"I'll go with you." Qi Youxuan said with a serious expression, which made Wei Muran and Zhang Ming uncomfortable. "Since I took this case, I want to know every detail of the whole process."
Jiang Yuecheng said nothing and set off for Jiaotong University. Qi Youxuan separated Jiang Yuecheng unintentionally and walked behind Wei Muran. He lowered his head and winked at her.
"Why did you do this all of a sudden?" Wei Muran asked in a low voice.
"I've already promised my dad that I'll return to the company when I'm 27. There's only one year left." Qi Youxuan lowered his head and looked at her with a meaningful gaze.
He could even protect her for one year.
When Wei Muran entered the police academy, he was worried. It was dangerous to be a police officer, especially when her wish was to enter the criminal investigation team.
He couldn't enter the police academy, but he still minored in criminal psychology. He even shamelessly pestered Wen Xu to learn martial arts from his master. Although his martial arts were not as good as Wen Xu's, with the guidance of the Wen family's master, he was much better than the average person. He was even better than the students who had received proper training in the police academy.
He graduated and entered the company, but he also promised his father that when Wei Muran graduated, he would ask for leave to protect her. And Qi Chenglin only gave him a year's time.
One year was enough to teach Wei Muran a lot of things, let her accumulate experience, get used to life in the police force, and gain the ability to protect herself in danger.
When Wei Muran was still in the police academy, he also used his spare time to make a name for his crime-solving ability. Everyone knew that he solved a few big cases, but they didn't know that he was the one who solved them, just like today. The police knew that someone solved those cases, but they didn't know who. Only a few higher-ups knew, and that was enough to make things convenient for him.
That period of time was the busiest time for him. He was so busy that he didn't even have time to get close to Wei Muran. Plus, Wei Ziqi kept a close eye on him, so he really didn't have any chance.
Wei Muran looked at Qi Youxuan's side profile. He loved to play with her since they were young and was very nice to her. When they were young, they joked and even said that he would marry her when they grew up.
But when they were both grown up, he didn't mention it again. Naturally, she would not take the initiative to mention this matter, as it would seem that she was very thick-skinned. Moreover, those were all jokes from when they were young. She knew that she couldn't take it seriously.
But now, he kept coming to look for her, and she didn't know how to deal with him.
Wei Muran was lost in thought. She didn't expect Qi Youxuan to suddenly look at her.
He raised one of his thick, black eyebrows. "You're staring straight at me?"
"…" Wei Muran blushed. He straightened his neck and said, "Shameless. I've looked at you for 23 years. Can I still look straight at you? I was just, just thinking about something! "
"So be it. I'm not a petty person. I know I'm very good-looking. "Qi Youxuan said with a smile that wasn't a smile. He even winked at her.
"…" Wei Muran flew into a rage out of humiliation. "You're crazy!"
Jiang Yuecheng turned around to look at them. Wei Muran wanted to kick Qi Youxuan, but now he put his foot down awkwardly. He raised his head and puffed out his chest, walking forward without looking sideways.
…
When the three of them arrived at Jiao Tong University, they first went to see Zheng Xiaorui's class counselor.
After hearing the reason for their visit, the counselor said in surprise, "Zheng Xiaorui? She asked for leave. "
Jiang Yuecheng suddenly had a bad feeling. Qi Youxuan's expression also became serious. "How long has it been?"
"About five days," the counselor said after thinking for a while. She went to flip through a book on the table. "Yes, that's right. She asked for leave last Thursday. She left school on Friday and said she would be back on Monday."
"It's already Tuesday today. Didn't you contact her family if she didn't come back?" Wei Muran asked with a serious expression.
The counselor was stunned for a moment. She smiled. "This isn't elementary school, middle school, or high school. Why are you so strict with her? She's an adult after 18. Who knows what she's doing outside? There are so many people in school. I have to manage a few classes. How can I manage all of them? She's an adult and has to be responsible for her own actions. I can't treat her like a child, can I? "
Wei Muran only sneered silently and stopped talking to her.
"Why did she ask for leave from you?" Jiang Yuecheng asked.
"She said she wasn't feeling well and needed to go to the hospital," the counselor said.
It was obvious that Zheng Xiaorui made up an excuse. The counselor knew it too but did not care.
"Please give me a list of Zheng Xiaorui's classmates and a list of her roommates," Jiang Yuecheng said.
These were all ready-made. The counselor's computer saved them. He printed them out and gave them to them.
Before leaving, Qi Youxuan turned around. "Zheng Xiaorui is involved in a murder case. In my opinion, she's both the murderer and the victim. If anything happens to her and it's exposed, it'll be hard for your school to deal with it. By then, you won't be able to hide the fact that you didn't fulfill your responsibility. You're on your own."
Seeing the counselor's face turn pale, Qi Youxuan nodded in satisfaction. He happily turned around and followed Wei Muran.
"You go ask Zheng Xiaorui's classmates. We'll go ask her roommates," Qi Youxuan said after leaving the office.
"Mr. Qi, I'm very grateful that you came to help with the case, but I'm the one leading the team, so I should be the leader," Jiang Yuecheng said in a low voice.
"If it were you, would you have led the team to solve the case in Huai City?" Qi Youxuan's lips curled up. He looked especially smug.
Jiang Yuecheng was speechless.
"If you can't, then do as I say." Qi Youxuan did not give Jiang Yuecheng a chance to refute. He grabbed Wei Muran and left.
Wei Muran looked back anxiously and found that Jiang Yuecheng was looking at her. Seeing her look back, Jiang Yuecheng shook his head at her with a smile and turned to leave.
Only then did Wei Muran turn around, but he was suddenly pulled by him and crashed into his arms. Wei Muran only felt his face bump into his chest. It was extremely hot, and the thin shirt couldn't block the heat from his chest at all. She could still hear his heartbeat. It was strong and powerful, hitting her eardrums again and again.
"Mumu, what are you looking at? He's not as handsome as me." Qi Youxuan's voice suddenly came into her ears. She did not know if it was a psychological effect, but at this time, she actually felt that his voice sounded especially hot.
His voice, which was originally sloppy, sounded surprisingly mellow and pleasant at this time. It was especially manly, and it entered her ears bit by bit and flowed all the way to the top of her heart.
Wei Muran's ears suddenly turned red as if they were about to drip blood. She felt his breath on her ears, making her ears tremble involuntarily.
She didn't dare to look at how close Qi Youxuan was to her. She also didn't see Qi Youxuan's bright, toothy grin at her ear. His gleaming white teeth made him look like he had gotten what he wanted.
Qi Youxuan swallowed his saliva and could not help but sniff hard. He felt the heat from her ears and the fragrance from her body. It smelled especially good.
He could not help but stick out the tip of his tongue, but then he looked at it and stopped. In the end, he did not have the guts to really go closer.
Wei Muran nervously pushed Qi Youxuan. She had been trained in the police academy and was quite strong. However, in his arms, her body inexplicably softened.
But she still pushed him and stepped back. When she tilted her head back, she did not know why she felt something wet and hot in her ears. It only brushed past her quickly and disappeared before she could distinguish what it was. It made Wei Muran feel that it might be her illusion, but the strange feeling in her ears was still there, and she could not ignore it.
Qi Youxuan let go of her. Wei Muran blushed and looked at him suspiciously. She found that there was nothing wrong with him. Instead, he rubbed his chest. "Mumu, it really hurts when you hit me."
Wei Muran: "…"
It was clearly him who pulled her over. How did it become her who hit him?
This person had been able to confuse black and white since he was a child. He did not forget this skill as he grew older.
"Hurry up!" Wei Muran said in a rough voice and rushed forward with his head down.
"Hey, wait for me," Qi Youxuan called out and followed him.
Wei Muran felt that he had returned to her side and was so close to her that if she did not pay attention when she walked, she would touch his arm.
She did not feel anything before, but now that she touched it, she felt extremely hot.
Unconsciously, Wei Muran raised her hand and touched the ear that she had felt strange just now. Qi Youxuan saw her little movement and smiled with his eyes squinted. His expression was especially charming. He even secretly licked the inside of his lips with the tip of his tongue and smacked it again.
He really did not do it on purpose just now. He did not expect that she would suddenly move and touch his ear.
Qi Youxuan felt that this was fate!
On the way, Qi Youxuan called Zheng Xiaorui's roommates according to the information on the A4 paper in his hand. He communicated with them and asked them to wait in the dormitory.
After hanging up the phone, Wei Muran also calmed down a lot. She glanced at Qi Youxuan and asked, "You just told the counselor that Zheng Xiaorui is both the murderer and the victim. Why?"
"After Zheng Wentao went missing, Zheng Xiaorui went missing right after. This is not a coincidence. We can boldly guess that their disappearances are linked, and they were even locked up together. The wound on Zheng Wentao's chest is disorderly, which proves that the murderer was very flustered when she committed the murder. The third stab killed Zheng Wentao, but she did not notice it in her panic and continued to stab him three more times. This shows that the murderer has no experience at all. She did not intend to kill Zheng Wentao. If she had planned to kill Zheng Wentao, she would have killed him with one stab. "
"What if she wanted to torture him?" Wei Muran asked subconsciously.
Qi Youxuan's lips curved slightly, and he looked at ease as if he had a plan in mind. He said indifferently, "If she wanted to torture him, why would she stab him in one place? She clearly wanted him to die immediately without any experience. Have you heard of the ancient fish scale knife? Stab by stab, the knife would stab the person's body, and the last stab would stab the person's heart and kill him. If the criminal died before the last stab, it would be the executioner's fault. If she really wanted to torture him, she should stab him in other places first. "
"I guess if the person who killed Zheng Wentao was Zheng Xiaorui, then she was also forced. If she was forced to kill her own grandfather, then she must have used her life as a hostage. "
"Even if you put it that way, it sounds too outrageous." Wei Muran shook his head, "If you're right, then Zheng Xiaorui would kill her own grandfather in order to survive. How terrible is that? I'd rather you're wrong. "
Qi Youxuan did not refute. He spoke the truth, but he did not want it to be like that.
When the two arrived at the dormitory, Wei Muran flashed his identification to the dormitory manager auntie and let them in.
There were two people in the dormitory. According to one of them, the other person was working in the school's cafeteria and was on his way back. He would be there soon.
Not long after he finished speaking, the dormitory door opened. A female student hurried in, still carrying the smell of the cafeteria's smoke.
The three of them introduced themselves. Han Qi looked at Qi Youxuan's handsome and noble face and could not come back to her senses for a moment.
Other than the stars on TV, she had never seen such a good-looking person in her life. But the stars were always separated by a screen, while the person in front of her was real and very close to her. So Han Qi could not react and stared straight at him.
"Ahem." Wei Muran coughed softly and moved to Qi Youxuan's side without a trace. She turned slightly sideways, wanting to block Qi Youxuan behind her, but she was too embarrassed to be too obvious.
Moreover, compared to Qi Youxuan, she was too thin and short, so she could not block him.
Qi Youxuan was overjoyed when he saw her subconscious movement. He touched his nose with his index finger while his other hand naturally held her waist. Before Wei Muran could react, he quickly moved his hand away.
His movement was so fast as if he had not done anything, but the soft feeling in his palm made Qi Youxuan reminisce.
However, Wei Muran, who was standing next to him and not looking at him, did not know his intoxicated expression. Instead, the three people standing opposite them saw it clearly. They all revealed a look of understanding, treating Qi Youxuan and Wei Muran as a couple.
Wei Muran looked at them suspiciously, feeling that their expressions were very strange and not right. He turned to look at Qi Youxuan. He had already recovered his serious expression of wanting to solve a case, and he could not see anything strange at all.
Wei Muran muttered in his heart and withdrew his gaze. The three people quickly brought out stools for the two of them to sit.
"Does Zheng Xiaorui usually live in the dormitory?" Qi Youxuan asked.
Han Qi nodded. "She only goes home on weekends and holidays. Since our school is quite far from her home, it takes more than two hours to go back, so she's usually too lazy to spend so much time on the road."
"She applied for leave from your counselor last Thursday. Before she applied for leave, did she behave strangely in any way? Or did she behave strangely? In short, she was different from usual, "Qi Youxuan asked, observing the three people's reactions.
Liang Xuelei looked slightly surprised, and Qi Youxuan immediately caught it. "Is there anything wrong?"
"I … I don't know, but Xiaorui wasn't in the dormitory last Tuesday. I don't know if it's related. Maybe she skipped two days of classes and wanted to apply for two fewer days of leave. But it's still strange that she would ask for leave, "Liang Xuelei said, clearly a little puzzled.
"Why do you say that?" Wei Muran followed up with a question.
"Because our school isn't very strict, especially the fine arts department. Actually —" Liang Xuelei was a little embarrassed and pouted. "The fine arts department is quite messy. It's common for female students to stay out at night, and the school doesn't really care about our fine arts and music departments. So even if we don't come to class, we don't need to apply for leave, and the counselor won't ask. Unless there are some classes where the teacher really likes to call the roll, but in those cases, they can just find a substitute teacher to call the roll. Even our senior sisters said that they never ask for leave if they don't go to class, and the counselor doesn't care. Everyone has a tacit understanding. Although Xiaorui lives in the dormitory, there are times when she doesn't come home at night, and she has never asked for leave. So I don't understand why she would ask the counselor for leave. This has never happened before. "
Wei Muran thought, no wonder the counselor didn't seem to care even if Zheng Xiaorui didn't come back on time.
"She doesn't come home at night? Does she have a boyfriend?" Wei Muran caught the main point.
Qi Youxuan looked at her with a smile on the corner of his mouth. There was actually a comfort of "I have a daughter in my family who has just grown up". The three people in front of them had goosebumps, but Wei Muran didn't notice.
"Yeah, he's in C University. I heard he's a rich second generation," Liang Xuelei said.
"Have you seen him?" Wei Muran asked.
"He came to the school to pick Xiaorui up before, but he drove a car at the school gate. We only saw him from afar and couldn't see him clearly, so we don't have a deep impression," Liang Xuelei said.
Wei Muran glanced at Qi Youxuan. He didn't seem to want to speak anymore, so he let her continue asking, "Then before she left the school, did she show any signs of abnormality?"
Kong Jing shook her head. "No, she was just like usual."
"Then didn't she tell you the reason why she left?" Wei Muran asked again.
"Usually because she had to be with her boyfriend, so she didn't tell us in detail. She just said that she wouldn't be back for a few days," Han Qi said.
"A week before she left, she received a lot of annoying calls. I'm not sure if that's considered abnormal?" Kong Jing suddenly said, "Actually, we always receive advertising calls, and some even stop after ringing twice. But during that period of time, Xiaorui received calls from different numbers, but they kept ringing. She picked it up, but the other side didn't say anything. At that time, we all thought it was a prank. Because the number displayed was different every time, there was no way to block it even if we wanted to. Later, she got angry and said that she was going to tell her boyfriend to help check it out. I think it might have something to do with her taking leave. "
Wei Muran nodded. "Do you have her boyfriend's contact information?"
Han Qi shook her head. "She's very strict. She said that it's against fire, theft, and her best friend. She's afraid that something might happen, so she won't give us a chance to contact her boyfriend. Moreover, we won't ask for her boyfriend's contact information since we're not familiar with each other. "
They had no more questions. Wei Muran only said, "Thank you for your cooperation. If there's anything, we'll look for you again."
Han Qi and the other two nodded helplessly. "Is Xiaorui okay?"
"I don't know yet," Qi Youxuan said coldly and left with Wei Muran.
The two met up with Jiang Yuecheng at the school gate. Jiang Yuecheng didn't get any useful information out of them. The people in the class didn't know much about Zheng Xiaorui, unlike her roommates who lived with her every day.
"Looks like it's very likely that Zheng Xiaorui and Zheng Wentao were arrested together." In the car, Qi Youxuan tapped his knee with his long fingers.
Now, Wei Muran's mind was also filled with the guesses that Qi Youxuan had told her before. However, since Qi Youxuan didn't tell Jiang Yuecheng, she didn't take the initiative to say it either.
When they returned to the police station, Qi Youxuan said, "Please show me the video of you interrogating Zheng Wentao's wife this morning."
"Why? Are you worried that we didn't ask everything?" Xing Jiadong said mockingly. He was not happy that Qi Youxuan was suddenly sent here.
Didn't he solve the Huai City case? He really thought he was somebody.
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