Chapter 61
Unlucky Mom Opens the Door for Unlucky
Lu Li brought the quiet young girl to the hotel, slapped his ID card on the counter, and said, "One standard room."
The receptionist gave him a surprised look, then glanced at the girl behind him who looked like a high school student in a school uniform, and gave him a very strange look.
The way you look at scum.
Lu Li glared back.
What are you looking at?!
I am completely aboveboard!
I have every right to say this!
I am upright and righteous!
Lu Li, head held high, led the girl into the elevator.
Once inside, the girl sat carefully on the bed, her small hands tucked into her sleeves, unsure of what to do.
She lowered her head, her voice barely audible, "I...don't have any experience...be gentle..."
"..."
Lu Li looked at her, and just like a turtle wandering around, he couldn't help but laugh.
How come this girl's head is full of lewd thoughts at such a young age?
Could it be a honey trap?
But it doesn't look like it.
Lu Li took out the two hundred yuan he had exchanged on the way and put it on the bed. "Buy something to eat if you're hungry. I have to go to work. I'll be back after work."
"Um......"
The girl nodded obediently, neither calling the police nor grabbing Lu Li's clothes and shouting "molestation".
Yes, she seems to be an obedient girl.
After leaving the hotel and getting into the car, Lu Li immediately took out his phone and made a call.
The call was connected very quickly.
"Brother Li, don't you know I'm at work...? I have a meeting on Monday..."
"You, a paycheck thief, have the nerve to talk about a meeting?" Lu Li glanced at his watch. "You're almost off work for lunch. I'll treat you to lunch. I'm at your workplace."
"That's just slacking off, not stealing my paycheck! Never mind..." Fang Yuebai sighed. "Alright, but Brother Li, tell me what you need me for first."
"Can't I ask you to have dinner if there's nothing wrong?"
"It's nothing, you only ask me out for dinner on weekends."
"Can't I be lonely?"
"If you're lonely, you can always ask me to have dinner with you on the weekend."
"...Okay, I do need to talk to you about something."
"I knew it. Wait for me in the parking lot for a bit, I'll come out after I get off work."
OK.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Li took out a cigarette.
But after thinking about it, he still didn't order it.
After all, Fang Yuebai will be getting into the car soon.
It's better if the car and you don't smell of smoke.
After waiting for more than twenty minutes, Fang Yuebai, dressed in office lady uniform, walked over with her ponytail swinging.
She opened the passenger door and got in, letting out a long sigh of relief. "I'm alive again... It's so hot outside!"
Lu Li handed her a bottle of ice-cold mineral water. "Very busy today?"
"I'm working on a case, it's pretty bizarre... never mind, I don't want to talk about work during my break."
Fang Yuebai clearly didn't want to talk about this. She took a sip of water, then turned around and asked curiously, "Brother Li, tell me what you wanted to talk to me about?"
Lu Li smiled and said, "Let's eat first, let's eat first."
"That won't do." Fang Yuebai's ponytail swung back and forth. "I need to decide what you'll treat me to for lunch today based on what you want me to do, Brother Li."
They usually split the bill when they eat out, or one of them will treat the other to a meal.
But now that Lu Li has asked her for help, wouldn't it be a waste not to give him a good beating?
"Alright." Lu Li clicked his tongue and then gave a brief account of the girl's situation. "I mainly want you to help me check if her family is in that kind of situation. If it is, then check if she has any other relatives."
Fang Yuebai's expression was a little strange. "Brother Li, what's the name of that girl you mentioned?"
Lu Li thought for a moment, then shrugged. "To be honest, I didn't even have time to ask."
"Let's eat first, I'll tell you while we're eating." Fang Yuebai leaned back. "Oh, right, I want hot pot."
"Hot pot it is then."
Lu Li started the car.
Half an hour later, after parking the car in the parking lot outside the hot pot restaurant, Lu Li got out and walked around it, then sighed, "You can even scratch a car door like that..."
And we don't know who did it!
This means that the car was scratched by another car in the underground parking garage downstairs last night.
They ran away!
That's absolutely disgusting!
"Brother Li, are you alright?"
Seeing Fang Yuebai's questioning gaze, Lu Li waved his hand and smiled, "It's nothing, come on, let's go inside and eat."
I can't expect something to suddenly fall from a height and hit my car, can I?
LOL, that's impossible.
Bang-!
Lu Li's breath hitched, then he whirled around!
Someone threw a half-eaten corncob, which just stood straight up and pierced the windshield of the BMW.
The windshield covered in "spider web" patterns was a complete mockery of Lu Li.
Lu Li laughed in anger.
"Brother Li?"
Lu Li waved his hand, "Let's go! Let's eat!"
He wanted to see just how unlucky he could get today!
After about ten minutes, and a minute after the bottom of the pot was served, he found out.
Lu Li and Fang Yuebai remained expressionless as they watched the maggots thrashing about in the red soup.
Lu Li waved for the waiter to come over.
He didn't make things difficult for the other person, but pointed to the few maggots swimming in the hot pot and said, "I don't play DOTA2 matches, there's no need to serve me a maggot-powered hot pot, thank you."
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
The waiter bowed frantically and apologized, "I'll have someone go and get you a different hot pot base right away!"
"Um."
Why should working people make things difficult for each other?
They frequented this restaurant, and the staff were friendly, so Lu Li didn't say anything.
While they were changing the pot, Lu Li asked, "Xiao Bai, what did you mean by asking about that girl? Do you know her?"
"I don't know him, but the situation you described is quite similar to the case I'm currently handling, except... there are some differences in the details."
Fang Yuebai hesitated slightly, "Well, everything else matches up—the parents' car accident, the uncle and aunt being the guardians and then embezzling the inheritance—but I don't know anything about the abuse part. The main thing is that this girl has disappeared."
"That matches up perfectly!" Lu Li slapped his thigh. "I think you're describing her!"
"It doesn't match up." Fang Yuebai shook her head. "Brother Li, there's another difference, and that's the most important one."
Lu Li raised an eyebrow. "What's different?"
They are the same age, the same gender, and have the same family background and experiences.
Isn't this the same person?
Fang Yuebai took a sip of water and said softly, "The missing girl's uncle and aunt, and her two cousins... they're all dead."