shadow of crime

"...Are you looking for me?"

The familiar voice exploded in Jiang Bei's ears, and his heart seemed to be clenched by some invisible force, dragging the pain all over his body.The cigarette case in his pocket was crumpled, and his knuckles creaked horribly.He stood, setting off a tsunami of uncontrollable emotion.

"Abei..."

The voice forced Jiang Bei to turn around and run, and then vigorously picked up Jiang Nan's collar and staggered back to the room.At this moment, he was crazy, trapped Jiangnan on the hospital bed, and every breath he exhaled was scorching hot.

"Why... why are you still alive? Why did you appear again when we agreed at the beginning?!"

Jiang Bei looked down at Jiangnan from a high position. His empty and bewildered eyes, his almost transparent white skin, and the slender collarbone under his collar all looked like a fragile porcelain doll.Jiang Bei panicked for a moment, his fingertips trembled uncontrollably, his heart beat against his eardrums, and he couldn't tell if it was his own or Jiang Nan's.

"fraud!"

He couldn't believe that the person in front of him was real, and he couldn't judge what his mood was like at the moment.Joy, anger?No, his mood is not important, what is important is that he did not do what he promised Jiangnan, nor did he avenge the dead.

"You must be fake!"

Jiang Bei roughly tore Jiang Nan's hospital gown, trying to confirm the wound.Jiang Nan curled up into a ball, pressed his knees against Jiang Bei's abdomen, tilted his head and coughed fiercely.

Outside the ward, Lin An and Wang Zhipeng carried the food they bought after running for a mile, complaining that Jiangnan was too picky about food and deserved to suffer.When the two walked to the ward out of breath, they opened the door and were stunned on the spot.

Wang Zhipeng: "Why is Old Jiang back?"

"How do I know?!" Lin An threw the takeaway box away, and rushed forward, "I knew I couldn't hide this, so why stand there! Pull them away!"

The four quickly twisted into a ball, Jiang Bei grabbed Jiang Nan's collar and refused to let it go, several buttons were broken, exposing a large area of ​​smooth skin.Lin An hugged Jiang Bei's waist, tugging and shouting: "Brother Jiang, I know you've been wronged, but there's no need to take off people's clothes as soon as you come up. He's an idiot right now, let's sit down and talk if we have anything to say! "

Several emotions surged up and clashed with his reason, and Jiang Bei urgently needed to confirm that this person was real.He pushed Lin An's hand away, and pulled off Jiang Nan's clothes repeatedly. The healed wound came into view, and Jiang Bei froze suddenly: "Why is he..."

"Why!" Wang Zhipeng patted Jiangnan on the back, put on his hospital clothes for him, and turned to Jiang Bei and shouted, "You thought you were hit with a knife, but I suspect you did it on purpose, just to stab people in the lungs!"

After a commotion, Lin An sent away the nurse who had heard the sound, locked the door, and drew the curtains.The room was plunged into darkness, Jiang Bei was sitting on the sofa, as cold as a sculpture carved out of high-quality marble, even his hair exuded an oppressive aura of please do not approach.Biansheng has someone who is not afraid of death, and stretches out his hand to pull Jiang Bei.

"Don't go there." Wang Zhipeng pulled back to Jiangnan, "Lao Jiang, I kept hiding it from you just because I was afraid of you."

Jiang Bei's eyes fell on Jiang Nan, as if he wanted to crush the opponent's bones, grinding Jiang Nan's eyebrows, eyes and neck inch by inch.

After confirming his eyes, this is the right person. Jiang Nan seemed to be greatly encouraged. He broke free from Wang Zhipeng's hand, ran to sit next to Jiang Bei, leaned over and whispered in his ear, "..."

The familiar smell lingered on the tip of his nose, and Jiang Bei remembered the days when he was bound by Jiangnan.He turned his head and looked at Jiangnan. The distance made his noses intertwined, and they wrapped each other wetly.

"So why did he appear here? He is alive, so he shouldn't..." Jiang Bei didn't continue, and broke into the eyes of Jiangnan's smiling fox.

Lin An exclaimed that he didn't see it, turned sideways, and said, "I don't know the details, I'm just an errand runner. Anyway, this brat is now a brain-dead man. When he wakes up, he only remembers you and Aunt Cheng. Aunt Cheng wrote The letter of understanding ended up like this, we have to respect his right to life, right? Although I really want to crush him to death, but..."

Jiang Bei's fingers itched slightly, and it was Jiang Nan who was poking at him: "...Are you sure he's brain-dead?"

Lin An glanced at it, and his neck turned red: "Well, these are all arranged by Captain Xu. He has all the inspection reports and so on. You can ask him, the old man!"

Lin An couldn't stay any longer, so he pulled the bewildered and blind Wang Zhipeng, wanting to leave this place of right and wrong.

"Wait," Jiang Bei slapped Jiang Nan's dishonest hand and called Lin An, "Why does he remember Aunt Cheng?"

Lin An grabbed the door frame and said, "I don't know either. Aunt Cheng said she wanted to visit him the day she was discharged from the hospital. The two of them talked about something. Aunt Cheng seemed to be in a daze after she came out. I contacted him within a few days. Team Xu wrote a letter of understanding."

Jiang Bei squeezed his eyes tightly: "So this is your second aunt who lived in the ICU at the time?"

"..."

"What second aunt?" Wang Zhipeng was puzzled, and patted Lin An's shoulder, "Didn't your second aunt leave a few years ago? I went to dinner, did I remember wrong?"

Jiang Bei rubbed his face and said wearily, "I see, you guys go out."

As soon as the door was closed, the room was instantly quiet, only the sound of Jiang Nan's shallow breathing was left in his ears.Jiang Bei subconsciously wanted to push him away, but suddenly there was an itch on his neck, and Jiang Bei's movements stopped.

"Did I bite here?" Jiang Nan rubbed the scar there, "I don't remember exactly, but in this location, I should have bitten it, after all, we slept together."

But hearing this, a certain string in Jiang Bei's mind snapped, and he pushed Jiang Nan away.However, Jiangnan's health has not recovered well in the past six months, and he doesn't like the food in the nursing home. He doesn't eat this or that, and his physical strength can't keep up.

Seeing that the back of his head was about to hit the ground, Jiang Bei quickly grabbed him.Palms pressed against each other, and the body temperature felt like a warm current flowed through his body. Jiang Bei thought: This is the first time he has caught Jiangnan, and he was 13 years late.

Jiang Nan crawled along the pole, shamelessly pulled himself into Jiang Bei's arms, resting his chin on Jiang Bei's shoulder, and said softly, "I remember you, we... hugged, kissed, and slept."

Jiang Bei wanted to say that you could forget about it, but at this moment, Jiang Nan was snuggling in his arms just like that night, as soft as a cat with its belly open. The only difference was that Jiang Bei didn't have a knife at hand.He reached into Jiangnan's collar with his bare hands, caressing the uneven scar.

"Sorry……"

Jiang Nan didn't seem to remember what happened that night, but Jiang Bei remembered that he was soaked in blood, and how Jiang Nan's body temperature cooled down. He thought Jiang Nan was dead, and he died at that moment.

Now that his child is back, he thought selfishly, just for a second, Jiang Nan just stays by his side obediently.

"I'm sorry," Jiang Bei's fingertips made him feel a little itchy, Jiang Nan let out a low laugh out of season, and sucked Jiang Bei's neck unbearably.He found that he liked this part and this person very much, which had nothing to do with the remaining memories, but a feeling. "I'm sorry, I'm sick now, and I can't sleep with you. Can you touch it after I recover? It's very itchy."

"!" Jiang Bei let go of his hand for a second, stood up and shouted, "Lin An, take him to check his brain, remember some messy things."

Lin An opened the door and came in, Xin Dao had checked many times.

Jiang Bei tidied up his clothes: "When he regains his senses, ask him if the nurse told him a story last night, and who sent the bouquet of flowers in his room."

He glanced at Jiangnan who was in astonishment, and remembered what the nurse at the information desk said—kids, grandma, he was sure that the nurse was blind.

After Jiang Bei confessed, he hurried out of the inpatient building. Xu Zhengyuan didn't urge him to go back after such a long delay. It is conceivable that "urgent matter" was just an excuse.The few of them are all in the same group. In order to hide Jiangnan, Second Aunt could make up such a bullshit cover.

As the car sped along the road, Jiang Bei's hand clenched the steering wheel unconsciously. His mind was in a mess like a pot of porridge, and he didn't know how to face Jiangnan in the future.With Jiangnan's current physical condition, it will not affect the court at all. As long as there is sufficient evidence, he can be convicted. Even if Cheng's mother issues a letter of understanding, it will not be of much use. What's more, he and Lin An also made a record.But now Jiangnan is staying in the nursing home, paroled for medical treatment?No, Jiangnan's condition is not yet up to the standard of being released on medical parole.

Only Xu Zhengyuan knows the answer.

-

In the past six months, Xu Zhengyuan didn't go to the bureau much, and spent most of his time in the Chinese medicine hall for recuperation.Today he made an appointment to make tea at home and wait for Jiang Bei.

Still can't hide it, he thought.

But looking on the bright side, the medical expenses he paid were finally reimbursed by someone who took advantage of him.

The doorbell rang, Xu Zhengyuan slowly went to open the door and welcomed the victim into the room.Even though Jiang Bei couldn't wait to get to the bottom of it, he still had enough etiquette in front of his elders.

Xu Zhengyuan panicked for him, and said straight to the point: "Sit down, the child's mother has gone to pick up Niannian from school, and she will be back later. Lin An told me, you saw him, and if you want to ask anything, ask quickly , When Niannian comes back, I have to help her with her homework."

Jiang Bei didn't drink his tea and asked directly, "Why didn't you tell me he was still alive?"

Xu Zhengyuan was obviously stunned for a moment. He thought that Jiang Bei would first ask about the Jiangnan court trial.He laughed: "Shouldn't you ask yourself this matter? You didn't stab the right place, and you didn't mention it afterwards."

Jiang Bei: "..."

"How should I put it, if you persisted and held him for a while longer, and missed the best time to rescue him, he would have died on the spot. So, do you really want him to die?" Xu Zhengyuan couldn't figure out the young man's attitude at all. Thinking, "I don't know what you are thinking, so I didn't tell you. If you get angry and go away with a knife, then the rest of your life will be over. Originally, the child died on the way to the hospital." No, I managed to get back from the ghost gate, but due to excessive blood loss, cerebral ischemia, I can't remember things after waking up. But don't worry, this is temporary, the doctor said so. As for the others, Scarring fibrosis and pulmonary nodules caused by trauma to the lungs are treatable and not fatal."

Xu Zhengyuan saw that Jiang Bei was actually most concerned about Jiang Nan's physical condition, so he simply finished speaking in one breath, lest he ask any more questions.

Only then did Jiang Bei take a sip of tea from his cup, and his extremely tense broad shoulders relaxed slightly: "But these are not enough for him to be released on medical parole."

"What about medical parole?" Xu Zhengyuan put down his cup, "The first trial is still pending."

Jiang Bei was shocked: "What?"

Xu Zhengyuan simply stopped drinking tea, and went to the cabinet to get the materials for Jiang Bei, then changed into a comfortable position and sat on the bamboo chair, and said, "Twin crimes are difficult to determine. Cheng Ye and Jiang Nan have the same DNA. Yes, but DNA was not extracted from the homes of the first five victims. It would be okay if there were fingerprints, but there were no fingerprints at the scene of the crime. The surveillance video found before was at the end of December last year. Cheng Ye was still there at that time, and the people in the video Who exactly is still to be verified, so the higher-ups requested additional investigations on the grounds of insufficient evidence."

Jiang Bei listened, flipping through the data in his hand, it was an STR typing test report.Simple DNA testing is not suitable for identical twins, and we can only rely on more advanced testing techniques to distinguish the small differences in the genes of identical twins.

No two people are exactly alike in the world.

As far as the report is concerned, Jiangnan's chromosome vWA gene locus appeared tri-allelic, but Cheng Ye did not.However, there is no DNA for comparison at the scene of the crime, so it is impossible to confirm who is the real murderer.

"How is it possible?" Jiang Bei read the jerky and incomprehensible report with a look of disbelief, "If it wasn't for Jiangnan, then Li Zhenzhen's death would be unexplainable."

Xu Zhengyuan propped his face, thinking: "I also think it's impossible, but that's what the above said. Twins commit a crime. Witnesses and surveillance are of little use. You and I can't tell who is who. What about a camera?" Can you tell the difference? What's more, Jiangnan deliberately imitated Cheng Ye. Cheng Ye's adoptive mother went to see Jiangnan and said that they were so similar, even the mole on the shoulder blade was exactly the same. The most important thing is DNA, or fingerprints, pupil lines, so troublesome." Xu Zhengyuan, who is so old and hot, can't help scratching his head when encountering such a thing.

"But Cheng Ye is dead," Jiang Bei crumpled the inspection report, "Jiangnan is the prime suspect."

Xu Zhengyuan did not answer his question directly, but said: "I also took that takeaway box for STR typing test, and found the DNA of the two brothers on it. This is different from the modus operandi of the previous cases. A criminal genius would not make such a low-level mistake. In short, before there is sufficient evidence, Jiangnan is still suspected, and he is now on bail. Interrogation." Xu Zhengyuan glanced at Jiang Bei, and said, "I don't I suggest you take him home, the suspect in the 'unclear facts, insufficient evidence' case will be placed under residential surveillance, and taking him home is not good for you."

Jiang Bei lowered his eyes: "I have no intention of taking him home."

Xu Zhengyuan smiled: "By the way, this is for you."

A card and a piece of paper were thrown over. The card was Jiangnan's ID card. He didn't remember his birthday. Xu Zhengyuan filled it out according to Cheng Ye's information. As for the paper, it recorded Jiangnan's medical expenses for the past six months.When Jiang Bei saw it, he gasped. It really was a poke, the Audi turned into a motorcycle.

"I won't ask you for the money for the ID card," Xu Zhengyuan laughed out loud, "Be nice to serve him, and be careful that he will sue you for intentional harm. If you really want to get him in, sue him for legal supervision. Forbidden, you two have personal grievances, you can negotiate on your own."

Jiang Bei rubbed the center of his brows, apparently still not recovering from the high medical bills.

"There is one more thing to tell you," Xu Zhengyuan said in a deep voice, "Jiangnan has always been a criminal, and no information about him can be found on the household registration website. If there were not so many things that happened between you and him, you would really be able to tell him apart Who is it?"

Jiang Bei was silent for a long time before saying, "Now we can tell the difference."