Chapter 81: Breaking the Cocoon
I thought that I would toss and turn because of the tomb sweeping and the unexpected encounter with Zhong Chengheng, but this night, Ling Li slept very well, and she didn't even dream, but woke up early.
She got up and got ready to get dressed, and opened the curtains to see that it was dark outside, and the building was quiet.
Looking at the watch, it was not yet six o'clock. She simply lay down again, shrunk into the warm and soft quilt, and lay quietly for a while, thinking that she would go back to sleep.
It's just that his head is getting clearer and clearer.
In winter, there is no insect chirping outside the window, and the surroundings are very quiet, except for the crowing of roosters in the distance.
Ling Li's eyes widened, and her gaze swept over the faint outline of the simple furnishings in the room, the low small table, the one-seat sofa, the simple bookcase, and a small desk one meter wide.
Suddenly I remembered that my room seemed to be like this back then.
For a while, her memory was flooding, she no longer had sleep, and was about to lift the quilt, but a faint cry sounded outside the window.
It was faint, but it was clear, and the tail dragged on for a long time, and at the end, it suddenly sharpened.
The top of Ling Li's head was numb, and he only felt that the air seemed to be frozen, and strange fragments flashed in his mind, and before he had time to be afraid, he suddenly made another terrible sound.
This slender and long, continuous sound like a baby's cry made Ling Li feel at ease.
It turned out to be a cat in heat barking!
There are several cats in the park, it is said that they are all stray cats that come from nowhere, and Aunt Xun often leaves food for them, and over time, the team is getting bigger and bigger.
Ling Li laughed at herself for a moment, and suddenly, she remembered the unbearable days she spent alone in Nanxi Middle School.
When the case happened, she had just entered her senior year of high school, and it was the moment to start preparing for the most critical battle in her life. Originally, her grades were average, and it was not a problem to try hard to get a book.
Coincidentally, what she wanted to take the test most back then was botany at the School of Biology of Funan University, where Nan Zhiyi taught.
If you really can't get in, Funan Agricultural University is also a good choice.
And that sudden disaster, although it did not make her fall, but she frequently went back and forth between the school, the police, the court, and the funeral home, and wrestled with a group of adults with the mind of a minor, and no matter how strong she fought her spirit, she finally couldn't hold on.
Exhausted and mentally weak, she often listened to the terrible meows of wild cats outside the house, and lost sleep all nights.
Gradually, her hair fell out in large quantities, and her ranking couldn't stop falling.
At first, the teacher and classmates could still understand her, and some people volunteered to help her make up for the class and lend her notes and the like, but as she became more and more silent day by day, the popularity that was not very good became more and more thin.
In the final days when she was about to graduate, no one wanted to get close to her, and some people even put the Tiansha Lone Star in the novel on her, saying that she killed her parents and siblings.
It may have been just a rumor on someone's whim, but later it became more and more ferocious, with a godly posture, hurting people and poking the heart, regardless of the fact that she was also a victim in this case.
Since then, whether it is self-study, fetching water or cooking, she is a loner, and the female classmates who used to have some dealings with her are eager to get as far away from her as possible, for fear of being contaminated with the so-called "evil spirit" on her.
It's just that the estrangement of classmates and the departure of family members are really too small to be small. She didn't care if she had friends or not, all her thoughts were on looking forward to Zhong Chengheng's early death, hoping that a trial could end all this torment.
Unexpectedly, because of the mistake of the police in collecting evidence, because of Shi Meina's struggle, gradually, the balance of fate began to tilt towards the opposite side.
When she came back to her senses from the chaos, she was already alone, and later, even the house was gone.
The lost hair can grow back, but the lost relatives can never come back.
She couldn't remember when she finally realized that her value to others was insignificant and "superfluous", and that there was no one to provide her with family-like support, always putting her at the center of the world.
It is only after the loss of the natural things that exist like air that we can feel the pervasive oppression and suffocation.
In the early hours of the morning, she covered herself in the quilt, tears slid into her ears like broken threads, dripping on the pillowcase, but she always bit the quilt cover tightly, not daring to cry, for fear of affecting others.
After that torturous year, Ling Li felt that she had been reborn strong enough. To paraphrase the popular saying nowadays, there are too many illusions in this world, and only pain does not lie.
But when he met Sun Rui, he gave her hope again, peeled off her strong shell, and gave her a hard blow.
After entering college, she worked part-time, worked as a tutor, seized the time to study, and handled cases, she never thought that she would have time to fall in love, let alone that she could intersect with him who was in the limelight.
However, back then, Sun Rui approached step by step without a trace, starting from breaking a cup in the study room, little by little let her unload her guard, let go of the burden in her heart, and wanted to be brave.
The joy of first tasting love, for any girl, is so sweet and happy that she can't listen to persuasion.
Therefore, even if everyone is not optimistic about them, even if there are rumors that Sun Rui is actually just using her as a spare tire to fill the boredom of his girlfriend going abroad for exchange and study, she doesn't care, and even confides in her past on a starry night.
A year later, when his one returned, Ling Li was abandoned.
The person who once trusted her wholeheartedly turned her face in an instant, and she could use her past to slander her as an excuse for her inspecificity.
After so many years, she still can't let go.
The full delivery and dependence of his feelings was exchanged for ruthless betrayal and hurt.
And this time, because of Zhu Jinchuan's sudden approach, he felt trust, and when he saw that defense statement, he was disappointed and betrayed, how similar it was to the beginning.
Suddenly, Ling Li's eyes widened in the darkness and he was stunned for a long time.
As her eyes slid down with tears and gradually soaked the pillowcase, she finally came to her senses.
I see, so it is.
When comparing this incident with Sun Rui's betrayal back then, Ling Li understood why he had such a big reaction.
No wonder, even if Lu Xiaoxiao hit the nail on the head, she was still immersed in the emotions of being betrayed and let down and couldn't extricate herself.
No wonder, even if I agree with the statement that lawyers should do everything for the interests of their clients, they still stubbornly refuse to admit that Zhu Jinchuan's approach is right.
Even, even if she has escaped from the capital and returned to her hometown that can give her the most sense of security and belonging, she can't help but think of that busy and fulfilling day in the dead of night.
The faint sourness and nostalgia in her heart, his word-by-word teachings that always popped up involuntarily in her head, and even remembered the scolding from time to time, which she also blamed for the psychological trauma these days.
It turned out that it was just self-deception.
Even if Zhu Jinchuan's calculations were a bit inferior, and even intentionally or unintentionally deceived her trust and feelings, he gave her enough teachings and inspirations.
What she learned in this case is not just something that can be described as "Shibei should be impressed for three days"?
It's not his fault, it's his own fault.
His strategy was not wrong, she was indeed the most suitable person to defend Qin Xinghai, and he saw it much more clearly than her.
And she has expectations that she shouldn't have, and she is in the wrong position, so she can't see things as they are.
And it's not just about this one. She seems to have made the same mistake in everything.
He always locates himself with the victim's family, and always blames all his unsatisfactory on the case, on the criminals who have not been punished, on the disasters caused by his sister, and on the fact that the wronged family members have not been comforted.
That memory lingers, and it has become a part of her body. The tribulations of life are not a kind of wealth. This experience, which is more than others, has not brought her gains?
At least, at a young age, she washed away the inexplicable conceit and arrogance of her peers, and when others thought she was the center of the world in the greenhouse, she already knew that she could only rely on herself.
But in the past eight years, she has been chewing on the pain for most of the time, and she is used to sitting in the right seat, used to blaming all the unsatisfactory on that case, used to shrinking and humble in front of others, and missed opportunities to grow up again and again.
It's just a pity that she's only waking up now. But fortunately, it's not too late.
I don't know when I started to burst into tears, and I don't know what the reason for the last crying was the reason for the sour and unbearable emotions vented out with the tears, I only felt that the weight on my heart these days was getting lighter and lighter, and finally dissipated.
Until she covered her head and cried tiredly, she fell asleep again.
When she got enough sleep and remembered to walk the dog, it was already dark.
Ling Li hurriedly got up and washed, cleaned up the house like a war, and as soon as she went out, she found that the usually noisy courtyard was silent, and everyone was gone.
Not a single person could be seen, not even the grains of rice and the gully were nowhere to be seen, only the rustle of the leaves in the wind.
Ling Li was a little flustered. After a long walk around the park, I finally found Nan Zhiyi buried in a pile of data in the laboratory, and the dog lying obediently at the door.
Because she was in a hurry, she gasped slightly, looking at him wearing a white coat, standing tall and tall, frowning and bowing his head, his face was solemn, and behind him was a thin morning light, and his somewhat flustered heart instantly quieted down.
Nan Zhiyi heard the sound, and he didn't raise his head and said leisurely: "They all bought New Year's goods." Okay, now it's just the four of us. ”
Ling Li said this creepy, hurriedly looked behind him, and said in his mouth: "What four people, don't scare me!" ”
Dozens of acres of ecological park, empty and large area, they ...... Four?