"You're going to help collect your son's body?" I asked Ma Yongdi

Ma Yongdi shook his head, a look of remorse appeared on his face: "You don't have literati parents, you don't know the impulse when you see your hot son fall in front of you, I didn't wait for them to leave, and rushed out to save my son." But my presence alarmed those involved in the transaction again, and it also angered them, apparently knowing that someone was secretly spying on them. But I couldn't do that much at the time, and I just wanted to confirm my son's comfort and save him before he died. ”

"What about my father? Didn't he care about you? Su Baijia lowered her eyes and asked, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

Ma Yongdi shook his head, but paused, thinking that he was thinking about something and said: "I don't remember, I only remember that when I rushed to my son's side, he kept muttering to tell me not to go over, let me run quickly, but you know that a father really can't leave his son and run away by himself, even if he makes you angry and makes you sad, but he is still your child, and you still can't leave when he needs you the most." So I went to her side, and even begged those people to help him, and I seemed to say that I did everything, and I don't remember what I said, and I didn't remember anything at all, and the only thing I could remember was my son, covered in blood, shaking his head at me. The only thing that comes to my mind now and every day is this one scene. But my son's voice was so low that I couldn't hear anything. Speaking of this, Ma Yongdi couldn't stop crying and kept choking.

For a moment, the whole small attic was immersed in an atmosphere of sadness. "I know you were wounded, how did you escape with your son after that?"

Ma Yongdi buried his face deep in his hands, and kept shaking his head and saying that he didn't remember. I remembered Zheng Min saying that he was also in the hospital at that time, in my opinion, he should have suffered a very serious trauma in that fight, and in that state of life and death, the memory of the left and right will become more profound in his mind, and even expand the memory of all the details, but it seems that Ma Yongdi was not impressed by the scene at that time, because the blow was too big, so that he could only remember the pain of his son's powerlessness before his death? So I asked him, "Do you remember when you woke up?" ”

Ma Yongdi was still covering his face and shaking his head, and water droplets had begun to slide down his palms.

"Someone called the police." When Ah Lian saw that the conversation couldn't go on, she gave a brief introduction to Ma Yongdi, "Later, the police said that when they found him, he kept holding his son and blocking him. He lost almost everything he knew when he was found, and it took a lot of effort to separate the father and son and rescue him, but his son Ma Longbo was not so lucky, and when the doctor arrived, he was pronounced dead on the spot. ”

"Do you know who called the police?" Although I already had a guess in my heart, I still wanted Ah Lian to say it himself, maybe it was also a comfort for that child, I thought to Su Baijia, who had been working part-time next to me.

Ah Lian didn't know if it was because he understood what I meant, or if it was really the case, Ah Lian looked at Su Baijia seriously: "It should be your father, although he has never admitted this matter positively." Shortly after the incident, I received a call from the police, informing me to go to the hospital to confirm the identity of the master, and the police said that they had received an anonymous call saying that they had seen a very serious accident and needed the police to rush to the rescue. As a result, when they were put on the scene, in addition to Master Ma and her son's accident, they also took over many drug dealers who they had been eyeing before, which was regarded as a stolen one. But when I went to the police to call the person for two years, the police said that they refused to disclose any information to me in order to protect those in the know. But then your father came to see Master in the hospital, but out of guilt, he never appeared in front of us. I know that once when I came back from shopping for food, I happened to bump into him in a hurry at the door of the inpatient department, and I learned that he also came to the hospital to see Master Ma. After that, he paid all the medical bills in advance. ”

I am very grateful to Ma Yongdi for being able to say this, at least, whether it was the boy's father who called the police in the end or not, for the boy, it was also telling him that his father had been making up for his mistakes. The young man walked up to Ma Yongdi, he hesitated and reached out and patted the man in front of him, the man probably didn't want others to see his tears, and still didn't take his hand off his face. "I'm sorry." Su Baijia tried to pat her shoulder again, but quickly took her hand back, still looking a little scared, "I don't know what to say, I really feel sorry for the dark room, I'm sorry for my dad to involve you and your son in such a terrible thing." Although it was wrong for my dad to let you participate in that deal and negotiate terms with you, I know that he doesn't want you to die, and you may think that I am defending my dad, but in fact, I really think that if my dad knew what was going on, he would not have let you and your children take the risk of saying anything. But in any case, I'm very sorry for the loss of your son. Su Baijia's voice was small, and his tone sounded uneasy, and he snorted, his eyes showing a sad and guilty expression.

Ma Yongdi wiped two handfuls on his face with his hand and patted Su Baijia's back: "Child, I don't blame you for this incident, you don't have to apologize to me." ”

Su Baijia still waved her hands in a panic and said words of apology.

Suddenly, Ah Lian's small voice came to mind in my ears, and she sighed softly: "Alas, at that time, Ma Longbo was almost this big, if he could live back then, he would be about to graduate from college this year, right?" ”

I nodded slightly and agreed, "It's really credible." ”

Ah Lian continued to speak in my ear; "Actually, Master Ma deliberately avoided his own memories, after his son's death, Tuan suffered from strong depression, and he was able to forget the memories that were very bad for him, so unless you go through the police records, it is difficult for you to hear the situation from his mouth, and the police can only record the scene after they arrived."

I heard what the UAE was saying, and I turned my head and asked her, "You just said that the police notified you to confirm his identity at that time?" How was he at the time? ”

Ah Lian shook her head: "It's not good, I've been seriously injured, I've been in a coma, I spent it in ICYU in the early stage, and after the dangerous period, he was transferred to the general ward, and the previous hospitalization expenses were paid by the child's father." Originally, this was what he owed to the master, so at that time, I didn't feel inappropriate when I knew the source of the money, after all, for his report, the master didn't even have a son. In fact, when the master was transferred to the ordinary ward, his will was still in a coma, except for occasionally saying that he was sorry for him to her son in a coma, that is, when Wang Tuquan and his son insisted on it for a while, it is estimated that in the coma, his thinking was still stuck on the day of the tragedy. But there was a moment when I overheard him and I remember it vividly, that he was comforting his son. ”

"Comfort?" I think it's a very ambiguous word.

Ah Lian nodded: "That's right, it's comfort, I can feel that in his coma he seems to be experiencing his son's apology to him, and in the coma, he is apologizing to his son after forgiving his son." This strikes me as odd, you see. Ah Lian motioned with her chin for me to look at Ma Yongdi and Su Baijia's current position, "The two of them, after Su Baijia apologized, Ma Yongdi would only comfort him and ignore his business." applied to Ma Yongdi's own son, he should forgive his son and himself before and after, rather than apologize to his son again. It must have been after Ma Longbo said something to the master that something happened that would go against common sense and the father kept apologizing to his son. So I asked the relationship to go through the dossier again. ”

"What's in the dossier?" I asked Ah Lian.

The crush looked at me, and his eyes were dyed with some sadness, as if he was lamenting something: "Later, when I looked through the photos taken at the crime scene, I realized that the final scene was that his son fell on top of him, and there was obvious blood stains on his back. The medical examiner's record states that there were three fatal wounds, one in the abdomen, to the rectum; The other is in the back of the head, there is a wound caused by the beating of a stick, and the last one is in the back, which is a knife wound, which passes through the back bone and directly stabs into the heart. According to the master's recollection, since Dr. Malone ran out when his father was almost found, the attack he received should have come from a frontal attack, explaining the first abdominal stab wound. I also confirmed with the child's father that the gang members had indeed stabbed the knife directly into Ma Longbo's stomach at that time, and there was no doubt about the abdominal wound. The only thing that makes people feel suspicious is the head blow injury and the stab wound in the back, if according to the memories of the two people, the master rushed out to protect his son after seeing his son injured, then Ma Longbo should have no wounds on his body, or the upper position should be on the front, not to mention that Su Jin did not mention that Ma Longbo suffered other blows later. Therefore, the wound on his back should have been caused after Master Ma rushed out, but he had been protecting his son, and it was impossible for him to add new wounds to his son. ”

"You said that when the police arrived, his son was pressed on Ma Longbo, right?" I remembered Ah Lian's description of the crime scene, and I instantly understood what was going on, "Do you mean that when Ma Longbo discovered that his father was in danger, Landsea used the only remaining consciousness to block the harm that should have belonged to his father when Ma Longbo found out that his father was in danger?" ”

Ah Lian nodded helplessly, and tears began to glisten in the corners of her eyes: "That's right." The child probably thought that he was hopeless, so he chose to save his father when his father was beaten to the point of not being human. In fact, Long Bo is really a very good child, he loves her father very much, but Tang Ta can no longer trust anyone around him in a life of exile since he was a child, and he anesthetizes himself with drugs and lets himself live in illusion. But you forget that he actually took some palliative drugs that night, and he doesn't know where his father got these drugs, and he doesn't know that he made a deal with someone else to expose the crime scene and send him to a more hidden drug rehabilitation center. He didn't know any of this, so when his pain was alleviated, he began to think about the source of the drug, and then he may subconsciously think that his father also started trading with the gang, out of concern for his father, plus his father went out alone at night after he was relieved, so he should have been worried that his father would go to the point of no return with him, so he should have used his consciousness and residual memories to find the trading place of the tourist Ta You, and sure enough, he saw his father's voice, so he should be protecting his father, so he rushed out, you know that after smoking ******, he has no self-consciousness at all, at that time he should have been under the trend of sensitive, panicked emotions, and when he saw his father fleeing in a hurry, he imagined that his father was also on the same path as him, and in order to protect his father from harm, he made an attack on the gang involved in the transaction. After he saw his father rushing towards him, he couldn't distinguish between reality and illusion at all, and then he gave his subconscious words to her father, probably apologies and other words, and then it may be the pain of the wounds on his body, and the noise around him, as well as the smell of blood in the air, which made him fall into a panic again, out of physical instinct, he chose to protect his father, so as to see that he pressed on his father. This would explain why the last two scars on his body appeared. So after finding out that his son had been hit twice more in order to save himself, the whole person completely collapsed, but he should have been physically exhausted at that time, and the police had arrived at the scene at that time, so after he was completely unconscious due to serious injuries, his consciousness stayed at the moment when his son saved him, and he was unwilling to return to reality. He thought that his heart had been refusing to accept the fact of her son's death, but his memory told her the truth in a mortal way, so he kept apologizing to his son in a coma. Ah Lian said that she suddenly couldn't say any more, and then turned her head and looked at the drops of water falling on the ground, and I knew that she was crying too.

I didn't know what to say for a while, so I asked myself the next question: "I want to know how this child's father died." I'm sure you know more than anyone else. ”

No one answered me, Su Baijia stood next to Ma Yongdi, looking at us curiously, hoping to get an answer, Ma Yongdi lowered his head and didn't speak, Ah Lian went to the bathroom, and when she came out, she had two more hot towels on her hands, and he gave them to Ma Yongdi and Su Baijia respectively: "Wipe your face." Then she turned to me and shrugged, "I'm sorry, I don't know exactly what happened to him." All I know is that after Ma Longbo's death, he has been working with the police here, as if to atone for his crimes, and he has been involved in drug crimes that have penetrated into this area. My friends in Peking Opera told me that the gang here had been investigating who had been making trouble in their dealings, and then they should have found him. But. Ah Lian glanced at Su Baijia, as if she was struggling with whether to tell the young man in front of her the truth.

Su Baijia looked at her firmly; "Please be sure to tell me the truth, whatever the truth is, I just want to know the cause of my father's death."

Ah Lian gritted her teeth and said: "When I learned that Su Jin had an accident, I went to ask someone to inquire about the police station, because in my concept, Su Jin has always cooperated with the police, and a Gao Nai will not make any mistakes in safety, but the result is the same as what your classmates told you, it is a drug death." ”

"No, it won't." No matter how calm he was just now, Su Baijia was still a child after all, and when he heard the truth from his crush's mouth, he almost broke down again: "How come? He widened his eyes and clutched his hair and said incoherently, "How so?" How could Daddy? ”

Ah Lian looked at me with an apologetic expression, I suddenly thought of the relevant information I gave myself on the way back and forth because of this commission, I grabbed Su Baijia's hand that had been abusing his hair, and tried to calm him down: "Calm down, child, calm down and listen to me." Dying from drugs doesn't mean it's a drug, you want to calm down and listen to me, maybe your father didn't take any drugs at all. ”

But Su Baijia was still trembling, he looked at me in horror, but at the same time, there seemed to be some expectation in his eyes, and he asked me, "Is there any other possibility?" ”

I clicked on the bullet: "Actually, drugs to forty-one is a very broad concept, I think that your father has cooperated with the police before, and some things are not convenient to disclose to others, so I think that I want to protect the person and his family." This does not mean that the cause of your father's death from drugs was drug addiction. On the contrary, there are three types of crimes caused by drugs, one is indeed caused by self-consumption overdose, which is what we usually call death from drug use; the other is forced, that is, someone forcibly injects the victim with a large dose of a controlled substance, resulting in the victim's death; There is also a violent crime caused by the drug dealing, which is also considered a drug-related cause of death, for example, he was following a transaction to provide information to the police in time, and then he was found dead, just like the personal experience of Taishu and his son. Now it is inferred that the last possibility will be ruled out, because if it is an accident that occurred in the transaction, the medical examiner will give a clear cause of death for intentional injury, but Sister Ah Lian heard that it was a drug-related death, and it is very likely that it was the second reason, which was injected to death. ”

Hearing my explanation, Su Baijia finally felt better than before, and her crush poured him some hot chocolate so that she could ease her mood.

"Thank you." Su Baijia politely took the hot drink, took a sip, and left me with a beautiful look in her eyes, "Is what you said true?" He looked at me and asked, as if he was particularly afraid that I would say an answer that was different from what he had in mind.

I smiled and touched his head: "I don't know the situation yet, but I don't think the person who can cooperate with the police should be the kind of person who will let himself fall into the abyss of drugs, and you also believe your father, don't you?" ”

He nodded, but looked at me expectantly and asked, "Then how can I know the answer?" ”

The horn of a car sounded outside, and then a middle-aged woman's voice sounded downstairs: "Baijia, Baijia, are you here?" ”

It should be Su Baijia's current guardian, and it seems that the boss should have brought the client over. Su Baijia heard someone calling her, and looked at me with a frown: "I still don't want to go back." ”

"I don't want you to go back, but I have to help your dad find the truth. If you don't go back, then your family will keep asking me to come to you, and then I won't have the time to find out the truth about your father's death, and I won't be able to save my friends. I comforted him, "I'll let you know the results as soon as I get the news." So go home obediently, go to school obediently, and wait for my good results. ”

"I might change schools because of this." Su Baijia looked at me, "They said before they wanted to send me out of the country so that I could get away from everything here and start over, so I just ran out and wanted to find the answer before leaving, I don't have long left." ”

It dawned on me that the reason why this child was in a hurry to run away from home was simply to leave without regrets, even when he had the opportunity to return long later, but who knows when. "Do you know when you were scheduled to leave?" I asked him.

"On the 15th, I'll leave on the 15th." Su Baijia replied, "There are less than three days left, I am leaving, I don't know when I will be able to come back, and whether I can help my father find out the truth and return his innocence." The more Su Baijia spoke, the quieter he became, "Maybe by the time I can come back, it's already a matter of time." ”

I tapped him on the shoulder, said hello to the other two people in the room, and pulled him out the door. When we went downstairs, we saw the boss and three adults in the café and the waiter consulting something, at this time, the only young man in the room heard the movement upstairs, raised his head to look in our direction, she noticed Su Baijia first, and exclaimed excitedly: "Baijia." ”

Su Baijia and I had already arrived at the café downstairs at this time, and Su Baijia's aunt and uncle ran towards us at once: "Baijia, are you okay?" They asked with concern.

Su Baijia shook his head, and then I didn't pay attention to what they said, but the young man suddenly ran in front of me: "Teacher Xiaozhi? Her tone was a little uncertain, and after looking at me back and forth, she finally called out with certainty: "Teacher Xiaozhi! ”

I nodded at her; "Long time no see, smiling sister." (To be continued.) )