Chapter 8: Old Friends Reunited
Wei Xiaoche returned to his home in Dingzhou, put away the white cloth covering the furniture, cleaned up the house briefly, emptied one wall of his bedroom, and bought a big whiteboard to hang it up while it was still dark, and contacted the elderly policeman at the time the next day.
The policeman's name is Feng Guangren, the police officer in charge of Wei Xiaoche's parents' case, because the case has not progressed for a long time, he was forced to hold a press conference due to social pressure, so that Wei Xiaoche was exposed to the public's field of vision, he has always blamed himself, felt that he was very incompetent, and has always felt very guilty about Wei Xiaoche, so when he learned that Wei Xiaoche was going to transfer to Yiping, he gave him his contact information, and promised that he would not give up and would continue to investigate until the real culprit was caught.
On the day he met Wei Xiaoche, Wei Xiaoche said that he wanted to see the file, although Feng Guangren refused to say that the police force had a rule that he could not bring the file out to him, but he still verbally informed Wei Xiaoche of all the details in the file, but Feng Guangren concealed a sentence on the last page of the file.
After that day, Wei Xiaoche spent two weeks sorting out all the details of the case, the suspicious messages in the online post bar, the account ID, what his parents had done a week before their deaths, and who he had seen and pasted them on the whiteboard.
Wei Xiaolin listened to his parents' words, no matter how far he got off work every day, he would return here, Wei Xiaoche's parents' room still remained the same, Wei Xiaolin lived in the guest room, but unlike his uncle and aunt's expectations, Wei Xiaolin became the one who was taken care of, Wei Xiaolin came back late every day, Wei Xiaoche would cook the meal before he came back, Wei Xiaolin started eating directly after work, went to bed after eating, got up early the next day, went to the police force, day after day. At the end of the year, it is also the busiest time for every unit, and Wei Xiaolin is no exception, he doesn't notice what is more in Wei Xiaoche's room because he gets up early and returns late every day, and he always thinks that the New Year is approaching, and it is inevitable that he will miss his parents before returning here.
The New Year is approaching, and the police force is almost busy, and Wei Xiaolin doesn't have to be on duty for the New Year, so he and Wei Xiaoche went home together on the 28th day of the lunar month. However, on the night he and Wei Xiaolin left, a stranger walked into his home, skillfully lifted the dust cloth it covered, smiled and read the details of the case that Wei Xiaoche had sorted out, took out a photo from his pocket, pasted it in the center, and covered the dust cloth again with satisfaction, wiped off the traces left by himself and walked out of the house calmly.
Lanterns were hung high next to the street lamps on the road, the people who were wandering outside also returned home, there were more vehicles on the road, and the whole city was filled with a festive atmosphere. Before Wei Xiaoche and his father went to the supermarket to buy New Year's goods on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth days of the lunar month every year during the Chinese New Year, his mother ate snacks and watched dramas at home, and his father would buy a lot of snacks for his mother every time he went to the supermarket, and when he came home, his mother would come over like a child and watch it one by one, and then take away the big bag that belonged to her, thinking about it, the corners of Wei Xiaoche's mouth unconsciously rose slightly, and her mother was a very happy woman before her death!
It took Wei Xiaolin a long time to drive the car out of the city and onto the highway. On the way, Wei Xiaoche suddenly asked him about the police academy, he had always wanted to be a doctor, this is a well-known thing in the family, because Wei Xiaoche's mother is not very good, so Wei Xiaoche and his father never need her to do any housework, always the two of them spoil her together, Wei Xiaoche always read some medical books before, and he never read it again after his parents' accident, he has always wanted to treat and cure the only person his mother has, since his mother is gone, he has no reason to continue.
"Do you want to go to the police academy?"
"Yes!"
"Being a cop?" Wei Xiaolin was a little surprised when he knew what he thought, but he understood the reason.
"Hmm!"
"I know you want to catch the murderer, but I want you to think it through!"
"I've thought it through!"
"Before you wanted to be a doctor because of the second aunt, the second aunt is gone now, the murderer is not caught, you want to take the police academy, I think you should think for yourself, after all, this is your lifelong career, what kind of profession requires faith, if your belief in being a police officer is to catch the murderer, then what if you catch it?"
“。。。。。。”
Seeing that he didn't speak, Wei Xiaolin realized that his attitude towards speaking was a bit excessive, and said in a gentle tone: "With your grades, you can choose a major you like, and aunts should also hope that you will choose what you like!" Don't let this matter become the whole of your life, you can apply for the police academy, but I hope the reason why you take the police academy is not for this thing, but because you like and like to be a police officer! ”
Wei Xiaoche never talked about these things with his uncles and aunts, but he would talk to his cousin about everything, his cousin is now a member of the police force, Wei Xiaoche also asked him to pay attention to the clues about the murderer, Wei Xiaolin naturally knew that no matter whether the police gave up or not, Wei Xiaoche would not give up.
The two chatted, and when they arrived at Yiping, it was already dark, and when they got home, they saw their uncle and aunt cooking a table of dishes, which was the first meal that the two brothers had together after Wei Xiaoche came to this house, and the aunt looked at the two older boys and felt that it was good to have two sons.
On the day of the Spring Festival, every family got up in the morning with couplets and firecrackers, and my uncle and aunt didn't get anything this year. There is a custom in the Northeast that if there is something white at home, you can't stick couplets and set off firecrackers within three years. Wei Xiaoche didn't know, but his uncle and aunt were thinking about him.
Wei Xiaoche received Yu Nan's New Year's text message when he got up in the morning, turned on the computer, boarded QQ, and saw all kinds of blessings in the class group, Wei Xiaoche also sent a happy New Year message in the class, after all, he was not in this class at the beginning of school, and finally left a blessing in this class. When Wei Xiaoche sent the blessing out, the group of the class exploded.
"Who is this?"
"Wei Xiaoche?"
"He didn't change the note!"
"My God, it's really fake, I can still see the things of the great god in my lifetime!"
"For the New Year, can you talk about something auspicious?"
"Did he get his number stolen?"
In the class group, you kept talking, Wei Xiaoche quit after reading a few words, and went out to help his uncle and aunt work. In the afternoon, I began to prepare various ingredients, noodles, chop stuffing, and make dumplings, obviously there were only four people, but there was still a New Year's appearance, and in the evening, four people gathered around the table to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, watching the Spring Festival Gala, it was with the company of uncles, aunts and cousins that Wei Xiaoche felt that he still had a home.
Wei Xiaolin went back to work in Dingzhou in the third year of junior high school, and people who worked in other places also returned to their original places of work early, and they didn't even celebrate the Lantern Festival. After the Lantern Festival, the New Year is over, and the students will all start school.
On the day of the second semester of the second semester of high school, the school posted the class placement situation in the hall of the teaching building, and the students went directly to their own class, Wei Xiaoche saw that he was assigned to the seventh class of the second year of high school, and subconsciously began to look for the girl named Zou Wei, just when Wei Xiaoche was looking for it, Yu Nan ran over when he saw him from a distance, patted him on the back, and Wei Xiaoche, who was concentrating on finding his name, was startled by his shot, and the hand that was originally pointing to the list also trembled.
"Who are you looking for? Isn't your name on the first one? Class 7 of the second year of high school! ”
Wei Xiaoche turned his head and glanced at him with contempt, and wanted to look for it from the beginning, just like this, he couldn't find what line he just saw, Yu Nan saw that he didn't say anything and continued to look for it, and suddenly smiled:
"Yo, good brother, looking for me? Thanks, thanks! I'll look for it too! Yu Nan found himself after looking for a while, pointed to his name with one hand, and patted Wei Xiaoche with the other: "I'm here!" ”
Wei Xiaoche's hand shook again, obviously speechless, and just as he was about to say him, his eyes caught a glimpse of the name Yu Nan not far from the name he was looking for - Zou Wei"
Wei Xiaoche looked at it and muttered: "Class 8 of the second year of high school!" ”
"What's going on in this class? I studied literature in the class next door to you! ”
Wei Xiaoche was a little happy when he heard his words, and went upstairs without listening to him continue, and he didn't understand why he was looking for the girl's name.
In this new class, most of them are classmates from the original class, but they left a few classmates, and a few more classmates came, and it can be seen that the pressure on the classmates is very great, the head teacher is an older female teacher, and she began to divide the seats when she came in, and there was no major change in the class seats, most of the students were also preparing to study science, so they just inserted the new classmates in, and the top sixteen students in the class will sit in the second row and the third row, so Wei Xiaoche's 185 big man sat in the middle of the second row. At this time, the next class was also switching seats.
The teacher of the eighth class of the second year of high school is a very young female teacher, and she is also very easy-going.
"There are so many new students in our class! Do you know them all? ”
"I don't know!" A few classmates from the original class should be in harmony.
"That's right, let's get to know each other in the afternoon class, let's divide the seats first, and then we will have classes after the self-study in the morning. Let me first say that my class is very democratic, choose seats according to grades, the students in the front choose where to sit by themselves, and the students in the back pick the rest by themselves, which is reasonable! ”
There were those who agreed and those who disagreed, but in the end, they were implemented. Zou Wei's grades are not considered to be in front, when she entered, there was only a seat in the back, Zou Wei saw that the people on the empty seats did not know, so she sat directly in the last row of the corridor, Yu Nan had no worries about this, and sat directly in the seat she liked, next to a male classmate with glasses, Yu Nan sat there, the classmate directly gave up the seat to him, changed the seat, and was a little scared when he left, so Yu Nan sat on the edge of the classroom by himself.
After the seats were divided, Mr. Li from the Academic Affairs Office called the head teacher out, explained some and brought in a new classmate, when the classmate came in, Yu Nan and Zou Wei stood up in surprise, and two voices sounded at the same time: "Why are you here?" ”
The teacher was startled when he heard their voices: "Do you know?" ”
Yu Xiaoya didn't expect Yu Nan to be in this class, and she was also surprised, so she hurriedly replied: "I don't know!" ”