sincerity of lies

Yuan Yue stood up: "I'm here to chat with my friends."

"Why don't you take your friend's transcript by the way?" Huo Ranyin said, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "Save everyone's time."

A trace of doubt flashed across Yuan Yue's eyebrows. Before he opened his mouth, Ji Xun yawned, not very politely: "I've been waiting here for half an hour, how long will I have to wait? Can you let me go home after the recording? "

Yuan Yue left, Huo Ranyin sat down where Yuan Yue was just now, and he looked at Ji Xun.

here we go again.That thorn in the back feeling.

Ji Xun frowned unknowingly, and now he began to feel that the meeting between Huo Ranyin and himself yesterday was too coincidental, as if he was the fish Huo Ranyin wanted to catch, and this fish foolishly bit the hook .

"A woman's intuition is really scary." Huo Ranyin finally said, "I thought she was talking nonsense in the morning, but I didn't expect that although she didn't get any evidence, she had a clue in her mind."

"She has a clue in her mind, but you may not have a clue in her mind."

"Oh?"

"It's so gossip, I'm taking the liberty to ask, how old are you this year?" Ji Xun laughed mockingly.

Huo Ranyin's fingers tapped on the table twice. He turned over the chapter and picked up the on-site record of the night. The record was very simple, just describing the facts, a total of three to five lines.

"You overreacted and dislocated the non-professional's arm. Do you have knife phobia?"

"..."

"When I went to your house, I didn't see kitchen knives. The cabinets, tables and chairs in the room were all rounded and polished. I looked for the cabinets, and even the paper knives were round..."

Huo Ranyin flicked his hands, and a snail shell-shaped mini utility knife that was no bigger than the palm appeared on the table.

With a push of his finger, the blade popped out. It was so short that even if you didn't pay attention, you couldn't see the sharp corner on it.

Ji Xun looked away instinctively, his Adam's apple rolled, and an invisible rope quietly wrapped around his neck.Afterwards, he heard the sound of the spring unwinding and Huo Ranyin's clear voice.

"Sharp phobia."

"Inspector Huo, you are a policeman, tell me, is this considered burglary?"

"I don't need to go into details about the legal interpretation of burglary and the standard of filing a case for common theft."

"What about the rule that the people's public servants don't take a needle and thread from the masses?"

"I have evidence for my speaking habits. This is evidence." Huo Ranyin said, and then he pushed the utility knife towards Ji Xun to put an end to this round of tit-for-tat. "Now that the evidence is proved, it will be returned to the original owner. A needle and thread for the masses."

Ji Xun looked down at the utility knife for a while, then suddenly smiled.

The corners of his raised eyes are full of disrespect, but the shallow hook itself is a kind of beauty; the smile on the corner of his mouth is full of sarcasm, and there is a hint of politeness in the sarcasm; his face is full of Really tired, but that face, this person, when combined with the darkness, also became infected with the charm of darkness.

A kind of depth and gloom that makes people want to get close to him and embrace his charm even if they know that moths are flying to the flame.

"Inspector, you really care about me. Since we haven't met before, and I don't have amnesia, which is a standard part of bloody novels, I can only presume...we may have met in a public place with more than ten people in the past. On the face, there, I left a deep impression or shadow on you, so much so that you don’t like me when you look at it horizontally and vertically, and you have never forgotten me until now, and finally the road is narrow.”

"But listen to my advice. Who doesn't have any sad things in their life? Just get used to it." Ji Xun casually joked again, "By the way, I don't pay attention to evidence. If I guess wrong-- guess wrong. I suggest , no matter right or wrong, you don’t have to continue, we tacitly keep the meme of ‘I know you know I know you know what I want to say’, that’s fine.”

The record book was originally held by Huo Ranyin, but now he threw it on the table.

His immobility since he appeared in the police force was destroyed, and he was staring at Ji Xun with displeasure at the moment.Ji Xun was surprised to see some sultry aura from last night in Huo Ranyin's body.

such a pity.

It's too spicy, I can't stand it.

With Ji Xun gone, Huo Ranyin still had to work overtime in the office. The first time after a murder happened, he was always extra busy. The most golden time to solve a case was 72 hours, and he could do as much as he could.

Not long after, Tan Mingjiu walked in with a yawn: "We contacted the family of the deceased to identify the body. The family of the deceased is in the surrounding rural areas and said they would come over as soon as possible. There are only parents and a younger brother at home. It seems that the family is not doing well. I will call When the notification was made, the father who answered the phone seemed to be in a state of collapse... Hey, where is Ji Xun? Gone?"

"Ah."

"I saw that he participated so much in such a case. I thought he decided to come back. It's been three years, and Captain Yuan didn't persuade him. People have to move forward..." Tan Mingjiu muttered in a low voice, his depression visible to the naked eye.Nights are always down.

"Captain Yuan and Ji Xun have a good relationship?" Huo Ranyin asked casually.

"Very good, it's a friendship built hand in hand and back to back." Tan Mingjiu is happy to share some innocuous gossip with his new boss, "When Ji Xun first came to the police force, he was brought by Yuan Dui. He was born to eat this job He is very quick to learn. In addition to his current work, he also likes to look through old cases. Those cases have been found for more than ten or twenty years, and the evidence has either been found or has long been annihilated, but he can still find something different. .”

"Why did you leave when you were so good? If you worked hard, you would be the captain now, right?" Huo Ranyin asked a new question.

"Anyway, he has his own considerations to some extent." Tan Mingjiu's words became vague for a moment, "He's doing pretty well now, he's a very famous author, he has less time to worry about and quicker money, the life of my dreams."

"Hmm." Huo Ranyin, "Do you think he prefers the past or the present?"

Tan Mingjiu scratched his bright head, hesitantly said: "I don't know. But it may be... let's go. He was very energetic at that time."

"Team Huo."

The detective with glasses hurried in.

"There are new discoveries in the case!"

The chat in the office was interrupted, and Huo Ranyin looked for new clues.The criminal policeman who went to the mobile phone business hall to pull the order came back and brought a list of Xi Lei's mobile phone number text messages and calls.The list is very thick, far exceeding the thickness of normal chat communication.And those calls often hang up in two or three seconds.

Huo Ranyin frowned slightly.

"Riot text messages, 'Call you to death'?"

"It must be." The glasses detective added, "This is generally used for soft collection of loans."

But this is obviously not in line with their diagnosis of the crime scene, nor is it in line with Xi Lei's current financial situation.There is a time deposit of about 40 in Xi Lei’s name, which is not on the card that Zeng Peng took away, but an independent Agricultural Bank of China card. The flow shows that she has been depositing money in it continuously since she started working, which can be called Financial status is good.

"What about the duration?"

"It didn't last long." The glasses detective looked at the list. "It's only three days in total, and the time is January 1th, 5th, and 6th."

Just at this time, the criminal police in the monitoring room also made new discoveries. At the corresponding time point, for three days in a row, when Xi Lei went to work at the gate of the community, the camera at the gate of the community took pictures of a camera parked in the corner. BMW.

The BMW stopped quietly at the corner, appeared before Xi Lei appeared, and left after Xi Lei left.

Except for these few days, there was no trace of this car no matter whether it was going back or forth.

The outer shell of the car completely covers the driver, but the camera has clearly captured the license plate number of the car.

An uneasy night passed, and when Ji Xun woke up, it was only seven o'clock. His head was aching, and he didn't know if it was caused by the side effects of sleeping pills, or the continuous nightmares while falling asleep.

Last night, he contacted the home improvement company to look for "Master Lu" - a woodworker and carpenter, who is usually closely related to home decoration.

But after asking around, no one knew a carpenter named "Lu".

He yawned tiredly, washed up and went out in a half-awake state, and when he arrived at Sunshine Hospital, when he saw Xia Youqing, the woman was still a little depressed, but she had already got up from the hospital bed and sat on a garden chair superior.

In her left hand, she holds a bouquet of flowers with two small dolls inserted in the flowers.From Ji Xun's observation, in less than two seconds, the entire bouquet of blooming flowers was thrown into the trash can.

Along the way, he saw almost the same bouquets in the arms of different people in the garden. Obviously, the bouquets came from Sunshine Hospital. Private hospitals always provide new services in this area, and they are also quite popular with inpatients. iron plate.

Xia Youqing looked indifferent, and even picked up a tissue to wipe her fingers after throwing them away.

It's Yuan Yue's fault.When Yuan Yue first fell in love, he put a lot of thought into it. He even asked for help outside the court. Scented candles with ceramic figurines holding hearts.

How surprised I was at the time and how angry I was at the end. Until now, women have not been able to get out of the PTSD of male and female dolls.

Things from the past slipped through his mind, and he walked up to Xia Youqing.

"Zeng Peng just left?" He glanced at the box on Xia Youqing's lap, "I brought you Xi Lei's belongings."

"Ji Xun, being with you sometimes makes people feel insecure," Xia Youqing said helplessly, "It seems that there is nothing that can be hidden from your eyes. But this is also where you are trusted."

"That's pretty basic reasoning, if you want to—"

"No, no, I don't want to." Xia Youqing refused three times, "I know you are amazing, as long as I know you are amazing, I don't want to know why you are amazing."

"What did Xi Lei give you?" Ji Xun changed the subject without hesitation.

Xia Youqing rubbed the box on her lap, and she opened it. Inside was a pair of cross-stitch embroidery, and on the embroidered cloth was a Q-version girl holding hands. From the looks of it, it was Xi Lei and Xia Youqing.

A drop of water fell on the embroidered cloth.

Ji Xun pretended politely that he didn't see it, and his eyes turned to the side, which happened to see a group of four people walking in front.

The four people divided into two waves, Huo Ranyin and another policeman walked in front, and the other two well-dressed and well-maintained men and women walked behind.Among them, the woman who walked last was——

Rao Fangjie, Vice President of Sunshine Hospital.

The photos he saw on the wall of Sunshine Hospital flashed through Ji Xun's mind.

Rao Fangjie is a middle-aged woman, in her forties or fifties, with things in both hands. The left hand is a small brand-name bag, and there are deep ring marks on the ring finger holding the bag; the right hand is holding a medium-sized red plastic Ji Xun glanced at the plastic bag, and there were light and overlapping shadows inside, which looked like many sheets of different sizes stacked together, and the edges of these sheets were all at right angles, like...packed together paper.

He slipped his gaze to the man in suit and leather shoes in front of Rao Fangjie who walked with ease, and saw the man's finger with a ring on it.

The ring matches the mark on Rao Fangjie's hand, and the two are husband and wife.

"Ji Xun." Xia Youqing called him.Her gaze was in the same direction as his, and she turned from Huo Ranyin to Rao Fangjie and the man with deep doubts, "Huo Ranyin appeared. Are they related to Lei Lei's case?"

"Rao Fangjie's husband is Xi Lei's lover." Ji Xun told Xia Youqing softly.

Xia Youqing was startled, and her words didn't convey her meaning: "Lover? How could Lei Lei have a lover? Wait, how do you know who her lover is?"

Ji Xun never answered such obvious questions.The appearance of Huo Ranyin proves that this couple is related to Xi Lei's case.Rao Fangjie took off her ring again recently, and it was so obvious that she completely wrote the news of "my husband cheated on her, and the person she cheated on is Xi Lei" as a note on her face.

"Did you see the red plastic bag in Rao Fangjie's hand?" Ji Xun said yes, Xia Youqing didn't notice anything at all, "There are papers in there, can you guess what kind of paper it is?"

"……what?"

"Ah... I see, it's probably an invoice or a shopping receipt." Ji Xun said to himself, "The man's brisk steps and relaxed expression prove that he has cleared himself of suspicion regarding Xi Lei. What kind of invoices and shopping receipts can be proved, and a large number of collections will not arouse suspicion-when you need to be reimbursed for business trips."

He came to a conclusion, turned his head to look at Xia Youqing, and saw Xia Youqing's face was blank.

Xia Youqing was dumbfounded for a while, pulled herself together, and tried to conclude: "So they are not suspected?"

"Hard to say."

Xia Youqing looked at him full of curiosity.

Ji Xun searched his pockets with his hands. He didn’t feel tired when he was thinking. It was the stage of untying the Nine Links, rotating the Rubik’s Cube, and putting together the puzzle. It is difficult for people to get tired during the game; but when the game is over, When it's time to retell the content of the game step by step, the magic dissipates, everything becomes dull and tired, and you need to eat to pick yourself up.

But his pockets were empty, he hadn't recounted these for a long time, and naturally he didn't prepare refreshing snacks.

At this time, a hand was stretched out from the side, and Xia Youqing handed Ji Xun a plum: "You can't eat too sweet during pregnancy, I didn't bring sugar and chocolate, is this okay?"

Ji Xun took it and ate it.

Yuan Yue understood his little habits, and so did Xia Youqing.This was discovered by Xia Youqing when they were taking care of Yuan Yue together, including his home address.Once the distance between people is too close, it is difficult to keep secrets.But man is a social animal, so secrets can be understood as things that will always be known.

He swallowed plums in his mouth, which made him tremble with sourness, and his dull brain cells bounced twice: "...From an intuitive point of view, the major suspect just happened to have an alibi that seemed irrefutable, which is very suspicious; from a common sense analysis Rao Fangjie, who pays attention to dressing up, carried a small handbag that can't hold anything, so the important evidence of the invoice can only be placed in a plastic bag, what does this mean?"

"It means that Rao Fangjie was not prepared for this before." Xia Youqing finally caught up with her train of thought.

"The things were prepared by my lover, and the preparations were timely and sufficient." Ji Xun said.

"He has a problem." Xia Youqing blurted out.

"Okay." Ji Xun nodded seriously, "He has a problem. Anyway, as far as novels are concerned, the perfect alibi that appears at the beginning is always for the purpose of overturning it later. It's a cliché beginning, but it's barely worth remembering. Um...they stopped talking."

Several people stopped, Rao Fangjie seemed to leave first, only Tang Jinglong was left talking to Huo Ranyin.

Ji Xun had learned lip language for a while, and he watched from afar to distinguish what Tang Jinglong said.

"'Leilei and I have a good relationship...Although Leilei is not well-educated and not beautiful enough, she is a very simple woman...At this age, I don't care about beauty, every man wants it Is it a home that makes people feel at ease? I give Lei Lei a sum of money every month, just to let her feel at home at home, not to be so bitter... If Lei Lei doesn't get in touch with messy people, maybe she won't...' "

A mocking and angry sneer came from the side.

It was obviously Xia Youqing's, Ji Xun ignored it, he still looked ahead, took out his mobile phone, and took a picture of the thing in the hands of the man who had gone away, he felt that the thing looked familiar.

The man he photographed didn't realize it, but Huo Ranyin suddenly turned his head, his eyes were like hawks, and he looked over.