Chapter II

Dongpo Town is located in the east of Nanmeng Mountain, about 40 kilometers away from Nande City. Under the personal leadership of the deputy director of the city bureau who was in charge of the case, more than 10 cars rushed eastward at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

Before leaving, the deputy director instructed Lao Pan, the captain of the anti-narcotics brigade, to stay in the brigade and wait for the satellite to continue to track Mao Jie's information, and at the same time arrange for the police stations in several townships and towns on the eastern side of Nanmeng Mountain to immediately organize police forces to control all the intersections leading to the outside of Dongpo Town as soon as possible. Since the director did not agree to the use of the armed police force, the deputy director had no choice but to ask Lao Pan to notify several police stations near Dongpo Town, divide the troops, and take on the task of interception.

The anti-narcotics brigade was empty all at once, and the courtyard was quiet. Lao Pan ran to the office to call those police stations to assign tasks, and Anxin followed him to his office, standing by the door and watching him talk about the situation with the directors on the phone, arguing which intersection belonged to who was responsible for which highway and who should send people. She was eager to help with something, but couldn't find anything to do. She estimated that the battle in Dongpo Town would start within an hour, but when she thought of the danger of the little bear after the fight, her heart always seemed to be raised in her throat, and she couldn't sink no matter how she sank.

The course of events was really similar to Anxin's estimate, and the battle to rescue the bear started around nine o'clock in the morning. As soon as the anti-narcotics team entered Dongpo Town, they went straight to the home of Chen Baojin, the owner of the construction company, saying that it was a battle, but in fact not a single shot was fired. When the police rushed into Chen Baojin's house, there was an all-night card game in the living room, and the owner of the house, Chen Baojin, and several male and female gamblers were having breakfast. The officers blocked the front and back doors, and then rushed in with lightning speed, and the guys were arrested before they could make any resistance. They put their hands on their heads in front of a room full of heavily armed policemen, and let them squat against the wall and squatted against the wall, only Chen Baojin pretended to cry out twice and was honest after the police pulled out a gun from under the pillow in his bedroom. The other men were earthy from the start, and the two women were even more trembling. The deputy director of the city bureau and Captain Wu used three rooms, and separately called Chen Baojin and several others to the house in turn for a surprise interrogation, and the focus of the questioning was Mao Jie and Xiaoxiong. The rest of the police scattered and began a careful search in the house like demining, and the results confirmed that there was something wrong with this Chen Baojin, and the police soon found two more pistols and several kilograms of loose **. The search for these items led to a sudden turn for the worse in the interrogation, which had been in a stalemate, and the situation took a turn for the worse, with one of the younger men suddenly saying that he knew where the child was — and that no one had admitted that there was a child — and was willing to take the police to look for it. About five minutes later, the man led the police through a narrow passage between the two rooms to the backyard of the Chen family's house, where he stood still in front of a stone-carved Buddhist shrine on the side of the backyard wall.

At 10:30 a.m., Captain Wu made a phone call to Captain Pan, and at this time, Captain Pan and Anxin were in the conference room, silently waiting for the news from Dongpo Town without saying a word. The call was made to Captain Pan's mobile phone, and Captain Pan picked it up, just listened to the other party, and said in a calm voice before the phone hung up: "Okay, I know." ”

Hanging up the phone, he turned his face to look at Anxin, Anxin got up from his chair, and looked at him too. An Xin could feel that this call was from Dongpo Town, and it was Captain Wu and them. She looked at Captain Pan, waiting for him to speak, waiting for him to tell him how this matter would end.

Lao Pan said: "The child has gone. ”

Standing at ease, she didn't cry, she didn't cry as Lao Pan expected, and even, she didn't shed a single tear, she was stunned for a long time before she shook her head and said: "No!" Lao Pan's eyes were wet first, he walked over and slowly hugged Anxin, carefully holding Anxin in his arms like his own child. He could feel the tremors on Anxin's body, and the same voice as hers, it came from his chest, from his heart, from his bones. The voice grew loud and then immediately muted, and she shouted, "No! No! No! I don't want that! I don't want that! I don't want that! ……”

She finally turned her crying into crying in Lao Pan's arms, which was a kind of crying that completely collapsed! Her son, who has suffered many disasters since he was born, and the son who depends on her for his life is finally gone. What she liked to fantasize about most in the past was what her son would look like when he was five, eight, ten, or twenty years old. Protecting and raising her son has always been her ideal and the purpose of life. Her son is the loveliest, most pitiful, most playful and sensible child! She couldn't live without this child!

Lao Pan hugged her and did not say words of consolation. Lao Pan also cried. But when the tears came out, he wiped them away immediately, and he immediately restrained himself. He used his own embrace, he wanted to use the warmth and strength of this embrace, to sense peace of mind, maybe he really regarded peace of mind as his daughter at that moment, a daughter who suffered and made people hurt her from the heart!

At this time, the only female comrade of the anti-narcotics brigade who stayed on duty ran in and shouted the captain! Seeing Lao Pan He's reassuring appearance, he was stunned at the door. Lao Pan turned around, and the female cadre said embarrassedly: "The director's phone." ”

Lao Pan let go of the peace of mind that she couldn't cry anymore, helped her to sit down on the chair, and then walked to the door. He said to the female cadre who was still stunned at the door: "Go and get her some water." He walked out of the conference room and walked towards the duty room of the brigade.

In fact, the early morning when Mao Jie brought the bear back to Dongpo Town, the bear was killed. It was Xiao Xiong's unstoppable crying that annoyed Chen Baojin and his group of gamblers. They pressed the child's head with a pillow while scolding Mao Jie for causing them trouble. Mao Jie originally wanted to take the child hostage, so he pulled the child out from under the pillow in a fit of anger and wanted to stick his mouth with adhesive tape, but when he didn't stick it, he found that the child had been suffocated. When it was almost dawn, he, together with Chen Baojin and others, buried the bear under the Buddhist shrine in the backyard of the Chen family. At that time, Mao Jie didn't know that what he buried with his own hands was his own son.

The female cadre probably guessed what was going on from her relieved face, and quickly ran out to find a cup and a warm pot. An An slumped in her chair, she didn't even know how to control the spasms in her heart and limbs, her will and consciousness became weak and trance in the crying. Every nerve and every cell in her body was concentrated on a thought that she could not bear, that is, her son, she would never see again! Her son, the most important and soulful part of her body, was forever gone.

I don't know if Anxin thought of me at this time, I am also her most important relative, I am her lover, the person who loves her the most and cares about her the most! Did she think of me in this moment of grief? Does she want to see me and hug me right away and cry? I'm going to cry for our little bear, who is also my child! I love Bears!

Anxin's grief was interrupted by a sharp ringing of the telephone, there was no one else in the conference room except Anxin, and the ringing of the telephone was particularly sharp and harsh, even thrilling in this big empty room. The phone was next to Anxin, and the sound almost shattered her numb heart. She picked it up mechanically and said, "Hello? She spoke, but her throat was so hoarse that she didn't seem to be able to send the meager voice out.

The phone was the voice of a man, who said, "I'm looking for peace of mind." ”

"Looking for peace of mind?" Anxin felt that her nerves, along with her own breathing, were confused, and she opened her mouth for a long time and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The person on the phone said, "Is that you?" Are you at ease? ”

"Who are you?"

The person on the phone suddenly fell silent. Anxin held the phone, she felt the breath of that person, and she suddenly said, "My son, where is it?" ”

The person on the phone was silent for a moment, and then spoke again: "That child, is it mine?" ”

Anxin controlled her voice, she instinctively wanted to hide the trembling in her heart, she said, "Where are you?" ”

The person on the phone asked again, "Is the child mine?" ”

Anxin said: "Where are you, I will tell you to your face!" I'll tell you a lot of things, and about this kid! ”

"I just want to know if this kid is mine or not! If you tell the truth, I'll give you back the baby! ”

"It's yours, he's your own son!"

The other party's phone was silent for a while before he said again: "Do you remember that tea shop on the mountain?" The shop that sells tea on the edge of the cliff, I'll be waiting for you there. I'll wait for you for half an hour, and I won't wait for half an hour. If you take someone up the mountain, I will be able to see it from afar, and if you bring someone here, you will be condemning your son to death!" I repeat, if you dare to bring someone here, you will kill your own son! ”

Anxin said, "Okay, I'll come alone!" ”

As soon as she finished saying this, the phone was hung up by the other party, and a busy beep came from the receiver of the phone. Anxin also hung up the phone, she stood up and walked outside the house. Walking to the door and looking back, she saw a pistol that Lao Pan had just untied from his body and placed there on the conference table, and a car key with a big fur ball next to the pistol.

Anxin took the pistol with the holster and chest strap, and then the key, and strode out of the conference room. There was no one in the yard, only Pan's old open-top jeep, which shone a dull glow in the sunlight. She flew into the car. The car was disturbed by the sound of the car starting, and Anxin saw in the rearview mirror that the female cadre came out of an office with a cup of hot water, shouted something, and then stood in a daze in the dust raised by the open jeep as it rushed out of the yard.

It was about 10:40 a.m., and I was drinking through a straw in the hospital when I suddenly choked and coughed, and my injured ribs almost hurt into the bone marrow with a violent cough, and then I vomited blood and vomited on the snow-white quilt that covered me. My roommates quickly called for doctors and nurses, as well as the policeman who was taking care of me. The doctor felt my pulse and asked me what was wrong, and I didn't know what was wrong with me. I shook my head and struggled to say how I felt before I drank the water, and I said that I had just suddenly panicked.

The doctor instructed the nurse to give me a sedative to calm my wheezing and let me sleep. When I was about to enter the dream world, it was the moment when I drove the open-top jeep up Nanmeng Mountain and reached the cliff.

It was almost noon, and the sun was rising overhead, a little dazzling, a little scorching. Even every idle branch and tree in the deep valley was pulled close by the sun. The air froze, and there was no wind visible in the treetops, so there was no sound in the whole mountain, and the smoke and dust raised by the open-top jeep stopping in front of the tea shop did not disperse for a long time. The smoke was like a penetrating transparent sponge, absorbing a lot of sunlight and making itself look like a shiny dry mist. When An An walked into the tea shop with a gun, the shiny dry mist was like a psychedelic veil opening behind her.

The inside of the tea shop felt very dark, because the contrast between the light and the outside was too great. There was only an elderly female shopkeeper and a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, and there were no customers. When the proprietress saw that business was coming, she greeted her very enthusiastically, and asked Anxin what kind of tea she drank and if she wanted to eat. Anxin asked: Did anyone come just now? The proprietress said, "No, no one came in the morning." Anxin walked to the window table where they had sat before, and there was already a teapot and a cup on the table, which seemed to be used by the proprietress herself. Anxin put the gun on the table and said, "I want a pot of green tea." The proprietress saw the gun on the table at this time, and only then did she realize that she was the little Bu whistle who had been slapped by a little Bu Mao here before, and her smile and voice were unnatural: Oh, green tea, green tea, green tea is defeated......

Anxin didn't look at the boss lady, she hated her a little, and she also testified for Mao Jie's lawyer. Anxin turned his face to look out the window, across a deep valley, the hideous single tree on the opposite cliff head, under the sunshine, actually had a bit of joy and dancing. At this moment, it was as if everyone and everything was smiling at her. The proprietress and the tree, they're all laughing! There seems to be some ulterior inside story in the smile!

She thought that her every move now might be in Mao Jie's sight. The terrain here can hide people, and it is convenient to run if you want to. Perhaps, Mao Jie was looking at her from the opposite cliff. Maybe in the blink of an eye, I don't know which dangerous path to turn here.

The tea was not delivered for a long time, so he retracted his gaze from the window and turned his head. When I returned to the house, my eyes narrowed by the sunlight outside the window could not see clearly. After a few seconds of acclimatization, she saw the proprietress come out again, but didn't serve tea. Her gaze stopped on the boss's face for two seconds, and she suddenly saw the situation clearly, and she saw Mao Jie behind the boss, and a flat muzzle in his hand.

The proprietress was held hostage by Mao Jie and walked out crookedly, the horror on her face squeezed the position of her facial features. Anxin stood up in a frenzy and reached for the gun on the table, when she heard a thud, as if someone had pushed her, and she stumbled backwards and fell to the ground, her entire left shoulder paralyzed. She saw Mao Jie let go of the proprietress and let the old woman stumble and flee to the back stove. Then he came up to her, he went up to her, crouched down, put his gun against her temple, and without a single expression on his face, nor in his voice, he asked:

"Is the child mine?"

Anxin's left shoulder gradually gained some sensation, and she could feel the wetness in her clothes, and there was liquid running down her left ribs. Ignoring these struggles, she jumped forward and tried to grab Mao Jie. One of her hands almost scratched Mao Jie's neck, only a fraction of a centimeter. Mao Jie flashed backwards, then fired another shot into her right shoulder, knocking An An to the ground again. Then, as before, he put his gun against Anxin's head again, and asked without a single tone:

"Is the child mine?"

An Xin felt very weak, and she couldn't describe how weak she was for a long time afterwards, it was a kind of panic and thirst that she had never experienced before, her mind was blank, and her limbs were cold...... She was so weak that she couldn't even figure out why there was a voice on her chest.

"It's yours...... He's your son! ”

Mao Jie hit Anxin the head with **, he suddenly jumped up and yelled like crazy, he shouted with tears: "You devil! Ever since I got to know you, my dad died, my mom died, my brother died, and you killed my whole family! And now you have asked me to kill my own son! You're a devil! You're a devil! I'll kill you, devil! ”

He stood in front of Anxin and pointed the gun at Anxin again and again, but did not hit. There were tears crisscrossing his face, and his crooked lips had a slight beard, but it was still a young face. He didn't shoot, as if thinking about something, he nagged pathically: "I can't let you die like this, I'm going to let you die slowly, let you die uncomfortably, you wait!" He turned, blindly searching the room for something, probably to find something that would torment Anxin. But his gaze only swept around the room before he suddenly stopped on the wooden floor in front of the door, on which the sunlight framed a square shape, and at some point a black and strong figure was imprinted.

Mao Jie's entire movements and limbs froze, and he followed the figure on the floor to see the motionless man standing at the door of the tea shop. He stared at the immobile man with wide eyes, as if trying to judge if the shadow he saw was a hallucination. The man's face was darkened by the white light outside the room, so he couldn't see his eyebrows. Mao Jie couldn't even see what clothes he was wearing, and the only thing he could see clearly, and what he really could see, was the muzzle of a gun with a dark light swimming in the man's hand. The muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at his heart. Then he heard the man's cold voice:

"Throw the gun to the ground!"

Mao Jie recognized it, this was the leader of the anti-narcotics brigade, he had seen it when he was arrested last time. This police boss gave Mao Jie the impression that he was like a master of few words. It was this previous impression that made him lose his confidence to resist all of a sudden, and subconsciously, as soon as he let go of his hand, the gun fell to the floor at his feet with a loud bang.

"Put your head in your hands, step back, back to the wall!"

If it was Captain Pan's muzzle bullet that pressed Mao Jie and had to throw his weapon and retreat to the corner, it was better to say that his god-man momentum and cold and sophisticated voice made Mao Jie subconsciously give up resistance. Pan's voice also brought peace of mind a magical power, she actually stood up on her own, she stood up and pounced on the table by the window, on which was her loaded pistol!

But before she could get the gun, Lao Pan took the lead and held her hand. Anxin's arms were bleeding, and it was impossible for her to break free from Lao Pan's block. She only shouted frantically:

"I'm going to kill him! You asked me to kill him! ”

Mao Jie held his head in his hands, stood against the wall with a dead face, and watched nervously as the two of them writhed a few times. These few blows made Anxin exhaust that little bit of strength to return to the light. She was finally held down by Lao Pan, and then sat down on the ground along the wall. Mao Jie breathed a sigh of relief, and the hands holding his head were unconsciously lowered, and he seemed to think that he was safe.

Lao Pan Fu sat down with peace of mind, and peace of mind was like a swing, trembling and crying silently. Lao Pan checked her injuries, tore her own clothes to bandage her to stop the bleeding, and comforted her and said You don't have to worry, Captain Wu and they will come over immediately. The court will sentence him to death, this time he can't run away if he wants to, why do you want to kill him and dirty your hands! He looked sideways at Mao Jie, and when he saw that he had put his hand down, he rushed up and kicked him hard, making him lift his hand. Mao Jie raised his hand again and hugged his head again.

Lao Pan said: "I cheapened you last time, and let you live for more than a year!" Don't you also know a little bit about the law, and this time you calculate how long you can live! ”

Mao Jie glared stubbornly, and replied with a kind of competitiveness and ferocity unique to young people: "It's a pity that you are not a judge, you have no evidence!" You say I'm selling drugs, have you found any evidence? ”

Captain Pan had already turned his head and wanted to help Anxin to the chair, but he didn't expect Mao Jie to dare to argue with him. He stood down, turned around, and said, "I don't sue you for selling drugs, I sue you for murder, you killed Zhang Tiejun, and there is a child who is just two years old!" ”

"Do you have proof? Did you see me killed? ”

This sentence actually stopped Lao Pan, and he couldn't keep up with the conversation all of a sudden.

"Who told you I killed someone? It's her? Mao Jie pointed viciously at Anxin on the other side with his eyes, "You forgot that the court didn't believe her words for a long time!" Who else will prove that I killed someone, my brother? ”

Lao Pan kind of understood his thoughts: "Oh, you probably know that your brother is dead, right?" You thought your brother was dead and no one would be able to prove what you did, right? But you are a person, and you are unlucky to be unlucky in your mouth, your mouth is really talking too much! Have you forgotten how many times you called her? We've recorded all of your words in the tape recorder. If I don't record your words, I don't know if you called her here. Do you have a good memory, do you remember what you said on those phone calls? Say she still owes you a life? Did you talk about the child? You're guilty of too many! I can't run away! ”

Mao Jie grimaced the muscles on his face, and his shouting revealed his despair: "I won't admit it!" Don't try to kill me, it's not that easy! The lives of our whole family have been given to me, and I won't let you die! ”

Captain Pan looked at Mao Jie, he had probably never met such a crazy person. He turned his head again to look at Anxin, who was sitting on the ground, and Anxin looked at him with a gaze that he could understand at a glance. He nodded at Reassurance, as if he had made some promise to her. Then he pulled Mao Jie over, pulled him to the little table by the window, pressed him to the chair, pushed the pistol on the table in front of his eyes, and then pointed out the window, pointing out the window to the deep valley under the scorching sun, and said:

"If you want to run for your life, it's not in the courtroom, it's here, it's your only way to live. If you can jump from this place, I'll let you jump. And this gun, don't forget to bring it. Anyway, you already have a lot of crimes, don't bite if you have more lice, don't worry if you have more debts, and it's nothing if I add another one to you. Are you willing to add another escape sentence to yourself? Escape, you know? You can't ask for it! ”

Mao Jie was stunned, he looked out the window and looked at the reassuring pistol on the table...... The valley seemed to have no depth in the sunlight, the bright warm colors made everything lose its original sense of distance and convexity, and the pistol on the table, the deep body of the pistol, made it particularly striking. The superficial illusion of the valley and the saturated color value of the gun body were both a stimulus to Mao Jie, giving him an illusion that something that would have been impossible was actually hallucinated into a kind of reality in his mind. He raised his eyes to look at Lao Pan again, and Lao Pan sat down on the other side of the table and looked at him as well. Mao Jie's eyes were nervous and hesitant, Lao Pan's eyes were serene and relaxed, and the relaxation even contained a bit of casual smile. They just looked at each other. How long have you been looking at each other? Perhaps no one calculated, until the mountain road outside the tea shop, the sound of many cars could be heard from far and near. The voice finally stopped outside, and Lao Pan's eyes were slightly off, and he looked towards the door. At the moment when his gaze deviated, Mao Jie's whole body pounced, stretched out his hands, and grabbed the pistol on the table! An Xin let out a scream, and almost at the same time as her shout, it was Lao Pan's gunshot! The bullet passed through the pottery teapot on the table, the teapot exploded with a bang, countless pottery shards and half-hot tea splashed in all directions, through the splashed fragments and water mist, I saw that in the middle of Mao Jie's forehead, there was a small ball of blood, which bloomed and condensed in an instant, Mao Jie slammed backwards as if he was hit by some huge force, his head swung like an electric shock, and his whole body fell heavily on the chair, along with the chair, and he flipped backwards!

The reassuring cries stopped, and the room was quiet for a few seconds. She saw Lao Pan walking over, briefly glanced at Mao Jie's corpse, and muttered as she wished: "If you don't want to escape the crime, then add another one to you, you can be regarded as grabbing a gun and resisting arrest!" ”

Outside the door, there was a loud shout: "Lay down your arms, we are the police, you are surrounded!" "As Lao Pan said, that's Captain Wu and them. Lao Pan was going to Nanmeng Mountain to catch up with Anxin and at the same time inform them to come for reinforcements quickly. Captain Wu brought a total of eight cars! As soon as they arrived, they heard gunshots in the tea shop, and they jumped out of the car and shouted into the house using the car as cover. The door of the tea shop was open, and as soon as they had shouted these two words, they saw two people staggering out of the shadows in the house. The first thing the police recognized was their captain Lao Pan, and then they recognized the girl covered in blood who Lao Pan was holding on, that was my lucky surviving lover Anxin.