Forensic pursuit

The night was as long as time, under the warm yellow wall lamp, Pei Rong leaned on the pillow and closed the diary, Chu Wanning's words of blessing were still in his ears.

"Happy birthday."

She couldn't remember the last time she ate a cake. It was about two years ago, when she received a takeaway birthday cake, and the child's video came in.It is said that it is the next day's skill competition, the teacher will conduct random checks tonight, and there is no time to go out.So, she put her mobile phone next to her and ate the 4-inch cake for two alone.

Maybe for some people, birthday has become a dispensable symbol in life, but Pei Rong never forgets his 15-year wish.On your birthday, you can be accompanied by your family or lover.

Chu Wanning may not be considered a family member, let alone a lover, and her crush is probably one-sided.However, at this moment, Pei Rong allowed his good mood to magnify infinitely, as if his wish had been half fulfilled.

At least, 27th birthday, not so lonely.Pei Rong even felt that after getting to know Chu Wanning, the other party often brought her surprises.

Little did she know, a bigger surprise came quietly.

On the last day of the Lunar New Year, Pei Rong didn't plan to go home, but planned to go to the bar to watch the new year, and passed by Chu Wanning.

Chu Wanning apologized: "I'm sorry."

"It's okay." This was the code word for their meeting, Pei Rong didn't turn back and walked forward.The bar was dimly lit and in a corner isolated from the world. She ordered a glass of Amber Dream, drank it slowly, and then got up to leave.

On New Year's Eve, pedestrians on the street are in twos and threes.Not far away, in the empty parking lot, Pei Rong took out the note in the windbreaker pocket after making sure that there was no one around, and unfolded it meticulously.

There is only one sentence: "At 11 o'clock in the evening, Room 1207, Dongyan Apartment, Ziyun Road, code lock 832419."

Does she ask herself to keep the year old?Thinking of this, Pei Rong couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips, a smile slowly rippled from his eyes, and even his walking steps were much lighter than last second.Now at 22:31, it's just right to take a taxi.

She got out of the elevator 2 minutes early, entered the code to open the door, and stood at the entrance to change her shoes. She was attracted by the strong aroma lingering in the room, and she could hear the sound of a spatula stir frying.Do the cooking yourself?In an instant, Pei Rong felt warm in his heart.She carefully locked the door and walked lightly towards the kitchen.

The slightly raised lips were pursed into a straight line the moment he saw the strange figure in front of the stove, Pei Rong frowned slightly, and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?"

The man sniffed, and his voice was obviously crying: "You wait a moment, you can eat right away."

"I don't know you." Pei Rong stepped back, clutching the phone and trying to contact Chu Wanning, but later realized that there was no number at all.

"Little Velvet." The woman turned around calling her name, her eyes were red, and tears were still hanging on her slender eyelashes.Pei Rong looked up at her, she was inexplicably familiar and kind, for no reason, her heart suddenly became sore.

Seeing that she didn't respond, the other party explained: "My surname is Lu, and my name is Rui." The tone was soft and the words were clearly pronounced.

Only then did Pei Rong take a closer look. The person in front of him was tall and tall, with long slightly curly hair tied in a simple way, and his facial features, which were very similar to his own, were gentle and calm.She suppressed the panic in her heart, and asked quietly: "Fanxin's friend? Sister Rui?"

"Yes, yes, it's my sister." Lu Rui's accumulated tears flowed down with this elder sister's voice. She felt the abruptness, and was afraid of scaring Pei Rong, so she suppressed her emotions and raised the back of her hand to wipe away her tears, "Little Rong, wash your hands first, go sit in the dining room, I'll be fine soon."

"Oh." Pei Rong didn't understand why, so he obediently walked away.She washed her hands, and then sat down at the small dining table for four. The table was already filled with three dishes of meat dishes: fried crab in the typhoon shelter, baked lobster with soup, and sliced ​​mushroom soup, all of which were her own preferences.

Within 3 minutes, Lu Rui sat down opposite her with the last plate of stir-fried vegetables, and said softly, "I heard from Wan Ning that you like seafood, so you prepared the New Year's Eve dinner on your own initiative."

New Year's Eve Dinner...

These three words were too far away, but Pei Rong's heart softened instantly, as if he had fallen into a thick duvet.She took the initiative to ask, "Is it just the two of us?"

"Yes, Dad is busy with work and can't leave."

"dad?"

"Well, Xiaorong, let's move our chopsticks first. We have some things to talk about later." Lu Rui served her food with a gentle and pampering tone, "Try my cooking, although it's not as good as our mother's, but It’s barely enough to enter.”

Pei Rong looked at Lu Rui's bright smiling eyes, picked up the bowl, and took the crab legs, obediently and obediently as if he had been swallowed.She chewed slowly, full of praise from the bottom of her heart: "It's delicious, it's delicious."

"As long as you like it, eat more." Lu Rui helped her serve another bowl of soup.

"Thank you, Sister Rui, you can eat too." Pei Rong picked up a chopstick of lobster meat for her.

"Okay, I'll eat."

The projector played the Spring Festival Gala, Lu Rui deliberately lowered the volume, and the two sisters just chatted one after another, letting time rush by.They didn't put down the dishes until the host started the countdown.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6..."

When the New Year's bell rang, Lu Rui pulled Pei Rong to sit on the sofa, took out a red envelope from her bag, and stuffed it into her arms: "Xiao Rong, the year of the snake is auspicious, happy new year."

Pei Rong refused: "Sister Rui, I can't accept this."

"Accept it, my heart." Lu Rui took a deep breath, turned her back, and began to rummage through the document bag prepared in advance.

Holding the bulging red envelope, Pei Rong watched her flustered movements, and became nervous.Not knowing what to expect, I was vaguely looking forward to it.

Lu Rui turned around, with a dark file bag in her hand, she handed a red notebook to Pei Rong, sincerely: "Xiao Rong, my sister, was born on May 2021, 5. Because Our father thinks the character Lu sounds nice, so my sister and I take our mother's surname."

Pei Rong heard Lu Rui say her name: "Lu Rui, Mom said it means that the hearts of the three of us will always be with my sister."

On May 2021, 5, Pei Rong felt inexplicable pain when thinking about this day.

"This is a photo of Xiaorui's birth. It weighs 6 catties and 7 taels. The four of us are fisted together." A tear slipped from the corner of Lu Rui's eyes.

"She was born at 9:16 in the morning. She was taken to the nurse for examination at 9:27. At 12:10, Dad and grandma went to the nursery, but no one was found..." Lu Rui's voice began to choke.

Pei Rong quickly pulled out a piece of paper, trying to help her wipe away tears: "Sister Rui."

"It's okay, it's okay." Lu Rui spread out one piece of A4 paper after another, one photo after another, "Over the years, Dad and Mom have been looking for people while working, and they never gave up. The last time I received a message was three years ago , I went to Nancheng with my dad, but I still found nothing."

"God's blessing." Lu Rui paused, then looked up at Pei Rong, her eyes sparkling, "On May 5 last year, Wan Ning took away your drinking cup without authorization, and we did a paternity test afterwards."

"Paternity test?" Pei Rong choked his throat, his voice was a little hoarse.

"Yes." Lu Rui opened the paternity test report, and the words "confirm biological father-daughter relationship" jumped into Pei Rong's eyes.She was in a daze, and subconsciously asked, "Director Huang? My father?"

"It's absolutely true." The last photo was placed in front of Pei Rong, "Xiaorui has a light-colored birthmark in the shape of a moon on her back at the shoulder blade, I don't know if it's still there."

Pei Rong pursed her lips tightly: "Yes." My heart was full of emotions, but my throat seemed to be stuck by something, and I couldn't squeeze out any more words.She tightly held the photo of the family's fist bumping, and she shed tears silently.

"I don't know how you got to your adoptive father's side. Although I hate you, I thank him for taking care of me all these years." Lu Rui stretched out her hand, wrapped her palm, rubbed it lightly, and coaxed her, "Stop crying, let's go back , we still have many days to get along."

"Hmm." Pei Rong carefully recalled the details of the 28 years, the pampered life envied by others, the life without family affection, bit his lower lip tightly, trembling and suppressing his emotions.

"So, you said, should you accept my red envelope?" Lu Rui wiped away the tears from her eyes, lowered her head and picked up the luggage bag on the ground, and finally smiled a little, "Xiao Rui, a large number of gifts are coming, Are you ready?"

Pei Rong didn't have time to respond, and there was an extra clay doll in his hand.

"Dad made it himself, and I have one too. It's a gift from 0 years old."

Next, a bear cub about 10 cm.

"My mother is good at handwork. She sewed it by herself. This is a 1-year-old gift."

"Okay, from the age of 2, you can receive an extra gift every year. For example, this box of chocolates was bought with my New Year's money. There is also an eraser. Maybe I wanted you to do homework with me at the time. Treasure star posters, stamps that are treasured."

Also, the medal received by Lu Rui University.

Presenting gifts one after another, Pei Rong's heart was completely broken. She opened her arms and threw herself into Lu Rui's arms regardless. Tears suddenly burst out like they were out of control.

"sister……"

A long-standing wish—to have a sister who loves her.

Instead, my younger brother who doesn't care about me...

"Xiao Rui." Lu Rui hugged Pei Rong, patted her on the back, and tears rolled down, "We will be together from now on, together, we will never be apart."

After a while, probably tired from crying, Pei Rong left Lu Rui's embrace.She thinks she has a strong personality, and she will not expose her fragility too much in front of anyone, and always wants to show her best and most positive side in front of her friends.However, the first time I met my sister, I cried unexpectedly.

Kind of embarrassed.

She watched Lu Rui send her father a WeChat message [Dad, the Chinese New Year is auspicious, everything is fine with us. —— Rui, Rui. 】

The news from the other side came back quickly [Okay, okay, have you eaten the New Year's Eve dinner? 】

【ate. 】

[Send me a photo, just pretend I ate it too. 】

Lu Rui sent the photos he took earlier.

【Received, happy, drink two cups later.Okay, let's talk, I have something else to do. 】

【Okay, Dad, drink less. 】Lu Rui chatted with Huang Bo in front of Pei Rong, and at the end he didn't forget to say a few words: "Our dad likes to drink, and when he was young, a catty or two of liquor was fine; just."

"Yes, you should drink less." Pei Rong felt the strong father-daughter relationship from their conversation, which he had never experienced before.However, she just envied, or in other words, looked forward to such a relationship even more.

After all, my sister has already met, can my father be far behind?Where is mother?

Her voice was low, because she had cried, her voice was still a little shaky: "Sister, where's mom?"

"Mom..." Lu Rui bit her lips, "Nine years ago, my mother was seriously ill, so she couldn't hold on and left."

"Let's go..." Pei Rong murmured, the tears that had just stopped falling down uncontrollably again.

Thinking about those years when Lu Rui accompanied her parents to travel all over the world, her heart was filled with pain.She suppressed her bitterness and comforted Pei Rong: "When the time is right, let's go to the cemetery to visit Mom."

"it is good."

Lu Rui told Pei Rong the general arrangement of the police. There were no secrets involved, but that it was not suitable to expose the secrets for the time being, and Chu Wanning needed to lurk and collect criminal evidence.He also said that what kind of cooperative relationship Pei Yuanliang and Yu Chiduan belonged to is also being investigated further.Pei Rong hoped that the adoptive father who had raised her for 28 years did not involve too much.

After New Year's Eve, Pei Rong lost contact with Lu Rui and Chu Wanning again, but she had more hope in her heart, hoping that one day in the future, she would be able to reunite with her family.

The day of the reunion was unexpectedly brought forward. On her 28th birthday, Chu Wanning gave her her first birthday present.A small note with an address written on it, Pei Rong knew that this was their so-called safe house.

The period was followed by a small cake, and Pei Rong regarded it as the second gift from the other party.

On this day, she finally fulfilled her birthday wish.

Before leaving, leave their first group photo.Father was sitting in the middle with his mother's photo in his arms, Pei Rong and Lu Rui were standing on the left and right respectively.

"eggplant."

Lu Rui helped Pei Rong put away the group photo, and Huang Bo explained the situation: "Recently, Han Han has been closely watched by Yu Chi Duan's confidantes, and may need to end the mission early, and Xiao Rui will break into them instead of you."

"Replace me?"

"Yes, we originally considered using a human skin mask, but the other party was cautious and worried about business trips, so we planned to have plastic surgery."

Pei Rong shook his head, and said in a firm tone, "Dad, I can be a police informant, and I don't need to take risks."

"Without professional training, it will be very dangerous; besides, you are not a member of our police, and according to the rules, you can't."

Of course Pei Rong knew that her father was lying to her: "Dad, an informant, not an undercover agent, you can pay me a salary, I will help the police."

Huang Bo waved his hand to stop it, and said in an uncompromising tone: "Okay, don't say any more."

Lu Rui beside her comforted her: "Xiaorui, don't worry, the police are well deployed, and nothing will happen to me." She paused for two seconds, then continued to ask, "I remember you have the habit of keeping a diary, right?"

Pei Rong blushed, leaned close to Lu Rui's ear, and said softly, "But sister, can you not give me your love life?"

"You don't need to give it, but it's better to have it. In exchange, I'll give you mine."

Pei Rong gossips: "So, who is my sister secretly in love with?"

"No."

"do not fool me."

"Do not lie to you."

Later, when I got Lu Rui's diary, I knew that my sister hadn't lied to me. Apart from family, the diary was work.

Big loss...

Later, I inadvertently learned that the person I was thinking about day and night liked my sister. In the intensive care unit, she had been in a coma for a long time and saw the blurry shadow in front of the bed clearly. She cherished her waking time and exhausted her last bit of strength to request: "Sister, can, can you, help, help me take care of Miss Wanning..."

The author has something to say:

After thinking about it, I don't want to write about the process of her passing away, so be it.

Good night, Pei Rong.