Chapter 36: The Bait
Shen Lang looked at Huairou who was shrouded in street lamps, thinking of the time spent together today, he had never been so happy as today.
Suddenly, a crazy thought welled up in his heart, and his relationship with Huairou might be able to go further.
"I ......"
"Xiao Rou! Why did you come back! Li Guoliang's voice interrupted Shen Lang's words, and he had an angry look on his face.
"Rourou, it's so late, where the hell have you gone? This is, Shen Lang is it? ”
Wang Rou looked at Shen Lang from the side, and then looked at the roses in Huairou's hand, as if she understood something, her face was a little heavy.
"Uh, hello. I'll send Xiaorou home. ”
Shen Lang swallowed the unfinished words, and he could feel that the couple seemed to be hostile to him.
"Oh, it's you." Li Guoliang looked at Shen Lang's expression with scrutiny. "It's so late, where did you take my Xiaorou?"
This sentence is a little unkind, but Shen Lang can't say anything, after all, this man is Huairou's father.
"How did you guys get down?"
Huairou interrupted the two of them targeting Shen Lang, not understanding why they were so hostile to Shen Lang.
"Mom and Dad, this is worried about you, you haven't come back so late, we're worried about what happened to you."
Wang Rou said that she was about to pull Huairou, but she avoided and looked at Shen Lang.
"What did you just want to say?"
Seeing Li Guoliang and Wang Rou staring at him, Shen Lang touched his nose and could only change his mouth: "It's nothing, Merry Christmas." I'll go back first, goodbye. ”
Seeing Shen Lang turn around and leave, Li Guoliang and Wang Rou exchanged glances with each other, and then urged Huairou to go home.
After returning home, Wang Rou prepared a table of meals, but Huairou was not hungry, and washed up early and returned to the room, reverberating in her mind everything that happened today.
Jingle bell knock knock.
A series of crisp voices sounded, and Huairou listened to it suspiciously, only then did she remember that it was her new mobile phone.
It was a message from Shen Lang, only one sentence.
Good night and see you tomorrow.
For some reason, seeing this sentence, Huairou's heart beat wildly, and she closed her eyes and slept peacefully with a smile that she couldn't help but have.
"Huh? This little girl is here, and she's here to bring food to her boyfriend again? If you want me to say that you two young people are really affectionate. That's right! Did you have a happy date yesterday? ”
Uncle Wu was joking again, pouting at Shen Lang with a gossipy look, and whispered to Huairou: "That kid is too stingy, he won't tell me no matter how he asked yesterday." ”
Huairou smiled helplessly, and Shen Lang was too lazy to argue with Uncle Wu about this, so he took the lunch box from Huairou and began to place the dishes and chopsticks.
Three dishes, one soup and rice, the aroma of the meal made Wu Bo can't help but be greedy.
"Hey, girl, what did you do delicious?"
"Uncle Wu, I'm not his girlfriend, yesterday, I had a lot of fun." When Uncle Wu mentioned yesterday's incident, Huairou's heart was still a little throbbing, and she didn't dare to look at Shen Lang's eyes.
"Oh yes, it's all done casually, and I brought you one too."
Huairou said and took out another lunch box, Wu Boyi's eyes were bent into crescents when he smiled, and his expression was like a child who had received candy.
"Hey, Uncle Wu knows that you are shy, so if you don't say it, you won't say it. You girl is very likable, much better than my girl, and she is beautiful and delicious. In the future, it will be a blessing for this person to marry you. ”
After taking the dishes and chopsticks, Wu Bo said and put the vegetables in his mouth, since he tasted the food made by Huairou, he has always been greedy, and Huairou simply made some more for the old man.
Shen Lang looked at Wu Bokua Huairou, and his eyes blinked at him hintly, as if what he had just said was listening to him.
After lunch, Shen Lang took his coat and put it on.
"You're going out?"
Looking at Shen Lang's neatly dressed appearance, Huairou guessed.
"Well, Wu Meng asked Wu Meng to go to the police station. He said they had found a body that we needed to identify if it belonged to the old man. ”
Huairou's heart was a little heavy, thinking of the old man who helped them at that time, if it weren't for them, maybe he wouldn't have died innocently.
"How's that gang of fugitives? Did you catch it? ”
Swallowing the dish in his mouth, Shen Lang's expression was a little heavy, and he looked at Huairou and shook his head.
"I searched the entire mountain forest, but I didn't find any trace of them, Wu Meng and they were still looking. Still, maybe they're no longer in the mountains. ”
Shen Lang's voice was a little low, remembering the thrill at the beginning, the old man who helped them should be regarded as being affected by them.
After eating in a somewhat dignified atmosphere, Shen Lang and Huairou just walked out of the ward and were about to take the elevator, but they were blocked by the little nurse on duty at the nurse station.
"What are you going to do? You can't be discharged from the hospital until the injury is healed! Yesterday you left the hospital without permission! ”
"Get out of the way."
Shen Lang glanced at the little nurse and said impatiently.
"Don't let it! The head nurse said that if I let the patient run around again, I will be punished for several shifts! I won't let it! ”
The little nurse stubbornly stood in the way, looking like she was sworn to death.
"You!"
Seeing that Shen Lang was about to get angry, Huairou looked at the little nurse and persuaded her. "I'm sorry, we have something to go to the Public Security Bureau, and we'll be back soon."
"No! The last time he ran around, the wound cracked, I was scolded by the head nurse, and yesterday I actually ran out again, I don't know what I did again, the wound was pressed and oozing blood! If you let him out this time, maybe the head nurse will kill me!" ”
The little nurse's let Huairou be stunned, thinking of the scene when she played the game yesterday, although she was not heavy, but Shen Lang held her and did many sets of games.
Could it be that it is because of this that Shen Lang's wound is serious again?
"You are obstructing the investigation of the case, can you afford any accidents?"
Shen Lang looked at the little nurse disapplauded.
"I'm ...... I'm not afraid, you say that if you investigate the case, you will investigate the case? What if you are, if you don't want to pay for the medicine, you're going to run! ”
Shen Lang's words made the little nurse not know how to answer, and suddenly thought that the medical expenses had not yet been settled, so her tone changed to questioning.
"How much does it cost to pay for medicine?" Shen Lang had run out of patience, thinking of the old man who died in vain, his mood couldn't get better.
"Medical expenses...... That's tens of thousands of dollars! You're no ordinary injury! ”
The little nurse is a little weak-hearted, and she doesn't really know the problem of medical expenses, after all, she is just a trainee nurse.
"Press it first, and come back to pay it off."
Huairou saw that the familiar check slip was taken out of Shen Lang's wallet, which was a blank check that could not be taken out at all.
"That's ......"
Before she finished speaking, Shen Lang pulled her on the elevator, leaving the little nurse with the checklist and watching them leave in a daze.
In the air-conditioned morgue, the sliding doors were tight, and although I was wearing thick winter clothes, I could still feel the cold coming from all directions.
"This is just delivered, temporarily parked in the morgue of the hospital here in the police station, you can see if it is the old man you told me."
Wu Meng led Shen Lang and Huairou directly to the refrigerator and nodded to the medical staff next to him, and then the man opened a cabinet door, and the body that was braving the cold was pulled out.
Seeing a pale face with round eyes, even if Huairou was mentally prepared, she was still startled, and suddenly turned her face away and didn't dare to look at it again.
But there was still the old man's bloodless face in his mind, with a frightened expression on his face, red and white flesh on his temples, the body had been cleaned and no blood flowed out, but the bloody gunshot wound was still shocking.
"That's right, it's the old man."
Shen Lang's voice was so cold that he couldn't hear his emotions.
Huairou didn't look at the corpse again, and looked at Wu Meng to express his certainty.
"According to the clues you provided, we searched there and found not only the body of the old man, but also the prison clothes they left behind. After they had killed the old man, they had stayed there for a while. ”
Wu Meng motioned for the medical staff to close the refrigerated cabinet, and Huairou looked at the tag on the cabinet, which read Unknown Corpse.
"What about his family?"
"The body has not been claimed for the time being, so it is not clear if he has any family."
"So, what will happen to his corpse?"
"It will be kept by the hospital for the time being, and it will be handled by the hospital after the expiration date."
The unclaimed corpse was either used as a specimen by the hospital or sent to the incinerator for incineration, and Huairou's heart suddenly felt a little sad.
Back in the air-conditioned room, Wu Meng closed the office door and poured hot tea for the two of them to warm up.
"They've escaped from the forest, right?"
Huairou held the paper cup and looked at Wu Meng who was sitting opposite in an affirmative tone.
Nodding heavily, Wu Meng's expression became a little serious, the fugitive's matter was not intended to be hidden from them.
"Judging from the clues left at the scene, they should have escaped from the mountain, but it is difficult for us to determine the specific location. However, we have added checks on the main roads in and out of various places, and it is not so easy to get out of the city. So, there's a good chance they're still in the city, and we suspect they're likely to come to you for revenge. But it's not so easy to catch them. ”
Wu Meng said and his eyes fell on Shen Lang and Huairou, as if he had something to say.
"What do you want to do? Need my cooperation? ”
Shen Lang, who understood the character of his comrade-in-arms, asked rhetorically.
"I want you two to be bait to lure them out."
Huairou looked at Shen Lang with a solemn expression, that gang of gangsters killed people without blinking, and now they have fled to the city, I am afraid it is not so easy to arrest.
If they were to be bait, they might be able to lure the fugitives to kill them, but it's easier said than done, and if you think about it, it's a very dangerous thing to do.
"If it's a bait, I can come alone, and there's no need to come alone to increase the danger."
Shen Lang's words made Huairou frown, he actually wanted to exclude her and face all this alone.
"What do you mean?" Huairou frowned.
"They have guns in their hands and they can't take risks."
Shen Lang replied as a matter of course, he had dealt with that gang of gangsters and read their information, it can be said that he was ruthless and didn't even let go of the old man, how could he bear to watch Huairou get into danger again.
"You haven't healed your gunshot wound yet, so you can take the risk?"
There was a feeling of being underestimated, and Huairou's reply was a little rushed.
"This, the bureau hopes that the two of you are together, after all, the gangsters and you all intersected. Rest assured, the hospital has arranged guards and will not let you be in danger again. They have fled to the city, and they will definitely know that the wolf is being treated in the hospital, and Xiaorou, you also need to be in the hospital, so that we can guarantee your safety. The specific plan is like this......"
After listening to Wu Meng's simple arrangement and deployment, the whole plan sounded foolproof, but it did not make the two of them feel more comforted, after all, they were facing a group of vicious murderers.
Walking out of the police station, it was already approaching evening, Wu Meng assigned someone to send them back, and when they got to the hospital, both of them got out of the car, and Shen Lang stopped on the way back to the ward.
"If you think about this again, I don't think your parents will agree."
"Then have you ever thought that Uncle Shen would agree to your risk if he found out?"
Huairou looked up at his retort not to be outdone, and was very dissatisfied with Shen Lang's desire to leave her alone and face the fugitive.
"I'm doing this for your own good."
A little headache frowned, Shen Lang understood that Huairou was a master who ate soft and not hard, but this matter was a matter of life and not sloppy.
"I've decided."
"If Your Parents Know ......"
Shen Lang thought of last night, the couple's attitude towards their own defense, they would let Huairou take risks? I'm afraid it's impossible.
"The decisions I make don't change because of them."
resolutely rejecting Shen Lang's hypothesis, Huairou stood at the door of the ward and looked at him.
"I still want you to think about it again, you should know very well how crazy that group of people are, now that you have just found your relatives, you have to think more about them."
Shen Lang's tone was extremely serious, although Huairou had a resolute attitude, but when it came to life safety, if something really happened, it would only make the relatives and enemies happy.
Pursing her lips, Huairou lowered her eyes and nodded.
knew in his heart that Shen Lang would keep persuading her like this for her sake.
However, if Shen Lang was left alone to face this, she would not agree.
"I know what you said, but this matter can only be faced by the two of us. I'm not going to leave you alone, I'm ...... I don't want anything to happen to you either. ”
After hurriedly speaking, her cheeks were a little hot, she didn't dare to look at Shen Lang's expression, turned around and left.
Leaving Shen Lang, he was a little stunned after hearing this.