Chapter 24: The Red Line

It was a Saturday morning, but there were very few family members visiting patients in the inpatient area, perhaps because of the holidays.

Visiting relatives choose to take the patient out of the house for a break and reunion.

The only exception is for those in ward 2704.

Bai Jin stood in front of the window and looked at the busy street in the distance, the closer he got to the road under his eyes, the smaller the traffic flow, probably the passers-by avoided this place.

Therefore, in the 20-mile radius directly opposite the inpatient area, there are very few stalls, shouting and selling, and people playing loudspeakers.

On the hospital bed one step away, Bai Jiayi's face was thin, as if she had just experienced a serious illness, her eyes were closed, her breathing was smooth, and it was obvious that she was asleep.

Ou Rulan, who was on the chair, held Bai Jiayi's hand with both hands, and lay beside her bed to rest.

I don't know how many days she has been taking care of each other here, and the sound of gentle breathing shows Ou Rulan's exhaustion.

Bai Jin didn't mean to disturb them, he just turned around and walked out of the ward.

This is the 32nd day since Bai Jiayi was hospitalized, and it is also the 32nd day that they have begun to investigate the disappearance.

The news from the forensic office allowed the members of the inspection team to find a complex network of relationships in a pile of seemingly simple clues.

Those who know already know the background of the situation.

Unknown man, still in a state of stagnation.

The mobile phone in his trouser pocket suddenly vibrate, and Bai Jin sat on the stone bench in the courtyard and answered the phone.

"The white team, the Lan family said that no matter what the reason for the body was broken, now they only want the child to die of drowning and suffocation as the ultimate cause of death, and they want to take the child back." Wu Dongqing said on the other end of the phone.

The Lan family was the first to learn that the missing child had died, because Lan Huanzhi and Ou Rulan were once members of the same guild.

As a foreign aid of the guild, Lan Huanzhi's talented and rich image quickly attracted many women in the guild, and Ou Rulan was also one of them.

It's just that Ou Rulan, who was still a trainee police officer at the time, admired the person in her heart who led her to participate in the pursuit mission, Wang Jingshan, so she didn't like the rest of the girls, revolving around Lan Huan all day long.

After that, the son of the Lan family married a famous lady who was a good match and gave birth to the little princess Lan Yunuo.

The girls who learned that he was married, although they had different mentalities, but with the justice in their hearts, they did not do anything excessive, but silently sent blessings to him, and it didn't take long for them to transfer their liking to another man.

Coincidentally, Ou Rulan and Lan Huanzhi continued to contact Bai Jiayi and Lan Yunuo.

Thinking back to the opportunity to contact again, it is really helpless.

As a girl from the Bai family, Bai Jin did not interfere too much with the interests and hobbies of the two.

But as a woman born into a famous family, Mrs. Bai has a natural constraint on her two daughters.

Perhaps because of the arrogance exclusive to the aristocracy, Ou Ruyu continued the habit of the Ou family to smile at girls without showing teeth, acting without style, and speaking without being amazing, so she specially enrolled the Bai family sisters in an etiquette class opened by a celebrity, hoping that they can have a bit of a ladylike image, unlike her aunt Ou Rulan, who is in a hurry all day and all night, and has no femininity.

There is also a sentence here, that is, Ou Rulan is so free and easy about herself, so she is especially worshiped by Bai Jiayi, and Bai Jiayi seems to have swallowed the soul of a curious baby by birth, why did the 100,000 in her mouth not stop.

At the beginning, Bai Jin still liked this active daughter very much, would quietly teach her to play reasoning games, and would take her out to play wild survival, but she was not a man after all.

When Bai Jiayi was getting bigger and bigger, and her temper was rising, Bai Jin found that Bai Minyi, who was still quiet, could better understand his parents' thoughts, so he began to subconsciously control Bai Jiayi.

How can a child in the rebellious period listen to the nagging of his parents.

It didn't take long for Bai Jiayi to be in a bar, and Lan Yunuo, who had been pampered since childhood.

At that time, Lan Yunuo's body was swollen and fat, but he loved face very much, and spending money was like pouring water, without scale.

Seeing this, most of the gentlemen around her were around her.

It just so happens that Bai Jiayi is also a fun-loving person, and there are also a group of wine and meat brothers around her.

The two grabbed wine in X bar and grabbed the private room from time to time, and naturally the people around them also noticed each other's existence more or less.

As the daughter of the secretary of Xicheng, how could Lan Yunuo tolerate someone who "flaunted his might" before? Soon, she found out Bai Jiayi's identity.

"It's just a policeman's daughter, and you dare to fight me!" Lan Yunuo played with the wine glass in his hand and said contemptuously.

As a result, as everyone expected, Lan Yunuo used his father's authority to put small shoes on Bai Jin and had a fight with Bai Jiayi, but he forgot people's responsibilities to the law.

Then, it was the whole process of Ou Rulan and Lan Huanzhi intersecting again.

Until now, Ou Rulan still thinks that Lan Yunuo, who lost weight back then, specially followed Bai Jiayi's back, wanting to take advantage of her unpreparedness to murder her, but she was killed by the counter-killing.

So when the corpses of everyone were found, Ou Rulan notified Lan Huanzhi.

"You really haven't noticed anything unusual about your daughter?" Lan Yunuo's actions shocked the people above, causing Lan Huanzhi to lose his job in vain, and the family immigrated overseas and started all over again.

Fortunately, the Lan family is born to understand money, and their ancestors also did business overseas, so Lan Huanzhi finally saved the Lan family.

Lan Yunuo, who knew her mistakes, seemed to be reborn, minus a body of fat, and also changed her face, and from the outside, absolutely no one could recognize her as the woman who had a hard time with Bai Jiayi in the X bar back then.

The only thing that remains unchanged is her delicate and willful character.

The world is big, beautiful and not deceiving, her character was born overseas and won the reputation of cute and true temperament.

It may also be consistent with the local national conditions, pure as a lotus on the surface, and as hot as a pepper on the inside.

"It's the same if you want me to say it 10,000 times, I don't know." Lan Huanzhi played with the black ring on his finger and said.

"Mr. Lan, if you don't cooperate with us like this, it will be difficult to find out the truth, and you don't want Yunuo to die unjustly in the water, right?"

"Anyway, it's just like accidental drowning, why should I cooperate with you?"

"You!"

"Rulan, you will never be as good as your brother-in-law in this regard, you are too uncalm." Lan Huanzhi glanced at Ou Rulan coldly, picked up the goblet in his hand, toasted her, and drank, "Do you know why I have to be treated as drowning?" Because...... I know that Yunuo is not so stupid to expose her weaknesses to the enemy, and if she died because of drowning, it proves that she is not good at learning. ”

"What?!" Ou Rulan didn't expect Lan Huanzhi to say such a thing, she was so excited that she almost stood up, and she remembered Lan Huanzhi's words, so she couldn't help but leave the chair's buttocks, relaxed herself and sat down again, "So, you admit that Yunuo followed Jiayi for revenge, but unfortunately after being discovered by Jiayi, he drowned." What about the shredded corpses? What about shredded corpses? ”

"Nope." Lan Huanzhi raised his eyebrows, he raised his index finger and waved, "I didn't say that Yunuo was killed for revenge, police officer, my daughter is a good citizen, and it is illegal to slander her." ”

"Lan Huanzhi!" Ou Rulan really couldn't stand it, slapped the table and stood up, looking at him condescendingly, "Cooperate with the work of the police, I didn't come out to listen to your nonsense!" ”

"Then it doesn't seem to be as simple as having lunch with me." Lan Huanzhi looked at the knife on the plate lightly, picked it up, and scraped the meat foam on it with a fork.

"Brother Lan, for the sake of everyone, you used to be friends in the guild, I beg you. What was wrong with Yunuo before she disappeared, or did she tell you who they met and what happened before they disappeared? ”

"Not really." Lan Huanzhi's rare impatience, low voice, can hear the anger behind it.

He stood up, asked others to clean up the table, tidied up his clothes, and said to Ou Rulan: "Thank you very much for accepting my invitation to have lunch with me, please." He made a gesture to see off the guest, and Ou Rulan's face changed slightly, and she held back her anger and left in a hurry.

She didn't know that after she left, Lan Huanzhi's face sank and said to the person standing beside her: "Check, I want to see who is so cruel to my daughter." ”

"So he has to take Lan Yunuo away at this stage, could it be that he found out some clues?" After listening to Ou Rulan's report, combined with Wu Dongqing's words, Bai Jin pondered.

"I don't know, Lan Huanzhi doesn't want to say." Ou Rulan sat helplessly on the swivel chair.

Everyone was silent for a moment, and only the sound of paper turning was heard in the quiet office, and someone walked in from outside, it was the clerk of the forensic office.

"Team Bai," he walked forward quickly as he entered the door and said to Bai Jin, "Mr. Lan's formalities have been completed, and our head of the room asked if you would let him go like this?" ”

"Let them go." Bai Jin waved his hand, the clerk nodded, and left.

Bai Jin stood up, walked to the blackboard, and asked, "Since Lan Huanzhi has already completed the formalities, he naturally has the ability to make it impossible for us to investigate any further." Everyone, Lan Yunuo will let it go first, are the backgrounds of the rest of the people, the cause of death, etc., clear? ”

"It's all clear." Cheng Qian sorted out the paper at hand and said.

He took a few bundles around the conference table, handed them into the hands of the people, and sat back in his place.

The conference table is oval-shaped, so that everyone can have enough space to show the evidence and documents they analyzed when exchanging the facts of the case, at this moment, except for Bai Jin, who is sitting in the first place, the five people are sitting face-to-face, they look at the information in their hands, and listen to Cheng Qian's report.

"Or let's talk about Miss Lan first, the autopsy report said that she was drowned first, and then her body was maliciously mutilated, but it is conceivable that the murderer did not want people to know that the real cause of her death was drowning, and similarly, in the person who confirmed the identity, the people in the laboratory department found that they died directly because of other injuries before they were maliciously destroyed by someone. The dismemberment of the murderer's corpses is partly to obscure the exact cause of their deaths, and on the other hand, perhaps to show off his evil deeds to us. ”

"It's disgusting to show off!" Ou Rulan exclaimed.

"Yes, I guess the murderer must be a pervert who likes to use all kinds of means to torture others and then get pleasure!" Ji Xiaobin frowned, he couldn't bear to look directly at the recovered corpse in the photo.