The sound of wind and rain at night

The author has something to say: Don't worry, we will live together soon, and the relationship must be cultivated in the fire

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When a man is a beast, he is worse than a beast -- Tagore

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It was the end of October in a blink of an eye, and the weather was getting colder every day, especially when it was raining heavily, the penetrating cool air could penetrate into the bones of people.

Wan Tili got off the bus, opened his umbrella, stepped on the water, and ran towards the police station. The water splashed all the way, and the trouser legs would be dirty if he ran into it. Fortunately, he still had a pair of trousers in the office. While running, he cursed the cold weather. Last night he covered the only two quilts, but they couldn’t block the cold air on the soles of his feet. How can he survive the winter like this? Heating in the cold winter months depends entirely on a small sun for heating. Alas, the most difficult time is coming soon.

When he ran into the office, the other three people had already arrived. He looked up at the wall clock on the wall. Fortunately, he was not late at 7:58. The three of them looked back at Wan Tulli's distressed appearance, "You fell into the puddle ?” Liang Ziwei teased him.

"Go!" Wan Qili tremblingly went to the cabinet and took out the spare pants, "Captain, I'm going to change clothes."

Seeing Chen Xiucheng nodded, Wan Tili took the trousers and went to the bathroom at the end of the corridor. After changing, he washed the dirty trousers and hung them on a hanger to dry on the window lattice.

For more than a month, the law and order in Penghai can be said to be "peaceful". The cases at hand of each team have been settled in dust. When you have free time, you can sort out the old cases and help the police station in the jurisdiction to catch thieves and pyramid schemes. When it comes to pyramid schemes, they have a headache. Nowadays, people want to get rich like crazy but don't want to work hard. MLM organizations use their desire for money and the desire to get rich overnight to manipulate and deceive people.

Last night, they cooperated with Luyang District to arrest another group of people. At this time, they were investigating their residence registration and preparing to send the deceived people back to their hometowns. Liang Ziwei threw the notebook in his hand on the table and made a loud noise, "Tell me, these People are so fucking poor that they want to be pants and dream of being millionaires. We can’t do anything to them if we catch them. It’s useless to catch them. They’re sent back to others and they’re back. I don't know what they were thinking."

Yao Yao stopped and rested her sore fingers, "It can't be helped. Except for a few leaders, they are all brainwashed and deceived. Fines they have no money, even if they are locked up for a few days, it will not have much effect. That kind of confusion and ignorant madness is really scary."

Wan Tengli smiled, "Rodin once said: Being poor and lazy is really poor, and being humble without ambition is really cheap. We can only save them and not change their fate."

"Hey, cultural people just know how to pull words,...hey, shit, you really hit me," Liang Ziwei received a heavy punch from Wan Tili and hurriedly avoided his second attack. The two chased each other in the office. , Chen Xiucheng was called by Guo Kai to visit a team, and the office became the world of three 'monkeys'.

At noon they ate steamed buns that Wan Tulli brought from the cafeteria. After drinking the soup, Chen Xiucheng picked up his handbag and was about to go out, "There is a meeting in the bureau in the afternoon that will leave later, you should leave when it's time to get off work That's fine," walked to the door and turned back as if thinking of something, "Wan Cheng, don't go, I will find you when I leave."

"Well, okay." Wan Qili nodded.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the cold wind suddenly picked up, the rain became heavier, the sky was already dark, and the street lights outside were turned on early, Yao Yao put on a coat and wrapped herself tightly, "It's so cold, the weather The forecast says it's going to be rainy this week, it's annoying."

Liang Ziwei observed by the window for a while, and found that many cars had driven away, so he picked up the coat on the hanger and put it on, "Everyone in the other groups is off work, let's go too, and we will send you back in case."

"No need, didn't the captain tell me to wait for him, you guys go early, there will definitely be traffic jams on the road today and you will not be able to pay attention to safety."

"That's all right, little demon, I'll go down and drive the car over here, you can go downstairs later." Liang Ziwei took the car keys and went out, Yao Yao leaned on the window and looked at the sky outside, "Brother, you can wait a while." Be sure to ask the team leader to take you home, you won’t be able to get on the bus when it’s full.”

"I know, you should go downstairs too."

Yao Yao waved at him and opened the door and went out. Wan Tili stood there for a while, took a water glass, poured himself a cup of hot water and held it in his hand to keep warm. He didn't want to go home. His home wasn't as warm as his office. How about tonight? Just put the electric mattress on it too.

After turning on the computer and playing a few rounds of freecell, Chen Xiucheng came back, "Are they gone?"

Wan Tili stood up and turned off the computer, "Yes, captain, what do you want from me?"

Chen Xiucheng poured a glass of water and drank it up, "It's nothing, you can go back to live with me tonight, do you want to go home and get a few changes of clothes?"

"Ah?" Wan Qili didn't expect Chen Xiucheng to keep him because of this, "No, no need, I'll just go home, it's too disturbing to go to your house."

"What are you bothering me? I'm the only one at home, so it's settled."

"Sister Su is gone?" He met Xi Zisu on the road last week. At that time, Xi Zisu's complexion was particularly bad, and the surprise when he first saw her was no longer there.

... "Well, I went to England the day before yesterday. You pack up and let's go back. I'll drive first and you hurry up." Chen Xiucheng went out and Wan Tili was stunned for a while and hurried to the bathroom to get his pants back. He just entered the elevator The phone rang, and Lu Ting sent a text message every day as scheduled, "Xiaoli, I'm going back to China, I miss you." '

"Are you hungry, what do you want for dinner? There are only vegetables and noodles at home, why don't you go to the supermarket?"...After a while, Chen Xiucheng turned his head and looked at Wan Qili, who was staring out of the window and turned the steering wheel towards the supermarket. direction to go.

The car stopped Wan Tili before he came back to his senses, "Why are you here, do you want to buy something?"

"Well, you wait in the car, I'll be right back." Chen Xiucheng took an umbrella and pushed the door to get out of the car. It has become a water curtain, and it looks like the rain will never stop tonight.

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"There are biscuits on the table. If you're hungry, fill them up first. I'll cook." Chen Xiucheng entered the kitchen with the food he had bought, and Wan Tili followed after walking around twice, "Want to help?"

"No, you can watch TV for a while and the meal will be ready soon."

An hour later, the three dishes and one soup were on the table. Chen Xiucheng's cooking skills were commendable, and Wan Qili felt warm after eating and drinking, "Your cooking is delicious, teach me if you have the opportunity Use both hands."

"You? Forget it, I don't have that patience," Can a person who has lived alone for several years and can only cook noodles with vegetables expect him to have cooking skills?Chen Xiucheng didn't want to make things difficult for himself, "I want to discuss something with you. You should return the rented house. Anyway, it's a waste of my place to be idle. How about you move in and share it? The upstairs guest room will be cleaned up for you tomorrow." .”

Wan Tili choked for a moment, happiness came too suddenly, "How can I do that, it's inconvenient for Sister Su to come back, no way."

Chen Xiucheng's chopsticks paused for a while, "She, she won't be back in a short time. Hey, what about you, how can you live in winter without heating in your rented house... Otherwise, wouldn't you pay 1500 a month for rent? ? Just use the money to rent my house..."

"Your room is 1500? Tch, 5000, believe it or not, some people will break their heads, if you can't, I..."

"Cleaning is all yours. I... I'll teach you how to cook, and cooking will be yours in the future, okay? Tsk, it's settled with less grinding, and tomorrow I will find time to help you carry things." Chen Xiucheng snapped his chopsticks Wan Qili poked the rice with his chopsticks to express his dissatisfaction with someone's hegemony.

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As night fell, the rain became heavier, and the raindrops slapped on the glass windows like countless little hands were beating non-stop. The whole city was noisy and silent, and occasionally a taxi passing by in a hurry on the wide road passed by in a blink of an eye. Nowhere to be seen, a dozen or so silver water columns on the Yongan Bridge slanted down along the drainage holes, washing away a hanging white object. Vintage pendulum.

Looking in, under the 'pendulum' is a pair of black and unkempt long hair, yes, this is of course not a pendulum but a luo### corpse of a woman who was hanged upside down, her pale face with a slightly open mouth There is something vaguely contained in it, and the out-of-focus eyes are half-opened like helplessness and accusation against fate. Looking up, the pale body of the woman has no blood, and the originally towering and beautiful female symbol has lost the nourishment of life. There is no elasticity, and the two slender arms are powerless to hang down and swing with the wind,...

Wan Tili turned over and opened his eyes. It was still pitch black outside, and the wind sounded like a wounded and howling beast. He shrank into the quilt and turned to face Chen Xiucheng. The man was sleeping with a familiar face and a peaceful face. The long breath seems to be isolated from this noisy world.

Some people are like this, the sound of wind and rain can't wake him up, but he is very sensitive to the sight of others. The moment Wan Qili turned to look at him, Chen Xiucheng woke up. He turned his head to look at the two bright light bulbs beside the pillow, "Scared?"

"I've never heard such a loud wind. Do you think the building is shaking? Are the windows double-glazed?"

Chen Xiucheng chuckled, stretched out his hand and pressed his head into his bosom, "Stop thinking about it and go to sleep, my brother will support you when the sky is falling, um, go to sleep."

The sound of whimpering wind was replaced by the sound of regular heartbeats. Wan Qili counted the heartbeats in his ears and fell asleep again. In the dream, he returned home, the home of himself and his parents. When the door saw him coming back, he began to complain about why the school uniform was dirty again, why he didn’t change his slippers when he entered the room, and he didn’t know how to clean up the desk after finishing his homework... All the nagging sounds that he felt impatient before were so kind in the dream It turns out that what he has been thinking about all these years is just an ordinary and warm home...

The rapid ringtone suddenly rang. Chen Xiucheng turned over and sat up and took the mobile phone on the bedside table. "What's wrong?" Wan Qili opened his eyes in a daze. Chen Xiucheng got up and put on his clothes halfway through the noise, "Get up, something happened."

The temperature outside was still fluctuating and the temperature was only 8 or 9 degrees. Wan Qili shivered as soon as he went out. Chen Xiucheng handed him the coat in his hand, "I found a female corpse hanging upside down under the Yong'an Bridge, TMD! This kind of ghost The weather estimates that all traces have been washed away by the rain." Chen Xiucheng turned on the fire and waited for Wan Tili to sit in the car and roar away.

Yong'an Bridge is a concrete arch bridge in the old city of Penghai City. It spans the water system around the city and is about 150 meters long and 15 meters wide. There are not many vehicles passing by on the two-way lanes, especially when it rains overnight. , There is a camera at each end of the bridge. Whether they can capture the evidence of the murderer's crime depends on their luck.

At 04:30 in the morning, the sky was still dark, and under the dim lights on the Yongan Bridge, it was already a busy scene. Liang Ziwei and Yao Yao arrived at the same time with them and handed the distributed raincoats to Chen Xiucheng and the others, "Captain, listen to the front Some people said that the body is still hanging on the bridge and we can’t take it down until our people finish taking pictures.”

"Has the trace inspector come yet? Where's the forensic doctor?" Chen Xiucheng looked towards the bridge, where there were several policemen from the police station and two people dressed as sanitation workers, who seemed to be the ones who found the corpse and reported the crime, " Liang Zi called them, let's go and check the situation first."

Chen Xiucheng led people ahead and Liang Ziwei called the people from the trace inspection department. After the phone call, they caught up, "Captain, their car broke down halfway. They just changed cars and said they will be there soon."

"I see, Liang Zi, Xiao Yao, go and make notes for the informant, and Wan Cheng will come with me to see the corpse."

"Yes."

Wan Tili wiped the rain off his face and greeted the police at the scene, "When was the body found?"

"It was discovered by the two sanitation workers around four o'clock. As for when it was hoisted up, no one knows. Go over and have a look, anyway, it's quite infiltrating." One of the policemen pointed to the railing beside the bridge, "It's a The nude female corpse was hung upside down on the stone pillar of the railing with a rope tied to the ankle. The rope was eight or nine meters long and the female corpse fell right at the entrance of the bridge. It's not easy to say..."

While listening to the police's introduction to the situation at the time, they walked towards the stone pillar where the female corpse was hung. A brown hemp rope was fastened to the carved stone pillar about 20 centimeters high. On the ankle, the female corpse is completely naked###Naked long hair hangs down, the face of the deceased can not be seen clearly from the angle of the bridge, but judging from the body shape, it should not be more than 25 years old, and the female corpse has scars on the legs, buttocks and back Liti explained that she had been crazily abused during her lifetime.

The sound of brakes sounded at the bridge head, and the trace inspection and forensic office also arrived. After taking pictures of the scene quickly, they needed to pull the female corpse up. In order to avoid the second injury, it was necessary to ensure that the female corpse did not collide with the side of the bridge. It is said that the support of the bridge railing cannot be used, and the human arm has to be suspended in the air to pull the corpse up, which is a test of arm strength.

The two policemen volunteered first, but they did not go well when they were about two meters up. "If you can't do it, don't move, the body is shaking very badly." After a while, their arms began to feel sore, and they couldn't use their strength to lift it up. , Chen Xiucheng went over to help stabilize the rope, "Let go, I'll do it."

"Officer Chen, this woman's corpse weighs one hundred and twenty catties. The key is that there is no place to exert strength. One person definitely can't do it."

"Let go, I can do it." Chen Xiucheng wrapped one end of the rope around his wrist and stretched his arm out of the bridge. Seeing that he insisted, the police let him go.

One meter, two meters...five meters...Wan Qili watched the female corpse rise slowly, Chen Xiucheng's movements were very steady, there was no expression of effort on his face, only the tense muscles and bursting veins on the arms, the female corpse When the feet reached the railing position, Wan Qili stretched out his hand to hold the ankle, and it was cold. Others also tried their best to put the body on the stretcher. Han Siyin asked the assistant to hold the umbrella and quickly did a simple inspection. "The deceased was female, 169 centimeters in length, 23-26 years old and had no birth history. The cause of death was preliminarily determined to be suffocation. She had multiple sharp weapon injuries and burns on her body." Then her eyes stopped on the face of the female corpse, "Give me tweezers!"

The assistant handed over the tweezers, and under everyone's attention, Han Siyin took out a foreign object from the female corpse's mouth. When he unfolded it, it turned out to be a pair of printed cotton women's underwear. "Pervert!" She put the underwear on the assistant and handed it in the evidence bag.

The scene has been washed clean and Chen Xiucheng is also full of helplessness, "It's raining too much, let's go back for an autopsy, the trace inspection will try to check the scene as carefully as possible, Xiao Yao, please go back to the bureau and we'll take a closer look." Ask."

"Yes."

"Okay, Captain."

"That's fine," Chen Xiucheng raised his wrist to check the time, "It's 05:30, go back to the bureau first, Xiao Yao and Liang Zi will go to check the monitoring records at dawn and hope to find something."

The taillights of the vehicle flashed twice and disappeared in the dark rain. The Yong'an Bridge regained its calm. At dawn, people in the old city resumed their busy day. They rode or drove across the bridge in a hurry...