Chapter 094: Dusty Past
Hearing the sound of gunshots, Tong Ning simply gave up his disguise and threw away the snakeskin bag he was carrying.
Alarmed by Tang Tian's gunshots, several criminal policemen who investigated the scene also gathered one after another, and when they saw the "old man scavenging" walking like a waste in the alley, they immediately realized that this person was very likely to be related to the case, and they all surrounded Tong Ning.
The warning shot was ineffective, Tang Tian decisively lowered the muzzle, and aimed at Tong Ning, who was running, and was about to pull the trigger.
But at this moment, a golf ball without any license plate appeared on the other side of the roadway, and the sharp and piercing brakes sounded, and the car stopped behind Tong Ning with the smoke of burning tires.
Tong Ning was slightly surprised, but without the slightest hesitation, he pulled the car door and got in.
Before the doors even closed, the golf that had been on the gas pedal jerked its front up and sprang out, leaving only a strong smell of burnt rubber in the roadway.
"This is the criminal police team, please ask the traffic police department to help contain an unlicensed white golf, the suspect in the car is extremely dangerous, please pay attention to the precautions! Repeat ......"
This sudden situation caught the criminal police a little off guard, and the roadway itself was relatively narrow, even if they got in the car to catch up, they couldn't keep up with the speed of the golf, so they could only ask the traffic police department to assist in the arrest.
Tang Tian knew very well in his heart that according to Tong Ning's careful thinking, the possibility of relying on the traffic police department to block and arrest him on the road was quite low.
In fact, just as Tang Tian expected, the traffic police department checked the monitoring of various intersections around it, but found that after the white golf appeared twice, it disappeared as if it had wings.
The task of tracking down the golf was assigned to the Criminal Police Team, after all, there were more officers on the Criminal Police Team.
Tang Tian and the others completed the preliminary evidence collection, drove Ms. Liu back to the hotel, and prepared to report the details of the on-site investigation to Xiang Yu, and by the way, asked Jia Zuozhen to ask some information about Kangyang from Ms. Liu.
Tang Tian, who had a dull pain in his head, did not continue to drive, but sat in the co-pilot's seat, he closed his eyes tightly, and thought carefully about Tong Ning.
"Tong Ning's appearance here is definitely not accidental!" Tang Tian immediately thought of Tong Ning's appearance downstairs under Wu Youqian, maybe Tong Ning also played an important role in the midnight murder ringing serial murder case?
Tong Ning is a surgeon, his surgical skills are very high, and he can complete the operation of implanting strong sulfuric acid into the members of the Meridian Society in a rather rudimentary environment, what role would such a person play in the midnight murder serial murder case?
Thinking about it, Tang Tian felt that his head was sore again, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to scratch his hair, and his face became very ugly.
"Tang Tian?" Qu Liu, who was driving, noticed something unusual, and couldn't help but slow down and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure you don't have to go to the hospital to see?"
Tang Tian didn't answer Qu Liu's weak question, he only felt that his head was messed up at this moment, what did Peng Xuan's Nizi do? Why did he always think of her office and the faint fragrance?
"Stop!" Tang Tian suddenly shouted, he felt that he couldn't just go on in a daze, he had to go to Peng Xuan to ask about hypnosis in person.
Qu Liuwan slowly parked the car on the side of the road, and turned his head to look at him with a worried face: "What's wrong with you? ”
"I can't say a word, you go back and report to Team Xiang! I'm going to figure out something!"
Tang Tian didn't tell Qu Liuqiao about being hypnotized, firstly, he didn't want her to worry, and secondly, Tang Tian always felt that Peng Xuan's original intention of hypnotizing him didn't seem to be trying to harm himself.
Qu Liuwan didn't worry about letting Tang Tian leave alone, but Jia Zuozhen had more important work to do, and when he was hesitating, Tang Tian had already pulled the car door and got out of the car.
"Okay, you two go back first, I'm fine!" Tang Tian raised his hand to stop a taxi as he spoke.
When Tang Tian took a taxi to the decoration company, it was already early six o'clock in the evening, and there was no one in the public office area of the decoration company, only Peng Xuan's office was still lit.
Tang Tian wanted to push the door open directly, but his hand was already on the handle, but he felt that it was not appropriate, so he raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door.
"Do-do-......"
The knock on the door woke up Peng Xuan, who was immersed in thoughts, and at this moment she was sitting behind her desk, looking directly at the family photo, and quietly wept.
Peng Xuan hurriedly wiped away her tears, put the family photo in the drawer, and then asked, "Who?"
"I, Tang Tian!"
Tang Tian was in a very messy mood at this time, he didn't know what kind of attitude he should use to face Peng Xuan, the sequelae caused by hypnosis made him have a different sense of dependence on this office, as if he was back here, he was back in the warmest harbor.
But reason told itself that all this was fake, and it was all a psychological suggestion implanted under the effect of hypnosis.
These two voices, which were also heartfelt, but contradictory to each other, made Tang Tian feel like his head was about to explode.
"Tang Tian, come in!" Peng Xuan was very surprised, when Tang Tian woke up from the hypnotic suggestion, she thought that Tang Tian would never want to see herself again.
Tang Tian pushed open the door and walked in, he almost subconsciously sat in the position where he had sat before, smelled the faint fragrance in his nose again, and saw Peng Xuan's face again in front of him, and the sequelae of hypnosis were even more serious.
"I thought you wouldn't be back!" Peng Xuan was worried that Tang Tian would be irritated, so he just walked up to him and sat down, not daring to get too close.
"If I'm not mistaken, you made a psychological suggestion to me!" Tang Tian closed his eyes slightly, just like before, leaning on the back of the sofa, his voice seemed very calm, "But I don't understand, I'm a poor boy, why do you use psychological suggestion to make me dependent on this office? What is the purpose of you want me to resign?"
Listening to Tang Tian's almost interrogative words, Peng Xuan's heart suddenly ached, but she knew very well that all this was the result of her own haste and could only hold back the sour feeling and explain: "I definitely don't mean to hurt you! I just want you to leave the police force!"
"That's not what you mean!" After Tang Tian entered this room, perhaps because of the psychological hints, his chaotic mood improved a lot, which made his thoughts a lot clearer, "What do you want from me, I can feel that you have no malicious intentions, but it will never be as simple as you say! I want to know the real reason, don't lie to me, okay?"
Peng Xuan was silent, her hands were clasped together, her fair skin was red, and after several entanglements, she finally decided to confess.
"I want you to stay with me, that's what I mean! You can believe it or not, but I definitely didn't lie to you!"
After Peng Xuan said this, he only felt a lot more relaxed: "In the hotel, you are in front of me, and the back makes me feel very safe, you may not believe it, since my mother passed away, I have never felt this way for anyone, only you!"
Tang Tian looked at Peng Xuan's eyes, they were a pair of eyes that were slightly red, but as deep as the sea, could such eyes be deceiving?
The silence lasted for a few minutes, which seemed like centuries long to the two of them.
"Can you tell me how your mother died?" Tang Tian opened his mouth to break the silence, but there was no coldness in his voice.
Hearing Tang Tian mention his mother, Peng Xuan's already reddish eyes burst into tears again, and he spit out three words in a trembling voice: "Leukemia." ”
Leukemia? Tang Tian was stunned, he thought that Peng Xuan's mother's death might have something to do with Lu An, so Lu An would take such pains to compensate her.
"Soon after Lu An left us, my mother was admitted to the hospital with a severe cold, and during a blood test, her white blood cells were found to be severely exceeded, and she was finally diagnosed with leukemia. ”
Peng Xuan's pain that she had squeezed in her heart for nearly ten years completely came to her heart at this moment, and she finally had someone to talk to, which made her can't help but want to say all her grievances: "My mother lived in the hospital for less than two months, and the family's house was taken away by the bank, and the last savings were not even enough for the cost of a special medicine, so we had to leave the hospital and live in my grandmother's and grandfather's house." ”
"My grandfather was very good to me, but my grandmother was very dissatisfied with my mother's insistence on marrying Lu An, even if my mother was dying, my grandmother still refused to forgive her for saying goodbye back then, and then my mother left, only three months from the diagnosis to her death, and I was sent to boarding school by my grandmother, and I could only go home twice a year, and it was not my home......"
Speaking of this, Peng Xuan couldn't control her emotions anymore, she sobbed with rain, her body moved forward involuntarily, and the whole person fell on Tang Tian's body.
Tang Tian was confused by her sudden action, and wanted to push her away from him, but seeing her crying so sadly, he raised his hand and gently patted her on the shoulder.
"In the fifth year after my mother's death, people began to send me money anonymously, at first once every few months, and then steadily twice a month, each time it was a few thousand. At that time, I guessed that it was Lu An who came back, but he didn't come to see me, nor did he go to pay tribute to my mother, but used self-righteousness to get my forgiveness. ”
"Impossible! I can't forgive him! If he doesn't leave, how can my mother work day and night to repay the loan, not only suffering from leukemia, but also losing that house that is regarded as a treasure! That is what my mother has bought with more than ten years of struggle! But I have no choice, my uncles have long been dissatisfied with me, and they even offered to let me quit school and marry, so that they can give them a large bride price! For the sake of freedom, I had to accept Lu An's compensation, and I completed my studies and opened this decoration company. ”
Tang Tian couldn't help but sigh, took out a tissue to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes for her, and didn't know if it was pity or psychological hints, but unconsciously, his other hand actually took Peng Xuan into his arms.