In the northern summer, the drunken sun forgot to restrain its heat and baked the earth like a piece of iron.The willows drooped their heads, the sparrows stopped their throats, and the whole city became silent under the sun.

In the conference room of the Nanshan branch, garbage was thrown everywhere on the table.Lunch boxes, instant noodle bags, wrapping paper for disposable chopsticks, and ashtrays filled with cigarette butts, and light blue smoke curled up in the conference room.

In this third-tier northern city, homicides are not common.Jiang Nan frowned, and the bureau leader asked to solve the case as soon as possible, and made a promise to solve the case.At this moment, he was holding a cigarette between his fingers, and the smoke burned to the end, and he was unconscious. His eyes were fixed on the clues collected from various places, and he analyzed them carefully, trying to find a breakthrough in the case.

Forensic doctor Zhou Chong flipped through the autopsy report and introduced: "The deceased Wang Dong, male, 32 years old, 175cm in height, thin in build. It took about 6-10 hours to die, and the body had not been moved. There was only one fatal injury on the body. On the throat, the edge and wall of the incision were smooth and neat, which belonged to blunt trauma. The shape of the knife edge is presumed to be left-handed, and the blade is very thin. In addition, the blood at the scene was tested to be that of the deceased, and anesthetic components were detected in the blood. "

"Anesthesia? Isn't anesthesia used in surgery?" Jiang Nan asked.

"Yes, surgery is often used, and some drugs can also have an anesthetic effect." Zhou Chong replied.

Qin Ling stared at the picture of the dead body at the scene, "No fingerprints were found at the scene, and foot marks, size 42, men's leather shoes were found at the exit of the factory building. After investigation, they belonged to the deceased, and no trace of the murderer was found. The surveillance cameras near the building materials store were broken. Only the front Lu□□Tonggang’s monitoring is easy to use.”

Vice-captain Ma Haibo flipped through the records, "The body was found in an abandoned unfinished building when several children went to play. This unfinished building is not far from the building material store of the deceased. It takes about 15 minutes to walk. No information about the murderer was found. Other clues, men and women are not sure."

The captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of Nanshan Sub-bureau in the south of the Yangtze River, 33 years old, 182cm tall, with sharp eyebrows and star eyes, high nose and thin lips.At this moment, he stared at the photo, "There will be a traffic post in the middle. How did the deceased get to the factory building and who did he go with? We will continue to investigate this."

"Have the two employees of the building materials store and the delivery driver investigated yesterday? The relatives and other social relations of the deceased must be carefully investigated."

Ma Haibo continued: "The deceased was unmarried, the relatives have already checked, the employees have already checked, all three of them have alibi, they all said that the boss was still there the morning before yesterday, and then went out after answering the phone, social relations Investigations are still ongoing."

"Xiaomei, check the monitoring provided by the traffic police team to see if there are any suspicious persons, and also provide the details of the murderer's phone number."

"Okay, captain!" Li Xiaomei replied bluntly.

"Qin Ling, take two of you and find out the surgical staff of the major hospitals nearby, and then combine the monitoring of the traffic post to see if we can narrow down the scope of the murderer."

"Ma Haibo, you continue to investigate the social relationship of the deceased, and by the way, pay attention to the anti-narcotics brigade. It may not be anesthesia, or it may be drugs."

Jiang Nan picked up the car keys on the table, "Zhou Chong, come with me to the scene again." He looked around again, looked at everyone and said, "We'll have another meeting when we come back tonight, and we will split up now."

He threw the car keys to Zhou Chong, and the two walked out of the office, got into the car, and went straight to the unfinished building in the west of the city.Zhou Chong drove the car like a wild horse, dashing left and right in the traffic.

Jiang Nan sat in the co-pilot seat without speaking, rubbing the center of his brows, the soreness caused by the movement of his hands made his brain more clear.

The summer wind is hot and dry.The mobile phone in his pocket rang untimely, and Jiang Nan took it out to see that it was the mother of the family.

"Hello, Mom?"

"When are you off work?"

"There is a murder case, I have to work overtime today. What's the matter?"

"Someone introduced you to a girl, when will you go and see her!"

"I'm still a girl, how can I have time for a blind date? Let's talk about it later, I'm going to the police! Goodbye! Mom!" Jiang Nan finished in a hurry, and hung up the phone as if fleeing.

Only Jiangnan knew that there was a reason why he didn't want to get married, and he couldn't say it because he was waiting for an unchangeable ending.

Zhou Chong couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Captain, the family is starting to rush?"

"In our profession, white and black are added every day, and we can't take care of our family when we get married. Why bother to hurt other girls!"

"My family also reminds me all day long, it's the same, alas!"

Finally arrived at the unfinished building, the two got out of the car.

In the unfinished building, there are blue cement walls, dusty floors, and a small amount of construction materials that have not been taken away are piled up in a corner in a mess.

A thick smell of dust hits the face, and the light from the outside reaches here, as if it has encountered a barrier, and is blocked from the outside.In the unfinished building, it was cold and bleak.

Jiangnan was originally full of summer heat, but when he came in, he was blown away by the air-conditioning here.Zhou Chong followed behind with all his energy, looking around, not daring to take it lightly.

The two walked in and came to the scene of the crime again, but there was nothing but a small amount of blood left by the deceased.

Zhou Chong looked around, "The scene was cleaned up very clean, this is a premeditated crime."

Jiang Nan frowned, "Let's go out in a while, let's go to the traffic post."

When they came out of the unfinished building, it was past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still exerting its last residual heat, making people unable to open their eyes.

Walking along the road from the unfinished building, I walked to the building materials store, and checked the situation near the street by the way.Jiang Nan carefully looked at the surveillance location on the traffic post, and carefully observed other businesses near the building materials store, trying to find more surveillance points.

"It's too messy here. There are lock repairers, shoe repairers, and stalls nearby. This building materials store looks decent. It seems to be convenient for delivery." Zhou Chong said, looking at the messy environment around him.

No useful clues were found, Jiang Nan frowned, "Let's go back first!"

It was six o'clock when Jiang Nan and Zhou Chong returned to the criminal police office. The police officers who came back first had already gathered in the conference room, and the air was filled with the smell of sweat.

Qin Ling rushed in from the outside, and his loud voice could be heard from afar.

"Captain, we brought back the list and photos of the surgeons who visited the west side of the city on the day of the murder."

Jiang Nan took the list, read it carefully, and then looked up at Li Xiaomei who was sitting in front of the computer, "How is the surveillance? On the day of the incident, did the traffic police find any suspicious persons or vehicles? Did you check the phone list?"

"The vehicle was normal. The deceased walked past the traffic post, but he didn't see the video when he came back. The vicinity of the unfinished building is not within the surveillance range. The phone number is checked in detail. The last mobile phone number does not work. After checking, it is a temporary number."

Qin Ling interjected, "The murderer is so cunning!"

Jiang Jiang looked at the photos taken at the scene, "Usually premeditated will leave traces, but impulsive killing has no rules to follow."

At this time, Ma Haibo also entered the house directly from the outside, sat down, picked up the mineral water bottle on the table, unscrewed it, took a sip, breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Captain, the deceased's social relations are not only business contacts, but also a family he often visits." The deceased has not been to the footwashing shop recently. It is the decoration season. From the perspective of business, the deceased has been very busy recently, and all the people he deals with are business people. I will continue to investigate this area to see if there are any suspicious people. "

The information collected in the case is very limited, and the murderer has considered everything, leaving no useful clues at all.Jiang Nan's brows were squeezed together, and he kept flipping through the collected materials, and the discussions in the conference room continued until midnight.

Jiang Nan returned to the office and sat on the swivel chair behind the desk, holding a cigarette between his two slender fingers, tilting his face, eyelashes drooping, the pale light hitting his face, as if there was a line of light and shadow from the forehead to the bridge of the nose, which looked extraordinarily Angular.

When I came out of the office, it was already dusk.At night, the summer wind is less dry and hot, but mixed with a hint of coolness. There are a few stars hanging on the black sky, emitting a faint light.

I went to the scene, had a meeting, worked overtime for half a night, and it was already eleven o'clock at night when I got home.Not only was he sweaty, but he was also exhausted, as if he had just run a marathon.

After entering the room, he took off his sweat-stained shirt, took his bathrobe and plunged into the bathroom.Turn on the nozzle to the maximum, pour cold water down, rinse for a long time, and finally get rid of the heat on my body.Resisting the drowsiness, he only washed for a while, then turned off the switch of the nozzle, walked out wrapped in a bath towel, grabbed another towel from the bathroom shelf, wiped his face a few times indiscriminately, brushed his teeth, and put on a new towel. The pajamas just came out.

He sat on the sofa, took out the case materials in the file bag and looked at it for a while.The mobile phone on the table rang suddenly, it was the notification tone of a WeChat video call, and when he saw a familiar profile picture, he pressed it directly without hesitation.

Wang Heng: Just finished taking a shower?

Jiangnan: Well, should I take it off for you to see?

Wang Heng: Can you be a little more formal?Do the police do this to you?

Jiangnan: Right in front of you!night shift?

Jiang Nan didn't dare to take the joke too far, so he immediately changed the subject.

Wang Heng: Chat with you for a while, I'm so sleepy, help me wake up.

Jiangnan: Who told you to run so far?Is a city still our companions?

Wang Heng: Aren't I making video with you every day now?

Jiangnan: P!Video can eat and drink?Can you eat through your phone?

Wang Heng: Let me show you what I eat now.

After all, Wang Heng raised the lunch box towards the camera on the opposite side of the video.

Jiangnan: Don’t watch it. It’s all box lunches. What’s there to see?Are you getting skinny?

Wang Heng: Just think what you think!

Jiangnan: Don't talk!You have dedicated your life to medicine, but not to me!

Wang Heng: Dedicated to you, do you dare to ask for it?

Jiang Nan: If you dare to offer it, I will take it!come or not?

Wang Heng: Stop chatting with hooligans!Bye-Bye!Go to bed early, good night!

Jiangnan: Good night.

Jiang Nan hung up the video, "Hey! It's a small sample!"

Needless to say, Wang Heng was under pressure in the hospital, surgery, night shift, assessment, papers.Daily exhaustion is a regular occurrence.Especially in surgery, he often feels that the road is endless, there are endless patients to treat, and endless operations. The only thing he has is this white coat and the smell of disinfectant water in the corridor.

He has no relatives, no friends, and is alone in this strange city. People in the distance are like lighthouses and harbors, harbors that he will never return to in his life.

Wang Heng finished supper, wrote several medical records, and changed the doctor's orders for several patients.He is an orthopedic surgeon. Recently, in the ward, there have been many patients with fractures, and some of them still need surgery.

Looking at the thick pile of medical records, he stood up and squeezed the space between his brows to relieve the sleepiness in his brain.He paced a few more steps in the office, sat down at the desk again and started working.

In the corridor of the hospital, the lights are brightly lit all day long, and day and night cannot be distinguished. You can hear the footsteps of the night shift nurses sprinting back and forth, and the crisp sound of pushing and squeezing medicine bottles on the cart.Occasionally, there are shouts of emergency patients and family members crying in the corridor.Here, there is never real silence, only crying and laughing, life and death can be distinguished here.

Unknowingly, the sky outside the window has turned pale, and the sun is slowly approaching in a fiery red cloak.

He stood up, sorted out the work in hand, checked the room, and took over shifts with the doctor who came in the morning, then changed his white coat and left the hospital.

When he suddenly looked back at the building of the hospital, the big characters BY HOSPITAL on the building were bright red like blood, exuding a coquettish light in the morning light.

He seemed not used to the light outside, he squinted his eyes slightly, went to the parking lot downstairs, found the car, took the key and pressed it, the lights turned on, he got into the cab, started the car and rushed to the exit.He was afraid that after a while, he would not be able to go home, and he would not be able to see the way home.

In the early morning on the street, there was a flood of traffic, and it was working time. He drove forward slowly, like a snail, no matter how urgent his heart was to go home, it would not help.

After an hour, he finally arrived home. He opened the door with his fingerprints, put on his slippers, and threw the car keys on the porch cabinet at the door.

There was no one in the room, and the room was filled with the fragrance of flowers.

There is a pot of gardenias on the balcony of the living room. It has recently reached the flowering period, and three or four flowers have bloomed. Each flower is white and lovely, and the smell is even more fragrant.Wang Heng snuffed his nose and inhaled the smell of gardenias vigorously, feeling a little less drowsy.

He slumped on the sofa, reached out to pick up the mineral water bottle on the coffee table, unscrewed the lid and took a sip, as if a sip of water woke up his sleeping stomach, and the stomach began to growl.Only then did he remember that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

Supporting his sleepy brain and dragging his tired body, he went to the kitchen to bake two pieces of bread, fried an egg, and took a glass of milk from the refrigerator. After eating everything, he finally felt full.

He couldn't stand the smell of sweat on his body. After breakfast, he hurried into the bathroom with a change of clothes.The warm water from the nozzle finally cooled him down, his fatigue seemed to decrease, and his mind regained a little clarity.

After taking a bath and changing into pajamas, he was so sleepy that he could barely open his eyes, his brain could no longer control his eyelids, and only the bed could save him at this time.He got into the bedroom, drew the thick curtains, and lay on the bed. At that moment, he felt that he had finally found his home.

After an unknown amount of time, Wang Heng woke up from the dream.On the wrist watch, the hour hand points to three o'clock, and the thick curtains block the scorching sun outside, making it difficult to tell whether it is day or night.He just opened his eyes, before he fully came back to his senses, he stared blankly at the ceiling, then turned over again, and finally got up from the bed without feeling sleepy, and went into the kitchen.

He put the sliced ​​winter melon into the pork rib pot and covered it.Look at them in the pot to reconcile the taste, make the opposite molecules complement each other, and become a synthesis that can be separated but cannot be separated.

Wang Heng fixed the time and walked slowly into the study.The table was covered with snow-white rice paper. Standing in front of the table, he lightly dipped the nib of the brush to wipe off the excess ink. He saw the brush moving among the white, and a piece of Su Shi's "Ding Feng Bo" floated on the paper.

After finishing writing, he took out the outermost one from a pile of idle chapters without hesitation.He pressed down on a position on the rice paper, which was unobtrusive and inconspicuous, and added a signature and a private seal, and it was done. He looked at it with satisfaction, and finally put it away.

Turning around, Wang Heng entered the kitchen again, and the rice and ribs were ready.Sitting alone at the table, he picked up a spoon and scooped up a spoonful, blowing off the oil and heat on it, and slowly tasted it, as if tasting the taste of life.

The restaurant was silent, except for the slight sound of chewing and the occasional crisp sound of the soup spoon hitting the bowl.

The phone rang suddenly, and the silence was torn apart.Wang Heng looked at the familiar number, the corners of his mouth were slightly bent, and he pressed the answer without hesitation. When he heard Jiangnan mentioned the word "blind date", the curvature of the corners of his mouth slowly eased down, returning to the same level as before. The cold look of the hospital.

The following conversation was insipid, and he only told the other party to return to City H next week.Putting down the phone, he immediately lost the desire to eat the food in front of him, but he still forced himself to finish the rest, eating cleanly, as usual.

Jiang Nan hung up the phone, he deliberately tested, but failed to find out the truth about Wang Heng, he couldn't help but wonder if it was because of himself that Wang Heng didn't get married.

He didn't have time to think about it, the time to solve the case was tight, the case was still unclear, and his mind was already a mess.He came to the public office area downstairs, stood behind Li Xiaomei, and checked the surveillance screen with Li Xiaomei, as if he could get rid of his thoughts by putting himself into work.

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