In the morning of the second day after Lao Lin called Han Ding's parents' house in the middle of the night, Han Ding hurried to Pingling by plane. He left Beijing after a fight with his parents, leaving behind the pile of books and notes that had left him anxious. It was rare for him to see his father lose his temper so much, and it was rare for his parents to be so unanimous in their attitude towards him. His mother has always protected him, and this time she was really angry: "Your father has contacted the school for you, and the invigilator has also helped you find it, and I also asked the unit for leave to cook for you at home and take care of you, you don't know how to respect other people's labor." If you just go like this, we won't care about you anymore, and we'll do what we say. ”

The parents were really angry, but Han Ding still left without hesitation. On the afternoon of his arrival in Pingling, he met Lao Lin at the hotel where Lao Lin was staying. Lao Lin said: "The reason why I asked you to come right away is because Yao Dawei has already taken someone to Beijing to catch Long Xiaoyu this afternoon." Long Xiaoyu was your client in the past, and you helped him defend this case is now well-known in our circle, and once this case that has just been turned over is turned over again, it will definitely have some negative impact on you. So, you should know about the situation as soon as possible. ”

Han Ding was still in the stage of shock and confusion at this time, and he still couldn't believe that the case that had become a foregone conclusion and a history had been reversed so quickly. He asked blankly: "What the hell is going on, is it that Zhang Xiong retracted his confession when he died?" ”

Lao Lin shook his head and said: "Zhang Xiong did not retract his confession, Yao Dawei discovered this matter first, and he always had doubts about Long Xiaoyu's case." He carefully studied the confessions of Zhang Xiong and his co-defendants, and their confessions of the course of the murder that night were basically the same. Zhang Xiong just hit Zhu Siping's waist with a shovel handle, which did not cause great damage to Zhu Siping, Zhu Siping also kicked Zhang Xiong's lower part after being knocked down, and the kick was still very powerful, Zhang Xiong was kicked in a hurry before he stabbed her. I also looked at the forensic examination carefully, and the three knives were not fatal wounds, only wounded flesh and skin, not organs, and the amount of bleeding from the wounds was not the main cause of death. The forensic examination clearly stated that Zhu Siping's fatal injury was in the head, and he died of a ruptured skull after a heavy blow to the head. When I talked to Zhang Xiong and investigated the other two co-defendants, I also focused on the process of their murder at that time, and they both denied hitting Siping on the head. Now, on the basis of the situation discovered during the interrogation, the public security organs have re-conducted an analysis of the scene and have clearly determined that the knife wound was in the front and the stick was killed in the back. Judging from the situation of the knife, it was definitely not stabbed after Zhu Siping was already dead. Experts from the Provincial Public Security Department also came two days ago, and once again conducted on-site experiments, and determined that the blood splattering spot on Long Xiaoyu's cuffs could have been produced when he hit the victim's head with a shovel. Then compare the position of Long Xiaoyu's palm print on the shovel handle and the position of Zhang Xiong's palm print on the shovel handle for comparison analysis and strength calculation, and the result is also positive. In other words, the fatal blow to Zhu Siping's head must have been done by Long Xiaoyu. According to Lao Yao's analysis, when Long Xiaoyu returned to the construction site office for the second time, he saw that Zhu Siping was injured, and he first wanted to save her, because judging from the bloodstain identification, he did want to pick her up. Zhu Siping should have been sober at that time, but later, for some reason, Long Xiaoyu gave up the rescue, and hit her on the head with a shovel, putting her to death. ”

Han Ding listened, stunned, his mind was confused, but he still wanted to find out the flaws in Lao Lin's words, find out the contradictions, and find out the explanations that didn't make sense, but he didn't seem to seize any opportunity, he only listened speechlessly.

Lao Lin said: "This is the situation. Since this is the case, I can only defend Zhang like this. If my defense is valid, Zhang Xiong can only be convicted of two crimes: either intentional injury or attempted intentional homicide. Both of these charges may exonerate the death penalty. If that's the case, the only one who can fight for Zhu Siping can still be your Long Xiaoyu. ”

Han Ding looked at Lao Lin dumbfounded.

Lao Lin took a breath and paused for a moment, not knowing whether he wanted to comfort Han Ding or explain for himself, he continued: "I have also fulfilled you, it turns out that you have gained a career and lost your love." It may be a setback in your career now, but Luo Jingjing's side may have another chance. Everything is the same, if you lose the east, you will harvest the mulberry elm, and you can't have both fish and bear's paws. ”

Yes, Lao Lin's words are right, Luo Jingjing is of course more important to him than an occasional one in his career. Luo Jingjing is his love, his life, and the happiness he has tasted. But at this moment, for some reason, what Han Ding was thinking about was not Luo Jingjing, his thoughts at this time were focused on Long Xiaoyu's body. Long Xiaoyu! Why did he kill Zhu Siping?

He didn't rape first and then kill; He didn't kill her to kill her; He is not afraid of losing Luo Jingjing, Luo Jingjing has long known about his old love, and he will not lose Luo Jingjing if he doesn't kill Siping. So what is he for, why does he have to kill Zhu Siping?

This was a topic he and Lao Lin had discussed at first, and when he first took on the case, he had always used the motive of the crime as a breakthrough and an attempt to use it as the most powerful paradox of the murder charges. Regarding Long Xiaoyu's motives, Lao Lin still can't say clearly, but he mentioned a plot, which is also a new discovery of Yao Dawei. Yao Dawei told Lao Lin that he recently visited Professor Liang, a special expert on Baochun oral liquid, because Siping had gone to the expansion site from Professor Liang's house before he was killed. According to Professor Liang and his wife's recollection, the couple had a quarrel on the evening of the day Siping was killed, and the reason was for Baochun oral liquid. Professor Liang found in several experiments that there is an ingredient called lotus nitrate in Baochun oral liquid that may cause damage to the nerves in the brain of long-term users, and she later saw a case of cerebral palsy caused by taking drugs containing lotus nitrate in a foreign document. So she urgently made an appointment with Luo Baochun and raised this hidden danger to him. According to Professor Liang, she and Luo Baochun talked for more than two hours at that meeting, and she used a lot of experimental data and facts from foreign cases to try to persuade Luo Baochun to stop the production and sales of Baochun oral liquid, quickly adjust the formula, and develop alternative products. Luo Baochun persuaded her with tears in his eyes that this was the life and death of the company, and persuaded her not to disclose the results of the experiment for the time being. Obviously, once Professor Liang announced the problems of Baochun oral liquid, the inventory products worth more than 50 million yuan were bound to become worthless waste, and in the dilemma of internal and external difficulties of Baochun Pharmaceutical Company at that time, it was tantamount to announcing the end of Luo Baochun. Professor Leung also knew that the stakes were high and agreed to go home and consider it. In the evening of the same day, Luo Baochun asked the driver to send a thick envelope to the Liang family, and Professor Liang asked the driver to bring it back untouched. She didn't have to open it to know that there was money. After the driver left, her husband had a quarrel with her, and the husband advocated that Luo Baochun's money could not be collected, but for the sake of the factory, for the sake of so many workers, and of course, for their own sake, it was okay not to disclose the defects of this drug for the time being. But Professor Leung believes that the survival of factories and the livelihoods of workers are important, but the health and safety of millions of consumers are even more important, as is her ethics and conscience as a scientist. The quarrel between the two intensified, from the living room to the bedroom, although they later closed the bedroom door, but there was no guarantee that Zhu Siping, who was working in the kitchen, did not hear it. They thought that Zhu Siping was just a hired nanny, a little girl with low education, and she was not from a pharmaceutical factory, so they all took it lightly when they quarreled. The dispute between Professor Liang and his wife naturally had no result, because Luo Baochun died two days after the quarrel, and a few months later, Baochun Company declared bankruptcy, and after half a year, most of the tens of millions of backlogged oral liquids expired and were invalidated, and the rest were all destroyed, and its shadow can no longer be seen in the warehouse and the market, and it will never poison the society again. Professor Leung, in consideration of his reputation, finally did not mention the dangers of lotus nitrate.

The reason why Yao Dawei informed Lao Lin of the secret he had investigated about the Baochun Company before its demise may have been to provide a speculation, a hint that anyone can infer from this: Zhu Siping heard the content of the quarrel between Professor Liang and his wife, and threatened Long Xiaoyu that night, Long Xiaoyu was grateful to Luo Baochun, loved by Luo Jingjing, and benefited from Baochun Pharmaceutical, and his future life and career may be ruined by the random opening and closing of Zhu Siping's upper and lower lips. If this inference is unfortunately true, is there any more reason for the extermination?

Everything fell into place.

However, now, perhaps all analysis and speculation are unnecessary, and the truth will soon be revealed, Lao Yao finally persevered to victory and had the last laugh. He had already flown to Beijing with his brother and the arrest warrant signed by the procuratorate. Maybe Long Xiaoyu will give everything without sunset, all content, and all reasons. At this time, Han Ding thought of Luo Jingjing, he didn't know which corner of Beijing Luo Jingjing and Long Xiaoyu had been living in, but he knew that Lao Yao's gang had great powers, and Long Xiaoyu couldn't escape this time. Luo Jingjing's shocked and crying face immediately appeared in his mind, and he couldn't predict whether Luo Jingjing's spirit would collapse at the same moment when Long Xiaoyu was suddenly handcuffed away by the police who fell from the sky in Luo Jingjing's gentle township.

Although he fully believed in Lao Lin's introduction to the situation, he also believed in Yao Dawei's carefulness and experience, and also believed in the forensic identification and on-site tests made by those experts with specialized skills, as Long Xiaoyu's lawyer, he still responsibly read all the materials provided to him by Lao Lin. The logic of those materials is rigorous, and the basis is conclusive. Obviously, the turning point of the whole case lies in the confessions of Nobita and the two co-defendants, who originally thought that the stabbing and stick blows were done by Nobita alone, but only after catching Nobita did they know that they did not hit the deceased on the head with a stick, so the fatal blow to Siping's head became the center of the whole case and the reason for the reversal.

After reading these materials, Han Ding was helpless, and he no longer even thought about what he should do. The only thing he wanted to do was to try to find Luo Jingjing before the police arrived and take her away from Long Xiaoyu, he didn't want her to see Long Xiaoyu shackled again without knowing the truth. Luo Jingjing's stimulation in the past two years has exceeded the limit that a girl of her age can bear, and Han Ding doesn't know how to let her get through this psychological danger safely again.

Nobita's trial was about to start in a few days, and after a hurried conversation with Han Ding, Lin Xingse left the hotel in a taxi and went to the detention center for a final meeting with his client. Han Ding was in Lao Lin's room, and used his mobile phone to dial the latest number left by Luo Jingjing.

Soon, the phone was connected, and the voice that came was really Luo Jingjing's, and as soon as she answered the phone, she enthusiastically called out Han Ding's name.

"Hey, Han Ding, do you have something to do with me? Where are you? ”

Han Ding asked, "Where are you?" Are you easy to speak? ”

"Convenient, what's wrong?"

Han Ding said, "Can you come out for a while?" You go to my mom and dad, you wait for me there. I'm out of town, I'll go back right away. I want to see you, and I have to see you today. Don't tell Long Xiaoyu that I want to see you, you just say that you are going to perform in other places, and then go to my parents, I will rush back tonight, I have something important to tell you. ”

Han Ding finished saying this large paragraph without stopping, and Luo Jingjing had a chance to speak: "What the hell is going on?" I'm not in Beijing, I'm in Shaoxing. ”

Han Ding was dumbfounded, and his throat was hoarse for a long time before he asked: "What, are you in Shaoxing?" ”

"That's right, I came with Xiao Yu, and he came to visit Siping's parents."

"You ...... When did you go? ”

"We just arrived. Just went to Siping's house, her father went to Guangzhou to work, and her mother went out to see a doctor, but she was not at home. ”

Han Ding thought for a moment and said, "Jingjing, listen, I'll rush over now, you must turn on your mobile phone, and I'll call you when I get to Shaoxing." Besides, don't tell Long Xiaoyu that I'm here, I'll tell you why when the time comes, okay? ”

Luo Jingjing was a little puzzled: "What the hell is going on?" But under Han Ding's repeated earnest requests, she finally agreed: "Okay." She said, "I won't tell him." ”

After hanging up the phone, Han Ding immediately ran to the service desk of the hotel to inquire about the flight of the plane. The earliest flight to Hangzhou will have to wait until the day after tomorrow. Han Ding had no choice but to hurry to the train station. Before leaving the hotel, he left a note for Lao Lin, telling Lao Lin that he was gone and went to Shaoxing to find Luo Jingjing. Nothing else was said.

The train from Pingling to Shaoxing arrives at night. Shaoxing was cloudy, and when Han Ding walked out of Shaoxing Railway Station, he didn't know whether it was the sweat that had not stopped all night or the moisture in the air in Shaoxing, and his whole body seemed to be wrapped in an unbearable dampness. He hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, and his mind was as tired as his pace, but fortunately he still remembered the street market in Shaoxing, and he could find the simple port by heart, and he got a boat even more smoothly than last time. The boat carried him, swaying towards the misty river leading to Siping's house.

After getting on the boat, he dialed Luo Jingjing's mobile phone, and he asked Luo Jingjing where she was now, and if she was at Siping's house. Luo Jingjing said: "We just came out and are on the boat." Han Ding was startled, on the boat? He subconsciously looked ahead and backward, on the river before and after, as far as his eyes could see, there were neither predecessors nor successors. Han Ding asked, "Where did you come from?" Luo Jingjing said: "We went to Shiqiao Town yesterday, Xiao Yu wanted to see the place where he was a child, there was an old stage in the town, and Xiao Yu and his father acted there. Han Ding, you should really come and take a look, I still walked around the catwalk on that stage. Shiqiao Town is a very old and very old kind of town, you can't see it in Beijing, the people are very simple, if this place is developed for tourism, foreigners will definitely not be able to stay. ”

After listening to her, Han Ding lowered his voice, as if he was afraid that the voice on the phone would be heard by the people around him, and he asked, "Jingjing, is Long Xiaoyu next to you?" ”

Luo Jingjing's voice was unscrupulous, and replied loudly: "Yes, he is rowing, he said that he hasn't rowed for a long time and wants to try." Are you going to call him over and talk? ”

Han Ding hurriedly stopped: "Don't, don't!" He asked, "Where are you now?" ”

Luo Jingjing said: "Let's go to Siping's house." Where are you? ”

Han Ding hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll go to Siping's house too." ”

His boat was rowed towards Siping's house. It's still the twists and turns of the river, and it still hasn't come to the end of the twists and turns, and in the small riverside port where laundry and vegetables are washed, Han Ding abandoned the boat and landed on the shore. He walked through one short alley after another, and walked along the stone path by the river for a long, long time, and he saw the smoke curling from the houses on the roadside, and saw the small market next to the river, the morning market had just ended, the afternoon market had not opened, and on the short bridge lying across the river, there were some vendors carrying vegetable baskets, and he did not know whether he had just come or left. He squeezed his back over the arched back of the old bridge in the basket of vegetables, walked to the opposite bank, beside the barber's shop, turned into the secluded alley, and then he came to the courtyard-like courtyard. The impression of this courtyard was full of panic, confusion and noise, which may have something to do with the fact that he had a fight with Siping's father here. But at this moment, as he approached it, he heard silence in the courtyard. This silence made him involuntarily lighten his steps, and he walked step by step into the deep and dark doorway, the sunlight in the patio expanded little by little in his vision with his steps, and he saw that under the square-sized sunlight, there was a low bamboo chair on which sat a sick woman, and Han Ding recognized that it was Siping's mother. He saw a man kneeling in front of her, and she was muttering a whisper by the man's hand, and she was gently combing his hair with her other withered hand like caressing her son, and her pale face showed the kindness of motherly love. Han Ding couldn't see that person's face, but from his long body and broad shoulders, he could recognize that it was Long Xiaoyu.

Han Ding walked into the courtyard, and he also saw the little girl who helped Siping's mother go to the riverside hotel to find them last time, and also saw Luo Jingjing standing next to the little girl. As soon as he saw that Luo Jingjing was also present, the anxiety in his heart was immediately released, and the stone hanging in his heart fell to the ground. Luo Jingjing also saw him, nodded and smiled at him, and he smiled back. There was also an old grandmother and a little grandson in the courtyard, who stood silently under the wall, as if they were afraid of disturbing this touching "mother-son reunion".

Han Ding walked to Luo Jingjing's side, and when he wanted to speak, he saw Siping's mother standing up from the bamboo chair with difficulty, lying on Long Xiaoyu's back, and asking Long Xiaoyu to carry her up and walk towards the staircase. Luo Jingjing and the little girl both went up to help, but Long Xiaoyu shook his head and refused. The woman was so skinny that she was prostrate comfortably on his broad back, with a serene smile on her face. Han Ding followed them upstairs. The staircase is narrow enough for only one person to pass through. The upstairs room is also very narrow and looks dilapidated, but there is still a little warmth of poverty in the dilapidation. Long Xiaoyu placed Siping's mother on the bed, and his every step and every movement was so skillful and in place. Han Ding heard him call her Mom, which was the name of Shaoxing people for their mother. He was asking her what she wanted to eat, and he went to buy it. The woman said something very clear in a weak voice, and even Han Ding, who was standing at the door, could hear it clearly.

"I want to eat the food you cooked, eat the moldy dried vegetables and roast meat you made."

Long Xiaoyu smiled, what Han Ding saw, it was a very simple and filial smile, the smile was very moving, and after laughing, he said, "Okay." ”

Long Xiaoyu turned around and said something in Luo Jingjing's ear, Luo Jingjing nodded and walked to the door, and the little girl also followed, saying, "Sister, I'll accompany you to buy it, I know where the meat is good." ”

At the moment when the door ** arm, Han Ding finally had the opportunity to say the first sentence to Luo Jingjing, he said, "Jingjing, I want to talk to you." ”

Luo Jingjing didn't stop, she said, "I'll go buy meat, wait a while." ”

She went downstairs and let the little girl lead her to buy meat for Siping's mother. Long Xiaoyu covered the quilt for Siping's mother and straightened up from the side of the bed, when he saw Han Ding standing at the door.

He was not surprised, obviously he had already known from Luo Jingjing's mouth that he had also come to Shaoxing. He approached him in a friendly manner and greeted him warmly like his master:

"Han Ding, when did you come?"

Han Ding said: "Just arrived. Long Xiaoyu smiled shyly, as if he was a little restrained. When he talked to Han Ding as a prisoner at the Pingling Detention Center, he was so restrained, and now it hasn't changed at all. He said, "I was very touched to hear Jingjing say that you came here last time for my business. I've lived upstairs in this before, want to see where I live? Come on, over here. ”

He took the initiative to walk out of Siping's mother's house and led Han Ding to push open a small door at the end of the corridor. Han Ding knew that it was Zhu Siping's house, and when Long Xiaoyu and Zhu Siping fell in love, they lived here.

It was a smaller room, with wooden planks on the floor, walls, and roof. There are no windows in the house, and the sunlight on the stairs outside the door can see the crowded bed, cabinets, small tables, and many miscellaneous items. The wooden walls were rotten, and there were many photographs cut out of pictorial magazines, both handsome men and women, but more mansions and sports cars. The wall next to the bed is the neatest, only one frame is hung, and there is a photo in the frame, which is obviously enlarged by a small photo, so the grain is rough, but the scene of Zhu Siping and Long Xiaoyu smiling at each other is so real and moving.

"I'll just sleep here." Long Xiaoyu pointed out a bed to Han Ding. It was a normal single bed, maybe even smaller than a regular single bed. "Too small, right?" He asked Han Ding with a smile. "At that time, I was used to it, two people sleeping together, and I didn't feel small at all."

Han Ding stared into his eyes, the room was dark, but the light in Long Xiaoyu's eyes was enough to outline his entire expression. Han Ding asked, "Do you still miss your old life?" ”

Long Xiaoyu didn't answer immediately, he seemed to notice Han Ding's tone, which seemed to ask this seemingly ordinary sentence with deep meaning.

"Of course." Long Xiaoyu nodded: "In the past, no matter how poor or sad I was, I will miss it." I took Jingjing to Stonebridge yesterday, where I was born. I also took her to see the stage in the town, where my dad sang. It was at the back of that stage that he taught me for the first time how to repay others. He said to me, 'If someone has helped you, you must remember it and give it back.' Siping's mother treated me well, she treated me like her own son, so I want to come back to visit her, and I will be grateful to her for the rest of my life. Han Ding, you are also the person I will be grateful for all my life, and when I have the ability, I will definitely repay you! ”

Han Ding remained silent, neither rejecting nor accepting. He asked coldly: "What about Siping, has Siping helped you, has she treated you well, do you need to repay her?" ”

Long Xiaoyu became serious, he obviously heard that Han Ding's aggressive words were not unintentional discussions, it was almost a series of stern questions, he may have sensed something sensitively, so he was stunned for a moment, "Siping? He said, "Siping has also helped me, but I have also helped her, and I have already repaid her." What I will repay in the future is her mother. ”

Han Ding greeted the words unceremoniously: "You are not just repaying her mother, what you should do is repentance." You come here today, you kneel before the mother who lost her daughter, have you repented? ”

Long Xiaoyu looked at Han Ding, and Han Ding also looked at him. This face Han Ding was really too familiar, but until now, until this moment, Han Ding was still confused by its feelings. What a dignified, handsome, decent, simple, and kind face this is! This face will be trusted by every man, will be liked by every woman, and its natural temperament cannot be pretended by those treacherous people, evil people, and trivial people.

Long Xiaoyu spoke, and the way he dealt with it was the same as his temperament, with more straightforward kindness and less pretentiousness. He opened his mouth and asked, "Listen to Jingjing, you just came from Pingling, is there any situation in my case?" ”

Han Ding nodded: "Yes, there is a new situation." ”

Long Xiaoyu also nodded, paused tacitly, and asked again, "Do you need me to do anything?" ”

Han Ding said: "Of course it is. He paused deliberately, and then said, "But you've come here, and you're already starting to do it." ”

Long Xiaoyu asked intently, "What did I do?" ”

Han Ding replied quietly: "Repentance." ”

Long Xiaoyu must have understood, otherwise why would his face be so pale? Why did his voice tremble suddenly? The trembling came from the depths of the heart, and it could not be hidden.

"I ...... What else needs to be done? ”

Han Ding let out a long breath, and then said slowly, "You still need ...... Hire a lawyer. ”

Long Xiaoyu was silent.

After the silence he said, "If I still ask you...... Be my lawyer, do you accept? ”

Han Ding was also silent, and then replied: "I have two conditions, you agree, I accept." ”

"On what terms?"

"First, you're going to turn yourself in. According to the provisions of article 67 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, voluntary surrender may be mitigated or commuted. ”

"And the second?"

"Second, you have to tell me the truth, do you have so much hatred for Siping? Why didn't you save her that day, why did you beat her to death with a stick when you saw her dying? Why? ”

"Is that what you call the motive for sin?"

"That's right!"

"Why do you care so much about motive, is it motive that mitigates the crime?"

"No, I just want to know what kind of cold-blooded killer is to be loved by such a simple girl; I also want to know how a young man who seems so kind and decent can become such a cold-blooded killer! ”

Long Xiaoyu didn't move. In this small attic less than ten meters square, in the musty air, in the sunlight that has long since lost its true color after repeated refraction, his face and body are still so perfect; His voice was a little hoarse, so dumb that his features and contours were almost like a sculpture carved by the hand of nature.

"Have you tasted hunger, have you tasted poverty?" Long Xiaoyu said calmly, "Hunger and poverty are a kind of psychological oppression and spiritual humiliation for me. Hunger and poverty make me not happy, I just want to find food all day long, just to find a place to sleep, just to earn money, just to think about how to live, just to ...... Thinking about where to go the next day and what work I can do. ”

Long Xiaoyu paused, and Han Ding couldn't help but tell him the later result: "It was Luo Jingjing who made you stop starving, it was Luo Jingjing who gave you a decent job, and it was Luo Jingjing who made you rich and let you live like a white-collar worker in high society." So, you have to kill Zhu Siping because she wants to get in the way of you, and she wants to destroy the happiness you get. ”

"No!" Long Xiaoyu shook his head resolutely, he denied Han Ding's speculation, "She doesn't want to destroy my happiness, she wants to ruin the entire Baochun Pharmaceutical Company, ruin Luo Baochun's career, and ruin Luo Jingjing's future life!" She heard a piece of news at Professor Leung's house that would ruin it all, and she told me that she had decided to get it out there and find a newspaper and a reporter to get it out. She asked the reporter to go to Professor Liang and force Professor Liang to talk about the problem of Baochun oral liquid. She is a person who does what she says, she said that unless I agree to leave Luo Jingjing and continue to be good with her, unless I agree......"

Yes, that's the motivation, that's the conclusion. Han Ding wasn't surprised, but his soul was shaken unexpectedly for some reason. What shook him was not Long Xiaoyu's muttered confession, but the imagination brought out by this confession. He imagined how angry Zhu Siping was when he saw Long Xiaoyu getting dressed, ignoring her pleas to stay, and insisting on leaving the construction site office; He imagined how pale Long Xiaoyu's face was when Zhu Siping made that fatal threat; He imagined that when Long Xiaoyu returned to the construction site office for the second time to look for his mobile phone, he faced Zhu Siping's ** cry for help in a pool of blood, with a hesitant look on his face; He imagined that Long Xiaoyu wanted to pick her up, but when she picked her up, she put it down; He imagined the struggle and choice of Long Xiaoyu's soul after letting go of Zhu Siping; He imagined his suffocating heartbeat and trembling face as he finally made up his mind to lift the shovel handle above his head...... Maybe he is to repay the kindness and repay the kindness of Luo Baochun; Maybe he is trying to return the favor and return Luo Jingjing's love; Maybe he was doing it for his own benefit, and he didn't want to go back to a life of hunger, unemployment, and inferiority...... So, after stopping in mid-air for two seconds, the stick finally slashed down......

Siping's mother's call came from next door, and that call shocked Han Ding and Long Xiaoyu. Long Xiaoyu turned around and ran into Siping's mother's room, where the woman's hoarse cough and Long Xiaoyu's concerned inquiry came from the room. Han Ding silently walked out of this small and dark snail room, and walked towards the sunlight under the stairs, step by step, he let himself gradually get out of those unimaginable pictures, out of Long Xiaoyu's life full of dark clouds, and the dark clouds of life also cast a shadow on Han Ding's heart, making him yearn for the bright sunshine in front of him.

He walked down the narrow staircase alone and into the sunlit patio. He closed his eyes that had been in the dark for too long, his eyelids turned from black to red in his vision, and his mind gradually cleared up as his vision returned, and he thought, "What a nightmare! ”

He opened his eyes, his eyes were still a little sour, his vision was still a little blurry, and he vaguely saw several men walking in through the dark doorway, led by a familiar face.

He looked at the man, and the man looked at him.

He was stunned and muttered: "Old Yao? ”

He saw clearly that this burly man was Yao Dawei. The people behind him were apparently his brothers.

Lao Yao had a faint smile on his face, this is how he skillfully showed the pride and reserve of a victor. He looked at Han Ding, who was stunned by his sudden appearance, and did not speak. Then he turned around and waved his head at his men, and the lean plainclothes men immediately walked quickly past Han Ding towards the staircase.

"Wait a minute!"

Han Ding suddenly opened his arms to stop them, and two plainclothes people reacted quickly to twist Han Ding. Han Ding shouted at Yao Dawei:

"He has agreed to turn himself in, so let him turn himself in."

Yao Dawei shook his head coldly and said softly, "It's late." ”

These two words were like an order, and the plainclothes policemen shook off Han Ding with dexterity and quickly ascended the stairs. Yao Dawei walked past the stunned Han Ding and went up. The rotten and thin wooden staircase didn't know if it could withstand such a rapid and dense footsteps, and the roaring footsteps woke Han Ding up, making him turn around and run up the stairs with them.

Han Ding ran up the stairs, the chaotic footsteps seemed to disappear suddenly, and the upstairs was surprisingly quiet, unusual.

Han Ding saw that there was no one in Siping's mother's room, and several plainclothes were blocked at the door of Siping's hut. Han Ding squeezed over, and the first thing he saw was Yao Dawei's downward bent back, the wide back almost blocked all views in this small room, and it was not until the moment he straightened up and turned back that Han Ding saw Siping's mother sitting on the narrow bed. The terminally ill woman sat upright, Long Xiaoyu sat on the ground with her back on her knees, her head facing the sky in her hands, her eyes closed, as if she were asleep, letting the woman gently comb his black hair with her thin fingers. Han Ding squeezed into the room, and he was horrified to see the blood all over the floor, and the blood was a thick black color in the dimly lit room. His gaze finally found the source of the bloodstream, and although his consciousness was confused, he could clearly tell him that his client, Long Xiaoyu, had committed suicide by slitting his wrists.

Han Ding's most fearful and worrying situation happened in the next moment, when he looked away from his blood-soaked eyes and turned back, he couldn't stop seeing Luo Jingjing, who had just returned from outside, appear at the door of this hut, and he couldn't stop her terrified eyes from being soaked in that warm blood.