Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 126

Chapter 126: Asking the Obvious

At ten in the morning, the plane landed. Qin Luo went straight to the police station. Shen Yiyi was afraid that the local police would delay, so she had specially taken out her police ID.

It was especially fast when one of their own was helping one of their own.

After the statement was written, the local police had kept Qin Luo’s contact information, saying that they would find some time in the afternoon to have a police officer come to her door to check. Shen Yiyi had given the screenshot that Lu Shimao had sent to the local police and had asked them to report it to their superiors. If they were going to look for someone to dismantle it, they should find someone from the technical department. If they couldn’t trace the video uploaded to the cloud through the node, then it would be meaningless to dismantle this camera.

After all, she was the deputy director of the identification center. The grassroots police officers could not quite handle the director’s aura and had called the leader on duty to deal with it.

Shen Yiyi did not like to use her position to pressure others. She talked about priority.

There had been three murder cases in a row this month, and several large and small prevention meetings had been held. The leader on duty did not dare to delay and had immediately sent community police officers to assist Qin Luo in getting the surveillance footage from Cloud Top.

Qin Luo had found the security manager of Cloud Top and had questioned him about how the person had gotten in. And how had they been able to install it? How could this make the owners feel at ease? And she had clearly had the butler blacklist Shen Yiyi, so how had she gotten in so smoothly now?

The four passionate questions had completely stumped the manager.

The manager had comforted Qin Luo and had first sent someone to check the system to see what was going on with Shen Yiyi’s blacklist. But he had found that the person who had let her in last time was an owner of the clubhouse, so the blacklist had been overridden by a whitelist with greater authority.

The manager had explained it to Qin Luo, but Qin Luo had not listened and had just insisted that they check the surveillance to see who had entered her house. Checking the surveillance was a big project, and it had taken half a day just to download the cloud video.

The manager had guaranteed Qin Luo that the surveillance in their building had been upgraded and that absolutely no one would be let in again.

Someone was handling the surveillance, and the two of them were much more at ease.

On the way home, Qin Luo had also observed the position of the surveillance camera. It was indeed as Shen Yiyi had said. The position was inconspicuous, and such a low surveillance position could only see the people coming and going. If it weren’t for her mysophobia, she would not have found it by sweeping the corners. This meant that this person had observed the position before placing it. Qin Luo remembered what Wang Xi had said and couldn’t help but feel a lingering fear.

The two of them had been busy all day and had not eaten. Qin Luo had taken advantage of Shen Yiyi’s shower to cook.

Since she had changed the password, the butler had not delivered any more groceries. The refrigerator was only filled with frozen fish and shrimp and salad vegetable bags. Qin Luo had chosen a bag of peas, thinking that Shen Yiyi liked to eat noodles, so she might as well have pea noodles for dinner.

She had been looking up recipes while she had called Liu Jia.

She had wanted to inform Liu Jia that her trip to Beijing had ended smoothly and had asked her when she would be back from Xiamen. She had wanted to remind her to also check her own door, but the call had gone unanswered for a long time.

Forget it. This sister was probably enjoying herself.

With both stoves on, she was blanching the frozen peas on one side and boiling the noodles with salt on the other. Qin Luo knew that Shen Yiyi liked to eat cold food, so she had specially taken out some drinking ice and had soaked the cooked noodles in cold water. Just as she was about to deal with the peas, Jiang Yan had happened to call.

It had been more than a week since the online fermentation, and it was only now that Jiang Yan had called. Qin Luo had answered.

Jiang Yan had first asked about Qin Luo’s health, and then had talked about her own recent situation. After a long detour, she had finally talked about the news online. Qin Luo was afraid of scaring Jiang Yan and had chosen some light topics to talk about. The mother and daughter had chatted for a while, and then Jiang Yan had talked about running into Shen Yiyi’s father a few days ago. Shen’s father had added her on WeChat, and the two were now in frequent contact.

Jiang Yan had asked if Shen Yiyi was working in Shanghai and had told Qin Luo to take good care of Shen Yiyi.

Qin Luo was cooking and had the speaker on. Halfway through, Shen Yiyi had happened to come out of the shower. Hearing that it was Qin’s mom talking about her, she had pricked up her ears and had moved closer to the kitchen.

Qin Luo was not evasive and said frankly, “Yes, she’s right beside me at this moment.”

Huh?!

Shen Yiyi had taken a step back and had waved her hands repeatedly. Today, she had already had a social overload from taking out her police ID and talking at the police station.

Seeing her wave her hand, Qin Luo said to her mother bluntly, “She doesn’t want to talk. I’ll take her back to see you another day.”

Huh?!
Wasn’t this a bad way to behave?

Shen Yiyi quickly explained, “Auntie, it’s not that I don’t want to talk. I just got out of the shower and didn’t know what you were talking about… Um… how have you been recently?”

Jiang Yan was particularly happy to hear Shen Yiyi’s voice. She had greeted her warmly, and after a few sentences, she had talked about Shen Qinwen again, mentioning that Shen’s father had invited her to attend a class at the university for the elderly, and had also sent her a few pots of flowers. In a couple of days, the social workers were organizing an outdoor autumn outing, and they were planning to go together. At the end of the conversation, Jiang Yan was reluctant to hang up. Before she had hung up, she had still told the two of them to rest early and not to stay up late.

Qin Luo was stir-frying the peas and was also a little curious. “How does your dad have time to contact my mom?”

Shen Yiyi did not say anything.

Qin Luo was flipping the spatula and was thinking for a long time. She suddenly looked up, and when she looked at Shen Yiyi, she was a little flustered. “Could it be that there’s something going on between them?! My god!”

Shen Yiyi shook her head with a cold face.

She knew what her dad was like. If he had wanted to find someone, he would have done it a long time ago.

Qin Luo turned down the heat. “What if? Who can say for sure about a twilight romance? They’re even going to participate in a club activity. It’s hard to say after a while. I have to make my mom give up on this idea.”

She wiped her hands and was about to call Jiang Yan.

Shen Yiyi stopped her. “What are you doing?”

“Coming out. I’ll tell her clearly about us. Even if there’s really something going on between them, the four of us still have to follow the first-come, first-served rule. We got together first, and they didn’t—”

“No need to call.” Shen Yiyi had her hands in her pockets. “My dad knows about us.”

Shen Qinwen knew?

Qin Luo said, “Ah.” “When did that happen? Could it be that the last time we were at your place… he found out?”

Heh.

Snorting coldly, Shen Yiyi said, “It was that time you confessed to kissing You Ning. I happened to be at Guo Rui’s house.”

…
Oh, so that’s how it was.
…

Qin Luo turned back to the wok. Her green peas could not be overcooked. She had to watch the wok carefully.

After flipping it a couple of times, she asked, “Then what did you say to your dad?”

“Nothing.”

Shen Yiyi did not want to recall her rambling after her breakdown. “Maybe it’s just that my dad wanted to care about me, so he secretly contacted your mom. I’ll call him later and tell him.”

Qin Luo was quite surprised. She had not expected that the first family member to come out would be Shen Yiyi.

She could not imagine Shen Qinwen’s expression when he had come out. Would this refined and gentle man lose his composure, would he be furious? When an intellectual went crazy, they would put on a more explosive drama than an ordinary person. This kind of violence came from the splitting of narcissism, and most fathers had a fragile and vulnerable narcissism. But at least Shen Qinwen still held the power in the family. Qin Luo could not imagine if her own father were still alive, he would only be able to be notified, and all the power in his hands would be bankrupt. How desperate he would be at this moment.

Qin Luo could not imagine this scene.

“Did he scold you?”

Shen Yiyi couldn’t remember and said perfunctorily, “Maybe he scolded me a few times.”

“Why did you come out?” Qin Luo took out the stir-fried peas and began to make the topping, pouring garlic oil into the wok and starting to stir-fry the chili peppers. “At that time, you had already said not to see each other.”

The smell of the chili peppers was pungent, and Shen Yiyi coughed a couple of times.

“Because I was in a very bad mood at that time, and he was very annoying, so I just said it.” Instead of saying that she had come out for Qin Luo, it was better to say that she had done it for herself. “I wanted him to be mentally prepared.”

Qin Luo wanted to get something out of Shen Yiyi.

Even if Shen Yiyi said again that she regretted it, that she did not want to miss out, or that she felt that she was worthy of entrusting her life to, even if it was not about love and liking, it could also put her anxious heart at ease.

But the other’s answer was too straightforward, and it sounded like it had nothing to do with her.

Qin Luo was inevitably disappointed and continued to ask, “What did you want him to be mentally prepared for?”

Shen Yiyi’s hand, which was washing the dishes, paused. As she was thinking about how to answer Qin Luo, she suddenly smiled.

Only then did she realize that she had questioned her father when she was at the Shen family’s house. With her paranoia and pride, she had challenged him and had come out on the spot without any preamble. Looking back at it now, Shen Yiyi realized that she was a spoiled child.

That night, with the fierce determination of a torn scar, she had forced her father to compromise. She was in a high position, but she was not the only one who had suffered. Her father had had to accept her coming out.

She did want her father to be prepared.

Prepared for her to let go of the past and welcome a new life, prepared for the fact that her daughter had worked hard for twenty years but had gotten no results.

Shen Yiyi smiled and avoided the question. “You’re asking the obvious.”

The chili oil was ready. Qin Luo began to stir the peanut butter. “I don’t know what you’re thinking, so it’s not asking the obvious.”

“The bowls are washed.”

Shen Yiyi chose to avoid this topic. She placed the bowl by Qin Luo’s hand and fled the kitchen.

The pea noodles were ready, and it was already late.

Qin Luo turned on all the lights in the house, not even sparing the spotlights above the dining table. The light shone on the golden topping, and Qin Luo had also separately blanched a few shrimp for Shen Yiyi.

Qin Luo tactfully did not press further, her expression cold. But it was Shen Yiyi who was bewitched by the pea noodles, eating in large mouthfuls and occasionally praising her cooking skills.

Qin Luo knew herself very well.

Her stir-frying skills were indeed very good. Whether it was in the wok or in bed, it was Qin Luo’s honor for Shen Yiyi to be able to taste the delicious food. She took the praise for the pea noodles as a confirmation of her cooking skills, and she was also working hard to improve her sense of deservingness.

She was peeling shrimp for Shen Yiyi while she was looking at her phone.

Many of the department heads in the company were looking for Liu Jia, but the messages @-ing Liu Jia had not been replied to since two in the afternoon. There was no other way. The contract pre-reviews that the various departments had to go through could only be sent to Qin Luo for review.

In just a few hours, Qin Luo had received dozens of messages to be dealt with.

What was wrong with Liu Jia?

Without Liu Jia to handle the company’s affairs, Qin Luo’s sense of pressure immediately came. She put the peeled shrimp on a plate, wiped her hands, and stood up to make a call.

She first called Liu Jia’s assistant.

Liu Jia’s assistant said that the company had been too busy recently, and she couldn’t get away, so Liu Jia had gone to Xiamen alone. She had only booked the flight there, and President Liu had not notified her to book the flight back.

Qin Luo asked what Liu Jia was doing in Xiamen.

The assistant was also not clear. She only knew that President Liu had gone to talk about a live stream invitation. She could still get through to her in the morning, but in the afternoon, she had disappeared.

…

Maybe she was stir-frying.

Qin Luo did not think much about it. After all, she had had more rounds of throwing a tantrum and disappearing than Liu Jia. Stir-frying could indeed relieve stress, and it was right to stir-fry for a while longer. Qin Luo had to have Liu Jia’s assistant send her the business that needed to be dealt with first.

The assistant said, “Okay,” and then she only heard the WeChat notification sound like a machine gun.

Da da da da da.

It jumped until Qin Luo felt that she was about to die.

“There’s still a meeting tonight. If we still can’t find President Liu later, you might have to attend.”