Chapter 116
"Ah! Husband, what are you doing?!" Miss Wang turned around and almost fainted from the scene in front of her.
Lin Jiafan and the others also came in at this time. He looked calm and said, "Mr. Li, we just want to talk to you. You really don't need to be so nervous."
"Officer Lin, let's be frank. You've come to my door time and time again. I don't believe you if you say you don't have any evidence." Li Rui grinned with a cold smile, and the hand holding the wallpaper knife also exerted a little force.
Holding the little baby in her arms, Luo Jingyao's breathing became a little faster because of the sudden tingling sensation in her neck.
"It seems that Mr. Li is well aware of what he has done. In that case, you should also be aware that your current actions will not do anything but make the situation worse." Lin Jiafan frowned slightly, and his voice became increasingly harsh as he saw the bright red slowly seeping out of the woman's neck.
After a brief back-and-forth negotiation, Ms. Wang stood at the entrance, still bewildered. "Honey, what exactly did they mean by that?"
"Have you broken the law? No matter what you've done, don't do this. Let Miss Luo go!"
A flicker of hesitation flashed across Li Rui's eyes, but he quickly regained his inherent ruthlessness. "Officer Lin, this situation doesn't have to be so ugly. As long as you leave my house and let me go, I guarantee that no one will get hurt."
Lin Jiafan raised his eyebrows calmly, hinting, "Your promise is hard to believe. After all, someone's already been hurt."
Li Rui grinned nonchalantly at this. "Don't think I don't know she's in cahoots with you! She's ostensibly here to bring us food, but she's actually trying to test me!"
As he spoke, he tightened his other hand, which was used to clamp the neck of the person in his arms, with a little excitement.
Luo Jingyao was strangled to the point of being unable to breathe, and felt a little aggrieved.
God knows! In the beginning, she was just being asked to do this!
After taking two deep breaths, she opened her mouth with difficulty: "Mr. Li...be careful...be careful Mile..."
The waves of suffocation made it increasingly difficult for Luo Jingyao to hold the child.
At this moment, Miss Wang, who had been so shocked that she lost her voice, finally managed to come back to her senses. She quickly took two steps forward, but she hesitated. She could only cry out while crying, "Li Rui! Please, please! Let Miss Luo go!"
"I'm scared, and Mile is scared too!"
Perhaps it was because of the bond between mother and child, for as soon as she cried, the little baby in Luo Jingyao's arms pouted and began to howl at the top of its lungs.
"Li Rui, you scared the child. Please do as the police say!" Miss Wang's knees softened and she immediately knelt on the ground: "Mi Le is your child too!"
The man was a little distracted by the crying of his wife and children, and there was a hint of hesitation on his face.
Now is the time!
Luo Jingyao gave Lin Jiafan, who was a few steps away, a subtle wink, and then slammed her head back hard!
The hard back of his head hit the other person's nose bridge directly, and a muffled groan was heard.
Li Rui subconsciously loosened his hands that were clamped around her neck and covered his aching nose. Through his tearful eyes, he saw blood on his hand.
But before he could raise his head, Luo Jingyao hugged the little girl tightly in her arms and performed a roundhouse kick, kicking the man hard on the right cheek with her right foot.
But in the blink of an eye, the criminal who had originally held the hostage was lying on the ground, covering his face and groaning.
With a wave of Lin Jiafan's hand, the people following him quickly stepped forward to subdue him and handcuffed him.
Touching the little head of the baby in her arms with lingering fear, Luo Jingyao turned around and handed the child to Miss Wang, who had not yet reacted to what had happened.
It was not until her hands touched the milk ball that Miss Wang finally regained her normal breathing. She hugged the child tightly and burst into tears.
Soon, the policemen took Li Rui, whose face was covered in blood, away from here, leaving Lin Jiafan and Luo Jingyao to comfort Miss Wang, who was out of control.
The young mother's face was covered with snot and tears. She sobbed and asked, "Officer, what on earth did my husband do wrong?!"
"The case is still under investigation and the specific details cannot be disclosed. It is possible that in the subsequent investigation, it will be found that what Mr. Li did was not as serious as imagined." Lin Jiafan responded vaguely.
After all, the woman has to take care of the child alone, so he can't be too blunt with his words and has to give her enough time to digest them.
Miss Wang casually grabbed a baby bib and wiped her face, then nodded randomly.
Seeing that her emotions were gradually stabilizing, Luo Jingyao confirmed again and again that nothing was wrong, and then left with Lin Jiafan.
There was only one police car left outside the building. It seemed that the policemen had already taken Li Rui back to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
She followed Lin Jiafan silently into the police car, and as soon as she sat in the passenger seat, she opened her mouth to ask something.
Unexpectedly, the person next to him spoke first: "I'll take you to the hospital first."
"Hmm... Hmm?!" Luo Jingyao's eyes widened, and she quickly waved her hand in refusal, "Don't bother me. It's just a scratch from the wallpaper cutter. It should heal in a while."
Athletes always shed blood and sweat but no tears. This little injury is really nothing to her. The pain is so mild that she doesn't even feel it.
In the darkness, Lin Jiafan stared at her silently for a long time, then raised his hand and turned on the dome light in front of the car.
The dim light came on, and Luo Jingyao tilted her head a little uncomfortably, exposing her delicate neck under the man's eyes.
It is difficult to determine the exact size of the wound because it was not treated in time. At this time, the blood has flowed down to the collarbone, and its semi-dried state looks very shocking.
Luo Jingyao shrank her shoulders uncomfortably, trying to avoid Lin Jiafan's gaze.
Emotions were swirling in the black eyes behind the lenses, and she really couldn't read them, so she subconsciously wanted to escape.
She hurriedly lowered the sun visor in front of the passenger seat, leaned over in front of the small mirror and took a closer look, pretending to be relaxed: "It's really nothing. I'll go to the infirmary to disinfect it and put on a band-aid when I get back to the bureau."
"Disinfection." Lin Jiafan first repeated these two words, then opened the door, got out of the car, walked around to the trunk, and took out a brand new medical box from it.
When he returned to the car, he lowered his head and rummaged around to find iodine, cotton swabs, gauze and other supplies. When he looked up again, he saw Luo Jingyao's stunned look.
"Why is there such a thing in a police car?" She felt curious and puzzled.
"It's better to be prepared. Small accidents often happen when we go out on field work, but no one thinks it's troublesome and has never used it." As he spoke, Lin Jiafan held out three cotton swabs soaked in iodine and stretched out his hand in front of her.
Luo Jingyao held her breath for a moment, and only came back to her senses when she felt a cold touch on her neck.
"Thank you, Officer Lin. I can do it myself."
It was obviously a normal action, but Luo Jingyao didn't know whether it was because the distance between them was closer than usual or for something else, but she only felt the clean scent of plants and trees on the man's body in her breath.
The slightly cold air was very aggressive, and the temperature inside the car seemed to have risen by several degrees.
Lin Jiafan seemed not to hear it and lowered his head to change a few cotton swabs.
After repeated disinfection, Lin Jiafan picked up a piece of gauze and carefully bandaged her with medical tape.
The slightly cool fingers gently rubbed the skin next to Luo Jingyao's wound, causing goose bumps wherever they passed.
After taking his hand back, Lin Jiafan tilted his head slightly, looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, then returned to the driver's seat and began to pack up the medical box.
Luo Jingyao slowly exhaled a breath of foul air, her eyes wandering until she caught a glimpse of the small mirror on the sun visor out of the corner of her eye.
A thick piece of gauze was neatly stuck on her neck, with the medical tape writing a "well" character horizontally and vertically. Those who knew that she had only suffered superficial injuries would probably think that her neck was chopped!
The little bit of romantic thought that had finally arisen in her mind suddenly disappeared, and she silently fastened her seat belt.
It wasn't until the police car left the complex and reached the main road that Luo Jingyao suddenly spoke up, as if remembering something: "How did you suspect Li Rui?"
"It was Brother Guo. After confirming that the murder weapon used by the deceased Yu Wenxin was a wallpaper knife based on the condition of the wound, he extracted some unknown substances from the wound." Lin Jiafan replied casually.
"The laboratory worked overtime to process the substances and found that one of them was tincture of fat, the main component of acrylic glue, which is often used in various tapes and is also called pressure-sensitive adhesive."
Luo Jingyao immediately understood that such a thing would not appear in the victim's wound for no reason. The only possibility was that it was transferred from the murder weapon into the wound.
Wallpaper knife, tape.
Among the people involved in the case who are currently in the police's sight, there is probably only one who is closely related to these two things, and that is Li Rui, who works in courier work.
In fact, Lin Jiafan and the others were not sure at first, and they were thinking of asking around from the landlord Mao Peilan and Li Rui's workplace. However, they did not expect that the incident just now would happen, which directly confirmed their suspicion.
"But why? What is the conflict between Li Rui and Yu Wenxin and Hou Guoan?" Luo Jingyao asked again.
Judging from the information on the surface, the three people have nothing to do with each other. How did a courier, a restaurant owner and a freelancer get entangled with each other?
"Then we have to mention another substance in Yu Wenxin's wound." Lin Jiafan curled his lips.
"Diacetylmorphine, commonly known as heroin."
Drugs? Luo Jingyao was genuinely surprised, but after thinking about it, everything seemed to make sense.
Only such huge benefits could make the murderer so cruel and meticulously plan a bombing after killing Yu Wenxin, which not only caused huge economic losses, but also implicated and killed innocent people.
"So I contacted the Narcotics Control Department again, and now I'm waiting for a reply from them." Lin Jiafan said, turning the steering wheel with his hand and controlling the police car into the compound of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
As soon as the two of them got off the car, the phone in his pocket rang.
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