I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 476 Who is the murderer?

Wang Xiangxiang was at a loss. Just as Zhang Xiaokui was about to speak, he heard Deputy Bureau Yan next to him soften his tone, "Wei Lan gave it to you, take it."

Seeing Zhang Xiaokui nodding again, Wang Xiangxiang carefully picked out a small piece of Ding Ding candy from the oil paper bag in front of her, "Thank you, thank you!"

Wei Lan pursed her lips, curved her eyes and smiled softly, "You're welcome. I usually don't have anyone else here, so it's very boring to be alone. If you have nothing to do, you can always come and sit here."

 “Okay, okay!” Wang Xiangxiang’s face looked strange for a moment, but soon she smiled sincerely.

Zhang Xiaokui told Wang Xiangxiang in advance that he did not want Wei Lan to know about Yanyi looking for someone to take care of Wei Lan for the time being.

Wang Xiangxiang was worried for a while before, fearing that this matter would fall into her hands, but now it's better. Wei Lan took the initiative to speak, which saved her a lot of effort.

The two girls in the room were chatting happily. Yanyi glanced at Zhang Xiaokui, raised his chin towards the door, and then walked in front and left the room first.

Zhang Xiaokui understood and followed him out of the ward, "Deputy Bureau Yan."

 “How are things going?”

"Everything is going on normally. After investigation, four people can basically be identified. Although the others had a quarrel with Wei Zhiqing, the facts involved are too trivial and cannot be listed as reference. In addition, there is an alibi, so …”

Yanyi raised his hand and interrupted Zhang Xiaokui, "Who are those four?"

“Jiang Zhiqing, who is an educated youth, has two aunts on the team. They are usually sarcastic and scheming...Ah, there is another one who is also on the team. She is a young student. What is her name like Xibao?”

"The words came out of his little mouth. He said that Comrade Gu Chao had one of his arms removed because of spreading nonsense, and he even lost his work on the Sunflower Seed Project...Everything is happening, there is no guarantee that it will not work. It will make you feel bad."

Yanyi's face was frozen, and his whole body was full of anger. He was silent for a long time and said coldly: "Let people continue to stare. I will go over tonight."

 Zhang Xiaokui nodded, then hesitantly asked: "Then, what about Wei's educated youth?"

Yanyi mostly has to deal with the official affairs of the bureau during the day and cannot be by Wei Lan's side all the time. Therefore, at night, he always comes to the hospital to accompany Wei Lan. Sometimes he just sits on the chair next to the bed all night. Sometimes he is tired. , so I lay beside the bed and squinted all night, half asleep.

Wei Lan spent most of his time sleeping. Once or twice he woke up and noticed Yan Yi's behavior. He felt mixed emotions in his heart. He tried to persuade him many times, saying that he could do it alone. Yan Yi either changed the subject or just ignored it. As time went by, Wei Lan stopped talking.

Yanyi's unshakable behavior has become a habit in the minds of Zhang Xiaokui and others. When he heard that Yanyi was going out at night, Zhang Xiaokui's first concern was not whether their deputy Yanyi would act impulsively, but whether Wei Zhiqing would act impulsively. If you are not used to it, will you be scared?

Yanyi's deep brows furrowed, then relaxed in a short moment. His cold expression warmed up slightly, and his voice softened, "I will explain it clearly to her. Just do as I say."

After Yanyi finished speaking, he pushed open the ward door and walked in. Zhang Xiaokui followed behind and said, "Yes..."

　　When he raised his eyes, he saw Wei Zhiqing with a gentle and peaceful smile, and his partner who looked very happy with his mouth wide open.

Although Wei Zhiqing without memory sometimes speaks strangely, in any case, Wei Zhiqing before and after amnesia is a very nice and warm person.

Thinking about it, Zhang Xiaokui pursed his thick lips and looked at the man in a blue uniform at the end of the bed.

The man who has always been strict, cold and even stern seems to show a slight smile and a gentle expression only when facing Wei Zhiqing.

If Deputy Bureau Yan can always hold Wei Zhiqing in the palm of his hand and treat him like a treasure, will Wei Zhiqing be happy even if he is not with Comrade Gu Chao?

 …

 Caring for the family.

Grandma Gu leaned on the bed, took a sip from the soup bowl handed by Youlan, and heard the sound of "ding-dong-ding" outside. Grandma Gu coughed, "Is Brother Chao at home?"

Youlan nodded, "Here, my brother hasn't been out much these past two days, so he has no wood to chop for the family."

The weather is hot in summer, not as hot as in winter. Firewood is needed to warm the stove. If there is too much firewood, it is easy to hide snakes and rats...

It was fine, but suddenly she was chopping so much firewood. Grandma Gu’s sparse eyebrows knitted together, faintly aware that something was wrong.

 She put down the soup bowl and asked You Lan to call Gu Chao over.

Gu Chao was chopping firewood in the courtyard when he heard You Lan say that Grandma Gu was looking for him. He promised to come after washing his hands, but she entered the backyard and never came out again.

Grandma Gu waited for a long time but didn't see anyone, so she called Youlan to go and have a look. When Youlan went to the backyard, where was the shadow of her brother?

 Gu Chao did have a plan, and he expected Grandma Gu to ask him for questions, so he took advantage of the opportunity and ran away from the bamboo forest in the backyard.

“I’m afraid that **** is going to do something crazy. Go and find him. I’ll tell you, Brother Yang, to look for him. No matter how he’s tied up, he’ll bring him back even if one of his legs is broken!”

Grandma Gu struggled to get out of bed, and You Lan was frightened. She didn't expect that the matter would be so serious, but she didn't dare to disobey Grandma Gu, nor did she dare to persuade her any more. She bit her lip and backed away towards the door.

In the past, when there was no such thing as educated youth going to the countryside, there were just a few places where Gu Chao would hide in his spare time, such as among the lotus leaves in the small harbor, the remote waterside terrace, and the hillside of the back mountain, close to the cemetery. A small forest…

One place is because it is remote and no one goes there, and the other place is because it is next to a cemetery. People in the group find it unlucky and are basically unwilling to go. Therefore, both places are "good" places that are quite quiet.

Gu Yang searched these two places one after another, but couldn't find any sign of Gu Chao, and he felt a little anxious.

"You go back and guard your grandma, and I'll go look for her somewhere further away." Gu Yang said in a deep voice after glancing at the panting little girl behind him.

Grandma Gu is now seriously ill and weak. Gu Yang is worried that if someone is found here, something will happen to Grandma Gu.

Youlan nodded hesitantly.

Gu Yang searched all over the place, but he never thought that at this time, Gu Chao was only a hundred or ten meters away from his home.

 Behind the houses at the end of Qizhuan Village, after bypassing two towering camphor trees, there is a large old banyan tree.

The main trunk of the tree is so thick that even three or four people holding hands may not be able to surround it. The other branches are also as thick as legs and stretch out in all directions. The stolons sprouting from the branches cannot penetrate into the soil because they are far from the ground. It naturally droops from top to bottom, forming vines as thick as a finger.

 The little boys in the brigade often like to play in this area, so the soil under the trees is firm, flat, and even smooth.

The crown of the tree is high among the clouds, and the sun shines through the gaps between the branches and leaves, and sprinkles on the ground.

The wooden handle of the shovel is placed horizontally between two branches. The man is leaning between the tree trunks in the sky, with his head resting on the wooden handle of the shovel.

The leaves swayed in the wind, and little bits of sunlight swayed, sometimes falling on his face, sometimes reflecting into his deep eyes.

 However, the man was not affected by the dazzling sunlight.

Gu Chao frowned lightly and stared at the photo in his hand with his deep eyes.

The photo was four inches in size and in color. It showed a little girl wearing a silk veil on her head and a white wedding dress, with red lips and white teeth, and a bright smile.

Those were photos taken in Beijing during a trip to Beijing last year. There were six photos in the set, most of which were of him and Wei Lan. This was the only one of Wei Lan alone.

  His rough fingers lightly traced the face of the young girl in the photo. Gu Chao's hand trembled suddenly, his eyes were red, and he placed the photo close to his heart. Then he took out something else from his pocket, a red string tied with a delicate little toad.

The red rope and the toad Wei Lan have worn for a long time, the color has faded slightly, but in the broken and whitish red rope, there is an obvious dark color.

Due to the disappearance of Wei Lan, Gu Chao could not find anyone for a long time. He was depressed for a long time because of this matter. However, by chance, he noticed some clues on the rope, which made Gu Chao think that maybe Wei Lan was swept away by the water. It's not an "accident."

 The whole red rope was a little faded and white, but that section was dark red, like the color of precipitated blood.

If you accidentally fall into the water, no matter how fast the current is, you can still call for help. People nearby hear the noise and go to rescue. Even if they are not in time, they will not end up like this without seeing anyone...

Gu Chao closed his eyes in pain, ruling out this possibility and there was a second possibility.

Before Wei Lan fell into the water, he had been severely injured. He would bleed after being severely injured. The blood stains on the rope could explain it. However, when he fell into the water after being severely injured and lost consciousness, he fell silently. Therefore, at the first moment of the incident, who No one knew that something had happened to Wei Lan. It was only after the temporary dam was built and the people gathered to go home that they found that there were missing people, that they found out that something had happened.

 Unconscious, bleeding, in a raging ditch...

He could bleed suddenly and even fall into a coma. Somehow, Gu Chao suddenly thought of the shovel those people brought back from Xiaogang.

 Is that what he thought?

 If it is, then the situation is several times more dangerous than the previous speculation of slipping and falling into the water!

Suddenly, there was a pain like a needle pricking in his heart. Gu Chao's fists clenched loudly. His eyes turned red with bloodthirsty hatred, but he did not dare to think further.

 His girl, the girl he holds in the palm of his hand!

The breeze blew, and the little toad swayed back and forth. Gu Chao pinched the red rope with his big hands harder and harder, and his joints began to turn white.

Gu Chao has not gone far in search in recent days just to investigate this matter.

He successively contacted several people who were usually close to Wei Lan, and also privately inquired about the people who were rushing to work in the sunflower seed field that day. He basically already had some clues, and he only had to pierce the thin layer of "window paper". We can know whether the murderer is that person.

If so…

Gu Chao closed his eyes, hiding the fierceness in his eyes, and dug his fingers deeply into the tree trunk.

 All he can do now is wait.

Waiting for nightfall…

   *

The sky was dark, with clouds in the distance like dark clouds. The dim street lights were on in the corridor downstairs. Yanyi glanced at it, closed the window and drew the curtains with a "swish" sound.

He turned around and walked towards the bed, his riding boots making an unusually clear sound on the floor.

Wei Lan leaned on the bedside, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, her eyes moving as he moved, her voice soft and gentle, "Are you going out today?"

"Well, there are some things to deal with." Yanyi sat down on the bedside, "Are you sleepy? I'll watch you sleep. I'll leave after you fall asleep."

Wei Lan was not sleepy, but after thinking about it, she was afraid of delaying him for too long, so she nodded obediently, "Yeah."

When Yanyi came here before, he often came here wearing a police uniform, but this was the first time that his outfit was so neatly arranged as this time.

Wei Lan glanced at the gun case on his waist and couldn't help but clutch Yan Yi's sleeves worriedly, "Is it dangerous?"

"No danger."

Wei Lan's nervous look was deep in Yanyi's heart. A slight tenderness appeared on his face. He reached out to touch her head, fearing that he would touch her head. Finally, he turned to her face and nuzzled her cheek twice. "I just went over to interrogate her." A few people, come back soon... When you open your eyes tomorrow morning, you can see me."

"Really?" Wei Lan didn't quite believe it, but suddenly felt that she was a little willful. Yanyi was going to do business, and she had no reason to force him to stay.

Wei Lan bit her lip and said with a smile: "Then, I'll wait for you to come back."

Although she smiled, her eyebrows drooped, which was very forced.

 “Go on, leave early and come back early, I can do it alone.”

Yanyi stared at Wei Lan for a moment, then suddenly leaned forward. He wanted to kiss Wei Lan, but when he was about to meet those bright red lips, Wei Lan turned his head to avoid her, and his thin lips only lightly brushed against her cheek. Pass.

Yan Yi rested his arms on Wei Lan's pillow, and Wei Lan's whole body was underneath him.

The little girl's face was blushing, her eyes were darting around and she didn't dare to look at him, "Don't, don't make trouble, there are many people in the hospital, go quickly, go quickly!"

Yanyi's eyes were deep and he felt a special kind of satisfaction in his heart. He hugged Wei Lan tightly in his arms and hugged her hard, as if he was rubbing her into his bones. "I will definitely come back soon."

"Um."

 Then the ward door clicked shut, and the room fell into silence.

The young girl let out a sigh of relief and let go of her hands tightly gripping the sheets under the quilt.

 Subsequently, on the young girl’s fair and delicate face, her curved eyebrows frowned repressedly.

Perhaps it was a bit too much, but the moment Yanyi came closer and realized what he wanted to do, she actually... resisted in her heart.

 But she is his fiancée, isn’t she?

Although she doesn’t remember many things, she probably knows what kind of person Yanyi is from the contact during this period.

 Stern, cold, even a little cold-blooded, but in front of her, he was always gentle, tolerant and patient...

 How could he have reached this point if there was no basis for affection between them?

 Sure enough...did she forget something important?

Wei Lan bit her lip and stared at the bulging quilt caused by bending her knees in annoyance, feeling suddenly very sorry in her heart.

 Before she regains her memory, she may not be able to respond to Yanyi's deep affection.

   *

It was a dark and windy night, and two beams of high-beam headlights hit the seventh team, which caused a lot of cold. Accompanied by the sound of cars, many people put on their clothes and went out to watch the excitement there.

 At the same time, Gu Chao seized the opportunity and started his own plan.

Fumbling down from the tree, bypassing the big banyan tree and camphor tree, Gu Chao came all the way to a dilapidated courtyard gate at the end of the village.

his deep eyes were extremely cold, and he reached out and patted the door. The muffled sound of "dong dong dong" in the darkness seemed to hit people's hearts.

 (End of this chapter)