Suddenly, Yan Xie's expression went blank, and he seemed to have forgotten how to react. He could only stare at the screen directly. The wandering voices on the computer were particularly harsh and clear in the ear.
Jiang Ting looked at his stunned expression, and let out an almost inaudible breath after a while.
It was hard to tell if the breath was of relief or a sigh. The base of his tongue felt a little bitter, so he ate half of the dumpling that had just been bitten. Swallowing all the complicated and indescribable emotions with the half dumpling, he gently put down the bowl and chopsticks.
Men——this thought suddenly popped into his mind.
Immediately afterward, Yan Xie's voice sounded: "This man's figure is not bad."
Jiang Ting: "?"
Yan Xie touched his chin and said with a smile: "But the actor below is not very professional. His skin is not very good, his expression is a bit pretentious, and his face is far worse than yours. Generally speaking, the camera and post-production are okay. It can get 75 out of 100 at most, and this score is for the hard work put in by our anti-pornography team, who put these kinds of things in the warehouse to catch dust so that it can never be seen or spread by the people in the city bureau."
The air froze for a while, and Jiang Ting finally asked, "…What did you say?"
Yan Xie replied, "Have you never been to the local police station before?"
"..."
"If you have worked at the local police station for four years as I did, then you could have seen all kinds of weird things. There was a time when several suspects in the detention center dried wood near a raging fire[1] in the middle of the night. Not to mention, at that time to eradicate pornography and illegal publications, just how many chickens and ducks[2] were caught together. The police kicked the door and rushed into a room full of men and women with their bare buttocks partying… Later, when I got to the city bureau, it was even worse. There were abundant high-definition resources with the anti-pornography team next door. Occasionally people from the bureau found that the plot is good or the protagonist is particularly beautiful, so everyone would take the hard drive to copy it. But compared to you, I never take these things seriously."
Saying Yan Xie smiled and teased him:
"But you, Captain Jiang—you are so skilled in finding out boy-boy movies, shouldn't you explain something?"
"….." Jiang Ting kept his mouth shut and didn't utter a single word under his intense gaze.
He was still as expressionless as ever, but if one looked closely, one would be able to see that the lines on his forehead were a little tight, as if he was forcibly suppressing the corners of his eyes from twitching.
Yan Xie's smile deepened. He slowly turned the computer screen to him, and at the same time leaned closer, almost touching Jiang Ting's cheek, and asked with a smile,
"——I'm done with my review, what about yours?"
Jiang Ting finally reached out his hand, as if trying to close the computer.
But as soon as his fingertips touched the monitor, Yan Xie grabbed his hand before he could exert any force. Jiang Ting broke free and leaned back, and Yan Xie also leaned forward, the sofa made both of them lose their balance, and the two fell into the soft cushions at the same time.
With a snap, the computer was closed, the passionate sound that made one feel like they were sitting on needles finally stopped abruptly, and the living room returned to silence.
Jiang Ting was lying on his back, and Yan Xie was half-pressed on top of him. The two of them were only a few inches apart, looking at each other.
This silence seemed to be more embarrassing than the sound of the moaning just now, but Yan Xie didn't feel it. He placed his left and right elbows against Jiang Ting's ears, pressing Jiang Ting warmly into the depths of the sofa, and traced his hair, forehead, eyelashes, nose bridge, and even lips with his eyes. After a long time, he lowered his head, the lips of the two were almost touching, but he asked, "Can I kiss you?"
Jiang Ting didn't move at all, and the muscles of his whole body were tense.
He could feel Yan Xie's muscles gradually hardening, bringing heat and pressure that could not be ignored.
"Just a kiss," Yan Xie said softly. He grabbed Jiang Ting's hand, probed downward, and gently stopped on his abdomen, guiding him through the thin layer of fabric to touch his abdominal muscles, which were still very clear and ferocious like a knife edge.
Jiang Ting's fingertips shook like he got an electric shock.
"Or you can kiss me," Yan Xie said with a smile in his voice, "If you don't mind the smell of pickled cabbage from Laotan."
Jiang Ting turned his head slightly towards the back of the sofa, but because it was too cramped, he couldn't even finish this action before he was caught by Yan Xie. Yan Xie lowered his head and kissed the lips that were always cold and pursed.
"..."
Unlike the fierce kiss in Jiangyang County Hospital, this kiss was lingering and warm, like lips and tongues playing with each other calmly, fully enjoying each other's temperature.
Yan Xie's hand resting on the sofa reached into the back of Jiang Ting's head, and as the kiss deepened, his fingers rubbed his freshly washed black hair which was dry and soft, as if through this small gesture he conveyed a kind of forbearance, patience, and deep affection.
Time swirled and raised, dancing lightly with the lights, passing through the colorful glass windows, and flying farther away to the vast and quiet night sky.
"Jiang Ting…" Yan Xie whispered.
"..."
"You just really like me, don't you? You recognized me right away when you saw me on KTV, right?"
Jiang Ting remained silent, his cheeks tensed.
It was as if the emotions would pour out like a floodgate just by relaxing a little.
Yan Xie laughed silently, he kissed the side of his face and his cold chin, his lips extended to his neck along the line of his jawbone, and fell intimately to the side of his neck and even his throat. When he kissed the deep concave part of his collarbone, he finally felt Jiang Ting suddenly pull out his hand, the fingertips were unexpectedly hot, and he pressed it a little hastily on his lips.
In such a close-knit posture, pushing and rejecting was not like pushing and rejecting, and pandering was not pandering, but it gives people an illusion of entanglement and inseparability.
"What are you thinking?" Yan Xie asked vaguely with a smile.
"..." Jiang Ting finally opened his mouth, his lips were red from the kiss, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "Your birthday is coming soon, don't you want your gift?"
"Oh? What present do you want to give me?"
"Inflatable doll[3], large sized."
Yan Xie buried his head in his neck and laughed.
Jiang Ting tried to push him away, but Yan Xie was unwilling to get up. During their struggle, Yan Xie's clothes were lifted, and the fold of Jiang Ting's snow-white bathrobe that had piled up on his shoulders also slid down.
"Just one more kiss."
"No."
"Just one."
"No."
"I usually work really hard to handle cases…"
"Rest early if you work hard."
"Let's rest together…"
Jiang Ting wanted to get off the sofa, but Yan Xie pushed him onto the sofa. The small fight lasted for a long time in the limited space, and Yan Xie finally compromised with regret: "Then you at least——"
Jiang Ting finally caught the gap, pushed Yan Xie halfway up, and propped the upper half of his body from the shackles.
Yan Xie's position was higher than Jiang Ting's. At this time, he just lowered his head, and suddenly caught a glimpse of something along the front of his clothes that had slipped down, and his eyes suddenly froze!
"No, at least," Jiang Ting sat up laboriously, "Go to bed, good night."
Yan Xie couldn't speak for a moment, his brain seemed to be frozen, and the temperature of his internal organs fell sharply because of the heavy ice. During the stalemate that lasted no more than two seconds, Jiang Ting was already leaning on the edge of the coffee table with one hand, pulling himself out as hard as if pulling a radish, almost knocking over the hot potato-like computer. He hurriedly staggered to avoid it, then bypassed the sofa and hurriedly got into his guest bedroom.
Click.
The sound of the door closing sounded, and Yan Xie suddenly came back to his senses.
"…huh, huh…"
He didn't realize that he was gasping for breath, he slowly rolled over and sat on the sofa, his violently beating heart finally falling back from his throat to his chest. He couldn't help thinking: "I didn't show anything strange just now, did I?"
——There should be none, or even if there was, for Jiang Ting, who was inattentive in that state, it would be very difficult to find.
Yan Xie closed his eyes, but he couldn't hold back his rapidly rising and falling chest. The scene from just a few minutes ago flashed back in his mind like a scene replay — it was Jiang Ting's clothes that slipped down his arm, and even the inches of the shoulder line was clearly defined.
There was a red dot in the deep depression that was easy to ignore because it was too small, but it was very clear.
It was a mole.
...…
Jianning City Public Security Bureau.
"Who let you out of the hospital? Who approved your return to Jianning? The past 30 years have passed too smoothly, right? No one in the Jiangyang County Public Security leadership can stop a bastard like you, right?! …"
Chief Lu held a large white porcelain teapot in his hands, and walked at the front with a smile, turning a deaf ear to the indiscriminate bombardment behind him. In the middle was Deputy Chief Wei, whose neck was completely red. From time to time, he turned his head to curse, and several times he almost grabbed the folder under his arms and threw it out. In the end, Yan Xie put his hands in his trouser pockets, raised his head, and let his eyes go blank. With a completely careless expression, he welcomed the wind and heavy rain of spittle flying toward him.
"Unorganised and undisciplined! Disregarding the safety of your own life! You still gave me this expression, ah? You think you are grown up now, so I dare not tell your parents. Your parents can't pick up the belt and touch you right?! Don't give me that arrogant face! Give me a response if you have the guts?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Xie suddenly stopped and covered his abdomen.
Deputy Chief Wei: "..."
"Ah! It hurts, come and help, ah——call an ambulance, I can't make it…"
A group of criminal police officers rushed through the corridor, and held their Vice-Captain Yan who was turning pale: "Captain! What's wrong with you, Captain!" "Hold on, the bright future is still waiting for us!" "Please open your eyes, Captain! Don't leave us!"
Yan Xie trembled: "My party membership dues, under the pillow… two hundred and fifty yuan…"
"Okay, captain! We will hand it over to the organization for you, carry on your legacy and move on!"
Deputy Chief Wei seemed to swallow a whole salted duck egg, his facial expressions twitching, and he watched as the group of big boys took Yan Xie, and slipped away quickly.
"Simply lawless, lawless…"
"I said Old Wei, "Chief Lu smiled and persuaded him, with a face of complete understanding and calmness: "Each one of your sons and grandsons must find his own way as he ought[4], so don't worry about these trivial things. Young people have their own big ideas, and the more you control them, the more rebellious they become. What can old men like us do? Besides, if you say that they are lawless, look at me."
Chief Lu smugly brushed his white hair: "Do you know why I have more hair than you?"
Deputy Chief Wei: "..."
"Because I never bother to worry about this kind of thing." Chief Lu said earnestly, "Let's go."
Deputy Chief Wei's eyelids jumped vigorously, he had no choice but to follow Chief Lu.
Yan Xie was surrounded all the way to the door of the forensic room, he dispatched the group of over-energetic criminal police officers, and happened to meet Gou Li in a white coat, carrying a heat preservation bucket, walking out of the open elevator door, "—–Yo, Old Yan? Why are you here, want to treat me to a meal?"
There were still people outside the corridor, Yan Xie didn't want to make it too clear, and answered vaguely: "Still thinking about eating, the love lunch that your mother sent all the way is not enough for you? "
Director Gou being single until now was all his fault.
When he was assigned to the city bureau after graduation, he was a handsome young man with red lips, white teeth, and a slender body. He was often greeted by the little policewoman at the police station below. Even Captain Yu insisted that he was better-looking than Yan Xie when he was young. If Gou Li had found a girlfriend at that time, he might even have a child in his arms now.
But the problem was that the moment Gou Li entered the city bureau, that was the beginning of his rapid expansion.
Under the influence of extremely wrong traditional thinking, his mother made the mistake that Yan Xie's mother, Madam Zeng Cui once made — mistakenly believing that her son was even worthy of a princess. So she gave birth to all kinds of unrealistic fantasies of picking and choosing. Coupled with the fact that Gou's work as a forensic doctor was indeed very hard and diligent, his mother began to change the method of making soup to make up for it. In order to do a good job in her son's logistics, she even went to learn how to be a chef at that time.
Yan Xie's luck was that Madam Zeng Cui quickly realized her big mistake that no amount of hardware can make up for her own son's fatal flaw in the software. Therefore, in order to add points in other areas, she resolutely urged Yan Xie to go to the gym five days a week, and even thought of asking him to go to Japan for plastic surgery, but unfortunately, she was firmly rejected by Yan Xie.
But Gou Li didn't have the f*cking realization as Yan Xie.
Gou Li's mother changed the pattern of eating the crazy supplements three times a day, abruptly forced him to weigh several tons, and naively refused the city bureau leaders as matchmakers several times, firmly believing that her son would one day be able to bring back a daughter-in-law with bright future like a flower entering the door——the whole city bureau unanimously agreed that if she knew that Director Gou was now playing games and watching juvenile manga with Qin Chuan, Ma Xiang and others in his spare time, she might become a little soberer.
"Why do you even come here if you don't want to treat me?" Gou Li said dissatisfied as he opened the door of the forensic room, "The work is piled up into a mountain, what kind of exchange and learning activities are you doing? Bring several people to our department from the grassroots to guide the work. I also told Deputy Chief Wei that day about transferring some people from me. Was he thinking about sending me out to give lectures someday? Besides, Why can your criminal investigation division have interns running errands to serve you, one suppressing the other in diligence? In our forensic department, we even had to boil the water ourselves. It's ridiculous, when will you send us a few people from the grassroots level? The landlord's family has no surplus grain?"
Yan Xie said, "You can take an apprentice."
"Where can I find an apprentice? Do you know how scarce forensic medicine is these days? When I was in school, what kind of postgraduate degree or above was required to get into the Provisional department. Hey, now even the big five capital cities are rushing to ask for it. Every year when the school is recruiting, I have to go out and rob students in person. This is still under the circumstance that both Jianning and Guangzhou have forensic medicine departments–—otherwise, I don't think so, everyone is relative, you can't write two Jianning Public Security in one stroke. Why don't you criminal investigation fathers kindly sponsor, and transfer Ma Xiang to us."
Yan Xie followed the chattering Gou Li into the forensic room, and said casually: "You spare Ma Xiang, he doesn't even dare to pass by the morgue door. "
"What is there to be afraid of? Let him stay with me for half a year, and I guarantee that he can even eat in the presence of highly rotted, saponified bodies, and all kinds of bizarre views."
Gou Li pulled out the chair and sat down, opening the heat preservation bucket to eat. But Yan Xie knocked on the table and stopped him: "Wait, I didn't come to chat with you."
"Why?" Director Gou immediately became vigilant.
"Has Li Yuxin's body been sent from the Jiangyang County funeral home?"
After Li Yuxin's rescue failed, the body was placed in the autopsy room of the Jiangyang County funeral home. Soon Deputy Director Wei took Huang Xing and others to Jiangyang to take over the investigation, on the grounds that the Jianning Municipal Bureau has a national first-class anatomical identification laboratory in the country, and the local criminal police squadron sent the little girl over.
"The autopsy report hasn't come out yet, what do you want to do?"
Yan Xie said, "Show me."
Director Gou took the spoon and looked him up and down suspiciously, but Yan Xie intensified his tone impatiently: "Just let me take a look! "
"F*ck, why do you find people to look for something during their lunch break?" Gou Li muttered and got up angrily, but there was nothing he could do. He could only take Yan Xie to the door of the autopsy room with a spoon in his mouth. It took a long time to get the key with the red thread out of his white coat's pocket—which the forensic investigators believed to exorcise the evil spirits—then the door was unlocked.
Li Yuxin lay quietly on the dissection table, and the skull and abdominal cavity were not completely sutured. Normally, a corpse that has not been dissected will not be covered with a white cloth so tightly, but maybe out of pity for this young girl in her prime, Gou Li pulled the white cloth to her chin before going out. If you ignore the blue and white stiff face, it looked like she had fallen into a long, dark, and sweet sleep.
"Well, what a pity." Gou Li said with a spoon in his mouth, "I could have finished it in the morning, but I thought to sew her up a little better and do it slowly in the afternoon… Hey, what are you doing?"
He saw Yan Xie bow slightly towards the corpse, then stepped forward, and without saying a word, raised the white cloth.
——Under the snow-white light, on Li Yuxin's right shoulder, a red mole was particularly clear and dazzling in the corpse spots.
Yan Xie didn't hear what Gou Li was saying, and couldn't even feel his own breathing. He clenched his fingernails into his palms, his teeth clenched tightly as if his pounding heart would madly jump out of his throat as soon as he opened his mouth.
Yesterday in the hospital, Bu Wei's nightdress's straps slipped off, Jiang Ting's shoulder in the middle of the night, and Li Yuxin's upper body was covered with corpse spots on the dissection table… Three almost identical little red moles constantly flashed in front of Yan Xie's eyes.
Li Yuxin seemed to be alive. She raised her rotten fingers, stroked the bloody mole on her shoulders, and gave Yan Xie a mysterious smile.