After a long time, Boss Zhu finally opened his mouth.

"When there was a lot of uproar about your family, in fact, I suspected at the time that your father bought it from me who poisoned your whole family. I was still hesitant to tell the police, but I was restless at home for several days, and I was about to confess, but I said that the case had been solved and the murderer had been caught.

I thought at the time that since the case was solved, the poison must have been brought by the murderer, so I was at ease at that time, so I put this matter behind me and kept silent. Who knows, the case turned out to be an unsolved case with twists and turns. This has been tossed back and forth for several years, and I have buried it in my heart, but it has become deeper and deeper. In the end, I became more and more unable to speak, so I hid it for eight whole years, and tortured me for eight years, and many times I dreamed at night that your father was sitting by my window, just looking at me like that, and not saying anything. ”

Ling Li couldn't tell what it was like in her heart, regret it? Resentment? Abhor?

If Boss Zhu said all this back then, it might be the result of Zhong Chengheng's earlier exoneration, or it might have made the investigation of the case point in another direction, and it was more likely to be the same situation as today, which would not affect anything.

As for Boss Zhu's psychology of hiding this matter for eight years, after these days of precipitation, she is actually understandable.

At first, he did not dare to admit to trafficking* because he was afraid of being held legally responsible. His hometown is from other provinces, and it has not been easy in Funan for many years, so he saved money by selling coolies to buy a shop and open a grocery store, and later the family relied on the grocery store to eat.

At that time, if the shop was closed and there was no income, the two sons who went to school in the family had several mouths, what should I do?

Later, the police quickly arrested Zhong Chengheng, he thought that the case was solved, and the psychological guilt was gone, so he didn't take it to heart. As a result, the case was repeated and attracted people's attention.

Under this pressure, the punishment for selling rat poison without permission was secondary, and he was most sad because he was afraid that because of his greed for life and death, an innocent person would be imprisoned for eight years.

and the instinctive fear of the crowd.

Under heavy pressure, the accumulated indecision led to the final accumulation, and I had to hide this secret for the rest of my life.

I don't know what kind of chance made Officer Zhou know about this?

Ling Li soothed her emotions and asked him again: "Officer Zhou, how did you know that you sold it*?" ”

Boss Zhu opened his mouth, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, and after a while, he said hoarsely: "Lao Zhou has been here more than ten or twenty times in the past eight years, I was still panicked at first, and then I got used to it after more times." Before the Chinese New Year, he suddenly came one day, drank wine with me for most of the night at night, and talked a lot about the past, not only Lao Ling's, but also your brothers and sisters. ”

Boss Zhu raised his head, looked at Ling Li deeply, and continued to hang his head and said: "Lao Zhou also mentioned you at that time, saying that because of the case in your family, he came to the door again and again, peeled off the wounds again and again, and was very pitiful. He also said that he had asked someone to inquire about you and knew that you had a very unsatisfactory life in those years. Lao Zhou said that he thought he had solved a big case back then, but later because of the ups and downs of the case, he couldn't sleep well, and over time he forgot to pay attention to whether you were doing well. He said that if he had known that you were unsatisfactory under the fence of Luodu, and that you were so difficult when you went to school, he should have put more effort into obtaining some subsidies for you, and he would have had more time to study, so that he would not have to be busy working every day. ”

Ling Li suddenly had a sour nose.

In all fairness, Zhou Qingchun is still good to her, and he also saw the love of her acquaintance with her father, and accompanied her to deal with a lot of family affairs.

It's just that because of the repeated entanglement of the case, every time Zhou Qingchun came to the door, he basically asked Ling Li if he remembered other clues to sit on Zhong Chengheng's charges, and they broke up again and again, which made the friendship between the two change.

Boss Zhu was still talking, he shook his head with regret: "I also watched you grow up, you were naughty like Xiao Min when you were a child, once you stabbed my dormer window with a bamboo pole on the roof of your house, your father beat Xiao Min's ass bruised but was reluctant to touch your fingernails, I really treated you like an eyeball, but I was tossed by these things." That was the time when I heard Lao Zhou say that it was sad, plus I drank alcohol, and I said everything as soon as my head was hot. ”

Ling Li realized, it turned out that he was drunk and spit out the truth.

She took a deep breath and asked him again, "Then why didn't Officer Zhou tell the police about it later?" ”

Boss Zhu smiled bitterly: "After waking up that day, Lao Zhou said that everything was with him." He is still very righteous, and he knows my hardships, so he patted his chest and promised that it would be fine, and said that those people are very good at searching for personal information on the Internet, and if people know that rat poison is coming out of me, it will be terrible, and one person can spray me to death with a mouthful of spit. He told me to keep it secret, saying that I would talk about it later when I had the results. I did as he was told, and I didn't dare tell the police. Who knows...... Who knows, just a year later, he's like that...... Alas......"

When Boss Zhu said this, his voice choked, and he squatted down with his head in his hands: "This old Zhou is also gone, and that bag* involves five lives, you let me ...... What can I say......"

Ling Li listened to Boss Zhu's heartfelt words, and her heart felt like a big stone had been pressed, and she gradually lost her breath.

There is a new harvest, but this new clue seems to point the investigation of the case in the opposite direction of her wishes.

The cause and effect of her father's purchase* seemed clearer. No wonder, after learning the news, Officer Zhou wrote such a report to the police station, asking for a good response to public opinion and asking for a complete removal of suspicion about Zhong Chengheng.

So, could it be that Officer Zhou really committed suicide?

But what about the inexplicable typo that Ling Li couldn't let go?

She had mixed feelings in her heart, and looked at Nan Zhiyi sideways.

He still didn't look expressionless, sitting silently on the sofa, his eyes didn't move.

These days, it seems that he has less and less words, especially this time on the way from Luodu to Nanxi overnight, for three or four hours, he and she don't talk more than ten words, which is very different from the style of stabbing her from time to time to show off his IQ and poisonous mouth.

This kind of change made Ling Li faintly uneasy, but she felt that his eyes were always warm when he looked at her, and it seemed that there was a lot of content, which made her feel at ease for a while.

Ling Li waited patiently until Boss Zhu's mood stabilized a little before asking him, "Uncle Zhu, then do you know what my dad bought * for?" ”

"Lao Zhou has asked this question several times." Boss Zhu wiped away his tears and shook his head regretfully, "It's a pity that I don't know very well." ”

Ling Li expected such an answer and nodded silently.

Boss Zhu continued to explain, looking a little sneering: "You know, your dad had a bit of a weird temper at that time, there was no need to hardly go out, and sometimes locked himself in the house for a few days and nights. Even if you want to buy something, let your mother come. When he suddenly said that he wanted to buy it*, I told him that it was illegal to sell that thing, and I would not sell it, so let him find someone else.

As a result, your father's eyes were a little blood-red at that time, and his face was not so good-looking, he stared at me like that and said, it is very important to get something for him, I was also blindfolded at that time, so I agreed, and I happened to go to Nanxi to buy goods and met someone setting up a stall, so I bought a bag and handed it to your father. He didn't thank you for any great kindness, and asked me not to tell your mother. I didn't care at the time, I didn't buy rat poison to medicine mice, what can I do? So I didn't take it to heart later, and I didn't dare to ask more. ”

Ling Li's heart ached slightly.

If it weren't for Huntington's trouble, how could her gentle-tempered and modest father end up with such a look that everyone is afraid of?

Seeing the loneliness in Ling Li's eyes, Nan Zhiyi frowned and diverted the topic.

"Buy*, when and in which season?"

Boss Zhu was stunned, thought for a while, and replied: "It was three days before the incident." Probably, at the end of September, on the twentieth of September. ”

Nan Zhiyi nodded.

After asking this question, he remained silent again and stopped talking until he said goodbye to Boss Zhu and came out and returned to the car.

After he waited for Ling Li to fasten his seat belt, he slowly spoke: "Do you still want to take a picture of Ling Jiacheng?" ”

Ling Li turned her head sideways and was slightly stunned: "No need, right?" On the day of the incident, Uncle Jiacheng and my father had a few words, and the time of contact did not add up to three minutes, and I don't think I could get any useful clues from him. ”

Ling Jiacheng is obviously an insignificant character, and on the same day, he saw her father go to the grave and break the wine bottle, and then there was no intersection.

As for Boss Zhu, he has been hiding the matter of selling * for so many years, and now he has explained everything, although he was in bad spirits just now, he was relieved to look at it like that.

And his explanation of the origin of the rat poison is also very in line with the psychology of ordinary people.

Especially after being interrogated by the police, it is obvious that in addition to knowing about Ling Li's father buying rat poison, he knows no more than others.

As for the other two witnesses that Officer Zhou interrogated, one was a homeless man who had died, and the other was Qian Yang, who Ling Li wanted to find that day but couldn't find him.

Zhou Qingchun looked for Qian Yang that day, but he asked some details of the year.

For example, Qian Yang heard the noise in the Ling family's compound, but he still can't remember the specific content.

In addition, Zhou Qingchun also took out a photo of Zhong Chengheng and asked Qian Yang if he was the person he saw arguing with Ling Jiashu that day.

Qian Yang's answer at the time was that he couldn't remember if it was this person, and his only impression was that the person was very tall, so high that it was a little outrageous. Other than that, there is no more impression.

Nan Zhiyi's eyes suddenly lit up and looked at Ling Li: "Look, could it be that Qian Yang did it?" ”

Ling Li understood what he was thinking, and immediately replied: "No, Qian Yang has no motive at all, he and Xiao Min are good friends, as for what kind of fight that day to complain to the parents after this kind of thing, it happens almost every month, it's just a child fighting and turning his face." ”

Nan Zhiyi touched his chin thoughtfully, and finally shrugged his shoulders: "Then there is no way, four witnesses, nothing." ”

Ling Li nodded depressedly, sat quietly in the co-pilot, and silently watched the scene flashing outside the car window.