Chapter 13: Celebratory Dinner
The speed of the police was very fast, and in less than ten minutes, Yang Wenbin had already heard the sound of sirens. Yan Junli got out of a car at the front, led a team, and followed Yang Wenbin around the hillside, and finally came to the place where the body was found.
"Finally found some decent clues." Yan Junli stood in front of the bones and lit a cigarette and sighed.
"I hope so." Yang Wenbin said in a low voice, thinking of Xia Baiyan who had escaped, a certain ominous premonition inexplicably emerged in his heart.
It didn't take long for Yan Junli to command the team to carry all the corpses and put them into the body bag.
"Now you only need to test the DNA to know whether it is Xie Mingqing or not." Yan Junli looked tired, but finding such a clue still made him feel a little more energetic, and he smiled and patted Yang Wenbin on the shoulder, "You have really done a great job, seriously, we should go and celebrate." β
"I haven't skimmed the eight characters yet, what are you celebrating?" Yang Wenbin said helplessly, but to be honest, Yang Wenbin also felt that the recent busyness of the investigation made people extremely tired, and he was eager to take a break.
"It's time to reward you for making such a big discovery," Yan Junli instigated, "Just the two of us, a bottle of wine, and a good night's rest?" β
"Okay, okay," Yang Wenbin finally compromised, "I'm just with you." β
After final deliberations, Yang Wenbin agreed to Yan Junli's suggestion to go to his home, because compared to Yan Junli's residence, Yang Wenbin's own rented house was much closer to Jiqing District. Yan Junli imagined the place where Yang Wenbin lived many times, but he didn't expect it to be here. There were small yellow flowers blooming in the green belt in front of the small apartment, some popular and cheap cars were parked in the garage, and sparrows were parked on the wires chirping, and after a while they got bored and flew away.
When the car had just stopped in front of the building, Yan Junli was very naΓ―ve and showed a bottle of red wine in front of Yang Wenbin's eyes, "Qiang Qiang! Surprise! β
Yang Wenbin didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and finally just took it helplessly, "Are you a child?" β
"Can you please stop hitting me like this, I specialize in buying Cabernet wine." Yan Junli looked aggrieved, "This thing is almost half a month's salary." β
Yang Wenbin laughed, took out the key and opened the door, "you, you only have two bottles of red wine in half a month's salary?" I don't believe it. You have a petty bourgeois temperament, I don't have it, I only have glasses and no goblets in my house, so make do with it. β
Yang Wenbin's home is cleaner and tidier than Yan Junli imagined, and he really can't see that it is a single man's residence. However, this may be because Yang Wenbin's things are too few, and there is almost no decoration in the room except for the necessary daily necessities, and it looks deserted.
Yan Junli looked at the empty dining table and raised his eyebrows, "Then is this dinner for Doctor Yang to cook it himself?" β
Yang Wenbin said dryly, "If it is possible, I would also like to cook it myself, but unfortunately Yang is not talented, and I am afraid that the things I make will poison Captain Yan to death." I ordered takeout and it will be there in a minute. β
In this way, two "emotional" big men, drinking red wine with beer glasses, eating takeaways, were very happy.
"The pizza was delicious, and I knew you had to be right." Yan Junli said as he stuffed pizza into his mouth, "But I still want to eat the food you made yourself." β
"Think about it." Yang Wenbin didn't give face.
"Well, you sayβwhy hasn't anyone found out who that woman was after she died so long twenty years ago?" Yan Junli asked.
Yang Wenbin frowned and glared at Yan Junli, "I said Captain Yan, can we not talk about the case today, the good atmosphere has been ruined by you." β
Yan Junli laughed, raised the cup in his hand in a compromise, and touched it with Yang Wenbin, "Okay, if you don't talk about the case, let's not talk about the case." But this takeaway and glass, well, really have an atmosphere. β
Yang Wenbin also laughed and drank with Yan Junli. After a few cups, both of them were a little drunk. Yan Junli bit a disposable fork in his mouth, and stared at Yang Wenbin, Yang Wenbin was uncomfortable by him, put down the wine glass and asked.
"What's wrong?"
Perhaps because of the alcohol, Yang Wenbin's voice was softer than usual.
"If I don't ask about the case, can I ask something else?" Yan Junli said.
Yang Wenbin showed a good-looking smile, "You ask." β
Yan Junli took down the fork in his mouth and pointed to Yang Wenbin's leg, "I always wanted to ask before, but I didn't dare to poke your scar for fear of poking your scar." What happened to your leg? β
Yan Junli originally thought that he would hesitate for a while, but he didn't expect Yang Wenbin to just lower his head, look quietly for a while, and then speak,
"Explosion."
"Explosion?"
"It was an explosion, and in that explosion, my parents died, and I was the only one who survived." Yang Wenbin said quietly, "That day, when I came home from school, I was just a few steps away from home, and my mother suddenly shouted at me at the window to run. Before I could run, it exploded and the whole building burned. I was so fated that I was lame. β
Yan Junli's eyes widened, and he thought about it almost for a second, which explosion it was. It was a famous bombing in City C fourteen years ago, without warning, and at dinner, almost everyone was eating happily at home. The explosion submerged an entire building in flames, and in that case, none of the occupants survived.
"You ......" Yan Junli wanted to say something, but only spit out such a word.
Yan Junli wanted to say something to comfort this proud and strong doctor, but he was not a weak woman, nor was he an injured child. On the contrary, because he was a partner who fought side by side with him, Yan Junli was even more at a loss.
"It's nothing, how many years have passed, I'm not a child anymore, I don't need your comfort." Yang Wenbin seemed to see his thoughts and said with a smile.
"Otherwise," Yan Junli thought for a moment and said, "I'll tell you one of my stories too, how about it?" β
Yang Wenbin nodded, which can be regarded as recognition. The two drank another glass of red wine.
"That was when I had just started working, and I was still a little police officer." Yan Junli rubbed the smooth surface of the glass with his thumb and said, "At that time, I handled a case where the criminal kidnapped a child. At that time, there were only three people on our side, and I was the team leader. I could have chosen to stay still and notify the troops, but I didn't end up doing that. Because I'm afraid that by the time the person I notified arrives here, the culprit will have already fled. So I made the wrong decision at the time, and I chose to rush straight up with two people. Not bad, the criminal was surrounded by the three of us and gave up on escaping. But do you know what happened next? β