I quietly watch you play

The assistant beside Jiang Xiaoteng watched Lin Mu go away, and habitually bowed slightly: "Sir, do you believe what he said?"

"I never talk to people about such a luxury as trust." Jiang Xiaoteng motioned him to drive, his eyes slightly closed, showing fatigue, "Do as he said, prepare a house for him, it may be a safe haven, or it may be Let’s see how he chooses. Also, keep an eye on that woman!”

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Soft and soothing music flows in the room, the surrounding walls are covered with light mint leather upholstery, a creamy white European-style carved bed is covered with coffee-colored silk bedding, and the layered lace hangs down to the light grass green wool carpet.

The ceiling is shaped in macaron color, with light yellow moon, light blue stars, and soft pink clouds. The warm white light flows from behind the stars, moon and clouds, as if the holy light from heaven...

There is not much furniture in the room, except for the recliner that is occupied by someone, there is only a white paint desk with rounded corners and two rows of bookshelves against the wall, so the room looks too spacious, and the color of the carpet makes it easy to mistake this place for It is a courtyard, especially a row of hydrangeas blooming in the corner.

A figure lay sideways on the light gold velvet rocking chair. It was a woman with a rather slender figure. Her body was covered under the lake-blue thick velvet blanket, and the ups and downs of breathing could hardly be seen, blending into the surrounding scenery like a lifeless decoration.

The woman's cheeks were thin and her hair was mottled and white, but her skin was well-maintained and smooth, and her light makeup moderately concealed her paleness that had not seen the sun for a long time.

She seemed to be asleep, lying on her side with half of her face exposed, in a curled up posture, tightly hugging a bulging goose-yellow coral velvet baby blanket in her arms.

The quilt has been washed white, and the original soft texture shows the rigidity of the silk tendons. A pair of semicircular bear ears protrude from the hood, and one of them rubs against the tip of the woman's nose.

There is no soft, white and cute baby in the quilt. The reason why it is bulging is because it is covered with a pillow. It is a very old baby pillow, traditional style, a little heavy, it should be infused with millet or the like food.

A white cat also sleeps curled up under the rocking chair.

There is a door in this room, a door opening to be precise, without a door panel, it is dark like a huge mouth.

When the sound of trampling footsteps sounded from the stairs outside the door opening, the woman opened her eyes sharply. They were a pair of extremely beautiful eyes, and there was a three-point smile even when there was no expression, but the eyes that were revealed inside were terrified. However, be vigilant, like a bug dormant in a crypt suddenly awakened by a night rain.

The white cat suddenly bowed its back, jumped up the bookshelf along the desk without a sound, and lay down quietly on the top of the bookshelf, staring at the crisis lurking in the air with its big pupils.

The woman didn't move, she heard the footsteps gradually approaching, and closed her eyes again.

Lin Mu stepped on the carpet and approached the rocking chair, leaning over, breathing on the side of the woman's temples, like a tongue protruding from a huge black mouth, slippery and dangerous. "Xiao Rong—"

The woman was picked up by him, and the rocking chair swayed slightly. The woman's body was stiff, and the blanket was still tightly held in her arms.

When she was carried to the bed by Lin Shu and held in his arms, she showed a dependent obedience again.

"Shall we live in another place?" Lin Mu hugged the woman in his arms, like holding the most beloved treasure, rubbing his chin against her forehead.

The woman raised her head and opened her eyes wide, her lips moved before she could barely make a sound: "Hua... change, where? Here, good."

Her voice is small, but indescribably piercing, like scratching a rusted iron plate with her fingernails, the faint sound of a metal file is wrapped in a hoarse breath, and it is intermittent because of the holes etched into the iron plate , The frequency and pitch can easily cause the unfamiliar eardrum to resist instinctively, making it hard to hear what she said.

Lin Mu obviously does not have this kind of hearing impairment. He explained patiently: "Change to a better place, it's not safe here."

The safest places are often the most dangerous, and this is a gorgeous cage.

The woman was leaning against the head of the bed, with the quilt on her lap, and Lin Mu was sitting by the bed and holding a bowl to feed her. The bowl contained fragrant rice, brightly colored diced vegetables, small ribs with bone sticks removed, and several Shrimp in their shells, with a side salad bowl of pear, mango and pineapple cubes.

A drop of soup slid down the corner of the woman's lips, Lin Mu took out a tissue to help her wipe it off, and patiently waited for her to swallow the food before feeding her another. "What would Xiaorong like to decorate the new residence?"

The woman suddenly stopped chewing, her eyes slowly turned to the computer, and she made a hoarse voice: "Baby—"

"Okay, okay, let's take the baby with us." Lin Mu looked at her and smiled, that kind of smile was strange on his face, like a peaceful and warm ordinary husband, with a doting voice in his voice, " You obediently eat all the food, and I will accompany you to watch the baby, okay?"

The woman also smiled happily, that kind of smile made her, who had not seen the sun for a long time, radiate warmth like the sun, and even the pomegranate-colored birthmark on the neckline of her pajamas came alive.

She gently caressed the blanket on her legs with both hands. Although her arms could still move inflexibly, her stiff fingers seemed to be completely out of the control of her brain, contracted like dead branches.

It is such a pair of ugly hands that are obviously disabled, unable to bear weight or make fine movements, rubbing countless times on the small patched pillow in the quilt, which is no different from the love of all mothers.

"Pu...broken," the woman stared blankly at the new hole in the pillow, a few grains of millet had already been spilled onto the bed sheet, and perhaps some had also been spilled into the fluff of the carpet.

Lin Mu put down the empty bowl, held her cold hands and massaged gently: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll mend it, I mended it well, right?"

The woman glanced over the empty bowl and turned to the computer, the meaning was obvious.

Not only are her hands disabled, but she also has obvious mental disabilities, as if she has degraded to the cognitive level of a four- or five-year-old child. The books on the bookshelf have been changed many times, and now there are only some beautiful picture albums.

Lin Mu accepted her cognitive impairment calmly. For a person who has not seen the light and communicated with others for a long time, this is almost an inevitable outcome.

He thinks this is also very good, she is more and more dependent on him, like an ignorant child, it is like rebirth to her.

The woman pushed him anxiously, with little strength: "Look, baby—"

"Okay, let's watch the baby, let's go watch the baby." Lin Mu lifted the woman from the bed, hugged her, walked to the desk and turned on the computer.

"Baby..." The woman's crippled hands slapped the keyboard indiscriminately.

Lin Mu opened a folder named "Baby", which contained some photos and videos. He double-clicked to open the latest video, and the screen shot by the phone unfolded on the screen.

It was the ancient and elegant living room of the Zhou family. Zhou Hui was wearing a mouse-gray thermal pajamas and was leaning on the sofa looking at his mobile phone. His hair was combed back like a wolf, and he was shaking his legs on the coffee table while eating the cherries next to him. A fascinated smile changed on his face.

The woman stared at it for a while, and raised her eyebrows: "Baby, I want a baby—"

"This is your baby, he's back, don't you recognize him?" Lin Mu patiently explained to her.

The woman tapped the keyboard anxiously, not knowing which key she touched, and the screen retreated to the background of the desktop.The woman looked at the photo set as the wallpaper and murmured, "Baby—"

It was a photo of Zhou Wei’s early years. The thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy was full of tenderness and immaturity. He was lying on the grass in a crimson school uniform of Yingtai Lejin, teasing a toddler. A kitten like a white pompom.

He crossed his legs and stretched out his arms to the kitten, as if to give it a hug.

He smiled brightly, and the sun shone on the bridge of his nose and the tips of his hair, like a warm burning fire, like the magnificent light of gemstones, like the blooming crown of jade behind him... so young and so beautiful.

"Baby, baby—"

"Look at the baby," the woman persistently repeated this simple request. It seemed that if this demand was not met, the program could not continue to run.

Lin Mu had no choice but to click on a few photos of Zhou Wei that she had seen before, and a video of Zhou Wei being secretly shot while walking on the road.

The woman looked at it seriously, with a warm light in her eyes. At this moment, she looked like a mother rather than a child.

The moment the video stopped abruptly, the woman became emotional again, curled up in Lin Shu's arms, tears streaming down her face, and kept thinking about her baby, baby... She hasn't seen her baby for a long time.

Lin Mu carried her back to the bed, took out an injection to puncture the vein on the woman's arm, and slowly pushed half of the tube of medicine into it.

"After going to a new place, Xiao Rong will be able to see the baby. Xiao Rong is good, it doesn't hurt at all—"

The woman gradually collapsed into Lin Mu's embrace, and closed her eyes.

Lin Mu put her away, stood up straight and supported the mirror frame, turned his head to look at the white cat above the bookcase, and raised the corners of his lips.

The still warm body of the white cat was stuffed into a thickened black garbage bag. This simple and rude way could hardly bring satisfaction, but he had no better choice due to time constraints.

He began to clean the entire room, cleaning the carpet with a vacuum cleaner and steam spray, wearing rubber gloves with disinfectant and bleach, and carefully wiping every small corner of the room, such as the side panel of the bookcase where Wei Lerong had secretly pressed bloody fingerprints and her A mattress liner stuffed with a strand of hair...

He's a doctor, he's got the edge and the confidence to clean up biological traces, he's done it more than once and he's done it well, and no one has ever caught a bug.

The woman named Wei Lerong has died in the outside world, and Xiao Rong only belongs to him, and he will not allow anyone to find and take her away!

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In the living room of the apartment, Jiang Xiaoqi handed Jiang Xiaoming a bottle of ice water, and stood opposite him leaning against the wall with arms folded.

Jiang Xiaoming sat on the sofa in the living room, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a big gulp, puffed his cheeks and pointed to the bedroom with a gap in the door.

"He's asleep, you won't wake him up if you make neighbors complain." Jiang Xiaoqi glanced at the door as if confirming, the bedroom was dark and the light was not turned on, the reason why he didn't close the door tightly was because he was afraid that Zhou Wei would wake up suddenly If you can't find him, you will be afraid.

Jiang Xiaoming poured cold water, leaned back on the back and let out a long breath. He was covered in travel dust and looked embarrassed. Even stubble appeared, showing the daily life of a model worker criminal policeman.

"It's a big harvest, let me take care of it... Yes, it's Lin Mu. Recently, my brothers have been with him 24 hours a day. First, he seems to have the habit of cooking. He usually eats breakfast and dinner at home, and the ingredients are purchased one day in advance. , just next to the clinic is the 'Fulai's', known as the whole process of organic green ecology or something... It is the kind that is expensive and less packaged. I found out that the ingredients he purchased should not only be the amount of one person, rice, vegetables, peanut oil It’s not obvious, but you can’t eat two steaks in one meal, can you? Pasta for two people? Is it too high in cholesterol if you eat ten eggs in four days?”

"What's even more strange," Jiang Xiaoming lowered his already hoarse voice, "is it too perverted for an old man to go to the Chanel counter to buy luxury suits and Encounter perfume?!"

Jiang Xiaoqi frowned: "So there is a woman living next to him, this woman usually does not show up, unable or unwilling, such as physical reasons, like the woman in a wheelchair we met before."

After speaking, he immediately shook his head and denied his speculation: "No, he can take the other party to see an art exhibition, and he shouldn't keep her in the room because of her mobility, so that she has so little contact with the outside world that no one is aware of it. to the existence of such a person."

Jiang Xiaoming squeezed the empty plastic bottle in his hand: "Second, our people and community workers visited Lin Mu's villa under the guise of a resident questionnaire. During the interview, he claimed to have lived alone, and never mentioned The mysterious woman. Moreover, after we investigated all of Lin Mu's social relationships, including his patients, there was no registered female who met the characteristics."

"Thirdly, we collected information on the villas where Lin Mu lived, and found that there is a common feature, that is, each garage has an entrance leading to the basement. This may not be considered unusual in a mansion, but there are still, The basements of two of his first three villas have been soundproofed. The buyer of the second villa said that the basement had just been completely renovated when he took over. It was so new that he could move in with his bags, which saved him a lot of trouble .”

"So you suspect that Lin Mu used the basement of the villa as a dungeon to imprison that mysterious woman." An ominous guess emerged in Jiang Xiaoqi's mind, and he stood up straight away from the wall, "Is there any definite evidence?"

Jiang Xiaoming: "He went to a villa, that is, the one where voyeurs reported that he had murdered and dismembered his body. When he moved out, he was the most hasty. The new owner directly used the soundproofed basement for his son to practice drums. Years later, it basically remained the same.”

"The police went in and checked it again. Even the floor of the house was pried, and nothing was found. The biological information was basically left by the current residents. The only clue that could be called a small amount of blood was found in the cracks in the floor. Later, It proved that it was not human blood. The hostess was terrified by this incident, thinking that she had lived in a haunted house for the past few years. She recalled that after moving in for about a year, her son insisted on planting a cherry tree in the yard. I dug up some bones, which was quite shocking, but my son’s friend said that the bones that should be cats must not be human, so he didn’t think too much about it.”

"Guess what? We dug the yards of the other two villas, and we also found dead cat bones." Jiang Xiaoming nodded triumphantly, "If killing a cat breaks the law, this old boy can be shot for 10 minutes!"

Jiang Xiaoqi frowned: "It's a pity that killing cats is not illegal." I really don't know where the confidence on Team Jiang's face comes from!

"Listen to me, we found that the depth at which he buried the cat's corpse became shallower and shallower, which shows that his successful concealment behavior over the years has made him start to swell his confidence, and he may soon show his feet. By the way, the last one This thing was found in the cracks in the floor of the villa." Jiang Xiaoming forwarded a photo to Jiang Xiaoqi, the picture showed some small yellow particles taken at close range, "Do you recognize what it is?"

"Xiaomi?" Jiang Xiaoqi couldn't think of anything special about this.

"To be exact, it contains two crops, one is corn, which is what we usually call millet, and the other is millet, also called yellow rice." Jiang Xiaoming explained, "The current owner of the villa is very sure that this is not theirs. The ones scattered in the basement, their dry food never came out of the kitchen, and I think it’s almost the same in other people’s homes. So why are the mixed particles of these two crops found in the gaps in different places in the basement? It is likely that someone intentionally Abandoned!"

"Sammy?"

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"Does Xiaowei know which one is Xiaomi?" The nanny squatted down and asked Zhouwei who was playing with the car on the kitchen floor.

Five-year-old Zhou Wei hesitated as he stared at the two rice jars in the nanny's hand. They looked almost the same. Could Xiaomi be smaller?He then pointed to the jar with smaller grains: "This one!"

The nanny giggled: "It seems that Xiao Wei is better than my mother! Your mother couldn't tell the difference between millet and yellow rice before, and when she sewed you a pillow, she poured some of each into it. At that time, she also said, wait When you grow up, don't discriminate like her—"

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The door of the room was thrown open suddenly, Zhou Wei ran out barefoot and went straight to the entrance.

Jiang Xiaoqi was stunned for a second, then he caught up with him and hugged him from behind: "Xiao Wei? Xiao Wei!"

Zhou Wei was like a crazy little beast, struggling desperately in Jiang Xiaoqi's arms, the two of them entangled and bumped into the low cabinet next to them, knocking over trivial ornaments all over the floor.

"It's my mother! I'm going to save her—"

Big tears welled up from Zhou Wei's eyes, and he was still struggling: "Jiang Xiaoqi, let me go! I'm going to save her, my mother is still alive! I'm going to save her now!"

"He imprisoned my mother for 20 years! He imprisoned her for 20 years," Zhou Wei choked up, with tears all over his face, "He will bully her, he has been torturing her...can't wait! I can't wait a minute can not wait……"