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In the past 20 years, Lotus Mountain has undergone a renovation like a bone change, and it seems to have been transformed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info street and building end to end, the style is unified and consistent "modern", more magnificent than the city, only the roadside trees have not had time to grow into green shade, vaguely revealing a little heavy makeup smeared haste.

Luo Wenzhou drove around a few times before he found the inconspicuous newsstand.

A man wearing glasses, is sitting in the newsstand looking at the stall, this man said that it is middle-aged, it is okay to say that it is old, if you just look at the face, it is about the age of not retired, but the body has revealed a heavy twilight, as if lingering.

It was the hottest time of the afternoon, and the street was scorched with oil by the sun, Luo Wenzhou pushed his sunglasses above his head and walked to the newsstand: "Get a bottle of cold soda." ”

Hearing this, the owner of the newsstand put aside the book he was reading, bent down and picked up a bottle of cold drink with a thick layer of hoarfrost and handed it over.

Luo Wenzhou stepped under the parasol of the newsstand, unscrewed the cap, and poured most of the bottle in one gulp.

He has been working overtime to fight wits and courage with various old colleagues for a day, supporting the face of the landing bureau, under the banner of asking about old cases, knocking on the side to see if there is anything suspicious about the other party, everyone is out of a system, and it is also a routine to talk about it, you come and go, all kinds of scenes are comparable to the palace fight scene in the TV series, and I am really tired

This will be Luo Wenzhou's mind is all wooden, and his eyes are dull and he drinks himself to the cold, leaning under the big parasol to let go.

When the owner of the newsstand saw that he had no intention of leaving for a while, he poked his head out and asked, "Hey, young man, I still have popsicles here, do you want to eat them?" ”

Luo Wenzhou waved his hand: "I drank my stomach and couldn't eat, I will rest here with you." ”

The owner of the newsstand said "OK" and brought him a long-legged plastic stool: "Sit, it's not easy on a hot day - what do you do?" ”

Luo Wenzhou put the soda bottle on his knee and shook it lightly: "I'm a policeman." ”

The owner of the newsstand straddled the small threshold of the newsstand with one leg, and when he heard the word "police", his whole body froze, and it took a while before he turned around, took off his reading glasses and folded them, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and he lowered his voice and said: "I have already done the 'withdrawal', and the government has approved it." ”

"I know," Luo Wenzhou said, "Uncle Guo, I don't mean anything else, I just want to talk to you about Fei Fei's case twenty years ago." ”

The owner of the newsstand is none other than Guo Heng.

Guo Heng killed Wu Guangchuan, and then went to prison for intentional homicide, and then commuted his sentence, and was released two years ago, and his job was naturally lost...... district, do some small business to make ends meet.

"There's nothing to talk about," Guo Heng's face sank, "People have been dead for more than 20 years, and I personally sent her murderer on the road, and I was sentenced and imprisoned, that's all, what else do you want to know?" ”

Luo Wenzhou tried to soften his voice: "That's the case, you see that I am not too idle to come over to reveal your scars, we are now encountering a case, it is also the disappearance of a little girl, and there is evidence that it may be related to the events of the year......"

Guo Heng asked coldly: "What is involved?" ”

"The girl, 11 years old, was wearing a floral dress when she disappeared, and on the third day after her disappearance, the suspect sent a recording to the girl's parents, in which in addition to the girl's crying, there was also a murmur, like someone dangling an iron box with a small bell." Luo Wenzhou knew that the other party was full of vigilance, so he looked directly into Guo Heng's eyes as sincerely as possible, eliminated all irrelevant descriptions, and explained the matter in the shortest words, "The old-timers who experienced the case back then said that this situation is exactly the same as when Fei Fei was killed, so I want to ask you ......"

Before he finished speaking, Guo Heng interrupted him in a weird way: "It's a trial of me, right?" The murderer is dead, and the only ones who remember this are the police and me, of course, if there is anything bad, it can't be done by the police, it can only be me, who has a criminal record. ”

"Not only you, but the police who handled the case have already visited me," Luo Wenzhou said, "I didn't suspect anything, I just wanted to learn more about the ...... at that time"

Guo Heng's emotions suddenly erupted without warning, and he roared at Luo Wenzhou: "I was looking for people to talk about this case back then, but none of you listened, and no one wanted to understand, but now I have been stabbed and imprisoned, and you have come to the door again!" My daughter has been dead for more than twenty years, and I don't want to mention her, I don't want to mention her! What the are you guys doing! ”

Luo Wenzhou opened his mouth, swallowed the defense that he almost blurted out, and then said in a low voice: "I'm sorry." ”

"Let's go, let's go! Get lost! Guo Heng grabbed him by the shoulder and pushed him out, "I don't have anything to say, you have to think I'm suspicious, just come and arrest me, anyway, I'm born twice and cooked once, and I have nothing to say about the rest."

。 Remember to show your ID before you come back, if you know that you are a policeman, I won't even sell you a spitting star. ”

Luo Wenzhou: "Uncle Guo......"

Guo Heng's eyes were red, and the corners of his forehead were bruised: "Get out!" ”

Luo Wenzhou's temperament really can't be considered mild, but he can't have a big temper at this time.

When the scorching sun on his head spewed fire at him, he shut up, counted his full teeth from beginning to end with the tip of his tongue, then lowered his head and took out his wallet, opened a photo inside, and handed it to Guo Heng.

"This child's name is Qu Tong," Luo Wenzhou said, "I will be in the sixth grade at the beginning of school, and I study very well, I participated in the enrollment summer camp of the sixteenth middle school a year in advance, and I am usually very sensible, and I have always been the squadron leader, and now it is the fifth day of her disappearance." Uncle Guo, what is the concept of five days? I've heard that you've studied a lot of child abduction cases, so you should know that the chances of this child being recovered are slim. ”

Guo Heng's gaze slowly fell on Qu Tong's photo.

The two men stood against each other on the streets in the middle of summer for twenty years, and I don't know how long it took, Guo Heng's violently undulating chest gradually calmed down.

"But if we don't see a corpse for a day, we can't give up for a day," Luo Wenzhou said, "It's so pitiful for the children who didn't see people alive and died that year, and we can't let Guo Fei's incident happen again." But now there are really no other clues, I can only ask for your help, do you have to wait for this bastard to finish seven cases and leave traces? ”

Guo Heng's expression changed slightly.

The girl in the photo tilted her head and smiled at him, revealing a slightly crooked tiger tooth. I don't know if it's a coincidence or what, if you look closely, Qu Tong and Guo Fei back then, the silhouette is a bit similar.

Luo Wenzhou slowed down his tone: "I just have a few questions, I will leave after asking, and I will not disturb." ”

Guo Heng glanced at him, pursed his lips and was silent for a moment, then turned around and walked into the newspaper kiosk. Luo Wenzhou hurriedly followed: "Have you mentioned the bell in the pencil case to others?" ”

"I mentioned it," Guo Hengfang was too excited, and his voice was still a little hoarse, "I told the police who handled the case, after you gave up, the relatives and friends who helped me continue to track down also knew some details." ”

Luo Wenzhou: "Can you give me a list?" ”

Guo Heng glanced at him, and just when Luo Wenzhou thought he was going to have another seizure, the man just curled up in his chair and reached out to wipe his face tiredly: "Fei Fei's head teacher, a relative who worked in the telephone bureau at the time...... Well, the few cleaners near the garbage station who called probably all know a little, it's too confusing, and I have repeated some words to many people many times, and I can't remember them clearly. ”

"Then let's hold the thread and say," Luo Wenzhou took out a palm-sized notebook and sat down on Fang Cai's high stool, "Where did you start tracking down at that time, and how did you find Wu Guangchuan?" ”

Guo Heng's gaze passed over him and fell on a small mirror hanging on the door of the newspaper kiosk, in which the man's old face and gray hair were reflected, making him suddenly aware of the passage of time. He glanced at Luo Wenzhou—if the little girl was still alive, she might be a few years older than this young man.

"There has been no progress in the police investigation, and I am so anxious that I can't help but check it myself. I ran to the garbage disposal station a few times - that is, the place where the murderer called, at that time the garbage was often not disposed of in time, it was very smelly, there were no residents nearby, there was no bus, if you wanted to go, you had to drive, and from the county seat, there would be a toll booth in the middle, at that time there were not so many cars on the street, which cars passed by where, the police checked, if there was a problem, it would have been found out earlier. So I thought, could it be that my daughter's kidnapper was from outside? Because there is a national highway from the city to Lotus Mountain, in order to avoid the mountain, you have to go around half a circle, just pass nearby, although there is no road, but there is a big slope, I have personally seen it, the car can not get off, but normal adults can walk down from it

。 ”

Luo Wenzhou: "You mean that the kidnapper of Guo Fei left Lotus Mountain with his child, and for some reason, he stopped on the national highway, climbed half of the mountain, took the child he kidnapped, ran to the vicinity of the garbage dump and made that phone call - why did he do this?" ”

Guo Heng smiled slightly mockingly: "I told the police who handled the case at the time, and the tone of their asking why was exactly the same as yours." ”

"No," Luo Wenzhou sorted out his thoughts, "according to your inference, the kidnapper is an outsider - Wu Guangchuan is indeed a foreigner, and according to the investigation, he has not stayed much in Lotus Mountain, so how can he be familiar with the garbage station that no locals go to?" He kidnapped a teenager and a half-year-old, not a baby weighing a few pounds, abandoned the car on the national highway, and took such a big child to climb the mountain to an unfamiliar place to commit a crime against her, this is too risky, how does he know that there are no waste pickers and garbage station staff passing by? It's illogical. ”

Guo Heng: "Your logic caught the criminal?" ”

Luo Wenzhou was speechless for a while.

"The police also told me that it was impossible, and they also set up a task force, I think, the task force must be better than me, let people investigate, I just wait, the result is ...... Hey! I really had no choice but to follow this 'impossible' line of thought again, I went to the vicinity of Feifei School, asked about the guest house and the hotel one by one, and their teacher also helped me a lot - the teacher was rehired after retirement, he was very old, and there were no more people, so it would not be what you were looking for. ”

Luo Wenzhou: "In this process, you found Wu Guangchuan, who was enrolled in Lianhua Mountain at that time. I heard that he was hospitalized at the time, why do you suspect it was him? ”

"Splendid wealth is abundant, the admissions teachers drove several cars to come, came together, finished business, some left in advance because there was something at home, some were delayed in order to go to the cave on the side of Lotus Mountain, and some left halfway due to illness, divided into several batches, I found the cheapest guest house near Jinxiu, and tracked them one by one." Guo Heng said, "At first, I didn't suspect Wu Guangchuan, but once when I was wandering around, I saw a child sneakily following him. ”

Luo Wenzhou sat up straight.

"A little boy in a splendid school uniform, said that there was a female classmate in the class, who was absent from class for no reason, he was the class leader, the head teacher asked him to find out the situation, the girl was absent from class and did not go home, he clearly saw that the girl went to find this teacher Wu after school, but when he went to the teacher to inquire, the other party did not admit it."

"I suddenly felt something was wrong, can you understand? If you have such a big daughter and say no, you will be sensitive to everything. ”

"You told a police officer who was transferred to the city bureau at the time."

"My surname is Yang, and I have worked in the Lianhuashan Public Security Bureau, so I know him alone," Guo Heng said, "but he doesn't believe me." ”

Luo Wenzhou didn't defend his master, but just asked, "Then what?" ”

"I can only track it down by myself, the splendid boy also helped me a lot, once the boy suddenly called me with a pager, I rushed to take a look, just saw Wu Guangchuan pulling a girl, the girl has been struggling, and he dragged it away...... "After many years, Guo Heng talked about the events at that time, his fists were still clenched, and after a while, he said with difficulty, "I let the child who reported the news go first, and I followed Wu Guangchuan's house, and saw the bastard pulling the little girl home and doing a lot of ...... at his door Disgusting movements. I ......"

According to the case file, Guo Heng disguised himself as a collector of electricity bills, knocked on Wu Guangchuan's door, and then moved the knife.

Luo Wenzhou: "What's that boy's name?" ”

"The surname is Xu," Guo Heng thought for a while, "It seems to be called ...... Xu Wenchao

。 ”

Luo Wenzhou said goodbye to Guo Heng, and before the car drove out, he hurriedly sent a message to Tao Ran, asking him to summon Su Xiaolan and Xu Wenchao, who were in the second year of junior high school in Jinxiu Middle School, and drove all the way back to the city.

On the same day, Fei Du also happened to be out of the city.

"Did Mr. Fei make an appointment yesterday?" The receptionist flipped through the records while secretly looking at the eye-catching guests.

Although it is a medical institution, there is absolutely no smell of the hospital's medicine or the stench of patients in the reception hall, and the windows are bright and clean, and the beautiful receptionist whispers softly, next to the soothing sound of the tide and piano music.

At first glance, it looks like a seaside resort.

"Room 407 in the intensive care area, please inside, the staff will take you in."

Fei Du nodded at her, picked out a dewy perfume lily from the bouquet he carried, and □□ it into the vase at the reception desk: "Thank you, I think this flower is a good match for you." ”

After saying that, he left a girl with crimson cheeks and walked inside.

In the intensive care area, there are basically people who have lost their mobility, there is a unique quiet, the medical staff who come and go are in a hurry, and the rich shade spreads everywhere, Fei Du received the visit sign and came to ward 407, where a doctor waited there early and greeted him familiarly: "Mr. Fei, I guess you have to come today." ”

"It's just that I'm free these days," Fei Du put the flowers next to the man's bed, "how about it?" ”

"It's generally stable," the doctor said, "but it's been three years, it's unlikely that I'll wake up, and the family needs to be mentally prepared." ”

Fei Du replied expressionlessly, tilted his head to look at the man on the hospital bed, and replied politely: "I know, you have to worry about it." ”

The doctor met his gaze and was startled for no reason, and for a moment it seemed to him that the young man's indifferent gaze did not look like he was looking at his father, or even at a living person—he seemed to be looking at a less than satisfactory ornament, with some dispensable indifference.

The doctor had already made up a full set of "wealthy families" and "usurpation □□" dramas in his heart, so he didn't dare to say more, greeted Fei Du, and left in a hurry.

Fei Du politely watched the doctor leave, turned his back on his hands, and circled around the man's hospital bed a few times, the middle-aged man on the hospital bed was lying there unconsciously, surrounded by a large number of dazzling medical equipment, it could be seen that he was well cared for, not a single hair was white, look closely, his facial features are very similar to Fei Du, but his temperament is completely different, even if he lies there motionless, it also gives people a sharp and gloomy feeling, like cold marble.

Finally, Fei Du stopped in the corner, where there was a small calendar, probably the nurse was negligent, and the date was still a few days ago.

He flipped the calendar to the correct date—the last day of July, his birthday, and the two people who gave birth to him, one lying in a sanatorium and the other lying in the ground.

Fei Du turned sideways, looked at the man with indescribable eyes for a moment, and suddenly reached for the man's oxygen tube.

In the quiet room, medical equipment emits a regular roar.

The young man who had just given the girl flowers didn't have a trace of warmth on his face.