the knife of love

Chapter 329 Two Lives
The police station in Ping County Township is very small, with a very old facade, with faded signs of the police station hanging on both sides. When you enter a courtyard, there are several police cars that are not on duty parked in the courtyard.

The row of two-story houses in the back should be the office area of ​​the police station.

Guan Lue took Tang Jingcheng in and explained the situation. A young police officer sitting at the door raised his head from the computer and looked at them.

"The family of the deceased?"

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help shaking when he heard these words.

Guan Lue quickly supported her, nodded slightly: "Yes."

"Then come with me, let's identify the corpse first!"

The town police station did not have an autopsy room, and Ye Tan's body was temporarily stored in the hospital's morgue.

The young police officer drove them there. The road was not far away, but the police car was relatively old, an old Santana, and the road in the town was bumpy. Tang Jingcheng sat in the back and felt very uncomfortable when he was bumped.

Finally got to the hospital.

Guan Lue saw that Tang Jingcheng's expression was not good, so he squeezed her fingers: "You wait for me in the car, you don't have to go in with me."

After all, identifying dead bodies is not an interesting thing, but Tang Jingcheng insisted: "Let's go in together, it's not like I haven't seen these before."

How many lives and deaths has she experienced in the past few years?In contrast, I feel that I have lived in another fairy tale world for the previous 26 years.

Guan slightly smiled bitterly: "Okay, let's go in together."

The policeman was a little impatient, and when Guan Lue and Tang Jingcheng got out of the car, they locked the door and walked straight into the hospital without saying hello to them.

The morgues are located in a remote part of the hospital. The policeman knew the way and quickly found the person in charge.

The person in charge took Guan Lue and Tang Jingcheng there. The morgue of the Ping County Township Hospital was also very simple. It was a big room with dim lights and strong air conditioning. Tang Jingcheng couldn't stop shivering as soon as he entered. Guan Lue put his arms around her.

The person in charge next to him whispered to the policeman, speaking in the local dialect, which Guan Lue and Tang Jingcheng couldn't understand, and only saw white gas coming out of their mouths.

After a few more minutes of delay, the person in charge suddenly slapped the policeman's buttocks, and both of them smiled happily, probably making some kind of funny joke.

Tang Jingcheng snorted.

Guan slightly squeezed her fingers: "What's wrong?"

"On this occasion!" She said in a cold tone. On this occasion, they can still joke so presumptuously.

Guan Lue put his arms around her shoulder: "It has nothing to do with them!"

In this world, people are indifferent, and people who have nothing to do with me die, so what if there are more deaths?

Guan slightly let go. Tang Jingcheng coughed lightly, walked to the young police officer, and scratched his forehead with his hands: "Sorry, are you done? We want to pick her up today."

"..." The police officer just turned around and looked at Guan Lue. The man in front of him had a serious expression on his face, and his eyes looked even colder under the dark light and cold air.

Doesn't look like a good person.

The police officer put away the smile on his face, patted the person in charge on the shoulder, and muttered another dialect.

The person in charge also glanced at Guan slightly, then handed a small blue plastic sign to the police officer, and pointed at one of the corpses.

"Well, let's go and have a look." This time he spoke Mandarin.

Tang Jingcheng looked in the direction of the person in charge's finger. There was a single lathe in the corner.

The police officer took a small look at Guan and said, "Let's go!"

Walking to the front of the lathe, Tang Jingcheng rubbed against Guan Lue's arms, and with a bang, the zipper on the body bag was pulled open...

Tang Jingcheng glanced at it from the corner of his eye. He had a pale face, sunken eye sockets, big eyes still staring, his hair was shaved, and there was a big hole on the right forehead, and black blood had already froze on it.

He had no clothes on, and the police should have gone through a round of routine checks.

Tang Jingcheng stared at the body that had stopped breathing on the metal plate, the lower abdomen was so obvious that it was not covered by the clothes...

She turned her head away and closed her eyes. There was acid gas in her stomach turning upwards. She quickly covered it with her hands and lay on Guan Yue's chest. She heard the young policeman asking, "Is that what you are looking for?" people?"

Guan Lue rubbed Tang Jingcheng's shoulder in his arms: "Yes!"

"Yes, that's it. The autopsy was done yesterday. The gunshot wound was initially suspected to be suicide, but the report will not come out until this afternoon. The reporter will go to the police station to make a statement in a while. We will discuss the specific situation when we go back." The police officer briefly explained. Checked the situation.

Tang Jingcheng's stomach turned so hard that she raised her head and said with a choked voice, "I'll wait for you outside!"

Seeing her pale face, Guan slightly patted her on the back: "Well, I'll go out to find you later."

Guan Lue stayed inside for a while. When he went out, the sun had already climbed to the roof, and the dazzling light was coming directly. He blocked it with his hand and saw Tang Jingcheng leaning on the car body alone smoking a cigarette.

As she walked over, her face became even more pale, and her fingers seemed to be trembling a little while pinching the cigarette.

"I told you not to follow me." Guan Lue always had a calm expression.

Tang Jingcheng raised his head in the smoke and looked at the man in front of him. He was probably used to this kind of scene, so he was able to keep his face unchanged, but she was still too weak.

After all, it is two lives!

"It's just that I feel a little uncomfortable!" Tang Jingcheng smiled bitterly.

Guan slightly squinted at the cigarette in her hand, and frowned: "It's gone, go back to the police station!"

The car was driving very fast on the road, and the bumps were severe. Tang Jingcheng opened the window, and finally a bit of wind came in, but the wind was filled with the smell of dust flying on the road.

"Sorry..." She clutched her chest, sweat dripping from her forehead.

Guan Lue immediately yelled to stop.

The policeman slammed on the brakes impatiently. Before the car came to a complete stop, Tang Jingcheng opened the door and ran out. When he ran to the side of the road, he felt like his intestines were about to come out.

Guan Lue bought water and paper towels at the small supermarket across the street.

"Why do you vomit like this?"

Tang Jingcheng took a few sips of water and leaned on Guan Lue: "I just feel uncomfortable."

"Then I'll take you back to your room to rest."

"No need!" Tang Jingcheng returned the water to Guan Lue, "It will be much more comfortable to spit it out, let's go, go back to the police station!"

Probably because Tang Jingcheng's face was really ugly, like a sick child, the police officer drove a little slower in the second half of the road.

As soon as the three of them entered the police station, an older-looking police officer came over and took the car keys from the young police officer's hand: "The driver who reported yesterday came to make a statement."

"Where are the people?"

"Inquiry room!" After speaking, he glanced at Guan Lue and Tang Jingcheng behind him, and raised his eyebrows: "The family members of the deceased?"

"Ok!"

"Have you got the body?"

"I just took it for identification. I have to wait for the report to go through the formalities!" Afterwards, the two police officers chatted for a while, and Guan Lue stepped forward: "Can you let me meet the driver?"

The young police officer said no.

The older general looked him up and down: "See you, but you have to wait until the confession is finished."

It was nearly half an hour of waiting, and they were not in the police station office. Guan Lue took Tang Jingcheng and waited in his car, because they left the room in a hurry in the morning, and neither of them had breakfast, Tang Jingcheng looked very bad, Guan Lue asked Yala to buy breakfast nearby.

There is no decent restaurant in the town, so I bought two cups of soy milk and a few tea eggs.

Sitting in the car, Guan Lue peeled off the shells on the tea eggs for Tang Jingcheng, inserted the tube again, and handed the soy milk to her. She shook her head: "I can't eat it!"

"If you can't eat it, you have to eat it!"

"I can't eat it!" She smelled beans and felt nauseated in her stomach. She reluctantly took two bites of eggs, and only ate the egg whites. She took out the yolks and stuffed them in her mouth.

He drank a lot of mineral water, he almost drank the whole bottle, leaned back on the chair after drinking, closed his eyes, his eyelashes fluttered slightly.

Guan Lue took over the empty bottle she was still pinching, tightened it tightly, and his heart twitched suddenly.

"Still disgusting?"

She shook her head, but did not open her eyes: "It's better."

Guan Lue didn't say a word, paused, and suddenly squeezed Tang Jingcheng's fingers: "Is there?"

"What's the matter?" Tang Jingcheng didn't react for a while, and someone knocked on the car window at that moment, and the older police officer stood outside: "Hey, the driver came out after recording the statement, didn't the family members just say Want to meet him?"

……

Yaba followed Guan Lue and scattered a circle of smoke.

The older one hung the cigarette behind his ear and fished it out with his hand: "Let's go, people are still in the inquiry room!"

Guan Lue followed Tang Jingcheng in. It was a small room with simple tables and chairs, no windows, and a huge lamp with a shade hanging from the top.

The light was on, and the fat black driver was sitting under the light with his head in his arms.

The police officer went over and tapped the table in front of her with a pen: "The family of the deceased, please see me!"

The driver just looked up and saw Guan Lue and Tang Jingcheng walking in, the flesh on his face wanted to twist them all together.

He probably regretted it to death at this time, and he really regretted it to death, why did he take advantage of Ye Tan's car.

"Oh, how many times are you going to ask me? I've said everything I need to say, but I really don't know how that girl died!" The driver patted his forehead with a confused face, and muttered something in his mouth, but couldn't hear clearly , but spoke in dialect, probably abusive.

The older police officer tapped him again with his pen: "What's the matter, I'll let you repeat what happened yesterday. Why are you nervous? The report will come out in the afternoon, and we'll see what's going on at that time." !"

The driver bowed his head unwillingly.

Guan Lue walked to the side of the policeman, sat down, looked up at the person opposite: "I'll just chat with you casually."

"Don't talk, I'll repeat what I know. If you don't know the rest, it's useless to ask!" The driver seemed to understand at this time. He straightened up from the chair and wiped his fingers again. nose.

"I drive a black car, and I usually do jobs in the town. There are not many taxis in a small place like ours, so my business is usually pretty good, but I also saw a ghost yesterday. I stayed there all morning and didn't take a car. It happened that the girl was stopping the car by the side of the road, so I went up to it myself, negotiated the price, and I asked for two hundred, but she was quite straightforward, and gave me a roll from her bag!"

Later, after the driver took Ye Tan to the destination, he sat in the car and counted the money himself, which was more than 900.

"At the time I asked for change, but she said no, and said she might bother me later. At that time, I thought she wanted me to wait at the foot of the mountain to pick me up, but the return trip didn't cost so much money. I was quite happy. , I thought I had caught an idiot, but it turned out that I was an idiot myself, no wonder she gave me so much money and said it would be troublesome..." Barabara, the driver said a few swear words in dialect when he was excited.

Guan slightly frowned, and the policeman knocked on the table: "That's enough, talk about it!"

The driver sniffed his nose again: "Aren't you an idiot? On the way, I felt that she was talking abnormally. I asked her what a girl would do on the mountain with her belly out. The mountain is full of graves. She said to find the child's father..."

Now that the driver recalled Ye Tan's reaction at that time, he came to his senses and held his head again.

"Later, I thought it would be clear in a few days. I guessed that she was going to the grave. I thought she was pitiful. The man died before the child was born at such a young age, so I drove her all the way to the middle of the mountain. After all It’s not easy to climb a mountain with your belly up…”

"and then?"

"Then I stopped on the slope halfway up the mountain and waited for her. If I drove up, there would be no way. She climbed up by herself. When I was walking, I asked her if she wanted to wait for her. She didn't turn her head, so she just I said casually, damn casually, I am also cheap, I think she is pitiful, where can I get a car in the ravine, I will wait for the sake of seeing how much she paid."

At that time, the driver felt that he had to wait for an hour to sweep the tomb.

Guan slightly twisted his fingers: "Continue!"

The driver glared at him, took out the paper cup next to him and filled half a glass of water, his mood seemed to stabilize a bit: "I waited for about two hours, I almost fell asleep, and I didn't see anyone coming down, so I climbed up the slope by myself. As a result, I heard a gunshot when I climbed halfway..."

The wind in the mountains was very strong, and the smell of gunpowder oil was soon smelt in the damp and cold air.

The sound of gunfire almost filled the valley, and flocks of frightened birds flew up from the treetops, flapping their wings.

The inquiry room was suddenly depressingly quiet, Tang Jingcheng closed his eyes in pain, and tightened his fingers into the flesh of his knee.

Guan Lue slowly loosened his fingers that had been twisted for half a day, got up, and stood up.

"Let's go."

Tang Jingcheng followed him out, and the voice of the driver behind him continued to argue: "...Damn it, I thought it was someone who came to shoot birds in the woods. The soil gun is so powerful? Climb up the slope to see, the result depends By the time the girl was covered in blood, she died before the grave..."

Ye Tan's autopsy report came out in the afternoon, and the results showed that he died of a gunshot wound. He was shot at close range. The bullet directly penetrated his head and he died on the spot.

There was only Ye Tan's fingerprints on the gun, and the driver was ruled out because he had no motive for committing the crime.

Yaba started to go through the formalities, and Ye Tan's body needs to be taken away as soon as possible.

Tang Jingcheng hardly ate anything in the morning, so Guan Lue coaxed her to find a noodle restaurant in a nearby town, so she only ate half a bowl of noodles and went in.

In the evening, the police station notified Guan Lue to get Ye Tan's things.

The relics were packed in two dust bags, with a pistol in one bag.

M36, a revolver launched in the 90s of the last century, is small and light, and the gun body can fit into a handbag. It is one of the most classic women's pistols so far.

But of course the police will not return this bag to Guan Lue. It is forbidden to carry guns in China, and I don’t know how she passed the security check at the train station.

The other bag contained clothes that had been taken off Ye Tan's body. The clothes were stained with blood, and there was a small handbag inside.

"Check the contents of the bag. The valuables are wallets, mobile phones, oh yes, and a ring!"

(End of this chapter)