Chapter 19: Outside the Night
I received a message from Lin Xi on WeChat on my mobile phone.
Lin Xi: Do I want to take you home at night?
Wei Chenwan: My brother will send me back.
Lin Xi: I think I'm near you, so I can drop you off.
Wei Chenwan: How could you?
Lin Xi: I went with my parents to see my grandmother in the evening, and the nursing home where my grandmother lives is very close to you.
Wei Chenwan: Don't bother you, my brother will drive me.
Since Wei Ziang sent her, Lin Xi didn't continue, and Wei Chenwan thought that this topic was over.
Before leaving, Wei Chenwan was afraid that Wei Ling would worry about her current work, so she lied a little in front of her uncle, Wei Ling touched her head and said a few words.
On the way back, Su Qing was still driving, and Wei Ziang sat in the back row to accompany Wei Chenwan.
Wei Ziang leaned there and asked her, "How is your work lately?"
"I just solved the case with them two days ago, and it went well. ”
"There was no danger. ”
"No, I just feel that sometimes criminal cases really ruin two families, but I feel very pitiful. ”
Wei Ziang knew that his sister was soft-hearted, but he couldn't persuade her to be a cold-hearted person in this world.
"Just protect yourself, you are not a child anymore, the days will be long, and my brother will not be able to protect you for a lifetime, so what I said during the meal before was not all a joke, you should also think about it. ”
Wei Ziang was reminding her about finding a boyfriend, although she said Lin Xi in order to reassure Chen Juan, it was not all a joke.
"Brother, don't say it. Wei Chenwan's face was flushed, and her voice was unconfident.
She began to think back to when she and Lin Xi slowly got closer and closer, was it when they were in school, or was it the heart-to-heart connection before he enlisted in the army?
She didn't know, or in fact, as early as when he was a student, he was a special existence for herself, but she didn't pay attention to it so far.
But in Lin Xi's heart, who is she?
Su Qing glanced in the rearview mirror, at first thought she was wrong, but after a few more careful looks, she collided with Wei Ziang, who was sitting in the back row, in the rearview mirror.
Wei Ziang looked at Su Qing, as if he was hinting at something with his eyes.
He looked back at the rear window, followed by a car, a black Cadillac.
Wei Ziang patted Wei Chenwan's hand and pointed to the back.
Wei Chenwan didn't understand what her brother wanted to express at first, knowing that she could see the car behind her clearly, and even proofread the license plate number, she was completely sure that Lin Xi's car was behind her, and she suddenly remembered that Lin Xi asked her if she wanted to send her home during dinner.
Lin Xi watched the car in front of him suddenly hit the right turn signal, and then found a place to pull over, and his car also stopped.
Wei Chenwan pushed the car door and stood there, the wind was blowing at night, blowing her hair fluttering.
Lin Xi looked at the people in the car in front of him, in addition to Wei Chenwan and Wei Ziang, they also got out of the car, and he quickly pulled the handbrake and got out of the car.
"Lin Xi. Wei Chenwan walked in front of Lin Xi.
"I ......," Lin Xi was speechless.
She smiled, "Are you here to take me home?"
“...... Well. ”
"Okay, you wait for me. ”
Wei Chenwan walked back and said a few words to her brother, Lin Xi didn't feel good about him like this, so he walked over a few steps to say hello.
"Brother Wei, I'm Lin Xi, we've met before. Lin Xi stood there respectfully.
"Well, I often hear Wan'er mention you. ”
Su Qing took a good look at Lin Xi this time, and Lin Xi also greeted her politely.
Wei Ziang opened the trunk and moved out two boxes of fruit, and Lin Xi took it and put it in his car.
Wei Ziang instructed Wei Chenwan to send him a message when he got home, and then let Wei Chenwan go to Lin Xi.
When Wei Chenwan got into Lin Xi's car, she felt that this matter was so real, she was still thinking about the relationship between Lin Xi and her one minute, and the next minute she saw Lin Xi's car appear in the rear.
It's amazing.
Wei Chenwan was hot because she drank some wine, she opened the window a little, and unbuttoned her jacket again, revealing the V-neck knit inside.
"Don't catch a cold. ”
"No, I drank some wine during the meal, it's a little hot now. ”
Lin Xi saw her exposing her collarbone and a piece of snow-white skin, this picture was a little dazzling, and he didn't dare to look at it more.
Blowing the wind, Wei Chenwan was much more comfortable, and her head became sober.
"Lin Xi, why did you want to help me in the first place. ”
He didn't expect Wei Chenwan to ask him about it.
"I don't know myself, I looked down on you when you first transferred to another school, because I thought you were the kind of good student who read dead books, but then I found out that you are different from others, everyone else is the same in my eyes, but you are not, and you are the only one. ”
"Lin Xi, do you know, many people used to avoid our family, thinking that our family was not a good ingredient in their bones, but Dad is not a bad person, only you are willing to get close to me after knowing all this, the first time I met you in Galai, I was also afraid that you would look at me with colored glasses, but every time you appeared, I could feel your sincerity. ”
"I'm not going to be biased against you, never. ”
Under a red light, in a quiet carriage, two beams of eyes intersect at one point.
Lin Xi sent her downstairs, and he got out of the car to prepare to help Wei Chenwan move the fruit down.
Wei Chenwan took two steps over and pressed his hand to open the trunk.
"Don't take it, put it in your car first, and take it to the office after work tomorrow, I can't eat so much by myself, so I'll take it to share with everyone tomorrow." ”
"That'...... Hurry up and get up. ”
Wei Chenwan took two steps forward and stood on tiptoe to hug Lin Xi, Lin Xi was very tall, and she stood on tiptoe to reach his neck.
"Lin Xi, thank you. ”
Lin Xi felt that his heart was beating very fast, and there was a word in his throat that wanted to bubble out, but he couldn't help it, he reached out and patted Wei Chenwan's back.
He still watched Wei Chenwan go upstairs, the lights in her house were on, and Lin Xi left.
Early the next morning, Lin Xi had just taken off the two boxes of fruit in the car when Xing Wei called him to the office.
"Xing Zhutou, what's the matter?"
"Is Xiaowei here?"
"She hasn't. ”
"It's okay, I'll tell you first, it has nothing to do with our team, it's mainly the two of you. ”
Lin Xi didn't hear what Xing Wei wanted to say for a long time, and now that he said that this matter was related to him and Wei Chenwan, he was even more puzzled.
"I specially asked Xiao Yang about your shift, so I want to arrange for you to take Xiao Wei there today and tomorrow. ”
"Where?"
"We used to have an old-timer in the city bureau, he has senior experience in psychological painting, you should have seen him with your father before, he was still in the city bureau when you were young. ”
"You're talking about...... Is Xiao Yun going back to his predecessors?"
Xing Wei nodded.
"I've heard a lot about him, isn't he known as the number one psychographer? ”
"Yes, so I want you to take Xiaowei to visit him and learn from him. ”
"Okay, but I have a question for you. ”
"You say. ”
"Why don't you keep hiring someone as powerful as him?"
Xing Wei guessed that Lin Xi would ask this.
"It's not a glorious thing, and I don't know if you know this case, he has been retired and rehired for more than a year, and it just so happens that the city bureau has a case in the process, and it is a big case across provinces, and as a result, there was a mistake in handling the case, which led to our information asymmetry, Xiao Yunhui, who should have been in the rear, also followed to handle the case, our police here didn't know that the other party had weapons, and we suffered heavy losses that time, Xiao Yunhui's son was also one of us, and he died in the process of chasing the suspect, and Xiao Yunhui was also injured in that case, and finally the peripheral nerve in the hand was necrotic and couldn't hold a pen, he himself chose to leave this post that he had dedicated for more than 40 years. Xiao Yunhui's wife passed away early, and his son died in the line of duty, and the bureau didn't protect our police back then, so how could he still have the face to let him stay and let him stay here for the rest of his life. ”
Lin Xi couldn't help but feel sorry for such a talent.
"It's not convenient for us to invite him over now, so I'll let you take Xiaowei once, so it's more sincere, have a better attitude, and don't let the old-timers feel that they only want to get people when they handle cases, and they usually don't care well. ”
"Okay, guaranteed to get the job done. ”
Lin Xi took the address and contact information given to him by Xing Ju in his hand and walked back to the office.
"Ladies and gentlemen, our hot pot appointment may be rescheduled again. ”
"What's wrong, boss?"
"I'm not here today and tomorrow, and the Xing Bureau asked me to go out on errands. ”
Jin Moxuan stopped eating and leaned back in his chair.
"Tut-tut, I don't have much hope for work today. ”
"Don't be crooked, wait for me to come back, let's eat hot pot." Lin Xi's knuckles knocked on Jin Moxuan's skull.
"Eh, why didn't Wei Chenwan come today?"
Lin Xi raised his eyebrows: "Don't you say that I almost forgot, I still have to go to her, and take care of Xiaoxiao in the past two days." ”
Wei Xiaoxiao "meowed" on the side.
Jin Moxuan's eyes rolled around, going out to do errands?
"Boss, you hurry up, I, Jin, will leave first, and I won't send it slowly. ”
Lin Xi didn't bother to take care of him, and walked out of the office in a few steps, and then the rest of the people in the office glanced at each other, Xing Ju was really smart.
Wei Chenwan couldn't get out of bed because she had drunk too heavily in the morning, and when she slowly opened her eyes and looked at her phone, she was almost awakened, it was almost nine o'clock?
She quickly got out of bed, and as soon as her feet touched the ground, she heard a knock at the door.
Who is it?
Wei Chenwan ran to open the door, but she didn't expect that it was Lin Xi standing outside the door, her hair was still messy, and she was still wearing pajamas.
"Lin Xi, why are you here?"
"I sent you a message earlier, but you didn't reply to me, so I had to come up to you directly. ”
"Is there a case? You wait a little longer, I'll ...... right away."
Lin Xi grabbed her arm and said, "Don't worry, there's no case, but you have to go out once, I'll tell you on the way." ”
"Okay, you can wait for me first. ”
Wei Chenwan hurriedly went back to the room to change clothes, then quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face, combed her hair and walked out.
"Bring something with you, we might have to stay out for the night. ”
"Huh?"
Lin Xi smiled when he saw that she didn't understand.
"I won't lie to you, you clean up and I'll tell you later. ”
Wei Chenwan had no choice but to return to the room and tidy up a bag of things.
"Let's go, I'll take you to breakfast first. ”
Wei Chenwan listened to Lin Xi tell him while eating breakfast, what task did the Xing Bureau arrange for them, and as soon as she heard that she was taking her to visit the old-timers who had specialized in criminal investigation portraits before, Wei Chenwan was still very much looking forward to it.
The car drove on the highway, Wei Chenwan looked out the window at the scenery from the steel forest slowly turned into a verdant rice field, after getting off the highway, Lin Xi's car turned around a small road, next to the vegetables grown by the locals.
Finally followed the navigation and found the address given by Xing Bureau.
The two got out of the car, Lin Xi walked in front, there was an independent house in front of him, the door was open, and the open space in front of him was drying dried plum vegetables.
Lin Xi looked at the door and saw that the stove in the house was on fire, and heard some sounds in the backyard.
They walked through and saw an old man sitting on a bench chopping wood with a simple chopping tool.
"Senior Xiao. Lin Xi called him.
As soon as Xiao Yunhui heard someone call him, he put down the things in his hand and stood up from the bench, still standing upright, without losing his previous demeanor as a policeman.
"Yo, it's Lin Xi. ”
Lin Xi stepped forward and shook hands with him: "Yes, it's me, I saw you when I was young." ”
"yes, you're not the same as when you were younger, I almost didn't recognize you. ”
"Senior Xiao, this is a newcomer to our team, and Xing Ju just asked me to bring her to meet you. ”
Wei Chenwan also greeted generously: "Senior Xiao, my name is Wei Chenwan." ”
"Sure enough, it's the girl of the Wei Yin family, but I didn't expect the little girl to also have research in this area. ”
I don't know what Xing Ju told Xiao Yunhui, if you want to say that there is some research, you can't talk about it, her current ability is a beginner at best.
"Senior Xiao has won the award, and I'm still a novice, so I have to ask for more advice. ”
"You are all young people, you don't need to be in a hurry, you should rarely come to a place like mine, just relax with me for the past two days, which you can't enjoy in the city." After speaking, he patted Lin Xi's shoulder.
Lin Xi and Wei Chenwan glanced at each other, they should have come to the suburbs to live in a homestay.
The two of them found a place to put their things, and then quickly took on the identity of coming to Xiao Yun to experience the farmhouse.
A young man came, Xiao Yunhui was focused on making his farm meal, Lin Xi stood in his position just now to chop wood, he was young and vigorous, he raised the axe and swung it down, which was much more efficient.
"Xiaowei, come to me and give me a hand. ”
Wei Chenwan was very obedient, and felt that this senior was amiable and carried a breath of life.
"Will you kill fish?"
Wei Chenwan shook her head embarrassedly.
"That's okay, you help me choose the dishes, and I'll ask Lin Xiaoxi to kill the fish for me later." ”
When she heard Lin Xi being called Lin Xiaoxi, Wei Chenwan sneered and laughed.