Zeng Xiaoyi, a man in his fifties, hugged his head and cried regardless of his image, and the suppressed grief in the cry made the people present feel quite uncomfortable.

No one spoke for a while, they all thought about their sadness, Wen Mo persuaded him not to persuade him, and stood next to him a little embarrassed. In the silent night, even the machines on the surrounding demolition sites stopped roaring, and Zeng Xiaoyi's beastly roar, like a heavy drumbeat, smashed into everyone's hearts.

The door creaked open, and a gray-haired and plainly dressed woman appeared in the doorway. She obviously didn't expect that there were so many people in Zeng Xiaoyi's house, so she barged in, and looked at twelve curious eyes, so that she couldn't help but take a step back, so nervous that she didn't even know where to put her hands and feet, and stammered to explain: "Yes, yes, sorry, I, I, I'm next door, I heard the movement here, thought something was wrong, and pushed the door in before the door was closed, hug, sorry, I'm leaving." ”

After the woman finished speaking, she really turned around and ran away. Zeng Xiaoyi's crying at this time also stopped, and he was slightly embarrassed at the puzzled eyes of others, and explained stubbornly: "This is Sister Zhao who is one floor with us, since the beginning of the preparation for the demolition of this building, everyone has moved away one after another, leaving only me and Sister Zhao." As you know, our building is an old-fashioned tube building, with more than ten or twenty households on one floor, and before that, Sister Zhao and I were just nodding friends, and we met a familiar face, and we didn't have any friendship. It was only after becoming a nail household one after another that I became familiar with it. ”

It seemed that he saw a few people on the other side, and there was a bit of understanding in his eyes. Zeng Xiaoyi's face turned a little white, and he hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, I don't have the kind of relationship with Sister Zhao that you think, she just pities me, and she has such a fatal illness alone, and from time to time she helps me wash my clothes and cook some food, and there is nothing to do at all." Sister Zhao is a good person, and she is not easy, she lost her husband and child. So I am very sympathetic to what I am going through. She also understands my feelings, she just pitied me. Speaking of Sister Zhao, we can be regarded as sympathetic to each other, I am a wife and daughter. She also has a husband and a son. The only one who is a little better than me. Probably because her husband was identified as a work-related injury when he died, the unit lost a lot of money, which allowed her to be so many years. Let's eat and wear. ”

Everyone's mood was a little heavy just now, Zeng Xiaoyi was particularly serious, although talking about a poor woman behind her back was not a fair and upright act, but it could temporarily divert everyone's attention and sweep away the gloomy atmosphere, so that Wen Mo could ask about the case carefully in the next step, so she couldn't care about it much, and came to a trick to lead the water to the east, and hooked Zeng Xiaoyi to continue to talk about Sister Zhao.

Sister Zhao was born in 60 years and is fifty-six years old this year, and she looks older because of her unsatisfactory life. Her short-lived man, who turned out to be an employee of the power supply bureau, married in 80 years, and lived in this building, which is regarded as the aboriginal of this building.

Those who moved into the tube building at the same time as them were all assigned to a better house without exception, and their careers also had better development, but Sister Zhao's man Zhu Huaijun was a stuffy gourd who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, and the wooden nest was to the extreme, so even if they were old and qualified, they had been working at the lowest level and lived in the most humble tube building.

At that time, Sister Zhao was working in the field factory of the Power Supply Bureau, and her income was not low, and such a family lived well enough in the early eighties. In the second year of marriage, the son of the two was born, not to mention how nourishing the small life of a family of three was.

Although Zhu Huaijun has no ability, he is recognized by everyone as a good family man, he goes home early after work every day, and all the work of laundry, cooking, and cleaning up the house is all done, and he can see that the big girls and daughters-in-law around him are envious, jealous and hateful, and they all praise Sister Zhao's good life, such an honest husband, except for not being able to climb up, he can handle all other aspects, and there are many people who envy Sister Zhao at that time.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, about 85 years, Zhu Huaijun was injured at work during a routine maintenance, fell from a ladder more than three meters high, and injured his head. I was unconscious in the hospital for more than half a year, everyone thought that I couldn't save it, at that time, the country's medical and health conditions were not good, and the head injury was difficult to treat, Sister Zhao held the child every day, crying in Zhu Huaijun's ear, no matter who persuaded her, it didn't work, and she cried back to the weakening Zhu Huaijun, and miraculously woke up, even the doctor said that this was a miracle of life.

Within a month, Zhu Huaijun was discharged from the hospital and returned to work.

After walking around the ghost gate, his temperament suddenly changed greatly, and his previous good temper disappeared at all, and he became a cannon battle at one point. In the building, you can no longer see the back of his hard housework, instead, you can always hear him scolding his wife and children, and if there is a slight problem, he will do something to his wife and children. Sister Zhao is such a good and strong person, and since then, she has often gone in and out with a bruised face.

It's not that the enthusiastic colleagues around him haven't taken care of it, but Zhu Huaijun doesn't know how to be like a ghost, whoever dares to stand up and speak, he threatens to hack his whole family to death, and several times he carries a bright kitchen knife, chasing the person who pulls out the knife to help him run a long way, so after a few times, who dares to take care of their family's affairs, is it possible that the old birthday star hanged himself for a long time? Over time, they were also accustomed to turning a deaf ear to the quarrels, scolding, crying, and pleading that came from time to time from the Zhu family, and some of them wanted to go out to persuade them, but they were also stopped by the family who were afraid of Zhu Huaijun. In addition to sympathizing with Sister Zhao, people failed to give any substantial help, originally the youngest son of their family, seemed to be very clever, sensible, lively and cheerful, no matter who he met when playing in the tube building, he was smiling happily, and he called uncles and aunts in a milky voice, and everyone loved him. Because of Zhu Huaijun's great change in temperament, even with this child, he became more and more silent, always dressed in tatters, shrunk in the corner dirty, and looked at people through the cracks in his eyes. No one talks to him, and he doesn't like to answer. There are people who are familiar with their family, and they often say behind their backs that Zhu Huaijun has created a great sin, and the Zhu family is completely finished.

Sister Zhao is also a tolerant person, at that time, there was no domestic violence law, and the police were reluctant to come, saying that the quarrel between the two was a family conflict, and it was difficult for the Qing officials to cut off family affairs, and they couldn't solve it. Sister Zhao is not a native of Y City, and her mother's home is far away. There is no one who can support it. Besides, she has a young son, she can't give it up no matter what, so she can only swallow her anger and follow Zhu Huaijun to make up for it, and try to reduce her sense of presence at home. Try not to make Zhu Huaijun angry. Like a hard-working snail girl, live silently one day at a time.

It's also an eye-opener. Sister Zhao's hard life didn't last long, about five years later, Zhu Huaijun once worked the night shift. Somehow caught up with high-voltage electricity, and when it was found, it became a sticky bird, because it was an accident that occurred during working hours, especially if there were dead people, at that time, Y City seemed to be striving to create a top 100 city with zero accidents in safety production responsibility, and it was all in the soup, although some staff reported that Zhu Huaijun came to work the night shift that night, with obvious alcohol on his body, but after some investigation, the power supply bureau could not find obvious evidence, the main reason was that Sister Zhao did not cooperate, When others asked her anything, she didn't speak, just kept crying, hugging her skinny son, and then cooperating with his messy home in the building, which made people feel pitiful. In the end, Zhu Huaijun's death was recognized as a work-related injury, and Sister Zhao received a considerable amount of compensation, in that era, it was also a small asset, but she still lived in the tube building, and still lived in a simple house every day, how to live her life and how to live, the only difference may be that the tube building has returned to the tranquility of the past, and she can no longer hear Zhu Huaijun's drunken madness, beating and scolding his wife and children. Many people said behind their backs that Zhu Huaijun died well, and with his death, Sister Zhao and the youngest son would no longer have to be beaten and scolded in the future, and they also left a sum of money, the best of both worlds.

In fact, at that time, everyone spread that the reason why the power supply bureau lost money happily was because they first violated the safety regulations, and when they were on night duty at night, in order to pay less overtime pay, only one person was arranged, and there was no one to help, otherwise when Zhu Huaijun was just electrocuted, if he was rescued in time, maybe he would not have to die, the power supply bureau knew this, so he chose to settle the matter and lose money, don't look at Sister Zhao's silent and seemingly weak, in fact, he is a person with a big idea, and now his son is young, When his son reaches the age of eighteen, he can directly enter the power supply bureau as a regular employee under Lao Tzu's class. has won such a golden job bowl, and she has landed all her life, so don't look at Sister Zhao finally became a widow, her face is not good-looking, but she has earned ten out of ten, so Sister Zhao has always been so low-key, and she occupies everything so completely, wouldn't it be hated if she wasn't low-key.

The mother and son continued to live their lives quietly, not much with the other neighbors in the building, and it was more than a decade before the family returned to the public eye.

At the end of 2002, Sister Zhao stumbled to the nearby police station to report the case, her son Zhu Feng, who had been widowed for so many years and worked hard to pull her eldest son, disappeared, and no one was alive or dead. Sister Zhao said very pitifully with a handful of snot and tears, but the police were a little disapproving, because Zhu Feng is a famous problem teenager of their generation, widowed mother and only son, Sister Zhao regards Zhu Feng as her lifeline, she has no husband and naturally has a heart all on her son, this son was raised by him with a somewhat abnormal personality, introverted and sensitive, over the years, Sister Zhao has gone back and forth and doesn't know how many times she has reported to the police station Every time she said that something happened to her son, crying and shouting and begging them to investigate, but every time, Zhu Feng was found in the corners of the city and sent home, and over time, the police in the jurisdiction knew that they had a teenager with a somewhat abnormal brain and an overprotective mother.

I've heard a lot of stories about the wolf coming, who would bother to check it out for themselves? Unexpectedly, since 03, no one has seen Zhu Feng again, Sister Zhao's eyes are almost blind from crying, and she can't cry her son back, she can't stand the blow, she has gray hair almost overnight, and she is muddy every day, and it took several years to slow down.

This time the tube building was demolished, Sister Zhao was unwilling to move anyway, no matter how high the price offered by the developer, she was not moved at all, just to stay here and wait for her poor son to come back.

After Zeng Xiaoyi's narration, everyone fell silent. Sister Zhao's son just disappeared, and in the early 2000s, when the mobility of the Chinese population began to increase, people were eager to pursue a new life, eager to go to the big cities to continue their gold rush dreams.

The former pillar industry of Y City, inevitably gradually falling behind in the tide of economic development, this lifeless small city, it is already difficult to attract young people, maybe Zhu Feng just went outside to beg for a living, after all, living under the wings of his mother for so many years, he must have been annoyed for a long time, in 2002, he was 21 years old, an adult, the world of flowers outside is very exciting, why does he have to spend the rest of his life in this twilight building, accept the fate that his mother arranged for him more than ten years ago, and enter the power supply bureau to get some dead wages, lived a life of not having enough to eat and starving to death, barely surviving. The outside world is full of gold, which can be picked up by bending down, and what young person does not have the dream of becoming rich overnight.

So they prefer to believe that the young man is just not good at mixing outside, so he hasn't been embarrassed to go home for more than ten years. But they can't deceive themselves so much, because their relatives were sent into the soil by their own hands more than ten years ago. Compared with Sister Zhao's pitiful hope, they are the ones who are truly desperate.

Why Zeng Xiaoyi stayed in this tube building, everyone knows it. They waited a long time, but they still couldn't wait for an answer.

Zeng Xiaoyi is seriously ill, and Old Man Bai is old, they will be the first group of people to die. And then in ten or twenty years, if you are lucky, maybe thirty or forty years, when the families of these victims have to be made one by one, will the bloody scene that happened in Y City back then finally be turned over, and then slowly forgotten by the wheel of history, as if everything never happened? The younger generation will never be able to understand their fear and despair.

Zeng Xiaoyi is unwilling, how can they be willing, it is nothing more than being forced to be helpless. The grief in the eyes of the five gradually gathered, and they stared at Wen Mo with burning eyes.

Yes, if even their family members give up and despair and don't pursue it anymore, who cares about the blood and pain of their relatives. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, at least Wen Mo is standing here at this time, showing her determination to help solve the case, they don't ask for much, only try their best! (To be continued.) )