Demons are often mere and inconspicuous, and they share our bed and dine at the same table with us.

- W.H. Orton (English poet)

Xin Pet waited outside the door of the meeting room in the detention center for more than an hour, and only when it was time for the meeting, Qin Song gestured to her, she lowered her head, pushed her glasses, and followed Qin Song into the meeting room.

The police in the meeting room checked Qin Song's documents, and when it was Xin Pet's turn, the young policeman asked vigilantly, "Lawyer Qin, have you changed to a new assistant?"

Qin Song took back his lawyer's qualification certificate and said calmly: "The new trainee lawyer, take her to experience and experience." “

Qin Song is a well-known criminal lawyer in the city and a frequent visitor to the detention center, and the police are very familiar with him, so they didn't ask any more questions, nodded inside, let them in, turned around and closed the door.

When the door behind him closed, Xin Pet breathed a sigh of relief, patted Qin Song's shoulder, and a grateful smile appeared on his pretty face without powder, "Old Qin, I owe you a favor." ”

"Xin Da's love is precious, I have to make good use of it. Qin Song smiled and pointed to the fence gate in front of him, "People are coming soon, if you have something to say, hurry up and ask." ”

Xin Pet nodded, but her heart was beating wildly, the wall clock on the wall of the detention center was ticking, each sound seemed to remind her to keep her sanity, she took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.

The interview room is not large, at most seven or eight square meters, with a fence door in the middle, and chairs are placed on both sides, with the suspect on one side and the criminal lawyer on the other, which is the only way to see the suspect in a major case.

The iron gate on the other side of the fence gate opened, and a policeman walked in with a woman wearing a detention center vest. The woman may not be that old, but she is gray and haggard, hunched over, and looks like an old woman in her last years.

Seeing that woman, Xin Pet had mixed feelings, her nose was sour, hot tears were rolling in her eyes, and her throat was like lead poured into it, and it hurt so much that she couldn't help but pounce in front of the fence and shouted, "Teacher Zhou, are you okay?"

The woman looked up and saw Xin Pet, there seemed to be a light in her gray eyes, and she forced herself to take a breath and wanted to say something, but she burst into tears first.

"I didn't kill anyone. The woman's tears rolled down like beads, "Xin pet, you shouldn't have come here, but you came, does it mean that you believe I didn't kill anyone?"

Xin Pet clenched his fists, and his heart was like a knife cutting at this time.

Xin Pet is an experienced criminal lawyer, and the woman in front of her is her mentor when she was in law school, how could she not know that she and Zhou Lingling have a master-apprentice relationship, so they should avoid suspicion and cannot come to the detention center to meet. But she insisted on going her own way, and even did not hesitate to ask Qin Song, who was a little interesting to her, to bring her in, and to ask Zhou Lingling face to face what was going on.

The "Ten Thousand Ants Corpse Eating Case" was really appalling, even if the police deliberately blocked the news, Xin Pet, as a criminal lawyer, still knew some details.

It is said that the crime occurred in a remote park, and the old man who exercised in the morning went out for a run with his dog and found a corpse that had been frantically eaten by thousands of red fire ants. The old man was so frightened that he fainted on the spot, it was the old man's dog who saw the owner fainting, ran out of the park, barked desperately, and bit the passerby's trouser leg to drag it into the park, the passerby was dragged into the park, saw this scene and was so frightened that he kicked away the dog and ran out, fortunately he didn't forget to call the police before running.

As a criminal lawyer, Xin Pet, who has a degree in criminal psychology out of interest, once talked to his assistant about this case in the office, citing the papers of many psychology experts, and inferred that the suspect in the case must be an antisocial personality who committed the crime for the first time.

The choice of a secluded place to throw the corpse shows that this person has no confidence, so it is inferred that it is the first time to commit the crime, and the corpse devouring by ten thousand ants is not like a coincidence, it must be carefully arranged, and ordinary people do not have such a calm psychological quality. And most women don't like bugs very much, and the suspect is inferred to be a young man.

However, a few days later, the arrested suspect actually slapped her in the face.

The person who was arrested was a woman over half a hundred years old, a university professor, and Xin Chong's mentor, Zhou Lingling.

When Xin Pet learned the news, it was like five thunderbolts, and Yu resolutely did not believe this result, and ran to the police station several times to inquire, and was finally driven out by her own brother, the leader of the serious crime team, Singh.

Singh has been busy for a few days, he is very irritable, and he speaks mercilessly, "There are eyewitnesses who found Zhou Lingling's DNA at the scene, and she herself admitted it." Say, what's wrong?"

"She confessed?" Xin Pet was incredulous, "How could she admit it? She is a timid woman who can jump high when she sees a spider, how can she manipulate ten thousand ants to devour corpses?"

Zhou Lingling is a professor of her "History of Legal Thought", a very elegant and demure woman, when she was in school, Xin Pet was like a boy, all day long, Zhou Lingling always said to her: "Xin Pet, a boy like you will be scared away by you." ”

Xin Pet pouted indifferently, "What does it matter if you're scared away? Being scared away by me means that they don't deserve me at all." ”

Zhou Lingling shook her head and lowered her head to practice her calligraphy. Zhou Lingling's calligraphy is excellent, copying Yan Zhenqing's "Collection of Rites and Music" can be fake and true, and teach students to practice calligraphy in their spare time, Xin Pet is one of her apprentices.

Xin Pet thought about Zhou Lingling's everything, and became more and more anxious, and said: "I can use my personality to guarantee that Teacher Zhou will never kill anyone." ”

"It's useless for you to tell me this, I want proof!" Singh became angry and pushed her out, "Don't mix this matter, your relationship is not ordinary, and mixing it will only make things more complicated." ”

Xin Pet wanted to say something again, but the person had already been pushed out, and the door of the serious crime team was slammed shut in front of her, and the loud sound was like a sledgehammer mercilessly, knocking on her heart.

As a last resort, Xin Pet had no choice but to ask Qin Song, pretending to be her trainee lawyer, to see Zhou Lingling, just to hear what she had to say.

Xin Pet stretched out her hand across the fence and held Zhou Lingling's hand, the hand in her palm was rough and dry, not at all as delicate as in her memory, she was sad again, endured it for a while, and then asked: "Teacher, don't worry, tell me slowly, what's going on?"

Zhou Lingling grabbed Xin Pet's hand tightly, like grasping a life-saving straw, and choked up:

"My husband has a woman outside who has been raised for more than ten years, and I have always known about it. But I couldn't give birth, and I always felt sorry for him, so I thought that it would be good if someone could give him a son, as long as he didn't divorce me. It's been more than ten years, I have endured it for more than ten years, and when I reached this age, he suddenly wanted to divorce me, saying that he wanted to give my son a complete home outside, I went crazy at the time, tore up with him, and ran out of the house. ”

"I remember very well that it was October 16, my birthday. I ran out of the house, went to the bar and drank some wine, the more I drank, the more uncomfortable I became, and I took the blood pressure medicine I brought with me, and after eating it I was groggy, and I don't remember where I went after that, and what I did...... But I'm not a bad person, I don't even dare to kill chickens, and I won't kill people if I don't realize it. Xin pet, they say, there are eyewitnesses, how can there be eyewitnesses?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Lingling's tears fell onto Xin Pet's hands, "I didn't have a grudge against anyone, why did they frame me?