The aunt who was crying so hard had red eyes and timidly leaned behind the female shopping guide.
Seeing this, the female shopping guide hurriedly explained, half-bowed apologetically to Ye Lan, and said sorry for her aunt.
This made Ye Lan both big and tall. She couldn't stand this kind of indiscriminate apology. She waved her hand and said, "Okay, okay, don't bow and kowtow randomly. I'm not a god, so don't worship randomly."
"Aunt Dong made an unintentional mistake." The female shopping guide looked apologetic and bent down to bow to Ye Lan. "You have a lot, please forgive her."
Ye Lan almost rolled her eyes. She already told her not to worship her and didn't need her to apologize. She quickly picked up the topic, looked at the female shopping guide and asked, "What's the relationship between you two?"
"She is the mother of my best friend Xiaodong."
As soon as she finished speaking, the frightened aunt began to cry again, wiping her tears as she cried, "Where did my Xiaodong go? Where did she go..."
Ye Lan frowned and looked at the heartbroken aunt.
He Chengfu, who had been paying attention to Ye Lan's movements, looked at the farce in front of him. There was a trace of emotion in his light brown eyes, but he returned to normal when he lowered his eyes. He raised his legs and walked towards where she was standing, and asked in a gentle voice, " How do i call you?"
The aunt was obviously a little unfazed by the favor. After all, there are few people with such beautiful and feminine facial features, which directly captured the aunt's love for beauty. She stammered, "I...just call me Aunt Dong."
"Yeah." He Chengfu nodded with a smile and asked patiently, "How did you find out that your daughter was missing?"
Asked about her daughter, Aunt Dong immediately burst into tears with moist eyes, "My daughter hasn't made a video call with me for several days. She usually calls me to keep in touch even if she is busy at work. Now She didn’t answer my call, she must have had an accident, that’s for sure!”
He Chengfu asked, "What industry does my daughter work in?"
"The beauty industry." Aunt Dong wiped the tears from her eyes, "I haven't seen her for nearly a month."
"A beauty shop opened in partnership with others?" Ye Lan asked doubtfully.
The female shopping guide shook her head, held her in her arms because she was crying so much that it was difficult to stand, and explained, "No. Xiaodong opens his own private beauty shop."
"The store is on the third floor. Looking from the entrance of my clothing store, the store diagonally above is Xiao Dong's beauty shop."
"Yes." Ye Lan's eyes dimmed, he turned around and looked in the direction pointed by the female shopping guide.
Compared with other brightly lit stores, the dark stalls are particularly conspicuous.
He Chengfu also looked in that direction and suggested appropriately, "Why don't we go up there to find out what's going on? We might make some good discoveries."
third floor.
The store is about 50 square meters, with white tiles on the walls and floor. Judging from the visual alone, the entire private beauty shop is clean and tidy, with a cold air in the open space.
Not popular at all.
Someone had obviously cleaned it.
Aunt Dong sat down on a chair near the door and looked around with tears in her eyes. "I came here half a month ago. At that time, this chair was placed exactly the same way. Except for the dust falling from the table, I couldn't find it at all." My dear baby girl.”
Ye Lan remained silent and stepped inside.
There were no signs of fighting or stirring inside the house, and several doors and windows were intact.
Compared with the popular private beauty shop in the past, which had huge customer traffic, now the whole cabin, which has been vacant for a long time, looks particularly mysterious.
It's like nothing happened.
But precisely because the scene was so normal, Ye Lan sensed something unusual.
"Is anyone cleaning the store regularly?" Ye Lan asked.
"As far as I know, Xiao Dong did it all himself." the female shopping guide replied.
"Xiao Dong is introverted. Apart from running the beauty shop business, he doesn't have many friends. Apart from me and his boyfriend, few people know that this shop is opened by Xiao Dong himself."
Ye Lan: "You said Xiao Dong has been missing for a month, why didn't you call the police?"
Hearing this, Aunt Dong shook her head hurriedly and told Ye Lan worriedly, "I know my daughter well. She has suffered with me since she was a child. We, mother and daughter, depend on each other. She has achieved excellent results since she was a child. If I hadn't had a heart disease, she would have read carelessly. She dropped out of school after her second year of high school and went out to work to earn money for my medical treatment. Now she must be a college student with both good character and academic performance.
I haven't finished elementary school, and my education level is not high, but we, mother and daughter, have no problem communicating with each other. Even if she goes out to work, she will always call me to tell me that she is safe.
However, this month she has been sending me text messages on WeChat. As soon as I call her, her phone turns off.
Now it’s strange. Before, we communicated by voice, but now, abnormally, she sends a long text to reply to my message. "
Ye Lan looked at the female shopping guide and asked, "Didn't you mention that your best friend Xiao Dong was going to City A and wanted to bring her mother with her? When did you mention this to you?"
"Maybe mid-September." The female shopping guide hesitated for a while and replied, "At that time, she asked me for double-sided tape to put a seal on it."
"Affix a seal?" Ye Lan raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Xiao Dong came to me worried that day. He ran down out of breath and mentioned to me that the hygiene in her store was accused of being unhygienic. People from the Health Bureau wanted to block her store and suspend the business for inspection. Xiao Dong was I plan to post the written closure notice at the door so that the customers who usually care about her will know."
"Aunt Dong, since Xiao Dong didn't take you on a trip, is it possible that he ran away from home temporarily to relax?" The female shopping guide squatted down and held the woman's hands.
"But I've been out for about a month. Even if you run away from home, you still have to call me."
The two of them were talking to each other.
Ye Lan looked away, turned around and walked to the lockers in the beauty shop to stop.
Opening the cabinet door, several brand-name bags are neatly placed inside the cabinet.
At this moment, ding dong——
A loud ringing sound echoed throughout the beauty shop.
I saw the woman who had just cried miserably picked up her phone and carefully checked the screen.
"Uuuuuuu——" The woman didn't know what she saw, and she began to cry again, but the cry was even more sad than before, as if she had crushed her last nerve, "My baby girl, wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Woo——"
Ye Lan raised his hand and pressed his temples, then slowly raised his steps and approached the woman.
"Give me your cell phone." Ye Lan stretched out a hand and asked the woman for her cell phone. Seeing the woman's unwillingness, she didn't bother to beat around the bush and said softly, "If you delay any longer, your daughter will never get it back. , you just hold your phone and continue to suffer, you can do whatever you want, I will still eat well, sleep well and drink well, and it will not affect my normal life at all."
Hearing these words, He Chengfu, who had been accompanying him throughout the whole process, slightly curled up his lips, and a smile flashed across his lowered eyes.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" The woman cried even more sadly, stretched out her right hand tremblingly, beat her chest, and typed into her mobile phone, "As long as you call me back and let me hear your voice, I will stop looking for you. "
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu."My precious beloved daughter——" The woman cried until her nose was foaming with tears as she looked at the news that had been lost forever.
Ye Lan, who had excellent eyesight, wished that he had been blind and hadn't seen anything.
On the contrary, the female shopping guide standing next to her whispered something in the woman's ear, and asked the woman to take the initiative to hand the phone into Ye Lan's hand.
The WeChat page has been opened.
What is displayed is the WeChat chat screen between a woman and her beloved daughter.
The text above was sent just now.
Mom, don't look for me during this time. I'm looking for a job outside now. After a while, I will open my own shop. Don't worry about me. I just want to start from scratch. I plan to cancel this number and no longer use this WeChat account.
Ye Lan suddenly felt a little itchy on his neck and subconsciously reached out to touch it. Unexpectedly, it felt soft and tender between my fingers.
He Chengfu didn't know when he came close to her ear and was reading the news.
Ye Lan: "..." Suddenly, he started to experience that flawless handsome face.
His thin lips were very close to his earlobes, almost touching his skin. A strange feeling spread all over his body. Ye Lan put down his hands and took two steps with his heels to the other side where no one was. His eyes fell on The woman who was still crying coughed lightly,
"That's right, Brother Fu, please don't get too close to me. I'm afraid that my hands and feet won't obey the command, and I won't predict whether I will suddenly lose control, so I will hit you twice."
He Chengfu was not annoyed, he reached out and touched Ye Lan's furry head, and said with a chuckle, "That's just right. I heard that you have been practicing kung fu recently, and it was when you were not able to control your hands and feet that I could spar with you. One or two.”
"You know kung fu?" Ye Lan looked at him suspiciously.
"Yes." He Chengfu said, "Don't let my appearance fool Xiaolan. If I can become the police chief, I will have some skills."
"Okay." Ye Lan didn't like strangers getting too close to her, but he didn't expect He Chengfu to actually answer her conversation.
"The reactions of the two of them are real, and the Xiaodong they mentioned may really be missing." He Chengfu slowly approached Ye Lan, stood side by side with her, and murmured in his ear.
Ye Lan pursed her lips.
She had just opened the cabinet, and there were all kinds of bags inside. One of them contained cosmetics such as lipstick, loose powder, mirror, etc. It should be a tool for the owner of the bag to touch up makeup when going out.
The Xiaodong they mentioned definitely did not run away from home.
Girls who work in the beauty industry have an almost absolute need for cosmetics. They must carry them with them when going out. The maintenance and perfection of the face is to find a place for themselves.
Judging from the current situation, it is still unclear whether it is a disappearance case.
Jinhai Police Station.
Technical Department.
Luo Xiaodong, 29 years old at the time, ran a private beauty shop in Yujing New City.
"Even though the store is not big, she does everything herself."
The female shopping guide also said something similar.
