Hidden Assassin

Snowflakes kept coming in from the holes in the house, and the icy wind from the river poured straight in. Suddenly seeing the scene of the man enduring pain under the dim light, Mu Qingqing was taken aback for a moment, and hurried over.

"Hey you……"

As a criminal police officer for so many years, she has seen many painful or uncomfortable scenes with her own eyes. However, seeing the man clenched his teeth on the ground, his whole body trembling violently, and even his gums were about to ooze blood, she still couldn't help but Feeling a palpitation, which must be painful anyway, hard to imagine unless you experience it yourself. As soon as the hand touched the opponent's body, in this harsh winter, it felt as hot as a stove. No matter what, it should be regarded as an extremely abnormal phenomenon.

"Hello……"

Originally, I felt that the man was not wearing much clothes, and I stretched out my hand to push it a few times, and the feeling became even thinner, but the feeling of scalding all over the body became more and more intense, and the sweat was like rain, as if the blood in the whole body was boiling. She took two deep breaths, walked to the door, and took out her mobile phone.

"Hey, is...Xiaochi on duty today? I'm Mu Qingqing, call an ambulance for me right away, this side of Fuchi, Yanjiang Road, what's the number... just tell them to come here quickly, along the river There is a small two-story building next to it, it is a dangerous building, I will wait here..."

After she finished making the phone call, she stood on the stairs and took another breath of cold air. When she turned around again, she was surprised to find that the man in the room had almost recovered, with both hands on the ground, gasping for breath, Beads of sweat trickled down his face.

"This is……"

She stood at the door and watched for a while. The man took about half a minute to adjust his breathing, and the sweat on his forehead stopped pouring out unexpectedly. Then he stood up somewhat staggeringly, stood there for more than ten seconds, picked up a bucket, went to the water pipe in the corner of the house to catch some water, then picked up the towel hanging by the side and threw it in, and used it like that Washed my face with cold water. At night like this, the cold water would freeze after a long time outside, but he didn't seem to care about the temperature of the water at all. After washing, he could faintly see heat steaming from his face.

Mu Qingqing opened his mouth to watch all this. The man is in good health. After having a headache like that, he can still toss like this. After washing his face and hanging up the towel, he walked back under the light again and picked up the knife. Start to scratch the chestnut shells one by one, from the beginning to the end. Didn't even glance at her.

It is not clear what the other party's mental state is. But if he was tortured like this every day without his family by his side, he might be driven crazy. Mu Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief at the door, and a few minutes later, the lights of the ambulance appeared in the night...

Time passed day by day, and the snow was still falling, sometimes big and sometimes small. Occasionally stop for a while. Yujiang is near the mountains. There are no major industrial cities nearby, and snow is common every year. However, it is still an amazing situation like this year's continuous downfall. Many shacks in the suburbs have collapsed. With more than a week before the Chinese New Year, the situation in the Public Security Bureau is polarized. Some people are ready to put down their work to celebrate the New Year, while others are busier than before.

Mu Qingqing is still tracking down the whereabouts of Yutou and others. The day before yesterday, he found out the hidden address of the other party, but when he rushed over, he found that the other party had escaped. The clues were cut off again, but he probably knew it. Part of the matter, at least the other party has not escaped. In addition, the fish head was shot by her indiscriminately, and the injury was serious. There is no formal treatment conditions these days. Qing also sighed: "I haven't died until now, life is really hard enough."

When she got this news, she breathed a sigh of relief, not because the fish head was not dead, but because if the other party had a seriously ill person, she would not be able to run very far. No matter how long she played this game of hide-and-seek, she would always be caught by herself in the end. come out.

In the past few days, apart from sorting out the limited clues, meditating in a daze, and taking them into suspicious areas for simple investigation, there is another thing Mu Qingqing is also doing after get off work. She bought two quilts, some warm clothes, gloves and other things and sent them to the small building by the river, after ten o'clock in the evening.

The two parties still couldn't communicate. While she was laying the bedding and putting away the clothes, the man was just scratching the chestnut shells under the light, ignoring her, and he didn't care that there was suddenly an extra person in the house. Mu Qingqing is not a warm person by nature, if a normal person treated her with such an attitude of indifference, she would have walked away long ago, but the other party was a fool, and after all, she had done her a favor, just like an adult. Like most ordinary people, we do good deeds just for our own peace of mind. At this time, she has at least done all the things she can do.

The ambulance that arrived that night didn't help. The reason was that they couldn't communicate at all, and naturally there was no way to force the other party to go to the hospital. The brain problem is too complicated. Without a detailed diagnosis, the doctor naturally dare not make a judgment. Instead, he casually introduced two drugs that can suppress headaches and have no side effects. What about the idiot taking medicine? Mu Qingqing didn't have much time to spare and came to be a nanny.

In the past few days, the other party did not get sick again.

After going to the small building several times, Mu Qingqing was also a little worried. Every time she went there, the small building looked crumbling. Besides, the snow has accumulated thicker and thicker these days. I really don’t know when this dangerous building will be destroyed. will collapse.

Her worry was well-founded, and another day later, this worry finally became a reality. When I went to work this morning, at seven o'clock, the small trolley hadn't appeared at the entrance of the vegetable market. Fortunately, when I passed by at nine o'clock in the morning, the cart and the idiot were finally there. In the afternoon, she took some time to go to the river, and found that the whole building had collapsed, and the ruins were covered with snow. It seemed that it had happened yesterday.

"Auntie, when did that small building... collapse?" She asked the aunt who opened the canteen next to her.

"Well, he fell to the ground yesterday afternoon."

"Then...that idiot who sells sugar-fried chestnuts. Where did you stay last night?"

"Oh, he gave us a big surprise this morning. He parked his car on the side of the road and slept like that all night. His body was almost covered by snow. I opened the door this morning and thought he was He just died like this... You know, those beggars can hardly survive the winter, who knows that he shook the snow on his body and got up again. You said this young man. His health is really good, but if this Go on, no matter how tough you are, you won't be able to survive for a few days, alas... ".

Mu Qingqing was also taken aback. Unexpectedly, that guy could survive the whole night in the snow. After standing by the collapsed building and thinking for a long time, she returned to the police station. Ask about places that can take homeless people. But thinking about it, it seemed that it was not suitable for this person who seemed to have a clear self-awareness and never communicated with others. After thinking about it for a long time, she went to the entrance of the vegetable market at around nine o'clock in the evening.

In the white field, the lamp was still on under the street lamp. She walked over to look at the man selling sugar-fried chestnuts for a long time, with slightly messy hair and ordinary facial features. It looks like it will get lost if it is still in the crowd. When he lowered his head to think about things, his expression was slightly melancholy, like a small company employee who had no ambitions and was not very successful. Also like a shy boy thinking about a girl he has a crush on. Thinking of the fact that the other party slept in the snow all night, she walked to the side of the cart: "I want to buy something."

Wait until the other person stands up, stretch your hand over and put it on the other person's forehead.

"Eight yuan and fifty one catty, how much do you want?"

"You're not sick, your body is really good..."

With such a sigh, she waited for the time to be close to ten o'clock. The other party packed up her things and prepared to push the cart away. She trotted over and held the handle on one side.

"Go this way, go this way."

The man looked at her lightly.

Seeing this kind of gaze, Mu Qingqing thought of the shovel in the rainy night that day, and Mu Qingqing felt a little nervous. She was always on guard against the shovel coming towards her, and waved her hands, trying her best to express affectionately.

"The place where you live has been dumped, and if you dump it, you can't live anymore. Do you know that I will find you a place to live, or you will be frozen to death... I want to help. Help, understand? For you Okay, I'll take you to another place..."

After repeating this several times, she felt that she was a little stupid, and then tried to push the car up. She didn't know if her nagging over and over again had an effect. The other party let go of the handle and stood there watching Watching her, she struggled to push the cart off the sidewalk.

"come."

Originally, she wanted to take this idiot with her, but who knew that he was watching from the side. The car sank in the snow, and Mu Qingqing hated herself a little. Her second-hand Mercedes-Benz couldn't start in such weather. , I got it there for maintenance the day before yesterday, or I can use a car to tow this cart back. However, since she had already started doing it, she no longer had the habit of retreating. She gritted her teeth and pushed through the street, panting from exhaustion, and her right shoulder began to ache, probably because the place where she was shot was affected again.

"You can push it too..."

There was a small slope ahead. Mu Qingqing was affected by the gunshot wound and had been a little weak recently. After pushing for a while, his foot slipped and he was about to fall down. At this moment, one hand suddenly grabbed one of the slopes. root handle. Mu Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief, and pushed forward, feeling a lot more relaxed, this guy is so strong...

"Here and here..."

"Turn left ahead..."

"Turn right at the next bend, go straight..."

On the street near midnight, there were occasional cars passing by, and the two people pushed the small car and gradually left the avenue, beside the thick snow and the shade of trees under the street lamps. About twenty minutes later, they arrived at the bottom of a building. Mu Qingqing parked the trolley in the shed downstairs, then took out a sack of chestnuts from the trolley, let the fool take it, and held him by the sleeve , Open a door on the first floor.

"I live in this room, and this side is usually empty anyway. You live in it, you can use the living room, you can use the toilet and the kitchen... Anyway, I don't open fire in the kitchen. There are knives, benches, and buckets here. I will live here for the time being, and I will let you move out after I find a better place, do you understand... Whatever you want, just don't come into my bedroom..."

This is the house assigned to her by the bureau. It is quite spacious with two bedrooms and one living room. There is a toilet and kitchen. The most important thing is that it does not cost money. The bedroom next to her is usually empty except for her sister or mother who comes to stay for a night. Since the two sides could not communicate, she repeated it several times, and then patted her head helplessly. Whatever she did, what else could she do.

She was so exhausted that she went into the toilet to take a shower and came out, only to see the fool sitting in the corner of the living room quietly processing chestnuts. She was relieved, went back to the room and locked the door, changed the medicine for her shoulders, and finally He fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The pistol was under the pillow.

On January 12, 2004, the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month, a week before New Year's Eve, a somewhat weird cohabitation life began.

----After a long time, she recalled it like this. .