Chapter 86: We all did the same thing. Eighty red envelopes
The moment the door was closed, tears began to fall uncontrollably.
Looking at the cigarette butts in the ashtray on the coffee table, I felt very uncomfortable and squatted down by the wall.
Jiang Ruohe, what did I do wrong that you have to treat me like this?
After a while, I staggered to the bed and sat down, quietly looking at the closed door.
I wiped the tears from my face, calmed myself down, got up, changed into a cotton coat, tidied up the room, and went downstairs.
When Aunt Liu saw me coming down, she was stunned for a moment. Seeing my expression, she then sighed.
I sat next to Liu Ma feeling a little lonely, and we were both silent for a while.
I looked up at the time. It was two o'clock in the afternoon. I turned to look at Aunt Liu and asked her to help her go upstairs to rest. This time, Aunt Liu did not refuse.
After sending Aunt Liu upstairs, I turned back and sat on the sofa, feeling a little bored. It was still a little early to make dinner, so I thought about Han Liang in the basement.
I wasn't in a very good mood right now, feeling a little depressed. Coincidentally, he's a psychologist. Talking to him helped ease my mood.
I got up and went down to the basement. When I entered the room, Han Liang was standing in the room with his back to me, talking on the phone.
"I don't agree with Lao Han's lure operation this time. The other party is really too powerful. Don't forget, he has a master's degree in psychology and has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. The last time I went there, I underestimated him. I had already alerted the enemy. We can't act rashly again."
I stared at Han Liang's back. It seemed that the case he was investigating was definitely a big one. I walked slowly to the bedside and saw an open document on the table. I glanced at it casually and stood there in a daze.
"Xiaowan." Han Liang noticed me after he hung up the phone. He hurried over and closed the document on his table.
I came back to my senses and looked at him apologetically.
"I'm sorry, I saw something I shouldn't have seen, but I don't understand. This man clearly had cancer and committed suicide by jumping off a building. I saw him fall to the ground with my own eyes."
Yan Yun had investigated this matter. The man had cancer at the time and later quarreled with his wife about money. He hit his wife out of emotional excitement. His wife was so angry that she said she would not give him treatment.
In fact, his wife left the hospital to collect medical expenses. The man waited until the evening but his wife did not come, so he thought that his wife really would not spend money on his treatment. In addition, he also knew that there was little hope of survival for a disease like cancer, so he went to the roof of the hospital and jumped off the building to commit suicide.
"How come you consider it a criminal case?" I asked, puzzled.
Han Liang looked at me.
"Xiao Wan, since you also know that this is something you shouldn't look at, you shouldn't ask so many questions."
Indeed, this is a police secret and it doesn’t seem to have much to do with me. I apologized again.
"I'm just curious."
Han Liang put the document under his pillow and lay on his side on the bed.
"Sometimes curiosity really does kill the cat."
"Xiao Wan, it's better for you to know less."
I nodded.
Han Liang turned his head and looked at me.
"Didn't you come back last night?"
I moved the chair and sat down, looking at Han Liang depressedly, and asked why he and Yan Yun were both asking about this matter.
"Could it be that it was Aunt Liu who said that again?" There was more suspicion in my eyes.
Han Liang nodded and said that it was indeed what Liu Ma said.
"Yan Yun came over last night and wanted to talk to you about something, but Aunt Liu said you didn't come back and went to your boyfriend's house."
"Are you together?" Han Liang looked somewhere and asked abruptly.
I lowered my head and shook it.
"Last night, I was going to break up with him, but I got sick with a fever. Plus, I saw something and my boyfriend misunderstood me. He also found out some things unexpectedly, so in the end, I didn't say the word 'break up'."
"So you're not together?" Han Liang asked me quickly.
"Really not."
After answering, I looked up at him.
"When did you become so gossipy? You're an undercover police officer after all."
Han Liang looked somewhere and smiled again, then turned back to look at me.
"I'm a psychiatrist too, so I have to ask you what you really think."
When I mentioned this, a trace of sadness flashed across my eyes. I really don’t know what I’m thinking now. I feel like I’m taking one step at a time.
"I've been really conflicted lately. I've never been so lost before. I hate myself for being so wavering. Last time you counseled me, I thought I could let it go, but..."
But every time that person appeared in front of me, even though I tried to tell myself not to let my heart be disturbed, every word and every look of that person could hurt my heart.
Han Liang sat up from the hospital bed and patted my shoulder.
"Actually, you don't need my guidance. This symptom will go away after a while."
I looked up at Han Liang in disbelief, a little confused, and asked if this was true or false?
"Really? Why would I lie to you?"
Han Liang took out his psychologist certificate again.
"I guarantee with this certificate that you won't be so troubled anytime soon."
I said, I hope so.
I looked at the time and it was 4:30 in the afternoon. I said I had to go upstairs to cook and would bring him food down later.
After I finished cooking, I helped Liu Ma down. Liu Ma looked at me apologetically and said that she was really embarrassed to ask me to take care of her.
"What's the big deal? You eat first. I'll go downstairs and bring food to Han Liang."
When I entered the basement, Han Liang was on the phone again. He looked up at me and said to the other party, let's arrange it this way.
"Even though I don't quite agree, I still support you."
Han Liang hung up the phone and asked me what I was cooking.
"Stir-fried pork with green peppers, pork rib soup, and some vegetables."
"Hey, come here and let me taste it."
After tasting it, Han Liang said that what I cooked was quite good.
"Xiao Wan, I think I can eat two bowls. Please go upstairs and help me get another bowl."
I have to say that Han Liang has a big appetite. What I took was equivalent to two portions of what I usually eat. If he ordered another big bowl, that would be four portions.
"How about this, I'll ask Aunt Liu to cook more meals for you next time."
"No, no, no, just tonight. I'm a little hungry."
I turned around and went upstairs, served another portion to Han Liang, and then came up to eat.
When I went down to the basement again, Han Liang had actually finished the two bowls of rice. Lying on the hospital bed, Han Liang patted his stomach and said he was really full.
I put the dishes away. After washing the dishes, I looked at the time. It was six o'clock in the evening. I felt a little bored at home. Thinking that the oil and salt at home were almost gone, I decided to go to the supermarket and buy some daily necessities.
I went to a nearby shopping mall and while picking out daily necessities, I ran into Jiang Yichen. Jiang Yichen was accompanied by a man who looked very shy and honest.
"Xiao Wan, this is my boyfriend Chen Dong."
"This is my friend Yu Xiaowan."
The three of us talked for a while, and then went to pay the bill together. When we came out, Jiang Yichen said he would drive me home.
"No thanks. It's only a ten-minute walk home."
"But you're carrying so many things, it'll be tiring to walk back, so I'd better take you there."
As soon as Jiang Yichen finished speaking, the phone rang.
"Wait a minute, I have to take a call first."
After Jiang Yichen answered the phone, her expression changed immediately. After hanging up, she looked at me apologetically and said that she had something to do and had to leave first.
Seeing that she was anxious, I asked her what happened.
Jiang Yichen nodded.
"My mother is in trouble. I have to rush to North City. Chen Dong, take these things back. I have to leave first."
Chen Dong nodded and agreed, asking Jiang Yichen to drive more carefully.
Watching Jiang Yichen drive away, he didn't know what happened to Jiang Ting that made Jiang Yichen so anxious.
I was walking home alone, carrying my things, and at this moment I was still very confused and bewildered.
No matter how much I didn't want to see him or how cautious I was, Jiang Ruohe's cold face would still pop into my mind from time to time, and my heart would ache.
Suddenly, I heard a burst of urgent sirens. I stopped and looked at the middle of the road in confusion. Is something big going to happen?
Suddenly, I heard the sounds of hurried running and chasing in the alley behind me. As soon as I turned around, I saw a man running towards me, followed by several people.
When I saw the man in front of me clearly, I was stunned. Isn't this the fake beggar who stabbed Caiqing and me at noon? How come he came out so quickly?
Could it be jailbreak?
The man saw me clearly, a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes, and he rushed towards me. I dropped the bag and turned around to run, but I was not as fast as him. He quickly grabbed me, strangled my neck with one hand, and soon a fruit knife was put on my neck. He was exuding anger.
Soon, the police car on the roadside was behind the man. The man stood behind me, controlling me. I turned to look at the police officers who got out of the car. I saw Yan Yun with my sharp eyes. The people chasing from the alley and Yan Yun's men raised their guns at the same time. It seemed that the group chasing from the alley were plainclothes.
"Huang Ping, put the knife down. I promise we won't hurt you."
"If you don't let me go, do you think I'm stupid? It was because of her that I was arrested and beaten by you. You all want to kill me."
"Wake up, we didn't touch you." Yan Yun said hurriedly.
"You're talking nonsense! You broke my left hand. The pain is worse than death."
I was stunned for a moment. His left hand was clasping my shoulder intactly. There was no scar on his hand or face. I also believed in Yan Yun's character.
However, the man's face was sweating, he was enduring it, and his body was shaking violently. He looked as if he was really enduring great pain.
"Don't come over here. I'm just pretending to be a beggar to cheat some money, but you all want me dead. Since you won't give me a way to live, I have to take someone with me when I die."
Huang Ping increased the strength in his hand and pressed it hard on my neck. I frowned and looked at Huang Ping. Now that I was a hostage, the only thing I had to do was to stay calm and not panic.
"Huang Ping, calm down. Those were all hallucinations. We promise not to hurt you and we will definitely let you go."
Yan Yun was a little anxious at this moment, and said something to the person next to him. The person next to him immediately took out his mobile phone and called someone.
Huang Ping shook his head and looked at Yan Yun again, telling Yan Yun's men to let go quickly, otherwise he would really kill him.
Yan Yun looked at me anxiously, then looked at Huang Ping, made a gesture, and made way for him.
"Don't worry, I told you we will definitely let you go."
Huang Ping held my neck and walked towards the police car. Halfway through, Huang Ping stopped, staring at a certain place, as if he saw something, and suddenly looked at Yan Yun fiercely.
"You liars, you kept saying you were going to let me go, but you ended up arresting my mom and beating her up."
Huang Yun pulled me back a few steps.
"You liars," he roared.
At this time, I finally understood that Huang Ping saw some hallucinations for some unknown reason, and we had no way of knowing what he saw.
Even if Yan Yun and the others released Huang Ping, he would still be enraged by those hallucinations and hurt others. The knife in his hand had already cut my neck. I frowned in pain.
"Huang Yun, tell me what you saw?" Yan Yun asked hurriedly.
"You locked my mother in a dark room and beat her with sticks. My mother vomited blood because of you." Huang Ping became more and more agitated.
"We were just acting." Yan Yun said hurriedly.
"Acting? Even after being beaten like that, you're still acting?"
"Of course, we are shooting a promotional video and specially invited your mother. The blood is ketchup." Yan Yun observed Huang Ping and said carefully.
"Think about it, your mother is such a kind old woman, how could we possibly hit her? Huang Ping, look into my eyes."
Huang Ping subconsciously looked at Yan Yun.
"Did you see? The show was over, and a few of us helped your mother up. She wiped the ketchup off her face and happily sat down on a chair. She even said she was looking forward to you coming home for dinner."
Yan Yun was slowly seducing Huang Ping. Yan Yun's words made Huang Ping's tense body gradually relax, and the hand that was trapping me also loosened a little.
I know that at this critical moment, I must not let my guard down, I need to remain calm, and not easily anger Huang Ping, otherwise, it is very likely that all my efforts will fail.
Yan Yun looked at me, sighed, and signaled me to wait for his instructions.
"Huang Ping, look, she's sitting in the house, anxiously waiting for you to come back. We're all waiting for you."
At this moment, Huang Ping came back to his senses and looked at Yan Yun.
"Officer Yan, I remember now. When I just came out, there was someone..."
Huang Ping hadn't finished speaking when I felt his hand loosen, and then he fell to the ground with a thud. Seeing the panic on Yan Yun and the others' faces, I quickly turned around and saw that Huang Yun had been shot in the forehead with a sniper rifle.
"Seal off the scene."
Yan Yun said this in panic, looked around, and stared at a nearby tall building.
"Go to the Tanhai Hotel and search for guests staying on floors three through six."
Before leaving, Yan Yun glanced at me, walked quickly towards me, looked at the wound on my neck, and told me to get in the police car first, and a doctor would come to bandage me later. He called a police officer to accompany me, and he led the others to the Tan Hai Hotel.
After a while, a doctor came. He opened the car door and got in. He looked at the wound on my neck and asked me what happened to my previous injury.
"I was also scratched by this guy with a knife."
The doctor didn't ask any more questions and quickly treated my wound. After the doctor left, I opened the car door and got out. A police officer standing by looked at me.
"Miss Yu, our officer Yan told you not to go anywhere."
I glanced at the hotel Yan was heading towards, nodded, and sat quietly in the police car.
After waiting for half an hour, Yan Yun and his team finally returned. Their faces were not very good, and it seemed that they had not caught the suspect. Yan Yun stopped by the roadside, punched a tree by the roadside, and looked annoyed.
After a while, Han Liang hurried over, wearing a baseball cap. I felt like I had seen this style of baseball cap somewhere before.
Han Liang took a look at Huang Ping who was lying on the ground. Huang Ping was now covered with a cloth. He looked up and walked towards Yan Yun who was standing beside him.
"See, I told you, this method of luring the snake out of its hole won't work on him. He's highly intelligent, has a Master's degree in psychology, and has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. We really can't act rashly."
"If it was really so easy to catch him, I would have caught him long ago, but what happened? I almost stabbed myself to death." Han Liang looked at Yan Yun with some blame.
"But it's obviously him, but we don't have any useful evidence." Yan Yun looked at Han Liang dejectedly.
"I'm really unwilling to accept this. I really want to get rid of such extreme people." Yan Yun said discouragedly.
"Yan Yun, remember what you are wearing. You have your responsibilities. He Jiang..." Han Liang suddenly noticed me in the police car and stopped talking.
"Why can't you be patient a little longer?" Han Liang patted Yan Yun's shoulder.
The two of them whispered something again, but I didn't hear clearly.
After a while, Han Liang looked at Yan Yun.
"I can't go out these few days, and I can't send Xiaowan back. I have to go first. You send Xiaowan back."
Han Liang glanced at me, pulled his baseball cap down and walked away.
Yan Yun stood there in deep thought for a while, then looked up at the man walking towards me, looking at me with some apology.
"I scared you."
I came back to my senses by looking in the direction Han Liang left, looked at Yan Yun, and said it was okay.
"Let me take you back."
I nodded and said yes. Suddenly I remembered that I had left the bag at the entrance of the alley. It was the daily necessities I had just bought. I hurriedly opened the car door and said I had to pick up the bag.
I ran over quickly, bent down and picked up the bag. When I looked up, I suddenly felt a strange gaze. I looked up at the dim alley and found a dark shadow standing at the end of the alley. I don’t know if it was because of the distance, but when I opened my eyes again, I found that the dark shadow was gone.
Yan Yun came over and asked me what was wrong?
I turned to look at Yan Yun, pointed at the alley, and said that there seemed to be a dark shadow standing there just now.
Yan Yun was stunned and his face darkened.
"Oh no, Han Liang is in danger."
Yan Yun hurriedly took a few people and followed the direction Han Liang left. When I heard that Han Liang was in danger, I also hurried to chase him. When I arrived, I saw Han Liang kneeling on the ground with a painful look on his face, as if he had been shot in the leg.
"He was also shot and ran over there. You should take people to chase him quickly." Han Liang looked up at Yan Yun.
Yan Yun called a policeman and asked him to take Han Liang and me back, and he took people to chase them.
I hurried over and helped Han Liang into the car with the policeman.
Han Liang was lying in the back of the car. I sat next to him, took out my cell phone and called Liu Ma, asking her to quickly call Jiang Ruohe's private doctor and ask him to come home.
After hanging up the phone, I turned around and looked at Han Liang worriedly. Han Liang was lying on the back seat. He reached out and pulled out a bullet from his heart, put it in a small bag, and threw it to the police officer driving in front.
"Luckily I was wearing a bulletproof vest, otherwise I would have been dead right now."
"I told Lao Han and Yan Yun not to be impulsive, but they refused to listen."
The policeman glanced at Han Liang in the rearview mirror.
"Our Han is worried about you. When you were injured, Han was so heartbroken that he didn't even dare to tell your mother that you had returned to South City. That's why Han and Brother Yan want to solve this case as soon as possible."
It was only at this time that I learned that Han Liang was actually Han Suo's son and a fellow apprentice of Yan Yun. He had been working in Qingcheng before and was transferred back not long ago.
Just then, the policeman's cell phone rang. The policeman took a look and threw his phone to Han Liang.
"Your dad's phone call."
Han Liang glanced at the phone and picked it up with some displeasure.
"I told you not to act rashly. Look, such a big thing has happened."
"Yeah. You arrange for the family of the deceased. It's okay. I was wearing a bulletproof vest. I was just shot in the calf. Yeah, he was also injured, but not me. I didn't have time to draw my gun." Han Liang suddenly turned his head and looked at me.
"It was the people Yan Yun arranged to protect me who fired the gun. Old Han, I'll tell you the details later."
"Yeah, you must hold it in. Don't tell Mom that I'm back. If she knew I was hurt, she would definitely cry to death. Yeah, I know. I will take good care of myself."
The police sent Han Liang and me back home. We helped Han Liang into the basement and let him lie on the bed.
After waiting for a few minutes, the doctor came with his assistant and pushed Han Liang into the inner room. He planned to perform surgery to remove the bullet from Han Liang's calf.
The accompanying police officer answered a phone call and looked up at me.
"Miss Yu, I have to go back to the station. I'll leave Brother Han to you."
I nodded and waited for Han Liang. After half an hour, the doctor pushed the unconscious Han Liang out.
"The bullet has been removed. He will wake up after the anesthetic wears off."
"Thank you, doctor."
I sent the doctor upstairs, thinking that Han Liang might wake up, and carried the supplies I bought into the kitchen. After putting the kitchen supplies away, I was about to carry the remaining daily necessities upstairs.
After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and remembered what he had seen at Han Liang's place before. The person who fell from the building and the fake beggar today seemed to be related.
He turned around and threw the bag on the sofa, opened the basement door, quickly walked down the stairs and into the basement.
Han Liang was still asleep at the moment, so I cautiously walked over to him, reached under his pillow, and pulled out the document.
I looked at the closed document, my eyes struggling for a few seconds.
In order to confirm whether my guess was correct, I glanced at Han Liang and murmured "I'm sorry."
I opened the file and found information on more than a dozen people, both men and women, young and old.
I counted and found information on fourteen people in total. Ten of them committed suicide, three were seriously injured, and the other one was Han Liang. I was stunned for a moment and looked up at Han Liang with a puzzled look.
I hurriedly looked through the column of causes of death for those ten people. The first one was falling from a building, which I saw with my own eyes. Others were hanging, jumping into a river, and some committed suicide by swallowing pills.
The three seriously injured people were all missing arms and legs, which was also caused by failed suicide attempts.
All fourteen documents were labeled as criminal cases.
I looked up at Han Liang again. Could it be that all these suicides were murdered? It was just that Han Liang ran fast last time, otherwise he would have stabbed himself to death.
I quickly browsed through the information and sat down on the ground in a limp state.
It seems that my guess was right. These thirteen people, plus Han Liang, all did the same thing before the accident.
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