Breaking Through the Clouds

"Did you call the police?"

Shen's father was taken aback for a moment, and cast a look of asking for help, and Yan Mo nodded slightly.

"Report, of course I did! Otherwise, what should I do? Where can we ordinary people get [-] million for you?!"

An electronically synthesized cold voice came from the phone: "Very good."

Shen's father froze and didn't answer for a moment, and the small conference room fell into a suffocating silence.

Yan Xie took out his mobile phone and quickly typed a few words, then flashed his backhand.Shen's father narrowed his eyes carefully, stumbled and followed Yan Xie's instructions parrot: "We, we still want our son to come back, you make an offer! As long as our family can bear it, we will give you everything!"

"Two hundred million," said the other party, "not a penny less."

"I'm not Ma Yun, and I'm not Wang Jianlin. You have to ask for a realistic number for kidnapping and extortion, right? We'll sell houses and cars for you to make up a few million. Don't you want to force people to die for two hundred million?!"

Huang Xing poked his head out from the corridor, and gestured far away, indicating that the technicians were following.

Yan Xie nodded to indicate that he understood.

The bargaining skills that Shen's father practiced in the business field finally came into play at this moment: "You want money, I want people. Why do you have to make things that can be resolved peacefully? I can't get [-] million. Either you lower the price, or I can only pretend that I never gave birth to this son!"

There was a loud slap, and Shen's father was slapped firmly by Shen's mother, causing him to stagger a few steps.

It's obviously just a show!Shen's father mouthed angrily to defend, and then Shen's mother also mouthed back: "I can't act!"

Yan Mo moved his ears, and suddenly heard an indistinct sound from the phone, like a mocking sneer, and immediately stepped forward to pull the couple away.

Sure enough, the electronic sound sounded again, like an emotionless computer program, repeating stiffly:

"Two hundred million, not a penny less."

"Damn it!" Shen's father was furious: "Stop pretending to be fools with me, you idiot, my son is not in your hands at all! My son is very good! I don't want to weigh myself when I'm a scammer, just take a piece of it Do you think you can scare me with clothes covered in bird blood? Bullshit! If you have the ability to come here aboveboard, I, Shende, will not be afraid of anything in this life, everything—"

Ding!

As if a certain program had been activated, Shen's father stopped subconsciously angrily, and everyone stared at the phone tightly.

"The time to execution is 48 hours and 24 minutes."

The phone was hung up.

The meeting room was shrouded in a dazed atmosphere, and after a long while, Shen's father popped out in confusion: "...What is this?"

Yan Yan didn't care about him, and quickly walked into the technical investigation department: "Did you find the rhubarb?"

"This is an online dial-up made using a foreign paid service. It should be recharged to the charging party in advance, and then a separate platform is set up to make a call or edit a text message. The number is automatically generated by the system. It is similar to many domestic spam subscription text messages. , but the difference is that this server is set up outside the country, and it is very low-level, and it is a bit difficult to track."

Yan Yan asked: "But the person who made this call should be in the country, right?"

Huang Xing said with certainty: "That must be it."

"The criminal investigation dramas on the TV station are so popular these days, all the criminals have learned to counter-investigate." Yan Yan muttered, and suddenly remembered Jiang Ting's evaluation a few hours ago, and his heart shivered slightly——

"If it's a prank, the method is too delicate."

Indeed, if it was a telecommunications fraud, the criminals would not be able to ask for [-] million yuan and know so much about the Shen family's situation; if it was a prank, the method would be too sophisticated and beyond the normal logic of behavior.

The only explanation, then, is that the kidnapping is real.

This is not a lowly joke.

"How about it?"

Yan Yan squinted over, and saw Jiang Ting standing beside him with his arms folded.

Team Jiang's facial expression was still the iconic calm and relaxed, his waist was thin and slender, his shoulders were broad and his legs were long, like a model in a shop window.Looking at his appearance, for some reason, Yan Yan's heart moved slightly, as if a stone was thrown into the lake, causing ripples that could not be calmed down.

"Internet dial-up." Yan Xie touched his nose to cover up his unnatural expression a little bit, told the technical investigation results in a few words, and then asked: "What do you think, Bawanghua?"

Jiang Ting glanced at him inexplicably.

"What is that look in your eyes?"

Jiang Ting asked: "...Didn't you mean Yuan Fang?"

Yan Mo was taken aback for a moment, then almost spit out, and hurriedly put on a straight face: "Hmm, Yuan Fang?"

"It's hard to say." Jiang Ting shook his head: "Maybe there is indeed something wrong, or maybe it's just that Shen's business has offended people and deliberately punished them. But no matter what, just in case it's necessary, if I were you, immediately……"

Jiang stopped talking halfway, but was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door behind him.

"Brother Yan!" A trainee policeman poked his head in, "Old Wang from the steamed stuffed bun shop downstairs said you ordered food for a pretty policewoman, will you bring it in?!"

Yan Yan: "..."

Jiang Ting: "?"

"Old Gao—!" Yan Yan was furious: "How did you take the interns? Can you learn to speak?! What a beautiful policewoman, what a mess! Every day, I think about going to work or dating!! Lao Gao Well, bring Gao Panqing to me!!"

The innocent Gao Panqing was sorting out the files next door. Hearing the sound, she hurried over, picked up the ignorant intern policeman, put it in the creaking nest, and slipped away like flying.

Like a fire-breathing monster, Yan Xie rushed out angrily to pick up the takeaway. As expected, the owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop was standing at the stairs with a plastic bag in his hand, stretching his neck and looking up the corridor. Seeing Yan Xie, he laughed immediately. flower.

"Look, what are you looking at?" Yan Yan's anger still persisted, "I said how many years you have been selling buns at the gate of the city bureau, and I can't tell the difference even if I coax you. Where is the beautiful policewoman in our bureau?" ?..."

"I see those two couples," the boss smiled and pointed behind Yan Yan: "My son's classmate's parents, what's wrong? What happened?"

Yan Yan turned around, and at a distance of more than ten meters, Shen's father and Shen's mother were standing at the door of the small meeting room, hurriedly pulling the logistics policeman to ask something.

"...Shen Xiaoqi?" Yan Xie confirmed.

The boss nodded: "Physical education representative, I organized the big guys to go on an outing together, and each of them collected 200 yuan."

Yan Yan was stunned for a few seconds, then asked in surprise, "Your son also went to Tianzong Mountain?"

"Why don't you go," the boss suddenly recalled: "Could it be that something happened to the outing?!"

The boss's face changed drastically, and his heartbeat jumped to one hundred and eight in an instant.Yan Yan hurriedly waved to him and said it was okay, and then called Shen Xiaoqi's parents over - when the adults met, they all said it was a coincidence, and sure enough they had met each other at the school parent meeting.Shen's mother couldn't wait to talk about the extortion phone call and the bloody clothes, and the owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop gasped in fright.

"There are still such things these days! Don't worry, it's okay!" He hurriedly comforted Shen's father and Shen's mother: "I have been selling steamed buns and porridge at the gate of the Municipal Public Security Bureau for so many years. What kind of kidnapping have I never seen? ——Just two months The former policemen successfully rescued a rich second generation, and nothing happened except the missing half of a finger, and the rich second generation parents even drove a sports car to present a pennant! These policemen are very powerful!"

Mother Shen: "..."

Father Shen: "..."

Yan Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Hurry up, don't be scary, call your son, and confirm that Shen Xiaoqi is indeed with his classmates."

The boss agreed without hesitation at all, and immediately called his child.

His son, Wang Keke, grew up under the watchful eye of this group of criminal policemen. He helped watch the store at the gate of the Municipal Bureau since he was a child.When he was in elementary school, he was extorted by gangsters for pocket money, and when he came back crying, the Criminal Investigation Detachment personally dealt with it—the gangsters were caught, beaten, and sent to the police station to be detained for ten days.Those non-mainstream young people still don't understand why they only grabbed 20 yuan and recruited the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Since then, the nearby elementary schools within a hundred miles have been very peaceful.

Unlike Shen Xiaoqi, Wang Ke answered the phone immediately after the ringing, and said in surprise, "——ah? Dad, what did you say?"

"Shen Xiaoqi!" The steamed stuffed bun shop owner repeated with emphasis: "Is he with you?"

"...not here."

Shen's father and Shen's mother immediately became nervous: "What? Not here?"

"...He went to pick up wood, and he will be back soon." Wang Ke added, "We are going to have a bonfire party, and everyone has gone to pick up wood."

Shen's parents breathed a sigh of relief, confirmed that their son was not lying, and thanked Yan Yan and the owner of the bun shop repeatedly.

After several twists and turns in a farce, it seemed that the curtain had finally come to an end at this moment. The confirmation of classmate Wang Ke gave everyone a reassurance.The parents of the Shen family spoke to Wang Ke several times on the phone, explaining that they should pay attention to safety, fire prevention and theft prevention, and so on. The three parents were finally relieved.

"Pay attention to locking the doors and windows these few days. It's best to pick up the children when they go to and from school." Yan Xie sent them to the stairs and said, "If there is any progress in the investigation of the bloody clothes, we will contact you again."

Father Shen smiled while taking out a cigarette and promised: "Understood! I understand! Comrade police have worked hard!"

Yan Yan waved his hand, pushed his cigarette back, and turned to go upstairs.

"I should be comfortable at home playing games, or going out to play ball," he thought as he went upstairs. "What a messed up day it's been."

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening, there were no major cases, and the criminal investigation detachment had almost left.Yan Yan climbed the last step, put his hands in his trouser pockets, vaguely felt that he had forgotten something, but couldn't figure out why, so he rubbed the aching between his brows.

In the early years, I was so drunk that I got up and appeared on the scene the next day. I was full of energy and nothing happened, but now I can’t.It can be seen that what his mother said is right, people should pay attention to their health after they are over 30, so let's go home early to sleep tonight.

"Police girl!" Yan Yan said casually, "Go home, let's go!"

"..."

"Police flower?"

Yan Yan turned around and almost ran into him head-on: "Hey, what's the matter with you?"

Jiang Ting crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame of the office. The lights passed over the glass window at the end of the corridor of the Municipal Bureau, casting a gentle light on his side face——like gentleness.

He asked calmly and clearly, word by word:

"Where is the steamed stuffed bun of the pretty policewoman?"

Yan Yan: "..."

Deputy Yan's detachment was empty-handed. There was a period of chaos and busyness just now, and the steamed buns that were delivered for the second time did not know where to put them.

Jiang Ting shook his head, as if teasing, he took out his phone and opened the takeaway app, and was immediately held down by Yan Xie.

Yan Xie was like a male beast who hadn't finished the predation task and failed to feed the family. His face turned blue and red, and he choked out a sentence for a long time: "Go home. I will compensate you for eating well when I go home."

Jiang Ting raised half of his eyebrows politely.

As expected, the steamed stuffed bun shop in front of the Municipal Bureau was closed. Jiang Ting followed Yan Xie into the S450 dubiously. back home.

For some unknown reason, Prince Yan recently lived in the high-end apartment in the high-end residential area that Jiang stayed in instead of the double-storey Grand Palace located in the city center. Finally, he lived in the cold and beautiful model house. Strong...androgen smell. The S450 turned into the garage and parked in a familiar manner. Jiang Ting just got off the ground, and then he was embraced by Yan Yan on his shoulders. He went upstairs and opened the door full of ambition. Before the light was on, he could only hear the melodious sound of the violin inside.

Snapped!Yan Xie turned on the big chandelier.

Jiang Ting: "?"

In the dining room, the newly-made five-course style for two people is placed on the dining rack in turn, covered with silver dining lids, red wine, goblets, and shiny knives and forks are neatly placed, and the branch-shaped candle holders bloom faintly. Huaguang.

"..." Jiang Ting pinched a dining lid with two fingers, as if pinching a sizzling fuse of explosives.

On the Hermès hand-painted porcelain dinner plate, the delicately arranged lobster pasta is exuding a strong aroma.

"May I ask?" Jiang Ting finally asked.

"Yes." Yan Xie took off his coat, and replied with the same level of politeness as Jiang Ting raised his eyebrows just now: "It is true that you can do whatever you want with money."

"Well... I mean, can you turn off the music, it's not very nice."

Yan Yan: "..."

Yan Yan silently turned off the stereo, and finally admitted it herself: "Actually, I also think that playing 'Ave Maria' at home is easy to cause indigestion, but the group of chefs play it every time they come over, maybe because they want to praise it."

The lobster is extremely tender, the pasta is rich and tasty, the grilled fish is tender and juicy, and even the tiramisu as an after-dinner snack is very authentic.The only fly in the ointment was that the atmosphere at the table was a bit awkward, Jiang Ting never spoke, only the slight click of the knife and fork hitting the plate came from him.

Wouldn't it be weird for two men to sit face to face and have a candlelight dinner? Yan Xie thought, why don't I put out the candles?

In fact, I just want to invite him to have a good meal at home. Who knew that those chefs had such a big fight.But Jiang Ting was interested in me in the first place, so now he doesn't think I'm going to chase him.Although it's okay for me to chase after him, if he is indeed innocent, it will take more than four hours to drive from Jianning to Gongzhou in the future, and it will be very difficult to maintain a long-distance relationship...

Yan Mao rubbed his forehead, coughed suddenly, and asked tentatively, "Team Jiang?"

"Ok?"

"If you have the opportunity in the future, would you want to transfer to Jianning to work?"

Jiang Ting was stunned for a moment, as if he hadn't thought about this question at all, and he said after a while, "It doesn't matter."

—he will!Yan Yan thought with certainty, he is so proactive!

"Thank you." Jiang Ting finally finished the last sip of tiramisu, wiped his mouth with a white napkin, looked up and said solemnly.

Yan Yan was immersed in the thought of "He is so active, I can't let him down, after all, he is the Jiang team", and said in a daze: "Thank you?"

To his surprise, Jiang Ting said, "I don't know."

Jiang Ting approached the back of the spacious chair and stretched.This is the first time he has made such a comfortable and undefended action in front of Yan Yan, as if he has got some kind of warm feline in the ice and snow, the corners of his delicate eyes are narrowed, and then "hoo!" In a calm tone, he smiled and said, "You always make the people around you feel safe."

Yan Mo was stunned.

"Washing the dishes?" Jiang Ting asked.

"...Oh, no, let's call him a part-time worker tomorrow."

Jiang Ting got up and loosened his shoulders, and said, "Let me wash it up and move around."

Yan Yan's stop was stuck in his throat, Jiang Ting had already packed up the leftovers, and walked into the kitchen with a stack of porcelain plates, and there was the sound of rushing water in a short while.

The candles were crackling and burning, the smell of warm food still lingered in the dining room, and the sound of washing dishes was a little vague.Yan Yan sat there for a while, then got up and went into the kitchen, picked up the dishcloth from the disinfection cabinet, stood beside Jiang Ting, and began to wipe the dripping plate on the iron rack.

They were like this, Jiang Ting handed over a plate after washing, Yan Xie took it in his hands and wiped it clean, and then gently put it into the cupboard.The two of them didn't talk, but stood shoulder to shoulder. In the quiet night, there were only these trivial sounds of housework.

Until the last few knives and forks were washed and put in the drawer, Jiang Ting took the soft towel from Yan Mo and wiped his hands.

Yan Xie stood in front of him, lowered his head slightly because of the height difference, and saw those slender hands covered with tiny scars drying back and forth on the snow-white soft towel, the nails were slightly pink.

—I can't pull the trigger.Such a sentence suddenly appeared in Yan Mo's mind.

But the hand must have been beautiful when it pulled the trigger.

Jiang Ting put the soft towel back in Yan Mo's hand, stared at him fixedly, with a smile on his lips: "Good night."

In the warm orange bright light, Yan Xie wanted to say something but couldn't say it, only groaned in his throat.

Jiang Ting bypassed him and walked out of the kitchen.

·

That night Yan Yan tossed and turned for a long time without falling asleep, as if some kind of fiery liquid was flowing back and forth in the central nervous system.It took a long time before he fell into a dreamland in a daze. Broken, fiery, and chaotic fragments were intertwined in the depths of his consciousness, forming scenes of secret, blurred and bizarre pictures.

I don't know how many hours later, the phone by the bedside rang through the night and rang sharply.

"...!!"

Yan Yan sat up in a jerk, shook his head violently, and answered the phone reflexively, with a voice so hoarse that he couldn't hear it: "Hello? Who?"

"Brother Yan, something happened." Ma Xiang on the phone was also full of tiredness: "The Shen family couple drove to Tianzong Mountain to pick up their son in the middle of the night, and found that Shen Xiaoqi was really missing, and he was not with his classmates at all. Together."

Yan Yan was immersed in the anger of being interrupted by some kind of ambiguous dream, and an evil fire rushed straight to the top of his head: "Is this fucking over?!"

"Listen to me, this time it's true." Ma Xiang has probably left his anger and is in a state of calm beyond nothingness: "The Shen family and his wife received an anonymous phone call, which contained Shen Xiaoqi's heartbreaking screams and Crying for help, at the same time the kidnapper said that there are still 38 hours and 52 minutes before the execution time."

Yan Yan frowned and said, "What?" At the same time, he subconsciously glanced at the time.

On the bedside alarm clock, numbers jumped in the dark, emitting a faint green light—5:35 in the morning.