Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

The metal handcuffs were still on Shao Lin's chin, and he looked straight at Xia Yi without dodging: "You know it's not true. I just want to hold her back."

"I have to make her feel that I am alive, which is far more satisfying for her than if I am dead. After all, she just wants to expose me and disrupt my new life, so it is far more satisfying for me to surrender in public than to drown." Interesting, isn't it?"

Shao Lin paused, and his tone was tinged with tiredness: "When an innocent disaster occurs, people always instinctively assign a person responsible for the accident. It seems that as long as that person is responsible, everything will be explained. The more Ji Tong hates me, the more she will be reluctant to let me die so easily."

"I didn't do the things on the tape. If I was that afraid of death, I wouldn't have been on the boat alone in the first place."

Xia Yi didn't respond, but just looked down at him.Shao Lin's eyes are lighter than ordinary people's, they are amber, inexplicably reminding Xia Yi of those clear spots of light swaying at the bottom of the stream.The bridge of his nose is straight, the line of his lips is tightly pursed, and when he is not smiling, he looks cold and distant.

Xia Yi lightly traced Shao Lin's lip line with the end of the handcuffs, and said with a half-smile: "...this mouth is really deceiving."

Shao Lin turned his head to avoid the cold metal on his lips: "Thank you."

"Then what happened on the Penglai Princess? Why did she want to kill you together?"

Shao Lin refused very straightforwardly: "I signed a non-disclosure agreement, so I can't say anything."

"As for why Ji Tong wants me to die—" There was a glimmer of darkness in his eyes, but the corner of his mouth smiled ironically, "The last hostage ship that went back exploded. If I die, I will be called a martyr, but if I survive by chance , probably damn it."

Xia Yi's fingertips almost dug into his shoulder: "...What nonsense are you talking about!"

Shao Lin didn't answer, and raised his head: "I'm even more surprised, how did Ji Tong contact me?"

"We didn't meet face to face on the boat back then." He said, "I checked the records, and she and Xu Heguang happened to be the first to leave by boat, and at most they saw me get off the helicopter from a distance, no May recognize me at a glance in a year."

"When she first came to the bureau to take notes, she gave me a meaningful look. She didn't speak at the time, and later sent me a text message on her mobile phone. I don't know who gave her the number."

Xia Yi quickly asked, "Who else knows your identity?"

Shao Lin thought for a while, then raised his eyebrows: "...there should be only Bureau Zheng?"

Xia Yi: "..." These two people co-operated to lie to him!

Shao Lin shrugged: "He used to work in Interpol's counterpoint, and I have a little friendship with him. After returning to China, he was the one who helped me reorganize the file. Originally, he wanted to put me in the bureau, but I didn't want to. Delighted, I went to Yanda University."

"Then what's going on with you and Ji Tong today?" Xia Yi became annoyed when he mentioned this, "You went to meet the murderer behind my back, are you so courageous? Tell me, this car overturned Not at all, huh?"

Shao Lin: "..." It's really fucking thorough.

"Ji Tong sent me a video of Wang Nini struggling, clearly stating that she wanted to see me, and said that if she alerted the police or broke the appointment, she would tear up the ticket."

"Then why didn't you come to me immediately?" Xia Yi became angry when he thought of what happened today, "Do you just do what others threaten you? That's what their hostage rescue team taught you? tell me-"

Shao Lin knew he was in the wrong, but there were some reasons why: one was that he underestimated Ji Tong and felt that the little girl alone was not a threat; the other was that he was greedy for the stable life now, neither wanting to expose his identity in front of Xia Yi, nor I don't want the past to affect the future.

But no matter what, it was true that he didn't handle it well, so Shao Lin could only pat Xia Yi's paw guiltily: "Well, didn't I leave a message for you..."

Xia Yi glared at him fiercely: "You call the automatic alarm after an accident!"

Shao Lin lay down and scolded obediently.

Finally, Xia Yi sighed: "Ji Tong's electronic equipment has been handed over to Yan Jingjing, and I will help you pay attention to it later, if there are any clues related to this. As for the recording on the car——Ji Tong's mobile phone was blocked." I deleted it, and now I only have this in my hand."

Shao Lin looked at him quite unexpectedly: "Thank you."

"But we're not done yet." Xia Yi frowned, "Why do you still have a tattoo on your body? How did you pass the physical examination back then? My buddy got a tattoo of his ex-girlfriend's name on his ankle and was sent away—you And there is such a large tattoo!"

Shao Lin blinked, and showed that cute expression again, innocent as hell.

But Xia Yi didn't like this set: "Don't make excuses, I saw it all that night. If you want to blame it, blame yourself for being clumsy and snail crawling, and your clothes can still be hooked, why didn't you hook your crotch? Running away, the wind blows the balls and the balls are cool, stimulating."

Shao Lin: "..."

Originally, Shao Lin refused.However, he was grateful for the fact that his life had just been saved, his heart was throbbing and his heart was still warm, and his tolerance for Xia was particularly high.

As soon as he thought of the unusually abnormal police officer Xiao Xia in the hot spring that day, he asked openly, "Do you want to see it?"

Xia Yi was simply curious about what the tattoo was, not that he had to see it, but he nodded subconsciously when he heard what he said.

Shao Lin turned over and lay on his side, with his head on his elbows, one leg folded on top of the other, and his knees slightly bent.The white and blue hospital gown looked a size too big, and the neckline seemed empty.He turned his head sideways, and his collarbone was deeply recessed.Shao Lin lifted the corner of his clothes and pulled down his belt a little, revealing a deep mermaid line.

His slender fingers caressed his anterior superior iliac spine, and raised the corners of his eyes at Xia Yi with a half-smile.

At that moment, someone Xia's face suddenly burned, and his eyes quickly flew away: "No, you don't need to look carefully, I'm just curious about what tattoo you have."

Shao Lin's fingertips rubbed lightly on the skin twice, half-covering the Gothic letters on the edge of the rose petals.

Xia Yi's embarrassed expression almost made him laugh.Shao Lin put down the hem of his clothes and said softly, "Just a black rose."

"For a big man, what kind of rose tattoo is weird," Xia Yi muttered, "Do you have any explanation for this tattoo?"

Shao Lin thought for a moment, then stretched his waist: "This is an ancestral family tradition."

Xia Yi was at a loss: "Huh?"

Shao Lin rolled his eyes: "My ancestors sell flower cakes, and the whole family has to have this tattooed on their bodies."

Xia Yi slapped his gluteus maximus and said angrily, "Are you a liar who evaporates when you tell the truth?"

Shao Lin opened his paw, eyes lazily: "The truth? The truth is that I don't want to tell you yet."

Xia Yi: "..."

"Okay, I've already evaporated, don't ask me any more." Shao Lin smothered his head with the quilt and buried his whole face in it.

Xia Yi: "..."

The nurse who made the rounds probably heard the movement, knocked on the door and came in, and lost her temper when she saw that the lights hadn't been turned off.

It stands to reason that Xia Yi was not allowed to jump around at this point long ago, but the Western District Branch is a frequent visitor to the Third People's Hospital of Yan'an City. One came and one went, and a revolutionary friendship developed.

Therefore, some rules and courtyards turn a blind eye and close one eye.No, it's all over now, not only Xia Yi is still there, but there are also two policemen squatting at the door of Ji Tong's operating room.

Xia Yi's "good sister, good sister" talked about stand-up comics for a long time before dismissing the little nurse and moving out a small folding bed for the nurse to accompany the night: "I won't leave tonight. I'm afraid that Bureau Zheng will come tomorrow, and you'll be there." Ran."

Shao Lin glanced at him blankly and said whatever you want.

But who knows that the folding bed is too short.Xia Yi was tall, half of his calf had to be exposed when lying on the bed.Shao Lin lay on the bed, watching people "pinging, pinging, bangling" for a long time, and finally moved to the side of the bed helplessly, and patted the sheet.

It means you come up.

The bed in the VIP single ward is not considered spacious, but it is at least two meters long, and it can accommodate two people when squeezed together.

Seeing that people didn't mind, Xia Yi simply lay down and turned on the light.

The ward was dim, except for a beam of night light leaking from the corner of the curtain, as if covering the bedside table with a lightly fluorescent tulle.

Two big men were squeezed together on the same bed, Shao Lin was inexplicably sleepless.Although there was no skin-to-skin contact, he felt as if there was a stove lying next to him.Shao Lin carefully tried to adjust his posture, but his left foot accidentally touched Xia Yi's ankle.He flinched back as if he had been electrocuted, and stretched himself on the bed, not daring to move.

In the darkness, Xia Yi's voice sounded again: "Hey, do you want to take you to rock climbing another day? I'll teach you."

"...No. If you don't mention rock climbing, we can still be friends."

"Then do you want to chat for a while? Do you have the habit of chatting before going to bed?"

"No. No. I'm asleep."

"Oh."

I don't know how long it took, but a warm breath came from Shao Lin's ears, and Xia Yi's voice penetrated into his ears like a thin thread of light: "You——sleep———— --?"

Shao Lin opened his eyes expressionlessly, and sighed: "Don't ask, I'm already asleep."

……

The next morning.

Shao Lin was asked to talk alone by Zheng Ju, and many policemen came from the ICU, but Ji Tong still couldn't wake up.

Li Fu reported to Jiang Mo: "It seems to be a vegetative state. The doctor said that her cerebral hemorrhage after the impact was not treated in time, and the location of the congestion is very bad. I am not sure if she can wake up. Now that she is on an artificial respirator, she can still recover." Keep it for a while, even if you wake up, I don’t know if it will affect the memory..."

At the same time, Yan Jingjing searched Ji Tong's cell phone, and found a recording in the folder - Ji Tong specially encrypted it, and needed fingerprints to unlock it.

While Ji Tong was unconscious, Yan Jingjing "borrowed" her thumb.

She connected to the computer and pressed the play button.The audio background sound is very noisy, not only the current noise is loud, but there seems to be music at the recording site.

In the beginning, it was a young man: "Mom, how many times have I said that I don't like her. I don't want to marry her—"

The older woman comforted: "Guangguang, you are not young anymore, stop recruiting those little girls who are not from the right family, huh? What's wrong with Ji Tong? She is beautiful and her family is rich, how suitable she is." ah."

"No matter how close you are, I don't like her!"

At this moment, a man's voice came in, with a serious temper: "Did you marry her? You married their family's 16% shares in Furun! Together, our family is real The controlling shareholder, do you understand?"

The audio was very short, and Yan Jingjing listened to it several times, with a look of shock on her face, thinking what kind of rich family drama is this? !

"This 'Guangguang' is Xu Heguang, right?" Yan Jingjing was dumbfounded, "The other two people, my god, are Xu Huahao and Yuan Yongfang? So, this is Ji Tong's motive for committing the crime?!"

Xia Yi leaned over: "Where did she get this recording? Did she eavesdrop on her fiancé?"

"Let me take a look at the attribute source code..." Yan Jingjing crackled and said, "This audio was not recorded on her mobile phone. Huh? This audio is not connected to any recording device... She downloaded it from the Internet."

Xia Yi put it another way: "Someone else sent it to her."

After all, it is impossible for such recordings to be published publicly on the Internet.

"let me see……"

Soon, Yan Jingjing frowned again: "Uh... this is not an ordinary download link, it comes from... ah, it comes from an app called 'secretplanet'..."

Xia Yi said "Hey": "Isn't this a fortune-telling app you play?"

"What fortune-telling app! Secret Planet is a social dating app," Yan Jingjing explained, "There are all kinds of communities in it, and I just happen to play Tarot Planet."

She went through the source code for the last time and came to a conclusion: "I can only track this platform, but not who sent her the link. Secret Planet has a private message function, and all kinds of information will be destroyed after reading. Keep any records."

"I rely on that, isn't it a paradise for criminal transactions!"

"Yes, that's right, so just last year, the Secret Planet app was removed from the shelves in China for rectification—the Secret Planet app that is now on the shelves in Huaguo does not have this encryption function." Yan Jingjing said, "But go overseas and download the app directly. Program, build a ladder to continue using encryption."

At the same time, the police looked for Zhao Chunhua again.

Zhao Chunhua cried and retracted her confession after the police showed that she had controlled Ji Tong.She said that when the lawyer came to talk to her that day, she was actually asking her to plead guilty.The lawyer did not specify who was behind the instigation, but promised to give her husband and son a large sum of money after pleading guilty, so that they would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.However, if she continues to plead not guilty, they will ensure that her husband cannot find a job and her son cannot go to school in the future.

Zhao Chunhua thought it over and over again, and felt that she had been busy all her life just to make some money so that her husband and children could have a better life.Moreover, even if she refused, she would go to jail for stealing the medicine and implicate her husband and children, so she pleaded guilty according to the lawyer's request.

The details of the confession were written on paper.

Old man Xu's revision of the suicide note was all true, the only difference is that Zhao Chunhua didn't want to kill him because of it.After all, she doesn't know the law, and she doesn't have the money to hire a lawyer to fight with Xu Huahao for the temporarily amended inheritance. It's good to make money in the Xu family.In this matter, she had already reached a separate settlement with Xu Huahao.

Therefore, the police immediately arrested the lawyer who went to see Zhao Chunhua that day—the lawyer's surname is Liu, and Ji Tong hired him with a high salary after his parents passed away.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Liu Lv is very cooperative and has completely cleaned up his pockets.

According to Liu Lu's confession, Ji Tong's father was originally an executive on the board of directors of Furun Group, holding 16% of the shares.After his death, the shares can be inherited by the only daughter as an inheritance, but due to the special nature of the shares, the company's articles of association stipulate that the heir must be voted by the board of directors.If the board of directors does not approve, then Ji Tong cannot inherit the equity and can only sell the equity for money.

Xu Huahao's father, Xu Jianguo, is one of the founders of Furun Group, but after decades of operation, the company has been reformed several times, and now, only 30.00% of the shares in his hand are left[-].He has been coveting absolute controlling rights for not a day or two, so he naturally refused to let go of this opportunity.

Before the meeting of the board of directors, Xu Huahao hinted that Ji Tong - the board of directors is likely to reject her inheritance rights on the grounds that she "does not have any experience in business management and real estate operations", but if she marries Xu Heguang, one of the group's executives, there is room for negotiation It's big.At the same time, Xu Huahao operated in the dark and shorted the group's stocks, causing the stock price to plummet.If Ji Tong is forced to sell at this time, the total assets will shrink by about 40%.

Therefore, in July last year, Ji Tong hired lawyer Liu to protect his inheritance. After many negotiations, Ji Tong and Xu negotiated a commercial marriage - Ji Tong retained the board of directors' equity, but if any decision affecting the company was involved, Xu Huahao Chair the decision.

The prenuptial agreement alone was written in a thick stack, and Lawyer Liu had it on file.

After Yan Jingjing heard the cause and effect, she couldn't help but click her tongue again: Ji Tong is cruel, but Xu Huahao's family is definitely not kind.The vicious cause planted vicious fruits, one link after another, and finally all the chips were smashed.

"It's strange. According to Lawyer Liu's record, they drafted this engagement in July last year. But from this recording, Ji Tong and Xu Heguang should not be engaged yet, so the recording time should be before July." Yan Jingjing said to Looking at the computer, I fell into thought, "Then why, the earliest date of this audio in the phone is at the beginning of this year? Who recorded this recording?"

She clicked on Ji Tong's "Secret Planet".

Ji Tong participated in several art-related community planets, and occasionally showed some paintings in his personal space.All her chat records are terribly normal, without leaving any suspicious traces...

Of course, if there was one, it would have been burned after reading it.

In the afternoon of the same day, Shao Lin was discharged from the Third Hospital.

He was not seriously ill, and the doctor signed it quickly.

At this time, a nurse ran over quickly and shouted: "E208, wait in E208 ward!"

Shao Lin looked up: "E208 is about to be discharged."

"Yes--I have your things--" the caregiver ran out of breath, and handed over a bouquet of black roses, eight black roses, and a bright red one in the middle, "someone said to send this to E208, it is you ?”

"Me?" Shao Lin was surprised, "Who sent it?"

"I don't know, just tell me to send it to E208, he seems to be a courier brother?" The nurse was busy with work, and was about to leave after putting down the bouquet, but she turned her head and shouted, "Probably because your girlfriend knew you were hospitalized. I specially ordered it for you, it's quite romantic hahaha!"

Shao Lin frowned slightly, and picked out a card from the bouquet.

On the front, there is a small poem printed in Song Dynasty square characters - "In the spring of your eyes, the sea keeps its promise."[1]

On the back, there is the familiar red flower body - "Takecare, andyouarewelcome."

You're welcome?Thank you for what?

At this time, the alarm in the ICU suddenly sounded, and the doctors and nurses rushed there in a hurry.

Not long after, Xia Yi told Shao Lin: Ji Tong is dead.

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[1] Celan's "Ode to a Distance"

ps Now my mind is full of 00 hands tied up crying with handcuffs in my mouth...