"Fishing out a corpse? Uh... is it a kind of snack?"
"It’s exactly what it sounds like."
"Exactly what it sounds like?"
"The person died, fell into the water, and then, he’s fished out."
In the past, Wen Bin would have thought that this was just the boy’s nonsense, but now, he felt it might be true.
"Brother Xiao Yuan, is fishing out a corpse fun?"
"More fun than studying."
Two scenes popped into Wen Bin’s mind, one was burying his head in papers in the classroom, and the other was standing by the river catching corpses with a huge net.
Though the latter was creepy, it was indeed more fun than studying!
"Brother Xiao Yuan, do you do it often?"
"There aren’t that many people dropping into the river and drowning every day, and those who drown in the river only have a very small chance of becoming a corpse."
"Isn’t everyone who drowns called a corpse?"
"We specifically refer to those who can still move after drowning."
"Move after dying?" Wen Bin’s face turned complex, "Moved by the water currents?"
"It moves by itself, can even get ashore and walk."
"This..." Finally, Wen Bin couldn’t help but start questioning, "Brother Xiao Yuan, are you deliberately telling stories to scare me?"
"But I don’t believe what you just said."
"Unless, you take me to see one of those moving corpses."
"Why?" Wen Bin couldn’t understand; wasn’t the first reaction to a disbelief to eagerly prove it?
"Fishing out corpses is very dangerous."
"No worries, I’m not afraid of danger."
"Brother Binbin, you know nothing, taking you would just be a burden, and it could put me in danger."
After a brief loss of words, Wen Bin quickly moved closer and grabbed Li Zhiyuan’s hand, "But the more you say so, the more I want to see it."
Li Zhiyuan shook his head.
"Please, Brother Xiao Yuan, brother, brother!"
"Brother Xiao Yuan, if you just show me a real corpse, I’ll do anything you ask in the future!"
"What could you possibly help me with?"
Saul came from the living room from Tan Yunlong: "Binbin, bring Xiao Yuan out for dinner."
The dinner was lavish, with many main dishes, some of which were clearly just cans opened and poured out.
Zheng Fang apologetically said: "Xiao Yuan, next time you come, we’ll eat out; your aunt doesn’t really know how to cook."
"Aunt, it’s too much food already, we won’t finish it."
As Tan Yunlong was pouring soda into the cup in front of Li Zhiyuan, he said: "No worries, let Binbin eat slowly."
The dinner atmosphere was warm and harmonious, typical of a family of three, plus a visiting Wen Bin.
Toward the end of the meal, when the main focus shifted to chatting, Tan Yunlong’s pager beeped, he glanced down, and immediately stood up.
Zheng Fang was already accustomed to this pace of life, immediately fetched her husband’s coat, and said: "Xiao Yuan, will you stay over at our place tonight?"
Tan Yunlong shook his head after dressing, "I haven’t told them I’d stay here, if I don’t go home tonight, my family will be worried. Come on, Xiao Yuan, go with uncle."
"Didn’t you have a case in the station?"
"It’s on the way, I’ll take the kid home."
"Well, be careful on the road, it’s windy tonight, don’t let the child catch cold."
Li Zhiyuan walked up to Tan Yunlong, Zheng Fang took a prepared red envelope from her pocket, and handed it to him.
"Xiao Yuan, this is your first time at our home, go buy some candy with this."
Li Zhiyuan took the red envelope and put it in his pocket, knowing Tan Yunlong was in a hurry to leave, so he didn’t decline.
Descending the stairs, Tan Yunlong said: "Someone from the hospital control called, someone came to visit those two, and now has been caught."
"There must be more."
Water monkeys tend to group together. On the surface, two pretended to be out-of-town bosses to contract the fishpond; there definitely were more people involved behind the scenes.
"Since those two are injured and still unconscious, we can’t interrogate them; now that we’ve caught a tongue, we can hope to pry open his mouth."
Tan Yunlong straddled the motorcycle, waiting for Li Zhiyuan to get on, he handed over a helmet.
The previous conversation sounded more like a dialogue between colleagues, and Tan Yunlong didn’t sense anything wrong; after all, the boy himself had provided leads on this case.
In the roaring sound of the motorcycle, they arrived at the health center.
Tan Yunlong did not hesitate and led Li Zhiyuan into the hospital building.
Both the son and father from Sihai and the pair of contractors’ hospital rooms were all on the first floor, one at the east end and one at the west end.
In the central area of the first floor was a long bench area, crowded because of the tight hospital bed situation, many family members chose to stay there overnight.
The security office was on the first western room, they pushed the door and entered. Inside, there were three people, two plainclothes standing and one handcuffed sitting.
"Got any results yet?"
"He denies everything, says he was just asked by someone to deliver fruit baskets and milk to those two patients."
Tan Yunlong frowned: "How could there be a mistake?"
"This guy has a history of theft. When we approached him to assist in the investigation, he immediately attempted to flee, we caught him. He did confess to two recent thefts, but adamantly denies knowing those two unconscious."
"Officer, I really don’t know those two people, someone just gave me money to help deliver things to that hospital room."
Tan Yunlong asked: "Who gave you the money?"