Leaving the police station, Chris left first, and Xu An drove home with his parents. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ann, with Chris's help, you'll be fine!" Catherine sat in the back row, comforting her son, and it seemed that she had a lot of faith in Chris.

"Is Mr. Chris amazing? He is familiar to you, how come I have never met him? Xu An asked curiously.

"Chris is the legal counsel for your father's company." "He's a partner at House LLP, the largest law firm in New York. ”

Xu An exclaimed, "Dad's company will have the money to hire such a powerful lawyer?!" ”

Xu Tianrui is a clothing designer, and now he has his own clothing company, the company is not big or small, more than a dozen employees, of course, the company that produces handmade clothing does not need too many people, it used to be called a studio, in Xu An's view, it is just a large-scale tailor shop.

Almost all of New York's most powerful fashion designers are in Manhattan, and Mr. Hui's business is geared towards the middle class, not the top.

"Huh?" Xu Tianrui drove the car and glared at his son fiercely, but he didn't say anything, with his strength, he really couldn't afford to hire a barrister like Chris.

Catherine looked at Xu An amusedly and said, "He is your grandfather's friend." ”

Xu An was relieved that his maternal grandfather, that is, Catherine's father, was a British aristocrat, a down-and-out British aristocrat who used to live in Manhattan and only moved back to London a few years ago.

Back in Queens, Xu Tianrui went to the company, Catherine also had her own job, she was a piano tuner, working at the Steinway headquarters in Queens, and Xu An went straight to Ms. Natasha's house!

He was going to see if Ms. Natasha's husband had any clues that would allow him to find Ms. Natasha.

However, Xu An didn't have much hope for this, a woman who ran away from home is obviously unlikely to leave any clues for her family, especially her husband, to find her.

Hsu An's home is in the Green River neighborhood of Queens, while Ms. Natasha's home is in the Helane neighborhood, two streets east of the Green River community.

Standing at the door of Ms. Natasha's house, Xu An rang the doorbell and waited for the door to open while looking around at the old neighborhood.

It can be seen that the management of this community is not very good, the streets are not spacious, and there is not enough space between the neighbors, so you can see the situation in the neighbor's house from the attic.

It is really annoying that a man can have such a gossip heart, Xu An secretly slandered, and suddenly he was stunned, the neighbor, the man, the girl who was killed, and the mother who ran away from home with a private affair......

He suddenly remembered a novel he had read in a dream, which was read shortly after Steven was seriously injured four years ago, although Xu An was deeply moved after waking up from the dream at that time, but because that book was not the type he liked, and time had passed too long, he didn't expect that the plot in that book was so similar to the experience of the family in front of him!

Thinking of this, he didn't have time to recall the title and specific plot of the book first, but turned his head to look at the person next to him again!

The afternoon sun shone on the glass, making Xu An squint unconsciously, but he could still see clearly that behind the window of the attic of that house, there was a man standing!

A man who can't see his face clearly, but he is really peeping at Natasha's house!

Xu An remembered that the book was called "Lovely Bones"! 14-year-old Susie was brutally murdered by a neighbor, and the family suffered this catastrophe, and immediately collapsed, tracking down the murderer and even his crippled father, brave and intelligent sister, runaway mother, traumatized brother, optimistic and open-minded grandmother, and the dead Susie has been watching all this in the form of a soul, sadness, eagerness, and finally relief.

It's a sad story, and a seemingly perfect ending that doesn't work as it should.

Susie?

Xu An shook his head, how could there be such a coincidence, Natasha's daughter, that is, the girl who was killed was named Kelly, and the couple only had such a daughter, but Susie in the book had a younger brother and a younger sister.

The grief is not severe, but at least Susie's family has other children in the book, but Natasha has only one daughter, and he suddenly understands Natasha's mood a little, her grief is real, and her tears are real, but she has chosen a ridiculous and wrong path.

Although it felt impossible, Xu An kept staring at the attic next to him, and the people there may have also noticed Xu An's gaze and quickly closed the curtains.

Xu An felt that he might still be standing behind the curtain and peeking through the cracks, or he might have left, maybe he was just a curious neighbor?

After ringing the doorbell, the door never opened, Xu An retracted his gaze, had to press a few more times and knocked heavily on the door, but no one responded, until he was about to give up, but the door opened.

A bearded, drunken man stood at the door, looking at Xu An with hazy eyes.

"Hmm...... Who are you? The man burped as he spoke, and the pungent smell of wine suddenly spread, making Xu An frown, he forgot what this man's name was, George? Or is it Brown or something?

"Hello, I'm ......"

"Oh, I know, I remember you, boy, you're from the New York Times?" The man said in a swaying voice.

Xu An held his breath and frowned and replied, "Sir, I am no longer ...... now"

"Hell, boy, did you come to see my jokes?" The man suddenly became very angry, he waved his arms and shouted, "I know, you all want to see my jokes, don't you?" I just lost my only daughter, and now my wife has run away, ha, does the New York Times want to interview me? ”

"No......" Xu An was helpless.

"Enough! You sons of bitches, it's not enough to read my jokes, do you want me to be in the newspaper so that all Americans know that there is such an unlucky ghost as me?! ”

"I ......" Xu An tried to explain, but couldn't speak.

"Now, get out of my house at once, do you hear me, boy, if you don't leave, I'll shoot you in the head with my shotgun!" So saying, he turned and went into the house, the door was not closed, as if he was going back to get his gun.

It turned out that the drunkard was unreasonable, and soon, Xu An saw a figure carrying a double-barreled shotgun through the porch, swaying towards the door, he was first startled, and then an inexplicable anger surged in his heart.

Xu An didn't know why he was angry, it came so suddenly and irrepressibly that he gave up his intention to escape, but walked up to him with the drunk, grabbed the shotgun from the other party's hand, raised it high, and smashed it on the other person's head.

The poor man was completely paralyzed by the alcohol, and he didn't react at all, and he fell down in an instant with the butt of a gun.

Xu An threw the shotgun behind him, stepped forward, grabbed the man's clothes and dragged him up, and shouted fiercely, "How is it? You trash you can't even hold a gun! Still want to shoot me in the head? Well?! ”

Mr. Drunken was already delirious, and now he was even more confused, he squinted at Xu An, but let out an inexplicable laugh.

Looking at the man in front of him, listening to his laughter, Xu An was irritable, he felt his chest blocked uncomfortable, angry, sad, he remembered "Lovely Bones", thought of Susie who went to heaven but had been paying attention to her family, and remembered the tears of grief of Ms. Natasha on the day of the interview.

Looking at the man in front of him who was paralyzed and full of alcohol, Xu An smashed his fist in the face and roared in a low voice: "Trash, look at your current appearance, no wonder your wife will leave you...... Susie's father has been tracking down the murderer, and he never gave up, even if he was seriously injured, look at you again, ha, drinking? ”

Xu An sneered mockingly and pushed the drunk away.

The drunkard lay down on the ground at once, and no longer laughed, but looked straight at the roof, his eyes slowly filling with tears, and finally he began to cry.

His cry was full of depression and sadness, Xu An looked at him, took a step back, and suddenly felt a little dazed, he didn't want to stay here anymore, the man in front of him, everything in this room, was filled with a sad atmosphere, which made people breathless.

Xu An opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, and finally dragged his heavy steps, turned around and walked towards the door, he suddenly noticed a photo on the table at the door, a wooden frame, and the blonde girl looked in the direction of the camera, smiling unscrupulously.

According to the victim's file, this is a good girl and a good girl, she is only 17 years old.

Xu An stopped, gently stroked the portrait, and hoped that God existed, that there would be a heaven, that Kelly and Susie would meet there.