shadow of crime

"Little Ginger."

The soul of the dead was calling, Jiang Bei turned his head, and saw that tall and straight figure clearly in the vast night, and his memory traveled through time, returning to that night more than ten years ago.

"Go slowly, don't rush forward with your head depressed, this place is flooded, be careful to wash you away." Xu Shiqing, a criminal policeman from the city bureau, patted Jiang Bei's shoulder, who was in his 20s, and gave him a hand Umbrella, "Take it, the weather forecast says it will rain tonight."

The young Jiang Bei was still very young, and he was dazed when he first joined the Municipal Bureau.He held the umbrella tightly and asked, "What about you?"

"I..." Xu Shiqing paused, took out his mobile phone from his police uniform, and said with a smile on his face, "Wait a minute, my wife is calling."

He walked to the side to answer, with a soft tone: "Don't be angry, I'll come back when I deal with things. Is the baby obedient today? Didn't you kick you? If you are so obedient, she must be a daughter. I like daughters. It's better if they look like you What? A daughter is like a father, forget it, let’s have a son. Okay, I’ll go home to accompany you as soon as I’m done.”

The most incomprehensible person in the bureau gave his wife a kiss before hanging up the phone, which can be described as an iron man's tenderness.Xu Shiqing cheerfully held the phone in his hand, turned around and said to Jiang Bei: "Xiao Jiang, you are still young, you will understand when you have a wife. In our line of work, what we lack the most is time with our family. Waiting for this Now that the case is over, I will also ask for leave to go home and accompany my wife to have a baby."

"Go to work. Look for the dead body thrown by the murderer on the south bank of the Funan River. Look carefully to see if there are any clues left nearby. Move quickly, before the rain destroys the scene."

It's so hard to die, the rain will fall when it says it will.Jiang Bei didn't hold an umbrella, holding a bright flashlight in one hand, and rummaging through dead branches and leaves for suspicious objects or footprints with the other.

The winter is cold, and the dead branches are covered with ice, which makes the fingers stiff from the cold.The most indispensable thing for young people is energy. Jiang Bei found a distance along the river bank, and finally found a cluster of overwhelmed grass on the bank.

"Brother Qing, we found something here!"

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, falling down like sharp arrows, the river surged wildly, overflowed the grass in the rush, and swept away the rotten leaves.Without waiting for anyone to come, Jiang Bei stepped into the water.

The water was freezing to the bone, and the padded clothes on my body were so full of rain that they were heavier than iron blocks.Even though he had practiced several times, Jiang Bei still felt a little powerless when he actually arrived at the scene, and every step was difficult.

"Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang!" Xu Shiqing came wading through the water, "You can't swim, go to the bank and wait for me."

After briefly speaking, Xu Shiqing began to search by himself.Jiang Bei held up the flashlight to light him up, and the sound of water filled his ears, and he felt like he was about to be soaked in water.

"Found it!" Xu Shiqing exclaimed, carefully put the things into the evidence bag, and did not forget to show Jiang Bei, "Xiao Jiang, you have a piece of credit for this, and you will be able to become a regular when the case is over." Now, come to my team when the time comes, and I will take you."

At this moment, Jiang Bei didn't think about the problem of turning forward, he just said: "Brother Qing, let's go if you find it, the water is rising."

The sound of the rain continued, drenching the words just spoken.Xu Shiqing took the wooden stick that Jiang Bei handed over, and every step he took brought up a foot of mud.

Suddenly, Jiang Bei's ears moved, and he turned his head to look at Shen Chenjiang.

Xu Shiqing was alert, and followed his gaze: "What's wrong?"

"I thought I heard something fall into the water."

"Your ears are so sharp?"

"Maybe I heard it wrong." Jiang Bei held the flashlight, and when the beam reached the pavilion not far away, a white figure flew down, splashing silver and white water, and was immediately engulfed by the billowing river waves.

"There's someone over there!" Xu Shiqing's pupils shrank suddenly, he took off his heavy padded clothes, and stuffed them together with the evidence bag to Jiang Bei, "Call someone over, hurry up!" After finishing speaking, he plunged into the river middle.

The torrential rain did not stop, and dense black holes were smashed on the river, and the pavilion was also crumbling in the strong wind.Jiang Bei ran wildly along the river bank, his eyes fixed on the figures in the water.

"Brother Qing! Come back! Dangerous!"

The cold winter wind cut his face like a knife, Jiang Bei's eyes were soaked with rain, and there was pain everywhere on his face.He didn't dare to stop, and he didn't even know that his calf was smashed by the rock.

"help me……"

The weak voice seemed to be coming from the water, urn.Jiang Bei's breath was stagnant, he turned around and stepped into the shallows.

"Is anyone there? Where are you?"

"help me……"

The cry for help became weaker and weaker, like the moaning of mosquitoes.Jiang Bei pushed aside the weeds with a wooden stick, and saw that the child's thin body was twisted by the river water, and his little hands were still holding on to the grass stems on the bank to prevent being washed away by the water. Xie move.

"help me……"

"Don't be afraid," Jiang Bei leaned all over the water, reaching out his hand to try to reach the child, "Hold on, I'll catch you in a moment."

Xu Shi heard the voice of hope, and the child opened his swollen eyes, and refused to let go of the bleeding from his hands.

"help me."

"Okay, don't let go, hold on." The distance was too far, and Jiang Bei couldn't reach the child at all.That tenacious little life is like a leaf of duckweed, struggling to escape from purgatory.

Jiang Bei got up quickly and took off the heavy padded clothes.

The accident happened in an instant. The loose soil could not withstand the pull, and the withered grass that carried life suddenly broke from the root. In the blink of an eye, the child was rolled several meters away.

Jiang Bei's heart suddenly tightened, and he plunged into the icy river without thinking about anything else.Water was poured into his nose and nose unscrupulously, his lungs seemed to be clogged, and he couldn't breathe. He hung on his breath and searched for the child in the vast darkness with hands and feet.

The alarm sounded from far to near. It was the arrival of the rescue team. A group of people rushed down the embankment and went into battle: "Quick! Go down and save people! Be careful!"

The water rolled over Jiang Bei's head and slapped him deep.He seemed to have seen the little hand waiting to be grasped. As soon as Jiang Bei stretched out his hand, someone strangled him and dragged him to the shore.Unwilling, he struggled and shouted: "Brother Qing, Brother Qing is still inside! There is still a kid, he is still alive, he wants to live so much!"

The strong wind blew the howling into the sky and the earth, but the sky didn't care about it, it just collected the offerings.

Jiang Bei's lungs were filled with water, and he also had several injuries on his body. The captain in charge of the rescue forcefully sent him to the hospital, and sent people to strictly guard him to prevent him from running into the rescue scene and making trouble again.

Jiang Bei saw the follow-up on the morning news the next day.After a night of search and rescue, the rescue team recovered two bodies in the lower reaches of the Funan River.After identification by the family members, one is Xu Shiqing, a front-line criminal policeman from the Municipal Bureau, and the other is a female corpse. No one has claimed it, and the police will treat it as an unidentified corpse.As for the child Jiang Bei mentioned, he was not found. The captain of the rescue team promised to the camera that he would definitely find the child.

But everyone knew in their hearts that this was just official talk.The river is so rushing, and after another night, the child is probably dead.The police still have a lot of cases in their hands, who would spend a lot of manpower and material resources to fish an insignificant corpse along the river?

The matter seemed to be over. Afterwards, Jiang Bei successfully became a regular because he found important physical evidence in the corpse throwing case and assisted the criminal police in charge to capture the suspect.The colleague at the same time planned to hold a celebration banquet for him that day, but Jiang Bei refused, and knocked on Xu Shiqing's door with a lot of things.

It was Xu Shiqing's wife who opened the door. Seeing that Jiang Bei wanted to scold but couldn't, she grabbed everything and threw it away.The movement frightened the newborn baby, who cried loudly.

Time and people are moving forward, Jiang Bei sealed that drenched memory in the long river of time, and didn't deliberately think about it.It's just that when the rain was pouring, I could occasionally hear Xu Shiqing's "Little Jiang" coming through the rain curtain, and the child's exhausted "help me".

But he couldn't save anyone.

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"Brother Jiang!" Lin An used the long-lost lion roar, "What are you thinking?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Bei returned to his senses, raised his hand to wipe off the fine sweat on his face, "Let's go."

There was a warning sign on the promenade that read "Under Construction, No Approaching". It was rare for Lin An to obey the rules. He asked the staff on the side if they could go in and showed his ID.Just at this moment, Jiang Bei had strode across the cordon.

The river wind blowing head-on was even colder, and the chill invaded the muscles.The red paint on the ground was still wet, sticking to the footsteps of those who came. Jiang Bei walked very slowly, as if someone had grabbed his ankle.

There was no one in the Liujiao Pavilion, only two red lanterns swaying in the wind. At first glance, there was nothing special about it, but after careful observation, one of the lanterns had its stomach ripped open.

Jiang Bei stretched out his hand to reach it, but the roof of the pavilion was too high, and there was always a gap, like the little hand that couldn't hold it that night.He took off his coat and stood on the railing, with most of his body hanging outside.

After negotiating with the staff, Lin An turned around and saw his boss standing on the fence as if he was about to jump into the river. He was so frightened that he ran over quickly: "Brother Jiang! If you have something to say, let's talk about it, isn't it just a serial murder?" The case will be solved sooner or later! Don't be impulsive, it's so cold to jump in this cold weather!"

Jiang Bei paused, glanced at the river, and said, "It's very cold. Don't think about it, I just want to get the lantern."

"Ah~" Lin An thought that before he left, Old Wang had told him to beware of Jiang Bei jumping into the river, but he was still worried, so he and Wu Zichuan hugged one leg.

Jiang Bei couldn't get rid of the two sticky brown candies, so he simply ignored them, stretched out his long hand, and took down the lantern. "Okay, let go."

Lin An welcomed him down like a baby, and held Jiang Bei's arm greasy and coquettishly: "Brother Jiang, you scared me to death just now, but luckily you are still here. What's wrong with this lantern?"

"I don't know." Jiang Bei pulled his arm out with difficulty, his gaze fell on the lantern.

He seemed to be getting closer to the child.

"The developer is too foolish," Lin An sneered, "It's not a good sign to hang a broken lantern during Chinese New Year."

Wu Zichuan was shivering from the cold, and complained: "Five people have died, the omen is really bad."

"You little bastard, which pot can't be opened and which pot can't be lifted? You are exactly the same as Lao Wang, so don't learn from him."

Lin An raised his hand and slapped it. The two brothers were making a fuss. Here, Jiang Bei took a deep breath, reached into the lantern, and took out an origami in the shape of a cross.

"Damn it!" Lin An stopped making trouble, posted on Jiang Bei, and exclaimed, "There is really something in this place, the suspect is definitely seriously ill!"

Jiang Bei took the origami apart, and the blood flowed back from his whole body in an instant.