Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 165: Two Brothers in One Life

"Yes, I don't deny that I like Ningning, but you should also know that my love for her is the love that a brother has for his sister. You just said that to me out of the blue.

I have to say something unpleasant, it feels like I am making arrangements for my final funeral arrangements..."

"Pah, pah, pah, what the hell, Li Yancheng, are you itching for trouble? How dare you curse me?"

Jin Zhihai almost jumped up.

"Hahaha……"

"Hahaha……"

"Giggle..."

The two grown men looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Xiao Pengpeng was in his father's arms. He turned his head to look at his godfather, then looked up at his own father and started laughing too.

The three guys laughed so loudly that everyone in the backyard leaned against the windows to look out.

Lu Junmin, who lived in the south room of the east wing, said hello to his wife, then opened the door and walked out.

"I said you two don't mind the cold standing outside to have fun, and you're not afraid of freezing the child."

In Beijing at the end of March, there was sunshine during the day and the temperature was around ten degrees, which made the body feel quite comfortable. However, at night the temperature was still a bit cold with single-digit temperatures.

"Military Brother"

"Brother Junmin, you came out just in time. I was just thinking about whether I should look for you."

"What's wrong, Dacheng? What's the matter?"

"I'm entertaining guests tomorrow. What do you think I should cook?"

"Oh, you are so stupid. Why do you need to cook so many dishes? Go to the market early tomorrow morning and buy two chickens. Then you can cook your big plate of chicken. I have potatoes at home. No one else has eaten yours. It is fresh and delicious."

These words were said by Jin Zhihai. After hearing what he said, Li Yancheng also reacted. Yes, why should simple things be complicated?

Lu Junmin was stunned. What was Dapanji? Why had he never heard of it before?

His family has been cooks for generations, mainly cooking Shandong cuisine, and occasionally dabbling in signature dishes of other cuisines. Even if he can't cook them, he has at least heard of the names of the dishes.

But he had never even heard of Dapanji.

As the name suggests, the chicken is cooked in some way and served on a large plate with potatoes.

"Uh... Dacheng, Zhihai, let me interrupt, what is Dapanji?"

Hearing the question asked by Lu Junmin, Jin Zhihai turned his head and looked at Li Yancheng. He had tried to make big plate chicken once, but the feeling when he ate it was different.

"Uh... Junmin brother, you don't know?"

Li Yancheng had no choice but to ask back like this, as he learned how to make Dapanji in his previous life. He remembered someone on the Internet saying that this method originated from the Qing court.

But most people say that this is a Jianghu dish that originated from highway restaurants in the Northwest, and is also known as Shawan Dapanji.

But he didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Lu Junmin, because there really was someone in his family who had cooked in the Qing court.

"I haven't heard of it. If it's convenient, tell me how to do it."

"It's not inconvenient, it's just..."

After listening for a while, Lu Junmin figured out the taste. It is a bit similar to the spicy fried chicken in Sichuan and Hunan cuisines, but potatoes should be added to it, and the sauce should not be collected completely. It should be mixed with noodles at the end. Hey, it's quite interesting.

The dishes are ready, and finally the staple food is eaten. It saves trouble and doesn’t look shabby either.

In fact, these days, as long as there is meat on the table, it’s not considered shabby at all. I guarantee you’ll lick the plate clean in the end.

Now that we have decided what to serve to the guests tomorrow, there is no need to ask again.

It just so happens that if Lu Junmin were to suggest a few dishes, Li Yancheng might not be able to cook them. He only knows a few home-cooked dishes.

The three of them stood at the door and chatted for a few minutes. Seeing that the child was sleepy and afraid that he would catch a cold, they went back home.

Jin Zhihai went back to put the child down and came to Li Yancheng again. He hadn't finished talking about the important matters yet.

As soon as he entered the door, he took out a cigarette and lit it for himself. He hadn't smoked it just now because he was holding the child and he felt very suffocated.

This is the rule Li Yancheng set for him: as long as he is holding the child or in front of the child, he must not smoke. It is good for the child.

Not bad, after all, he is his own son. Although this guy is a little bit reluctant, he has been persisting.

"Dacheng, what I just said..."

"Don't talk yet, Zhihai, let me ask you, is Ningning's reaction because I asked her to hold the baby just now, and she happened to hear what you said in the room?"

After entering the house, Li Yancheng realized why Ningning was acting so abnormally, and felt a little embarrassed. He was almost 30 years old, and he wondered if that girl would treat him as a weird uncle and avoid him.

"You should have heard it." Jin Zhihai nodded, took out a cigarette from the cigarette box in his hand and threw it to Li Yancheng. Then he sat down next to the stove and stared at the kettle on the stove in a daze for a few seconds.

"Dacheng, I will explain it to her clearly and will never let this matter affect our relationship."

"Hey, Zhihai, I understand what you were thinking when you said that to me, but let's just leave it at that for now.

Don't say anything to Ningning. The more you talk, the worse it will get. Just deal with it coldly, as if nothing happened, and everything should be fine after a while.

At her age, she is in a state of ignorance and is full of curiosity about many things, such as the relationship between men and women. If there are some things that you may not be able to talk to her about, let Lihua talk to Ningning more and guide her to correctly understand the relationship between men and women. "

"Okay." Jin Zhihai nodded heavily, and then asked cautiously: "Dacheng, do you... do you think I'm a little selfish?"

"Ah?" Li Yancheng had just picked up the match on the table and was about to light a cigarette when he was stunned by his good brother's inexplicable question.

"Selfish? What do you mean?"

"That's right...that's when I told you outside to wait for Ningning to grow up. My mother-in-law just scolded me, saying that I was too selfish and only considered my sister, but didn't consider your thoughts at all."

"Haha, auntie, you're overthinking." Li Yancheng smiled and shook his head. He struck a match, lowered his head to light a cigarette, then blew out the match and continued speaking.

"I think that you can tell me that because you trust me. I know very well how important Ningning is in your heart.

The fact that you can think of handing her over to me, let’s not talk about whether this idea is right or not, the fact that you can think like this means that you absolutely trust me.

We are brothers for life, so let’s not say those awkward words to each other.”

"Two brothers in one life, what does this mean?"

Ok?
Li Yancheng was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a while he realized that this seemed to be a slang in Guangzhou. It seemed that it was not until the 1980s when Hong Kong movies entered the mainland that it gradually became popular. It was normal that people in the north did not understand it now.

"You've heard of brothers fighting tigers together, right?"

“I’ve heard of this.”

"It's about the same meaning. It means that we are brothers in this life and the closest people to each other."

"Okay" After understanding the meaning of that sentence, Jin Zhihai smiled: "We are brothers for the rest of our lives."

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's talk about the case. Today our leader said that he wanted to adjust the direction of the investigation. You said at that time that it was your leader who came up with the new direction. How about it? Do you know the details?"

"Know"

Li Yancheng nodded very decisively, stood up, walked to the stove, pulled over a small stool and sat down there.

"The matter is rather complicated. If our leader's conjecture comes true, the implications will be huge."

If the resurrection of the dead is true, it will inevitably cause a major earthquake.

Li Yancheng didn't know whether his good brother's current leader was involved in this.

After thinking about it, he decided to reveal a little about the next direction of the investigation so that Jin Zhihai could make some preparations in advance.

"The next focus of the investigation is to check those secret doors. The suspect is likely to frequently look for secret doors." "Secret doors?" Jin Zhihai was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses and say, "You mean, the person that Zhu Yongyang and the others mentioned likes to look for secret doors?"

"It's just speculation. Our leaders took a big risk by adjusting the direction of the investigation this time."

"But..." Jin Zhihai frowned and asked suspiciously, "What clues did you use to draw this conclusion?"

"It's based on what a person we arrested earlier said."

“Dacheng, I mean, even if we can find some secret doors, it’s almost impossible to get the identity of the guests from them.

Because if they do that, it will be confirmed that they did that and they will be sentenced.

Even if they are caught in the act, as long as they identify that one person, they will be released after being imprisoned for half a year or a year at most. As long as they still have regular customers, they can still make money from this after they are released.

But once they confess, not only will they lose their regular customers, but the more people who confess, the longer they will be locked up. Tell me, who is stupid enough to do that?"

Jin Zhihai used to work in the police station. Although there were no secret doors in their area, there were some in other places within the jurisdiction, and they had dealt with several of them.

I know those people quite well. If I want to pry the guest's identity out of them, first of all, they may not know it, and secondly, even if they know it, they will definitely not tell me.

Not to mention that you won't be able to do this job after confessing, whether you can save your life is another matter.

Nowadays, few people are brave enough to find the secret door.

They also have a fixed way of finding secret doors. Once you are caught by the police, you will know who has reported you. Unless you don't stay here anymore, these people will come out and cause trouble for you sooner or later.

Therefore, those secret doors will definitely not cooperate well.

After listening to Jin Zhihai's words, Li Yancheng was also stunned. Different fields have different worlds. When it comes to the intricacies of urban security, all those people in one place, ten of them tied together are not as good as a temporary security guard in the police station.

If we use his method to interrogate all those secret agents, by the time we are done with them, it would be too late to try and catch anyone.

You really don’t know until you talk about it. Once you talk about it, you will find that there are so many problems and they are so difficult.

The more he thought about it, the more restless Li Yancheng became.

"Zhi Hai, what do you think? If we catch them and scare them, is it possible to scare them out?"

"It's definitely possible, but Dacheng, do you want to gamble on the chance of being scared out of his wits? Or are you planning to use some unusual interrogation methods?"

"Uh……"

Well, let’s stop talking and go find Lao Xu and talk to him about this issue.

As soon as he thought of it, he had to do it. Li Yancheng stood up and walked towards the clothes rack.

His action made Jin Zhihai stunned: "What are you doing?"

"Go to the workplace and tell our leaders about this difficulty and see what to do."

"Going to work now? Don't you even check what time it is? Is your boss available?"

"He lives in the office suite. If nothing else, he would be here right now."

"They might be on break. Can't you go tomorrow?"

Seeing that Li Yancheng had already started putting on his coat, Jin Zhihai still wanted to stop him.

"I have to entertain guests tomorrow. Who knows when I'll have time? Besides... our leaders are already under a lot of pressure from adjusting the direction of the investigation. If we end up with nothing after all the hard work, that would be a real problem."

Let’s not talk about others. Director Dong will definitely make Lao Xu, the guy who didn’t give him face, suffer the ecstasy of death.

"Let me go with you. I'll come back after I see you go into the office. It's a bit dangerous for you to go out alone in the dark. Who knows where the guy who wants to cause trouble for you is hiding. I'll go put on some clothes. Wait for me."

Without even giving him a chance to refuse, Jin Zhihai stood up and walked out of the room.

Li Yancheng turned around and looked at the still shaking door curtain, smacked his lips, smiled and shook his head.

……

Now that you're here, don't leave.

After arriving at the entrance of the unit, Li Yancheng thought about it and decided to take his brother to see Lao Xu.

Jin Zhihai had dealt with secret agents when he was in the police station. He wasn't very familiar with them, but what he said was much more comprehensive than what someone who knew nothing could come up with by sitting in an office and thinking about it.

"Thank you, Comrade Jin Zhihai. What you said is very important and helped us avoid many detours."

"Director Xu, you are too polite. Dacheng is my brother, and I just want to catch the suspect as soon as possible."

"Comrade Jin Zhihai, you have worked in the police station for many years, and now you are also in criminal investigation, so you are quite experienced.

Based on your experience, where do you think that person is hiding to avoid the carpet search these days?"

"Director Xu, I have been thinking about this issue for the past two days. I actually had some vague ideas at noon today. It just so happened that our leader notified me that the direction of the investigation would be adjusted, so I didn't say anything more.

That's right. In the past few days, all the police stations in the city have investigated everything they could within their respective jurisdictions, but they still haven't found the suspect.

Either this person's disguise skills are extremely good, and he appears in completely two different states in front of people and behind people, or he is hiding in a place where he can come out at any time but we can't get in.

I personally prefer the first possibility, that he is very good at disguising himself, and that he usually presents one image to his neighbors and another behind their backs."

"Disguise?" Old Xu frowned and thought carefully, what kind of disguise could change so much? It was only a moment, and he perked up and listened to Jin Zhihai's next words.

"Another point is that, combined with the previous corpse dumping case, we assume that this person is the murderer, and he dumped the body after killing someone, so he must have a relatively independent space.

When the corpse was dumped, he showed up in four districts, namely, Chengxi, Shishan, Xuanwu, and Taifeng, to deliver the threatening letter. He also showed up in Chengdong and Yangchao. The only two districts missing from the eight districts in the city are Dianhai and Wenchong. Is there any deeper meaning behind this? "

After hearing the last part, Lao Xu stood up and walked to the map posted on the wall of his office. He used a pencil to mark each of the six districts that Jin Zhihai had just mentioned. Looking at the remaining two districts, he held his chin and pondered for a while, then drew a circle around Dianhai.

The instrument factory is right here, and the ultimate target of the mastermind behind the scenes is right here. His mission this time is to cause destruction here. He has not yet accomplished his goal, and he will never give up so easily.

Assuming that this person did not show up in Dianhai because he did not want to attract attention, then why did he not show up in Wenchong?
Could it be that this person's destination is here, and the reason why he doesn't show up here is because he adheres to the principle of "a rabbit does not eat grass near its burrow"?

Lao Xu stood in front of the map, looking at the map of Beijing and fell into deep thought.

Li Yancheng and Jin Zhihai, who were sitting at the desk, watched him thinking about something and didn't say anything to disturb him.

After a while, Lao Xu sighed and walked back to his desk. He reached out and picked up the cigarettes on the table and threw one to each of them.

"Comrade Jin Zhihai, I heard that when you investigated the corpse dumping case last time, you checked almost every single household in the city, right?"

"Yes, Director Xu. According to the information obtained from the various subdistrict offices, we have almost exhausted all the information and have not found any useful clues."

"Did you look only in the yard, or inside the house as well?"

"We searched not only the yard, but also the house. The troubling thing now is that not only can we not find the murder scene, but we can't even find the true identity of the female victim.

The only thing that is certain is that the woman is not from Beijing."

"I can't find the person. I can't find him at the scene." Lao Xu sat there with his left hand on the table, tapping the table lightly with his index finger, repeating these two sentences over and over again.

"Then can we be sure that there must be something wrong with the direction of the early investigation, such as the independent house?"

"Uh……"

Jin Zhihai was stunned, and Li Yancheng was also stunned. It was not a separate residence, so did he dare to kill someone in such a large yard?

Seeing the two people's reactions, Lao Xu waved his hand: "I didn't explain it clearly. It should be said that the place where he killed people may not be a separate courtyard, but just a relatively independent place. For example, that person is a gatekeeper in which unit.

There must be no one else in the unit at night, only him. He can do whatever he wants in there during the night, as long as he can restore the original state before others go to work the next morning. "

!!!

Jin Zhihai raised his eyebrows. They had never considered going to the unit to check before. Now that he was reminded of this, he thought about it for a while and immediately thought of several units with the same situation.

(End of this chapter)