latelenovela Chapter 358 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (69)
Chapter 358 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (69)
Don't use your exceptional observation skills to spy on your colleagues' private lives!
Seeing that Jin Shuhe was ignoring her, she wasn't embarrassed. She took out two plastic bags from her pocket and started picking through the fruit baskets next to Jin Shuhe's bed.
In the past few days, not only did they come to see Jin Shuhe, but also people from the anti-drug unit and his superiors sent people to visit him.
The items people brought were quite simple, mostly fruit baskets bought at the hospital entrance, which ended up filling a row in the ward.
So those who came later were responsible for helping him eat the fruit. I heard that recently, everyone in the office has several kinds of fruit on their desks.
"Why don't you take the basket with you when you leave?" Jin Shuhe sighed.
"No, it's too silly to carry a basket. I'll just pack a few things." Lü Chun deliberately ignored the hint of helplessness in his words.
"Don't take the mango!"
Jin Shuhe remained still, twisting his neck to watch her movements.
"What?" Lü Chun paused in his movements.
"Sister Li Ruan loves to eat it!"
"Okay, okay!" Lü Chun put the mango back: "I'll take these two cantaloupes; Captain Xie likes them."
A patient came to the bed next to mine, and I couldn't say anything in front of others.
Today, I happened to be there when he went for a check-up, so I spoke to him a few more times.
"The case we've uncovered is quite significant; it likely involves cross-border human trafficking. We've already contacted the border police, but we don't yet know if it will be a joint investigation."
Lü Chun sighed, "I really don't want to go on business trips anymore. I haven't been home for almost half a month. My mom called me the other day and her voice was almost crying!"
"I understand." Jin Shuhe nodded. The sight of Sister Li Ruan looking at him with tears in her eyes that night still shocked him.
“You’ve really grown up now…” Lu Chun teased him.
When are you going on your business trip?
"It has nothing to do with you! Your task now is to take good care of your health. Don't think you're young, or you'll suffer from health problems when you get older!" Lu Chun waved his hand.
“Look at Captain Xie, a few years ago he was working day and night with us at the scene, but now he can only sit in the office and oversee things.”
"Captain Xie... what's wrong?" Jin Shuhe was unaware of the past.
“I was shot twice when I was young.” Lü Chun gestured: “One in the leg, one in the lung.”
"He only had a short recovery period back then, so it wasn't noticeable at first. But now, when it gets a little cold, cloudy, or rainy, his leg hurts so much that he can't walk, and he coughs so badly it feels like he's going to cough up his lungs!"
Jin Shuhe indeed did not know.
Captain Xie seems to be a very gentle person, even somewhat out of place with the atmosphere of the Major Crimes Unit.
Lü Chun saw through his thoughts.
"I have to deal with all sorts of people in that position now! When I first joined the unit, Team Leader Xie yelled at people, and the director's office on the top floor could hear it."
"I've learned something new," Jin Shuhe thought to himself.
“Those who can sit in the chair of the Major Crimes Unit must have real skills and achievements. If someone else comes, they can’t keep up!” Lu Chun talked to him about the past of the Major Crimes Unit.
Until Qin Wen was mentioned.
"Sister Lü...you and Brother Wen..." Jin Shuhe was unusually curious, but Lü Chun slapped him on the head: "Little brat, mind your own business! Be careful that Xiao Lu doesn't dump you one day because he thinks you're childish!"
Very aggressive.
Jin Shuhe blinked, thinking to herself that she hadn't said anything.
"Oh, by the way, Wu Xiaohe's body has been dug up."
Lu Chun looked dejected: "At the very spot they pointed out, not only was her body dug up, but the body of the man who was with her, whom Kang Fangfang had seen several times, was also dug up."
"Huh?" Jin Shuhe was a little surprised.
After careful investigation, it seems that the person in question is a trusted confidant of the man surnamed Lin.
“When Wu Xiaohe ran away, the man surnamed Lin noticed something was wrong. He ordered the other man to chase after her. Wu Xiaohe was determined to die at the time. She used a time difference and pretended that she was just running back to her hometown. In reality, she hid the evidence in the funeral home.”
"That person caught Wu Xiaohe and searched her house, which was the house her parents said had been burgled."
When Jin Shuhe heard this, he was really worried, because the Wu family was on the verge of death.
"When the situation turned against him, the man surnamed Lin had that person get rid of Wu Xiaohe. Then he secretly took care of that person in order to make his escape easier and finally draw the police's attention to the man who disappeared with Wu Xiaohe, thus buying himself some time."
They were almost misled at the time.
"The Wu family has come to claim their daughter's body."
Jin Shuhe felt a pang of bitterness in his heart. No matter how many times he tried, he couldn't shake the feeling, because he himself had stood there and seen... his mother's corpse.
"Do they... know what Wu Xiaohe did?" Jin Shuhe asked.
"I know, I told her parents, but what's the use? To them, their daughter is dead, that's it. Once a person is dead, nothing else matters."
Remembering how Wu's parents cried so hard they couldn't even stand up, Lü Chun's nose started to sting again.
"So I called my mom that night, and the news that we were still alive and healthy was the best news for the family."
“A couple of days ago, Deputy Captain Wu used my phone to say sorry to Xiao Lu for not taking good care of you.”
Jin Shuhe looked up; he hadn't heard Sister Li Ruan mention this matter.
“Xiao Lu said that no one needs to apologize for this. You do this job, you bear this responsibility, and there is no reason for others to give you special treatment.”
Lu Chun's expression showed a lot of admiration for Lu Liruan. The girl was young, but she was extremely upright and insightful, much more mature than the one in front of her.
Jin Shuhe nodded silently. He knew that Sister Li Ruan was not angry at his behavior, but at his thoughts and attitude.
After Lü Chun left, the person next door returned after completing their checkup.
Amidst the concerned voices of the family members in the next bed, Jin Shuhe opened the memo app on his phone.
It contains some of his writings from a few days ago, at the very beginning of this case.
It was a suicide note.
He wasn't the only one who wrote a will; Jin Shuhe heard this from Qin Wen and the others.
Their leader in charge of major cases always keeps the phone numbers of each team member's family members in his possession.
in case……
People with families usually write a will to arrange their estate after death. When they are in the middle of their lives, nothing is more important than making sure their money is settled.
Those without families mostly wrote to their parents.
When they brought it up, they spoke in a very relaxed tone, almost as if they were joking.
When he couldn't sleep at night, Jin Shuhe would curl up on the bed in the rest room and listen to the snoring of the person on the upper bunk.
I don't know what to write for a moment.
He has no parents, no inheritance, and is actually quite in debt.
But he still wrote to Sister Li Ruan.
His phone password has always been his birthday, which Sister Li Ruan knows.
Now, Jin Shuhe is lying in his hospital bed, carefully reading through what he had written.
Then, I deleted it.
He wrote at the time: Sister Li Ruan, don't be sad because of my death.
How could Sister Li Ruan not be heartbroken?
Jin Shuhe felt like a complete ingrate and a fool.
Writing this stuff seems to be just for my own emotional effect. It's not only useless to Sister Li Ruan, but reading it will only make her more heartbroken. It's really superfluous.
He should live well and stay by Sister Li Ruan's side forever, so that she will never be sad.
He was worried that he wouldn't need the phone anymore, so he printed out a copy and put it in his office drawer.
I'll have to tear it up when I get back.
Lu Liruan didn't intend to leave him hanging, but she did have to go to another city to participate in an event.
Her business is doing quite well; at the beginning of this year, she even hired someone to open another shop at another university.
When I was working, I always dreamed of when I could achieve financial freedom and stop having to put up with my deadbeat boss every day.
I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. Although I'm not completely free, at least I have some security.
Therefore, Lu Liruan is very serious about her work and never slacks off. She does her best in everything she can do.
"How long will Sister Li Ruan be gone..." Jin Shuhe sat on the hospital bed, looking up as if he had been let down.
He had just become Sister Li Ruan's boyfriend, but he was nowhere to be seen every day.
Even when Sister Li Ruan came to visit, there were other people in the ward, and Sister Li Ruan could only hold her hand at most.
Lu Liruan was really embarrassed by the sudden incident that happened to the caregiver that day.
Shh—we'll talk about this when you get home!
"I'm going home. Does Sister Li Ruan really want me to tell her?" Jin Shuhe pursed his lips.
"Yes, yes, you should take good care of yourself. We'll talk about it when you get home!" Lu Liruan coaxed him, "Would I lie to you?"
Sister Li Ruan has lied to me quite a bit too.
Jin Shuhe could only say these words to himself...
Then Sister Li Ruan disappeared for a week, without a trace.
Jin Shuhe was lying in the hospital bed, bored, when he suddenly realized that he hadn't checked Li Ruan's account in a long time.
He used to really enjoy reading Sister Li Ruan's account, from the very beginning...
It seemed that just being able to spend a little more time with Sister Li Ruan through the screen would make him incredibly happy.
Later, he no longer needed to go through the screen, and later still, he and Sister Li Ruan became family.
Upon opening the account, Jin Shuhe suddenly discovered that... Sister Li Ruan had several collaborative works.
Jin Shuhe clicked on it with a bit of a puzzlement.
then……
I discovered that Sister Li Ruan actually played the role of the president's secretary in a short drama.
……
This is a script written by Lu Liruan herself, a funny short drama that subverts the usual tropes, and it was filmed in Pucheng.
She went over to watch the fun and was amused into playing a small role.
It only took two days to film.
Surprisingly, the response was quite good.
"I laughed so hard. The subtle sense of death of the corporate slave is vividly portrayed on the page."
"It's hard to say. How can such an energetic girl's face perfectly portray the 'class atmosphere,' even to the point of making her look a bit sleazy..."
"Art truly does imitate life."
When Lu Liruan went back and watched the short drama herself, she also felt that she had acted quite well.
But I won't come next time. Seeing my own face on the screen is just too embarrassing.
Lu Liruan has no problem making her own video account, but the thought of playing a different role and having her exaggerated acting skills seen by countless people makes her so embarrassed that she wants to crawl on the ground.
The director later messaged her again, saying that the response last time was good, and asked if she wanted to consider it...
"I'll pass on that, thank you. I'll just stick to writing the script."
Lu Liruan originally thought that the matter was over, but she never expected that the things she had done would always have hidden dangers.
I don't know when, but suddenly their faces were right in front of mine.
A few days after Lu Liruan returned, Jin Shuhe was discharged from the hospital.
The doctor checked and there was nothing wrong; I can go home and rest.
As long as he is properly immobilized, he can basically take care of himself, and the incision has almost healed.
Jin Shuhe had never been so idle in all these years. He wanted to go to work but his boss sent him back: "You're given a day off and you don't even want it. You don't know how lucky you are!"
So he followed Lu Liruan to the bakery to help out every day.
"Why don't you just not go..."
Lu Liruan hesitated before speaking.
"Why?" Jin Shuhe didn't know what she had done to annoy people.
“I can go by myself by subway. If I take you, I’ll have to take a taxi... Won’t that cost a lot of money?”
“Sister Li Ruan…” Jin Shuhe wanted to say that she was stingy, but then held back.
Jin Shuhe also wanted to say that Sister Li Ruan was indeed lying to him.
She said that once she was discharged from the hospital and went home, she could say or do anything, but right now she can't do anything.
Not to mention doing anything, even saying anything is forbidden by Sister Li Ruan.
Jin Shuhe was shy, and Sister Li Ruan avoided him and didn't want to talk to him... so he was too embarrassed to even mention it.
Lu Liruan had no idea what he was thinking. If she did, she would say that he had indeed wronged her!
She's such a big girl, and we're still trying to hug and hold her. The doctor told us not to bump into her or do anything strenuous. Who knows when we might accidentally bump into this precious little pea princess?
Besides, the daily good morning and good night kisses—I don't know who's so enthusiastic about them, not allowing a single one to be missed…
Lu Liruan found it amusing.
She didn't refuse, and as a result, they kissed for a week, with the good morning and good night kisses always landing on her forehead.
The kid is just not trying hard enough!
Don't blame others for teasing him.
After Lu Liruan complained that he was too expensive, Jin Shuhe was even refused when he tried to help her.
Fortunately, his company finally allowed him to go back, but he couldn't go out on fieldwork and could only do clerical work in the office.
Regarding this major case, the entire bureau held a meeting to make arrangements for other cases that were implicated.
Because of the nature of his work, the serious crime investigator usually wears casual clothes most of the time.
We all changed into police uniforms during today's meeting.
After the meeting, there wasn't much to do in the afternoon, so Jin Shuhe was urged to leave work on time.
Wu Qidong also got off work on time today, which is rare for him. I gave him a ride on my way home, saying that I would take my wife to a restaurant for dinner later.
When Jin Shuhe returned home, Sister Li Ruan had not yet come back.
He slowly walked back into the house, just about to take off his police uniform and fold it neatly.
His hand was already on the button when he suddenly stopped.
The short drama that Sister Li Ruan starred in, which I watched a few days ago, came to mind.
It seems like a certain word was mentioned in it.
He hesitated for a moment...
Lu Liruan came home a little late today. She bought some freshly popped popcorn on the way and walked in with light steps.
"Xiao He? Is she back?"
She noticed the light was on by the door and casually asked a question.
Then he turned around and froze on the spot...