spirits in throat

It started to rain early the next morning, and Rong Zhao came to the Municipal Bureau with a black umbrella.

"Excuse me, hide from the rain," a person suddenly ran over from behind, and went directly under his umbrella. Rong Zhao knew it was Zhou Ye as soon as he heard the voice, turned his head and glanced at him and said, "Umbrella, get out."

Zhou Ye shrank to Rong Zhao's side, his head was not exposed to the rain, and his clothes were a little wet. He lifted the thermos on the handle and said, "It's for you."

Fearing that Rong Zhao would not want it, he added: "Sister Qing cooked it, let me bring it to you."

Only then did Rong Zhao take it over, thinking of turning around and thanking Bai Xiaoqing well.

He actually didn't understand why Bai Xiaoqing was so kind to him, giving him porridge to nourish his stomach, not letting him eat iced watermelon, and giving him cakes and milk tea.

But he didn't ask too much, as if he was afraid that this warmth and beauty would be covered with a layer of purpose, and that it would no longer be pure.

People who have lived in darkness for a long time can't help being greedy whenever they see a little bit of light shining in from memory.

"Captain Zhou, next," Uncle Liu, the gate guard, came out of the security booth, and kindly threw an umbrella to Zhou Ye from the air, "It's raining so hard without an umbrella, what do you think?"

"Thank you, Uncle Liu." Zhou Ye took the umbrella that was forced into his hand, and had no choice but to come out from under the umbrella of Rong Zhao.

If he had known this earlier, he wouldn't have thrown away his umbrella.

Walking into the office building, Rong Zhao put away his umbrella, and Zhou Ye reached out to hold Rong Zhao's umbrella.

Rong Zhao held the umbrella handle tightly, staring at Zhou Ye vigilantly: "Why are you trying to grab my umbrella?"

Zhou Ye: "It's dripping water, I'll hold it for you so it won't drip on your shoes."

Rong Zhao looked down at the water dripping from the tip of the umbrella, which had already wet the uppers of his shoes. He moved the tip of the umbrella: "You don't need to help."

"Hurry up, hurry up, the mid-year meeting will start soon, go to the conference room." Director Qian shouted at the door of the office of the first criminal investigation team, "All the bureaus are here, why haven't you arrived yet?"

"Can I ask for leave?" Bai Xudong had a lot of chores on his hands and wanted to finish them quickly, so he asked for a few days off to accompany Bai Xiaoqing.

"No, roll call will be called later." Director Qian walked to Rong Zhao's table and saw that he was eating porridge, which smelled delicious and was served in a thermos, so he couldn't help but think, "Xiao Rong, what do you want Got a girlfriend?"

"He's not looking for a girlfriend," Zhou Ye came out of the captain's office, "Isn't there a meeting, hurry up and end it quickly."

Director Qian looked at Zhou Ye: "What do you mean not looking for a girlfriend? Our Xiaorong is not too young, shouldn't we find a girlfriend?"

"I'm 23 this year, I'm 25 in two years, and I'm 26 and seven when I get engaged and married, and then I'll have a baby, and I might not be able to give birth in a few clicks. If you think about it backwards, finding a girlfriend is imminent, okay?"

"I have a distant cousin who is now in her senior year. Her dream since she was a child is to marry a policeman. Xiao Rong, why don't you arrange to meet her?"

Zhou Ye interrupted Director Qian's words: "Whatever you see, young people should focus on work, and don't be full of love and love every day, vulgar."

Rong Zhao finished his porridge, covered the thermos pot, and gave Zhou Ye a cold look: "Who is full of love every day?"

Zhou Ye didn't understand why his favorability was getting lower and lower. He said sadly, "I didn't talk about you, but about myself."

Regardless of whether Zhou Ye was with Wu Hao, or with the blind date girl from the night before yesterday, Rong Zhao was not interested, so he didn't say much, and just wanted to get this topic out of the way.

A group of people walked towards the meeting room, a flash of lightning flashed outside the corridor window, followed by a rolling thunder.

Xiao Qian hugged Zheng Ke's shoulders and said as he walked, "Once Lu Hairong dies, you don't have to be afraid even if you come out in a red dress on a rainy night. Feng Mingchen knows that he is being targeted, so he won't act rashly, and he was originally in charge of plundering people." It's not him."

Zheng Ke shook Xiao Qian's hands and claws off his shoulders: "That's not necessarily the case. The psychology of perverts is something ordinary people can't understand."

Looking up, he saw Bai Xudong in front of him, fearing that the other party would be uncomfortable, so Zheng Ke quickly shut up.

Fan Yao said: "This case is full of turmoil, and it is not certain whether someone will imitate the crime." The other murderer has not yet been brought to justice, and the progress of the case has not been disclosed to the public.

Bai Xudong knew that his identity was sensitive, whether it was meetings or meals these days, he would consciously stagger with everyone.

Zhou Ye took a few steps forward and caught up with Bai Xudong: "Dongzi, come to my office after the meeting."

Bai Xudong nodded: "Yes."

When he arrived at the entrance of the conference room, Bai Xudong sat in the back row as usual, leaving a seat for Zhou Ye next to him: "Team Zhou, here."

This is a good place for geomantic omen, because you won't be found playing with your mobile phone.

"I won't sit there," Zhou Ye said to Bai Xudong, turned around and saw Rong Zhao coming in from the back door, and waved at him, "Here, Rong Rong."

Rong Zhao glanced at Zhou Ye, and walked to the corner beside Bai Xudong: "Vice Bai, is there anyone sitting here?"

Bai Xudong looked at the chair that Zhou Ye had just rejected, and shook his head: "No."

Rong Zhao sat down, he likes to stay in a corner where he is not easy to be noticed by others, which makes him feel very safe.

Zhou Ye had no choice but to sit in the row in front of Rong Zhao, and asked Fan Yao to borrow a comb to comb his hair before sitting down.

Although there is no difference whether the inch hair is combed or not, there must be a sense of ceremony.

Love makes people progress. Zhou Ye didn't sleep or play with his mobile phone during the meeting for the first time. His back was straight, his shoulders were fully opened, and he looked energetic and powerful.

Showing off one's strong and powerful body is also a way to gain favorability.

Rong Zhao couldn't bear it anymore, and stretched out his finger to poke Zhou Ye's back: "Can you stop standing like this all the time, blocking the people behind."

Through a layer of shirt fabric, Zhou Ye felt that the place touched by Rong Zhao's hand was a little numb, as if on fire, and his Adam's apple rolled: "Okay, got it."

Zhou Ye turned his head and looked at Bai Xudong: "I'm too tall, blocking people, let's change seats."

Bai Xudong looked at Zhou Ye in confusion: "Then you and Rong Rong can just change."

Zhou Ye didn't want to change with Rong Rong, he wanted to sit with Rong Rong.

In the end Zhou Ye failed to sit with Rong Rong.

The meeting ended at noon, and Bai Xudong followed Zhou Ye to the captain's office.

Zhou Ye brewed two cups of tea, and handed a cup to Bai Xudong: "Leave the work in hand to others first, and go back after lunch. It's best to take your sister home to live these few days, and spend time with her."

Bai Xudong accepted Zhou Ye's kindness: "Yes."

Zhou Ye suddenly thought of something, and asked, "One time last month, in the middle of the month, did you beat Feng Mingchen?"

"Well, those few days my sister was always out of her mind, suspicious of my brother-in-law..." Bai Xudong paused, and changed his words, "I suspected that Feng Mingchen had someone outside, so I beat him in a moment of impatience."

"But later I figured it out. It was a misunderstanding. Why did you ask this suddenly?"

Zhou Ye leaned on the back of the chair: "It's nothing, you go and clean up, take three days off first, and watch it after three days."

Seeing that Bai Xudong was in a bad mood, Zhou Ye said, "According to the clues we have so far, your sister is at most a person who doesn't report her knowledge. There is no big problem, so you don't have to worry."

Bai Xudong took a long breath, and said in a low voice: "I feel that I have cared too little for my sister these years, and she has always been taking care of me."

"I always suspect that she ran into the bureau, causing me to be nicknamed Bai Xiaobao." Bai Xudong took a sip of tea, put the teacup on the table, and lowered his eyebrows, "I still suspect that she is meddling, so I told her A lot of nonsense words must have made her sad."

Listening to Bai Xudong's confession, Zhou Ye refilled his cup of tea.

"I'm not afraid of making fun of you if I say it. When my sister was at home, she even searched through my trash can. From the trash, I inferred what I ate and did." Bai Xudong held a teacup, "Sometimes some used toilet paper and other Can be turned out. You're a man too, you know."

"One day last month, because of this, I got very angry at her, and asked her to hand over the key to my bedroom and return it to me, and she was not allowed to look through my trash can again."

Bai Xudong's voice gradually lowered: "That was the first time I saw her cry. In the past, even when it was the most difficult time and she didn't have enough to eat, she never cried, and she always smiled and comforted me."

Zhou Ye patted Bai Xudong's shoulder: "Feng Mingchen is not innocent, after this matter is over, treat your sister well."

Bai Xudong's cell phone rang, and Bai Xiaoqing called: "Dongdong, it's raining outside, didn't you bring an umbrella?"

Holding his mobile phone, Bai Xudong walked out of the office and said, "I've had a cold for the past few days, so I'm on leave. You should go home for a few days, or I'll keep forgetting to take my medicine."

At the gate of the City Bureau, Bai Xiaoqing was waiting for Bai Xudong to come out with an umbrella in her hand, planning to send him home, lest he get caught in the rain and his cold would get worse.

My brother's physique was not good when he was a child. He went to the police academy and became a policeman and exercised every day, but he didn't see his physique getting better.

She suddenly remembered that when Bai Xudong was young, he was very clingy to her and would follow her no matter where she went.She danced rubber bands and played with sandbags with the girls, and he obediently stood aside to show them their schoolbags.

During the time when his parents died, he couldn't sleep alone, and he would have nightmares when he fell asleep. She coaxed him to watch him, and often watched him all night, for fear that he would wake up in the middle of the night.

Before she died, her parents held her hand and told her to take good care of herself and her younger brother, and not to imitate others.

This is how the habit of digging through the trash can is formed, and it is indeed a simple and effective way.This allowed Bai Xiaoqing to successfully catch her younger brother stealing spicy strips from the snack shop at the door.

After being beaten up by her, my brother never stole anything from others.It won't grow crooked or go bad.

While driving, Bai Xudong said to Bai Xiaoqing who was sitting in the co-driver: "Let's talk it out, Feng Mingchen is not a good person, you can't go back to him."

Bai Xiaoqing turned her head to look at the pouring rain outside the window, and said amidst the sound of the rain, "No, I have to stay with him."

At the red light, Bai Xudong stopped the car, turned his head to look at Bai Xiaoqing, his eyes gradually softened: "If something happens to you, what should I do? Aren't you the most worried about me?"

Bai Xiaoqing looked at her younger brother whom she had single-handedly raised, raised her hand to pinch his cheek as she did when she was a child, smiled and said, "Don't you bother me the most about you?"

Bai Xudong's voice was muffled: "That's because I'm not sensible."

He drove the car directly to his home, and put away the car keys: "If you want to go to work, I'll take you there, anyway, you are not allowed to go back to Feng Mingchen's."

Unexpectedly, Bai Xiaoqing didn't insist this time, she opened the refrigerator and said, "What do you want for lunch, my sister will cook it for you."

"Your refrigerator is full of junk food. I'll go to the supermarket later and stock up some nutritious food for you." Bai Xiaoqing opened the kitchen locker again, "Why do you buy so many instant noodles? You won't grow taller after eating instant noodles." .”

Bai Xudong walked to the kitchen and put on his apron: "I'll cook noodles for you, Yangchun noodles."

Bai Xiaoqing seemed to have seen a ghost: "I heard that right, do you know how to cook noodles?"

Bai Xudong was embarrassed by what Bai Xiaoqing said, so he drove her out of the kitchen, closed the door and started cooking noodles.

The noodles that Bai Xudong cooks are just like the porridge that Rong Zhao cooks, it's very ugly.He brought out a bowl of sticky noodles and put them on the table: "Sister, look, I can't even cook noodles well, it's all because of you."

He turned around and took out a bottle of Laoganma from the refrigerator: "Just eat this, it might be better."

Bai Xudong took a sip by himself first, but he couldn't swallow too much salt. In the end, it was Bai Xiaoqing who cooked and remade two bowls of noodles before the siblings ate.

"Sister, in fact, people in our team envy me. They all envy me for having a good sister. I will never dislike you again, and I will leave it to you," Bai Xudong ate the poached egg lying in the noodles, He raised his head and said, "That's right, you just need to stop digging through my trash can, everything else doesn't matter."

Bai Xiaoqing raised her hand and rubbed Bai Xudong's head, looked at him tenderly and said, "Okay."

It rained all day and didn't go to the supermarket in the afternoon. Bai Xiaoqing placed a lot of food and drink orders on her mobile phone, filling Bai Xudong's refrigerator to the brim, and even prepared two servings of rice and cooking oil. .

The rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier, and it has a tendency to fall forever.

Xiao Qian raised his head from the dense investigation data and stretched his waist: "When this case is solved, we must take a few days off."

"Yes, let's have fun for a few days," police officer Xiao Lin said. "Our team hasn't built a team for a long time. Let's find a park or something to have a barbecue. How about a forest park?"

"No," Xiao Qian said while propping his chin with both hands, "next to the Forest Park is the Wetland Park."

Xiao Lin asked in confusion: "What's wrong with the Wetland Park, why can't I go there?"

Xiao Qian turned his head to look at the crowd, and said mysteriously: "Isn't there a Chinese alligator research center in Dongyu Wetland Park? Such a large swamp is full of crocodiles."

Fan Yao nodded: "Yes, I went to play with my friend last year, and she was so scared to death that she had to watch it."

Xiao Qian: "The day before yesterday I heard my mother chatting with the aunts downstairs, saying that there was a crocodile spirit in the Wetland Park, who would stand up and walk."

Xiao Lin smiled: "You can believe that too."

"I didn't believe it, so I'll pass it on," Xiao Qian continued, "Because of this, many people rushed over and secretly stayed in the park until night, waiting to see the crocodile essence."

Fan Yao listened very enthusiastically, and asked, "Did you see that?"

Xiao Qian: "Some say they saw it, some said they didn't."

Kobayashi: "Nonsense, now society is in the information age, if there is really crocodile essence, it will be blown up on the Internet, okay. If it didn't blow up, it means it didn't exist."

"I agree," Fan Yao said, "Maybe a staff member happened to be walking by the swamp and was mistaken for a crocodile spirit."

As soon as Zhou Ye walked into the office, the call from the police center came in. It was someone from Dongyu Wetland Park.

It is said that a crocodile was found dead for two days in the swamp, and when experts were asked to dissect it today, a human finger was found in the belly of the crocodile.

Reminiscent of the recent serial murder and dismemberment case, the operator immediately forwarded the news to the City Bureau.

Zhou Ye dialed the phone back himself, and learned that the crocodile did not die by accident, was not poisoned or killed, but died of old age.

The crocodile died as soon as the finger was swallowed, and it had not been digested by the gastric juice.

Digested, melted, Zhou Ye's eyes darkened slightly, inexplicably recalling the dream that He Yanyan's mother had.

The human finger found in the crocodile's stomach was immediately sent to the forensic office of the Municipal Bureau.

"How about it? Can you confirm the identity of the deceased?" Zhou Ye put on an anatomical suit and stood beside Wu Hao, glanced at the stump salvaged from the swamp on the dissecting table, his eyes couldn't bear it, and asked in a low voice, " Is it He Yanyan?"

On the right index finger, there is a scald left over from childhood on the middle joint, which fits He Yanyan's physical characteristics.

"It's probably true." Wu Hao took several human tissues and put them in different containers. "After the DNA test report comes out, the identity can be fully confirmed."

Zhou Ye looked intently at the inspection table: "Apart from the dead and the crocodile, have you found any other biological traces?"

Wu Hao took out a small piece of skin flakes from the dead man's nails with a pair of fine tweezers: "I found it, and I can test the DNA."

Zhou Ye glanced at the darkening sky and the heavy rain outside the window, and asked in a deep voice, "How soon will the result be available?"