1novels Chapter 12 The Truth
Chapter 12 The Truth
A fire was set up in the corner of the dilapidated and empty lobby. Yan Chen dismantled the sofa and threw the wooden parts inside into the flames.After finishing, he sat beside him on the spot, looking at Xu Yang, who was beside him in a daze.
The other party still put on his overcoat, but he didn't put it on properly. The shirt with a big hole in the chest was still hanging on his body, and the exposed pendant shook slightly.He looked at the silver ring on it and did not move for a long time, until the other party blushed slightly and covered it.
It's been a long time since his last sentence, Yan Chen didn't get any reply, only a few occasional glances, but he could still see that the other party had let go of his guard, but put up a wall of heart.Thinking of this, he tried to reach out to cover the opponent's hand, "Go to the fire."
Xu Yang didn't withdraw his hand immediately, but slowly withdrew it, "I'll do it myself."
Seeing this, Yan Chen was not in a hurry, and said in a soft tone: "Okay, if it's still cold, tell me, I'll add some firewood." Xu Yang looked at the other party lightly, hesitated for a while after thanking him, and then said: "Did you go to Aunt Zhao's house last night?"
"Well, I've been."
The other party replied very quickly, Xu Yang was a little nervous instead.He confirmed, "Not when you came with the police?"
"No, before that, when you re-entered the fire." After speaking, Yan Chen touched one knee to the ground, leaned his head forward, and looked at the person affectionately.
After listening, Xu Yang's breath was stagnant, and he forced himself to sort out the situation before he said seriously: "In other words, Chief Yan is that weird guy in a black robe with a bandage on his face? Or, you just harassed me at night a few days ago. Aunt Zhao and the ghost who visits the grave in the middle of the night? What kind of strange habit is this?"
Seeing the other party frowning tightly, Yan Chen leaned in front of him with a soft "um", and asked, "Do you know the angel of death?"
"I know." Xu Yang looked down, "There are many theories about the god of death. One is the reaper, who takes the lives of the living by force. The other is the pure messenger of death, who guides the dead to the afterlife and does not interfere with the life of the living. When he dies, he can also be called the angel of death." At this point, Xu Yang looked Yan Chen up and down, and then said: "Why, Chief Yan is not an ordinary person?"
"No, maybe I can't even be called a human being. I was cursed during a mission. When I woke up, I stood on the reincarnation circuit and became an angel of death." Yan Chen lowered his eyelashes and chuckled suddenly, "It sounds like It's ridiculous, isn't it?"
After Xu Yang listened calmly, his head started to hurt.He clenched his fists and said, "It's not so absurd. I've seen a lot of supernatural things, but I still believe that some of them can't be explained by science. So, does anyone else know about your case?"
"I just told my family, and now I finally told you."
"Family...then they must have been worried before."
Seeing him shrugging his shoulders, Yan Chen couldn't bear to say: "When I knew that I could still communicate with strangers, I was particularly worried about a person I cared about very much, but luckily he forgot. Otherwise, I wouldn't have waited until now to show up, but it seems I still did something wrong." After finishing speaking, he saw Xu Yang trembling from the corner of his eye, and his throat choked, "Don't think about it, Yangyang."
Xu Yang was startled by this sound, and it completely matched the sound in his sporadic memory.He subconsciously wanted to escape, but Yan Chen had already rushed forward and hugged himself into his arms, "I miss you so much, Yang Yang, I kept you waiting for a long time."
The embrace was familiar, but Xu Yang struggled out immediately.He watched the other party wait patiently, and after a long while, he put his hand on the other party's shoulder, cursing the damn muscle memory.His gaze moved from the opponent's eyes to the Adam's apple, and then to the button of the shirt under the cashmere vest of the opponent, and then he realized something after a while.
"You lied to me, why did you meet me for the first time, why did you lose your body..." He couldn't finish his sentence because he felt his back being lightly pressed.It's his sensitive place, where he can talk about everything when he's comfortable.Afterwards, Xu Yang was secretly annoyed that he had succumbed like this, Yan Chen adjusted his hugging posture and asked Xu Yang to lean against him, "Listen to this."
Through the fabric, the heartbeat is still powerful enough to comfort people.Outside the room, the sky is gradually getting brighter, and the rain all night also stops with the blooming of the morning glow.What a thousand words and words are not important at the moment of reunion.
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After coming down from the slippery hillside, Xu Yang didn't go directly back to An's villa, but followed Yan Chen to the river.
He originally thought that he should also take the initiative to repair the relationship between the two, so while looking at the sky, he touched the other's left hand, held it and pulled it into the coat pocket.
As a result, Yan Chen intensified, saying that he could not let go of this hand for an hour.Excited by this, Xu Yang agreed to this childish request with a bang.However, what he didn't expect was that there would be so many people by the river.
"Team Yan is amazing, congratulations." "I wish the two of you a happy union for a hundred years." "I wish you a forever union!"
……
"Um, what other words... Oh, I wish you an early birth to your son."
Xu Yang half-covered his face with his free hand, blocking left and right all the way. Finally, he couldn't bear the shame, and leaned into Yan Chen's ear and said, "At least you should tell me in advance."
Yan Chen looked at the rosy cheeks of the people beside him, smiled, and dismissed the onlookers: "Hurry up, let's all go." Afterwards, he led the relaxed people to the rocky beach on the river bank.
There was a soaked female corpse, half of her body still in the water.
Xu Yang turned serious and squatted down not far away.
Yan Chen took the records from the police and said, "The woman's body was discovered near midnight last night. The forensic doctor took a quick look and found that the time of death was between 8:11 and [-]:[-] yesterday morning. Her spleen was ruptured and she lost too much blood. died before being thrown into the river."
"It took so long to be discovered." Xu Yang opened his eyes slightly.
"Although there are quite a lot of residents in Anjia Village, there are not many villagers who walk this road on weekdays. In addition, the fire incident caused panic. Several nearby families closed their doors yesterday until it rained at night. The reporter had to go to the orchard to set up an awning before he passed by and discovered it."
"That is to say, most of the witnesses at the time of the crime will not be found." Xu Yang put his arms on his knees, thought for a while and then asked, "The method? Have you found the murderer's tools?"
Yan Chen: "No, but the forensic doctor can confirm that it is a long curved blade, that is, it looks like..."
"It's like the death scythe." Xu Yang answered quickly.
Before coming out of the orphanage, Xu Yang hid the sickle tied in the air with bandages, and planned to get it after solving the case, but now it seemed that his plan was going to fail.
"Okay, call the police to get it." Xu Yang said reluctantly.He watched helplessly as Yan Chen turned his head and went to give instructions, muttered a few times to himself, and then returned to the topic: "The corpse is short, older, and has spots on its face. Hey, is her leg and foot bad? ? Is there still some mud on the edge of the shoe? "
"The old man has some leg problems more or less. As for the mud spots," Yan Chen paused, his eyes filled with doting, "Yangyang, it rained heavily yesterday."
"But these are all useful features, aren't they?" Xu Yang grinned, looking confident, "If I guessed correctly, she is Aunt Zhao.
To be more precise, it is the Aunt Zhao we saw. "