In a simple suite, with a simple table and two chairs, the lawyer and Jiang Hong whispered outside the door, and Ai Zheng leaned against the wall, tucked his hand in his elbow, and listened to their conversation with a sad face.

"Lawyer Zhou, please help my daughter, she has never been loved since she was a child, the family has only hurt her, we have never taken care of her, it is completely our fault that she has come to this point, she is still so young, she can't let her have a criminal ......record" Jiang Hong's words were only halfway through, and her throat was a little choked.

Lawyer Zhou patted her on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I will find a way, but this visit must be rewarding, you must persuade her well, sue her for meritorious service can be commuted, as long as she knows about any liquor dealers and suppliers, she can sue the police, don't miss those small details, because any small clues here in the police may become the key to solving the case, if the big case is really solved, maybe a miracle will happen, I have taken over such a case, it is not hopeless." ”

Jiang Hong nodded with satisfaction: "Hmm." Thank you, I don't know how to repay you. ”

Lawyer Zhou said: "Don't talk about this yet, let's work together." ”

Ai Zheng didn't say a word, dodging Jiang Hong's resentful eyes.

The small window on the big iron door was opened, and a staff member poked his head in and asked, "Lawyer Zhou, there is a person named Liu Xingchen, he said that he is Ai Mengmeng's boyfriend?" ”

Lawyer Zhou looked at Jiang Hong, Jiang Hong nodded at him, and Lawyer Zhou said to the staff, "Yes, please let him in." ”

The iron door opened, Liu Xingchen came in, he looked around, and didn't see Ai Mengmeng.

Jiang Hong said: "Xingchen, let me introduce to you, this is Lawyer Zhou, Mengmeng's defense lawyer, Lawyer Zhou is a well-known barrister, and he is the most experienced in this kind of case. ”

Liu Xingchen hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with him: "Hello Lawyer Zhou, it's a pleasure to meet you, thank you very much." ”

Lawyer Zhou said: "You're welcome, you're welcome. ”

Jiang Hong introduced to Lawyer Zhou: "Xingchen is Mengmeng's high school classmate, and he took good care of her when she was in school, and then they have kept in touch and know Mengmeng better than us, I want him to help persuade her, is it okay?" ”

Lawyer Zhou nodded: "Of course you can." ”

The time for the visit was not yet up, and everyone was waiting outside. Jiang Hong and Lawyer Zhou continued to discuss the issue. Liu Xingchen walked over and greeted Ai Zheng: "Uncle, hello." ”

Ai Zheng sighed and said, "Alas, what's good, I'm an old bone, why don't you let me go to jail?" I know that my daughter has a backbone, she does things by herself, and she doesn't want to bother her friends, but she doesn't want to think about me, I'm so old, the soil is buried up to my neck, can I still live until the day she comes out? He said as he squeezed out a few old tears from the corners of his eyes.

Liu Xingchen grabbed his shoulder: "Uncle, don't be too sad, let's figure it out together." ”

"Find a way. They all said to find a way, what is the way? I don't think that barrister has any problems, at most he is familiar with the people from the Public Security Bureau, so let's come in and see people. ”

Liu Xingchen shook his head: "No, don't say that yet, I still hold on to hope, let's persuade her later, maybe there is really a way to reduce the sentence, maybe she can be exempted." ”

"Come on, don't comfort me, Meng Meng has admitted it......"

Before Ai Zheng finished speaking, the iron door was opened, and two female criminal policemen escorted Ai Mengmeng in, Ai Mengmeng was wearing a prisoner's clothes, except that the clothes were a little strange, all of them were normal, and her mental state was okay, because she was usually expressionless.

The criminal police and the lawyer said that the visit should not last more than an hour, and that everything they said would be recorded, and the lawyer would tell the family about it, and then the criminal police would go out. Ai Mengmeng looked at everyone, except for the lawyer, everyone's eyes were red. She didn't say anything, silently walked into the suite, sat down in a chair, and kept rubbing her nose and eyes as if she was addicted to smoking.

Liu Xingchen said: "There is only one hour, Aunt Jiang, you and your uncle should go in first." He actually hoped that he and Ai Mengmeng would have at least half an hour to talk, and Ai Zheng's negative words just now made him very worried, and he didn't want Ai Zheng to go in alone and talk to Ai Mengmeng about this. But Jiang Hong objected: "I won't go in with him, let him wait outside!" Xingchen, you go first. ”

Liu Xingchen said: "Okay, I'll come out in half an hour." ”

Lawyer Zhou said: "The visit is not for the emotional needs of the family, but mainly to persuade her to confess useful facts and remember. ”

Liu Xingchen nodded: "Okay." ”

Liu Xingchen went in and closed the door with him. Ai Mengmeng was bored lying on the table, and the whole person fell into a state of paralysis. Liu Xingchen sat on the chair opposite him and asked in the first sentence: "Am I okay?" His voice was a little anxious and a little worried, but he deliberately concealed these emotions and tried to make her feel warm.

Ai Mengmeng said sleepily: "You have seen it all, that's all." ”

Liu Xingchen suppressed the soreness in his nasal cavity and held her hand tightly: "You don't have to be afraid, at this time, I will not leave you, I will definitely find a way to get you out quickly." ”

Ai Mengmeng pulled out her hand and said, "I'm fine here, they're okay with me, not as bad as you think." ”

"What! You don't know that actually going to jail is not the same thing as being detained in a detention center! You have to be with those prisoners, there are all kinds of people in there, there are all kinds of crimes, you are with them, you will learn badly, bad learning is still a trivial matter, they are bullying the newcomers, you will be bullied by them......"

"You've watched too many movies, haven't you?" Ai Mengmeng interrupted him with a word.

Liu Xingchen was stunned for a moment: "It sounds like you like to go to jail, so don't you want me?" ”

Ai Mengmeng squinted at him: "You marry you, I will go to my prison, and whoever leaves can't die, right?" ”

Liu Xingchen was stunned by her: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"You know what you mean." Ai Mengmeng glanced at him, turned his head, leaned on the table and yawned: "You go out quickly, I want to see my father, there is a time limit for visiting." ”

Liu Xingchen felt very hurt, he was trampled under her feet with some painstaking efforts, from last night to the present twelve hours, he has almost experienced a catastrophe of the collapse of the sky, and she can't see what the bloodshot in his eyes and this haggard face represent, that is the expression of his love for her, there is no other explanation. Suddenly, he remembered Lawyer Zhou's words, buying time was not for feelings, but to persuade her to confess useful facts.

Liu Xingchen thought that it was normal for his temper to grow when he encountered this kind of thing, and he smiled: "I still have something to tell you." ”

Ai Mengmeng looked at him with a kind of "what can you do" eyes. He said, "I tell you, you must not cover that little pigeon again, this time he has nothing to do, do you know why?" ”

Ai Mengmeng said: "I know, because he stopped buying my wine a long time ago, and this line has nothing to do with him." ”

"Then have you ever wondered why he didn't buy your wine?"

Ai Mengmeng looked at Liu Xingchen: "You said that the little pigeon betrayed me?" Don't be funny, you know what. ”

Liu Xingchen sighed softly: "Ai Mengmeng, let me ask you, do you believe me or him!" ”

"I believe him." Ai Mengmeng threw this sentence out without thinking.

Liu Xingchen was dumbfounded: "What the hell are you angry with that year?" What did I do wrong, how did I even get ahead of the little pigeons! ”

Ai Mengmeng's throat let out a muffled "hum", which seemed to have seen him through at a glance: "Liu Xingchen, in addition to pretending to be still pretending, you are pretending to be dignified, and you are all virtuous with the people in your family!" ”

Liu Xingchen couldn't understand what she said at all, so he had to start from his own logic and ask her: "Even if my father and mother are not very good to you, then you can't put all your resentment against them on me, right?" ”

Ai Mengmeng said: "When did I care about your parents' attitude? Oh, it's really inexplicable, I'm not your daughter-in-law! ”

Liu Xingchen looked at the time that passed rapidly minute by minute, and felt a little anxious: "Then I don't understand, at this time, what are you still stubborn with me!" If you go to jail, I won't marry Wu Jiao! ”

"You love to tie the knot, I'm like this now, I can't control anyone! Wu Jiao won't miss me well, I have already realized this. I'm not for others, I'm for myself. I don't want to marry anyone, including you! Do you understand? Instead of grinding this matter with you every day, it is better to go to prison quietly! ”

The room was silent for a few minutes, which made Ai Mengmeng's frenzy just now seem a little aimless. His endurance seems to have become stronger, Ai Mengmeng is a little strange, he doesn't fight back when he scolds like before, and he fights back when he fights. He raised his head, and his eyes became particularly weak: "Ai Mengmeng, you know, I love you." ”

Ai Mengmeng used to hear this sentence and just felt that it had nothing to do with herself, but now when she heard this sentence, she felt an inexplicable anger in her heart, she tried her best to suppress this inexplicable anger and prevent it from appearing in her aura, but the strange thing was that he actually saw it.

He grabbed her hand, and she tried to pull it out, but he held it tightly: "What's wrong?" What is the reason for this? Is it to blame that I wasn't there for you when something happened? ”

Ai Mengmeng sneered.

Liu Xingchen asked in surprise: "What did you see that day?" Still is...... What did the little pigeon tell you? ”

Ai Mengmeng glanced at him in a blink of an eye, although she tried her best to endure it, but a hurt feeling filled her eyes. He was slightly stunned, but suddenly understood, brought over the chair, and sat beside her: "That night, you saw it all, didn't you?" ”

He reached out and touched her face. Ai Mengmeng pushed his hand away, and his eyes were blinking uncontrollably, because if he didn't blink, it would be very sour. If it weren't for the recording of her speech, she wouldn't have saved him this face.

He smiled and said, "Hehe, I see." He took her in his arms, held her chin, and kissed her, and though she struggled hard, she could not break free of his strong arm, and he whispered, "I really drank too much that day." ”

Ai Mengmeng said loudly: "It doesn't matter to me what you do!" ”

"So that's what you're angry about, hehe." He forcibly lifted her to his lap: "I'm very pleased. ”

Ai Mengmeng looked at him in amazement: "Relieved!?" ”

He smiled and said, "yes, because you're jealous." ”

Ai Mengmeng turned her face away angrily. He turned her head over and leaned in her ear and said coquettishly, "I miss you so much, I promise not in the future." Am I still swearing? Heck, it's all about this, so don't you get angry about this anymore, okay? ”

"Why should I be angry, and what does it have to do with me?" Ai Mengmeng wanted to pretend to be light-hearted, but she was no longer as eloquent as before, and she couldn't fool Liu Xingchen's eyes at all. He smiled, kissed her, and whispered in her ear, "I was always thinking of you that night." ”

"Don't say it, there's a recording!" Ai Mengmeng turned her face away.

"What's wrong with recording, just don't have a recording." Liu Xingchen turned her face over again, took her lips in his mouth, and used a long kiss to comfort the thoughts he had missed her for many days.

Ai Mengmeng was kissed by him and was dizzy, even if he was reconciled, but this kind of reconciliation was still imperfect in his opinion, he always felt that her anger was not completely gone, he thought that only if she was willing to be with him, it would be considered a complete reconciliation, so he had to do his best to get her out. When the time was almost up, he pinched her flushed face and said, "I'll go out first, your father and your mother will be unhappy if they wait outside for a long time, hehe, I will be their son-in-law in the future." ”

Ai Mengmeng didn't react. He stood up, glanced at her, opened the door, and went out. As he left the room, her mood suddenly went down.

As soon as Liu Xingchen came out, Jiang Hong and Lawyer Zhou came around and asked him who the little pigeon was, and Liu Xingchen was busy explaining to them. Ai Zheng took advantage of this gap to enter.

Ai Mengmeng sat on the chair in a daze with her knees hugged, because she was too thin, her legs were folded and her buttocks didn't occupy the chair. When she was a child, she liked to sit in this position, looking like an abandoned child. Ai Zheng looked at the two chairs next to each other, and probably guessed how they had been intimate in it just now. Ai Zheng gently dragged the chair over and sat down.

When she was young, her grandmother always told her that her mother was bad, and after a long time, she formed an impression that her mother was absolutely unforgivable. After growing up, Ai Mengmeng gradually understood the relationship between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, especially after meeting Liu Xingchen's mother by chance, she found that in the eyes of her mother-in-law, she looked at her daughter-in-law as a rival. As for why Wu Jiao won the favor of the chairman's wife, probably because Liu Xingchen didn't love her at all, the chairman's wife must have seen this, if it is her son's beloved woman, no matter how good it is, it is useless, then, a woman who has been in prison will never want to enter the door of the Liu family, right? Ai Mengmeng smiled self-deprecatingly, feeling that she was thinking too much.

Ai Zheng looked at her silently, and after a long time, he interrupted her thoughts softly: "Meng Meng." ”

Ai Mengmeng suddenly came back to her senses: "Hmm, Dad......"

One year, I can't remember the specific year, I just remember that the big back was popular on the street at that time, and I often saw those young people on the road combing a big back to show off their avant-garde and boldness, and then she found that her father also combed a big back, since then, she felt particularly faceless when she met that hairstyle, she felt ashamed, felt that her father was not a serious person, but when it came to the New Year's holiday, she missed him very much, this contradiction troubled her for a long time, until she was in high school, she gradually forgot it.

Now, Ai Zheng is old, the hair line on his forehead is getting back and far, the color of his hair has become gray, like a handful of dry firewood, although the wrinkles on his face are not smiling or obvious, but they have been deeply imprinted in the mechanism of the skin.

Ai Zheng, who is accustomed to wearing Chinese clothes and is full of crepe, used to be a small leader of the Cultural Relics Bureau, and he also had a little power in his hands, but he didn't cherish that job at all, and always felt that he was overkill.

Although her father is very unhappy, Ai Mengmeng still loves him, as far as her parents' divorce is concerned, she feels that her father is not at fault, her mother didn't care about the family first, and then forced her father to sign the divorce agreement with the agitation method...... The father and daughter talked a lot about the past, and talked for half an hour, although they didn't talk about any useful clues as required by the lawyer, but when Ai Zheng had to leave, Ai Mengmeng looked very sad, as if she hoped that she could go out early, with such hope, it was better than anything. Jiang Hong didn't go in, and kept silently watching them outside.

After the visit, lawyer Zhou said that the clues of the little pigeon needed to be further investigated, and Liu Xingchen said that he would fully cooperate with him.