What's in the depths II

On the night of the New Year's Eve, few shops were still open. The two of them braved the heavy snow and ran for three or four miles to find a coffee shop. Compared with the usual full seats, it seemed deserted few.

The two found a seat by the window and sat down, and ordered two cups of American coffee.

Affectionate pop music was playing in the coffee shop, and the unique bitter aroma of coffee wafted in the air, mixed with the smell of sweet milk, which made Yun Qian, who had just finished arguing with Old Man Yun, relax a lot.

He was holding his mobile phone with his head down, replying those seemingly insincere copy-pasted New Year's greeting text messages, but he didn't know that An Yan on the opposite side was staring at him motionlessly.

Looking from here, only a small piece of white scalp can be seen on the top of his head, and the honey-colored hair seems to emit a sweet smell like sugar under the soft light.

There are many types of sugar, including slightly bitter chocolate, and sweet and rich milk candy, but Yunqian, who is leaning on the floor-to-ceiling window and giggling with his mobile phone, thinks of grape-flavored fruit every time he thinks of him Sugar, that is one of the few but favorite sweetness.

An Yan smiled and turned to look out the window.

When he was living with me, he really caused himself a lot of trouble. When the shower pipe in the bathroom didn’t come out, he volunteered to fix it, but he tore the water pipe, spraying water all over his head, and he was screaming The pipe must have been deliberately embarrassing him.

He loves to play and has a poor memory. He often runs to play games while the soup is still boiling in the pot. Once the water in the pot was boiled dry and the pot was burnt black. The whole room was scalded and ran around.

But just before the Spring Festival, he was ordered by his father to move back, and the moment he closed the door and left, the room seemed to be empty for a moment, and a huge sense of loss struck, and An Yan himself was like a fool Standing in the empty living room, looking at the dinner he left before leaving.

It turns out that once people have something, they will become greedy.

When my colleagues chatted and mentioned him before, everyone was full of disgust, saying that he was noisy and not serious, but they would still say that they liked him very much, because he was like a little sun, and everywhere he went was gentle and warm. .

The guy was still holding his mobile phone and giggling, as if even if the sky fell, it wouldn't affect him.

An Yan's fingers trembled, and he thought for a long time, but finally he couldn't say the phrase "Do you want to move back?"

At this time, Yunqian finally raised his head from the phone, looked at An Yan, and asked curiously: "Aren't you going to drink it? It tastes good."

"This." An Yan suddenly lowered his head, took out a small velvet blue box from his coat pocket, and pushed it over, "The gift for you, I just passed by the supermarket to buy it, just happened to meet you."

Yunqian looked at the small box, opened his mouth in an "O" shape: "Give it to me?"

"You took care of me for so long before, I'm sorry to trouble you, it's a thank you."

And at this moment, Yunqian started to beat the snare drum in his heart again, he suddenly couldn't understand An Yan, did he hang around outside so late at night to buy gifts for himself?

Yunqian took the box, held it reverently in the palm of his hand, and swallowed nervously.

When the box was opened, it was a silver-white Prada keychain. Yunqian had seen this metal keychain on the Internet by accident before, and the price on the official website was more than 2000. keychain.

Now, a fool appeared, and it turned out to be An Yan.

"This... isn't it too expensive?" Yun Qian was a little embarrassed to accept it.

"It's okay, take it." An Yan picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip in disguise.

This is the first time I received such an expensive gift, and the person who gave it was An Yan. Yunqian was about to cry right now, caressing the not-so-good-looking souvenir like a souvenir that has never seen the world. keychain.

But after thinking about it, An Yan is originally a rich second generation, maybe 2000 yuan is just a drop in the ocean for him.

Just thinking about it makes me happy.

Yunqian immediately took out the key chain from his pocket, pinned the key chain on the key chain, and raised an eyebrow at An Yan, grinning and said: "Thank you, I will definitely carry it with me every day, wait for me When I get old, I will leave it to my son and daughter, and pass it on like a family heirloom."

An Yan smiled and looked at his watch: "It's getting late, let's go back."

Upon hearing this, Yunqian immediately picked up the coffee "Dun Dun Dun" and drank it all. After wiping his mouth, he stood up and said, "I'll take you back."

At three o'clock in the morning on the street, the crowd receded, and occasionally a young couple holding flowers smiled sweetly and passed by the two.

"That..." Yunqian scratched his cheeks and said cautiously, "It's Valentine's Day in a week, how are you going to spend it?"

This question is really a bit strange. For naked bachelors like them, Valentine's Day is not their holiday at all. How can they spend it as usual?

"No special plans." An Yan said softly.

"Then... would you mind... spending time with me? I mean just having a meal together, that kind of holiday."

"Okay." For the first time ever, An Yan didn't say "no lunch" or "very busy work" to refuse him, but agreed without hesitation.

Yunqian was so excited right now that he wanted to do a set of military punches on the spot, but he held back, put his hands in his coat pockets, and quietly stroked the keychain, as if his heart had been filled with honey.

On this long and lonely road of chasing his wife slowly, it seems that I have finally seen a glimmer of light, victory is in sight, and I have to continue to work hard.

Arriving downstairs at An Yan's house, An Yan told him to go back quickly when he got home, otherwise Dad would have to wait in a hurry.

Yunqian looked at him reluctantly, was dazed for a while, and then hurriedly said: "Then I'll go back first, and thank you for the gift."

An Yan didn't say anything more, turned around and went upstairs.

Even if it is a big brand, people who spend more than 2000 to buy a keychain will still make people feel stupid and have a lot of money.

But in fact, Yunqian didn't know at all. This key chain is just similar to the one he saw on the official website, but it is not the same one. In fact, this is a Chinese New Year couple model launched by Prada. If you look carefully, you will know It was found that on the back of the keychain letters, two exquisite English letters were engraved——

Full spell PerfectCouple.

Interpretation of "a natural pair".

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Yunqian always thought that the phrase "on call" that Lao Li said before the holiday was just a joke. It wasn't until the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year that Yu Yuan called him to the police station, and Yunqian realized that he was really too young. .

But when he arrived at the police station, Yunqian unexpectedly found that everyone was there.

"Yu team, what's the situation? Why are you all here?"

Yu Yuan sat in front of the computer with a cigarette in his mouth, his brows furrowed into a knot: "The child is lost."

"Missing the child?"

"Yes, half a month ago someone went to the police station to report that the child was missing. The police station searched for more than ten days but found no clues, so they had to report it."

Yun Qian was puzzled: "That's a crime to alarm so many people."

"More than one has been lost. We have been receiving work reports from other police stations and the County Public Security Bureau since the day before yesterday. There are five missing persons this time, all boys. The oldest is 13 years old and the youngest is 11 years old. They're all from the same village."

Yu Yuan said, shaking his head regretfully: "These five families haven't had a good time for many years. The whole family went out to look for children from door to door. We started looking for children yesterday. Yes, there is no clue. Originally, Lao Li said that he didn't want me and you new policemen. Said, let you spend time with your family at home, but now there are not enough people, so we can only call them all."

Yunqian looked at the information of the five missing children on the screen, and suddenly exclaimed: "This child's grandma found our house on New Year's Eve."

Yu Yuan sighed: "The children live in a relatively backward place. There is no surveillance or camera. Only eyewitnesses said that the last time they saw them was on the mountain behind the village. The children said that they went up the mountain together to catch pheasants, and they wanted to add more to the family for the New Year." It’s a hard dish, but I haven’t seen anyone so far.”

"Have you sent someone to look for it in the mountains?"

"I went, but it just snowed heavily two days ago, and the snow covered the mountain. Now the police station and the Public Security Bureau have dispatched 130 policemen to clear the snow there, fearing that the snow will melt and wash away the footprints."

"What about us?"

"Go too, now you go change your clothes and go help together."

Yunqian nodded, and immediately rushed to the office to change into the police uniform, pinned the number plate, and rummaged through the box to find gloves, put them on, and followed Yu Yuan and the others into the police car bound for Majiazhuang.

In the past few days, everyone has been busy celebrating the New Year at home, and no one has cleared the road. The snow was crushed by the car and formed a thick layer of ice. The police car without snow chains skidded on the road, and there were several traffic accidents.

After floating like this for more than three hours, everyone finally arrived at Majiazhuang before noon.

At a glance, the mountain behind the village is not too high and the area is not too big, about a few thousand acres. More than 100 police officers are struggling to shovel snow halfway up the mountain, and then transport it down the mountain.

Yunqian panicked when he saw the big project: "How long will it take to shovel such a big place?"

Yu Yuan got out of the car, put on gloves, and habitually spit into the palm of his hand, then opened the trunk and took out the assembly shovel: "Stop complaining, let's do it as soon as possible."

In fact, the reason why the police expend so much police force to shovel snow here is obvious.

A camera was installed on the national road closest to the village, but the children were not seen from the camera, so the children did not leave the village. This was probably the worst result—the children had already died in the mountains.

However, some villagers also said that children on this mountain often come to play and are very familiar with the terrain. The day they went up the mountain was sunny and there was no rain or snow. How could they get lost and die in the mountain.

After shoveling snow with a few shovels, Yunqian felt his hands were cold and itchy. This is indeed not a comfortable livelihood. There are thousands of acres of mountains covered with snow, and snow plows cannot be driven up. What can be shoveled by manpower alone? Time is the head.

The family members of several missing persons gathered at the bottom of the mountain, looking at the policemen and the snow-covered mountains, they couldn't help feeling sad.

They don't want to believe that something happened to their children in the mountains, because it doesn't make sense anyway. They prefer to believe that the children entered the county town along the national road, and then they couldn't find their way home, and they have been wandering outside. .

After six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky began to darken. In addition to the 200 policemen assigned by the Criminal Investigation Bureau, these [-] policemen shoveled the snow in the mountains for two days, and finally cleared away most of the accumulated snow. Snow, a group of people shouted to call it a day.

Yunqian rubbed his almost numb arms, panting desperately while sitting in the car.

If this goes on like this, I really can't stand it anymore.

"We have searched the top of this mountain, and we haven't even seen a single person. Could it be that the missing person is not in the mountain at all?" Su Wenyu asked almost angrily.

"The exit of this village is close to the national highway. If the children leave the village, they will be photographed by surveillance, but in fact there is no reason. The five boys disappeared for no reason, and they are not too young, even if they are playful. As for being so innumerable." Yu Yuan took off his gloves, and took out the cigarette case with trembling hands.

He shoveled snow from noon until night, and now his hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and his ten fingers were swollen like carrots.

"Will it go up the mountain from this side and down the mountain from the other side, and what is behind the mountain?"

"It's the road to another village."

"Then the children went to the neighboring village!" Su Wenyu slapped his thigh and sat up in shock.

"I have inquired, and the villagers over there said they have never seen these children."

In the dark night, the sparks from the cigarette butt flicker, reflecting a vicissitudes of life face.

"You said that the missing person notices have been scrolling and scrolling on the LED screen in the central square. After so many days, no one has seen it."

"Killed? Or...kidnapped?" Thinking of this possibility, Yun Qian, who was always smiling, couldn't help frowning.

Yu Yuan shook his head: "The possibility of kidnapping is not very high. One is that the children's family members are all honest people with a good temper, and they have never had any conflicts with others. The other is...you have seen it too. Clean peasants, if you kidnap them, you have to wait for them to eat and drink, maybe even make ends meet, the kidnappers are not so stupid."

Yunqian sighed, rubbed his red and swollen hands, and began to consider other possibilities.

A pale orange light shone in the distance, as if someone was holding a wolf-eyed flashlight and kept shaking it, the light also trembled.

Several people looked up and saw a police car approaching slowly on the bumpy path.

"Who, come here at this time, you can really pick your time." Yun Qian couldn't help mocking.

The car stopped, the door opened, a long leg stepped down, and the leather shoes were polished brighter than the mirror, and the suit pants wrapped around the long legs were neat without even a pleat.

Then, the man got out of the car, and just as he was going to that stop, he heard Yunqian's exclamation.

"An'an, An'an, forensic doctor?!"

Yun Qian, who was still there just now, "I'm dying, I'm exhausted and I can't get up", now jumped out of the car like a chicken blood, just like a child waiting for his parents to pick him up in the kindergarten He ran over like bouncing and jumping.

"Why did you come here?" He was full of surprise, even his eyes were shining.

"I heard from other people that you came to clear the snow in the mountains, so come and see if you can help."

"Forensic doctor An, the child is dead and you come to breastfeed. The snot dripped from your mouth and you know you have thrown it away. After the snow is cleared, you come and follow along to claim credit. With your bones, you should sit in the forensic department. Don't do us a disservice. "Su Wenyu joked.

"Can you talk, you, you are too lazy to allow others to be active?" Yun Qian scolded back.

Su Wenyu curled his lips, retracted his body and sat down in the car.

"Why do you wear so little? It's very cold in the mountains." Looking at the thin suit jacket on An Yan's body, Yun Qian felt distressed.

I put on two warm clothes inside, and I was shivering from the cold. An Yan wouldn't be like an old popsicle if he wore this.

As he spoke, he tentatively touched An Yan's hand.

Sure enough, both summer and winter are icy.

"Okay, okay, you two don't get bored, go to the guest house to eat something, go to bed early, and continue to shovel tomorrow." Yu Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and stepped into the car .

After waiting for a long time, Yunqian did not get into the car, so he opened the window and poked his head out to have a look, only to find that this ungrateful person had already run away and sat in An Yan's car.

"No prospect." Yu Yuan cursed in a low voice and started the car.

A group of people rushed to the guest house in a mighty manner, and after eating some hot meals, they planned to take a bath first and then go to sleep.

Two hundred people squeezed the small guest house so tight that not even an ant could crawl in.

There are not so many rooms, so two people can only squeeze into one room. Lao Li meant to go to bed quickly, and he will wake up at five o'clock tomorrow. The temperature will start to return these days, and he is afraid that the snow will melt quickly. Get that bit of snow clean.

It is natural for Yunqian to sleep with An Yan, but Su Wenyu said that he would not sleep with Yu Yuan, saying that his feet were hot and his eyes were hot, and he wanted to live a few more years, and then he started blowing Yunqian's rainbow fart , Said that he has his own purification system, clean and lovable, and he will not let go if he is pulled.

"Let go, just make up for one night, he will be sad if you dislike him so much." Yun Qian pulled Su Wenyu's hand hard to let him go away.

"Come on, if he knows that he is sad, he will wash his feet honestly. I don't care. If you feel sorry for him, you sleep with him. I will sleep with Forensic Doctor An."

"Actually..." While the two were arguing endlessly, An Yan, who had been silent at the side, suddenly said, "Actually, I don't like to wash my feet either, maybe even worse than Yu team."

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In the room, Yun Qian had been clutching his stomach and laughing for almost half an hour, while An Yan was sitting on the sidelines busy with his own business in front of the computer.

"An forensic doctor, did you see Su Wenyu's complex and even suspicious expression when you said that sentence, he really believed it, I laughed so hard, he actually slept in the same room with Yu Dui obediently hahahaha!"

An Yan smiled and shook his head helplessly.

"So you don't want to see Su Wenyu so much, you don't hesitate to destroy your reputation."

An Yan discovered that Yunqian was really dull.

"It's getting late, go to bed."

Yun Qian jumped onto the bed like a monkey after listening, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at An Yan and asked, "Do you sleep inside or outside?"

"Outside."

Yunqian immediately pretended to salute him: "Got it, sir, then I'll sleep inside."

After that, he lay down obediently.

In the past, when Yunqian lived in An Yan's house, he always slept on the sofa. An Yan always got up early. Every time he went to the living room when he got up together, he would always see Yunqian falling to the bottom of the sofa because of dishonesty in sleeping. The last time he was studying So it was the same when I was sleeping on the sofa with him, this person always seemed to have endless energy, sleeping like a pancake, tossing and turning, if I didn't drag him, I would probably fall to the sofa again under.

The bed in the hostel is not big, it’s a bit crowded for two people to sleep, Su Wenyu next door is still arguing with Yu Yuan about washing feet, Yun Qian is so sleepy after a day of shoveling snow, lying on his side in a daze Looking inside, An Yan changed his pajamas.

In fact, this is the first time An Yan has shared the same bed with someone since he can remember more than 20 years ago. He is not used to it, but he does not find it awkward.

When he was lying down, Yunqian was already snoring. His snoring sound was really unreal, just like the sound of an old-fashioned tractor starting in the countryside. Even Yu Su and the two next door could hear it clearly.

As soon as An Yan closed his eyes, he felt a hand reach out to him in a trance, and then grabbed the corner of his pajamas.

Then under the faint moonlight, An Yan saw a delicate and peaceful sleeping face. He didn't know what dream he had, and he smiled like a silly son of a landlord's family.

An Yan smiled, stretched out his hand to cover that hand, didn't dare to use force, just held it lightly.

Maybe I am a little greedy.

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In the early morning of the next day, it was still dark, and Yu Yuan had been knocking on doors from room to room and calling for someone.

Yun Qian reluctantly got up from the bed rubbing his sleepy eyes, sat in a daze for a while, and then looked at An Yan who had already washed up and was sitting at the table drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.

"Have you woken up! What is the ink stain!" Yu Yuan banged on the door dissatisfied outside.

Wearing a tie and wearing a tie, Yun Qian replied in a hoarse voice, "Get up, why are you rushing?"

Several people ate breakfast with sore backs, and rushed to the back mountain tiredly in the early morning that was just slightly bright.

It was endless snow shoveling again. After a few days, in this extremely harsh environment and overworked, several police officers were overwhelmed and collapsed. I heard that the city public security department also sent a lot of people to go Come help, it'll be here soon.

Sure enough, just after nine o'clock, a siren sounded not far away, and a dozen police cars and a bus came along the rugged mountain road.

The car stopped, and the first to jump out was a policeman who was thinner than Yunqian. When he saw An Yan, he ran over to say hello warmly as if he had met some old acquaintance.

"Oh, An Forensic Doctor, long time no see, he looks even more handsome."

The man patted An Yan's shoulder vigorously, his tone full of jokes.

Yun Qian cast a dissatisfied glance at his salty pig's hand resting on An Yan's shoulder, and moved closer to An Yan without any trace.

An Yan also just cared about shoveling the snow and didn't pay much attention to him.

"Eh? You? It's a new face. I haven't seen it before. You're new?" The man walked up to Yunqian again and looked him up and down.

"Yeah, I'm new here." Probably because he thought that person was rude, and Yun Qian didn't want to talk to him too much.

"Ah, hello, my surname is Zhu. I used to be the captain of the first team of the Criminal Investigation Department of the General Bureau of Criminal Investigation. My name is Zhu Yuhan. I have already left when you first came, so you may not know me. This time the superior sent us down to assist Handle the case, and I will teach you more in the future.”

The man announced his family name, and babbled again, anyway, Yunqian didn't hear it very well, but just by hearing the name, Yunqian probably knew who he was.

One of the parties involved in the huge infection case in Huiyuan City last summer. After the case was closed, he was promoted to three ranks and directly jumped to the senior of the Provincial Police Department.

When seeing old acquaintances, everyone just greeted them enthusiastically, but did not dare to slack off in the work of shoveling snow.

Until around four o'clock in the afternoon, it took everyone four days to clear the snow on the mountain. After the snow shoveling was completed, everyone immediately devoted themselves to the work of searching for the missing persons.

After being cleared, the mountain is slightly muddy, and more than 200 people have damaged the traces of the scene by activities in the mountain, but this is also impossible.

Several search and rescue dogs smelled the past along the mountain road, trying to find the smell of the missing person.

But until after eight o'clock at night, there was still nothing, and everyone was somewhat disappointed.

At this time, a villager suddenly ran over, and he carefully asked if the children would be kidnapped.

Yu Yuan reassured him that the possibility of kidnapping was unlikely, and it was possible that he went down the mountain from the other side to the next door and got lost on the main road.

Just when everyone was at a loss, the villager suddenly said:

"I remembered that on the day of No. 19, when I got firewood and came down from the mountain, I saw a strange man, whom I had never seen before."