Sister Yu's husband and children arrived one after another.
Like Lao Geng, Sister Yu also roamed the streets when she was young, and was a gangster and a female tyrant. Later, for some reason, she restrained her temper and has lived a peaceful life for the past few decades.
She has a son and a daughter, both of whom have grown up, and her grandson is about to go to kindergarten.
The family rushed into the ward and hugged Lao Geng. They cried because Sister Yu was injured, but were glad that she had survived such a terrible fire and only had burns on her back, with no serious injuries to her face and limbs.
There was also someone in the next ward screaming at the top of his lungs. Cheng Ji and Qi Beisong went to see and found that it was the doctor who treated Chen Guangjun, surrounded by many other doctors, young and old.
The doctor is a celebrity in the circle. His family owns a mine and he has a net worth of hundreds of millions, but he doesn't like to dress up but prefers to be armed and do first aid.
He had a bad temper and was not good at cooperation. He couldn't stay in the public hospital, so he set up a small hospital on his own and worked secretly. Unexpectedly, a fire not only burned all his carefully collected medical instruments, but also killed a patient he had been caring for.
The instrument has a price, but life is priceless, so he howled louder than Sister Yu.
Cheng Ji waited for him to finish crying, and then waited until his colleagues who were watching him gradually dispersed before he walked into the ward to try to comfort him.
Unexpectedly, the doctor grabbed him and said, "Handsome guy, I think this fire is wrong!"
Cheng Ji asked, "What's wrong?"
"I didn't see how the fire started, I just felt that the fire spread very quickly!" The doctor thought for a moment and said in a matter-of-fact manner, "Of course I put some oxygen tanks at the back of the clinic, which also greatly contributed to the explosion and the fire."
He added: "When I was carrying Sister Zhang on my back and trying to escape, I found that the security door couldn't be pushed open. Fortunately, there was a fire axe behind the door, otherwise both of us would have been trapped inside!"
"Why can't you push it open?"
"Maybe the door lock was welded shut."
After hearing what the doctor said, Cheng Ji felt that his speculation was more and more reasonable, but he had already promised Qi Beisong not to act rashly, so he had to suppress his emotions.
He couldn't help in the ward, so he went outside with Qi Beisong to wait.
He huddled himself in the corner of the emergency staircase, holding a cigarette between his slender fingers but not smoking it. The long string of ash accumulated for a long time and finally fell off.
Qi Beisong looked at him worriedly, observing every subtle change in his expression.
And he had almost no expression.
After the initial impulse, he was now as quiet as a pebble, with his already large eyes open, only blinking once after a long time.
Suddenly he asked, "Is it me?"
Qi Beisong didn't understand.
Cheng Ji said: "Is it because of me? I went to find Mao Xiaowei and alerted him, so he started to retaliate."
Without waiting for Qi Beisong to answer, he continued, "It must be my fault. I was too impulsive. I shouldn't have listened to Manager Zhou and asked around! I should have been patient! Although Chen Guangjun was seriously injured, he still had a chance to survive. It was my fault. I also harmed Sister Yu and the doctor. Do you think I was wrong too?!"
He was almost certain that the charred body was Chen Guangjun, because the fire started in the clinic and Chen Guangjun was the first to be hit.
Qi Beisong took a deep puff of his cigarette, put it out in the corner, held his face with both hands, and said in a deep voice: "If you dare to say that again, we'd better end it as soon as possible! What the hell does this have to do with you? Who would tolerate this if it happened to them? Only a coward would tolerate it! Who are you to me? How can you be a bastard? If you are a bastard, then what am I? Your husband? Don't jump to conclusions so early, wait until I find Mao Xiaowei!"
He snatched the cigarette from Cheng Ji's hand and said, "Stop smoking. I'll ask someone to buy you a cup of milk tea later."
Cheng Ji rubbed his painful temple and said, "I can't drink it. My stomach is bloated. I just saw at the fire scene..."
"Don't mention it!" Qi Beisong shouted, "I'm a coward!"
"Then you probably won't be a forensic doctor." Cheng Ji murmured, "I can see, but I will vomit afterwards."
Just as he said, it came true. He bent down and vomited.
He hadn't eaten a single grain of rice since last night, his stomach was empty, and all he vomited was yellow-green bile.
Qi Beisong patted his back with concern and said, "You bastard, why aren't you a bastard now? Hurry up and eat something for me!" It's a pity that I sent all those guys out, otherwise I would have asked them to go home and fill some porridge for you!
Cheng Ji vomited in waves, and stomach acid rushed through his esophagus and throat, causing him a heartburn-like pain.
Suddenly he grabbed Qi Beisong and lay on top of him.
Qi Beisong hugged him with all his strength and kept asking, "Baby, what's wrong? I'm here..."
Cheng Ji regretted that he shouldn't have slept that night. If only he was there!
Although his alertness is not as high as in the past, it is still higher than Sister Yu or the doctor. If he had been there, he might have discovered the fire earlier and might have had time to carry Chen Guangjun out!
In a fire, even one or two seconds can determine someone's life or death!
He huddled in Qi Beisong's broad chest, shaking his shoulders fiercely. Perhaps he should roar to express the pain he was feeling, but his throat was blocked, and a feeling of powerlessness, suffocation and guilt gripped him tightly.
"Don't hate yourself. How can this be your fault?" Qi Beisong held him close to his chest. "It hurts me too when you do this."
Cheng Ji said painfully: "It's me, it must be fucking me!"
"Shh... don't say anything." Qi Beisong said, "It's really not true. I promise."
Cheng Ji finally stopped vomiting and squatted in the corner. Qi Beisong took out a tissue from his pocket and wiped his mouth.
Qi Beisong said, "Don't jump to conclusions. We all observed Mao Xiaowei that day. Do you think a person who secretly filmed other people's movies with a pinhole camera, or a person who secretly sold drugs, could commit murder and arson?"
Cheng Ji grabbed the tissue and thought for a moment, knowing that he was right.
From Mao Xiaowei's performance, we can infer that he is not very courageous and not ruthless enough. His words can be fake, but his temperament cannot.
Thinking back on it, even if Mao Xiaowei instructed others to beat Chen Guangjun, it was not his intention to beat him so hard, and the horror he showed when he saw the photos of Chen Guangjun's injuries was not pretended.
Qi Beisong said: "So don't think too much, maybe it's really an accident."
From afar, they saw old Geng Hong running towards them with swollen eyes, and waved to Cheng a few times, wanting to ask him to go to the fire scene again to identify the bodies.
Cheng Ji struggled to stand up but was held down by Qi Beisong.
Qi Beisong shouted to Lao Geng, "He's not going! Let him take his time! You go by yourself!"
When Lao Geng heard this, he said, "No, I'm scared!"
Qi Beisong angrily said, "Are you afraid of him? What do you think of him?!"
Lao Geng had no choice but to say okay, then you keep an eye on him.
"It's okay, he followed me today!" Qi Beisong said.
Lao Geng turned around and left, wiping his tears.
Qi Beisong said to Cheng Ji, "Come to my house. These are family matters. You can't help. You're still thinking about nonsense here."
Cheng Ji asked: "If the family knew that Sister Yu's injury might be caused by me, would they want to kill me? If the doctor knew that his medical equipment worth 20 to 30 million was destroyed because of me, would he also want to kill me?"
"I'll kill you first!" Qi Beisong pulled him up, "Stop annoying me, you devil! Vice President Zhang's mental state is better than yours!"
Cheng Ji followed Qi Beisong back home, to the Blue Sky community next to the bay. This was his second time stepping into this mansion. The last time was at night, and this time it was during the clear daytime.
Qi Beisong didn't allow him to think too much, but he wouldn't think about anything unless he died. He sat blankly on the sofa for most of the rest of the day, looking at the superb sea view outside the floor-to-ceiling window, with his arms wrapped around his knees, not moving at all, and he didn't know how much he saw.
A strong sense of self-blame weighed on my heart.
Was it because of him? Was it his carelessness that led to this crazy counterattack? If so, how should he make amends? Should he die to atone for his sin
Even if he is going to die, Mao Xiaowei must be eliminated first. This vicious and evil person cannot be allowed to live in the world!
Lao Geng sent news that the deceased had been confirmed to be Chen Guangjun.
Cheng Jida sighed and asked, "When will the fire investigation start?"
Old Geng sobbed and said he didn't know, then suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Cheng'er, I have something strange to tell you. There were only a few auxiliary police guarding the fire scene. After they found out that the deceased was Xiaojun, many plainclothes police came, and they were obviously not local police officers. They all looked angry. I asked them for information, but they just gave me cigarettes and refused to say anything. Could our Xiaojun really be in trouble?"
Cheng Ji said: "Whether he got into trouble or not, he has become an immortal, why are you still talking about that?"
He hung up the phone and saw Qi Beisong listening with bated breath, so he said, "Godfather said that Chen Guangjun's death attracted a lot of police."
"Why?" Qi Beisong asked.
Cheng Ji was also confused.
As they were talking, the doorbell rang. Qi Beisong went to open the door and saw Lei Jing standing outside.
Lei Jing whispered something to Qi Beisong, who was shocked and asked, "Confirm?"
"Confirmed." Lei Jing said, "You have all been fooled."
"Mao Xiaowei actually dared to lie to me?" Qi Beisong's face turned pale.
Lei Jing said: "It's half true and half false... Actually, he had no choice but to think of a clever trick in a hurry."
Cheng Ji stood in the living room anxiously and asked, "Brother Lei, what's the news?"
"There is news." Lei Jing said, "I can tell you, but you have to control your emotions and listen to me slowly, because it is not at all what you imagined."
Cheng Ji waited for his next words.
Lei Jing said: "The fire at the clinic was probably arson."
Cheng nodded, which was expected.
"But it's not because you went to look for Mao Xiaowei. It has nothing to do with you. Someone discovered that Chen Guangjun is not dead, and they want to silence him."
“… to silence them?”
Lei Jing said, "You guys—you, your godfather Brother Biao, the injured Vice President Zhang and the doctor, including Manager Zhou of Shuiyue Villa—have all been inadvertently involved in a major case because of Chen Guangjun. The police were also caught off guard. They only found out that it was Chen Guangjun when they compared the DNA of the deceased in the fire. They were looking for him before."
Cheng Ji asked: "Who is he?"
"He is a police undercover in Shuiyue Villa, and he is targeting Mao Xiaowei."
Cheng Ji opened his eyes wide in disbelief: "Chen Guangjun is a policeman??"
"No, his professional identity is a security guard at Shuiyue Villa, but he is a collaborator with the police." Lei Jing said, "He can be considered an informant, but the relationship between the two is closer. It is said that they have cooperated more than once."
"Which... which informant?"
Lei Jing and Qi Beisong exchanged glances and told the truth: "Drug enforcement."
"Shuiyue Villa Bar not only sells controlled drugs, but also traffics drugs. The amount of drugs shipped is not small. The police have been keeping an eye on them for at least half a year. The reason why Chen Guangjun was beaten and harmed was not because he saw Mao Xiaowei drugging customers, but because he knew about their drug trafficking."
Cheng Ji stood up suddenly: "So the bar is really a drug den? Mao Xiaowei is really a drug dealer?!"
"right."
"Isn't he some stupid, perverted guy who pimps, drugs, and makes videos?!"
“Not only that.”
Cheng Ji was almost going crazy, holding his head and shouting: "He is a drug dealer! Then the fire was still my fault! I went to find him, and he must have realized that Chen Guangjun was not dead! I also showed him the photos of Chen Guangjun after the injury, so he turned around and took revenge!!"
Qi Beisong quickly held his shoulder.
Lei Jing pressed down with one hand to appease him: "I said it has nothing to do with you, it really has nothing to do with you. When you went to find him, you had no idea what had happened, right?"
Yes, no one knows, he just went to ask about the cause!
Lei Jing explained: "First of all, Mao Xiaowei was not selling drugs voluntarily. He was controlled by a gang and could not go ashore. Such a person would never retaliate against the police informant."
"Secondly, according to the police, Mao Xiaowei had been persuaded by Chen Guangjun. He called Chen Guangjun away from work that night not to kidnap him, but because he had finally made up his mind to cooperate with the police."
"The last piece of news before Chen Guangjun was beaten was that Mao Xiaowei was willing to hand over evidence that could be used to accuse the drug gang. Chen Guangjun could get him his death sentence changed to suspended death sentence or life imprisonment. Life imprisonment would give him a chance to have his sentence commuted, so he couldn't retaliate. The two of them were working together."
"It was not Mao Xiaowei who killed the witnesses twice, but the drug trafficking gang. The cooperation between Mao Xiaowei and Chen Guangjun has been discovered."
Cheng Ji said: "No wonder Chen Guangjun changed his name to Chen Jie, he is an informant!"
"Yes, the police helped Chen Jie get a fake identity for him." Lei Jing said.
He continued: "So he didn't know Chen Guangjun was murdered until you went to see Mao Xiaowei. He didn't tell the truth to protect himself. He suddenly said something like pimping and drugging in order to get away from you as soon as possible so that he could escape. Or he would be safe if you directly handed him over to the public security organs."
Qi Beisong asked: "Did he drug me before?"
"Yes." Lei Jing said, "He has done a lot of things, and they are exactly the same as what he described. He was forced to sell drugs, but drugging people and secretly filming them was his hobby. If he appeared in court, we would call him making meritorious contributions while serving his sentence, but abroad he would be called a tainted witness, and he is not just a tainted witness. It is said that the reason why Chen Guangjun was able to convince him was because he took advantage of this weakness of his."
Qi Beisong was extremely disgusted and cursed: "Cheng'er really should slap him on the jaw a few more times!"
Cheng Ji asked, "Where is Mao Xiaowei?"
"He ran away." Lei Jing said, "The police are also looking for him."
"How could he get away?" Cheng Ji asked in a lost voice.
But on second thought, I felt that it was normal for him to run away.
That night Qi Beisong handed Mao Xiaowei over to Manager Zhou. Manager Zhou was such a nice guy that he naturally would not choose to call the police for an attempted voyeurism case. At most, he would appeal to Mao Xiaowei's emotions and reason with him, and persuade him to surrender, and then let him go.
Mao Xiaowei kept everyone in the dark, what a genius he is!
Cheng Ji remembered something and his eyes widened.
The other two looked at him.
Cheng Ji said coldly, "I know! The doctor told me last night that when he was busy treating patients outside, a stranger sneaked into the ward and found Chen Guangjun. When he saw the doctor coming in, he ran away! Chen Guangjun was found in the morning, and the clinic caught fire in the evening. Is that person a member of the drug trafficking gang?"
Lei Jing nodded: "It is very likely. I will pass this detail on to the police."
He said: "Xiao Cheng, no matter what has happened or is about to happen, you and your godfather must restrain yourself and not act rashly. Because Chen Guangjun's death involves an extremely serious case, no one can cause trouble for the police."
Cheng Ji agreed, but his face looked unhappy.
The death of an informant in the line of duty is a serious blow to the police, especially since the deceased was still young, which is particularly regrettable.
Qi Beisong quickly winked at Lei Jing.
Lei Jing suddenly made a 180-degree turn and asked, "Is there anything to eat? I've been running around outside all day and I've only eaten one bun so far."
Qi Beisong quickly chimed in: "There are frozen wontons in the refrigerator. We don't know how to cook them. Cheng'er, go and cook them. Don't let Brother Lei go hungry!"
Cheng Ji was startled, looked up and said, "Ah... OK."
The trick used by Lei Jing and Qi Beisong was called distraction, and it was indeed very effective. When Cheng Dian was boiling water, his expression was not so solemn anymore.
Qi Beisong also directed him to do this and that, saying that he wanted to add dried shrimps and seaweed, then he wanted to add egg skin, and then he wanted to add old hen soup to make the wontons delicious.
Cheng Ji said, how can I give you some old hen soup now
Qi Beisong took out a fully packaged quick-frozen chicken from the freezer and said, "We only have this one home. If my wife won't do it, I'll do it myself. Don't blame me if I set the house on fire!"
Cheng Ji said, "Okay, I'll hang it for you. Put the chicken down quickly and don't smash it into the pot."
Lei Jing continued to make jokes, which seemed quite forced for his personality: "It's still unclear who will be whose wife, right, Xiao Cheng?"
Qi Beisong shouted, "You are a traitor! Stop eating and drinking at my house, go home and eat by yourself!"
Lei Jing said: "My husband has been in a bad mood recently, and I have to sleep on the sofa every day."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. He has bouts of pain." Lei Jing said, "He'll be fine after this."
"It would be nice to have another child." Qi Beisong said.
Lei Jing bowed and said, "Thank you, please spare him. He almost died on the operating table last time. He didn't want to live, but I want to live too!"
Qi Beisong said, "Yes, it was the doctor who saved him last time. Staff Officer Yu and I pinched your Ren Zhong and held the oxygen bottle to save you. How could a man of 1.8 meters tall like you be so useless?"
Cheng Ji interrupted and asked, "Who gave birth?"
"His wife." Qi Beisong said.
"My man." Lei Jing said.
“…” Cheng Ji stared at them, not knowing how to respond for a moment.
It’s all the fault of the original book, it’s all the fault of the setting!
"He fainted just after his wife entered the operating room. After she came out, she had some problems and went into the ICU, and he fainted again!" Qi Beisong emphasized, "He's been through gunfire and hail of bullets, but he fainted two or three times a day in the hospital. Isn't that shameful?"
Lei Jing said: "It's none of your business. I didn't faint for you anyway."
Cheng Ji felt a little better, and the three of them then sat around the table eating wontons. Before they had taken a few bites, Lei Jing's phone, which had been placed on the table, vibrated.
He grabbed it and walked to the elevator hall to answer it. Cheng Ji followed his gaze and saw that he tilted his head when he passed under the crystal chandelier.
Qi Beisong said jealously: "Don't look at him, he has someone else, look at me!"
Cheng Ji said, "Shut up and eat yours."
He couldn't help asking, "What do you think it is?"
"He's the head of intelligence, and he has a lot of things to do." Qi Beisong said, "He'll tell you if there's anything later. Stop reading and eat."
As he spoke, he picked up a wonton and stuffed it into Chengji's mouth, and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Cheng Ji chewed, swallowed, and nodded casually.
"Who smells better, me or the wontons?" Qi Beisong asked.
"… "
"Who smells better?" Qi Beisong was very persistent.
"you."
Cheng Ji put the wontons into his mouth one by one until Lei Jing came back, then he looked at him inquiringly.