Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Green Sweater
There is such a paradoxical story in the work of Qing Dynasty essayist Yuan Mei "Zi Bu Yu": Zhang Mou, a pawnshop shopkeeper in Caozhou, returned to his hometown for the New Year at the end of the year but disappeared, and the two families went to the governor's yamen because of this incident. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoOne day six months later, an official met an old man and a young man outside the city, and the two were talking in the night, only to hear the young man sigh: "The pawnshop's old Zhang is only afraid that he has been killed by the old grandson who bought cooking cakes outside the West Gate!" The old man hurriedly asked, "How do you know?" The young man said: "How can you talk nonsense, that Lao Sun and Lao Zhang are friends in the same city, and in the spring of this year, Lao Sun closed the shop and left, why did you say that he was not a thief and left this Caozhou City in a hurry?" ”
The old man sighed: "There is a big problem with saying this, the night is already deep, it's time to go back!" The official followed them to the city gate, but found them disappearing from the gate. The official went into the city in a frightened manner, and saw the two entering through the door in a large house. After his attendant knocked on the door, the old man who had entered the house before came out with sleepy eyes, and after careful questioning, the old man asked in surprise, "How do you know that I have a dream?" ”
After that, after the official sent people to arrest the old grandson of the cooking cake, everything was as the young man said, but the official was puzzled by the dialogue between the old and the young and the ability to enter through the wall.
For the above stories, people either praised or ridiculed, some believed and some doubted, and then Ji Xiaolan criticized: "In ancient times, the matter of praying for a dream and breaking out of prison is a matter of afterlife." ”
At 9:21 a.m. on February 21, 2104, Lu Zhenhuan was at a loss in the face of the sobbing shopkeeper Zang He, and he said, "What is your dream like? Actually, it's not very scientific, you may miss your brother too much! Zang He was still crying, Zhao Shen was already depressed because of Xiang Haoshan's matter, and he was very upset when he heard Zang He's cry at this moment. He shook his hand and left the hotel, and Xiang Haoshan saw that he was not in the right situation and went out with him.
Zang He cried for a while, and said a little more comfortably: "Those scenes are too familiar, they are too familiar, I don't dare not believe it!" Xie Ziheng glanced at Zang He suspiciously and asked, "What is that place?" Zang He took a breath and replied, "It's the Chase Market near the train tracks in the neighboring village!" Xie Ziheng asked again: "Is this the place where your brother was killed?" Zang He shook his head and said, "No, that's where my brother's body was buried, you, can you accompany me to the police?" ”
Lu Zhenhuan couldn't laugh or cry at this, he thought for a while and said, "Let's go to the police station in the Chase Market to call the police!" It may not be useful to call the police here, after all, you said that your brother's body was buried over there, maybe he has lived there for the past two years? As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Ziheng hit him, Lu Zhenhuan looked back, and Xie Ziheng was staring at him meaninglessly. Lu Zhenhuan said to him: "Just let me be nosy, I can't look at people and little girls so pitiful, right?" ”
Xie Ziheng looked at Lu Zhenhuan with his hands in his hands for a long time, and then left a sentence: "Then you can go by yourself!" ”
After Zang He listened to Lu Zhenhuan's words, he called the aunt who was responsible for cleaning the bed in the hotel to look at the store, and after she explained all the matters, she launched the car and Lu Zhenhuan on the road. Xie Ziheng caught up and sat in the car less than a minute after watching them leave, Zang He looked back at Xie Ziheng because the car was heavier, Xie Ziheng said coldly: "I'm not worried about my brother, I have to go with you." ”
Lu Zhenhuan looked at the poker face in front of him and secretly laughed in his heart: No, the ice cubes are actually just the surface, and he always can't bear it. As everyone knows, Xie Ziheng just felt that this thing was a little weird, and then he was really worried about Lu Zhenhuan's safety.
On the way, she talked to the two people in the car about her family while driving: "I am a child of a single-parent family, my mother died not long after giving birth to my younger brother Zang Shao, and my father worked hard to pull us together, but last year this tourism industry just opened, he was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer, and he left not long after." I always wanted to see my brother before leaving, but my brother hated him for handing over the hotel to me to take care of, and he didn't come back, and my father didn't blink a blind eye, woo woo woo ......"
Without saying a few words, Zang He sobbed again, but soon she said: "Actually, my brother is very filial, but he doesn't have that business acumen." My father had already signed a contract with me when he first gave me the shop, and as soon as my brother celebrated his 23rd birthday, a lawyer would come and handle the handover procedures. However, I am afraid that my brother will not have a chance to take over, and I, I really regret listening to my father last year and not telling him the truth. ”
Lu Zhenhuan had some doubts about her words: "Your father means to borrow your hand to make the hotel bigger, and then let your younger brother take over to enjoy the benefits of the fisherman, right?" Then you don't have a motive to kill your brother, after all, your hotel business is so prosperous now! Zang He heard Lu Zhenhuan say this, and the hand driving slammed the handbrake for a moment, and glared at him with innocent eyes: "We are siblings!" It's siblings! You can suspect me of anything, but if you say that I killed my brother and took money, I don't admit it! ”
Xie Ziheng observed a series of performances of Zang He and concluded that Zang He would not be the murderer. Because Zang He's expression and body movements clearly reflected her conjecture about Lu Zhenhuan, she was very helpless and angry, but he thought in his heart that Zang He might be suspected of hiring a murderer. Of course, he didn't say these words, after all, he felt that he couldn't express his unconfirmed thoughts hastily, after all, it was impossible to verify whether Zang He's younger brother Zang Shao was dead or not.
On the next journey, Zang He no longer confided in Lu Zhenhuan, and Lu Zhenhuan tried to talk to her, but she also coldly refused. Lu Zhenhuan looked at Xie Ziheng with a pleading eye, Xie Ziheng was indifferent to this, he typed the Xie password to Lu Zhenhuan and said: You are called a lot of mouths to attract people's suspicions. Lu Zhenhuan glanced at him, and he had a plan, and he said with a little provocation to Xie Ziheng: "Actually, I think your dream is very likely to be real!" ”
Zang He, who was driving in front, slowed down, and she said faintly: "If it's true, then how should I live for the rest of my life?" It's better to kill the damn murderer and kill yourself! Lu Zhenhuan was speechless, Xie Ziheng sneered on the other side and typed another password: let you be smart, and then he soothed: "Even if your brother is gone, you have to manage your father's wishes, although it is too early to say this, but you have to find a reason to live, not so negative." ”
Zang He parked on the side of the road and glanced at Xie Ziheng, which brought many mixed emotions, and she said, "Thank you." ”
Xie Ziheng may not have thought that one day he would be shocked by a girl with a "thank you", he felt that Zang He seemed to be saying that sentence with his life, and Lu Zhenhuan also felt Zang He's strange aura. He looked at Xie Ziheng, Xie Ziheng also looked at him, Lu Zhenhuan asked with a password: Did I say something too wrong? Xie Ziheng responded: It's not a mistake, your words may make her suicide, or they may make her strong.
At 12:15 p.m. on February 21, 2014, the three of them spent more than two hours to arrive at the neighboring village of Yuantao Village, which is a larger and more prosperous tourist village than Dami Village. After questioning, they came to the Yuantao temporary police station in the scenic area. When they entered the police station, there was only one police officer and a woman who reported the crime, and they only heard the woman say: "Officer, no, I found this sweater under the laundry table in my house, do you see if this sweater is stained with human blood?" ”
Zang He heard the words and stepped forward to take a closer look, shouted and fainted, Xie Ziheng and Lu Zhenhuan stepped forward to help Zang He pinched the middle of the person and glanced at the sweater in the woman's hand: I saw that most of the turquoise sweater was black and brown, but the neckline was embroidered with a desire.