The forensic wife is very nice to me

A person's birthday?
In the past 20 years, Qiu Lan has always celebrated her birthday alone. There is no exquisite cake, no family company, no birthday song, only a crescent moon.

However, the crescent moon is accompanied by stars, but she only has the black shadow illuminated by the light.

That pale feeling of loneliness is deeply engraved in Qiu Lan's heart.

So when she heard about Xu Chengyan's birthday without the company of her family, she felt like "the same people who have fallen into the world".

As a colleague, she had no way to refuse the invitation, so she nodded and agreed.

"Happy birthday, I didn't know before, I didn't prepare a gift, but I will be there on time tonight."

Hearing her answer, Xu Chengyan involuntarily raised the corners of his lips and smiled.

Qiu Lan's promise is his best birthday present this year, but he is looking forward to another promise tonight.

In the office of the autopsy room, Qiu Lan simply washed up, changed into the clothes prepared in the office, and opened the files on the computer.

The black characters flowed in front of her eyes, but before she knew it, she thought about what happened yesterday, that embrace, and that person.

The scenes on the top of the mountain rushed out of her mind, she closed her eyes and frowned slightly.

No, I can't think about that, I still have to work, and I have more important things to do.

Qiu Lan rubbed the frowning brow between her forehead, took a deep breath, and tried her best to straighten out the thoughts in her head.

At this moment, assistant Xiao Cong walked into the office, "Good morning, Doctor Qiu."

"Morning." Qiu Lan turned her head and hooked the corners of her lips, greeting him.

But at this moment, her eyes were attracted by a bloodstain on Xiao Cong's hand, "Xiao Cong, what's wrong with your hand? Are you injured?"

"Injury?" Xiao Cong raised his eyebrows inadvertently, raised his red hand, and glanced at it indifferently, "This one, it must have been crushed when I was in the laboratory yesterday."

"By the way, Doctor Qiu, that film maker is faulty. I have already reported it for repair. Don't use it for the time being. I was accidentally crushed yesterday, and I was crushed twice. That's why I got this mark."

"Okay, you have to be more careful in the future." After Qiu Lan responded softly, she turned her gaze back to the copywriting on the computer screen.

Suddenly, she frowned, recalling Xiao Cong's words and the wound, as if she had thought of something.

The film making machine is a small machine used to fix the film loading position. It is not strong enough to cause blood stains even if it is accidentally pressed against a finger.

But after pressing it twice, a red mark was formed.

Could the wound on the chest of the deceased be caused by two or even multiple times?

I still remember that during the examination of the corpse, Qiu Lan carefully inspected the scars, the edges were smooth and there were no overlapping traces, so at the time she never thought that it would be caused by multiple times, but she just judged that the impact force was very strong.

"Xiao Cong, get ready, I'm going to conduct a second appraisal of the body of the deceased in the oil drum case."

In the autopsy room, the shadowless lamp above the autopsy table shone on the pale corpse. Qiu Lan stared indifferently at the wound on the chest of the deceased with a serious expression.

"Xiao Cong, prepare the ultraviolet lamp. I am now going to conduct a subcutaneous appraisal of the scars on the deceased's chest. I suspect that the wounds on the deceased's chest were not caused at one time, but may have been caused multiple times."

"Yes." Xiao Cong nodded, and picked up the goggles and ultraviolet light beside him.

After making all the preparations, Qiu Lan turned off the light on the planing table, leaned slightly, and carefully examined the scar under the ultraviolet light.

It was exactly as she expected.

Although the edges of the wound were flat and round, intervals of ecchymotic plaques formed under the skin.

This confirmed Qiu Lan's conjecture that the injury was not caused once, but multiple times.

She made the second appraisal result into a report and sent it to the computer of the serious crime team.

Sitting in the office, Qiu Lan closed her eyes and let out a breath slowly, as if she was relieved from a heavy burden.

Although this is only a small discovery, for a tricky case mired in mud, any trivial discovery may become a key point to break the deadlock.

At six o'clock in the evening, the sun was setting, the breeze was blowing, and dusk was falling. Qiu Lan received the location from Xu Chengyan, and rushed over with the birthday cake she had ordered before.

In Yunya Xiaolou, the soft and dim light spread throughout the restaurant, and melodious light music poured into Qiu Lan's ears leisurely, sweeping away her exhaustion from a day's work.

Under the guidance of the waiter, Qiu Lan came to a box at the end of the corridor, knocked on the door lightly, and a deep voice came from inside.

The voice was full of surprise and excitement.

"Doctor Qiu, you are here." Xu Chengyan happily greeted him with a smile on his lips.

"Officer Xu, happy birthday. I'm late. Here's a cake for you. I hope you like it." Qiu Lan handed him the exquisite cake box and walked into the room with small steps.

"Thank you, but it's not that you're late, it's that I'm too early." Xu Chengyan took the cake box and put it on the table, the joy on his face couldn't be concealed.

They sat back and forth across the small wooden table, looking at each other, and the silence between the two was slightly awkward.

Before coming, Qiu Lan thought it was a birthday party, and other colleagues from the police station would also come, but unexpectedly, there were only the two of them.

"Doctor Qiu, I don't know what you like, so I ordered some side dishes first. If you still want to eat, you can order more." Xu Chengyan pursed his thin lips, and a touch of warm emotion flashed across his eyes.

Tonight he seemed a little inexplicably nervous.

"Okay, I don't pick anything, I like to eat everything, and today is your birthday, you have the final say." Qiu Lan raised the corners of her mouth slightly, showing a sweet smile
Not long after, the waiter came in with some exquisite dishes, "Take it easy, you two, if you need anything, you can just press the call button next to it."

The waiter put down the things in his hand and left the box politely.

Xu Chengyan with a smile on his face opened a pot of plum wine on the table, and the fragrant and fragrant smell wafted out instantly, filling the whole room.

"Doctor Qiu, the food here is not bad, and the wine is quite fragrant. It's not strong, you can try it." Xu Chengyan filled the wine glass in front of Qiu Lan with a soft voice.

"Okay." Qiu Lan nodded slightly, and took a sip of the fragrant plum wine with a wine glass.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Xu Chengyan's sense of humor broke the awkward atmosphere between them and brought bursts of laughter.

The dim light caressed the two people in the room, Xu Chengyan glanced tenderly at the person in front of him, and quietly took out the small black box from the bag of his clothes.

He swallowed nervously, his eyes drooping.

After taking a deep breath, Xu Chengyan raised his black eyes, stared at Qiu Lan solemnly, and put the black box in his hand on the table, "Doctor Qiu, there is actually something I want to tell you."