Pingzhou City Prison

The mottled rust clinged to the dark blue doors, revealing a gap with a heavy "squeak", and the black leather shoes stepped out the door first, and the golden sunlight crossed the yellowed white shirt.

The young man with a beard and a thin face stepped out of the shadow inside the door, still a little uncomfortable with the harsh sunlight outside, but reluctant to cover it with his hands. The people who have lived behind this iron gate for six years have been in the sun outside every day, and even if this place once made them feel hopeless, freedom has always been impossible to refuse.

Even the sun is extra warm.

"Su Yu. ”

An unfamiliar voice called out a familiar name, and the man looked up at the black Xuanyi parked on the side of the road, and the young woman who was walking towards him next to the car. White T-shirt jeans, youthful sunshine.

"Captain Song asked me to pick you up and go to the bureau first, and then go home, it won't be delayed for too long, is it convenient?"

...... The gentle voice sounds like asking for advice, but in fact there is no choice. To go, or not to go, is never up to oneself.

Su Yu glanced at the woman not far away, her skin was fair, her facial features were exquisite, and her figure was also bumpy and convex, three points gentle, three points intellectual, and four points hot, but it was not a very eye-catching kind, but it was already very rare to have such a sexy woman in the police department.

"Absolutely. "A very calm tone.

The woman walked to the front, a little surprise flashed in her eyes, Su Yu also gave her own answer, just as he was about to return to the woman's car, the latter had already stretched out his right hand, Su Yu was stunned, looking at her smiling self-introduction,

"Hello, my name is Qin Xi. ”

This kind of self-introduction is really concise. Su Yu thought in his heart, and then stretched out his hand, still in a calm voice,

“...... Ah, hello, my name is Su Yu. But before he touched the white fingertips, the latter had already turned around and left a sentence,

"I know. Let's go, already, I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

“......”

Su Yu looked at the palm of the hand stranded in the air, and always felt that this woman's last sentence was a little meaningful.

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Ruzhou City Police Station

Sitting in the office of the criminal investigation captain, Su Yu looked at the man opposite, cleanly dressed, neat and tidy, and meticulously placed in the room, changing Su Yu's opinion of these police sloppy. However, a 33-year-old criminal investigation captain is enough to be not underestimated.

"You didn't show the madness and anger that I imagined. ”

Song Chen, who had been looking at Su Yu for a long time, finally opened his mouth, and the man sitting opposite him at the moment looked sloppy, but it was only because he had been in prison for a long time, and there were some problems with his face and clothing.

The file said that Su Yu was only twenty-four years old when he entered prison, a young and vigorous age, and spent the best years in prison, and he was wronged, and in such a situation, ordinary people would have begun to denounce the responsibility of the police department. From the moment Qin Xi received him, he behaved very gentle and calm, could it really be that the prison could make such a big change?

But Song Chen has only seen changes that are more hysterical and cynical, and such changes are rarely heard of.

Su Yu just smiled when he heard this, the darkness in his eyes made Song Chen unable to see what he was thinking, and only heard him say in an extremely peaceful tone,

"I believe that justice will not be absent and will give me back the truth. ”

Song Chen was speechless, he couldn't imagine that the person in front of him was a person who had been unjustly imprisoned for six years, but more like a successful and decent person, sitting in front of him, not sad or happy. He really couldn't see through the person in front of him.

"Recently, someone provided the real place and time of the deceased's death, and at the time of the crime, you were drinking with friends in a tavern, what did you do after that, how did you get home, what happened when you got home, and who brought the woman to your house?"

Song Chen went straight to the point, instead of flipping through the archives to read the situation at that time, it would be better to listen to him again, maybe he would find something interesting. And, more importantly, Su Yu's expression, he needs Su Yu's expression to give him an answer.

Sure enough, when he threw out this topic, the face of the man opposite finally changed slightly, painful, resentful, and resistant. Indeed, for Su Yu, it was a memory that he resisted. However, he needed to face up to what had happened that day.

The lights of the bar the night before yesterday, the ice and fire when he woke up the next morning, the nightmares, the police raids, and the cold handcuffs all made him unforgettable, and his bones were cold. Six years still can't digest it, and even the feeling of humiliation and grief has deepened.

"I'm sorry Officer Song, it's been too long, and I don't remember what happened after I got drunk. ”

Without too much explanation and struggle, Su Yu calmly seemed to be telling a fact that had nothing to do with him.

Song Chen only felt a little dazzling, as if the emotions that had just appeared in front of him were his hallucinations.

"Also, so much time has passed, and now it can be proven that Mr. Su is innocent, congratulations, Mr. Chen, you are free. Song Chen said, "If you need your help in the future, Officer Qin will contact you." ”

Freedom, the word sounds a little ridiculous at this time.

"Captain Song doesn't think it's inappropriate to talk like this to a person who has lost six years of time?" Su Yu stood up and looked down at the man in the suit opposite, his calm gaze was as deep as a valley.

He wanted to say something, but the next moment he restrained this thought, and saying too much was not necessarily useful.

An uneasy emotion arose in Song Chen's heart, and when he came back to his senses again, Su Yu had already walked out of the door of the police station.

"Why is it him?" Facing Qin Xi at the door, Song Chen was puzzled.

At this moment, Qin Xi was calm and elegant, smiling, but his eyes were alienated and cold,

"The Mandate of Heaven is so that it cannot be violated. ”

“...... If someone else says the word Destiny in front of me, I will definitely think that he is a liar, but you, Qin Xi. ”

"Thank you then. Qin Xi turned around and suddenly paused, "Is Mrs. Song's illness better?"

With a sly smile, Qin Xi's figure disappeared from the office, Song Chen looked at the direction where Qin Xi disappeared, and the phone rang.

"Hey, husband, I just found out that my legs can move. ”

The person on the other side of the phone was Song Chen's wife, who could almost cry with joy, but Song Chen, who heard the good news, was so surprised that he couldn't help himself.

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Su Yu sat in the back, looking at the two people in front of him, and always felt that the atmosphere in the car was even more weird and terrifying than in prison.

At the beginning, he was waiting for the car home opposite the police station, and Qin Xi suddenly appeared to "please drink tea by yourself." The moment when Su Yu wanted to leave, but couldn't move. He immediately realized how special one of the two men was special.

The anxious mood continued until the car stopped at the door of a bookstore, and the retro façade was decorated, Su Yu looked at the bookstore on the second floor in front of him, and heard Qin Xi whisper in his ear,

"Don't you want to know the truth, don't you want to clear your name? You can leave, or you can choose to go in. But you're gone, and the truth of that day will never be known again. ”

It can be called a demagogic voice, Su Yu is very entangled in his heart, who knows if there will be dangers and traps in this.

"The police department has declared me innocent. ”

"Oh?

Qin Xi smiled and walked to the door of the bookstore first,

"Then you can give it a try. ”

The car was behind him, only one step away, but such a distance made it difficult for him to move an inch.

At the door of the bookstore, Qin Xi stopped for a long time, and at the moment when she decided to give up, someone walked by and walked into the café first.

The man...... After all, I still came in.

But for Su Yu, inside and outside the door, there are two worlds.

From the outside, there is nothing special about the café, and you can see the bookshelves, but the moment you come in, the scene in front of you changes instantly. The open space is neatly arranged with coffee table seats, all the furniture is mahogany, and there is a faint sandalwood fragrance throughout the room.

A young man sitting behind the cash register at the door lowered his head carved something, and two middle school students, a man and a woman, sitting on the sofa next to the coffee table, looked at what they were holding. In addition to these three people, there was also Qin Xi behind him and the old man who was driving.

The three people in the room didn't react to Su Yu who walked in, and they were still doing what they were doing.

"You may be seated. The old man invited Su Yu to the sofa on the other side of the coffee table, but Qin Xi was gone.

"Please have tea. I don't know where he got the teapot, Su Yu looked at the cup in front of him filling up little by little, and the fragrance of tea overflowed.

"She'......"

"Please wait. The old man smiled, held the teapot in his hand, and looked at Su Yu in front of him, "This tea is a specialty of our shop, Mr. Su might as well try it." ”

Somehow, Su Yu suddenly felt a little cold, Xu is autumn breeze was sluggish, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and felt that it was not bad, after a while, the teacup bottomed out, and then looked up, Jiang Yuanxi appeared.

"Signed it. Qin Xi said, placing a contract in front of Su Yu, but the strange thing was that no matter how hard Su Yu tried, he couldn't see the things on the paper clearly.

"What is written on this?" Su Yu asked a little irritably, strange things were one after another today, and Su Yu felt that there was a feeling of being fiddled with.

"What do you have that I deserve?" Qin Xi was condescending, like a basin of cold water, poured on Su Yu's head and woke himself up.

Even if he was unjustly imprisoned and had some compensation, it was nothing compared to such a large café in the city center. This is an era when there is money and there are people. Besides, what is there to plan for a middle-aged person who has been in prison for six years and is now a middle-aged man?

In contrast, he may need Qin Xi's help more.

The police station's acquittal seemed a little untenable after Qin Xi's words, at least it made Su Yu feel that it was not so secure.

Every day in the cage for six years, he wondered who the person who framed him would be, and now he has lost the best time of six years, and his future and brightness are so far away from him. His dreams have been shattered, and what has sustained him until now is the search for the truth.

The pen fell, and the name had been signed, the only place he could see clearly.

However, in the next moment, he found that the contents of this piece of paper could be seen clearly, and when he wanted to check further, Qin Xi pulled out the contract so quickly that Su Yu couldn't react.

An unfathomable smile appeared on Qin Xi's face, accompanied by several glances at the same time. And among them, there are surprises, doubts, and more...... Disdain.

Exactly, what happened?

"The contract is signed, effective immediately, and from today onwards, you are the acting manager of this bookstore, for a period of thirty years. ”

This was the last sentence Qin Xi left for Su Yu, and then he left with his suitcase.

Of course, even if he was surprised, Su Yu did not ignore Qin Xi's sentence - the trip to Europe can finally begin.

“...... She ......" Su Yu looked at the old man beside him, and the latter smiled, "Store Manager Su, I've been working hard for you today, and I'll introduce you to the people in the store." ”

After speaking, he paused for a moment, looked at Su Yu who seemed to have a bad face, and asked with concern,

"Is Store Manager Su unwell? If so, I can take you to your room, and then you can rest for a while, and then I will introduce you to the situation in the store tomorrow." ”

"......" Su Yu was speechless, and turned to look at the other three people in the store, this remarkable feeling was really the first experience in this life except for the first time after being born.

This place should not stay for a long time, this is the only thought in Su Yu's mind at the moment.

"I'm a little hungry, go out for a meal and come back in a moment. Saying that, Su Yu was about to leave, but the door closed in an instant.

Because the outside of the entire bookstore is in a classical Chinese style, there is less sunlight in the room, and it feels a little eerie for a while.

"Manager, we have a Michelin-certified five-star chef in our store, and our chef is confident that he will satisfy the manager's appetite. ”

Su Yu: "......"

Well, it turns out that what the old man said was not false.

Four dishes and one soup, authentic Sichuan cuisine, is indeed a taste that cannot be eaten in other places in Ruzhou City. It's just that the feeling of being stared at and eating is a little hard to swallow.

"Let's introduce it first, and I'll eat it after the introduction. ”

The old man smiled, "First of all, let me introduce myself, my surname is Li, Xing Er, I am the housekeeper in the store, the store manager can call me Lao Li, this is Chu Prisoner, who is in charge of cashiering, these two are relatives of Ms. Qin, who usually go to school and help in the store when they are fine." ”

Su Yu looked at Chu Prisoner, that is, the young man who was carving things at the door, he had been bowing his head just now, and at this moment Su Yu found that Chu Prisoner liked to hold his head high, and the indifference and contempt in his eyes were better than Song Chen's.