C26

When we got back to the single room that the owner had arranged for me, we set it up before we went to bed to make sure that someone would find us as soon as they broke in.

Li Fengyun tied his messy hair to the door handle and the window. I set up a few beer bottles, which gave me a sense of security. Both of us had a steel pipe beside our pillows, giving me a feeling of waiting for a good night's sleep.

Fearful and restless, he slept for a bit before getting up to check his sleeping arrangements. He realized that no one had entered the room.

"Shu Jing, aren't we being a little too careful?" Li Fengyun said as he scratched his head.

"Sigh, there's nothing we can do. The enemy is hiding in the light, we should be careful as we sail the ship for ten thousand years."

After dinner, Li Fengyun asked me what I planned to do.

"I want to check on Xue Lu."

"Fine, let's go check it out and see if we can find the lover Tao Zi talked about. After all, Tao Zi is our friend, and right now, we are at a stalemate with the 'Yuan' organization, so we have no way to fight back against him. Why don't we help someone investigate it and train our abilities? You also need to use some small matters to recover."

What Li Fengyun said was exactly what I was thinking. Although the matter of the "yes" organization had given us a headache, we couldn't hide in our dorms like turtles and do nothing.

To investigate the matter of Xue Lu cheating, firstly, it was to help Tao Zi, and secondly, it was to improve his own ability.

According to the address that Tao Zi had given us, we arrived at the company building where Xue Lu worked.

After observing the terrain, we decided to go to the residential building opposite of Xue Lu's company to monitor Xue Lu. Because we lack professional surveillance equipment, we could only use this kind of stupid method to see if Xue Lu exposed any secrets during her daily work.

Upon reaching the roof of the residential building, Li Fengyun took out two small binoculars from his backpack. Although they were not professional enough, they were enough to see the company that was dozens of meters away from Xue Lu.

There weren't many people in their company. As an office clerk, Xue Lu could easily be found among those few employees.

She was one of the four Golden Flowers in my class when I was in university. She had a pretty body, and she had quite the temperament. When I dropped out of school, I was in my third year, and as far as I know, even until my third year, Xue Lu had never looked for a boyfriend.

Tao Zi said that they had gotten together during their senior year of practice. More accurately, during their senior year of practice, Tao Zi had bought half a year's worth of milk tea for Xue Lu before catching up to her.

Through the telescope, the Xue Lu in the camera was still as beautiful as ever. She was wearing a long white dress and had quite the temperament. Although she was already a woman, she looked like a student.

I remember when I was reading, she wasn't in the habit of drinking milk tea, but now it seems that it was probably the milk tea of the past six months that had changed her habits.

But now, Xue Lu was thinner than when she was in university.

Li Fengyun also asked, "Why have you lost a lot of weight?"

Xue Lu was tall and slender. In the past, she could be considered neither fat nor thin. But now, she looked like she had lost at least seven or eight kilograms of weight. She seemed a little too weak to withstand the wind.

"Is it because I'm not happy with Taozi?" I murmured.

Li Fengyun said, "I'm not sure, but the possibility is not small. If the two of them were happy and happy, she wouldn't have lost so much weight. Didn't Tao Zi also say that Xue Lu's job wasn't hard, and she would return home late every day.

En, a woman with a perfect figure, when working and living after marriage were not too stressful and had yet to give birth, if she lost seven or eight kilograms, then there must be a problem.

Of course, there was also the possibility of diseases from her body. If it was hyperthyroidism or diabetes or digestive diseases, it was normal for her to be thin. However, Tao Zi had said that Xue Lu's body was very healthy.

We no longer bothered about the reason for Xue Lu's emaciation. We just stared at her like this. In the office, she was typing away at her keyboard at high speed. Because the device wasn't working properly, we couldn't see what was on the computer screen, but it looked like an Excel table.

The other employees in Xue Lu's office were busy with their own work. They stared at the scene for a whole morning and didn't find anything abnormal. Only two of their colleagues went to hand over the documents to Xue Lu.

It didn't look like an office romance.

Until the end of the afternoon, when the office staff started leaving one by one. After knocking on the door and returning to the car, Xue Lu stretched, stood up and pressed her neck, rubbed her arms, then picked up the backpack on the table and walked outside.

The other colleagues weren't close to her, so they shouldn't be together.

After they went downstairs, Xue Lu took a taxi by the roadside.

Li Fengyun and I immediately went downstairs and stared at Xue Lu across the road. Both of us lit a cigarette and pretended that we had nothing to do, afraid that Xue Lu would notice.

Very quickly, a taxi stopped across the road, and Xue Lu got in the car. At that moment, a car also arrived in front of us.

After catching a taxi, he got on the driver's seat to follow Xue Lu's car.

The driver was straightforward and didn't waste any time on nonsense. He found a place to turn around before turning around and following Xue Lu not far behind.

After a traffic light, the man's car was connected to the left side of the road. It seemed like he was going to take a left side turn.

Looking into Li Fengyun's eyes, both of us sensed that something was wrong.

Tao Zi and Xue Lu lived in the north of the city. We were heading west, and if she wanted to go home, she should have turned right and turned north.

It seemed that Xue Lu was planning to head south.

Sure enough, after following their car through another traffic light, they headed south. We followed closely behind for another 20 minutes …

The road ahead was becoming more and more familiar.

In front of us is our university, just south of the center of the city.

Xue Lu was getting off work at noon and walking towards our school. Something was obviously wrong.

When the car stopped, Xue Lu got out of the car and walked into a coffee shop.

I'm familiar with this café.

The café was a nice place, directly across from our school, and across the street from the school in the commercial street was only one of those fancy cafés with nice decorations and a reasonable price, because across the street from the school there was a good place for students and couples to come for coffee.

Li Fengyun and I got out of the car. The coffee shop wasn't too big, so she would definitely recognize us if we went in. We should find a place to hide and observe.

According to Tao Zi, Xue Lu's lunch break lasted for two hours, which was not a short time.

It would take her thirty-five minutes to get a single ride from the company, seventy minutes to get back and forth, at least eighty minutes to get out of the car, wait before taking a taxi, and go up and down the stairs to the company. She had less than forty minutes left.

Her family is in the northern part of the city, the company is in the city, after work, they won't go home and they won't eat near the company, they'll run to the coffee shop opposite our school in the southern part of the city, why is that?

Was he dating that cheating person? Why opposite our school? Could it be that the other party is a student of our school? Or a teacher? Or someone else who lives nearby?

Squatting in the bushes with Li Fengyun, she used her binoculars to observe the coffee shop. She sat near the window and ordered a cup of unknown coffee. While casually stirring the coffee, she looked at the other side lovingly.

Across from our school.

Li Fengyun and I were always paying attention to Xue Lu in the coffee shop, and from time to time we would also look at the school gate. At this time, it was school time, and quite a few students and teachers came out from the school gate.

Moreover, Xue Lu only ordered a cup of coffee and didn't want anything else. It seemed that she didn't have any intention of eating.

She looked at her watch. She had less than twenty minutes to go, except for the time she needed on her way back.

There was a simple Western cuisine in the coffee shop, but the taste was ordinary. I always felt that I couldn't eat my fill. If Xue Lu had ordered the dishes, it would still be too late.

Ten minutes later, Xue Lu was still slowly drinking her coffee, but her eyes were still staring at the school gate.

Her expression was like that of a grieving wife who had been waiting for the return of a wise man from an expedition …

She was waiting for someone.

The minutes ticked by, and when there were only five minutes left, she stood up to check out, left the coffee shop, and took a taxi.

Then we caught a cab and followed it back the way it had come, all the way down to her office. She got out of the car, walked casually into the building, and was soon in the office.

At this moment, there were still three minutes until her shift time.

I had a rough idea.

"Eldest Brother, after getting off work, Xue Lu took a taxi and went to our school to have a cup of coffee. Her eyes were always fixed on our school, she spent more than half an hour to finish that cup of coffee, then she went back the way she came and got back to the office three minutes before work."

Li Fengyun nodded, "That's right, she didn't eat, and I think that's one of the reasons why she's so skinny."

"Yes, from her grasp of time, it's not the first time she's been there for coffee."

"Also, that coffee shop isn't really that great. It just happens to be located opposite the school, so there are a lot of customers. There are a few coffee shops around the company that are much better and more affordable than that restaurant."

"Well, did you notice the look in her eyes?"

"Of course, they are waiting for someone."

"But she waited for more than half an hour and did not see that person."

"Yes, it's nothing. Being told off doesn't mean anything. The problem was, when Xue Lu left, she didn't see any disappointment. It was as if …

"It's as if she's already used to it!"

Right, just like that!

The result of their discussion was, Xue Lu took the half hour bus from the company to our school to drink coffee. She wanted to wait for someone, but that person wouldn't appear. She knew very well that person wouldn't appear, but she still went to wait for him …

She was used to it.

That person would never appear.

"Come on, let's go to that coffee shop and ask."

Once again, I took a taxi to the coffee shop opposite our school. At this time, there weren't many customers inside, so most of them went to class. The couples that didn't have any classes in the afternoon, so most of them went to get a room.

Entering the cafe, the young and beautiful waitress glanced at the disheveled Li Fengyun. Li Fengyun was probably already used to it, so he didn't care about the looks of others.

I don't know the waiter, but I remember the middle-aged man at the bar. He was the owner of the café and had been in business for years.

"Boss, do you know this person?" I took out the recent photo of Xue Lu that Tao Zi gave me and showed it to the boss.

The man frowned and asked, "Who are you people?"

"We are the police, so please cooperate," I said. I thought to myself, "We already knew that Xu Haoqing would give us something similar to a police officer's badge, but now that we have nothing to say, he was no fool, so he probably wouldn't believe us. So I added," Do you understand me? If you don't believe me, you can call the city police. "

He still couldn't believe it. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Then should I call him and ask?"

Li Fengyun slapped the bar, he fiercely said, "If you don't report the delay, can you bear the responsibility?"

The boss' expression changed and immediately eased up his attitude, "Don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand. I just want to confirm. Since the case is urgent, I will definitely cooperate." I know this person, but I'm not sure what her name is. In any case, she's been here drinking coffee almost every week for the past two or three years, and she's been here once today.

He pointed to the window, where Xue Lu was sitting before.

In the past year or so, she has been coming here more frequently than before. She comes here about two or three times a week, but she comes alone every time. Every time she comes, she comes with latte coffee, and when she comes, she just sits there drinking for a while.

Hearing the boss's words, Li Fengyun and I looked at each other. Every week, Xue Lu would come here to drink coffee. Since two or three years ago, she had always been here, sitting in a fixed position and drinking a fixed amount of coffee for a long time.

But every time, it's always one person, sitting alone at the window that just so happens to be able to see our school, this kind of action, more like, a kind of reminiscence …