monologue

Chu Xingmu and Wen Ti walked into the reception room. Guan Zhen staggered to his feet immediately after seeing them. He Zongquan quickly handed him the crutches. Guan Zhen was more haggard than when Chu Xingmu first saw him. Deep sunken, eyes cloudy and dull, the whole person is very thin, Chu Xingmu immediately helped Guan Zhen to sit down.

Guan Zhen looked at Chu Xingmu eagerly, and asked, "Captain Chu, have you found it? Have you found my daughter?"

Chu Xingmu shook his head: "Not yet."

Guan Zhen's eyes dimmed, and he said disappointedly: "I read the news, and I never thought that Ling Ling would be taken away by that bastard Zhang Huo. He has done so many bad things for 15 years! I thought Wang Yuemin It's a pity that we lost our child and searched for so long, I didn't expect him to cover Zhang Huo!"

Guan Zhen's emotions became more and more agitated, and he asked in tears: "Captain Chu, can I still trust you? Can I still trust the police? Can I still seek justice for my daughter? A five-year-old child, she did something wrong?"

Chu Xingmu looked at him, the words that he never hesitated before were suddenly choked in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound.

"I've run out of time, I can't wait any longer, if I still have the chance, I'd like to find her for another ten or twenty years!" Guan Zhen covered his face, a few tears fell from his fingers, looking for her He has not cried once in the 20 years of living with Guan Lingling. He always believed that Guan Lingling was still alive, but when he found out about the children who died in Zhang Huo's hands, his long-standing hopes were shattered.

Wen Ti tugged at Chu Xingmu's sleeve, and the two walked out of the reception room. Chu Xingmu asked Wen Ti, "He still doesn't know that his wife was killed by Wang Yuemin?"

Wen Ti nodded: "Well, Mr. He asked us to hide it from him. Guan Lingling's body has not been found yet. If he knows that his wife did not commit suicide but was killed, I'm afraid his situation will be worse than it is now."

"How long does he have?"

"The doctor said about a month."

After Guan Zhen was sent to the hospital after the car accident, it was found that he had advanced cancer. He had known his physical condition for a long time, and he rushed out to stop the car desperately. The choices you make are right or wrong, and you won't regret your decisions.

Guan Zhen thought he saw hope, but hope turned into disappointment in a blink of an eye. He was not afraid of disappointment, but he was afraid that he would never be able to wait for hope again.

Chu Xingmu walked through the corridor towards the office, Wen Ti asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to the Chang'an branch."

Wen Ti followed, "I'll go with you."

Chu Xingmu stopped to stop him and said: "You haven't healed yet, don't run around with me, go and feed Wen Daju, it's hungry and running around the room, I'll let you know if there's any news."

"But……"

Chu Xingmu lightly touched Wen Ti's earlobe, and said: "Be obedient, go back and read and feed the cat. These things are not what you should run away. If you have any accidents, your elder brother will probably fight me."

Wen Ti thought to herself, aren't you also covered in injuries?But Chu Xingmu insisted that he could only stay in the office obediently, so as not to cause him trouble.

Wen Ti returned to the work station, Wen Daju rubbed against Wen Ti's trouser leg, Wen Ti picked it up with his right hand, before he could pick it up with his hand, but after a few days he couldn't pick it up with one hand Now, Wen Ti put Wen Daju on the table, Wen Daju licked his hand, looked at Wen Ti pitifully, Wen Ti hesitated whether to give it cat food, and he also had cat food in his pocket. If you don't go in and smell the big orange, it's growing too fast in just a few days.

Bai Yao came in from the door, and immediately ran over to ravage Wen Daju, Wen Ti asked, "Senior Sister Bai, what did you feed it?"

Bai Yao pinched the looming fat on Wen Daju's body and said, "It will eat whatever we eat, and if we don't give it food, it will squat in front of me and look at me pitifully. It even eats carrots."

Wen Ti thought silently in her heart, the orange cat couldn't lose weight at all, so Wen Daju had to control her appetite.

"Junior Brother Wen, do you want to control its food intake?" Bai Yao asked.

Wen Ti nodded, and Zhao Chen ran over and said with a smile: "I guess it's not good, the little guy is growing up, and he's hungry for eight meals a day."

Wen Daju squatted in front of Wen Ti, looking eagerly at the cat food in his hand, Wen Ti finally couldn't stand its pitiful and aggrieved eyes, and compromised, Wen Daju got the cat food in his hand as he wished, Zhao Chen and Bai Yao were in a mess at first, but they couldn't help laughing at Wen Daju's cuteness for food. After a while, Zhao Chen called other people to play cats together to relieve stress. The power of my own mascot has been exerted to the extreme, rubbing this and licking that, successfully diverting everyone's attention to it, although it is only temporarily.

Chu Xingmu, who was still in Chang'an District in the afternoon, called back to the bureau and asked Xia Ci to bring a few people there. They found some clues in the Chang'an District People's Hospital.

The People's Hospital of Chang'an District is not far from Anning Road. The branch office was more or less affected by the arrest of Wang Yuemin, so Chu Xingmu was going to ask his people to investigate. Xia Ci, Qi Shaocheng, and Zhao Chen rushed to the hospital without stopping. Mu is talking to the dean.

Soon after, the dean sent a security guard who was familiar with the hospital environment to take Chu Xingmu and the others around the hospital. I don't know how Chu Xingmu negotiated with the dean, but he certainly didn't tell him that he came for the case.

The security guard was an elderly man who had worked in the hospital for almost 20 years and knew the hospital well. Chu Xingmu asked the security guard: "For more than ten years, the hospital should have changed everything except the site, right? "

Uncle Security said: "In the past, there was a family compound behind the hospital. Later, after the house was divided, the family compound was also demolished. Apart from the two new buildings on the east and west sides, it hasn't changed much in recent years."

Uncle Security reads newspapers all day long, and he is more concerned about the cases that have been circulating in the past few days. Chu Xingmu did not hide his identity, so Uncle Security thought that Chu Xingmu came to their hospital to investigate, because he heard that some The hospital issued false disease certificates to the orphans in the orphanage. As for whether their hospitals had them, that was not his business, but he was still quite on guard against the police, for fear that he might lose his job if he said something wrong.

Chu Xingmu could see what the security guard was afraid of, so he asked, "You have been working here for a long time, do you know a woman named Zhang Bing? She worked in this hospital 15 years ago."

"Zhang Bing? It sounds familiar." The security guard thought about it for a while, "Can you explain it carefully? I can't remember clearly because of my age."

They walked to the boulevard in front of the inpatient department. There were many people coming in and out downstairs of the inpatient department. Chu Xingmu's eyes fell on a building on the west side of the inpatient department.

Xia Ci described Zhang Bing to Mr. Security, and showed him Zhang Bing's photo, which was found from Zhang Huo's home. After reading it, Mr. Security said he remembered, "I remember, one is very diligent. The girl here has been working as a cleaner for two or three years, and there is no one in her family. She used to live in the hospital when the hospital still had staff dormitories, and I heard that her brother is in jail."

"Is the staff dormitory still there?" Qi Shaocheng asked.

The security guard turned around and pointed to the building on the west side of the inpatient department, and said, "The staff dormitory is connected to the family compound. It is behind the old inpatient building. It has been demolished a long time ago. Now there is a large open space."

"Is the old hospital building still in use?"

Uncle Security shook his head: "No one has gone in for seven or eight years."

Chu Xingmu proposed to go to the old inpatient building to take a look, but the security guard hesitated, Zhao Chen asked with a smile: "Uncle, do you still have taboos in this hospital?"

"I have to tell the dean about this. It is separated by a courtyard wall and locked. I don't have a key!" The security guard spread his hands and explained.

Chu Xingmu asked Zhao Chen and Uncle Security to go to the dean, and Qi Shaocheng waited for them to leave and asked, "Is there anything weird about that building?"

"Go and have a look." Chu Xingmu strode across the green belt, Qi Shaocheng and Xia Ci followed suit, but because Qi Shaocheng's legs were too short for a while, Chu Xingmu and Xia Ci pulled him back In the past, Qi Shaocheng murmured that a green belt was built so wide.

The three of them ignored the slogan "Do not trample on the lawn" and walked to the big iron gate separating the old and new inpatient buildings. Chu Xingmu pulled up the iron lock and looked at it. Xing Mu walked to the bottom of the wall, aimed at the direction and climbed up the brick wall with bare hands, a set of wall-climbing movements were crisp and neat.

Xia Ci and Qi Shaocheng stood under the fence and looked at him melancholy, Qi Shaocheng asked: "Boss, aren't you a patient? If you say you are so tall, you will go up?"

He didn't look like a patient who had just been discharged from the hospital. Chu Xingmu stood on the wall and said, "Don't ask for a full-time salary if you dare to hold back."

Qi Shaocheng felt powerless, the wall had to be two meters high, it was a bit embarrassing for him, Chu Xingmu jumped off the wall, weeds grew around the old building, the original road was covered by grass, Chu Xingmu stepped on it a few times I just saw the gravel road buried in the grass, and I don't know why I didn't demolish it together with the family compound after being abandoned for so long.

Xia Ci patted the dirt on his hand, walked to him and asked, "You said you came to investigate the case of Guan Lingling's disappearance, why did you come to the hospital?"

Chu Xingmu turned around and took a look. Qi Shaocheng had just climbed up the wall and was about to jump down. He said: "The more I think about it, the more I feel wrong. Since that old woman found Guan Lingling's clothes from Zhang Bing's house, didn't Zhang Bing find it? She is How did you bring the clothes home?"

"Didn't the old lady's son say that the old lady was going to deliver food to Zhang Bing, but her door was open but there was no one inside?"

"Then think about why she didn't lock the door, where she was at that time, Zhang Huo had already been released from prison at that time, Guan Lingling disappeared just a few days ago."

"You mean Zhang Huo killed Guan Lingling, and Zhang Bing helped him dispose of the body?" Xia Ci gasped.

"Zhang Bing's film crew in Wang Li Ze happened to be filming in Chang'an District. Zhang Bing may have been introduced to work part-time in the past. This is the place she is most familiar with. Otherwise, why didn't I find anything when I rebuilt Anning Road? Anning Road was After digging it all over, Zhang Huo had no money and no house at that time, and the first thing he went back to was Zhang Bing's house when he was released from prison, if he killed someone, where would he choose to dispose of the body?"

"That may not be a hospital, like Zhao Luoyu, her body was thrown into the river."

"That's why I came over to take a look."

Qi Shaocheng finally jumped off the wall after dancing for a long time. He hurried to Chu Xingmu's side and pinched his calf and asked, "How did you find anything?"

"You have a caterpillar in your hair." Chu Xingmu pointed to his head and said.

Qi Shaocheng: "..."

Xia Ci caught the caterpillar and put it in Qi Shaocheng's hands. Qi Shaocheng looked at the wriggling caterpillar and said, "It's so disgusting."

Chu Xingmu walked along the original road to the family compound that was already an open space. Xia Ci and Qi Shaocheng also followed. There were a few particularly tall and strong locust trees in that place. Looking down at an open space overgrown with grass, Qi Shaocheng asked: "Is there anything suspicious about this place? It was dug several times during the demolition."

Xia Ci walked a few steps forward, Chu Xingmu went to look at other places again, Xia Ci noticed that there seemed to be a raised manhole cover in front of him, it should be a sewer well or something, Qi Shaocheng asked: "Deputy team, What did you find?"

"It's okay, let's go to the well."

Qi Shaocheng said casually: "Chang'an District is quite advanced. 15 years ago, Chang'an District hadn't started urban planning. It was quite prescient."

Xia Ci said: "If it's not a well, what is it? It can't be a well."

"Probably so." Qi Shaocheng took a few steps forward and exclaimed, "There are two or three wells over there."

Chu Xingmu heard Qi Shaocheng's voice and asked, "What did you find?"

"There are three wells here, they have been abandoned for a long time."

Chu Xingmu walked over, the manhole cover was covered by soil, two of the wells were covered with weeds, Chu Xingmu was about to bend down to have a look, Zhao Chen and Mr. Security stood behind them and shouted: "How did you get in? "

Chu Xingmu didn't bother to explain to them. When the security guard approached, he asked, "When were these wells built?"

"It's too early, the drinking wells of 30 or [-] years ago have dried up long ago."

"Where is this place?"

"The wells between the staff dormitory and the inpatient building have not been used much and have always been abandoned wells."

Chu Xingmu stood by the well and pondered for a while, then turned to Xia Ci and said, "Dig it out."

At 05:30 in the office of the criminal investigation team, Wen Ti was sitting at the desk reading a book, Wen Daju was playing on the floor with the ball of wool that Bai Yao bought for him, and everyone else in the office had gone to dinner, Wen Ti looked up from the thin pages of the book Glancing at the time on the wall clock, Chu Xingmu has been away for five or six hours, and he still doesn't know how his side is progressing. The mobile phone in Wen Ti's hand suddenly rang, and Wen Ti put the bookmark in the book to pick it up. pick up the phone.

Chu Xingmu said on the phone: "Guan Lingling's body has been found."

Wen Ti asked, "Where is it?"

"In the abandoned well of Chang'an District People's Hospital, where Zhang Bing used to work."

"Do you need my help to convey this news to Guan Zhen and He Lao?"

Chu Xingmu said: "No, I have already notified them."

"Then why are you calling me?"

Chu Xingmu said: "I want to hear your voice."

Wen Ti listened to his noisy voice, he should still be at the scene, Wen Ti asked: "Then when will you come back?"

"Seven or eight o'clock in the evening. There are still some things to deal with at the sub-bureau. You go home early today and rest. I will take you to the hospital to change the medicine tomorrow."

"it is good."

Wen Ti hung up the phone, tidied up the things on the table, Wen Daju moved the ball of wool to Wen Ti's feet, and rolled over Wen Ti's leather shoes, Wen Ti left the chair and squatted on the ground to watch Wen Daju play with the ball of wool , He picked up the ball of wool and held it in his hand. Wen Daju raised his two front paws to reach the ball of wool in Wen Ti's hand. He said to Wen Daju: "I will take you to see Chu Daha tomorrow. We will have It's a new home, and I've decided to adopt you."

On the day when Chu Daha brought Wen Daju back, Wen Ti planned to take care of it for a while, and help find a foster family for Wen Daju when he recovered from his injury. Now seeing that people in the office like Wen Daju so much, Wen Ti Ti decided to raise it.

Wen Daju didn't understand what he said anyway, he just rubbed Wen Ti's hand, and jumped up and down to reach the ball of wool in Wen Ti's hand. Bai Yao and Lang Lang came back from dinner, and Lang Lang asked at the door Said: "What new home? Wen Ti, haven't you eaten yet?"

Wen Ti stood up and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I'm not very hungry. Captain Chu called back just now, and Guan Lingling's body was found. You should have to work overtime again tonight. I'll go back first."

"Okay, you are on vacation, go home early and rest, you are different from the boss, he is used to it." Lang Lang said.

Wen Ti asked: "Has Captain Chu often been like this before?"

"I remember he was stabbed by a suspect a few years ago, and he came back to work as soon as the wound healed. He not only exploited our labor force, he even took care of himself," Lang Lang joked.

Wen Ti didn't ask any more questions. He picked up Wen Daju, who was still playing with a ball of wool on the ground, and said, "Then I'll be leaving first. Thank you for your hard work. See you tomorrow."

Lang Lang asked, "How did you go back?"

"I called the driver to pick me up."

Lang Lang slapped his head. Wen Ti had a driver and didn't have to squeeze the bus. After Wen Ti went out, she said to Bai Yao, "He seems to be in a good mood today."

Bai Yao nodded, "The captain sees Wen Ti smiling all the time these two days."

Wen Daju lay obediently in Wen Ti's arms. Wen Ti walked out of the gate of the Public Security Bureau. After a while, a car stopped beside him. Zhong Changxin lowered the window and stretched out his head and said, "I haven't been a driver for anyone else yet. .”

"Me neither, it's even." Wen Ti walked around the rear of the car to the co-pilot, opened the door and got in the car.

"How's it going?"

"It's not that good, you'll lose your troops." Wen Ti was referring to his injury.

Wen Ti looked at the text message in the inbox, the corners of her mouth slowly curved, it was sent to him by Chu Xingmu.

I'll pick you up tomorrow, don't run around.