Breaking Through the Clouds: 91.Chapter 91
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Every year, Yan Xiu’s birthday is to go home. On that day, he may not be able to see both uncles and aunts, aunts and uncles, cousins, cousins, etc., will come over for dinner. Lin Lin always has 30 or 40 relatives, Lou Lou There are three long dining tables in the lower garden, which is magnificent.
Yan Xi drove into the door. The car hadn't stopped, dressed like a ten-year-old Ms. Zeng Cuicui, and she quickly greeted her with her emerald crocodile kelly handbag. The first sentence was: "Where is Xiaolu? "
Yan Xi got out of the car with no expression, and said casually: "Oh, he is not feeling well, he is not coming."
Mother Yan was taken aback, and asked cautiously: "You quarreled?"
"——Where did I want to go." Yan Xiu laughed, and put the red wine brought from home into his mother's arms: "Your son is so charming, and my daughter-in-law loves me. It’s too late. Dare to quarrel with me after eating the bear heart and the leopard?"
Ms. Zeng Cui rolled her eyes restrained, and saw Yan Xiu slipping through the door, without stopping, while yelling indiscriminately, "Hello, uncle!" "Cousin!" "Yes, my second aunt is young again." !" While passing through the crowd like a whirlwind, it blew up to the storage room on the second floor. Zeng Cui thought he was looking for something, but after a while he saw him blowing down the stairs again like a whirlwind, holding a mahogany box in his hand, and walking out incessantly.
"You're a prodigal thing!" Zeng Cuichai shouted from behind: "You took out your dad's baby again, didn't you?"
Yan Xi didn't look back: "My dad said, everything about him is mine in the end!"
Ms. Zeng Cui with her hands on hips, just about to scold her son, she only heard Yan Xiu add a sentence from a distance: "Except for his favorite wife!"
"..." Ms. Zeng Cui blushed, her belly full of curses, she immediately forgot, and it took a long time to yell in an anguish: "No one is serious." Then secretly she went back to the house to find her. Husband went.
Yan Chang put the mahogany box with four tea cakes into the glove box under the co-pilot, clapped his hands and closed the car door, saying that at least this would make Jiang Ting's soul lingering for a whole year-but he stopped by Jiang. Acting style, for a while, I am definitely reluctant to open the second cake. It is estimated that I will have to drink other cheap tea for a few weeks, and then in a quiet night, I will secretly take him apart and drink it carefully. , Licked his mouth contentedly, and then pretended that nothing happened.
Yan Xiu is still young after all, and when he thinks of Jiang Ting, his heart is slightly enthusiastic, and he didn't realize that the corners of his mouth had been turned up.
"How are the three uncles and three aunts!"
"Hey, thank you auntie!"
"Well, my cousin has grown taller again, how many did you take the final exam?"
……
Every year is a fixed process, and Yan Xiu has been very skilled in dealing with it.
The Yan family is really in charge of Yan Xi's father and mother. He is not involved in the business at all. In the future, he is destined to be a hands-off shopkeeper for professional managers. All kinds of interest entanglements and business dealings are almost irrelevant to him. The main purpose of his appearance at the family banquet every year is to declare that he is still alive, neither has he died in his job, nor has he been swept out by his parents for the time being because of an older leftover man. This is enough.
The third aunt leaned over from the other side of the dining table, and said earnestly: "Yan Xiu is one year older and he is not too young. Please pay attention to getting married and starting a career!"
Yan Xiu smiled and said yes.
"Seeing that your second cousin has already found a girlfriend, and your sister in the lobby is pregnant immediately, why are you still single? Work is dangerous, and you should get married early. Men need a stable rear to concentrate on their careers, understand? ?"
Yan Xiu: "Yes, yes..."
In previous years, at this time, Yan Xiu was killed by a group of elders. But this year, Yan's father had two quarrels with his brother-in-law, and suddenly he put the bowl out of his neck and said: "Who said I Can't my son become a family? My son has already talked about a partner!"
A stone caused a thousand waves of waves, and the third aunt was almost taken aback.
"The subject is also from the city council. The job is very good, the age is also very good, and the people are very handsome! Yesterday I was cooking at home for us to eat!" Father Yan was calm and calm in the eyes of all the relatives around him. Show off: "If you don't believe me, ask Cui Cui, don't you Cui Cui?"
Yan Xiu: "..."
Mother Yan never lost the face of Yan father before she was shocked. She immediately found her phone in the shocked gaze around her, opened the photo album, and called up the fried prawns, beef stew with potatoes, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes at Yan Xi’s house yesterday. , Ribs Soup... etc. The pictures with 18 layers of filters were circulated by relatives on the table one by one, and one after another, all kinds of courtesy were admired.
"It's okay, it's okay, but the fertility may be almost." Mother Yan and the seventh aunt and eight aunts said modestly: "But I have already said that I will go to the United States to surrogate three children, and the children will be good! I agree that they have one. Children can be named Zeng..."
All kinds of complex tastes rushed out from the bottom of Yan Xiu's heart, it is hard to say whether it is funny or emotional. At this moment, the little cousin who was screaming and running around, the little niece who was crying and crying in the baby next to the table, and the brother-in-law, brother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the distant future who could not even recognize him, all made him feel shocked. There was a strange yearning and melancholy, even though he himself couldn't tell where the confusion came from.
Yan Xi quietly stood up, exited the hall, stood on the backyard porch and lit a cigarette. After holding his cell phone in a daze for a long time, he finally opened WeChat. Countless unread messages are dinged with red dots in the local area. It is a birthday congratulation from colleagues of the Municipal Bureau, Wei Deputy Bureau, Gou Li, Qin Chuan, Technical Investigation Huang Xing, Ma Xiang, Gao Panqing...
Yan Xiu clicked on the "surname Lu", hesitated for a long time, entered and deleted several times before finally pressing the send button:
[Where is it? 】
Jiang Ting did not reply immediately.
The sounds of persuading drinking, shouting, talking and laughing loudly and teasing each other came from the direction of the hall. Although there are various discord and unpleasantness in private, they are still lively when they get together, like a big family.
Yan Xi took the phone and walked down the porch aimlessly. It was late at this time, the lights were on on the porch, and the water lilies in the garden floated with a slight fragrance, and the night insects lay in the grass and screamed long and short; I don’t know when Yan Xiu walked to the door of the back kitchen, through the glass window, Seeing the three-tiered cake carefully prepared on the round table, the beautiful decorations are like handicrafts, and the fresh cream glows slightly orange under the light.
Yan Xi's heart moved, he picked up the phone and took a picture, and sent it to Jiang Ting.
Who knows that Jiang Ting’s reply came right now:
[At home. 】
After the three-layer cake under the light was successfully sent, only three seconds later, Yan Xiu's phone shook again——
The surname of Lu: [Happy birthday. 】
【Be safe and happy every year from now on. 】
Yan Xi's heart burned, and the internal organs were ironed instantly. Unspeakable comfort came out of every pore on his body, and the numbness of electricity rose from the soles of his feet all the way to the top of his head. Fireworks that arouse countless joys in my mind.
I can’t wait to see that person’s thoughts suddenly burst out like a tsunami. In Yan Xi’s 30-odd years of life, there has never been an impulse so anxious, shaking every nerve and even the eardrum. It had to make a loud noise.
He couldn't even wait for a moment, hurriedly put the phone in his arms, turned around and ran back to the lively hall. Mother Yan was looking for her son to come over to toast, and she saw Yan Xiu striding forward like a meteor. His handsome face was still smiling, and the lights were shining in the room. Somehow it was so bright that she was stunned; She was pulled by Yan Xiu and shouted in the noisy background: "Mom, you eat first, I'm going back!"
Mother Yan asked in amazement: "The cake has not been cut yet, where are you going? Cut the cake for me!"
Yan Xiu casually thought of an excuse: "The Municipal Bureau has something to do temporarily..."
"No matter what happens, you cut the cake for the old lady, do you think that stuff is cheap?!"
Mother Yan greeted her cousins and cousins to help push the cake up from the kitchen, grabbed her son's hand, pressed his head, and cut it in pieces in the birthday song around him and filled it with Stack of small silver plates. As soon as the children were holding the cake, Yan Xiu immediately put the knife away and gave the cake decorated with cherries to his mother: "I'm leaving!"
Mother Yan gave a hey cry, and Yan Xiu rushed up and hugged his dad, then walked out. Father Yan was bewildered by his son's sudden enthusiasm, and before he had time to ask questions, he rushed out the door without looking back.
"You wicked obstacle!" Yan mother followed behind to the door, crying and crying, "Where are you going, drive carefully at night!"
"I know!" Yan Xiu started the car, turned around beautifully, poked his head out of the car window and smiled: "Mom, I love you! See you later!"
Da Ben roared and went away, Yan Mu stood on the steps inexplicably, and only a tail of smoke was left in the front yard slowly drifting from the street lights.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the traffic flow in the city center eased slightly. The commercial area was feasting and feasting. The half-open window of the car came with a fragrant breeze that is unique to the metropolis at night.
Da Ben slowly stopped in front of the red light. Yan Xiu glanced at the rearview mirror at random, took out the phone from the side of the car door, and sent a voice message to the "surnamed Lu": "Guess where I am Place?"
The input is displayed at the top of the screen. After a while, it stopped again. What Jiang Ting sent back was also a voice:
"On the way home?"
Yan Xiu’s smile deepened, and he didn’t say anything. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a brightly lit cake shop on the corner of the intersection. As soon as he reached his mouth, he turned a corner: "Well, I brought you a birthday. Cake."
He could almost imagine Jiang stopped crying and laughing over there, and soon he heard the man's seemingly smiling answer: "Okay, drive slowly, not in a hurry."
The red light turns green and the vehicle in front starts to move. Yan Xiu put away his phone and quickly glanced to the left and right, taking advantage of the few seconds when the right-turning lane was still empty, he swiftly turned on the lights to change lanes, ran for a beautiful interspersed, whizzed and drove up the horizontal street, and then turned in a U-shape. At the exit of the return route, he steadily stopped in front of the cake shop.
A few minutes later, he walked out of the store with a sliced cake specially wrapped in a white paper bag, put the paper tray on the passenger seat, and was about to start the car. He suddenly caught a glimpse of something from the side window and stopped.
——Under the red light at the intersection where he temporarily changed lanes just now, an ordinary silver Hyundai stopped on the side of the road, neither moving forward nor double flashing, as if waiting for someone.
Yan Xi suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart: Did I see this car in the rearview mirror just now?
This idea is actually a bit nonsense. Household scooters like this are extremely common on the streets of Jianning City. They look almost the same. If you don’t look at the license plate, you can’t tell who is who. But after all, Yan Xiu has been a criminal policeman for so many years, and he has a kind of inexplicable sensitivity to certain things, like a shadow that quickly swept past the deepest part of his heart.
Beep beep----
The horn sounded behind, Yan Xiu frowned, stepped on the accelerator and turned right.
The pause he had just now was only a matter of a few seconds, and no one could see the abnormality. Yan Xiu also deliberately did not show any abnormalities. After going on the road again, he always paid attention to the rear-view mirror and the side-view mirror. Not long after, only a few tens of meters apart from the left lane, a silver car flashed again. shadow.
Yan Xiu's eyebrow peak slightly jumped.
It's that Hyundai.
What a coincidence?
Yan Xiu has lived for more than 30 years, and the last thing he doesn't believe is a clever word. He stepped on the gas pedal slightly, and the modified S450 made a dull roar, suddenly accelerated to change its course, and drove past the traffic lights. At the next intersection where it was clear that he should continue to drive forward, he turned on the light and turned to the right. While turning, glanced at the side-view mirror.
The shadow of the silver car not far away turned on the right light as expected, obviously to follow!
——Someone is deliberately following!
Who is so bold as to track down the vice detachment captain's car?
"The grandson looking for death..." Yan Xi cursed in a low voice, deliberately lowering the speed, holding the steering wheel with one hand, and at the same time he took out his cell phone and dialed a call: "Hey Ma Xiang? Someone is there. Are you in the game?"
"Happy birthday to Brother Yan——!" Ma Xiang's enthusiastic voice came across: "I'm here, I'm in the game, and I'm about to talk to Gou, Qin, and the others. I can't see us for a few days. I miss you..."
"I was followed." Yan Xiu interrupted him, his face sinking like water: "I am now east of Workers Avenue near the exit of Jindao Road. The stalker is a silver Hyundai Elantra sedan, and the license plate is temporarily unclear. I will send you the location right now. You can find the traffic police brigade to lock the target vehicle number and anti-track it, hurry up!"
On the other side of the phone, Ma Xiang's cheerful expression was gradually replaced with solemnity. When Yan Xiu finished speaking the last word, he had already got up and rushed out of the office door, leaving only a short and powerful one: "Yes!"
At the end of Workers' Avenue in a blink of an eye, the farther away from the downtown business district, the fewer vehicles on the road. On both sides of the S450 window, the street lights and trees swept back smoothly and quickly. Yan Xi raised his eyes and stared at the rearview mirror, only to see the front lights flash again and the silver car followed again.
Who is it?
What do you want to do?
He doesn't usually drive this S450. Who knows that this is his car?
The doubts on the surface soon quieted down, and deeper in my heart, a terrible guess loomed out.
But Yan Xi was not surprised, or that he had been mentally prepared subconsciously, he didn't feel the slightest surprise when it happened, and soon led the Elantra to rush past. Three green lights until Ma Xiang’s phone rang again: "Hello?"
"Brother Yan, I just contacted the traffic police brigade, and the nearby traffic police and special police officers were dispatched to intercept immediately. Please be careful not to leave the area under the jurisdiction of the current branch, and do not reduce or increase the speed. We will be there soon!"
Yan Xi spit out a word: "Okay." Then he hung up the phone, switched to WeChat, clicked on the top dialog box, and approached his mouth and said: "I suddenly remembered that a piece of material fell in the office, and I need to drop in. Go to the city bureau, it may take a while to get home."
At the same moment, on the sofa of the apartment, Jiang Ting’s slightly raised brows were reflected on the screen of the mobile phone: "What are you..."
But immediately he swallowed the words back and re-sent a voice. This time there are only four simple and neat words:
"Drive carefully."
——Drive carefully.
The short words without any fluctuations in the tone of voice made Yan Xi's heart palpitate for some reason.
When I found out that I was being followed, even in some more critical and thrilling situations before, Yan Xi had never experienced such weightless palpitations in his heart. It seemed that Jiang Ting had already felt something like this.
He didn't explain any more, closed WeChat and returned to the address book. While continuing to fly forward, he dialed Ma Xiang's phone again. At the same time, he looked up at the rearview mirror. After a few seconds, his pupils suddenly changed. Shrink——
The stalker disappeared.
The place where he is located happens to be in the middle of a two-lane straight road, the front and rear are flat and bright, and the visual conditions are excellent. The rearview mirror can see at least 200 meters behind him without hindrance, but apart from a few taxis and small trucks, there is no shadow of that silver modern car.
"Brother Yan!" At this time, the call was connected, and Ma Xiang asked eagerly: "Are you still on Jindao Road? I have already set off from the Municipal Bureau!"
"...He is gone."
Ma Xiang didn't respond: "What?"
S450 slowed down, drove smoothly through the long street, and came to a halt under the red light. The trucks and taxis in the other lane not far away stopped one after another, and then it was empty and flat, and the ghostly stalker had quietly disappeared.
Yan Xiu's voice was mixed with a hint of coldness, and he said in a low voice: "He suddenly gave up."
Red and blue warning lights are lit in the distance, and a nearby police motorcycle is quickly approaching Jindao Road. And Ma Xiang's background was noisy, with the clatter of the turn signal, presumably he was rushing to the scene.
Corresponding to this hustle and bustle is the long and heavy silence of the two of them.
——The tracker is clumsy, technically jerky, and can't even hide the trail well. However, the visitor was able to choose to give up decisively at the same time the police were dispatched. His keen sense of smell and precise timing made people feel terrified at the first thought.
"...Don't worry about Brother Yan," I don’t know how long there was Ma Xiang’s deliberately lowered voice from Bluetooth, with a hint of worry: "I’ll notify the traffic police brigade to call for surveillance on Workers’ Avenue. Who is the other party must be able to cover the license plate number."
Yan Xi took a breath, and the bright neon lights of the city night sky passed through the car window, reflecting on half of his tough cheek, and a shadow on the corner of his lips, while the other half was hidden in the deep darkness of the car.
"Don't let too many people know about this, especially Lu Ju and Wei Deputy Ju." After a pause, he said, "Be careful."
He then hung up.
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Forty minutes later, the apartment complex.
S450 drove into the gate of the community. Before entering the garage, I saw a familiar figure standing under the street lamp from a distance. Yan Xi immediately stopped and lowered the side window: "Why are you waiting here?"
Jiang Ting put his right hand in his trouser pocket, and his left hand was holding the phone. He didn't know how long he had been standing. His expression was always calm and did not change, but for some reason, when Yan Xi saw him, he seemed to be very slightly relieved.
"Come down and walk around." Jiang Ting habitually moved his shoulders, and the joints shook suddenly after a long time tightening, but he didn't seem to care: "Are you okay? Why are you staying so late?" "
For a few seconds, Yan Xiu looked at him, and she felt an impulse to tell everything together.
But just as the five words "I was followed" were worthy of the mouth, another scene suddenly appeared in his mind, as clear as it was happening at this moment-that was actually yesterday in the bathroom, Jiang Ting He squeezed his arm hard, his lips seemed to be trembling slightly, and after a long while he said softly: "You will regret it..."
——Will I?
Or do you think I will?
The short impulse just now was suddenly pushed back by a stronger force, and vanished in a flash. Yan Xi looked at Jiang Ting from the car, smiled slowly, then stretched out his hand from the car window with such a smile, and squeezed his cold fingertips firmly.
"It's okay." He said gently, "I couldn't find the materials in the office, so I was delayed for a while."
Jiang Ting's eyebrows are still slightly twisted.
"Come in the car, and I brought you cake." Yan Xiu leaned forward and opened the passenger's door, motioning him to come up: "Go, let's go home together."