NOS Chapter 27
by VolareChapter 27 Qianjin Ping (3)
The low fever turned into a high fever, leaving Yu Chunming with no energy to delve into anything. He was dazed and led out of the Linchang Police Station by Guan Yao, and then dazedly got into Guan Yao’s dilapidated car that could off-road even without going up the mountain.
Somehow, after getting in the car, Yu Chunming fell asleep without realizing it. He faintly felt some warm liquid trickling down his face, and faintly heard Guan Yao shouting in his ear, but soon, the world fell silent, and he went to a place filled with the smell of disinfectant. Before long, icy liquid was being pumped into the veins on the back of his hand.
Yu Chunming intuitively believed that the person giving the injection was not Guan Ning. After all, that little girl could puncture a model when giving it an injection. How could Guan Ning be so skilled?
But the chaos brought about by the high fever left Yu Chunming with no time to worry about many things. Under the effect of the medicine, he fell into a deep sleep, and didn’t even know when Guan Yao left.
When he opened his eyes again, the sun was almost setting.
“Awake?” A familiar female voice sounded in his ear.
Yu Chunming’s soul instantly returned to his body. He gasped and slowly realized the lingering pain on his body.
“Does your head still hurt?” Wang Meng asked.
Yu Chunming didn’t answer. He raised his hand and touched a piece of gauze stuck behind his ear.
Seeing this, Wang Meng continued, “The injury inside your left ear relapsed. It should be related to the previous impact, but it’s not serious. It’s just a little bleeding. If I were qualified to practice medicine, I would have stitched it up for you, without even waiting for the doctor to come. Just to be on the safe side, I had a thoracic surgeon come over to take an X-ray while you were still asleep this morning. Fortunately, those fragments haven’t shifted, and there’s no inflammation, so you’re lucky. But if it’s delayed any longer, it’s hard to say whether it will relapse.”
Yu Chunming gave a perfunctory “hmm” and turned his head to close his eyes again.
“Chunming, do you know that I was originally going back to Songlan today?” Wang Meng’s tone was flat, more like reproach than concern.
Therefore, Yu Chunming answered with his still somewhat hoarse voice when he just woke up: “Sorry, it’s my fault.”
Wang Meng was a little helpless: “Your fault is that you don’t take your own body seriously, not that you delayed my return to Songlan.”
Yu Chunming was silent again.
Wang Meng looked at him, not knowing what to say.
“Yu Huan came before,” After a long time, Yu Chunming opened his mouth again, “If I didn’t sleep for several days, it would have been yesterday.”
“I know.” Wang Meng replied indifferently, “She told me when she got home this afternoon.”
Yu Chunming looked at Wang Meng, a little surprised that she wasn’t angry.
But Wang Meng smiled, completely unlike the strict and cold head nurse she had always been. She said softly, “Chunming, your affairs with Huanhuan, Dad doesn’t know, but how could I not know?”
These words were like a bullet aimed at Yu Chunming’s brow, instantly making his eyes a little sore.
“Okay, I won’t talk to you so much, you rest.” Wang Meng touched Yu Chunming’s forehead to check his temperature, and got up to leave.
But Yu Chunming called out at this time: “Auntie, I’m sorry.”
Wang Meng’s movements froze, and then she gently closed the door for him.
Guan Yao came when it was completely dark.
He was carrying an insulated bucket and dragging a huge cloth bag. Seeing that Yu Chunming was already awake, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
“You really scared me to death this morning,” Guan Yao said.
“This morning?” Yu Chunming’s clear memory only stopped before getting into that red dilapidated car. After that, all the impressions were vague. He was a little puzzled, “What happened to me this morning?”
Guan Yao leaned over to look at him: “You were sitting next to me this morning, and the blood flowing from your ear almost flooded my car, you know?”
“Ah?” Yu Chunming was stunned at first, and then understood, “My old injury relapsed, it’s okay, it’s not serious.”
“Not serious?” Guan Yao shouted.
Yu Chunming’s left ear was still buzzing, and the noise immediately made his head hurt. He “hissed” and covered the back of his neck, saying, “Can you be quiet?”
Seeing this, Guan Yao immediately shut up. He took out the coat and inner wear that Yu Chunming wore when he went out in the morning from his bag with a dark face, and threw them on him.
“What’s wrong?” Yu Chunming was surprised.
“Look at it yourself,” Guan Yao said softly but not gently, “I rubbed the blood on it for an hour but couldn’t rub it off. After drying it, there are still patches on it.”
Yu Chunming picked up his clothes with two fingers, and then smelled a faint smell of blood as he wished. He said with some disgust, “Then throw it away.”
“What will you wear if you throw it away?” Guan Yao asked angrily.
Yu Chunming said helplessly: “It’s not like I only have this one piece of clothing. Go to my dormitory and rummage through my suitcase and get that black leather jacket.”
“Oh my, what’s the weather like? Still wearing a jacket? The minimum temperature tomorrow is minus four degrees. If you wear a jacket and walk around, you’ll have to come back and lie down.” Guan Yao put down what he was holding and looked around, “Not bad, they even got you a single room.”
The old injury on the back of Yu Chunming’s neck jumped: “Did you see her?”
“See who?” Guan Yao didn’t react for a while.
Yu Chunming cautiously worded it: “See my…”
“Oh, saw your mom,” Guan Yao said while unscrewing the lunch box, “Before, you told Guan Ning that she was your elder, and I thought she was some real relative, but it turned out to be your mom.”
Yu Chunming was speechless.
Wang Meng always claimed to be his mother outside, even though Wang Meng was not his mother in the blood sense.
Guan Yao didn’t understand, he continued nagging: “Did you take your medicine tonight? I remember you have to eat first.”
Yu Chunming glanced at the clear chicken soup in the bowl: “I don’t want to eat.”
“Then eat noodles.” Guan Yao put a chopstick of handmade noodles into the chicken soup, “Come on.”
Yu Chunming frowned and looked at him: “That, this morning…did she say anything to you?”
Guan Yao glanced at the person’s obviously weak expression, knowing that he must have something he didn’t want him to know, so he casually made up a story: “Your mom said you still wet the bed when you were five years old.”
Yu Chunming laughed: “Go to hell, you were five years old when you wet the bed.”
Guan Yao heard him swear for the first time, and his eyes lit up immediately: “Hey, you really didn’t say it, I recalled it, I really wet the bed once when I was five years old, and I used urine and mud to play in the morning.”
The corners of Yu Chunming’s mouth twitched. He gritted his teeth and said, “Are you going to let me eat?”
“Eat, eat, eat,” Guan Yao said happily, “Didn’t you bring it up first, why are you unhappy?”
Yu Chunming took the chopsticks, his face unfriendly: “Stay away from me, I feel sick when I see you.”
“You’re such an ungrateful person,” Guan Yao pushed the bowl in front of him, “I made these noodles by hand.”
Yu Chunming was stunned: “What?”
“I made them by hand,” Guan Yao sat on a chair aside with his arms folded, “I learned from my grandma, Guan Ning doesn’t like to eat them, that girl only likes to eat foreign food, I haven’t had a chance to show off for so many years, who would have thought you would enjoy it.”
Yu Chunming didn’t speak, and lowered his head to eat the noodles.
“How is it, my craftsmanship is not bad.” Guan Yao said complacently, “If I hadn’t become a policeman, I would have put the noodle restaurant at our door out of business if I went out to open a shop.”
Yu Chunming smiled.
“Why are you still smiling?” Guan Yao Tsk tsk sighed, “Our Officer Yu’s smile is rare.”
“It’s rare, who would have thought you would see it.” Yu Chunming said deliberately.
Guan Yao raised his eyebrows, leaned back on the chair, and sighed: “If you ask me, you should smile more, it looks better when you smile.”
Yu Chunming turned his head to look at Guan Yao.
He remembered that this person had said the same thing when he was ten years old.
“You should smile more,” Although only ten years old, Guan Yao, who had grown very tall, said seriously, “It looks better when you smile.”
“It doesn’t look good.” Yu Chunming, who was five years younger than Guan Yao, squatted on the ground, poking at an ant hole with a tree branch, “My mom said I’m ugly, my brother looks good.”
“Are you talking about Qin Tian?” Guan Yao pretended to be surprised, “He looks like the white pig raised by my grandma’s family in the countryside, how does he look good?”
Yu Chunming raised his head and stared at Guan Yao with his mouth pursed.
“I’m telling the truth, you look much better than him.” The boy said like a little adult.
Yu Chunming’s face was facing a half-broken glass plate. He widened his eyes and stared at the skinny, dark, and small self reflected in it, and said angrily: “You’re lying to me.”
“I’m not lying to you, I’m a puppy if I lie to you.” Guan Yao made a “vow”.
Yu Chunming finally believed it, he grinned at Guan Yao, and then—
Revealed a row of crooked deciduous teeth.
Therefore, Yu Chunming, more than twenty years later, said: “My teeth are not neat, it doesn’t look good when I smile.”
Guan Yao leaned closer: “Where are they not neat?”
Yu Chunming dodged back: “Are you going to stick your head in my mouth to see?”
Guan Yao smiled: “I think they’re pretty neat, why are you so unconfident?”
Yu Chunming pushed him away with one hand, knowing that this person had no idea what he was thinking: “Get up, you’re blocking me.”
Guan Yao didn’t care much, he sat back on the chair, and then began to take things out of the bag one by one.
Yu Chunming was surprised at first sight: “Are you going to stay here with me tonight?”
“Otherwise?” Guan Yao was also surprised, “Your mom is flying from Changlian to Songlan in the middle of the night, she can’t serve you here.”
“I don’t need anyone to serve me.” Yu Chunming looked at Guan Yao as if facing a formidable enemy.
Guan Yao pointed to the IV stand: “Then what about this? The nurse said there’s still liquid tonight.”
Yu Chunming looked rejected: “I can do it myself.”
“What can you do?” Guan Yao didn’t listen to his bravado, “Your mom told me to take good care of you.”
“What did you say?” Yu Chunming seemed to be temporarily deaf.
Guan Yao repeated it patiently: “Your mom told me to take good care of you.”
Yu Chunming tasted something wrong from these words, he suspiciously said: “What did she tell you, why are you suddenly so…”
So enthusiastic to me, Yu Chunming didn’t finish the second half of the sentence.
Guan Yao also seemed to be temporarily deaf. He was already lying comfortably on the army bed he had just built: “Not bad, Guan Ning uses this bed when she’s on duty, it’s just right for me to lie on it.”
Yu Chunming squinted at him.
Guan Yao turned his head and smiled: “What’s wrong? Officer Yu doesn’t want to know what stage the work of the task force has reached now?”
Yu Chunming opened his mouth to refuse, but when it came to his mouth, it became a vague sentence: “You are violating discipline.”
“Violating what discipline,” Guan Yao said, pillowing his arm, “Han Chen asked me to convey it to you.”
“Han Chen?” Yu Chunming’s tone was cold, “Why did he suddenly start violating discipline too?”
Guan Yao sighed: “You should eat quickly, and after eating, take the medicine, and I will tell you slowly.”
So, Yu Chunming rarely became obedient. He honestly ate the food, and under Guan Yao’s gaze, he honestly took the medicine, and finally sat honestly on the bed, listening to his leader, the current captain of the Linchang Police Station Law Enforcement Team, Guan Yao, make a speech.
“When Deputy Director Yu reviewed the case files, he overturned a series of speculations you made for the suspect, and asked us to re-investigate, collect evidence, and visit Mopan Mountain. But fortunately, the previous preliminary work was done well, so even though it was forcibly reworked, the progress is still good. Moreover, the animal experts squatting on the mountain captured a brown bear that was very likely to have destroyed Lin Zhimin’s body, and extracted Lin Zhimin’s DNA from its teeth, which directly confirmed our speculation. In addition, after we found Liu Bin’s tools for committing the crime, Han Chen took people to re-interrogate him once, and confirmed that after Lin Zhimin was accidentally pushed off the cliff, he fell into the hands of the suspect, that is, Liu Bin’s employer, and also confirmed that the person who hired Liu Bin to investigate Lin Zhimin and tried to inquire about Qian Guowei through Lin Zhimin was the murderer who killed Lin Zhimin. The Provincial Department sent experts over yesterday to install face recognition software on the Za Mu Er’s surveillance system, and once suspicious people appear, we will immediately receive the news.” Guan Yao paused, “But…”
“However, Deputy Director Yu doesn’t think this ’employer’ is the same person as the murderer in the Songlan dismemberment case last year.” Yu Chunming interjected.
Guan Yao didn’t give an accurate answer. He pondered for a moment and said, “Deputy Director Yu believes that there is insufficient evidence. After all, a year has passed, and people’s appearance characteristics will change, only DNA will not lie. Of course, if it can be determined after a large amount of body shape, gait, and appearance analysis, it is not impossible, but the work of the trace inspection experts has not been completed yet. Moreover, according to the news returned by the colleagues from Baihua, the suspect who mixed into the station and pretended to be a train attendant is very cautious. He sneaked into the station from the hill opposite the station, and knocked out the staff who got off the train to clean up the garbage in the toilet without a camera, so the only image data we can compare is the surveillance on the train. But you also know that our old-fashioned diesel car equipment is simple, and the cameras have not been replaced for many years. No matter how we process that image, it is not very clear at present. The province has found experts who specialize in character profiling, and there will be progress when they return the results.”
“What about He Wang? Does he believe that the He Wang we found is the He Wang who disappeared in Songlan last year?” Yu Chunming asked.
Guan Yao raised his eyebrows: “Deputy Director Yu’s original words are that before there is conclusive evidence or the suspect is directly arrested, any deduction can only be a deduction. However, since there is that account that has been tampered with as evidence, the He Wang we found is very likely to be the He Wang who disappeared in Songlan last year. But the same, the image data has to wait for the experts above to compare and profile, and the results will be determined when they come out.”
Yu Chunming stopped talking.
Guan Yao cleared his throat at this time: “And Ge Xiaopei, the Ge Xiaopei we caught at the train station.”
Hearing this name, Yu Chunming instantly raised his eyes.
Ge Xiaopei’s previous confessions have been fully confirmed, but the “friend” he said is still nowhere to be found. The Songlan police even “dug three feet” for all the clues according to the information he provided, but unfortunately, nothing has been gained so far.
But–
“But,” Guan Yao paused, “Deputy Director Yu still has that theory, before there is conclusive evidence, all deductions can only be deductions. The timing of Ge Xiaopei’s appearance is too coincidental, there are probably many problems hidden behind him, that is to say, the ‘mistake’ you made may no longer be a mistake.”
Yu Chunming’s expression was calm, without a trace of joy or anger.
Seeing this, Guan Yao continued, “So, Han Chen asked me to ask you, if you are willing to return to the task force, he can help you…”
“I’m not willing.” Yu Chunming replied indifferently, “I’m not willing to return to the task force, and I don’t want to work with him. If that’s what you want to ask, I have nothing to say.”
“What if I ask you?” Guan Yao looked at him, “If I ask you, are you willing to work with me to investigate the inside story of the Za Mu Er 9.24 fire?”
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