between light and shadow

Zhao Qiping came out of the operating room and exhaled a little tiredly.After closing the door casually, Zhao Qiping saw Chen Anni as soon as he turned his head.In the deserted corridor, Annie was sitting in a corner, holding a mobile phone as if playing a game.Zhao Qiping stepped forward curiously.

"Why are you still here?"

"Wait for you."

"wait for me?"

"My pen."

Annie reached out to ask for a pen, and Zhao Qiping suddenly realized that he quickly felt in his pocket, only to find that he was still wearing a surgical gown.Zhao Qiping wanted to go back to find a pen, but Annie pulled him to sit down.

"Don't worry, let's take a rest first." Annie looked at the time on the phone, "You have been doing this operation for almost two hours."

"Two hours is considered pediatrics for us." Zhao Qiping looked at Annie's phone curiously, "What are you playing?"

"Defend the radish!"

"You have only played here, but it is not difficult here, and you should be able to pass the level soon."

"You play this too?"

Seeing Zhao Qiping nodding, Annie couldn't help laughing. It was hard for her to imagine how Dr. Zhao in a white coat would look like when he was playing defending radish with his mobile phone.

"Who said doctors can't play defending radish?" Zhao Qiping shouted angrily and amusedly, "If you don't believe me, I must be better at playing than you!"

Unconvinced, Zhao Qiping wanted to take the phone from Annie, but Annie smiled and took it away to prevent Zhao Qiping from reaching it.

"Stop playing, can you go, do you want to have something to eat together?"

"Ah, speaking of which, I feel hungry. I haven't eaten lunch today. But I'm still on duty and can't leave the hospital. I can only go to the cafeteria to eat."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, it's your treat, let's go!"

"Why am I treating you?" Zhao Qiping asked with a smile. In fact, of course he didn't mind treating him. He just saw that the girl in front of him was kind and generous, so he deliberately teased her.

"Because I lent you the pen." Annie replied confidently.

"Well, it seems that I deliberately borrowed it and didn't pay it back, so that I have an excuse to treat you to dinner."

"Isn't it?"

Annie smiled triumphantly, and stood up, "Is the cafeteria this way?"

"Let me change my clothes first!"

The two happened to pass by the ward, and Annie suggested to visit Tang Xin first.Tang Xin lived in a single ward, and the door was only ajar. Annie looked in through the crack of the door, and Zhao Qiping followed Annie curiously to look in. He was taller, and he could see it clearly when standing behind Annie. up.

In the ward, Tang Xin was already asleep, and Ji Bai, leaning on the sofa by the window with his eyes closed, seemed to have fallen asleep as well.Annie and Zhao Qiping looked at each other and smiled knowingly, and left quietly without disturbing them.

Tang Xin woke up, opened his eyes and turned his head to look around. He saw Ji Bai lying on the sofa and fell asleep. The sofa was too short. His long legs were resting on the handle of the sofa, and his coat was just casually draped over his body. Almost fell to the ground.

Tang Xin wanted to get out of bed and put away Ji Bai's coat, but Ji Bai woke up vigilantly.Seeing Tang Xin get out of bed, she hurriedly got up to support Tang Xin.

"What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?"

"It's okay, I just want to put your coat on for you."

Ji Bai helped Tang Xin back to the bed, and asked Tang Xin to lie down, but Tang Xin sat and refused to lie down, staring at Ji Bai with pity.She suddenly realized that the youth who was in high spirits back then was no longer there, suddenly covered in a layer of wind and frost, and became calmer and more silent.Seeing that Tang Xin was absent-minded, Ji Bai sat down on the edge of the bed.

"can not fall asleep?"

"Go back, it's uncomfortable to lie here, and you'll catch a cold easily."

"It's okay, I'm used to it, I can sleep anywhere."

"Even if I'm used to it, it doesn't mean I have to be like this. The doctor said that I can leave the hospital tomorrow, or you can come back tomorrow."

Ji Bai looked at Tang Xin angrily, "Why do you insist on driving me away and despise me?"

"Of course not, third brother..." Tang Xin finally plucked up the courage, "I wanted to be with you all the time and share your sorrow, but you never gave me a chance. Don't torture yourself like this anymore, I trust Xu Xu and her." I don't want to see you like this."

Hearing Xu Xu's name, Ji Bai's heart ached again.Ji Bai turned his face away to prevent Tang Xin from seeing his red eyes, but Tang Xin hugged Ji Bai and buried his head on Ji Bai's chest.

"It will pass and everything will be fine."

Ji Bai slowly stretched out his hands and hugged Tang Xin tightly in his arms.

"sorry Sorry……"

Tang Xin didn't know whether Ji Bai was apologizing to Xu Xu or to herself. She could only feel Ji Bai's hands hugging tighter and tighter, and even trembling slightly, but the familiar and warm body temperature of being held in his arms made her Tang Xin felt relieved instead.Tang Xin seemed to feel a drop of tear falling down her cheek, but she didn't dare to look up, or even move. She just hugged the man in front of her tightly. This was the only thing she could do.

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In the Punk Cafe, Mingcheng was idly wiping his cups at the bar counter.The murder that happened last time affected the business of the merchants in this area. Many people are afraid to come here, and the business has become quite deserted.

Suddenly someone slapped him on the back, not very hard but just where he was injured before, Mingcheng couldn't help hissing, looked back and saw Fang Wenwen with an embarrassing face.

"I'm sorry, did I hit you too hard?"

Mingcheng shook his head, "It's okay."

"Is the last injury still not healed? Have you gone to the hospital for an examination?"

"It's just a trivial matter, there is no need to exaggerate like going to the hospital."

"I guessed that you would say that," Fang Wenwen took out a medicated oil from his handbag, "I borrowed this from Aunt Man, and she said it was very useful."

"Did you tell the lady boss?"

Fang Wenwen shook his head, "I just asked her, what kind of medicine is better for my friend who is injured." In fact, she didn't know why she didn't dare to tell the truth to Li Yaman.

Fang Wenwen dragged Mingcheng into the staff lounge and said that he would apply medicine for him.Mingcheng said he wanted to do it by himself, Fang Wenwen looked at his back, "Can you wipe it yourself?"

Mingcheng was speechless.In fact, it was really inconvenient for him, so he didn't deal with the injury until now.

"Don't be a mother, take off your clothes."

"Then I'll take it off." Mingcheng said deliberately, watching Fang Wenwen's reaction.

Fang Wenwen was actually a little embarrassed, blushing and slightly lowered his head, not daring to look directly at him, but he wanted to pretend to be natural in front of Mingcheng.Mingcheng lifted up his shirt, but in fact he just pulled it up a bit, not completely took it off, and then turned his back to Fang Wenwen, which made Wenwen heave a sigh of relief.

Fang Wenwen saw that apart from a bruise on Mingcheng's back, there was also an old scar.

"This is……"

"Gunshot wound, the bullet just got stuck between the ribs, and finally saved a life."

Wenwen was taken aback for a moment, and didn't dare to ask any more questions. He just applied the medicine desperately, unconsciously rubbing harder and harder.Mingcheng bit his lower lip, but finally couldn't help it anymore, "Hey, take it easy..."

"sorry Sorry!"

At this moment, the door of the room was pushed open suddenly, Lin Feifan who walked in saw Fang Wenwen and Mingcheng, he was a little surprised and couldn't react for a while.With a blushing face, Fang Wenwen hurriedly pulled off Mingcheng's clothes, and then stuffed the medicinal oil into Mingcheng.

"You keep this, I'm leaving!"

Seeing Fang Wenwen leave in a hurry, Lin Feifan looked at Mingcheng meaningfully and smiled, "So you have such a good relationship with the eldest lady?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I will be hacked to death."

"It's not bad, she is a daughter no matter what, it must be good to be with her."

"It was bought with a stick, do you want to try it?"

"Thank you very much," Lin Feifan handed over his hand, then put away his smiling face, "Speaking seriously, Thailand needs a batch of goods, three kilograms, next week."

"It's the first time they traded with us for so much, they are really courageous."

"It's all in exchange for your life. It's better to earn more at once. The boss said that you will be fully responsible this time."

"Understood, I will arrange it properly."

"The boss and the boss's wife are paying more and more attention to you, so you should seize the opportunity."

Lin Feifan patted Mingcheng on the shoulder, and Mingcheng nodded with a smile.

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Tang Chuan walked into the laboratory, Ji Bai and Xunran were already waiting inside.Xunran had already made an appointment, but Tang Chuan was a little surprised by Ji Bai's appearance.Tang Chuan looked at Xunran, and Xunran immediately explained.

"The suicide case that brother is investigating is suspected to be related to Xu Xu's case. He applied for a joint investigation of the two cases, and his superiors have already approved it."

"Are the two cases related?"

Without further ado, Ji Bai opened two reports and placed them on the desktop, pointing to one of the photos, "Dai Li, 27 years old, has a record of drug trafficking, committed suicide by jumping off the building in Leyuan Apartment last month."

Tang Chuan was taken aback, and after receiving the report, he saw clearly that the deceased in the photo was very kind, and the date of the incident was the day Ji Bai and Xun Ran moved in.It turned out that this was the suicide case when they reunited in the next building that day.

"Leyuan is a high-end apartment, and the density of units and residents is quite low," Ji Bai continued, "According to the forensic report, the deceased probably jumped from the 23th to the 22rd floor. There are several suspicious ones, including a woman, Li Yaman, the proprietress of the Punk Cafe. She lives on the [-]nd floor and has been living alone before. Recently, a niece came back from a foreign country to live with her."

When Li Xunran repeatedly checked the closed-circuit TV of the Punk Cafe, he found that Xu Xu looked at Riyaman after Riyaman entered the cafe, and then followed Riyaman to the bathroom.Li Xunran checked Li Yaman's file and found that she was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for robbery and intentional injury when she was a minor.Therefore, Xu Xu probably saw Li Yaman's file, suspected her and followed her.

Tang Chuan saw a piece of paper from Dai Li's physical evidence, which seemed to be a bill, but it was contaminated by blood, sand, etc., and the ink was blurred.

"Can you read clearly what is written on the paper?" Xun Ran asked.

"no problem."

Tang Chuan put on his gloves, and carefully picked up the piece of paper to examine.When everyone was concentrating on waiting for the results, suddenly there was a sound at the door of the laboratory, causing all three of them to look back at the same time.

I saw a girl frantically picking up documents scattered on the ground, while raising her head to see Tang Chuan and others looking at her, she could only smile awkwardly.After tidying up in a hurry, she walked in holding the stack of documents with her head down, and called Professor Tang softly.

"Let's put it all on the table." Tang Chuan said angrily.

"Do you want to wash this cup?" She pointed to the cup that Tang Chuan had just used on the table.

"Yes." Tang Chuan nodded.

The girl hurriedly picked up the cup and went out, blushing as if shy, she didn't dare to look at Ji Bai and Xunran.Looking at her back, Ji Bai couldn't help feeling amused.

"Who is she?"

"The new assistant is Xiang Ziying. She is good at subjects and in all aspects of technical work, but she is not confident enough. She looks like she is afraid that I will eat her up all day long."

"It shows that you look very unfriendly."

Tang Chuan glared at Ji Bai, wanting to refute, Xun Ran hurriedly smoothed things over, "Most of the newcomers are like this, it will get better later."

Tang Chuan ignored Ji Bai and turned around to look at the test results.It was a receipt for the purchase of a batch of flour by the Punk Cafe. For a cafe, it is reasonable to purchase this amount of flour every month, but it also proves that Dai Li has a relationship with the Punk Cafe. .

"I'm going to apply for a search warrant to search Punk Cafe again."

"There is also Li Yaman's house." Ji Bai reminded.

"Yes!"

Seeing Xunran striding out, Tang Chuan couldn't help sighing, "This kid has really grown up."

"No matter how you say it, he's a vice-team, you can't underestimate him."

Tang Chuan looked at Ji Bai meaningfully, "You're not bad, either."

"What do you mean?"

"I bet Xunran when you will return to normal."

"Since when did I become abnormal?" Ji Bai said angrily, "Which one of you won?"

"We both lost. You recovered faster than we predicted."

"Don't worry, I won't be defeated so easily."

"I know you are the God of War, but there is no need to take everything on yourself. Sometimes it is not a shame to admit your shortcomings."

It was rare for Ji Bai to be unable to refute.Recently he has often heard similar words, maybe he should really reflect on himself, he is not as strong as he imagined.