between light and shadow

Mingcheng came to the cafe as promised, and Li Yaman was already waiting.Mingcheng sees that there is no one else around Li Yaman, obviously this meeting is of great importance, and it also means that Li Yaman has trusted Mingcheng.

"Did Wenwen look for you?"

Mingcheng nodded uncomfortably.

"I want to know what you think."

Mingcheng was momentarily at a loss for words.He was wondering what Riyaman meant.If Mingcheng said that he also likes Wenwen, would Li Yaman agree or disagree?If Mingcheng says he doesn't like Wenwen, will Li Yaman drive Mingcheng away because of this?After all, Lin Feifan is no longer here, and Mingcheng still doesn't know his status and importance here.

Li Yaman seemed to guess Mingcheng's scruples, "I regard Wenwen as my own daughter, and of course I don't want her to be hurt, but I absolutely respect her ideas, otherwise I wouldn't indulge her like this. She likes you already In fact, I just hope you don't cheat on her, whether you like her or not."

"I've already rejected her." Mingcheng decided to tell the truth, "Would you like Wenwen to follow someone who has no future?"

"Are you so unconfident in yourself? Or do you think you have no future with me?"

"It's none of anyone's business. It's me who knows that I don't have the ability to love. Wenwen is from a different world from us. She won't be happy with me."

"Us? You want me to treat you as one of my own?"

Mingcheng remained silent.

"I have observed you for a while, and you have not disappointed me. Now that you have made a decision, I hope you can concentrate on helping me next time."

"what do you mean……?"

Li Yaman didn't explain much, but just told Mingcheng to send her to a place.

Mingcheng followed Li Yaman's instructions and drove Li Yaman to a relatively remote industrial area.It was dark in the middle of the night, with only a few street lamps flickering faintly on the side of the road.Mingcheng raised his vigilance while driving, secretly paying attention to the surrounding situation.At this time, this place is as quiet as an uninhabited island, and because he is not familiar with this place, Mingcheng sincerely thinks that if Li Yaman arranges a group of people here to deal with him at this time, it may be a disaster.

Li Yaman instructed Mingcheng to park the car in front of a factory, and then led Mingcheng into the factory.Mingcheng tried his best to remember the surrounding environment and routes, but the single or even close to the same structure in the factory, coupled with the fact that Riyaman could not be suspicious and could not be too obvious, it was really not easy to remember this geographical location.After passing through several corridors of the factory and turning a few corners, he finally walked into a secret room.

The secret room is not too big, but there are only a few people working in it, so it doesn't look crowded.The indoor lights were dim but the air was ventilated. The workers continued to work after greeting Riyaman, as if they were not used to talking.Mingcheng stared at the white powder, transparent packaging bags and some simple tools on the table, this is where they packed drugs.

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A new day started as usual in the hospital.Xun Ran was woken up by the dazzling sunlight outside the window.Last night, he asked the nurse Xiaomin to help open the curtains to see the night scene outside, but he forgot to pull them back afterwards.Xunran sat up slowly, rubbed his calf, Zhao Qiping said that the wound healed well, and if there were no accidents, he should be discharged from the hospital in the next two days.

Xun Ran reached for the crutches leaning against the bed, awkwardly wanted to get out of the bed and close the curtains, moved her body along the way, but as soon as she reached the window, Ji Bai walked in.

"Why, want to escape?"

"Look at my appearance, can I escape?" Xun Ran gave Ji Bai a supercilious look, and then closed the curtains casually.

"It's rare to be able to rest in a legitimate way, so just stay obediently."

While talking, Ji Bai helped Xun Ran go back to the bed and sit down.

"Is there any progress on the case?"

Seeing Ji Bai shook his head, Xun Ran felt even more frustrated, "Then I was shot for nothing."

"That's not to say, at least our action this time has dealt them a considerable blow, and we've confirmed that the murder of Xu Xu is related to them, and there is another suspect, Fang Hong."

Xun Ran wanted to ask more questions, but saw Tang Xin and Annie coming.Ji Bai was the first to notice that Tang Xin's palm was bandaged, and stepped forward to check Tang Xin's hand nervously.

"what happened?"

"I accidentally cut myself while cutting fruit."

"Why are you so careless? Is the wound deep? It was bandaged just now?"

Seeing Ji Bai's concerned face, Tang Xin's depressed mood suddenly became sweeter, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.Annie who was beside her couldn't help but speak up for Tang Xin, "She called you as soon as something happened, but your phone has never been turned on."

Ji Bai hurriedly took out his phone from his trouser pocket, only to realize that he had turned off his phone during a meeting at the police station this morning, and then kept forgetting to turn it back on again.

"Sorry……"

Before he finished speaking, Ji Bai's cell phone received a text message.Ji Bai glanced at it, and his expression immediately became serious.

"I'm leaving." Ji Bai looked at Tang Xin, feeling a little guilty, "I'm going to see you tonight, you can tell me what you want to eat first, I'll buy it for you, pay attention to the wound."

Ji Bai waved to Xun Ran as a greeting, and hurried out of the ward without looking back, leaving Tang Xin, who had no time to react, with a stunned expression, who just stared blankly at Ji Bai's leaving back.

Ever since Xunran was injured and admitted to the hospital, Tang Xin became more worried about Ji Bai, especially seeing him secretly taking medicine several times, but sometimes Ji Bai deliberately avoided Tang Xin's concern, and sometimes seemed to care about her very much. It was only when Tang Xin became more and more depressed that she accidentally cut herself in the kitchen.After being bandaged in the emergency room, Tang Xin and Annie stopped by to visit Xunran. They didn't expect to meet the person they had been thinking about here, but they had to watch him leave after only a few minutes.

Xun Ran saw Tang Xin's reaction in his eyes, he was a bystander, so he naturally understood Tang Xin's thoughts.

"The work of the criminal police is like this. There is no fixed working time and few holidays. The danger is even more inevitable. You should have been mentally prepared for this."

"I know, I understand, but..."

"But you just can't help worrying, can't you?" Anne interrupted.

"Actually, my brother's problem is not his work, but that he still can't let go of certain people and things."

"You mean Xu Xu?"

Xunran nodded.Tang Xin's heart became even heavier.In fact, she had already guessed that the third brother is a person who values ​​love and righteousness, how could he let go of his former fiancée in such a short period of time.However, falling in love with someone is often not controlled by reason, otherwise there would be so many people who were injured in love.

Tang Xin took a deep breath.She can no longer just live for the third brother, and the third brother will not like such a weak and decadent self.The third brother has worked very hard. She loves the third brother and hopes that the third brother can be happy and healthy, instead of always thinking about smoking a cigarette.She must first make herself strong and truly capable, so that she can accompany the third brother and help him without becoming his burden.

After saying goodbye to Xiang Xunran, Annie accompanied Tang Xin to leave, but she looked thoughtful all the way. When she reached the gate of the hospital, Annie suddenly stopped, and then took out her mobile phone to make a call.

"Hey, Qiping, are you free tonight?...Nothing, I just want to watch a movie and have a meal...Okay, see you tonight."

Annie put down her phone, and saw Tang Xin looking at herself in disbelief, "I don't want to be like you, love so hard, I decided to turn passive into active, try to fight for it, no matter what the result is, at least there will be no regrets. Besides Ji Bai said that he would look for you tonight, I can't just stay at home and be a light bulb."

"Who knows if he will miss the appointment again."

Tang Xin pouted, she still cared a little in her heart, she was looking forward to seeing him, but also afraid of being disappointed again.

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Xun Ran was half lying on the bed idly browsing the news on the Internet with a tablet computer.A few people came with great difficulty just now, but they all left after a while, Xun Ran was so bored and panicked that he really wanted to be discharged from the hospital immediately.

Then Xun Ran heard footsteps, and hurriedly looked up to see that it was Xiaomin walking in.

"I've been bored here for a few days, want to go out for a walk?"

"Okay."

Xunran couldn't wait to get out of bed, Xiaomin wanted Xunran to sit in a wheelchair, but Xunran insisted on using crutches, saying that it would be more convenient to learn to use crutches after being discharged from the hospital.

Only then did Xun Ran suddenly realize that Xiaomin was not wearing a white uniform, "Are you off work?"

"Yes."

"That……"

Xun Ran felt really sorry to stay with him after get off work.Xunran suddenly remembered that the serious injury was also in this hospital, did they really know each other before?But why didn't he have any impression?

Seeing that Xunran hesitated to speak, Xiaomin blinked her big round eyes and frowned, she didn't know what she was thinking, but her thoughtful look was inexplicably cute, she couldn't help laughing Ask Xunran, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing... let's go."

The problem of choking in his throat was still unable to be said, and Xun Ran felt a little annoyed at himself, he was not afraid of knives, guns, bandits and gangsters, but every time it came to such a critical point, he just couldn’t open his mouth, it was really useless, Xun Ran secretly scolded himself One sentence.

Xiao Min accompanied Xun Ran in the corridor of the hospital, planning to walk through the lobby to the garden outside.Seeing that Xunran was struggling more and more while holding on to the crutches, and was still panting slightly, Xiaomin forced Xunran to sit down on the chair near the counter first.

Xun Ran sighed with some embarrassment, "It's too bad, my physical strength is getting weaker and weaker, I must exercise hard after being discharged from the hospital."

"You have just had an operation, it's not a minor operation, don't force it too much, as long as you follow the doctor's instructions for regular rehabilitation, you should be fine."

Xun Ran looked helpless, "I don't know how long I will be on vacation this time, I hope I can go back to work as soon as possible."

"Last time you were injured so seriously, I thought you would never be a policeman again, but this time you were admitted to the hospital because of a gunshot wound. Have you really never been afraid or thought about changing careers?"

"So we really met before!" Xun Ran seemed to ignore Xiaomin's question, but grasped another important point, and seemed a little excited.

That time Xunran was shot multiple times in the American hospital in order to protect Yaoyao, one of the bullets was quite close to the heart, it really went around the gate of hell.Later, after the injury stabilized slightly, the family members sent Xunran back to China for the convenience of taking care of her.At that time, Xiaomin was just an intern nurse, and she was naturally impressed when she encountered such a serious patient for the first time, but at that time, Xunran was in a coma most of the time, and didn't pay attention to those medical staff at all.Later, Xunran was infected and stayed in the intensive care unit for a month. The head nurse didn't dare to let Xiao Min's trainee nurses take care of her. One can imagine the seriousness of her condition.

It was also in the hospital that Xiaomin met Xunran again for the second time.The explosion in the back alley of the Punk Café caused Fang Datong to be implicated and injured. His subordinates made a scene in the hospital and almost wanted to attack Xiao Min who was on duty at the time, but Xun Ran helped her out in time.At that time Xun Ran still did not recognize her.

When Xunran was shot in the calf and was rushed to the operating room, Xiao Min recognized Xunran on the operating table at a glance.So it's only natural that she would pay more attention when taking care of Xunran later.

Xun Ran suddenly realized that the doubts that had been hanging in his heart were finally solved.When the two of them were chatting vigorously, Xiaomin suddenly stopped talking and just stared blankly at the two people not far ahead.

Xun Ran looked over curiously, and saw Fang Hong walking in from the outside, followed by a strange middle-aged man, who looked like a bodyguard or something.At this time, Zhao Qiping also happened to pass by in a hurry, and was stopped by Fang Hong.

Fang Hong came back for a follow-up visit today, accompanied by his newly hired driver.Zhao Qiping had just completed an operation, and was about to rush to the consultation room to wait for Fang Hong, but unexpectedly ran into him in the hospital lobby.

The two walked while chatting, and Fang Hong's driver followed him, gradually approaching the counter.Xiaomin's gaze never left Fang Hong, no, it should be the driver beside Fang Hong.Xunran found that there was hatred in Xiaomin's eyes that she had never seen before, even hostility.Xun Ran was secretly startled, but for a moment she couldn't figure out what Xiaomi meant, so she could only stare at her, and even held Xiaomin's hand involuntarily.

"Xiao Min..."

A nurse passed by with a tray containing jars of medicine and two syringes.Xiao Min suddenly broke free from Xun Ran's hand, stood up and walked forward to grab one of the syringes without saying a word, then rushed to the driver next to Fang Hong, raised the syringe and was about to pierce it.In desperation, Xun Ran didn't care about his foot injury, and rushed forward to grab Xiaomin tightly. The driver instinctively stretched out his hand to resist, and the sharp needle drew a bloodstain on his arm.