Breaking Through the Clouds

"It's best not to leave Jianning in the near future. Please cooperate with our investigation as much as possible. At the same time, we will also pay attention to protecting your safety. Needless to say, I'm really sorry, Ms. Yan, you know this is a procedure... "

The iron door slammed shut behind him, and the echo lingered in the empty corridor for a long time.

Yan Xie slowly walked towards the end. On the window sill in front of the corridor, Lu Ju's backlit figure had his hands behind his back, overlooking the boundless gray sea of ​​clouds at the end of the sky.

"Come out." Hearing the sound of footsteps, Ju Lu stopped and said casually, "Look at your bad luck, go home and take a bath with grapefruit leaves!"

Yan Xie was still wearing the clothes she had on the day she was arrested, a black slim jacket and shirt, jeans of the same color and high-top boots.The shirt was already wrinkled, but he didn't look down and out. On the contrary, the black sword eyebrows and eyes were somewhat in line with the vicissitudes and depression of his age.

"Is Lao Fang awake?" he asked.

Director Lu didn't answer.

"..." Yan Yan exhaled, and said, "I want to see Qin Chuan."

Director Lu raised his hand and looked at his watch: "Okay, I will arrange for you to meet in the interrogation room in half an hour. In this half hour, you can take a shower and change clothes, smoke a cigarette and have a meal, or..." He Pointing to the opposite side of the road through the glass window, he said meaningfully: "Look at how your favorite car is being repaired."

Outside the gate of the Municipal Bureau, a shiny new silver-gray G65 parked quietly on the side of the street, attracting the attention of passers-by.

A slight smile finally appeared in Yan Mo's eyes.

·

The flashing lights of the G65 were unlocked, and Jiang Ting, who was leaning on the back seat wearing a mask and playing online chess while drinking tea comfortably, raised his head, only to see Yan Yan crawling into the car covered in cold wind, and slammed the door shut.

"Yo, it's out." Jiang Ting withdrew from the chess game: "I bought grapefruit leaves for you... um!"

Yan Yan reached out and hugged him, pulled off the mask, bowed his head and kissed him.

It is like treating a heart that has fallen back into the chest, a treasure that has been lost and found, or a shining pearl in a dimly lit place; Yan Xie pressed Jiang Ting halfway on the spacious and soft back seat, kissing from lips to the tip of the nose, from the delicate and cold skin to the Especially the unhealed wounds, the fiery breath penetrated into the blood vessels, making people shiver in the ice and snow.

"Thank you." Yan Yan buried his face in Jiang Ting's neck and murmured, "Thank you."

Jiang Ting seemed a little funny: "Thank you?"

——Thank you for still being there, at least until the last day, and having you standing by my side.

"It's nothing, thank you for the bowl of pork and leek dumplings that someone brought to you last night, the J-31 is fucking hard enough to become the Shenzhou No. [-]." Yan Yan pressed Jiang Ting in front of the single-sided visible car window indiscriminately. Arbitrarily and unreasonably: "Don't move and let me stand on top, don't move, comfort my injured body and broken heart..."

"I was the one who was physically injured, and the boiled vegetables!"

"Where did you get hurt? Isn't it shameful? It doesn't matter that I am responsible. Even if I lose my appearance, I won't dislike you. The diamond ring wedding and honeymoon team will never be short of weight. You can make a price for the bride price..."

"Deputy Yan Detachment!" Jiang Ting couldn't laugh or cry as his wrists were clutched, "Wake up, this is the entrance of the City Bureau!"

"It's okay, no one is watching us. There is no case at noon and everyone slipped away. If anyone sees me, I will say that you are a little internet celebrity I recruited." Yan Yan sighed: "Look at you, you have lost weight. I must have not eaten well, this waist and thighs..."

Dangdang!

The window of the car was slammed several times, and when Yan Xie turned his head, Han Xiaomei's innocent face was outside the car, with a pair of round and big eyes flashing.

Yan Yan: "..."

Yan Yan lowered the car window: "What are you doing?"

"Sister Meimei Meimei said that you must have eaten just after you got out of prison and asked me to give you a bento box..."

The mosaic image in Han Xiaomei's mind has spun crazily out of the atmosphere, turning into fireworks and illuminating the entire Milky Way, but the fact is that she is lying on the side of the car door and dare not even look inside.Yan Yan raised his eyebrows, took the lunch box through the car window, and opened it amidst the alluring aroma.

Bitter gourd fried diced meat, cold bitter gourd, bitter gourd egg drop soup.

"...clearing heat, detoxifying and reducing anger, it's very good." Yan Xie patted Han Xiaomei on the shoulder, persuading her: "I think it's pure talent for you to become a criminal policeman, so why don't you resign and go to Yang Mei's KTV to be the girl at the front desk? What do you think?"

Han Xiaomei: "..."

Yan Xi drove Han Xiaomei back to work, sat in the car and ate a bitter gourd feast.Yang Mei didn't ask Han Xiaomei to order a particularly expensive takeaway, just ordinary home-cooked food from a roadside restaurant, but he didn't feel bitter, so he ate it alone, lit a cigarette, and leaned against the leather sofa In the back seat, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Obviously just squatting in the city bureau for a few days, why are you so tired," Yan Yan murmured, "Could it be because of getting older?"

Jiang Ting sat next to him, while playing the chess game that was interrupted just now, he said casually: "So men who are over thirty have to obey their old age, don't treat yourself as a young man who is lying in ambush for days and nights without sleep. Shenzhou No. [-], I think you are similar to Tiangong No. [-]."

"..." Yan Yan immediately clicked his tongue: "Tiangong No. [-] can also make you die, don't you believe you can try it tonight?"

Jiang Ting raised his hand as a gesture of begging for mercy: "Okay, okay, okay..."

Yan Yan just gave up, leaning on the back of the chair and smoking a cigarette, his eyesight was lost and out of focus, and after a long while, he softly said: "Why is it him?"

"It's better than Bureau Lu."

Jiang Ting was so rational in this regard that he almost gave up his emotions. Yan Xie took a breath and tried to express his emotions: "No, in fact, no matter who is found out, I will not feel good. Even if it is Fang Zhenghong in the end, I will... ...Do you understand that feeling? It has nothing to do with personal grievances or collective honor, it's just that it's been more than ten years..."

He shook his head, thinking of the situation of the Gongzhou Municipal Bureau and the colleagues who were ambushing around Jiang Ting, he felt that he had said too much.

"This is normal," unexpectedly he heard Jiang Ting say a moment later.

Yan Xie held a cigarette between his fingers, and turned his head.

"Criminal investigation, anti-drug, anti-smuggling, anti-terrorism, and even the entire public security gate, this journey is long and difficult and endless. Once you embark on it, it is difficult to turn back. Sometimes even resignation or retirement cannot take this road out of your life. After all, those who wear the national flag to the end of their lives are a minority, and more people leave halfway, get separated, or get lost and step into a side road, and can no longer fight side by side. Yan Xie, we must all learn to accept it.”

Jiang Ting's face could not be seen clearly in the white mist. He seemed to smile in the haze, and said in a low voice: "In the end, all battlefields are a contest between belief and oneself. People who accept this will have a better life."

The light from the cigarette flickered on and off, reflected in Yan Mao's dark eyes, after a while he sighed almost silently, and opened his hands.

Jiang Ting gave him a strong hug.

·

The door of the interrogation room opened, and a strip of light extended into the darkness. Qin Chuan raised his head.

Yan Xie walked into the room smelling of cigarettes all over his body, and sat at the interrogation table. The police closed the door behind him.

Neither of them spoke first, they just looked at each other face to face.The cold air floated slowly like a semi-fluid, covering the walls, tables, chairs, and even the handcuffs with a layer of gray ash, as if paper soaked in cold water covered a person's mouth and nose layer by layer from the void.

"Is there any smoke?" Qin Chuan finally asked hoarsely.

The police outside the door moved, as if they wanted to stop him, but Yan Xie had already thrown a whole pack of cigarettes on the table, and at the same time lit one and handed it over.

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "Thank you."

That spark of fire finally brought an illusory temperature, Yan Xie stared at Qin Chuan's face, and asked slowly: "Should I still thank you, I never seriously thought about killing me, and finally gave me Leaving a [-]% chance of survival?"

"It depends on what you think." Qin Chuan laughed, and then asked, "What do you think?"

"..." Yan Yan said, "I don't know. I'm more shocked that Yue Guangping is your father."

Qin Chuan raised his eyebrows.

"We have known each other for more than ten years. It is only today that I know who your father is, how your mother got away, and the fact that you met K of Spades when you were in school. Now that I think about it, there should be many secrets that I don't know, but to It is very important to you, but it is too late, neither for you nor for me."

Yan Xie also took out a cigarette and lit it, and the light blue nicotine scent slowly spiraled up.

"How should I put it?" he said, "Perhaps the three most helpless words in life are 'too late'. Unfortunately, I know this too late."

Qin Chuan seemed to want to say something, but he closed his mouth before the exit, and asked with a smile, "Do you remember the first time we participated in the on-site operation?"

"The first few police cars went to surround the casino, and we two intern policemen ambushed at the back door. We thought nothing would happen, but suddenly some thugs came out, and the time when they all copied the fuck?"

"Yes, at that time I thought it was definitely going to be cold, but I didn't expect your first reaction was to kick me out and shout: 'I'll block it, you call for reinforcements!'..."

Yan Yan laughed: "But you didn't run away, we did meritorious deeds together."

"What the hell, your kick almost gave me a protruding disc in my waist, and I said later, I almost fell under the iron hooves of my own people before the battle started, you are going to be honored, who will pay for my medical expenses "Qin Chuan shook his head and sighed: "It's the first time to be an undercover agent in an anti-pornography campaign. You went the wrong way, which made us both detour for 10 minutes before coming back. In the end, Deputy Director Wei couldn't believe that we didn't. Go whoring together..."

"It was the Yu team who solved the siege, saying, 'I believe that the boys in our bureau shouldn't only have 10 minutes', and finally had to pay a fine. Fuck," Yan Yan said with emotion while holding his forehead: "That time was terrible." It's really embarrassing, how come Deputy Director Wei doesn't trust us, it's a double insult to aesthetic taste and personal ability."

Qin Chuan snorted, and Yan Xie laughed too.

The guard outside the door couldn't hear clearly, so he couldn't help poking his head. It was probably strange that they didn't fight inside.

"Yan Yan," Qin Chuan finally stopped laughing, and looked at him deeply: "The years I have known you and worked in the Municipal Bureau are the most memorable times in my life. Understand the regret of being too late, that regret should be mine, and has nothing to do with you."

"I once really regarded you as a brother."

The two of them have met in the interrogation room many times, but they have always sat side by side, and have never been at opposite ends of each other like they are now. The close distance has separated decades, and may even be the distance between life and death.

Yan Yan's Adam's apple slid up and down, and said, "...I used to be the same."

The iron door slammed open, and two police officers on duty walked in, and nodded politely at Yan Xie: "Sorry, Deputy Yan, time is up."

Qin Chuan stood up, and Yan Xie also stood up, and suddenly couldn't help it: "Wait!"

The action of the police squatted.

Yan Xie took out his mobile phone, opened the photo album, and called up the picture of the windbreaker suit that was taken at Yue Guangping's house: "We found this in your father's closet. According to the time, it is the end of the new year. It should be ready to give away." Your 30th birthday present."

Qin Chuan stared at the phone screen without moving, without saying anything.

"Do you know why he took apart the boxes and threw them away, and hung them up in sets?"

"..."

"Because in this way," Yan Yan's voice was a little shaky, "he can look at the hanger and imagine what you look like in it."

Qin Chuan raised his head vigorously, closed his eyes and took a breath.The surrounding area was very quiet, with a gloomy light and shadow shining through the bars, reflecting on his shiny lenses, he couldn't see clearly what his expression was at the moment. After a while, he looked at Yan Yan again and said, "Thank you for telling me this."

The policeman looked at his watch: "It's really time to go..."

Qin Chuan staggered half a step, walked around the iron table, and paused suddenly when he passed by Yan Xie's side.The police didn't have time to stop him, he leaned against Yan Yan's ear, and said softly: "When we read suspense novels, we follow the protagonist to suspect all possible crime targets, and bring the bad guys to justice after layers of cocooning. But why did we never suspect the main character?"

Yan Xi was taken aback.

"If the 'bad guy' is the protagonist, how will the story end?"

Yan Yan's pupils dilated sharply, and he suddenly looked up, only to see Qin Chuan smiling at him, and then walked out of the interrogation room step by step under the escort of two policemen.

·

Walking out of the City Bureau building, the hazy smell was blown away by the wind, the traffic lights on the street flashed and changed, cars honked their horns, and countless small restaurants gave off the aroma of cooking amidst the flow of people returning home from get off work.It was already cold, and Yan Xie let out a breath of white air while standing on the steps, and the tiny amount of heat dissipated in the air in an instant.

Qin Chuan's last words were still lingering in his mind, and Yan Xie rubbed his brows vigorously with his thumb knuckles, and suddenly he heard a short-beep!

Across the street in the distance, G65 honked its horn, and then Jiang Ting leaned out of the car window and waved to him.

Time to go home.

Suddenly, infinite warmth rose in Yan Yan's heart, and a smile appeared in his eyes unconsciously. After he stubbed out the cigarette butt, he walked towards the road facing the wind.

At this moment, the phone in his pocket rang, and from the ringtone, it was a new text message.Yan Xie took it out and took a look. Apart from the miscellaneous greetings from all parties after he was released, the latest unread text message was sent by Lu Bureau, with only a few short words:

[Old Fang is out of danger. 】

At that moment, Yan Yan's internal organs were loosened, and he couldn't help but stand still, and was ready to reply Lu Ju with the three words "great".Unexpectedly, he just clicked on the reply box, and before he started typing, suddenly another WeChat message appeared on his phone.

"?"

Yan Xie opened it casually, at first he didn't understand it, but then he suddenly realized something, and his casual expression froze——

The traffic lights changed again, the crowds of vehicles and people began to move, and the noise was filled with the neon lights that lit up one after another.Not far away, the G65 was still parked in the shade of a tree, making a dull start-up sound.

The sky is covered with gray clouds, and the humidity is diffused from the corners of the huge city.

The cold wind in early winter rolled the dust and dead leaves, making a sharp whimpering sound, and spinning straight up into the sky.

Volume Four, [-], Anti-drug Explosion Case