Chapter 60

In the early morning, the headlights were turned off in the ward, the beds were densely covered by curtains, and only the instruments flickered in the dim light. The liquid in the infusion bottle dropped drop by drop, the heartbeat monitor ticked regularly, and suddenly there was a barely audible moan from inside the curtain.

Jiang Ting suddenly opened his eyes, rolled over and got out of bed.

Sure enough, Yan Yan's anesthetic had worn off, and the first wave of pain came quietly while he was half awake, causing him to toss and turn in a daze. Crumpled sheets.

Jiang Ting immediately rang the bell, and the chief specialist was on duty tonight in order to take care of Yan Yan. He personally brought the nurse over to take a physical examination, and nodded, "The heartbeat, blood pressure, and general condition are all good, and postoperative pain is also normal. It's because this young man is too strong, the family must watch it carefully, and don't let him roll over and press on the wound."

Jiang Ting saw Yan Xun's brows clenched tightly, moaning incessantly, his face and neck soaked with sweat, and asked, "Can you give me a painkiller?"

The director hadn't spoken yet, when the newly arrived nurse suddenly said, "Are the policemen in the provincial capital still afraid of pain?"

Jiang Ting said, "Police officers are also human beings. How can they not be afraid of pain?"

The director glared at the little nurse, and immediately urged her to go down to get a painkiller, and give Yan Yan a shot himself. After a few minutes, Yan Yan really calmed down, and the hand that was holding the sheet was loosened, and even let out a uniform and calm breathing sound.

"The first night after the operation will always be difficult. Family members should pay attention to the situation at any time. If you have any questions, please ring the bell immediately..." The director explained several precautions in detail. The nurse left the ward.

Jiang Ting returned to the hospital bed, completely sleepy.

Yan Yan's situation seemed to be much more stable than before, and his face was not as yellow and blue as before, but the cold sweat from the pain had not completely faded away. Jiang Ting stared at it for a while, suddenly remembered something, got up and twisted a hot towel back, carefully wiped off the sweat on his forehead and cheeks, and wiped the damp neck carefully.

But just as the towel was dipped in the throat, Jiang stopped suddenly—his hand was suddenly caught by Yan Yan.

"..." Yan Yan opened his eyes, his vision was still very loose, and his lips moved a few times: "...Jiang..."

"Shh," Jiang Ting wanted to pull out his hand, "it's late, don't talk."

But when he tried his best, he didn't break free. Yan Yan stared at Jiang Ting in front of him, his eyes gradually became brighter, and he seemed to be more sober than before the painkiller: "Why are you...here..."

Jiang Ting didn't answer the question, he just pulled back his hand: "Sleep for a while, don't you feel pain?"

"You...are you here to take care of me?"

It was quiet in the ward late at night, Jiang Ting didn't make a sound.

There was an invisible smile in Yan Yan's eyes, and he said, "But I'm in so much pain that I can't sleep."

Jiang Ting said in his heart, yes, the painkiller shot just now probably hit the dog.

"Give me your hand... it won't hurt if you give it to me."

The nurse's gentle footsteps came from the far side of the corridor, and the pale light passed through the crack of the door, creating an ambiguous and warm shadow for this small space. Jiang Ting wanted to stand up and leave, but as soon as his feet exerted force, he was stopped by Yan Yan's gesture of getting up.

No one noticed this little secret stalemate, the iron reels of the medicine cart outside the door were getting closer and farther.

Finally, Jiang Ting let out a soft breath, and there was helplessness in the sound that he couldn't even hear. He threw the towel on the bedside table, held Yan Yan's hand, and was immediately clenched tightly by Yan Yan against his chest.

"Do you feel this heart beating?" Yan Yan asked in a low voice in the dark.

Jiang Ting said "um": "What?"

"It's jumping so fast now."

Jiang Ting's expression changed slightly, but he didn't speak. Every pulsation in the chest cavity under the palm of the hand was extraordinarily hot and clear, and they remained in this position. After a long, long time, Yan Yan's breathing finally returned to drowsiness and longness again.

He fell asleep.

Jiang Ting didn't move, just sat there quietly.

a week later.

Public telephone booths on the streets of Jiangyang County.

"I know, I'm fine, I was discharged from the hospital early... Find someone to pick me up, you won't be here..."

On the other end of the phone, Yang Mei's voice was like ten sharp and sharp nails scraping the small iron plate: "How can I not pass? How can I not pass?! Can that dead ghost surnamed Yan drive? Why? Turned into the river? Did you catch the culprit? Why didn’t you tell me anything these days? Where do you live? Who cooks for you? Xiao Liu!! Xiao Liu drove us to Jiangyang, and we’re going now— —!!”

Jiang Ting interrupted several times and couldn't get in. There was an earth-shattering explosion like firecrackers from the receiver, so he had to hang up.

In the morning, Jiang Ting was discharged from the hospital and went to buy some Chinese herbal medicines, and then ordered a live fish at the restaurant next to the hospital. He asked the boss to kill them and boiled fish soup together with the herbs. He didn't put any MSG seasonings, and it boiled white, thick and without any substance. A trace of fishy smell, ready to bring back to Yan Yan to supplement nutrition.

——Although Yan Yan didn't necessarily need any nutritional supplements, after a few days in the hospital, all the doctors and nurses agreed that the person who needed more bed rest should be Jiang Ting no matter how you looked at it.

Jiang Ting was holding a thermos bucket in his left hand and a cup of hot soy milk in his right. As soon as he entered the hospital gate, he heard a familiar loud voice behind him: "Yo, Consultant Lu!"

As soon as he turned his head, it was Ma Xiang who caught up.

"What are you doing, making soup? Oh, let me tell you, Brother Yan doesn't need this at all. He's as strong as a male dog. On the contrary, you're both frightened and drowning, so you really need to make it up quickly."

Jiang Ting ignored this, and handed over the heat preservation bucket to Ma Xiang to carry: "Why did you come here?"

"Jiangyang County Police Station has screened all suspicious vehicles during the time of the crime, and the results have already been released. Deputy Bureau Wei said that we will leave for Jianning in the afternoon. No, I will report to Brother Yan before I leave. "

Jiang Ting nodded silently, and did not ask what the screening results were.

Although Ma Xiang is carefree, he is actually rough and fine. This level of sensitive information will not be casually shared with Consultant Lu without Yan Yan's approval. Both of them are well aware of this.

"How are the two hostages?" Jiang Ting asked after drinking a mouthful of soy milk.

Ma Xiang said: "Hey, I was about to say this. Bu Wei woke up once in the morning and fainted again. The doctor said that the mental stimulation might be too much, and it was uncertain when she would be interviewed by the police. Shen Xiaoqi's situation is more dangerous. He may have fallen on his head, and he is still in the ICU, and it is said that the doctor can't estimate when he will wake up."

"Is there any danger of becoming a vegetable?"

"It's hard to say, I think it's hanging." Ma Xiang sighed: "There is another thing that is particularly evil - Bureau Lv and the Deputy Detachment Qin personally led people to block the entrances and exits of Tianzong Mountain, but they couldn't find it after two days of searching. The figure of the suspicious kidnapper, now the whole city bureau is going crazy, hey."

Jiang Ting frowned and slowly paced through the parking lot in front of the hospital building.

His legs are long and his steps are not small, but his pace is very steady and slow. Ma Xiang had to slow down a little and follow him. After a while he heard Jiang Ting ponder: "Shen Xiaoqi is the point of detection of this case. What the hell is the kidnapper? Man, how did you appear in Tianzong Mountain that day, and did you try to contact the two children in any way before, including tracking, monitoring, monitoring, social software chatting and private messages, etc.; this information is probably far from enough to rely on Bu Wei, I I still tend to get more clues from Shen Xiaoqi."

Ma Xiang nodded thoughtfully and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, did you know that Lao Gao picked up a mineral water bottle at the scene?"

"When your brother Yan answered the phone yesterday, I listened, but I didn't really hear it. Did you get the result?"

"The result is yes, but...the fingerprints on the bottle body and the DNA on the mouth of the bottle point to the same point." Ma Xiang was obviously also very confused, and said, "Only Shen Xiaoqi has touched this water bottle."

Jiang Ting stopped abruptly, as if he suddenly thought of something, his eyes were slightly suspicious.

At this time, they had already reached the door of the inpatient department building, and the two of them looked at each other without saying a word. It took several seconds for Jiang Ting to react. After drinking the last sip of soy milk, he raised the plastic cup and said, "Wait for me, let's go up and talk." Then he turned and walked towards the trash can in the distance.

At noon visiting time, the number of people in the inpatient department increased. Standing on the steps in front of the building, Ma Xiang took a few steps to the side with a thermal insulation bucket. After several waves of family members of doctors, patients, and family members, he looked up and saw Jiang Ting in the distance throwing the soy milk cup into the trash can. Come here.

"Pony!" a voice suddenly came from behind.

Ma Xiang turned his head with a sound, and at the same time Jiang Ting also followed.

Jiang stopped for a moment.

Deputy Bureau Wei in plain clothes was carrying fruit and was walking from the hospital gate. As he climbed the steps, he unexpectedly pointed at Ma Xiang: "I said, why don't you see anyone at noon, so I came to see Yan Xun as well. , I would have taken your ride if I had known - why are you standing at the gate?"

A few meters away, Jiang Ting stepped back half a step, dodged and hid in a large group of people who happened to pass by.

Ma Xiang: "Ah, I'm..."

"Where's the wait?" Deputy Director Wei asked casually.

Out of the corner of Ma Xiang's eyes, he glanced at the place where Jiang Ting was standing just now, and the person was gone.

"—Oh, no," Ma Xiang paused slightly, then turned back to Deputy Bureau Wei: "I came alone, and I was just hesitating whether to go back and buy more fruit, and I happened to meet you."

As he said that, he lifted the heat preservation bucket in his hand: "Fortunately, I brought chicken soup, otherwise the bananas and apples sold in front of the hospital are compared with your imported fruit basket, hey, that would be a loss!"

Bureau Wei couldn't help laughing: "Looking at that monkey, your Yan Vice Detachment is still short of this stutter? Go up."

Deputy Bureau Wei took the fruit basket into the gate unhurriedly, Ma Xiang turned around a moment ago, looked covertly not far away, and hit the crowd behind Jiang Ting's line of sight.

Jiang Ting waved his hand to signal him to go quickly, and silently said two words: Thank you.

Ma Xiang nodded, followed Deputy Director Wei and left in a hurry.

Yan Yan leaned against the head of the hospital bed unhappily, checking his watch every thirty seconds.

Jiang Ting was discharged from the hospital the next day after the operation, and he would come to see him twice every day after that. It's really just two eyes. He stepped on the point and came over to deliver lunch and left, so he didn't know whether to be content and grateful to Team Jiang to wash his hands and deliver the soup, or to point at Jiang Ting's nose and scolded the motherforget it, it's even more excessive. Today, ten minutes have passed since the usual meal delivery time, and the Jiang team, who was picked up from the water and patted his butt as if nothing happened, has yet to show up.

Yan Yan was thinking about whether to struggle to go to the nurse's station, and called the nurse to ask, when suddenly the door of the ward opened.

"Why did I come, I've been waiting for a long time-"

Yan Yan's voice choked, and Deputy Bureau Wei stood at the door inexplicably: "Huh?"

The two looked at each other, Ma Xiang stuck his head out from behind Wei Ju on tiptoe, and kept making gestures to Yan Yan to kill the chicken and wipe his neck.

The ward was quiet for a few seconds, and then Yan Yan saw Deputy Director Wei's face that had been stinking for decades flushed, covered his mouth and coughed, struggling, contradictions, hesitating to speak, and guilt that could not be concealed, etc. Together, after a long while, he choked out a sentence:

"...It's not that I don't want to see you, sigh, it's not that you don't know because you've been busy investigating these days... You said you were a child, and you're acting like a spoiled child."

Yan Yan: "..."

Ma Xiang: "..."

It was like a thunderbolt slammed down, and Yan Xun's heart was turbulent, and he subconsciously searched eighteen times in his mind - yes, the last time Wei Yao called him "you boy" was probably the first time 20 years ago. The second time I was caught in the police station because of a gang fight, it became "you dog X" after that.

Deputy Director Wei probably also felt that his old face was a little bit awkward, so he quickly put the fruit basket on the bedside, and changed the subject: "How are you recovering, where are your parents?"

Yan Yanzhi was not stunned: "No wonder you brought such a large basket of fruits to see my parents?"

Deputy Director Wei almost slapped him on the forehead: "Let me see if you need to mention such expensive fruit? Do you eat fruit? Bring a bowl of braised pork and you're done?"

"Well said!" Ma Xiang applauded.

Team Jiang didn't wait, but when the spoiler came, Yan Yan was full of resentment and had nowhere to vent. ? Hurry up I'm starving."

"What, nonsense! How can you not tell the family about such a big thing!" Deputy Bureau Wei was in a hurry, and immediately touched his mobile phone to call the old and beautiful Zeng Cuicui. Unexpectedly, as soon as the address book was opened, the mobile phone was snatched by Yan Yan concisely and quickly, and he stuffed it into the quilt: "Don't hit, don't hit!"

"Are you crazy? If you don't tell your family, how can I tell your father if something goes wrong?"

"If you tell them, my mother will either force me to resign, or buy a bunch of 18th-tier internet celebrities lining up to rape me, believe it or not?!"

Deputy Bureau Wei: "..."

This is really like what Zeng Cuicui can do when he is young and beautiful.

Deputy Bureau Wei had to resign: "If it's a big deal, you should dedicate yourself to the country, and you won't suffer."

Yan Yan hummed, forcing Wei Yao to let go of his promise to hide from his family. After he was discharged from the hospital, he returned to Jianning and then told his parents about it. Then he took out the phone from the bed and returned it to Deputy Bureau Wei, who said The keen sense of smell of the old criminal investigator judged that the mobile phone was contaminated by Yan Yan's foot odor, and he took the towel to wipe it twice before accepting it.

"Who will take care of you these days?"

Yan Yan said: "Oh, you are asking about this. There is a classmate named Lu in my police academy in Jiangyang County. He also helped Li Yuxin during the arraignment this time. After the operation last week, he took care of me for a night. ."

After the city bureau went down to the grassroots level, they asked the local police for help to say hello and clear the network. It was a relatively common thing. Wei Yao didn't care, and watched Ma Xiang pour out a bowl of snow-white soup from the thermos and hand it to Yan. Huan, asked casually: "Hey? Isn't this fish soup?"

Yan Yan stirred with a spoon with no appetite: "Yeah, what?"

"The pony told me just now that it was chicken soup?"

Yan Yan took a spoon.

"I... I ordered it in the restaurant downstairs," Ma Xiang patted his head: "I remembered it was mixed up, but the fish soup is better, and the fish soup is light."

Yan Yan immediately reacted to what happened, the corners of his mouth twisted uncontrollably, and he took a sip of the fish soup: "Yeah! Not bad! It's true that the fish soup tastes good!"

Ma Xiang rubbed his head and laughed without saying a word, but Deputy Director Wei really thought that the fish soup was particularly delicious, so he sniffed it with a wrinkled nose. Come.

"What's wrong with Bureau Wei?" Yan Xun quickly changed the subject and asked, "You finally came to see me today, probably because the search has made progress, right?"

Bureau Wei was shocked by "Finally willing to come and see me", but the old man who felt that he was wrong was too embarrassed to despise him.

"uh-huh?"

"The truck that caused the accident covered its license plate number when the incident occurred, but Lao Huang took the Jiangyang County Police Station Criminal Investigation Squadron to investigate for two days and two nights, and finally found a highly suspicious target truck at the entrance of a national highway near Jiangyang County. The driver's face was photographed. Now the traffic video and security monitoring of the nearby road sections have been transferred to the city bureau, and we are preparing Skynet to lock the escape route of the offending vehicle, and accurate results will be available in at most two or three days."

Jiangyang County is not a remote area, and the national security monitoring system is relatively well established. It is unlikely that such a low-level criminal absconds and escapes the palm of the criminal investigators.

Yan Yan sipped the fish bone: "It's good to be brave, hurry up and catch these grandchildren. Nine times out of ten, the kidnappers belong to his mother's group."

"In view of the fact that Li Yuxin was silenced, this possibility is indeed very high, but I found an inexplicable doubt."

"what?"

Deputy Director Wei didn't answer and asked, "Do you still remember Fan Zhengyuan?"

Yan Yan was stunned, and then remembered the name.

——Fan Zhengyuan, alias Fan Si, chased and killed Jiang Ting in the hospital and ran away, then was strangled by Ajie and crushed into meat sauce, which was spread on the highway in a thrilling manner.

"Fan Zhengyuan once shot you in the south lane of Sanmao Street, Jianning City, leaving a bullet at the scene, but because there is no rifle, there is no way to trace it, and it was preserved by the technical team as one of the physical evidence in the 502 case. "

Yan Yan blinked and motioned Deputy Bureau Wei to continue.

"The home-made bullets that several criminals shot at you, including the bullet that caused you to pierce the front and the rear, were all left in the river, and they have not been salvaged due to conditions. So I can only have a small arm. The bullet dug out was sent for component inspection, and it was found that its metal composition and gunpowder residue were exactly the same as the bullet left by Fan Zhengyuan."

Everyone is an old criminal policeman for more than ten years or even decades, and Yan Yan understood what Deputy Director Wei meant almost as soon as the voice fell.

His face changed.

"The quality of bullets forged by black workshops is very unstable. If the metal and gunpowder components of the two bullets are exactly the same, it can only mean one thing: they are the same batch of products. That is to say, Fan Zhengyuan, who attacked you, and this It is very likely that several criminals have some connection."

Deputy Bureau Wei paused and looked at Yan Yan with a solemn expression:

"It's even possible that their real target is not Li Yuxin, but you."