Evil and punishment [criminal investigation]

Jiang Zhun got a vague hint from Shao Qingyun that when he was alone at home smoking a cigarette, an international flight bound for country A was taking off from the runway and rushing into the hazy dawn.

This large airliner has nine seats in a row, with three seats on each side by the windows and three in the middle.

Han Leyang sat in the seat closest to the window, Xue Bing sat in the middle, and Nie Cheng sat near the aisle. Fortunately, the seats for the three of them were in the first row of the cabin, and Nie Cheng could stretch his legs.

The three of them pretended to be a new family and traveled abroad, but in fact they also took tourist visas.

The weird combination of sibling love and adopted children doesn't seem to be too inconsistent, mainly because Xue Bing's daughter is three years older than Han Leyang, and her tone of voice is very natural when talking to Han Leyang.Since Nie Cheng was already familiar with Xue Bing, even though he regarded her as his sister, the familiarity in his tone and behavior was not fake.And Han Leyang only needs to remain expressionless and silent like he used to be, and he will be regarded as a shy and introverted child.

Nie Cheng proposed to take Han Leyang with him for two reasons. One is that it is easy to gain the trust of others with the child, and the other is that Wen Bei is missing. Jiang Zhun is busy with work, so he is worried about sending him back to the orphanage. After discovering Wen Bei's identity, Nie Cheng Cheng and Jiang Zhun have temporarily taken Han Leyang home.

"I told you to invite you to dinner before." Xue Bing sighed.

"Isn't it more convenient to chat than to eat now?" Nie Cheng said.

Xue Bing laughed, looked at Han Leyang who was looking out the window, his smile was tinged with bitterness, and he didn't speak for a long time.

When Nie Cheng was in high school, Xue Bing, Cai Fei, and Tang Xuehai were the brothers and sisters who took care of him the most. After Jiang Zhun pointed it out, he realized that the three of them seemed to be like a family, but in fact there was a competition between two men for one woman.

He didn't know whether Tang Xuehai confessed, but Xue Bing's choice was obvious, she chose Cai Fei.

Not long after Xue Bing got married, Tang Xuehai followed Shao Qingyun to the city bureau, and Cai Fei became the captain of the criminal investigation team.

Later, Cai Fei died, Xue Bing was transferred to Binhai District, and Nie Cheng took over as the captain of criminal investigation.At that time, Shao Qingyun, Tang Xuehai, Xue Bing, and Cai Fei were no longer in the Haidong District Bureau, and some things were different, so Xue Bing didn't like to talk about the past anymore.

Nie Cheng changed the subject and talked about Xue Bing's daughter, and she regained her spirits.She knew that Fang Xiaoshan hoped that Nie Cheng would adopt Han Leyang before his death, but since the person concerned was still sitting next to him, she had no choice but to ask him what he thought.

"I haven't thought about it yet," Nie Cheng said.

Xue Bing helped him analyze in a low voice, ten-year-old children can basically take care of themselves, and don't need to take care of life too much, and if he gets married at 20, the children will be about this age, so there should be no psychological burden.

"Also, you and Jiang Zhun... don't you have any ideas in the future? Although this child is a bit different, this is a good opportunity." Xue Bing smiled at him, his eyes showing misery.

Nie Cheng took a deep breath. He underestimated women's sensitivity to emotions, and he didn't expect his sister Bing to have thought about him so carefully. He immediately blushed and became incoherent with nervousness, "I will seriously consider it, and I will also agree with you Jiang Zhun discussed, we and I are very busy at work."

Xue Bing smiled and said, "You are also 30 years old, what are you embarrassed about?"

Nie Cheng immediately calmed down, just like facing a criminal who is difficult to interrogate - no matter how turbulent his heart was, his face remained motionless.

Xue Bing knew him very well, and couldn't stop laughing, "Don't do this to the little girl, it's too attractive."

Right now the little girl didn't invite them, causing Han Leyang to turn his head to look at them in confusion, and stared out of the window like an autistic child for a while.

Fourteen hours later, they landed at JFK.

They passed the customs smoothly, took out their luggage, and met a sign holding the letters "Nie, Xue" at the airport pick-up gate.

In order to hide their identities as much as possible, only their surnames were written in pinyin on the sign, which was explained before they boarded the plane, so they recognized the people who came to meet them at a glance.

This is a brown-skinned mixed-race boy in his early 20s, dressed in casual clothes, with some tattoos on his arms, and holding sunglasses in his hand without a sign.

Nie Cheng walked towards him, stretched out his hand, and said, "Nice to meet you, my name is Nie Cheng."

"Oh, hi, nice to meet you, I'm Tailin." When he saw the three of them approaching, he wondered why there were still children, and was about to speak Chinese, but was surprised by the pure American pronunciation of the other party, and his reaction was slow It took half a beat.

"This is Xue Bing, Han Leyang." Nie Cheng introduced.

"Hello lady, hello little guy, my car is at the door." Tai Lin took the luggage from Xue Bing's hand and led them to the opposite parking lot.

The sun was shining brightly outside the airport, the crowd was bustling, and it was still in the morning.

Tailin's car went north all the way, and explained the current situation to them: "...in a community in Maine, near the sea, it is a small scenic spot. Zhou Nan rented a homestay for a mother and daughter, and lived on the second floor. Room. I also rented two second-floor rooms in the house opposite them, and the landlord is an old couple. The trouble is, just yesterday, I found out that Zhou Nan is not alone. He is one of the few Asians in the area, The surname is Fan, although Zhou Nan didn't directly live in his house, but they seem familiar. I took a photo and sent it to your leader, but I haven't received a reply yet."

"It should be Fan Jingzhe. Zhou Nan's younger brother. His parents divorced and gave his mother his surname. According to his friends, he contacted him five years ago. It seems that he has come here." Nie Cheng said.

"He has relatives to support him, which is more difficult than you imagined, and it is difficult to determine who owns the assets." Tailin looked at him and said.

"That," Xue Bing couldn't help objecting, "Tai Lin, you don't have to watch us talk, driving is important."

Tailin laughed, "Don't worry, the road is straight and there are no cars around."

"No, no, safety first, okay?" Xue Bing insisted.

Tailin shrugged his shoulders and agreed, and after a while he turned his head 180 degrees uncontrollably and asked Xue Bing who was sitting in the back row, "Xue, why do you want to bring a child?"

Xue Bing really wanted to snap his head back, but she knew the best way was to answer his question: "For various considerations."

Tailin frowned, feeling a little distrusted.

At this moment, Han Leyang, who had been silent all this time, said, "Someone may want to kill me. If you see someone following me, you must tell them."

Tailin gave a low cry of horror and asked, "Is what he said true?"

"It's a possibility." Nie Cheng said.

Tyrin finally drives with his eyes straight ahead, realizing the danger of the mission.

Seeing his overly serious expression, Nie Cheng had no choice but to persuade him: "Don't worry too much, the person who made Han Leyang feel threatened is not Zhou Nan, but another person who disappeared in the country. Although he may also have contact with Zhou Nan, But that's not our goal right now."

Tailin relaxed a little, "Oh, that's good, that's good. If something dangerous happens, I'll ask my brother for help, you know, he's the FBI."

"Okay, but I hope they won't be alarmed until it is absolutely necessary. There is no extradition clause between us, and things will get very complicated. At this stage, we have persuaded the Lord to return."

"I know, my mother explained it to me."

"It's troublesome."

"No, you're welcome." Tailin sighed.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, they had lunch at a fast food restaurant on the side of the road, and continued to drive north until eight o'clock in the evening.

At this time, the sun was high in Maine, and there was no sign of night at all. If the time on the mobile phone watch did not show eight o'clock, they would think it was four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

Counting the meal time, it was a ten-hour drive, and the three of them didn't feel too hard. The scenery outside the car was beautiful, and the woods and open lawns they encountered unexpectedly allowed them to relax mentally during the heavy responsibilities.

Tailin parked the car in the parking space of the villa, enthusiastically pulled Han Leyang upstairs, and whispered to them in Chinese, "It's the second floor opposite."

When Nie Cheng closed the door, he looked back. The two-story building was painted with orange-white paint. There was half an open-air corridor on the first floor. A few bunches of flowers were planted outside the door. The lawn was not neat, and the red mailbox stood by the side of the road.

"The mother and daughter are very poor. The mother was abandoned by her husband, and the daughter was seriously ill and couldn't take care of herself. I met them once, and they looked haggard," Tailin said.

They greeted the old landlord couple, cooked some pasta, had a simple dinner, and went back to the room to rest.

Xue Bing lived with Han Leyang, and Nie Cheng lived with Tai Lin.

"Tomorrow, I want to find a chance to chat with Zhou Nan. Can you hold back Fan Jingzhe and create some time for me?" Nie Cheng asked.

"No problem, this is not difficult." Tailin agreed.

They discussed the general arrangement before going to bed, but they didn't expect that the police knocked on the door of the hotel in the middle of the night.

The moment the door knocked, Nie Cheng opened his eyes. He listened attentively to the landlord stepping on his slippers to open the door, and heard the other party identify himself.

He woke Tailin, "something happened."

Tai Lin woke up in two seconds, threw off the thin blanket and jumped out of bed, "Have we been discovered?"

Nie Cheng made a silent gesture, and said softly: "I don't know yet, the police are about to go upstairs. I suspect that Zhou Nan has done something wrong, trying to use the police to trap us here. If I am arrested, you let Xue Bing do something wrong." It's not advisable to delay chasing someone, if the two escape separately, let her chase the safer one. You take care of Han Leyang first, and I have arrangements later."

Tailin nodded hastily, before he could say anything, the knock on the bedroom door had already sounded.

Nie Cheng lay on the bed pretending to have just woken up, and Tai Lin went to open the door.

The white police officer showed his police officer ID, and his eyes skipped over Tailin and landed on Nie Cheng, "There was a murder case in the neighborhood, and we will take that Asian man away to cooperate with the investigation."

Tai Lin argued, "This must have nothing to do with us, you can ask the landlord, we just arrived last night, not more than seven hours."

"Seven hours is enough to shoot several shots. According to witnesses, he is of Asian descent. We must take him away."

"That shouldn't be my friend. There are also Asians living in the villa opposite."

"There was a murder in the villa opposite. The man had already run away, but the victim said it wasn't him. We are not targeting your friend. All possible personnel in the town must cooperate with the investigation. Can he speak English?" The white police officer looked at Nie Cheng who came over asked.

"Yes, can I explain to my family?" Nie Cheng said.

"No, we don't understand Chinese, so I don't know what you will say. If you want to get rid of the crime as soon as possible, you'd better not make us suspicious." The white police officer half advised and half threatened.

Nie Cheng had no choice but to follow them. When he reached the stairs, he saw Xue Bing and Han Leyang looking at the door when they heard the movement. He gave them a calm look, and got into the police car to the local police station.

As they said, he saw almost all Asians in the town at the gate of the police station. They were invited into different offices or interrogation rooms. After the police learned about the situation, they were left to wait alone.

Nie Cheng was questioned for 10 minutes after sitting for an hour, and then began to wait for a long time.It stands to reason that his suspicion is not great, neither in terms of time nor motivation is enough to constitute suspicion.

He thought of the American movies he had seen, what criminal minds and profiles they liked most.

A few years ago, the Municipal Bureau recruited a high-achieving student who returned from China. When he first arrived, the backbones of the branch bureaus felt that they would not be able to secure their jobs. However, after half a year, the rate of solving cases through psychological analysis and profiling was less than 20%. For the old criminal policeman and the forensic doctor, everyone's heart was relieved. Even the top students themselves lamented that these two skills are more psychological than criminal investigation.

To be honest, at that time Nie Cheng had the idea of ​​going abroad to study and learn about new methods of solving crimes, but after seeing his tragic talk ended, he had no choice but to go and visit him.

He remembered discussing this issue with Jiang Zhun. Jiang Zhun was very interested in studying abroad and believed that Criminal Minds had a bright future.Jiang Zhun recommended schools in Canada and many European countries. He didn't think about it at the time, but now that he thinks about it, those countries have their own characteristics in terms of marriage.

Nie Cheng folded his arms, closed his eyes, and showed a faint smile on his mouth.

I don't know if Jiang Zhun is in a hurry, what is he doing now?