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During the lunch break, Xiao Jiang and the others ate lunch and gathered in the lounge. The lounge was remodeled from an archive room. It has a large area, with two rows of sofas for one person, and a set of tables and chairs from the conference room in the middle.Four or five girls slumped on the sofa and chatted. Someone found a pair of mahjong from somewhere, so the lunch break activity changed from simple chatting to playing mahjong and chatting.

Xiao Jiang's brain is slow, her poker skills are bad, she lost after a few rounds, she played the small game that was supposed to be a pastime at noon, she played it a bit seriously, she must win a game, and her poker players are not allowed to leave the table.

"Is it my turn? Then I'll touch it."

Xiao Jiang picked up a red card and wandered around for a while in a row of mahjong tiles of different suits, trying to get rid of the red card. When she raised her eyes, she saw the colleague on the opposite side kept pursing her lips and snickering, and always looked behind her. .

Xiao Jiang was suspicious, and was about to turn her head to see what happened, when someone said softly behind her: "Why don't you arrange the cards according to the suit?"

She turned her head and saw Ji Zheng standing behind her, wearing a white coat, holding a cup of tea, staring at the two rows of mahjong tiles in front of her with downcast eyes.

Xiao Jiang was choked suddenly, feeling a little nervous for no reason: "I, I always pose like this."

Ji Zheng put the teacup on the table, put his hands on the back of Xiao Jiang's chair and bent down to get close to Xiao Jiang, and helped Xiao Jiang organize the mahjong in a posture that almost held Xiao Jiang in his arms.

Xiao Jiang watched Ji Zheng's slender and beautiful fingers skillfully pick up one piece of mahjong and put it down again. The mahjong collided with each other and made a pleasant, clear and clean sound. Her eyes followed Ji Zheng's fingers, and she was dazzled for a while. The middle knuckle of Zheng's middle finger was stained with a little ink, and he could clearly see it.Ji Zheng's always faint fragrance is very close to her at this time, making her dizzy even more.

Xiao Jiang's poker friend was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "This is not allowed, Dr. Ji, you can't help Xiao Jiang."

Ji Zheng helped Xiao Jiang sort out the cards, and when he heard this, he smiled gently and said, "I'm not good at playing either."

Xiao Jiang heard Ji Zheng talking very close to her, and could even hear the vibration of the chest resonance when Ji Zheng spoke, and suddenly felt a numbness in the roots of her ears, and hurriedly said as if to cover up something: "Doctor Ji didn't help me, Ji The doctor just sorted out the cards for me."

Before she finished speaking, Ji Zheng took the red card she was holding in her hand and was about to type out at the end of the line, and Ji Zheng stuffed another [-] card in her hand.

Xiao Jiang asked him in a low voice: "Do you want to play this one?"

Ji Zheng nodded.

"Oh, I see! You're whispering!"

Ji Zheng then straightened up, picked up the teacup on the table, and said to Xiao Jiang before leaving: "If you don't know what to play, first play a single card that has nothing to do with any suit."

After speaking, he left the lounge.

Seeing him leaving, Xiao Jiang quickly fanned the wind with her hand and played the cards in her hand: "[-]."

The colleague rested his chin on one hand and looked at the door: "I also want to be tutored by Dr. Ji."

Xiao Jiang: "Playing cards, playing cards, I'm going crazy!"

Half an hour later, when the lunch break was over, Xiao Jiang left with her poker friends, first put on her makeup, then knocked on the door of Ji Zheng's office with a stack of documents, and opened the door after getting permission.

Ji Zheng sat on the single sofa in the reception room, lowered his head slightly to look at his phone, heard Xiao Jiang push the door in, raised his head and smiled slightly at Xiao Jiang: "Did you win?"

Xiao Jiang closed the door: "No, I still lost."

Ji Zheng took off his glasses and put them on the coffee table, and took the document Xiao Jiang handed him.

Xiao Jiang tidied up the tea table and sofa, and glanced at Ji Zheng from time to time; Ji Zheng sat on the single sofa with his back to the floor-to-ceiling window, habitually crossed his legs, and lazily rested his right arm on the armrest of the sofa because he was a little tired up, supporting the forehead.The document he was holding in front of him faced the sunlight coming in from the floor-to-ceiling windows. The sunlight was reflected by the paper and hit his face, making him frown slightly and squint his eyes to avoid the strong light.

Soon, Ji Zheng finished reading the document, put it on the coffee table, and said, "No problem, just leave it to Dr. Jiang."

Xiao Jiang responded first, and then said: "Doctor Ji, have you heard?"

Ji Zheng: "What did you hear?"

Xiao Jiang said: "The Golden Water Bay Hotel is on fire!"

Ji Zheng read the document under direct sunlight just now, which caused his eyes to feel a little dry. He closed his eyes and rubbed the corners of his eyes. Hearing this, his movements stopped, and he opened his eyes to look at Xiao Jiang: "Is it on fire?"

Seeing that he didn't know, Xiao Jiang sat across from him with a pillow in her arms, and said, "Yes, just last night, it was said that the whole building was on fire when the fire truck arrived, and it was very serious."

"...are there any casualties?"

"I don't know. I just saw it in the newspaper this morning. I guess it hasn't been counted yet."

Ji Zheng didn't ask any more questions, looking thoughtful.

Xiao Jiang continued to tidy up the sofa, and suddenly "嘿"?With a cry, he turned towards Ji Zheng, and in his hand was an exquisitely crafted rose gold and diamond bracelet: "Whose bracelet is this?"

Ji Zheng glanced at the bracelet in her hand, and felt familiar, but couldn't remember the owner: "It should be left by the customer accidentally."

Xiao Jiang carefully looked at the bracelet: "I remember Miss Qin wearing a bracelet like this?"

Ji Zheng paused: "Qin Jing?"

"Hmm, it seems to be hers."

Ji Zheng said lightly: "Call her and ask her, you will know."

Xiao Jiang called Qin Jing in front of Ji Zheng, and quickly confirmed that the owner of the bracelet was Qin Jing. Qin Jing said that he would come to pick it up in the afternoon.

Xiao Jiang turned on the hands-free, Ji Zheng heard Qin Jing's words, so he gave Xiao Jiang a wink, and asked Xiao Jiang to stop Qin Jing from taking the bracelet.

Xiao Jiang said: "Don't bother, just let your driver come over."

Qin Jing insisted on coming, and Ji Zheng silently said to Xiao Jiang, 'send it back'.

Xiao Jiang understood his mouth shape, and said, "Miss Qin, can I send it back to you? I have a friend who works in catering, and she wants to invest in the chain restaurant you opened, so I have some questions to ask." please help me."

Qin Jing agreed.

Xiao Jiang hung up the phone and looked at Ji Zheng.

Ji Zheng looked at his watch and said, "I'll give you half a day off in the afternoon, and return the bracelet to Qin Jing."

Although Xiao Jiang was a little puzzled, she put away the bracelet and went out without asking any further questions.

Ji Zheng sat alone in the office for a while, then took out his mobile phone and dialed Min Chengzhou's number.

The phone was connected quickly, and Ji Zheng said first: "It's me."

Min Chengzhou: "Is there something wrong? I'm very busy now."

"I heard that there was a fire at the Jinshuiwan Hotel in Bailu Town last night?"

"Yes, hang up."

"Wait a minute."

Ji Zheng stopped him.

Min Chengzhou sighed: "I'm afraid you will tell me that you have a friend who lived in Jinshuiwan yesterday and was among the casualties."

Ji Zheng immediately extracted the key point from his words: "Are there any casualties?"

"Yes, a cleaner was burned to death on the spot, and several staff members were seriously injured and still not out of danger."

"What was the cause of the fire?"

"The hotel staff dormitory caught fire first, and then the open flame detonated several tens of kilograms of industrial alcohol barrels in the storage room next door, causing a large-scale explosion|explosion. The entire building was burned."

Ji Zheng was silent for a moment, then hesitantly asked: "Isn't it artificial?"

Min Chengzhou took a deep breath slowly: "The current judgment of the fire brigade is that it was an accidental fire. Please don't tell me that you have found evidence of deliberate arson."

Ji Zheng said: "How could I find evidence of arson, I was not at the scene."

Min Chengzhou breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, let's hang up."

Ji Zheng said unhurriedly: "Wait a minute, the last thing."

"Come on, you're like a time bomb right now."

Ji Zheng asked: "Which hospital is the injured staff member?"

Because the storage room that exploded was close to No. 2 staff dormitory, the most affected by the fire were the three young women living in No. 2 staff dormitory.The three suffered burns of varying degrees and were sent overnight to the city hospital for treatment.He didn't know what purpose or mood he used to ask Min Chengzhou for the list of casualties, but he saw a familiar name in the list——Gulimina Baihetiyar.

With such an exotic name, Ji Zheng quickly remembered the word 'Gulimina' which he had seen on the name tag on the chest of a waitress in Jinshuiwan Hotel.I even remember that he also rescued the waiter named Gulimina, who thanked him repeatedly when he left the hotel to check out at the front desk.

Ji Zheng didn't expect to see her name again, let alone this beautiful Uighur girl's name would appear on the list of casualties.

He decided to visit her in the hospital.

The inpatient building of the hospital was as crowded and busy as ever, and the extra beds took up half of the corridor.Ji Zheng walked through a corridor amid rubbing shoulders, and arrived at the door of Ward 815 at the end.

He first looked in through the window on the ward, and saw a nurse adjusting the drip bottle, and lying on the hospital bed was a person in a hospital gown, whose exposed skin was wrapped in gauze. , Can't see men and women.

Ji Zheng glanced at the 'Gulimina Baihetiyar' nameplate pasted on the ward door, and then pushed open the ward door.

Seeing him holding flowers in his arms, the nurse asked, "The patient's friend?"

Ji Zheng nodded, then looked at the woman lying on the hospital bed.

The nurse looked at the time and said, "The patient is very weak now, and you only have 10 minutes to visit."

The nurse's attitude was perfunctory and indifferent, and she went out after speaking, intentionally not closing the door.

Ji Zheng put the flowers on the table next to the bed, and sat down by the bed only to find that the person lying on the bed was awake and still staring at him.

His upper pair of eyebrows had been burned away, and the skin around his eyes had peeled away, revealing a thin layer of blood-red flesh.If he hadn't found a mole between the eyebrows of these eyes, he really wouldn't have dared to associate the seriously injured patient in front of him with the beautiful Uighur girl in the past.

Ji Zheng was watched by her, with a look that Ji Zheng couldn't understand, she seemed a little surprised, but she was wrapped in gauze, and the way to express her surprise was to keep staring at Ji Zheng.

Ji Zheng smelled the smell of festering flesh and blood from her body, and it was also the smell of being close to death.

"I'll come see you."

After being stared at by her for a long time, Ji Zheng said.

Ji Zheng saw her bloody eyes move slightly, which was a response.

Ji Zheng didn't speak any more, and sat quietly for a while, and more than half of the 10 minutes passed unconsciously. The nurse with a cold attitude came to the door and shouted to him: "It's time for the patient to change the medicine."

Ji Zheng took a serious look at the woman, and when he got up to leave, he heard a whimper as subtle as a cat's meow.

He stopped, and saw that her left hand on the left side of her body slowly raised two fingers, and her index pointed towards the window, as if she was pointing somewhere.

Ji Zheng looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a satchel on a sofa by the window, which had been destroyed by fire.

Ji Zheng didn't understand what she meant, and looked back at her, seeing urgency and pain in her eyes.Ji Zheng seemed to understand what she meant, walked over to pick up the satchel and returned to the bed, put the satchel in her hand, and saw her fingers struggling twice on the satchel.

Ji Zheng asked: "Open it?"

She closed her eyes.

Ji Zheng opened the satchel, and saw that there was a mobile phone, a pair of earrings, some simple accessories, and a scarf that Jinshuiwan staff would wear in it. These things must have been taken off her body.Cellphones, earrings, scarves and other items were all destroyed by the fire, leaving a layer of scorched black.Ji Zheng could guess that she asked him to open the satchel to find something inside, so he took out the contents of the satchel and showed her one by one.

She looked at the items that Ji Zheng took out indifferently, and when Ji Zheng took out a watch, she blinked suddenly.

Ji Zheng looked at the watch in his hand. Although the strap of this watch was burnt and the dial was cracked, he could still recognize that it was a famous brand ladies' watch with a market price of around [-] yuan, which didn't seem to be her ordinary salary level. A luxury that the waiters can consume.

Ji Zheng looked at her, trying to read her intentions from her eyes.After a few seconds, he understood, and asked in a low voice: "You want me to take it away?"

She blinked, a tear dripping from the corner of her eye.

Ji Zheng wanted to ask her 'why', but the nurse came in with a medicine changing cart and said to him, "The patient can't speak, let her rest."

Ji Zheng could only stand up, put the watch into his pants pocket, and said to her, "I'll come see you tomorrow."

After leaving the hospital, Ji Zheng kept his left hand in his pants pocket, pinching the watch.

He doesn't understand why Gulimina gave him this watch, but he knows that this watch is a kind of "entrustment" from Gulimina, and he still has no answer as to what kind of entrustment it is.

He went back to the parking lot and was just sitting in the car when his phone rang.

Min Chengzhou asked anxiously: "Is there really someone you know on the casualty list?"

Ji Zheng looked around the vehicle calmly: "Do you know I'm in the hospital?"

"The people I left at the hospital saw you. Who did you go to see at the hospital?"

Ji Zheng took out the watch, slid his thumb across the cracked dial, and said lightly: "A waiter who was burned, she helped me a lot during the few days I lived in Jinshuiwan."

Min Chengzhou's sensitivity and suspicion are not unreasonable. After all, Ji Zheng is always involved in some death cases: "Is it that simple?"

"Well, it's that simple."

"...it better be as simple as that."

Min Chengzhou wanted to hang up the phone after finishing speaking, but was stopped by Ji Zheng: "Ask you something."

"What's the matter?"

"Have you found Yang Shu?"

"Not yet, the surname Guan hasn't moved in the past two days."

Ji Zheng was silent, and then asked: "The drowned body, are you sure it's Susie?"

"We collected the hair and fingerprints from Susie's room, and they have been identified. It is indeed Susie."

"Is there no progress beyond that?"

Min Chengzhou: "...If someone else dared to ask me like that, I would have slapped him long ago."

Ji Zheng smiled: "I am cooperating with you in investigating the case."

Min Chengzhou: "I think you are supervising our investigation!"

Ji Zheng smiled unhurriedly: "So is there any progress?"

"Yes, we obtained the surveillance video around Noah Park. At two o'clock in the morning, Guan Li's car was found in the north parking lot of Noah Park. The car followed Susie from the club to the park, and then parked in the parking lot , and drove away thirty minutes later."

"How does Guan Li explain it?"

"He said he lent the car to a friend, and he didn't know where the friend drove the car."

Ji Zheng asked: "Have you accepted it?"

Min Chengzhou was very sad: "We believe it or not is one thing, whether there is evidence pointing to him lying is another matter. He took out the alibi of Susie's accident, and we also found the friend who borrowed his car. After reviewing the transcripts of the two of them, no loopholes have been found so far.”

Ji Zheng knew enough was enough, so he didn't ask any more questions. Just as he was about to start the car and leave the parking lot, a familiar figure walked past the front of his car; he was tall and strong, dressed in denim, with beards and long hair. It was Guan Shuo that he and Min Chengzhou were talking about.

Guan Yue moved very quickly, stepped to the side of a black Volkswagen in a few steps, got in the car and drove away.

Only then did Ji Zheng fully understand the reason why Min Chengzhou was able to know that he was in the hospital: "Did your people follow Guan Li to the hospital?"

Min Chengzhou: "Yes, you saw Guan Li, right?"

Before Min Chengzhou finished speaking, Ji Zheng saw a jeep driving out of the parking lot and chasing after the people in Guanli.

Ji Zheng put his mobile phone on the bridge, and his calm voice revealed a coldness: "Your people were discovered by Guan Yue."

"What? How do you know?"

Ji Zheng quickly recalled Guan Yue's sinister glance to the rear through the rearview mirror just before driving, and said concisely: "I'm sure he found your people, let your people withdraw. "

Min Chengzhou paused, and said sternly: "Then I have to send a new group of people to replace them."

Ji Zheng drove out of the parking lot, followed the jeep just now, and said, "The license plate number is 1209, is it yours?"

Min Chengzhou sharply said, "What do you want to do?"

Ji Zheng said: "I will change positions with your people, I will follow Guan Li, let them follow me."

Min Chengzhou wanted to stop him without even thinking about it, but before he could speak, Ji Zheng preempted him: "Guan Li wants to get rid of your stalking. Since he wants to get rid of your stalking, it means that the place where he is going cannot be known by the police. This is your chance , you may be able to follow him to find Yang Shu."

Min Chengzhou heard that there was something in his words. It seemed that he tied Yang Shu and Guan Li together tightly, and said, "Okay, then hold on for a while, and I will send a group of people to replace you as soon as possible."

A few minutes later, at the intersection ahead, Ji Zheng saw that the jeep turned into the right lane, and the Volkswagen of Guanli stopped in front of the straight intersection.Two cars away, Ji Zheng also parked at the straight intersection.The jeep turned around the intersection and drove away quickly, then turned around the roundabout and disappeared completely.

Min Chengzhou said: "Don't hang up the phone, keep in touch, our people will be there soon."

Ji Zheng gave a faint 'hmm', and after the green light turned on, he passed the intersection at the same speed as the surrounding vehicles.

He had no experience in tracking, but he was strong enough psychologically, so Guan Yue didn't notice him. After walking around Binhai Road twice, Guan Yue finally turned around and drove back towards the hospital.According to what Min Chengzhou said, Ji Zheng reported his location every 3 minutes. When he found that Guan Li was returning to the Huichun Road leading to the hospital, he thought that Guan Li wanted to return to the hospital, but Guan Li turned to him at the central intersection where the hospital was located. Turn left and drive onto Changbin Road.

Changbin Road is not a commercial area, but a residential area, or a high-end residential area.

The last time Ji Zheng came here was to visit the traumatized Xiao Hong at home, and he went to the villa area of ​​Shanshui City.This time, he followed Guan Li to the villa area of ​​Shanshui City.

He parked the car in the thick shade and watched Guan Li's car drive into the gate of the community. He didn't drive into the community until Guan Li turned into the corridor in the community. He picked up his mobile phone and said to Min Chengzhou, "Guan Li has entered Shanshui City Community, does he have real estate in Shanshui City?"

Min Chengzhou: "He pays off the mortgage of a second-hand house in the civil servant's complex, and he can afford to live in Shanshui City. Don't follow me, my people will go there soon."

Ji Zheng didn't want to waste time explaining to him, so he told a little lie: "I have a friend who lives in Shanshui City, and I can go in openly. Hang up first."

After finishing speaking, he did not give Min Chengzhou a chance to express his opinion, and hung up the phone.

He had just caught a glimpse of Guan Yue's car turning into the third corridor. He followed Guan Yue's car and walked through the large community for nearly 5 minutes, and found that the surrounding scenery became more and more familiar. When he was looking at the terrazzo pavilion, he finally confirmed that he followed Guan Li to the vicinity of Xiao Hong's house. This coincidence not only made him suspicious.

He suddenly had an intuition that perhaps Guan Li's destination was approaching.He parked the car in the shade in front of Xiaohong's house, got out of the car and walked to the end of the corridor, followed Guan Li's car and turned left, then turned left again, when he sensed that the black Volkswagen was about to slow down After dodging into the wall, he only followed the car with his eyes.

The car finally stopped, in front of the iron gate of a villa.Guan Li got out of the car, stood by the car and looked behind.

Ji Zheng withdrew his gaze, leaned his back against the wall, and walked out from behind the wall until he heard the sound of the iron door opening and closing, and walked straight to the door where the black Volkswagen was parked.

Standing in front of the Volkswagen, he saw that the iron gate of the villa Guan Li entered was still locked, and the yard was dead silent.His stern gaze slowly moved to a back door diagonally opposite to this villa. Behind that back door was a green tree two to three meters high, and a window appeared between the green trees. He was too familiar with that window. There it was - the shattered window in Hiro's bedroom.

Ji Zheng was distracted while looking at the window with the shutters down, and it was a moment later that he realized that there was a real line of sight staring at him from behind, making him chill.

He turned his head, his eyes trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but gasped.

Guan Li didn't enter that villa, he was still sitting in the car, chewing gum vigorously, staring at Ji Zheng with a pair of gray-brown eyes covered in dust, and there was a cold light in his eyes.

I don't know how long I have been staring at Ji Zheng.