebrity named Li Junhao? He has gotten closer to Xu Jiaqian recently, and he also has some emotional entanglements."

Chen Qi walked towards her suddenly: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Lu Miao pursed her lips: "I'm not talking nonsense. Jiaqian has indeed gotten very close to Li Junhao recently, and there has been news about it. You can check it out online."

"That's just paparazzi talking nonsense." Chen Qi's face was not very good, "They are just ordinary friends having a meal together."

Xu Jiayan frowned at her: "Mom, do you know this Li Junhao?"

Chen Qi turned her head away and said nothing.

Xu Jiayan looked at Lu Miao: "Go on."

"Jiaqian wanted to enter the entertainment circle with all her heart, and wanted to use Li Junhao to take the position. A few days ago, she suddenly reported Li Junhao for gathering people to take drugs. He was kidnapped last night. There must be a connection between them. I think we can start an investigation from Li Junhao."

"She's really messing around." Xu Jiayan suddenly reprimanded him softly. Xu Jiaqian had mentioned to him about wanting to enter the entertainment industry, and he had been strongly opposed to it. He didn't expect that she would find a shortcut by herself.

"How did you know?" Chen Qi suddenly turned the gunfire on Lu Miao, and said sharply, "Since you already knew that she was doing these things, why did you keep it from us?"

"I..." Lu Miao glanced at Xu Jiayan, she had told Xu Jiayan, she told him once the night Xu Jiaqian was drunk, she also told Xu Jiaqian about asking her to apologize Xu Jiayan said that she was bombarded by Chen Qi inexplicably, and she couldn't understand Chen Qi's hatred for her. Similarly, facing this woman whom she once mistook for her mother and affectionately called her mother, She also wasn't strong enough to cope.

"Mom, Miaomiao mentioned it to me." Xu Jiayan pulled Lu Miao behind him, "I didn't pay attention, I thought that I would be fine after warning Qianqian, but I didn't expect her to go her own way."

"Since you all know, why are you keeping it from me?" Chen Qi persisted, "Don't you know that she will be in danger if she does this? Do you know that you will kill your sister?"

Lu Miao felt that these questions were completely meaningless, and didn't want to waste time on her nonsense, so she turned around and asked the police officer who handled the case: "Where is the scene of the accident, can I go and have a look?"

"Stop being hypocritical here." Chen Qi became irritable again, "When did you see Qianqian better since you were a child? If you didn't know about it and didn't report it, would she be like this now?"

Lu Miao: "..."

She couldn't understand Chen Qi's anger at all.

The police officer who handled the case seemed to be unable to understand, and looked up at her.

"Your dog is lost, do you still blame the neighbors for not guarding you?" A male voice suddenly broke the silence in the room.

Lu Miao looked up in surprise, and saw Qiao Ze entering the room.

"You..." She suddenly didn't know what to say.

He had already walked towards her, and when he came in front of her, he stretched his arms towards her naturally, pulled her to him, and while tidying her clothes, he reprimanded softly: "Are you stupid? I want to hear mad dogs barking, Won't you let Lu Bao come?"

Lu Miao: "..."

She was stunned for two seconds, then pursed her lips angrily, and vindicated Lu Bao: "Lu Bao is not like a mad dog."

Chen Qi's face became ugly at the moment.

She recognized Qiao Ze, and he also protected Lu Miao in Macau a while ago, she was deeply impressed by him, the key is that her daughter also took a fancy to this man.

"Who are you, why did you break into other people's homes casually?" Chen Qi asked aggressively.

Qiao Ze blocked Lu Miao with his arm and protected Lu Miao behind him. He didn't even look at her, turned around to look at Lu Miao, and asked her, "Are you okay?"

Lu Miao shook her head: "I'm fine."

Xu Jiayan's complexion was also not very good, not because of the two people's questions and answers, but because of the invisible intimacy between the two.

She stood in front of Qiao Ze, looked up at him, pouted slightly, as if she was acting like a baby to him.

She was not tall at all, only reaching to Qiao Ze's shoulders, and she was also slender. Standing in front of him and looking up at him, she somewhat had the coquettish attitude of a little woman, completely different from her calmness when facing him.

His mood suddenly became bad, and he called Lu Miao.

Lu Miao turned to look at him.

He walked up to her, pulled her behind suddenly, and looked at Qiao Ze: "Is there something wrong, Mr. Qiao? I'm sorry, something happened at my house today. It may not be convenient to entertain you. Come back another day if you have something to do."

"It's okay, you are busy." Qiao Ze said politely, "I just came to bring my people home."

With a stretch of his arm, he pulled Lu Miao back in front of him again, and said to her as if no one else was there: "Let's go home first, don't disturb Mr. Xu here."

Lu Miao didn't want to stay here anymore, Chen Qi hated her inexplicably, and she couldn't communicate well with the police officers handling the case.

She turned her head to bid farewell to Xu Jiayan. She wanted to call him "Brother", but she opened her mouth. Seeing Chen Qi's resentful eyes, she swallowed the word "Brother" again: "I'm going back first, Qianqian has something wrong with me this time." Contact me, if you need any help, just let me know."

She looked at the policeman handling the case again: "Do you need me to go and record a statement?"

The police officer handling the case was looking for relevant persons, so he nodded immediately.

They didn't let Lu Miao stay at Xujialu, Chen Qi was emotionally unstable, and she was too disturbing.

Qiao Ze accompanied Lu Miao to the police station to record the statement. It didn't take much time, and the recording was basically finished in an hour.

Qiao Ze was waiting for her outside, standing at the door with his back to the hall, his hands casually put in his coat pockets, standing against the light, tall and straight, with an aura of his own.

After Lu Miao finished recording his statement, he saw Qiao Ze like this. His back was always calm and mature, which always made people feel at ease. It seemed that everything would be fine with him.

She stared at his back for a while.

He turned his head and saw her, his eyebrows raised slightly.

She pursed her lips, walked towards him slowly, stood still in front of him, and looked up at him: "Thank you just now."

Qiao Ze looked at her motionless: "Thank me for what?"

"Thank you..." Lu Miao paused, "Take care of me."

The corner of Qiao Ze's mouth ticked: "So you know you're going to be a doormat."

"I didn't know that she would bite people. I just heard that Xu Jiaqian was missing. I thought that it was not easy for her to report Li Junhao that day. I just thought that I might know more about the inside story, and maybe I could tell the police who handled the case. Provide some clues, who knows..." She pursed her lips and did not continue.

Qiao Ze glanced at her, and when she pursed her lips, the sense of innocence and grievance came out, making him feel that he seemed to be bullying her by saying one more word.

He had never seen any woman who could express this sense of innocence to such an extreme every minute.

He took his palm out of his coat pocket and patted her on the forehead: "Go home first."

Lu Miao followed him into the car, turned to him and asked, "Can you hear others talking?"

Qiao Ze was starting the engine, and took a moment to glance at her: "I didn't tell you, I understand lip language?"

"You didn't say that." She was sure.

Qiao Ze turned his head to look at her: "Miao Miao, you have a boyfriend, and your words are scary, so you should pay attention to the influence."

He repeated Xu Jiayan's words from yesterday, and then said: "How do you think I can tell this sentence from Xu Jiayan's mouth?"

Lu Miao: "I just guessed that you might understand, but I don't know if you really understand."

"It's best to know everything in our line of business." Qiao Ze started the car, "especially lip language. Many times, you won't have the opportunity to walk in front of your enemy to listen to what he has to say. From his body language, his demeanor, and the movement of his lips, he can judge the general meaning. So the impact of deafness on me is not my daily communication, but my perception of danger.”

"I have lost the perception of danger, which means that I may expose myself and my comrades to danger anytime and anywhere without knowing it." He turned to look at her, "So I need you to remind me of this perception, Just like the last time in Huang Jiayin's villa in Macau, without your timely reminder, I couldn't have known there was someone behind me.

"Chen Qi was facing the door sideways just now. Whether it's her ferocious face or the violent movement of her lips, it has already shown how vicious she is saying. Crazy dogs bark like crazy. You don't need to know what she is barking."

Lu Miao pursed her lips and looked at him hesitantly: "You...what do you do?"

Qiao Ze glanced at her, then at the signal light on the other side that was slowly turning yellow, and the car stopped slowly.

"I'm a policeman." He said, turning his head to look at her seriously, "To be precise, I'm an undercover agent. You don't need someone to investigate me, and what you can't and what you can find will not be real. The public security system does not have any information about me as a police officer, not even my household registration information. I may have many identities, but there is only one person, the one who is truly in front of you."

Lu Miao didn't expect him to confess so thoroughly, she just asked casually.

She didn't know how to respond, and she scratched her head after a while: "Can I pretend that I didn't hear..."

Qiao Ze tilted his head and looked at her still: "What do you think?"

Lu Miao pursed her lips to avoid his eyes: "Why do I feel that you are deliberately forcing me to board a pirate ship?"

He has exposed his old background, and it is impossible for him to let her quit again.

Qiao Ze started the car: "You started."

"That was kidnapped by you, too." Lu Miao turned to look at him, "Which side of the police do you belong to?"

Qiao Ze glanced at her sideways: "Aren't you afraid of getting on a pirate ship? Are you still asking?"

Lu Miao sat up straight, turned her head to look out the window, and stopped asking.

"I first studied criminal investigation and minored in economic crime investigation." Qiao Ze suddenly said, "For some reason, I went through special training in university and participated in the investigation of transnational cases. After that, I basically focused on transnational crime. Smuggling, anti-narcotics, and high-tech crimes are all involved.”

Lu Miao looked at him in surprise: "20 years?" She looked him over from the beginning, "How old are you?"

Qiao Ze turned his head and glanced at her: "Round up to 20 years." He added, "Together with the university."

Lu Miao couldn't help counting for him with his fingers: "If the lowest number is five, 15 years, four years of college, and 11 years of employment, if you graduated from college at the age of 23, you will be almost four years old."

"31 years old is also on the way to the fourth year." Qiao Ze turned his head and glanced at her again, "I am a freshman at the age of 16."

Lu Miao looked at him uncertainly: "Are you only 31 years old?"

Qiao Ze: "I look very old?"

"It's not..." Lu Miao frowned at him, "But according to the habit of thinking, generally speaking, it must be close to 20 years, so you must not be this age. If the mantissa is nine..."

Lu Miao started counting with her fingers again: "That's 35, so you are... between 31 and 35 years old?"

Qiao Ze glanced at the road ahead, then slowly turned to her: "The investigation is so clear, what do you want to do?"

Lu Miao: "Just see how much older you are than me."

Qiao Ze looked at her motionless: "And then?"

"So you know whether I should call you brother or uncle."

The car suddenly shook.

Joze almost slammed on the brakes.

He turned his head to look at her, and turned his eyes around her innocent face: "Did you do it on purpose?"

Lu Miao looked at him seriously: "No."

Qiao Ze's arm suddenly stretched out towards her, as if to hit her, so frightened that Lu Miao put her head in her hands, avoiding his hand, and said with a suppressed smile: "Okay, I was wrong, Qiao Ze sir."

Her smile was shallow, but she was holding back her smile seriously.

Qiao Ze suddenly remembered that she had never smiled since he had known her for so long, not to say that she had a sullen face, and she had never been frowning. A slight smile, but only a polite arc drawn from the corner of the mouth, not a heartfelt, hearty smile.

She never really smiled.

He thought of the background check that Shen Qiao gave him, her abandoned childhood, and the unknown five years ago, and he looked at her with some complicated eyes.

Lu Miao clearly noticed the subtle changes in his eyes, and the raised arc of the corners of his mouth was retracted bit by bit.

"What's wrong?" she asked him hesitantly.

Qiao Ze shook his head: "Nothing."

He ran his palm across her shoulder, patted her head, and turned his attention back to driving.

Lu Miao didn't know what happened to him, he was fine just now, but now the atmosphere in the car suddenly turned cold.

She didn't know if she said something wrong, or if she made fun of his age and made him mind, she didn't figure it out, seeing that he didn't speak, she didn't dare to say anything, and sat upright.

The car quickly stopped downstairs in the community.

The two got out of the car one after the other, entered the elevator one after the other, and no one spoke.

There were only two people in the elevator, Lu Miao and Qiao Ze. Lu Miao stood quietly behind him, watching the elevator door slowly close. Suddenly, a hand was inserted into the crack of the elevator door from the outside. The elevator door opened slowly.

Lu Miao looked up, and there was a tall and thin man standing at the elevator door, about five or sixty years old, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, with a bald head, wearing a black suit and black leather shoes, with a lot of yellow mud on the shoes, but there was nothing wrong with him. Without compromising the gentle temperament of the body.

His two hands are full of shopping bags, and his left hand is a hard cardboard shopping bag, which is stuffed to the brim, and the mouth of the shopping bag is blocked by newspapers at will, leaving only a small gap.

The shopping bag on the right hand is full of ingredients, which are very rich and fresh. There are still drops of water on the leaves of the vegetables, and the faint fishy smell of the meat permeates with the closed elevator door.

He didn't seem too embarrassed, and smiled at Lu Miao and Qiao Ze: "I'm sorry. The chicken that was just slaughtered smells a little bit."

Lu Miao returned a smile: "It's okay."

She moved towards Jo Ze's side to make room for him.

Qiao Ze glanced at her sideways, and when his eyes moved past the shopping bag in the man's left hand, the package in the gap between the newspapers made his black eyes narrow slightly.He glanced at the man, and then let his eyes fall on the elevator operating panel.

The man pressed the twelfth floor.

Qiao Ze stretched out his hand, pressed the fifteenth floor, looked down at Lu Miao: "I'll go back upstairs and change my clothes, and I'll go down to find you later."

Lu Miao: "..."

She looked up at him strangely, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the man who had just entered the elevator, her thoughts changed, her arm lightly passed through his arm, and she put her arms around his arm coquettishly: "No, I want to go up with you too. "

Qiao Ze's gaze stayed in her eyes for two seconds, and Lu Miao was also looking up at him.

He hooked the corner of his mouth coldly: "Whatever you want."

Neither of them got out when the elevator stopped on the seventh floor, so Lu Miao pushed the elevator back on.

The elevator quickly stopped on the twelfth floor.

The man smiled and nodded at Lu Miao, then turned and walked out of the elevator.

When he turned his back, Qiao Ze quietly took a newspaper from the shopping bag and stuffed it into Lu Miao's hand.

Lu Miao looked at him in surprise.

Qiao Ze glanced out of the elevator door.

Lu Miao understood, took a step forward, stepped out of the elevator, and shouted at the man with a newspaper: "Uncle, you have lost something." She shook the newspaper in her hand.

The man was taking out the key to open the door, when he heard the sound, he looked back at her.

Lu Miao smiled and shook the newspaper at him: "Your newspaper has fallen."

The man glanced back at the shopping bag and said with a smile, "Thank you, please pick it up."

He came over and took the newspaper.

Lu Miao also returned to the elevator, until the elevator stopped on the fifteenth floor, Lu Miao went out with Qiao Ze.

"Is there any problem with that person?" Lu Miao asked lowly.

Joze glanced back at her: "No problem."

He took out a bunch of keys from his pocket: "I'll come up to change clothes, what are you doing with me?"

Lu Miao: "..."

Still in a daze, Qiao Ze had already gone to 1508 on the left with the key.

Seeing that he really opened the door with the key, Lu Miao was embarrassed.

"Why do you still have a house here?"

"The girl in the family married a mascot. Her family doesn't have much, but she has more money and more rooms." Qiao Ze opened the door and looked down at her. "This is her house, and it's empty even if it's empty."

He pushed the door open and went in, Lu Miao stood at the door blankly.

Qiao Ze looked up and saw her standing at the door without moving. He stretched out his long arm, pinched her arm and dragged her in.

"I was seriously injured at the beginning of the year. She was worried about me and insisted on staying here to take care of me. I don't like a couple in the house who are sticky and greasy all day long. I didn't agree, so Shen Yu bought her an apartment upstairs for convenience. She took care of me nearby." Qiao Ze explained, looked up and looked around the house, he had the key, but he had never lived in this house.

Lu Miao was still immersed in the grief and indignation of being tricked by him, thinking that she had foolishly written and directed an act with him just now, she was embarrassed and angry, and angrily ignored him.

Joze sat down on the sofa and looked sideways at her.

She still stood motionless at the porch, looking at him puffed up with her cheeks puffed up, her eyes were quite resentful.

Qiao Ze was amused by her appearance, and he didn't know if she was too stubborn, or if she really enshrined him as a god, she believed whatever he said without doubting it at all.

He waved to her: "Come here."

Lu Miao stared at him without moving.

Qiao Ze had nothing to do with her, and he stopped teasing her: "You did nothing wrong, there is indeed something wrong with that person."

Lu Miao became even more angry.

"I'm not playing anymore." She opened the door and turned to leave.

Qiao Ze got up and pressed the door panel before she went out.

The door that Lu Miao had just opened was closed tightly again, and Qiao Ze turned around with his shoulders on his shoulders, trapping him between the door and his chest.

She was still angry and didn't notice the ambiguity of her position.

"Can't you just make a joke?" He looked down at her and asked.

Lu Miao didn't look at him angrily.

He pinches her chin forcing her to look up at him.

"Didn't it mean that everyone gets what they need? According to your principle of equivalent exchange, which part does emotional trouble belong to?"

Lu Miao suddenly became embarrassed and embarrassed, and she knew that he was going to talk about the phone she didn't hang up.

really……

"You talk on the phone without hanging up, do you know how fatal your mistakes are?"

Lu Miao didn't dare to say anything, she was still angry just now, but once he settled the matter, her aura dropped.

"I'm sorry." She apologized in a low voice, "It was my negligence, and I am willing to accept the punishment."

She lowered her eyebrows and narrowed her eyes, looking very obedient and aggrieved.

The person is in front of her eyes, in her arms, and her breath is in her breath.

Qiao Ze's heart was agitated very much, but he didn't like to see her lowered eyebrows and clear-cut boundaries, the veins on his arms were faintly raised, he really wanted to, so he just rubbed her into his arms, ruthlessly Bully hard.

I don't know how she grew up, but she was born with the appearance of being bullied by others.

Restraining himself, he retracted his arms little by little, exhaled lightly, turned and walked towards the sofa.

"Which room does he live in?" he asked, regaining his composure.

Lu Miao also walked towards him: "1206."

She sat down on the other side of the sofa and looked at him: "What's wrong with him?"

Qiao Ze raised his head and glanced at her: "Massage stick."

It took Lu Miao a second to realize that he was clearly talking about a case, but the way he looked at her, the way he looked at her with the massage stick, still made her blush unconsciously, a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, the embarrassment didn't last long, and the phone in her bag rang at the right time, saving her.

"I'll take a call first." She stood up quickly, clutching her phone and walking aside.

It was Wu Manman who called, asking if she could get in touch with Xu Jiaqian.

Xu Jiaqian asked Wu Manman to go to Li Junhao's fan meeting together, and now the meeting is about to start, but there is no one in sight, and the phone cannot be connected.

Lu Miao heard what Wu Manman meant and didn't know that something happened to Xu Jiaqian.

"When did she ask you out?" she asked.

"Yesterday morning, she invited me to have morning tea, talked about Li Junhao's fan meeting, and made an appointment to go and have a look together today. Now the fan meeting is about to start, but she didn't come, and the phone couldn't get through, she I can't go backstage without it."

Wu Manman's tone sounded a little anxious, and he could vaguely hear noises through the phone, and it sounded like he was indeed at the event site.

"Where are you now?" Lu Miao asked.

"It's at the Li Junhao fan event site, on the third floor of the stadium." Wu Manman frowned as she said, "Apart from her phone number, do you have any other contact methods for her?"

"She..." Lu Miao hesitated, "Something happened to her."

Wu Manman said: "What's the matter? What happened to her?"

Lu Miao briefly told her about Xu Jiaqian's situation.

"Then how is the person now? Have you found him?" Wu Manman asked urgently.

Lu Miao: "Not yet, I don't know about the other situations. Her mother doesn't like me very much, so she won't let me ask."

Wu Manman was silent for a while: "I will also ask someone to inquire later."

After hanging up Wu Manman's call, Lu Miao held the phone for a while and pondered for a while, opened the phone's Weibo, and entered the words "Li Junhao Fan Meeting" in the search box, and many fans posted pictures of the event on the real-time Weibo , the scene was packed with fans.It stands to reason that he should also appear, but there is no photo of him at the scene. The organizer sent a notice that he may be late due to temporary physical discomfort.

Lu Miao didn't know if he was summoned for questioning or if he was really unwell.

She took the phone and sat closer to Qiao Ze, and passed the phone to him: "Did the police summon him?"

Qiao Ze glanced at her, took out his mobile phone, sent a message to Shen Qiao, and asked him to inquire.

After a while, Shen Qiao called. He was on the phone habitually, and the normal face-to-face communication often made him forget the fact that Qiao Ze was deaf.

Qiao Ze pressed the call button and said directly: "What are you calling me, tell Lu Miao."

He gave Lu Miao his mobile phone.

Shen Qiao was a little surprised at his trust in Lu Miao, but he still mentioned the news he had inquired to Lu Miao. The police did go to the backstage to find out about the situation with Li Junhao, but there was probably nothing suspicious. Half an hour later, Li Junhao appeared Already at the scene of the event.

There is a live video on Weibo.

Qiao Ze turned his head and glanced: "This is the star that Xu Jiaqian reported?"

Lu Miao nodded: "Yes, that's him."

Qiao Ze stared at his face for a while: "Don't you think... this face looks familiar?"

"..." Lu Miao glanced at him in surprise, then looked at Li Junhao in the video, but didn't see it.

"Where is his ancestral home?" Qiao Ze asked suddenly.

"It's Ancheng." Lu Miao remembered that Xu Jiaqian mentioned that Li Junhao is a big star going out of Ancheng. He developed in Beijing, but his family is here, and he will come back when he has the opportunity.

Qiao Ze leaned over to pick up the key on the coffee table: "Go and have a look."

Lu Miao got up in surprise: "I don't care about 1206?"

"I can't run." Qiao Ze stood up, "Go to the event site to see."

The two quickly got into the car. When starting the car, Qiao Ze turned to look at her: "Wu Manman chasing stars?"

Lu Miao turned her head and thought for a while: "Don't chase."

The last time Xu Jiaqian asked Wu Manman to help her identify Li Junhao's character, she and Wu Manman sat in the back room, Wu Manman only commented on Li Junhao, and did not have the fanaticism of fans seeing idols.

"Since she doesn't chase stars, why does she have to go to his fan meeting and go backstage?"

Lu Miao frowned, not quite understanding.

"She wants to hook up with Li Junhao." Qiao Ze glanced at her, "If Li Junhao is really a drug addict, her hooking up with him is an opportunity to open up the drug market in the entertainment industry. Xu Jiaqian reported that Li Junhao gathered people to take drugs The incident confirmed a problem from the side. Li Junhao also has his own circle of drug friends, and they often get together to take drugs and hold drug parties. For safety reasons, these stars generally do not organize themselves. Network resources and organizations of investors or bosses who have the right to speak. This kind of network resources are complex, and generally have relatively safe and stable supply channels and places.

"Li Junhao belongs to the top of the pyramid in this circle. For the investors who organize the game, controlling Li Junhao means being able to extract his commercial value as much as possible; It means more human resources. For the investors who organize the game, the reason for manipulating these newcomers is the same as manipulating Li Junhao. There is a possibility of extracting commercial value, so they are also willing to let newcomers join. In this chain Under the influence of the market, a big market has been formed virtually, and it is a big market that can be played.

"So as long as Wu Manman can catch up with Li Junhao's line, in the future, whether it is the newcomer under him who wants to curry favor with him, or the boss who organizes the game, it will be an important sales channel for her. Of course, her main purpose should be I still want to use Li Junhao to climb up to the business boss behind him, the most important thing in this market is money."

During the explanation, Qiao Ze's car had arrived outside the city gymnasium.

Qiao Ze parked the car in the parking lot of the shopping mall opposite the gymnasium, which is the place Li Junhao and his party must pass through when they leave after the event.

Lu Miao and Qiao Ze were sitting in the car, she was watching the event video, while Qiao Ze was staring at the entrance of the parking lot.

Li Junhao's event ended successfully after half an hour. He walked out of the event surrounded by staff, reporters, and fans, and then got into the nanny car and left.

Qiao Ze drove after them when they were about to go far away.

The hotel Li Junhao stayed at was the largest five-star hotel in Ancheng, Ancheng Grand Hotel.

After he got out of the car, he went to the restaurant on the top floor to eat first, and he ordered a private room.

Lu Miao went in together holding Qiao Ze's arm, and deliberately walked towards Li Junhao's box, where a waiter was walking towards the box with the menu.

Lu Miao calculated the time, and just happened to "accidentally" bump into the waiter when he walked to the door. The moment the waiter pushed open the door of the box, the menu in the waiter's hand fell to the ground.

The movement alarmed the people in the box.

While cleaning the tea stains on her body, Lu Miao raised her head to look at the box without any trace. When her eyes collided with Li Junhao, she asked him in surprise, "Mr. Li?"

Li Junhao didn't recognize her for a moment.

Lu Miao smiled: "I'm Qianqian's older sister, and we had dinner together a while ago."

Li Junhao suddenly realized, and greeted her politely: "I remember you, the last time Qianqian was drunk, you took her away."

Lu Miao returned an embarrassed smile: "I'm really sorry that time, she was too drunk at the time." Then she pretended to glance around the room unintentionally, "Didn't Qianqian come over today?"

Li Junhao smiled: "I haven't had time to contact her yet, I've been busy with work these two days."

Lu Miao nodded: "Then I won't bother you, let's talk." After speaking, he pulled Qiao Ze away first, and entered the box opposite.

"Do you think Xu Jiaqian was bound by him?" Lu Miao asked Qiao Ze in a low voice as soon as he sat down.

Qiao Ze glanced at her: "I didn't come to find Xu Jiaqian."

"By the way." Lu Miao picked up the teapot, poured two cups of tea, held a cup in both hands, and handed it to him respectfully, "You drink tea."

Qiao Ze put his arms around his chest lightly, turned his head to look at her: "Say what you have to say."

Lu Miao pursed her lips, and slowly put the teacup in front of him: "Didn't you study criminal investigation, analyze it, is it possible that Xu Jiaqian is in his hands?"

The corner of Qiao Ze's mouth curled up: "First, I didn't go to the scene of the crime, second, I didn't touch any confession materials, third, I didn't investigate his identity background, and fourth, I didn't even hear what he said. Let me analyze for you whether Xu Jiaqian was tied up by him?"

After speaking, she saw her staring at him eagerly with her eyes open: "Captain Xiao said you are a legend."

Qiao Ze: "Why don't you say that I am still a god and Buddha?"

With his elbows propped on the table, he leaned towards her: "As for the way you served tea just now, you still treat me like a god?"

Lu Miao: "..."

Qiao Ze stretched out his arm, took the menu with his backhand, and opened it: "What do you want to eat?"

Wherever Lu Miao wants to eat, she can do whatever she wants, she doesn't even understand why she stays here with him.

Qiao Ze ignored her and ordered a few dishes.

Li Junhao ate this meal for more than two hours, and the show ended at seven o'clock in the evening.

Qiao Ze watched him leave, paid the bill, and led Lu Miao downstairs, but instead of following Li Junhao, he went back to the parking lot and waited in the car.

Half an hour later, Li Junhao appeared in the parking lot alone, wearing a hoodie, a mask and sunglasses to cover everything up, got into the car alone, and drove away.

Joze drove to keep up.

Although his ears are not working, his driving skills are still there, especially tracking and anti-tracking, which he has long been familiar with.

Lu Miao didn't pay attention to the scenery along the road at first, but when she came back to her senses, she realized that the more she walked, the more familiar she was, especially when Li Junhao's car slowly drove into the community where they lived, Lu Miao gasped and turned to look at Qiao Ze.

With his hands on the steering wheel, Qiao Ze glanced sideways at her: "I asked you at noon if this face looks familiar. This is the answer."

They watched as Li Junhao parked the car downstairs in the unit, then got out of the car and entered the elevator, and the two of them also got out of the car to follow, and when they reached the elevator entrance, the elevator door was closed.

Qiao Ze pressed the up button of the elevator.Lu Miao stared at the elevator display screen, watching the elevator stop on the twelfth floor for a short time, then slowly descend, finally stop in front of them, and open.

Lu Miao was thoughtful: "Is he and the owner of 1206 a father-son relationship?"

"Obviously." Qiao Ze responded lightly, and returned to his home on the seventh floor with Lu Miao.

As soon as people entered the room, Qiao Ze opened the floor-to-ceiling curtains and looked across.

"The building directly opposite 1206, judging from the clothes drying on the balcony, there is a family of five living on the twelfth floor, including an elderly person and a child. On the eleventh floor, there are single men." He looked back at Lu Miao, "Who are you? Can it be done?"

"We need to go upstairs across the way," he added.

Lu Miao thought for a while: "Single men."

Joze glanced at her.

Lu Miao felt guilty: "It's still old people and children."

Qiao Ze accompanied her to the room 1206 in the opposite building. He had two small binoculars in his hand, and Lu Miao had an A4-sized notebook and a pen in his hand.

The door opened after knocking for a while, and the host opened the door.

Lu Miao smiled at him shyly: "Hello, we are the owners of the seventh floor across the street, I'm really sorry, can I bother you for a while, our school is doing a research on children's education recently, can I trouble you Fill out a questionnaire for me?"

As if she was afraid that he would refuse, she hurriedly said: "It won't take too much time for you. Because this is linked to the graduation thesis, there is no way to fool it, so I want to ask the neighbors to help me fill out a survey report."

The male host took it suspiciously, and then looked at Qiao Ze behind her.

Qiao Ze gave him a slight smile: "Their school is very focused on academics, so it must be the data of field research. She is also hard-headed, and she is afraid that the random data will not be fooled, so she has been looking for someone to take samples these days."

He pointed to the opposite side with his finger: "We live on the seventh floor opposite, the property management knows." He took out his mobile phone and called the property management to explain the situation, and then gave the mobile phone to the male owner.

The male owner answered the phone hesitantly, and the property management confirmed that Qiao Ze was indeed the owner of the opposite house, not an outsider.

The neighbor asked for help, and it was just a simple survey. The host refused without shame and let him into the house.

The child in his family looked over seven years old and was watching TV with his grandparents in the living room. When he saw two strangers coming in, he looked back strangely.

Lu Miao greeted several people with a smile, turned around and took the small telescope from Qiao Ze's hand, and handed it to the child.

"I'm really sorry to bother you, a little gift, I hope you don't mind."

The children liked this kind of gadget, so they stood up happily, took it, and tried to fiddle with it, but they didn't know how to use it.

Joze walked over: "I'll teach you."

He took the children to the balcony.

Lu Miao sat down in the living room, holding the questionnaire with more than 100 questions in his hand, and chatted with the old man.

Qiao Ze taught the children how to play with the telescope on the balcony, and calmly turned the camera to 1206 opposite.

The curtains on the opposite balcony were half drawn, leaving the balcony door open, and the telescope could clearly see the opposite living room.

Li Junhao, who had already taken off his mask, was in the living room with a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses. The two seemed to be arguing. One had his back to the TV wall, and the other had his back to the sofa. Ze has an excellent vision, allowing him to infer the content of the conversation between the two from their body language and lip movement.

The two were arguing about Xu Jiaqian, and Li Junhao was pressing the man wearing gold-rimmed glasses if he had tied Xu Jiaqian.

The man didn't admit it or deny it, he just said that he couldn't let Xu Jiaqian ruin Li Junhao's career.

Li Junhao's next sentence made Qiao Ze frowned slightly, Li Junhao said that he had already ruined him!
Li Junhao was accusing, accusing his father of ruining him, but he didn't say how he ruined him.

After that, they pressed Xu Jiaqian's whereabouts.

The two were seeing each other, one refused to speak, the other kept asking, and they started arguing.

Qiao Ze didn't have enough time to wait for the dispute between the two to come to an end.He and Lu Miao can't stay together for too long, half an hour is the limit, and it's easy to become suspicious after a long time.

After helping the child to operate proficiently, he returned to the living room.

Lu Miao has almost dragged on, and if Qiao Ze doesn't come back, she won't be able to break it off.

After saying goodbye to the owner, the two returned to the car.

As soon as people got into the car, Lu Miao turned around and asked Qiao Ze: "How is it?"

Qiao Ze only replied with one word: "Wait."

She waited here with him for nearly an hour, and Li Junhao finally came down from upstairs, along with his father, and they drove away.

Joze followed in his car.

After the car drove into the bustling city, it drove to a remote suburb.

Li Junhao's father is obviously a very vigilant person.

Qiao Ze wasn't sure if he had discovered their whereabouts, or if he had something to do and turned back suddenly.

Qiao Ze looked around and didn't follow.

Lu Miao couldn't figure out what he meant, so she turned her head and asked him, "What's wrong?"

Qiao Ze shook his head, leaned down a little, looked around, and suddenly asked her, "Do you understand this place?"

Lu Miao looked out of the car window: "This used to be a large fireworks factory. There was an explosion a few years ago, and the factory closed down. It is now in ruins."

She pointed forward with her hand: "Five kilometers ahead, you will enter the mountain. There is a large hilly slope over there. The terrain is relatively flat. There are many brick houses the size of toilets built on the slope. That is the old building. The factory area of ​​the fireworks factory. There are large one-story houses and three-story office buildings in the front, which are now collapsed and collapsed, and they have all been abandoned.

"There is a village about one kilometer inward, but because there was an explosion here, many people died. People in the village are more afraid of that kind of thing, so usually no one dares to come to this factory area, and they have to detour when going out."

Qiao Ze nodded thoughtfully, and slowly drove the car to the abandoned factory area, parked the car behind the collapsed mud wall at the back door of the factory area, got out of the car, called Deputy Liu, shared the location on WeChat, He took a roll of sealing glue from the trunk and looked up at the abandoned factory building.

The factory covers a large area. Due to the explosion, there is almost no complete place, and it has collapsed everywhere, which looks a little creepy in the night.

He looked back at Lu Miao, and stretched out his palm to her: "Follow me."

Lu Miao hesitated for a while, and put his hand over, which was firmly held by him.

"Xu Jiaqian may be here." He said, "Remind me if there is any movement."

He dragged her into the ruins and didn't stop until he got to the middle of the factory area.

There is a flat building there. Compared with other places that have collapsed, its walls are still intact, the door is also intact, the windows are blocked with door panels, and curtains are hung outside the windows.

Through the gap in the door, Lu Miao saw the faint light in the room.

She and Joze looked at each other.

Qiao Ze held her hand tightly, pressed against the wall, walked carefully towards the window, lifted the curtain quietly, and saw Xu Jiaqian in the room at a glance, his hands and feet were bound, his mouth was sealed with sealing tape, and he was opening his eyes. With frightened eyes, begging for mercy.

There were three men in the room, all of strong physique, each playing with their mobile phones, and they were separated from the door by a wall.

Qiao Ze put down the curtain, pulled Lu Miao to the door, and gave a low voice: "There is a movement to remind you by pulling the corner of your clothes."

Lu Miao nodded, and reminded in a low voice: "Don't let Xu Jiaqian see you, she doesn't know your identity, and it will always be strange to see you here. She may not be able to guess it, but my brother is a genius, and he will definitely doubt it. of."

Qiao Ze nodded, and suddenly kicked a stone towards the door.

There was movement in the room: "Who?"

Someone got up, seemed to hesitate for a while, and then walked slowly towards the door.

Lu Miao tugged at the corner of Qiao Ze's clothes.

When the man pushed open the door and came out, Qiao Ze's arm suddenly attacked him. He covered his mouth with one hand and his arm with the other, and pulled him out. He put a letter on his mouth, and then grabbed his arms and buckled them behind his back. The sealing glue had neatly tied his wrists several times.

Then Qiao Ze pushed the person behind the pillar, the whole process was neat and quick, without the slightest sloppiness, and did not even cause much commotion.

His delay in returning aroused the vigilance of the two people in the room.

"Mouse?" came a confused voice from inside the room.

Lu Miao reported the situation to Qiao Ze.

Qiao Ze nodded and stood still.

The people in the room finally couldn't hold back anymore. Someone got up and came out. When they walked outside, Qiao Ze restrained him in the same way, tied them up and threw them aside.

The people in the room finally sensed something was wrong, two bullets shot randomly, and Qiao Ze instinctively blocked Lu Miao with his backhand, leaning his back against the wall.

"Xu Jiaqian is screaming." She reminded in a low voice, judging from the voice in the room, "It should be picked up and blocked in front of her chest, that man is walking towards the door."

"Who's outside?" The people in the room asked sharply, the sound and footsteps were approaching the door step by step, but they didn't dare to go out any more, they just kicked the door panel.

Xu Jiaqian in the room screamed in fright.

Qiao Ze handed the phone to Lu Miao: "Look where the police are."

After watching it, Lu Miao clapped his palms to him: "There are still 5 minutes to go."

Qiao Ze nodded: "Wait first."

They didn't move, but the people in the room became anxious, and fired two more bullets towards the window.

Qiao Ze's arm was in front of Lu Miao, she stood there without daring to move, but instinctively looked up at him.

He was leaning against the wall with his back against the wall, with a steady and straight figure and a calm face. From head to toe, he gave people a sense of strength and stability.

She was stunned for a while, and when she was absent-minded, there was a faint movement in her ears, coming with a gust of wind, almost instinctively, she pushed Qiao Ze to roll aside, and then the sound of bullets sounded, not from inside the room, but from inside. It was a bullet that came from the direction of the gate of the factory area behind.

They were still exposed in front of Xu Jiaqian while dodging, and Xu Jiaqian whimpered.

Lu Miao didn't care about her, the bullets were still coming one by one from behind, and he could vaguely see that there were two people holding guns.

Qiao Ze reacted very quickly. Although his lack of hearing made him unable to perceive the gunshots, he still quickly judged the direction of the bullet, pulled Lu Miao into his arms, and rolled her around twice on the spot. He kicked hard on the door post, and rolled into the post with his strength, grabbed Lu Miao under his body with one hand, reached out to the two people who were pushed into the post with the other hand, took out a gun, pulled it safely, The hand holding the gun stretched out, and slammed two bullets towards the knees of the approaching two people, hitting them precisely.

The accomplice's injury made the person holding Xu Jiaqian panic. He pointed the gun at Xu Jiaqian's head and yelled, "Don't move around, or I'll shoot you." Then he grabbed Xu Jiaqian and stepped back step by step.

Qiao Ze held a gun and hid in the corner of the wall without showing his face. The police had arrived. Just now, he saw the police approaching carefully at the gate.

The robber's attention was all on his side, and he didn't notice what was behind him, which gave the police behind him a chance.

The gunshot rang out along with the screams of the kidnappers, accompanied by Xu Jiaqian's muffled groan.

Lu Miao poked her head and glanced, the kidnapper had been subdued by the police from behind, Xu Jiaqian was thrown on the ground by the kidnapper, and the police were stepping forward to untie her.

She also saw Lu Miao, and she was the only one in her eyes. She was already terrified, and as soon as her hands and feet were free, she rushed towards Lu Miao, hugged her and cried, her whole body was so weak that she couldn't stand up at all. live.

Lu Miao was a little at a loss, she had no comforting experience, she froze in place and let Xu Jiaqian hold her, and she didn't know what was going on with her.After the police dealt with the scene, they sent Xu Jiaqian to the hospital and notified her family on the way.

Seeing that Xu Jiaqian was really terrified, she kept holding Lu Miao and refused to let go, so Lu Miao was forced to follow her to the hospital. Not long after arriving, Xu Jiayan, Xu Yang, and Chen Qi rushed over.

Was Xu Jiaqian worried and frightened all night, and his mental state had already reached a critical point. When he saw his family, his emotions collapsed again, holding Chen Qi and crying uncontrollably, but fortunately, apart from excessive shock and minor scratches, there was no major problem .

Seeing that she was fine, Lu Miao turned around and bid farewell to Xu Jiayan.

Xu Jiaqian, who was crying, interjected with sobs: "My sister saved me." She glanced at Qiao Ze again, "Brother Qiao."

Chen Qi looked back at the two of them in surprise.

Xu Jiayan also looked at Lu Miao: "Did you save Qianqian?"

Since she was accidentally exposed in front of Xu Jiaqian, Lu Miao thought up her excuses, avoiding the seriousness and focusing on the light: "It's not... It's just that I happened to meet him, and I just helped to call the police. The police saved me."

Xu Jiayan: "It's so late, why are you over there?"

"Just..." Lu Miao hesitated for a while, and secretly held Qiao Ze's palm, "Go to the mountain over there to watch the sunset. When I passed by there, I saw a bright light and felt something was wrong, so I went to have a look."

Xu Jiayan frowned: "Watch the sunset?"

Lu Miao nodded: "Yes, over there by the reservoir."

2000 meters away from the fireworks factory is the largest reservoir and the highest peak in Anseong. It is a well-known scenic spot for watching sunsets. Men and women in love often go there to watch the sunrise and sunset.

Xu Jiayan's eyes suddenly became sharper, and his eyes slowly fell on the hands she and Qiao Ze held together. The storm in his black eyes gradually rose, and he stared at her intently.

Lu Miao was stunned, the hand holding Qiao Ze unconsciously loosened, and was held tightly by Qiao Ze again.

"Mr. Xu, since there is nothing else, let's go first."

Xu Jiayan replied, looking at Lu Miao.

Lu Miao pursed her lips slightly: "We're going back first, you should also pay attention to rest."

She pulled Qiao Ze out, let go of his hand as soon as she entered the elevator, but was held back by him again, and she couldn't break free.

She looked up at him and saw his calm side face, just like any time she knew him, calm and calm.

Joze pressed the button on the first floor.

After getting out of the elevator, he put his other hand lightly on her shoulder and half pushed her into the car.

Not long after the car drove out, Xu Jiayan called.

He watched her look down at the phone with hesitation on her face.

His mood suddenly turned bad.

His concern for her made him feel her mood swings easily.

Knowing her for so long, her emotions have always been stable and without waves, always like the bowl of water lying on the table, calm without the slightest ripple.

But now, her mood is fluctuating.If you care, there will be fluctuations.

With slightly lowered eyes, Qiao Ze saw that she answered the phone in hesitation.

Lu Miao didn't notice Qiao Ze's gaze, her attention was on the other end of the phone.

Xu Jiayan asked her to have dinner tomorrow.

She doesn't really want to go, she still remembers what he said, hoping to take care of her as a boyfriend, but at that time the topic was interrupted because of Xu Jiaqian's disappearance, now that the dust has settled, she doesn't know how to face Xu Jiaqian like this Jiayan.

The word "boyfriend" is unfamiliar to her, especially from Xu Jiayan's mouth.

Over the years, she has long been used to the fact of having a brother like him, but one day, he suddenly told her that he was not a brother and that he wanted to take care of her in another capacity. She didn't know how to face it, and could only be clumsy. Di used Qiao Ze as a shield, and at the same time relieved Xu Jiayan's doubts about her and Qiao Ze appearing in the abandoned fireworks factory.

Xu Jiayan didn't want to believe that she and Qiao Ze were together, and insisted on talking to her again, asking for an answer.

Lu Miao rejected him because of something.

Facing her rejection, Xu Jiayan on the other end of the phone was not as manic and tough as he was a few days ago. He just kept silent for a while, and then asked her: "Miao Miao, did I do something wrong?"

The vicissitudes in his tone made her unable to resist, she held her lips uncomfortably: "No..."

"Miaomiao, for so many years, although you are not willing to look for me, you still have a meal, a walk, and a chat together occasionally. Are you planning to not even want me as a brother?"

She suddenly didn't know how to refute. Over the years, they had not had many chances to meet each other, but many times, when she was sad or in trouble, she could always receive his text messages, especially in the year she was repeating her studies. , when she was confused by her studies and Lu Xiaocheng's disappearance, when she walked out of the school gate, she could always see him standing in the shade of a tree, standing among the students after school, tall and handsome, looking at her quietly.

He never persuaded her to do something, or not to do anything. When he came here, he just took her to have a meal and chat with her, that's all.

"Brother..." She called him, didn't know what to say, but felt a little uncomfortable, she didn't want to be such a stranger to him, he was the only person who accompanied her through the year when Lu Xiaocheng had an accident.

"Miaomiao, you saved Qianqian, I just want to invite you to dinner to express my gratitude, can't I?"

She hesitated, thinking of the way he smiled in front of her in the past few years.

He is her brother...

"If you're in trouble, forget it. We'll talk about it later. Be careful on the road." He hung up her phone.

Lu Miao felt more and more uncomfortable, holding the phone, sitting where she was.

Qiao Ze had already stopped the car on the side of the road, and was silent.She also kept silent.

He turned his head to look at her, reached out suddenly, and pulled the phone out of her hand.

She finally came back to her senses and turned to look at him in a daze.

"You care about Xu Jiayan?" He asked.

Lu Miao didn't know what he was going to do, hesitated for a while, but nodded: "He is my brother."

Qiao Ze: "Is it just brother?"

Lu Miao lowered her head: "He helped me a lot. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be able to sit here now."

Joze: "And then?"

Then... Lu Miao was also a little dazed for a while, she never thought about what else she thought of Xu Jiayan besides her brother.

In her perception, he is her brother.

Her bewilderment magnified the anxiety in his chest to the extreme, he lost his patience, grabbed her arm, and pulled her into his arms.She was in a hurry to get up, but he grabbed her arm to prevent her from moving.

Lu Miao panicked for no reason, his eyes were too deep and calm.

She wanted to break free, but he held her down.

"Lu Miao." His voice was hoarse due to emotional fluctuations, "Are you really stupid or fake?"

Again.

She was stunned.

"You really don't feel a little bit here?" His palm was on the heart of her left chest. The hot temperature made her instinctively want to avoid it, but he pinched her arm and refused to let it go.

She became more and more flustered, even afraid that he would tell her in the next sentence that he liked her.

She was afraid of this kind of liking. Many years ago, someone said they liked her, but they tied her up and forced her to watch her younger brother being abused and abused like a dog in order to take a sip of drugs, just in exchange for her submission.

When she was just born, Chen Qi also took her home because he said he liked her, but in the end he just threw her away.

These so-called likes are either to satisfy one's own temporary preferences, and they are tired of seeing them for a while, and then they are discarded like scraps;

Qiao Ze has always been like a god in her heart. He is calm and calm. He looks stern, but he is actually warm. She doesn't want him to be like those people and end up with a hideous appearance.

Moreover, he didn't like her in the first place, and not long ago, he still disliked her.

Dislike her for not responding quickly enough, dislike her low psychological quality, dislike her low vigilance, dislike her not being professional enough, dislike her for bringing personal emotions into work, dislike her...

In short, she had nothing to redeem him.

She is such a person who has no merit in his opinion, how could he just fall in love with her.

Her flustered and evasive eyes made him squeeze her arm tighter, forcing her.

If it was in the past, he wouldn't be so pressing, he had enough patience to wait for her to slowly come to her senses, for her to come out and accept him.

But behind her there is another Xu Jiayan who is watching covetously, that is the man who walked with her in the past ten years.She was already facing up to the fact that he was not her brother.

"Lu Miao!" He restrained himself and pinched her arm, forcing her to look at him.

She looked up in a daze, with a blank look in her eyes.

"But... I don't have anything to like... the mouth is stupid, dull, stuffy..." Her eyes met his, "Besides, you didn't... that's why I signed it, and personal emotions are not allowed during work agreement?"

Qiao Ze couldn't tell what it was like, he felt distressed, and there were others, all kinds of emotions were mixed together, it was very complicated.

It cannot be forced, nor can it be impetuous.

He hugged her gently: "Lu Miao, you are very good, better than any girl I have ever seen."

Then he let her go and restarted the car: "Let's go to the Public Security Bureau first."

When they arrived at the Public Security Bureau, Deputy Liu had already finished interrogating people, and all those who kidnapped Xu Jiaqian were recruited. It was Li Yuanxiang who instructed them to do so, and the purpose was unknown.

Li Yuanxiang, the owner of 1206.

When the police came over, the man had already fled and his whereabouts were unknown.

"M9 pistol, Desert Eagle..." Qiao Ze fiddled with the collected guns and ammunition, "Ordinary kidnappers, where did they get these configurations?"

"As far as Ancheng is concerned, it would have been a long time ago if the local hooligans could find a homemade shotgun." Qiao Ze put down the gun in his hand and looked at Deputy Liu, "When we just passed, there were only three people in the room. The two came later. It took less than 10 minutes from when the robbers in the house noticed something was wrong to when the last two robbers appeared. There are only three possibilities. First, they heard the gunshots and came to check the situation; second, The robbers in the house notified them to come to support; three, they just came to take over and caught up. If it is the first two, it means that Li Yuanxiang has a lair nearby."

"He's a drug dealer," he said.

Deputy Liu looked at Qiao Ze with raised eyebrows. He is not in charge of this case, but because of Qiao Ze's special status, it is not easy to expose it in front of too many people, so he and Qiao Ze communicate directly about the case.

"A while ago, Lu Bao brought back a massage stick for women downstairs in our apartment. It was an unopened express package with heroin hidden in it. I asked Lu Bao to take me back to the route it picked up that thing. , it is basically determined to be something left by the residents of our unit building. The packaging is brand new and the outer packaging is dry, but it rained lightly that morning, and the rain stopped for only two hours, so it can be basically inferred that it was lost in two Within hours, it was picked up by Lu Bao. Maybe within those two hours, the owner of the thing didn't notice that it was lost. When he finds it, he will definitely go downstairs to look for it.

"I asked the property to adjust the elevator monitoring that night. According to the elevator monitoring, there were more than 20 people who went downstairs that night, and nearly 20 of them came back within an hour. The logistics information on the Internet found the buyer, borrowed the information of the buyer's transaction account, touched their QQ group for drug transactions, and found out more than ten similar drug transaction groups. He is only the third layer in this transaction chain. There are two other floors above."

"Yesterday we ran into Li Yuanxiang in the elevator." Qiao Ze leaned back against the table, "I didn't know who he was at the time, but I just happened to see him coming in with his hands full of shopping bags. Lu Miao stepped aside At that time, I accidentally glanced at the shopping bag in his left hand, and happened to see that the contents of the bag were exactly the same packaging as the massage stick for women brought back by Lu Bao, and the amount was quite a lot. A man in his 60s , it is obviously unreasonable to buy so many of these things."

"His leather shoes were stained with a lot of yellow dirt. At that time, I didn't associate him with the person who kidnapped Xu Jiaqian. I only thought that he might have come back from the suburbs." Qiao Ze took the phone and clicked on Li Junhao's photo "It wasn't until Wu Manman called Lu Miao and mentioned Li Junhao's fan meeting that she paid attention to Li Junhao. The similar facial features of Li Junhao and Li Yuanxiang made me suspicious. I checked Li Junhao's ancestral home, and an idea came up. Is it possible for a person to be a father-son relationship?

"At that time, Li Yuanxiang carried a lot of fresh ingredients in his right hand, which can be described as rich. A father who lives alone usually only spends so much time preparing dinner when his son and daughter who haven't seen each other for a long time are coming back, so I guess Li Junhao should We want to come back. In order to confirm this conjecture, we followed Li Junhao."

"A drug-dealing father, a star son who was reported for drug use, a target suspect who wanted to catch a star and infiltrate his inner circle, plus a star girlfriend who reported his drug use, and the suspicious yellow mud on the father's feet, Xu Jiaqian's disappearance is no longer so coincidental." Qiao Ze stood up straight and looked at Deputy Liu, "Now to find Li Yuanxiang, the key clue is Li Junhao."

Then he looked at Lu Miao: "Look for Xu Jiaqian."

Lu Miao nodded: "Okay."

Before she could take the initiative to find Xu Jiaqian, Xu Jiaqian contacted her early the next morning, wanting to see her.

Xu Jiaqian is still in the hospital, because of Lu Miao saving her, she is still somewhat grateful to Lu Miao, and is not so afraid of her anymore.

When Lu Miao went to see her, she still called Lu Miao "sister" timidly, and thanked Lu Miao in person, but she was still uncomfortable looking at her.

Lu Miao was also not very at ease: "You're welcome, I just happened to pass by and called the police." Then he got straight to the point, "What do you want from me?"

"Just..." Xu Jiaqian hesitated for a while, "I just wanted to talk to you. Didn't you always want to be a policeman? I told you, if you have made meritorious service, can you return to the police force?"

Lu Miao trembled in his heart, and then shook his head blankly: "I never wanted to be a policeman. I used to be forced by my family because of Xiao Cheng's incident. Now that I have been dismissed, I am relieved. I don't have to worry about being injured or lost his life."

Xu Jiaqian nodded approvingly: "It is indeed."

Xu Jiayan just brought food in, and when he saw Lu Miao, he was stunned: "Why are you here?"

Xu Jiaqian took the words: "I sent my sister to come here."

Xu Jiayan looked at her in surprise.

Xu Jiaqian was a little proud: "I want to help my sister make a contribution and let her return to the police force."

Xu Jiayan frowned immediately: "Don't mess around, your sister is fine now."

Xu Jiaqian didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing that Xu Jiayan was there, Lu Miao couldn't ask any more questions, but just patiently sat with him in the ward.

When Lu Miao was about to leave at noon, there was a knock on the door, and Li Junhao, wearing a mask and sunglasses, pushed the door open.Xu Jiaqian, who was about to lie down, suddenly turned around, picked up the thermos by the bedside, and slammed it at him: "Get lost!"

Li Junhao sideways avoided.

Xu Jiayan frowned and looked at Xu Jiaqian: "What nonsense?"

Xu Jiaqian was so angry that he didn't speak.

Li Junhao took off his mask and came over, apologizing to her: "I've been running for the past two days, the police came to me at noon yesterday, and I didn't know anything happened to you."

Xu Jiaqian turned her head and ignored him: "Don't pretend to be a good person to me." She couldn't help but look at him again, "Just tell the truth, did you find someone to tie me up?"

Li Junhao: "Why should I tie you up?"

Xu Jiaqian was blocked at once, she wasn't sure if he knew about her report on Li Junhao.

Lu Miao saw that the two of them would not be able to finish their chat for a while, so she got up to say goodbye, and Xu Jiayan sent her off.

"You and Qiao Ze are together, right?" Xu Jiayan said suddenly when he sent her downstairs.

Lu Miao hesitated for a while, then nodded: "En."

Xu Jiayan: "Do you like him?"

Lu Miao hummed.

Xu Jiayan made a self-deprecating smile, feeling like a cabbage that he had carefully raised for many years, and someone pulled it out if he didn't pay attention to it.His smile made Lu Miao feel a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't say anything.

The coincidence of her and Joze being there, she needs to cover up.Xu Jiayan told her that he hoped to take care of her as a boyfriend, but she also wanted to refuse. She couldn't accept the change from brother and sister to couple.

"When did it happen?" He asked, always a bit unwilling.

Lu Miao avoided his gaze: "A long time ago."

Xu Jiayan fell silent.

He took her home, and insisted on sending her downstairs to the apartment where she lived.

He didn't speak any more along the way, and after she got out of the car, he drove away without saying a word, without even saying goodbye.

Lu Miao looked at his car that was drifting away, feeling panicked.

Even though she and Xu Jiayan didn't see each other often, they were always relaxed and calm when they were together, instead of being awkward but alienated like they are now.

She didn't know how long she stood there until she heard a dog barking. She looked up following the sound and saw Lu Bao and Qiao Ze not far away.

He was standing under the streetlight less than three meters away from her, holding Lu Bao by the hand.

It was cold today, and he was wearing a black mid-length jacket. Standing there, his figure became more stern and tall under the backlight.

Last night, both of them were busy until very late, and then they each washed and went to sleep. They were both extremely tired, and they didn't have time to pay attention to the embarrassment earlier.

Now that they finally have a chance to catch their breath, Lu Miao always feels a little uncomfortable looking at each other so far away.

Qiao Ze was looking at her with a peaceful and calm face, but there was a bit of calm and deep in his eyes.

Lu Miao suddenly remembered the palm of his hand pressing on her heart last night in the car, and his hoarse voice: "You really don't feel a little bit here?"

Even after a night, that place still seemed to be hot, with the temperature of his palm remaining.

She lowered her eyelids, avoiding his gaze.

He led Lu Bao over.

"What's the situation with Xu Jiaqian?" He asked with a completely businesslike attitude.

Lu Miao also entered the working state, and relayed the conversation with Xu Jiaqian to him in detail.

"She should know some inside information." She said, by the way, she mentioned Li Junhao who came to see Xu Jiaqian.

Qiao Ze nodded, but did not comment.

"Let's go back first." The man had already led Lu Bao to the elevator.

Lu Miao also followed, seeing his back was alienated, she unconsciously distanced herself from him, and stood at the other corner of the elevator.

Qiao Ze looked back at her: "What are you doing hiding so far away, afraid that I will eat you?"

"..." She was a little embarrassed, "You are in a bad mood."

Qiao Ze swept her around from head to toe: "She's pretty good-looking." He just didn't have a long-term heart.

Lu Miao pursed her lips and said nothing.

The elevator stopped on the seventh floor.

Qiao Ze opened the door, threw Lu Bao to her as soon as he entered the room, sat down on the sofa, took the laptop, and got busy again.

Lu Miao fed Lu Bao dog food and walked towards him: "What shall we do next?"

"Let's take a look first." Qiao Ze responded lightly without raising his head.

Lu Miao glanced at his computer secretly. He was reading Weibo, and the page was full of Li Junhao's Reuters pictures and event schedule.

Judging from the itinerary, he should fly to the next city today to attend the fan meeting, but there is no Reuters photo of his latest airport on Weibo.

Either the secrecy measures were done well, or the person was still in Ancheng at all.

Qiao Ze turned to look at her: "Call Xu Jiaqian and find out about Li Junhao's latest itinerary."

Lu Miao responded, and quickly dialed Xu Jiaqian's cell phone.

Xu Jiaqian seemed surprised by her initiative to call.The fact that Lu Miao saved her made her get closer to Lu Miao a lot.

Lu Miao heard that there seemed to be no one else talking on her side, so she asked her: "Has Li Junhao gone back?"

"Yes, I'm back."

Lu Miao: "He cares about you very much, and he took the time to see you today. I think he was going to fly to Changsha today."

Xu Jiaqian snorted softly: "Fuck, he just came to see if I was dead or not." Then he said, "I don't believe that the kidnapping of me has nothing to do with him. You don't know, he is very cruel, if he knows that I am so right How could he let me go."

Lu Miao frowned: "Did you report him taking drugs? He wouldn't really take drugs, would he?"

"Why did I lie to you? Everyone in their circle is like this. That is, the group of people you met when you took me away in the club that night. They all take drugs. The boss often organizes games for them. They don't need money. They just smoke. As soon as Xu Jiaqian mentioned this matter, he became excited, "The pimps his manager gave him, as well as his big fans, that is, the big fans of his fan support club, all know that he takes drugs, and some of them Get him drugs."

Lu Miao: "..."

Xu Jiaqian continued: "I wanted to tell you this morning, the last time we went to the Lixin clubhouse, the bosses there really liked to set up this kind of bureau, and the security measures of their place were well done, and they all liked to pretend to work If there is an opportunity to run there. As long as Li Junhao comes back, they will usually set up a game to go high."

Lu Miao frowned: "How do you know this? You smoked too?"

"I'm stupid, I don't touch that kind of thing." Xu Jiaqian lowered his voice, "Is there any way out if I touch it? Li Junhao likes me very much, he was the one who took me there last time. Did you take it away? I was reluctant to part with that role, so I went to find Li Junhao again, we went there again, I saw them smoking there, although they lied to me that it was smoking, only fools believed it, they still wanted me Give it a try too, luckily I drink like hell. Drinking after smoking heroin can easily cause a sudden blood vessel burst, so they don’t dare to let me die and cause a mess, and Li Junhao is also reluctant. This is all true, I didn’t I lied to you, Li Junhao personally admitted to me."

Lu Miao: "..."

She suddenly didn't know whether to say Xu Jiaqian was bold and careful or simply ignorant.

"I originally thought that you saved me, and I will give you this information, so you can go back to the police force. But since you don't want to be a policeman, then forget it."

Lu Miao: "Your case is not closed, and the police should ask you to record a statement in the afternoon. Tell them about it. It is estimated that Li Junhao really found out that you reported him and found someone to take revenge on you. You hide it like this Not to mention, the police can't find clues to solve the case, but you are more dangerous."

Xu Jiaqian nodded: "I think so too." Then he changed the subject and asked Lu Miao in embarrassment, "Sister, is Big Brother Qiao by your side?"

"..." Lu Miao looked at Qiao Ze hesitantly, "Yes."

"Then..." Xu Jiaqian was a little embarrassed, "Can I have a phone call or a video with him?"

"..." Lu Miao looked at Qiao Ze, hesitant.

Qiao Ze looked up at her: "What's the matter?"

Lu Miao: "Qianqian said she wanted to make a video with you."

Qiao Ze gave her a cold look, bowed his head and went about his own business.

"It's not convenient for him now." Lu Miao rejected Xu Jiaqian for him.

Xu Jiaqian groaned, not very happy to hear it, but didn't say much, chatted with Lala Zaza for a few words and hung up the phone.

Qiao Ze turned to look at her: "How to say?"

Lu Miao reported Xu Jiaqian's words to Qiao Ze verbatim.

Qiao Ze sent a message to Deputy Liu, asking the police in charge of Xu Jiaqian's case to find a time in the afternoon to ask her to record a statement and cooperate with the investigation of the kidnapping case, so as not to make her suspicious.

After sending the message, he picked up the computer, checked Li Junhao's Reuters information again, and asked Shen Qiao to check Li Junhao's flight information.

He was supposed to fly to Changsha at two o'clock in the afternoon, but there was no boarding information for him.

"Li Junhao just arrived in Ancheng yesterday morning, and all the subsequent itineraries are under our noses, until we go to rescue Xu Jiaqian at 09:30 in the evening." Lu Miao frowned and thought about it, and took Qiao Ze's laptop, " Judging from the Reuters picture, he drank and ate hot pot with his friends at [-] o'clock in the evening, and he seemed to have drunk a lot. It was unlikely that he could form a game last night, but Xu Jiaqian said that every time he came back, the owner of the club would give They set up a game to relax."

Their eyes met, and they stood up at the same time.

"Go change your clothes." Qiao Ze ordered calmly, "Change your dress."

(End of this chapter)