Breaking Through the Clouds

In the early morning, the headlights were turned off in the ward, and the bed was tightly covered by a cloth curtain. Only the instruments flickered in the darkness.The liquid in the infusion bottle fell drop by drop, the heartbeat monitor ticked regularly, and suddenly there was an almost inaudible groan from inside the curtain.

Jiang Ting suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and got out of bed.

Sure enough, Yan Yan's anesthetic had worn off, and the first wave of pain came quietly in his half-consciousness, making him toss and turn in a daze. Crumpled sheets.

Jiang Ting immediately rang the bell, and the chief expert specially shifted to be on duty tonight to take care of Yan Mao, personally brought the nurse over to check his physical signs, nodded and said: "The heartbeat, blood pressure and general condition are pretty good, and the postoperative pain is really normal. It’s just that this young man is too strong, the family members have to watch carefully, and don’t let him turn around and press on the wound.”

Jiang Ting saw that Yan Mo's brows were tightly frowned, he couldn't help moaning, his face and neck were drenched in sweat, and he asked, "Can I get a painkiller injection?"

Before the director could speak, the new nurse said bluntly, "Are the policemen in the provincial capital afraid of pain?"

Jiang Ting said, "Police are human beings, how can they not be afraid of pain?"

The director glared at the little nurse, and immediately urged her to go down and get the painkiller needle, and give it to Yan Yan himself.After a few minutes, Yan Xie really calmed down, the hand that was clenched tightly on the bed sheet was released, and she even let out an even and peaceful breathing sound.

"The first night after the operation is always difficult. Family members should pay attention to the situation at any time, and ring the bell immediately if you have any questions..." The director explained a few precautions in detail. Seeing that Jiang Ting clearly agreed, he took the little girl The nurse left the ward.

Jiang Ting returned to the hospital bed, completely relieved of sleepiness.

Yan Xie's condition seemed to be much more stable than before, and his face was not as yellow and blue as before, but the cold sweat from the pain had not completely faded away.Jiang Ting stared blankly for a while, then suddenly remembered something, got up and wrung a hot towel back, carefully wiped off the sweat from his forehead and cheeks, and carefully wiped his wet neck little by little.

But just as the towel dipped into his throat, Jiang Ting suddenly paused—his hand was suddenly grabbed by Yan Xie.

"..." Yan Yan opened his eyes, his eyes were still very loose, and his lips moved a few times: "...Jiang..."

"Hush," Jiang Ting wanted to pull his hand out: "It's late, don't talk."

But as soon as he tried hard, he couldn't break free.Yan Yan stared straight at Jiang Ting in front of him, his eyes gradually brightened, and he seemed to be more awake than before the painkiller injection: "Why are you...here..."

Jiang Ting didn't answer the question, but withdrew his hand: "Go to sleep for a while, don't you feel hurt?"

"You... are here to take care of me?"

In the middle of the night, the ward was quiet, and Jiang Ting didn't make a sound.

A barely visible smile appeared in Yan Yan's eyes, and he said, "But I'm in so much pain, I can't sleep because of the pain."

Jiang Tingxin said, yes, the painkiller injection just now probably hit the dog.

"Give me your hand...it won't hurt if you give it to me."

The nurse's light footsteps could be heard from the far side of the corridor, and the pale light passed through the crack of the door, drawing an ambiguous and warm shadow for this small space.Jiang Ting wanted to stand up and leave, but he was stopped by Yan Yan's gesture of getting up.

No one noticed this little secret stalemate, the iron wheels of the medicine cart outside the door approached and then moved away.

Finally, Jiang Ting let out a sigh of relief, with a helplessness that he couldn't even hear in the ending, he threw the towel on the bedside table, held Yan Mo's hand, and Yan Mo immediately squeezed it tightly to his chest.

"Do you feel this heart beating?" Yan Yan asked in a low voice in the dark.

Jiang Ting said "hmm": "What?"

"It's jumping so fast now."

Jiang Ting's expression changed slightly, but he didn't speak.Every beat in the chest under the palms was extraordinarily hot and clear, they maintained this posture, and after a long, long time, Yan Mao's breathing finally returned to drowsy and long.

He fell asleep.

Jiang Ting didn't move, just sat there quietly.

·

A week later.

Public telephone booths on the streets of Jiangyang County.

"I know, I'm fine. I've been discharged from the hospital and stayed in the hostel... Find someone to pick me up, and you won't use it..."

Yang Mei's voice on the other end of the phone was like ten sharp and sharp nails scratching the small iron plate fiercely: "How can I not pass? How can I not pass?! Can that dead ghost surnamed Yan drive? Why? Did you fall into the river? Did you catch the person who caused the accident? Why didn’t you tell me anything these days? Where do you live? Who cooks for you? Xiao Liu!! Xiao Liu drove us to Jiangyang, now go— —!!"

Jiang Ting interrupted several times but couldn't get in. There was an earth-shattering explosion like firecrackers from the receiver, so he had to hang up the phone.

In the morning, Jiang Ting was discharged from the hospital to buy some Chinese herbal medicines, and he ordered a live fish at the restaurant next to the hospital. He asked the boss to kill it and boiled a pot of fish soup with the medicines. There was a trace of fishy smell, and I was going to take it back to supplement Yan Mao's nutrition.

——Although Yan Xie may not need any nutritional supplements, after staying in the hospital for a few days, all the doctors and nurses agreed that the person who needs to rest in bed should be Jiang Ting no matter how you look at it.

Jiang Ting held a thermos bucket in his left hand and a cup of hot soybean milk in his right. As soon as he entered the hospital gate, he heard a familiar loud voice behind him: "Hey, Consultant Lu!"

When he turned around, it was Ma Xiang who caught up with him as expected.

"What are you doing, making soup? Oh, let me tell you, Brother Yan doesn't need this at all. He is as strong as a male dog. On the contrary, you are scared and fell into the water. You really need to make up for it."

Jiang Ting ignored this, and handed the thermos to Ma Xiang to carry: "Why are you here?"

"Jiangyang County Police Station screened all suspicious vehicles at the time of the incident, and the results have been released. Deputy Bureau Wei said that we will leave for Jianning in the afternoon. No, I will report to Brother Yan before leaving. "

Jiang Ting nodded and said nothing, and did not ask how the screening results were.

Although Ma Xiang was careless, in fact, there were subtleties in the coarseness, and he would not casually tell Consultant Lu about this level of sensitive information without Yan Yan's approval. Both of them knew this well.

"How's the condition of the two hostages?" Jiang Ting asked after taking a sip of soy milk.

Ma Xiang said: "Hey, I was just about to talk about this. Buwei woke up once in the morning and passed out again. The doctor said that the mental stimulation might be too much, and it is uncertain when she will be questioned by the police. Shen Xiaoqi's situation is more dangerous. Maybe he fell on his head, and he is still in the ICU, and it is said that the doctor can't estimate when he will wake up."

"Is there any danger of becoming a vegetable?"

"It's hard to say, I think Xuan." Ma Xiang sighed: "There is another thing that is particularly evil - Director Lu and Qin's deputy detachment personally led people to block the entrances and exits of Tianzong Mountain. After two days of searching, they did not find anything. Suspicious figure of kidnapper, now the whole city bureau is going crazy, hey."

Jiang Ting frowned, and walked slowly across the parking lot in front of the hospital building.

His legs are long and his steps are not small, but his pace is very steady and slow. Ma Xiang had to slow down a little bit to follow him. After a while, Jiang Ting murmured: "The point of solving this case is Shen Xiaoqi. Who is the kidnapper?" People, how did they appear in Tianzong Mountain that day, have you tried to contact the two children in any way before, including tracking, monitoring, monitoring, social software chat private messages, etc.; it is probably not enough to rely on Buwei for this information. I still tend to get more clues from Shen Xiaoqi."

Ma Xiang nodded thoughtfully and agreed, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, do you know that Lao Gao picked up a mineral water bottle at the scene?"

"Brother Yan, I listened to you when you answered the phone yesterday, but I didn't hear it clearly. Did you get the result of the test?"

"The result is yes, but... the fingerprints on the bottle body and the DNA on the bottle mouth point to the same point." Ma Xiang was obviously also very confused, and said, "Only Shen Xiaoqi has touched this water bottle."

Jiang Ting stopped abruptly, as if he suddenly thought of something, his eyes were slightly startled.

At this time, they had already reached the entrance of the inpatient department building, and the two of them looked at each other without saying a word.It took several seconds for Jiang Ting to react. After drinking the last sip of soy milk, he raised the empty plastic cup: "Wait for me, let's go up and talk." He turned and walked towards the trash can in the distance.

By the noon visit time, the population of the inpatient department increased.Ma Xiang stood on the steps in front of the building, holding the thermos bucket to avoid a few steps to the side, let a few waves of doctors and patients' family members pass by, looked up and saw Jiang Ting throwing the soybean milk cup into the trash can in the distance, turned to Come here.

"Little horse!" Suddenly came a shout from behind.

Ma Xiang looked back, and at the same time Jiang Ting followed suit.

Jiang stopped for a moment.

Deputy Bureau Wei, in plain clothes and bag, was walking from the gate of the hospital with fruits in his hand, and while climbing the steps, he turned to Ma Xiang unexpectedly: "I said, why can't you see anyone at noon, so you came to see Yan Yan too , If I had known earlier, I would have given you a ride—why are you standing at this gate?"

A few meters away, Jiang Ting took half a step back and dodged to hide among a large group of people who happened to pass by.

Ma Xiang: "Ah, I'm..."

"Where are you waiting?" Deputy Bureau Wei asked casually.

Out of the corner of Ma Xiang's eyes, he glanced at the place where Jiang Ting was standing just now, and the person was gone.

"——Oh, no," Ma Xiang's voice paused slightly, and then he turned back to Deputy Director Wei: "I came alone, and I was just wondering whether to go back and buy more fruit, and I happened to run into you."

As he said that, he lifted the thermos bucket on the handle: "Fortunately, I brought chicken soup, otherwise the little bananas and apples sold at the entrance of the hospital will be inferior to your imported fruit basket, hey, that would be inferior!"

Bureau Wei couldn't help laughing: "Look at that monkey, your deputy Yan's detachment still lacks such a stutter? Go up."

Deputy Bureau Wei walked into the gate with a fruit basket in his hands. Ma Xiang looked not far away, just before Ma Xiang turned around, and met Jiang Ting's sight behind the crowd.

Jiang Ting waved his hand to signal him to go quickly, and silently mouthed two words: Thank you.

Ma Xiang nodded, followed Deputy Bureau Wei and left in a hurry.

·

Yan Mao leaned against the head of the hospital bed unhappily, looking at his watch every 30 seconds.

Jiang Ting was discharged from the hospital the next day after the operation, and would visit him every day after that.It's really just two eyes, stepping on the point to deliver a lunch and then leave, so he doesn't know whether to be content and grateful to Team Jiang washing his hands and delivering the soup himself, or pointing at Jiang Ting's nose and scolding his mother - that's fine, it's even more excessive Today, 10 minutes have passed since the usual meal delivery point, and Team Jiang, who fished out of the water and patted his ass as if nothing happened, has not yet appeared.

Yan Yan was thinking about whether to struggle to go to the nurse's station, and called the nurse to ask, when suddenly the door of the ward opened.

"Why did I come, I have been waiting for a long time—"

Yan Yan's voice choked up, Deputy Director Wei stood at the door inexplicably: "Huh?"

The two looked at each other, Ma Xiang poked his head out from behind Wei Ju on tiptoe, and kept making gestures to Yan Xie.

The ward was quiet for a few seconds, and then Yan Xie watched Deputy Director Wei's old face that had stinked for decades blushed, covered his mouth and coughed, mixed with struggles, contradictions, hesitant to speak, and unconcealed guilt. Together, it took a long time to hold back a sentence:

"...It's not that I don't want to come to see you. Alas, I've been busy investigating you for the past few days. It's not like you don't know... You said that you are being coquettish, kid."

Yan Yan: "..."

Ma Xiang: "..."

It was like a thunderbolt crashing down from the sky, Yan Mao was in a turbulent heart, and subconsciously searched eighteen back and forth in his mind-yes, the last time Wei Yao called him "you child" was probably the first time 20 years ago When I was arrested and sent to the police station because of gang fights, it became "you dog X" afterwards.

Deputy Bureau Wei probably also felt that the old face was a bit unbearable, so he quickly put the fruit basket on the bedside, and changed the subject: "How are you recovering, where are your parents?"

Yan Yan was not stunned: "No wonder you brought such a big basket of fruit, so you came to see my parents?"

Deputy Bureau Wei almost slapped him on the forehead: "Do I need to bring such an expensive fruit to see you? Do you eat fruit like a dog? Why don't you just bring a bowl of braised pork?"

"Well said!" Ma Xiang applauded.

Team Jiang didn't wait, but when something disrupted the situation, Yan Yan was full of resentment and had nowhere to vent, and said weakly: "Don't think about it, I didn't let my parents be notified. What did Ma Xiang bring to eat? Is there any meat?" ? Hurry up I'm starving."

"What, nonsense! How can you not tell the family about such a big thing!" Deputy Director Wei was anxious when he heard this, and immediately reached for his mobile phone to call the old and beautiful Zeng Cuicui.Unexpectedly, as soon as the address book was opened, the phone was snatched away by Yan Jiejie quickly, and it was stuffed under the quilt: "Don't hit, don't hit!"

"Are you crazy? If you don't tell the family, how can I explain to your father if something goes wrong?"

"If you tell them, my mother will either force me to resign later, or buy a bunch of [-]th-tier internet celebrities to line up and rape me, believe it or not?!"

Deputy Director Wei: "..."

This is really like what the young and beautiful Zeng Cuicui can do.

Deputy Bureau Wei had no choice but to give in: "If it's a big deal, you should dedicate yourself to the country, and you won't suffer."

Yan Yan whimpered and whimpered, forcing Wei Yao to let go of his mouth and agree to keep it from his family. After he returned to Jianning after he was discharged from the hospital, he would tell his parents about it. The keen sense of smell of the old criminal investigator for many years judged that the mobile phone was polluted by the smell of Yan Mao's feet, and he wiped it twice with a towel before answering it.

"Then who will take care of you these days?"

Yan Yan said: "Oh, you asked about this. There is a classmate of my police academy named Lu who lives in Jiangyang County. He also helped Li Yuxin to be interrogated this time. He took care of me overnight after the operation last week. .”

After their city bureau went down to the grassroots level, they asked the local police to help greet them and clear up contacts. These are relatively common things, and Wei Yao didn't care. He watched Ma Xiang fill out a bowl of snow-white soup from the thermos and hand it to Yan Mo. , casually asked: "Hey? Isn't this fish soup?"

Yan Mo stirred with a spoon without any appetite: "Yeah, what's the matter?"

"Xiao Ma just told me it was chicken soup?"

Yan Xi took a spoonful.

"I... I ordered it from the restaurant downstairs," Ma Xiang slapped his head: "If I remember it, I'll forget it. Fish soup is better, and the fish soup is light."

Yan Xie immediately realized what happened, the corner of his mouth curled up uncontrollably, and he took a sip of the fish soup with relish: "Mmm! Not bad! The fish soup is indeed delicious!"

Ma Xiang rubbed his head and laughed silently, but Deputy Director Wei really thought this fish soup was very delicious, wrinkled his nose in doubt and smelled it, but there was no oil or salt, the old man didn't smell anything delicious Come.

"What's the matter with Bureau Wei?" Yan Xie hurriedly changed the topic, and asked, "You are finally willing to come to see me today. It should be because the search has made progress?"

Bureau Wei was stunned by "finally willing to come and see me", but the old man, who felt wronged, was embarrassed to dislike him, so he muttered a few words before saying: "There is progress, there is indeed progress."

"uh-huh?"

"The truck that caused the accident blocked the license plate number when the incident happened, but Lao Huang led the Criminal Investigation Squadron of the Jiangyang County Police Station to investigate for two days and two nights, and finally found a highly suspicious target truck at the entrance of a national highway near Jiangyang County. The driver's face was photographed. Now the traffic video and security monitoring of the nearby roads have been transferred to the Municipal Bureau, and we are preparing Skynet to lock the escape route of the vehicle involved in the accident, and an accurate result will be available within two or three days at most."

Jiangyang County is not a backcountry, and the national security monitoring system is relatively well established. This kind of low-level criminal absconding is unlikely to escape the grasp of criminal investigators.

Yan Yan sipped the fishbone: "That's a good thing, hurry up and catch these grandchildren, they are fucking with the kidnappers in all likelihood."

"In view of the fact that Li Yuxin was silenced, this possibility is indeed very high, but I found a doubtful point that is difficult to explain."

"what?"

Deputy Bureau Wei asked without answering, "Do you still remember Fan Zhengyuan?"

Yan Mao was slightly taken aback, and then remembered the name.

——Fan Zhengyuan, also known as Fan Si, chased and killed Jiang Ting in the hospital and ran away. He was strangled to death by Ajie and crushed into a meat paste, which was spread on the highway in a thrilling manner.

"Fan Zhengyuan once shot you in the south alley of Sanmao Street in Jianning City. The bullet head was left at the scene, but it was impossible to trace it because there was no rifling. It was preserved by the technical team as one of the physical evidence of the [-] case. "

Yan Xie blinked and signaled Deputy Bureau Wei to continue.

"The earth-made bullets shot at you by several criminals, including the bullets that caused your front and rear piercing wounds, were all left in the river, and due to limited conditions, all of them have not been salvaged yet. So I can only have Xiao Zhang's arm The warhead dug out was sent for composition inspection, and it was found that its metal composition and gunpowder residue were exactly the same as the bullet left by Fan Zhengyuan.”

Everyone is an old criminal policeman of more than ten years or even decades, and Yan Xie understood what Deputy Director Wei meant almost as soon as the words fell to the ground.

His face changed.

"The quality of the bullets forged by the black workshop is very unstable. If the metal and gunpowder components of the two bullets are exactly the same, it can only show one thing: they are the same batch of products. That is to say, the Fan Zhengyuan who attacked you and this It is very likely that several criminals are connected in some way."

Deputy Bureau Wei paused for a moment, then looked at Yan Yan solemnly:

"It's even possible that their real target is not Li Yuxin, but you."