Chapter 26 Chapter 26 She said you and the little policewoman in the team are good friends...
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Captain Tang is coming!"
"There are wounded!"
"Where's the stretcher? Is there room in the ambulance?"
"Captain Tang! Didn't Xiao Ji and Teacher Lu catch up?"
…
Tang Ci walked out of the heat wave, and before he had time to take a deep breath of the slightly cool air outside, a group of people rushed up and lifted the waiter on their shoulders directly onto a stretcher.
"Xiao Ji and Teacher Lu are still looking for evidence, so I'm leaving first."
He took off his helmet and protective suit, wiped the sweat from his face, and said, "Xiao Wu, hurry up and get him to the hospital with the ambulance. He might know something. Ask him when he wakes up!"
"Okay!" Xiao Wu chased the stretcher and jumped into the car.
The fire chief handed over a teacup of ice water and some evidence he'd found elsewhere. Tang Ci sat down on a curb, recovering his strength while waiting for Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng to emerge.
Two minutes passed, five minutes passed...still no one showed up.
Tang Ci was a little anxious and stood up with his hands on his hips.
At this moment, a loud "bang" was heard from underground, as if the floor was broken and something hit the ground hard, even the blackened marble brick surface above was shaking slightly.
Immediately afterwards, a faint glow of fire began to emerge from the hole in the wall from which he had just climbed out.
In an instant, everyone's movements stopped for two seconds.
"..." Tang Ci reacted immediately and rushed back to the basement without even having time to put on protective clothing and a helmet.
He couldn't just watch Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng being buried underneath!
"——Team Tang!"
"Stop him!"
"Old Tang! Are you trying to kill yourself?"
But everyone was far away, and no one could catch up with his speed!
Just as Tang Ci stepped down the first step, two oily green helmets emerged from under the billowing smoke.
Lu Zheng was in front, forcing aside the last wooden board in front of him, allowing Ji Yinhe, who was protected behind him, to go forward first.
Comrade Xiao Ji raised his dirty face from the dark, sweltering corridor. His eyes, red from cigarette smoke, saw Tang Ci and even greeted him with a playful smile, "Captain Tang! ...Ahem! Ahem!"
"Stop talking!"
“Come up quickly!”
Lu Zheng and Tang Ci's voices rang out at the same time.
“…”
Five minutes later, Ji Yinhe returned to the ground and sat in front of the fried noodle shop, breathing in the fresh and cool air outside.
A young nurse squatted beside her with a medicine box and helped her treat the wound on her hand.
The owner of the fried noodle shop also gave her a bowl of iced mung bean soup as a gift.
Not far away, Tang Ci was looking at Lu Zheng with shock and anger.
"Master Lu, you promised me that you would evacuate in time to protect Xiao Ji... and yourself! Why have you stayed down there for so long? What if the fire breaks out and we're really trapped?"
He shook his head palely, thinking that the person from the provincial department was just a show-off. It would be fine if he just worked on technology in the office, but he shouldn't have brought this person to the scene at all!
Lu Zheng withdrew his gaze without any emotion and did not argue. Instead, he handed all the evidence he had found to him, then turned and walked to the front of the fried noodle shop.
"Ji Yinhe, thank you for what happened just now."
He looked at her intently and seriously, but perhaps he felt that this condescending perspective was a bit cold, so he bent his knees and half-squatted and half-knelt.
The young nurse had finished her work and walked away with the medicine box in a very tactful manner.
Comrade Xiao Ji scratched his forehead. "What's the big deal? We should help each other, right? You even helped me find a water-soaked mask! Besides, I just kicked the wooden board away. You were the one blocking the way all the way back. Otherwise, how could we have gotten out so quickly?"
Lu Zheng smiled with his lips curved.
"Oh, right." Ji Yinhe took out the photo frame she had been protecting the whole time from her pocket and shook it. "Do you want to see what Yu Yexiang wrote together? Su Yiyun was able to keep this photo, and maybe he didn't even notice that there were words behind it!"
"It's possible."
Lu Zheng helped her take the portrait out of the frame and softly read out the words Yu Yexiang left behind:
"Yun'er: I owe you this life. If I could do it again, I would never exchange you for the Su family. I'm leaving now, you have to live well."
The name at the end of the signature had been blurred out. It was obvious that Yu Yexiang shed a big tear when she wrote this.
Ji Yinhe pursed her lips, and a hint of sadness appeared on her face, which should have been happy.
——The evidence is very straightforward. Yu Yexiang is Su Yiyun's biological mother. In order to give her daughter a better life, she swapped two babies in swaddling clothes, allowing Su Yiyun to enjoy a happy and prosperous childhood.
Such maternal love may be touching, but on second thought, Su Yue is so innocent!
Moreover, they destroyed not only the Su family, but also every family whose children she had stolen.
Lu Zheng sighed softly, "Let's hand in this evidence."
Ji Yinhe nodded and stood up, "Captain Tang——"
Tang Ci had just borrowed a mobile phone from the fire department and was frantically calling the traffic police to ask them to stop the car.
Hearing this, he ran over with big strides.
"Teacher Lu and I found solid evidence in the basement that Yu Yexiang is Su Yiyu's mother." Ji Yinhe handed him the photo frame.
Tang Ci stared at the suicide note for two seconds, and the joy that appeared on his face was instantly overwhelmed by anxiety.
He yelled at the person on the cell phone, "What did you say? Without a license plate, can't we just search each car one by one? Don't ask me which direction... Use your toes to figure it out. The suspect has already set a fire, so he must be planning to leave the city!"
"...Su Yiyun's car?"
Ji Yinhe blinked and fluently recited two strings of numbers, adding the model numbers of the sedan and the van. "Teacher Lu and I both saw it last night. It was raining and thundering, and the lightning was incredibly bright. Don't worry, I'm definitely not mistaken."
Tang Ci reported the number to the other party without saying a word.
He put down the cell phone, his eyes showing deep approval.
"As long as we bring the person back, this case will be closed soon!" Captain Tang exhaled, looking up to the sky, "Thanks to you, Xiao Ji..." He glanced at Lu Zheng, who was standing next to him with a calm expression, "Ah, and the help of Teacher Lu--"
"Captain Tang, what are you holding in your hand?" Ji Yinhe's gaze curiously stopped on the half-burnt piece of paper in his hand.
"Oh, Cheng Mo just brought it over. He said it was a photo the firefighters found in the boss's office on the first floor of Lijing. It was pressed under the glass table, so it wasn't burned completely... I haven't had time to look at it yet."
He handed the piece of paper to Ji Yinhe.
It was a large group photo. The flames had burned away most of the words at the top, leaving only the words "Spring outing group photo of a certain university". Below it were dozens of young faces. Standing in the middle of the second row was a girl with a slim figure. It was a pity that her face had been painted black with ink.
"It's Su Yue." Ji Yinhe recognized her at a glance.
Tang Ci nodded and glanced at the upper right row of photos - his fiancée Tan Yaxin was standing there, looking at the camera and smiling.
"... From a psychological perspective, painting someone's face black represents immense resentment and hatred toward that person," Lu Zheng's voice rang out. "But Su Yiyun also put the photo under the table, which shows that she not only hates Su Yue, but also constantly reminds herself that she hates her... I think she might turn this hatred into actual action."
"Oh, Mr. Lu is really knowledgeable." Tang Ci snorted sarcastically.
"From a book." Lu Zheng said lightly, "If Captain Tang has time, he should also read more books."
Tang Ci: “…”
He was already fuming with anger, and could only keep telling himself: I am the captain, I am the captain, I am the captain. Lu Zheng will have to return to the provincial department sooner or later, so there is no point in getting into a fight with him.
“Bang!”
Comrade Xiao Ji suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"Captain Tang, Teacher Lu, I actually think we are very close to the truth. You might as well listen to my story again this time."
She stood up confidently and said as she walked, "Back then, Chu Man and Yu Yexiang gave birth in the same hospital. Yu Yexiang was a human trafficker, and she was attracted by the Su family's conditions, so she swapped Su Yue's child with her own."
"A few years later, Su Yiyun fell ill and was diagnosed with a blood type problem. The Su family then found Su Yue and raised both daughters together."
"There must have been a lot of conflicts in the process, which caused Su Yiyun to be psychologically unbalanced and resentful of Su Yue and the Su family. When they grew up, one of them went to college and fell in love and started a family, while the other returned to her old ways with her mother, a human trafficker."
"Su Yiyun and Yu Yexiang opened this nightclub. On the surface, it was a legitimate business, but they were secretly trafficking children. The dancer Bai Mei discovered something unusual. To silence her, they killed Bai Mei. They could have easily closed the case with suicide... but they didn't expect Bai Mei to pass a note through Su Yue, which caught the attention of our city bureau."
Tang Ci chewed over her words silently, and after a while he said, "You make a lot of sense, but Yu Yexiang committed suicide by poisoning herself to save her daughter, and Su Yiyun burned Li Jing and left at this time... Where could she go? If she just wanted to leave the city, so much time has passed, why haven't the traffic police stopped her car yet?"
"...Yeah, where would she go?"
Ji Yinhe murmured softly, picked up the photo and tried to wipe off the ink on it.
But that layer of black seemed to have been painted countless times and could not be wiped clean at all.
"Captain Tang, Teacher Lu." She frowned slightly. "If I were Su Yiyun, I'd already lost my only family in this world, and I'd be relentlessly pursued by the police. The rest of my time would only be spent doing one thing—"
"Go back to the Su family to seek revenge!"
*
The last ray of dusk fell outside the window of the Su family's small Western-style building.
The living room was so quiet that even breathing could be heard.
Su He and Chu Man looked at Su Yiyu standing under the crystal chandelier in the living room in shock.
She was dressed in black, with dark red lips, and she tilted her chin slightly and clapped her hands behind her.
Heavy footsteps were heard, and Tong An rushed in with his bodyguards. Everyone took out a dagger and a rope. The servants panicked and scattered.
Su Yue and Ding Tongguang were pushed into a corner by Tong An. They didn't say a word. Instead, Tan Yaxin, who happened to be staying temporarily as a guest, screamed loudly: "Who the hell are you! The Su family doesn't owe you a cent. Believe it or not—"
"Shut up!"
Su Yiyun gestured impatiently, and the bodyguard immediately covered her mouth. The only sound in the living room was her sobbing.
Things got so ugly that Su He felt that as the head of the family, he needed to stand up and say a few words.
"Yun'er! Dad... we're so relieved that you could call back, really! We all hope you can come to Yue'er and Tongguang's wedding..."
"oh?"
Su Yiyun slowly walked to Su Yue's side, staring at her pretty face, "Do you want me to come?"
Without waiting for her answer, he turned his gaze to Ding Tongguang, "Does your fiancé want me to come?"
Ding Tongguang murmured, "Of course we all—"
Su Yiyun interrupted him with a harsh sneer, "That's right, after all, you went to Lijing to see me at midnight yesterday. We have such a close relationship, how could I not attend your wedding?"
Su He and Chu Man, who were still unaware of the situation, cried out in unison: "Tong Guang—!"
Ding Tongguang's lips trembled. "Dad, Mom, Xiaoyue, I can explain everything. Don't listen to her. She just wants to sow discord..."
At this moment, Tan Yaxin on the other side of the living room took advantage of the bodyguard's distraction, opened her mouth wide and bit his finger, her sharp fangs digging straight into his flesh.
The bodyguard screamed "Ah!" and shook his hand again and again before he pulled it out of her mouth.
"Su Yiyun, you're not from Lijing Nightclub, are you?!" Tan Yaxin shouted. "I heard Xiaoyue was almost raped in the nightclub! And a dancer jumped to her death, and it was disguised as suicide! ... It must be you!"
Chu Man looked at her own daughter in disbelief, "Yue'er, why didn't you tell us about such a big accident? Does Tongguang know about this?"
Su He's face was pale, and he stared at Su Yiyu with fear, as if he couldn't believe that this was the daughter he had raised until she was eighteen years old and treated as his own.
"Mom, I'm fine. That man didn't succeed. I didn't tell you because I didn't want to worry you." Su Yue replied calmly, "But the dancer who helped me escape that night must have been forced to death by them."
Su Yiyun just stared at his former parents with a cold expression and did not deny it.
"Listen, my fiancé is Tang Ci, the captain of the Municipal Bureau's Serious Crime Squad!" Tan Yaxin furtively reached for the pager at her waist, but was slapped away by the quick-witted bodyguard. "If he finds out I'm not home, he'll definitely come looking for me—stay here and don't leave!"
"...Tang Ci?" Su Yiyun turned around, suddenly interested in the name. "The tall one, right? Is he your fiancé?"
Tan Yaxin stiffened her neck and said stubbornly, "Yes!"
Su Yiyun pouted slightly and shook her head, "Why are you like your little sister, choosing such a philandering man as your partner!"
Tan Yaxin's expression changed. "What do you mean?"
"The way Captain Tang looks at his young policewoman... is quite unusual."
Tan Yaxin was furious. "You're talking nonsense! I'll call him over right now and let's talk it out. He'll definitely stand by me and come to save me!"
"It's so noisy."
Su Yiyun took out a roll of tape from under the chest of drawers with ease, walked up to Tan Yaxin in high-heeled leather boots, and taped her mouth shut.
“…@#￥%&…”
Tan Yaxin's eyes were as big as copper bells, and she wished she could burn a hole in Su Yiyun.
But the other person put down the tape, patted her little face lovingly, turned around and sat back on the sofa in the middle of the living room.
"Su Yue, you're so lucky. There's always someone standing up for you." Su Yiyun folded his legs and shook his head regretfully. "Tell me, if I had gone to college, would I have had several girls with such a good relationship?"
"——Enough!" Su He shouted, finally showing the ruthlessness he had shown in the business world after years of killing people. "What do you want?"
A calm voice sounded, "I want to take back everything I should have, the life I had before Su Yue appeared."
"But Yue'er is my biological daughter, we can't just disown her..." Chu Man said with tears in her eyes, "And after we found her, we never thought of sending you back!"
"What's the point of telling her this now!" Su He stopped his wife, "She's just an ungrateful person... Just like her mother, she has evil blood in her bones!"
Su Yiyun listened to their words quietly, with a sneer on his face becoming more and more intense.
Su He looked at her indifferently, "As long as you don't destroy Yue'er's marriage, you can ask for as much money as you want. I can afford it!"
"……money?"
Su Yiyun was stunned for two seconds, then burst into laughter, "Tong An, tell them how much I earned!"
"Mr. Su, the money in Miss Yun's account is enough to buy your company." Tong An added politely, "She can buy at least two more of the same size."
“…” Su He was choked.
Chu Man asked in confusion, "Kid, what on earth did you do? You didn't get involved in pornography, gambling, or drugs, did you?"
"Oh, not really." Su Yiyun smiled faintly, "I just upgraded my mother's business and started making money from foreigners."
Su Yue, who had remained silent throughout the entire process, asked in a trembling voice, "Did you sell those stolen children to foreigners?"
Su Yiyun raised his eyebrows, "Why? You want to go too?"
Su Yue took a deep breath. "Su Yiyun, you know, those people... they may not really want a child. Many of them just want to satisfy their own distorted ideas, or even... even more distorted desires!!"
"What does it have to do with me?" Su Yiyun shrugged. "Who else could have a worse life than me? ... I lost everything in my life because of you! My mother sent me away, my family abandoned me, and my childhood sweetheart is marrying you... I've got tons of money, but there's no one in this world who cares about me anymore!"
"Don't talk nonsense! I'm not your childhood sweetheart!"
Ding Tongguang grabbed Su Yue's hand and argued anxiously, "Xiaoyue, believe me, she and I were just acquaintances before. After so many years, you should know my true feelings!"
Su Yiyun rolled his eyes, took out a few photos from his leather jacket pocket, and waved them in front of Su Yue.
"Come! Look! This is your dear fiancé! Every time he comes to Lijing, he orders at least three hostesses and insists I take his picture... He also told me that you're like a puppet, boring as hell, unable to move or make a sound in bed, and even more unwilling to use your right hand, which was broken and then reattached, to help him have fun—!"
Su He, Chu Man and Tan Yaxin were all shocked. It turned out that Ding Tongguang, who looked honest, was actually so extravagant in private!
Su Yue, the person involved, remained calm.
"Stop talking!" Ding Tongguang knelt down with a thud. "Xiaoyue, I don't want that. She's just using her tragic experience to gain my sympathy, and I just feel sorry for her... I'm only sincere to you! I only love you!"
The western-style building was completely silent. Besides Tan Yaxin's intermittent sobbing, Su Yiyu's heavy sneer could be heard.
"...You're such a talker, Ding Tongguang! How come I didn't realize you were so flexible? Do you dare to tell them how much money you took from me? Who bought your graduate degree for you? Without me, would you be able to join Su He's company?"
Ding Tongguang's upper body tilted and he collapsed to the ground, his whole body shaking.
Su He and Chu Man were stunned by the continuous news, staring at their carefully selected son-in-law with numb expressions.
Su Yiyun laughed triumphantly, "Su Yue, it seems that you are not better than me in everything. At least I have met someone who truly loves me and is willing to go through fire and water for me."
Tong An took a step forward and bowed to the stunned Su family.
He was wearing a dark green velvet vest, which was obviously a gift from Su Yiyun. It was very expensive and sparkled under the crystal chandelier.
"Okay, I'm tired of talking too." Su Yiyun took out an exquisite and beautiful dagger from his pocket and threw it to Ding Tongguang on the ground with a "clang".
"Look, now it's your turn to show your loyalty. Either kill these people, or I'll let Tong An kill you... Choose one."
"You—!" Ding Tongguang raised his head in fear, "I've never killed anyone!"
Su Yiyun groaned, "Things like this always get better the second time. Anyway, we've already come to this point. You can't be the son-in-law of the Su family anymore... My advice to you is, don't hesitate, get rid of them quickly, otherwise if you expose this mess of yours, how can you still survive in Jiangtan?"
Ding Tongguang gritted his teeth and struggled to get up from the ground.
Su Yue watched him grab the dagger and slowly walk towards her.
The lover who once shared the same bed and whispered in each other's ears now put the cold and sharp blade against his neck.
"Tongguang, don't..." She couldn't help but shiver slightly, and her back was completely wet.
“Ding Tongguang——!”
Su He, Chu Man and Tan Yaxin kept struggling and shouting. Su Yiyu smiled and made a gesture, and the well-trained bodyguards immediately locked everyone's throats.
There was an icy chill in the depths of Ding Tongguang's eyes, and the strength in his hands increased little by little.
"Xiaoyue, I'll burn some paper for you." He whispered softly in her ear, "Don't hate me when you get down there. You can only blame your bad luck."
Su Yue closed her eyes, and tears as big as beans kept falling down.
However, just when she thought there was no room for maneuver, she heard a loud "bang" and the door of the small western-style building was suddenly kicked open from the outside!
“Don’t move!!”
"Put the knife down!"
"Hands up!"
More than a dozen policemen in military green uniforms rushed in like a tide, accompanied by red and blue lights. Ding Tongguang was so scared by the scene that he wet his pants, and the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.
Ji Yinhe was following the team. Seeing this, he quickly ran to Su Yue, kicked Ding Tongguang to the ground, and picked up the weapon on the ground.
"Are you okay?"
Su Yue shook her head, there was only a tiny scar on her fair skin.
The bodyguards who wanted to take the opportunity to escape have all been controlled by the police. Su Hechuman crawled to her daughter with trembling legs, and the three of them hugged each other and cried loudly.
The doctor trotted in carrying a tool box, and Ji Yinhe led them to the next room for examination.
Under the crystal chandelier, Su Yiyu sat motionless, maintaining an elegant posture, looking at everything in front of him with an expressionless face.
Tang Ci walked to the sofa, took out metal handcuffs, and slammed them heavily on her wrists.
"Su Yiyun, you are suspected of child trafficking, killing Bai Mei, and setting fire to destroy evidence. Come back with us—"
"It's not her!" Tong An, whose head was held down by Xiao Wu, suddenly yelled, "It's me, I did it all, it has nothing to do with her!"
Su Yiyun's shoulders suddenly shook.
"Miss Yun, I'm sorry for you!" Tong An let out a strange smile. "I shouldn't have done business with Manager Yu behind your back. I was the one who pushed Bai Mei down! Police comrades, just arrest me. Miss Yun is innocent!"
Su Yiyun stared at him with a pale face, "..."
"—— Stop talking, let's go back to the Municipal Bureau and explain!" Tang Ci interrupted impatiently, signaling everyone to pack up and go back for interrogation.
He pushed Su Yiyu towards the Su family's gate. Suddenly, a figure rushed out from the corner and hugged him tightly from behind, which scared him.
"Aci!" Tan Yaxin sobbed loudly, "That woman is so evil! She hurt Xiaoyue and even had someone tape my mouth shut! She also said...she said you were dating the pretty policewoman on the team!"
It was no secret that Captain Tang had a fiancée working in the Municipal Bureau. When these words came out, everyone present had strange expressions on their faces and looked at Ji Yinhe who had just moved to another room to comfort the Su family.
As we all know, there is only one female police officer in the Serious Crime Squad.
That’s Comrade Xiao Ji, who just arrived not long ago.
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