When we came out of Xianghua Tower, the sky was completely dark.
The moon frozen in the night sky is like a round mirror made of ice and cold, clear and unstained by dust.
Compared to the gunfire inside Xianghua Building, the outside of the building was much deserted. Apart from the pedestrians passing by, there were only a few shoulder vendors still selling and shouting.
Occasionally, armed and solemn-looking government officials can be seen patrolling.
"Where do you think Mei Xing'er will be?"
Leng Xinnan looked at the vague outlines of rows of houses and asked softly. "The monster escaped at that time and did not hold anyone hostage. Could it be possible that there were other monsters?"
Li Nanke shook his head: "No, the only monster is Lao Qintou. But what I feel strange now is why the monster entered Mei Xing'er's house."
"It wants to take revenge on the Lin family."
"Then why did it enter Mei Xing'er's room first and make the room so messy?"
The man repeated the question and emphasized the key points.
Leng Xinnan was asked.
To be honest, she was a little shocked.
In the past, when she was handling cases, she would sometimes encounter difficulties, but in the end she was able to solve them with her own abilities.
But since she invited Li Nanke to assist in handling the case, she suddenly had the illusion that her IQs were completely unequal, and it was difficult for her to keep up with the other person's thinking.
Just when I wanted to understand one thing, the other party brought up another thing.
After running around for a day, although I figured out the origin of the monster and identified the culprit behind the 'red rain' that rained down on Wan Yingying and Lin Jiaoyue, my mind was still confused.
"Then why?" Leng Xinnan had no choice but to ask for advice.
Li Nanke looked at her fair and beautiful cheeks and said with a smile: "It's very simple. The purpose is so clear, obviously he is going for Mei Xing'er."
"Why?" The girl was still confused.
This time the man didn't give an answer, he just made a random guess: "Maybe Mei Xing'er did something to feel sorry for him. Or maybe..."
Seeing that the man was still silent, Leng Xinnan had an inexplicable urge to beat him up.
Li Nanke gently brushed away some dust on his shoulders and said, "Master Leng, it's too late now. Let's go to Wen's house tomorrow morning."
"Tomorrow morning?"
Leng Xinnan's wide, moist and moving eyes were filled with confusion.
The murderer has obviously been identified.
"There are still some questions I can't figure out. It's not too late to go tomorrow." Li Nanke said helplessly, rubbing his stomach. "Besides, my stomach is really starving."
After being reminded by the other party, Leng Xinnan finally remembered that the two of them had been running around all day without even eating.
Even she made do with two buns in the morning.
The girl suddenly felt a little embarrassed and took the initiative to invite: "Let's go find a restaurant and I'll treat you."
The man declined: "No, my wife is still waiting for me to eat."
"It's so late, are you sure?"
Leng Xinnan didn't think Luo Qianqiu was still waiting, so it was possible that he would keep the meal.
Li Nanke said firmly: "I'm definitely waiting."
Leng Xinnan no longer pressed: "Okay, then I will send you there."
When the two of them arrived at home and looked at the still warm food on the table and the woman waiting quietly with a medical book in her hand, Leng Xinnan was completely shocked.
What shocked her was not just Luo Qianqiu's 'virtuousness', but the tacit understanding between them as husband and wife.
At the same time, there was an indescribable feeling lingering in my heart. Sour, astringent, and sweet... made her envious and longed for this kind of married life.
"Didn't I tell you, if I don't come back in the afternoon, don't wait for me, just eat first."
Li Nanke sat on the chair and complained.
Luo Qianqiu pursed her soft and beautiful lips and smiled sweetly: "I'm not hungry either, so I'll just wait for my husband."
With that said, he took out a new pair of bowls and chopsticks, and said gently to Leng Xinnan: "Master Leng, let's come together."
"No, I-"
Leng Xinnan subconsciously wanted to refuse, but seeing that the other party had already served her rice, and the alluring smell of rice seducing her, she finally shamelessly decided to eat.
It turned out that her meal was well worth it.
The moment the food entered her mouth, she truly realized what human food is.
Especially the Penglian tofu that is in my mouth at this moment.
There is a bit of bitterness when you first eat it, but then there is an invisible force that goes straight into your brain, making you feel so comfortable that you can't bear to stop eating.
The famous chefs in the capital are nothing more than this.
She finally understood why Li Nanke accepted this ordinary-looking wife.
Putting aside his medical skills and personality, his top-notch cooking skills alone are enough to capture the stomachs and hearts of most men.
"Master Leng, my husband didn't cause you any trouble."
Luo Qianqiu asked softly.
Leng Xinnan, who was immersed in the delicious food, heard this, swallowed the food in his mouth and said: "How could it be possible? Your husband is very capable."
"It's good that it didn't cause any trouble."
Luo Qianqiu showed a gentle smile, picked up a piece of vegetable and put it in Leng Xinnan's bowl. "My husband sometimes has a casual temper. If you make a mistake in the future, please be more considerate to Mr. Leng."
"Yeah, I will."
The virtuousness of women made Leng Xinnan even more emotional that Li Nanke had married a good wife.
But then, she heard another meaning in the words.
Do you want Li Nanke to follow her all the time?
Leng Xinnan glanced at Li Nanke, but the other person just buried his head in eating and showed no reaction.
The girl was confused.
In just one day, she also saw Li Nanke's excellence and cherished his talent.
But if the other party enters the dangerous department of the Night Patrol Department, it is difficult to guarantee whether he can always be protected. If anything goes wrong, this loving couple may be separated forever.
Leng Xinnan couldn't guess what Luo Qianqiu meant, so she chose to remain silent.
The oil lamp on the table reflected the three figures.
Compared with the two people's previous aloofness, although Leng Xinnan's joining was a bit inconsistent, it also added a bit of vitality.
But a light bulb is a light bulb after all, and you still need to have the awareness you deserve. After the meal, Leng Xinnan consciously said goodbye to the couple.
Before leaving, Luo Qianqiu grabbed a pair of medicinal materials for her.
Apparently she saw that Leng Xinnan had suffered internal injuries, and specifically asked him to come for a massage tomorrow to relieve the symptoms.
"Did the case go well?"
Luo Qianqiu asked casually while clearing the dishes on the table.
"Okay."
Li Nanke nodded, took out two leaves from his arms, and handed them to the woman. "Madam, do you recognize what kind of flowers and leaves these are?"
He found these two leaves under Mei Xing'er's wardrobe.
At that time, he took the leaves and compared all the flowers growing in the house, but could not find any similar leaves.
"These are the flowers and leaves of the Drunken Fairy Peach, also called the White Flower Mandala."
Luo Qianqiu only glanced at it and said the names of the flowers and leaves. "It has anesthetic and antiasthmatic effects, and is mostly used in crude sweat-based drugs."
Menghan... medicine?
Li Nanke was surprised.
Luo Qianqiu took the flowers and leaves from his hand, looked at them and said, "It also smells of sheep pollen and cypress cinnamon. Zuixian peach and sheep flowers are often used to make the magic medicine for drunkenness, so the amount is suitable for adding If you add it to wine, you can get drunk instantly. But these two are also toxic, so cypress cinnamon is added to suppress the toxicity."
The detailed explanation by the miracle doctor's wife finally solved a question that troubled Li Nanke.
Inner reasoning is also clearer.
Why is there such medicinal material in Mei Xing'er's room?
What does she use it for?
When Luo Qianqiu went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, Li Nanke habitually held Sister Goose in his arms and sat on Master Gui's back, blowing the cool breeze and thinking about the problem.
He picked out the clues about Mei Xinger individually and sorted them out.
On the fourth night of August, Mei Xing'er had a quarrel with her injured daughter. At that time, the maid Xiang'er heard Lin Jiaoyue shouting angrily, "With him and without me."
At midnight, He Qingyu died at home.
On the fifth day of August, Mei Xing'er packed up some of her old clothes and burned them all.
"Why did she burn her clothes?"
Li Nanke slowly touched Sister Goose's buttocks, with a strange glimmer in his eyes, as if he was asking Sister Goose. "Is it really because a mouse got into the closet?"
Of course Sister Goose couldn't answer.
And she is also very angry at the way men treat her daily.
I feel unclean.
Too embarrassed to see Lao Huang.
"Besides rats, what else could make her burn clothes? And judging from the number of clothes in the cabinet and Xiang'er's statement, it doesn't look like she burned them only once."
"Or maybe she actually burned only one of them, and was afraid of being discovered by others, so she deliberately added other clothes?"
"The question is, what happened to the clothes she wanted to burn?"
"Is there something on it that makes it difficult to wash?"
Li Nanke asked himself again and again.
When the doubt reached this point, an answer shrouded in layers of smoke immediately appeared in the man's mind.
Li Nanke suddenly sat up straight and slowly uttered three words:
"lime powder!"
