"How does your director look today?"

"Ah?"

"Just ask her how she feels," Li Qingpi explained. "You know, she likes to give people a black face if she is in a bad mood. That scene... Can really embarrass people..."

The little Sergeant took a hard blow from the corner of his mouth and immediately giggled: "OK, ok..."

Li Qing asked him, "really?"

"Hehe, Mr. Li, to be honest..." the little superintendent looked around warily and said carefully, "our director is cold every day. No one has seen her smile..."

"I'm lucky to say that..." Li Qing said to herself, and she saw that fan Huilan had come.

"Let's go up." the little superintendent nodded and took Li Qing upstairs.

Li Qing stopped slightly as she walked in along the corridor and passed the door of the investigation office.

"Hmm?" the little superintendent turned to look at Li Qing. "Mr. Li, what's up?"

"Ah, I'm sorry." Li Qing smiled and waved his hand. "I used to have a friend here. I just forgot that she has left."

"What you said is..." if the little superintendent looked at him with deep intention, he didn't say the second half of the sentence, but changed his mouth, "let's go quickly. The director is waiting to see you."

"HMM." Li Qing nodded. As the little superintendent passed the door of the investigation office, he was thinking silently. Since Qiao Xue left Lingang, he never contacted himself again, and he didn't know what happened after she returned to Yanjing.

He bowed his head and fell into deep thought. Before he knew it, he had walked to the door of the director's office.

The little superintendent gently knocked on the door. After hearing a "please come in" from the office, he opened the door and said to Li Qing, "please."

"Thank you very much." Li Qing thanked and walked into the room with fan Huilan.

Zhong Ruoxi sat on the chair behind the desk and stared at Li Qing who came into the room without blinking. Her look was inexplicable. Behind her is a clean French window, with a panoramic view of the gloomy sky of the whole city.

As usual, it was always the moment when Li Qing entered the room that Zhong Ruoxi raised his head from the thick documents and spoke to himself. But today is very different. She seems to be waiting there early, waiting for her arrival.

This sharp difference between before and after makes Li Qing feel confused. His eyes looked around the spacious office and took the lead in saying, "you're here... Today's atmosphere is a little wrong."

"Oh? Really?" Zhong Ruoxi said carelessly, taking his eyes away from fan Huilan and turning to Li Qing, "is your business going well?"

"It's normal." Li Qing went to his desk, pulled a chair and sat opposite Zhong Ruoxi. "Although the dead can't lie, there's not much that can tell us."

After saying these words, he remembered fan Huilan, turned around and looked at her with a embarrassed grin: "sorry, I forgot to introduce, this is..."

"Fan Huilan." before Li Qing finished, fan Huilan directly interrupted him, stared at Zhong Ruoxi and slowly spit out his name.

"Well, please sit down."

Fan Huilan waved her hand: "no, I'll just stand for a while."

Li Qing felt that the atmosphere in the room was becoming more and more strange, but he couldn't figure out why. Zhong Ruoxi and fan Huilan, two people who can't hit each other with eight poles, clearly haven't met before. Why do they seem to have deep hatred for each other when they speak.

After a moment of silence, Li Qing had to break the strange atmosphere in the office with a light cough: "so... Ruoxi, what are you looking for me?"

"Something's wrong." Zhong Ruoxi gently nodded his chin. "The details have been arranged. Now that you have come to the inspector's office, go directly to the inspection action office on the second floor to find Xie Hongbo and let him introduce you."

"Well, you told me earlier. It made me come here for nothing." Li Qing pulled the corners of his mouth and walked out, "then let's go first."

"Wait, leave this... Ms. fan." Zhong Ruoxi suddenly said, "you're not going to take her to study the action plan with Xie Hongbo."

Li Qing looked embarrassed: "Er, this..."

Although the plan is top secret and the fewer people you know, the better, Zhong Ruoxi's method of expressing her distrust of fan Huilan is a little inappropriate.

"I'll wait for you here," said fan Huilan directly. "When you're finished, come back to director Zhong's office to find me."

"Ah, that's all right." Li Qing looked at Zhong Ruoxi and looked worried. He was a little afraid that the two women would fight in their absence when they stayed in the same office.

Although on the surface, Zhong Ruoxi is stronger, but fan Huilan is unfathomable. The devil knows what strange means

"You two..." Li Qing opened the door, opened his mouth and stopped talking.

Zhong Ruoxi waved casually: "go quickly."

"Well, OK." Li Qingshu sighed, looked at fan Huilan again, and turned to go out.

After Li Qing left, the office fell into a complete silence. Zhong Ruoxi and fan Huilan stared at each other without blinking, and their eyes were full of complex meanings.

After a long time, Zhong Ruoxi was the first to lose the battle. He breathed a sigh of relief: "you really dare to come here."

"Why am I afraid to come?"

Zhong Ruoxi sneered: "if I'm not afraid of Li Qing's suspicion, I really want to take you to visit the torture room and revisit the hometown."

Fan Huilan's eyes showed a cruel color: "you're less rampant. The gratitude and resentment between us hasn't gone yet."

Zhong Ruoxi said, "you helped me a lot in Longxi, so I decided not to care about you."

"Oh, you are so generous."

"This is not my generosity. After all, I promised you that I would provide permanent and unwarranted shelter for several people in the action team." Zhong Ruoxi said faintly, raising Yu's finger and pointing to fan Huilan, "but I want to remind you, such as the last case in Gangbei, don't let me see it for the second time, otherwise..."

"Don't worry, I don't have time this time." fan Huilan said coldly. "I also warn you not to talk in front of Li Qing, otherwise I want you to look good."

"I will do what I promise you." Zhong Ruoxi looked at fan Huilan carefully and immediately spoke again, "but do you think he really won't notice?"

Fan Huilan chuckled, "at least so far, he hasn't noticed."

"How long have you been here? He even suspected that you were dead." Zhong Ruoxi narrowed his eyes slightly. "I'm sure you can't hide it for too long. Li Qing knows you very well. Even a careless look in his eyes can make him guess your identity. At that time, I see how you end."

"Hehe, he won't pay too much attention to an old woman. Before he noticed the clue, I had solved Tao Azhen and left."

"Don't be too confident." Zhong Ruoxi whispered, "I think there are some problems with Li Qing's attitude towards you just now. Although he doesn't know your identity, he can find that familiar feeling. Once an opportunity comes up, such as' Longxi ', he will associate it and doubt you."

Fan Huilan had a joking smile on her mouth: "Zhong Ruoxi, you seem to be afraid that he will recognize me."

"Of course." Zhong Ruoxi nodded without hesitation, "if it weren't for the situation, I would never allow you to return to Li Qing again. He has a harmonious family and doesn't need your interference."

"But you put him in danger. He's helping you, isn't he?" said fan Huilan fiercely. "If it weren't for you, how could he provoke a bitch like Tao Azhen!"

Zhong Ruoxi sighed softly: "even without me, he will be involved in this right and wrong. You should thank me for pointing out the direction for him. Only in this way can I provide him with maximum shelter and protect his safety. Otherwise, he will face Demeter alone."

"Can I understand that you are helping him with the assassination mission in Longxi?"

Zhong Ruoxi frowned slightly: "there is a problem with your logic. Can you not compare the previous things with today?"

"With the old knowledge and the new, I don't think there's anything wrong with my logic." fan Huilan said slowly. "I want to remind you not to use him in the name of protecting Li Qing."

Zhong Ruoxi gently leaned against the chair: "don't worry, I didn't do that."

Fan Huilan snorted coldly: "in my impression, you have always been a mean bitch!"

Zhong Ruoxi's eyes were suddenly cold, and his sharp eyes showed: "you'd better pay attention to your voice."

Fan Huilan smiled: "why? I can't stand it. If Li Qing hadn't saved you, you bitch would have died in my hands."

Zhong Ruoxi's jade hand on the table tightened slowly. She stared at fan Huilan with a cold voice: "this sentence should be for me. If Li Qing didn't fight to save you at the beginning, you wouldn't even have a chance to do it for me in the future. I don't think there are many people who have heard you cry in this world. I'm so lucky that I'm one of them."

"Zhong Ruoxi!" fan Huilan clenched her teeth and rushed to her desk.

Zhong Ruoxi raised her pretty face and looked at her: "Ms. fan, what's up?"

Fan Huilan stared at Zhong Ruoxi. They faced each other for a long time. She gently moved back half a step. On the old man's face, which had just revealed its ferocity, suddenly appeared a almost strange smile: "it's all right..."

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