Abyss of ignorance

After Xu Binyong went back, his life was very regular. Basically, the lights at home would be turned off within an hour.

Logically speaking, the day should have passed like this.

But Lin Xiaodong did not relax. For him, what happened next was what he was most concerned about.

The house next door to the house where Xu Binyong lived was connected to a small garden, and it seemed that people lived there, but he never saw anyone coming out of it.

Only Xu Binyong's nanny, who has three meals a day, will bring one out after cooking, walk through the small garden and enter the next room, and after a while, she will come out with empty bowls and chopsticks.

Today, the house has not been turned on the lights since nightfall.As if whoever lived in it should have already rested.But Lin Xiaodong did not let down his vigilance because of this.

This is what he discovered while squatting at Xu Binyong's house for the past few days. In the room next door, in the dead of night, there will be lights flashing, three shorts, three longs and three shorts, which are SOS signals for help.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and sure enough, without any warning, the light came on in the window, only a little bit of faint light flashed persistently in the rhythm of calling for help in the middle of the night.

However, this is a residential area, and no one cares about the meaning of the light from the chief of public security's house.

Except for Lin Xiaodong, he came rushing to find Xu Binyong's evidence.

The sky was getting brighter, and in the morning of this day, Linzhou had the heaviest rain in summer this year.The heavy rain poured down straight down, and the sky and the earth were covered by a curtain of white rain.

In the pouring rain, Lin Xiaodong put on a black raincoat and stayed up all night without sleep. He was still guarding the Blue Sky Mansion. For him, this rain was not a hindrance but the opposite.

Xu Binyong went out normally, ran to the car with an umbrella in two or three steps, and got into the car, looking no different from other people rushing to work.

But Lin Xiaodong didn't go out with him, but stayed in the Lantian mansion.

These two houses next to each other can only go to the next door through the small garden in front.

The one who lived next to the house where Xu Binyong lived was the one he wanted to know.

He had waited a few days for this weather.

Sure enough, on a rainy day, the nanny who was supposed to go to the next door to deliver breakfast at this point did not come out, probably to wait for the rain to stop.

People living in this room have no way to come out by themselves.

Xu Binyong's car has completely left the Lantian Mansion, and he will not be able to come back until night after a day's work.

Wearing a black raincoat, Lin Xiaodong walked towards the house that had been guarded for five or six days.

Heavy rain can short-circuit exposed wires, such as the one installed at Xu Binyong's door. Everything is reasonable, not intentional, just an accident.

Xu Binyong is a civil servant and has never done criminal investigation work. What Lin Xiaodong bet on is his professional ability.

Sure enough, the signal light of the monitoring probe was off.

Wearing a black raincoat, he walked to the door of the house where Xu Binyong lived, and buckled the broom at the door at an angle - as if the wind and rain happened to blow down and jam the door.

The other room, he knew, had only the screens closed, the glass windows not drawn up.

The screens didn't lock.

He has been observing for many days.

With a light pull, sure enough, the window moved away, and he kicked lightly, entering the room effortlessly.

It was still raining heavily, and the forecast said at least another hour.

The house is very clean, nothing has been used.

Only in the bedroom, the door was ajar, and there was the sound of the quilt being turned.

Lin Xiaodong pushed open the door, a pair of frightened eyes were already watching him, but no sound came out.

Lying on the bed was a woman who was so thin that only a handful of bones remained. It looked like she had been in bed for too long, and most of her muscles had atrophied. This woman who looked like a skeleton could no longer tell how old she was.

But Lin Xiaodong already knew who she was.

There was a photo frame on the bedside table. The photo inside was a photo of a woman and Xu Binyong. The woman in the photo was plump and healthy. The big heart-shaped diamond ring on her finger was particularly conspicuous, and she had a happy expression on her face.

"Are you Xu Ju's lover, Jiang Lin?" Lin Xiaodong said to her.

The woman's fearful expression was actually mixed with anticipation.

"Help me..." She seemed to have not spoken for a long time, and there was a dry voice in her throat, which sounded particularly uncomfortable.

"Are you the one who sent out the distress signal in the middle of the night?" Lin Xiaodong looked at the flashlight by the bed and asked.

He took out the ring Yue Jianfeng gave him from his pocket, and showed it to the woman: "This is your ring, isn't it?"

The moment Jiang Lin saw the ring, tears flowed down her cheeks: "Are you that thief?" There was no reproach in her tone, and the way she looked at the diamond ring was so complicated that Lin Xiaodong couldn't understand it for a while.

"The person who stole the ring is dead." Lin Xiaodong said calmly.

"Help me..." Jiang Lin continued to plead.

"You are the wife of the Linzhou Public Security Bureau Chief. I can't take you away." When Lin Xiaodong came in, he didn't know what he was going to do, or maybe he didn't expect that the person who sent the distress signal late at night was actually Xu Binyong's. wife.

Jiang Lin didn't seem surprised by this answer, she wasn't hysterical, she just stared at the ceiling in despair: "Then you go, if he knows you've been here, he won't let you go."

These words moved Lin Xiaodong inexplicably, she actually cared about the life and death of this uninvited guest who broke in rashly.

"Tell me how he became the police chief, and I'll save you." Lin Xiaodong made a promise that he didn't know if he could keep it.

"You know, take me out of this place and let me do whatever you want." Jiang Lin, who was already desperate, had hope rekindled in her eyes.

Lin Xiaodong couldn't refuse this look.

Outside, it was raining heavily, drowning everything.

"He won't call the police." Jiang Lin thought Lin Xiaodong hesitated, and said hurriedly, "He didn't call the police even if the ring was stolen. He was afraid that the outside world would discover these secrets. You seem to be very interested in Xu Binyong, so take me away. I can tell you everything you want to know, please!"

……

Ah Ruo waited downstairs in the Wan'an community early in the morning. For Ye Mimi, going to Jiangnan Medicine is rain or shine.

She hasn't had a break for a month, but she can't stop.

Ye Mimi knew that there was not much time left for her and Jiang Xu.

Ye Mimi got into the car, and soon the car drove into the pouring rain and disappeared at the end of Xingtiandi Road.

On the fourth floor, Jiang Xu stood at the window, looking at the direction the car was leaving, with worries that could not be dispelled in his eyes.

The harder Ye Mimi worked, the more worried he became.

This is not the direction he hoped Ye Mimi would go.