Yao Anmian glanced at the direction behind him, and his eyes revealed a thought. 'Could it be that Panda has other classmates who came?'
Ye Zi hurriedly looked in the direction that Yao Anmian was looking at. She only saw Li Xue sitting in a taxi in front of her. Flash Dance Network
Ye Zi frowned slightly. She couldn't figure out why Li Xue would come to the detective agency, so she asked Yao Anmian, "What is she doing here? Didn't the police stop pursuing her? "
Yao Anmian replied, "She said she's here to thank you and Panda."
"Thank me?" Ye Zi frowned, and her eyes narrowed as she glanced at the detective agency. "Where's Panda?"
"She's out on a mission." Yao Anmian said, "She took a job today. It's about a husband investigating his wife's affair. Panda went to follow the case."
Ye Zi nodded slightly and walked towards the detective agency.
"Hey, boss, did you lose something yesterday?" Yao Anmian took out a bunch of keys from his pocket and waved them in front of Ye Zi.
Ye Zi took a closer look. It was the bunch of keys that she had lost.
"Where did you find it?" Ye Zi asked.
Yao Anmian glanced at the stairs at the door. "I saw it on the floor when I came this morning."
Sure enough, the keys must have fallen out of her bag in an accident last night. Ye Zi took the keys from Yao Anmian's hand. "Thank you."
Ye Zi casually put the keys into her backpack and walked straight to her office.
She locked the office door, sat down, and took out the documents that Chen Mo had given her from her backpack.
The documents were packed in a brown paper folder. Her outstretched hand couldn't stop trembling. She unfolded the wool one by one and took out a thick stack of documents.
It was the documents of the fire that happened on North Linsen Road four years ago. The documents recorded her adoptive father, Ye Guoqiang.
The first page of the documents was her dad's personal file.
Ye Guoqiang, male, 46 years old, born in 1971 …
Her hands couldn't stop shaking, and tears instantly blurred her vision. For four years, she had never dared to look at her dad's photo, afraid that she wouldn't be able to suppress her emotions.
Her dad's departure was a huge blow to her. Ever since her dad adopted her, he had treated her far better than his own daughter. In Ye Zi's heart, she had long regarded him as her biological father.
Her dad was the person who loved her the most in the world. For her, he gave her all of his fatherly love and let her have an innocent and worry-free childhood. Although Ye Zi had a serious illness when she was 10 years old, and she couldn't remember what happened before that, the first person she saw when she woke up was him.
At that time, he said to Ye Zi, "My daughter, you're finally awake."
My daughter.
Those four words seemed to be branded in Ye Zi's heart, and she never forgot them for a day.
When her dad passed away, he didn't leave anything behind. It seemed like he didn't want her to remember him like Ye Xinrou did, so he took away all traces of his existence in this world. Even his ashes were ordered by Ye Zi to scatter into Binhai, and he didn't even leave a remembrance for them.
Seeing her dad's photo again, Ye Zi's tears still couldn't stop flowing down. One by one, they dripped onto her dad's file. She hurriedly reached out to wipe them, for fear that her tears would dirty her dad's file.
The fire on Linsen North Road occurred at around three o 'clock in the afternoon. The cause was a household in Mingshi Apartments. Because the water in the kettle was boiled dry, it caused a natural gas leak. When the daughter of the household returned home, she used the key to open the door. The metal key and the door lock rubbed, causing the natural gas to explode.
The head of the household and his wife died on the spot. Their 17-year-old daughter was injured by the explosion. The explosion of the natural gas caused a chain reaction. In less than a few minutes, the entire building of Mingshi Apartments was on fire, and the fire was extremely fierce.
When the firefighters arrived, they quickly rushed into the fire to save people. Along with the firefighters, there was also a police officer who had already resigned.
This retired police officer was Ye Zi's adoptive father, Ye Guoqiang.
After Ye Guoqiang rushed into the fire, he saved a few residents. Originally, he could have avoided the disaster, but when he was preparing to rest, he heard someone calling for help on the third floor. He rushed into the fire again. When he rescued the girl, Li Xue, because of the second explosion of the natural gas, his back was injured. When he was sent to the hospital, it was diagnosed as a severe third-degree burn, which caused his back and lungs to become infected. The next morning, he …
Ye Zi covered her mouth, not letting herself cry out.
Even before her dad died, he didn't forget to save people.
Ye Zi wiped away her tears and continued to look at the case of the fire on Linsen North Road.
That fire not only took away her dad, but also Li Xue's parents. At that time, the house where the natural gas exploded was Li Xue's house.
Li Xue survived, but she had to stay in the hospital for a year. Later, after a skin graft, no scars could be seen on her body.
The source of the fire was Li Xue's house?!
Ye Zi wiped away her tears and frowned. She carefully looked at the contents of the file.
After four years, she had never doubted her dad's death. But now …
Li Xue gave people the feeling that she was a frozen bird in the winter. She really needed someone to protect her. If it hadn't happened, Ye Zi wouldn't have suspected anything.
However, Li Xue had lied. Her parents had died in a fire four years ago, so why did she say that an accident had happened last year?!
Ye Zi couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried.
Knock, knock, knock …
A series of knocks on the door pulled Ye Zi back from her thoughts. She looked up at the door and called out, "Come in."
Jian Xia walked in. She looked at Ye Zi's red and swollen eyes and frowned slightly. She asked, "Did you cry just now?"
Ye Zi pursed her lips and smiled. She found an excuse to cover it up. "Is something the matter?"
Jian Xia nodded and walked in front of Ye Zi. "Just now, a Mr. Ren entrusted us to investigate the fire that happened four years ago."
"The fire that happened four years ago?!"
These few words hammered heavily on Ye Zi's heart.
"Was the fire scene at a building called Mingshi Apartments on Linsen North Road?" Ye Zi asked Jian Xia with a pale face and a slightly hoarse voice.
Jian Xia was rather surprised. She blinked her eyes and asked, "How did you know?"
"Where is this Mr. Ren?" Ye Zi got up and wanted to walk out.
Jian Xia suddenly grabbed Ye Zi and said, "He left a long time ago. But this person is very strange. He gave us 150,000 yuan in one go and didn't say what he wanted us to investigate. He only said he wanted to know the cause of the fire."
"Oh?!" Ye Zi was even more puzzled after hearing this.
However, this was also good. She also wanted to know the truth about the fire that year.
"Did this Mr. Ren leave his phone number?" Ye Zi asked.
Jian Xia glanced at the information on Ye Zi's desk and said, "It's all on there."
Ye Zi nodded, turned around, picked up the information, found Mr. Ren's phone number, took out her phone, and dialed it.
Du du du …
There was only a busy tone on the phone. Following which, a mechanical female voice came from the phone, "Sorry, the number you have dialed is not in service …"
"Not in service?!" Ye Zi raised her eyebrows and looked at Jian Xia with a puzzled expression.
Jian Xia didn't believe it. "How is that possible? If we investigate clearly, we still have to contact him. I even asked him if we could contact him with this phone number, and he told me that it was possible."
Ye Zi tried again, but the number still showed that it was not in service.
This was very puzzling. A mysterious Mr. Ren paid the detective agency 150,000 yuan to investigate a fire that happened four years ago. Moreover, the phone number he gave was actually an empty number.
This was too strange.
Ye Zi couldn't figure out why this Mr. Ren was doing this.
However, fortunately, Ye Zi also wanted to investigate this fire. Since she had already accepted the money, she thought that this Mr. Ren would definitely appear again when the time came.
Ye Zi put the information on her father back into the file, then placed it in the safe on her bookshelf and locked it. Her father's photo was also in the file. To Ye Zi, this was more precious than anything else.
Looking at the time, Ye Zi said, "Let's go for lunch first. Then, accompany me to Linsen North to take a look."
"Okay." Jian Xia responded and followed Ye Zi out of the detective agency.
Ye Zi chose a Chinese restaurant located on Linsen North Road. After a simple lunch, they went directly to Mingshi Apartments.
This apartment had been renovated after the fire four years ago. However, because there were people who died in the accident, many of the residents had sold their apartments at low prices. Now, the residents living here were very few of the old neighbors.
The fire happened on the sixth floor of Mingshi Apartments. Ye Zi and Jian Xia took the elevator to room three on the sixth floor. Ye Zi pressed the doorbell.
A moment later, someone opened the door.
The moment the door opened, Ye Zi and Jian Xia were stunned at the same time.
Li Xue was wearing a white silk pajamas. Her hair was loose, and she looked as if she had just woken up.
She was also very puzzled as to why Ye Zi and Jian Xia had come back. "Why are you two here?!"
"Miss Li, is it convenient for us to go in and have a seat?" Ye Zi asked.
Li Xue nodded, turned her body sideways, and raised her hand to make an inviting gesture. "Please come in."
After entering Li Xue's home, Ye Zi and Jian Xia sat on the sofa in the living room. Ye Zi looked around. The decoration of Li Xue's home was not bad, but the entire house was decorated in a grayish-white style. The cold color gave off a gloomy and cold feeling.
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