The movie may be able to quickly jump to the ** who is chasing the murderer, but life is not. After Wang Shiqi's highlight moment passed, he still had to honestly lead Zheng Yuan out of the park gate with one foot of mud and one foot of water, and opened the door and got into the car under the suspicious gaze of the old man. As the sun grew higher and the air began to heat up, he snapped on the fire and turned on the air conditioner, and the modern machinery roared to deliver cool air to his body. The leather seats were soaked in slippery water stains, and neither of them bothered to care at the moment, they sat on their backs, one of them felt a cigarette and lit it, and was snatched by the other.

"Didn't you say the doctor wouldn't let you smoke?" Wang Shiqi stretched out his hand to grab it again, but he couldn't bear it when he saw that his hair was dripping with water, so he took it back. "The doctor told me to spare my life, and now my life is almost gone, does it make a difference whether I smoke or not?" Zheng Yuan exhaled a wisp of white smoke and brushed aside the wet hair on his forehead: "The water in this lake is bitter. ”

"I haven't cleaned it for many years, can it not be bitter, I doubt that it will be poisoned if I drink it." Wang Shiqi lit one for himself again, turned his head and wanted to speak, but he stopped talking.

Zheng Yuan didn't even look at it before he picked up his brainwave: "If you want to ask me how to fold people's hands, just ask, there's nothing you can't say." ”

"I'm just looking at it from the perspective of a friend." Wang Shiqi pondered his words: "To be honest, I didn't see you when I arrived at the lake today, and I was quite happy for a while." ”

"You're just expecting me to drown?"

"Bah, what are you talking about!" Wang Shiqi hurriedly defended: "I am ...... For a while, for a while, I was a little suspicious that you were taken away by him. ”

"Accomplice?"

"No, at most an accomplice." He furrowed his eyebrows: "I've already made the worst plan, in case today, you really want to help him commit a crime, what should I do." ”

- Will you let me go? Or will it kill me? Zheng Yuan thought about it, and the soot burned out and fell to his trouser leg without noticing. Wang Shiqi stretched out his hand to pat him on the spot, and followed what he thought in his heart: "Later, I thought that it was impossible to let you die, so I would break your legs." ”

"What a ruthless heart." Zheng Yuan shook his head with a smile, and Wang Shiqi also knew that he didn't take it to heart: "Say, how did you get kidnapped by a little kid?" ”

"Strictly speaking, it's not kidnapping." Zheng Yuan blinked: "I knew what he was going to do from the beginning. ”

Xie Li, or Song Anning, has always been in contact with him, and in order to facilitate his care, before leaving, he left him a new mobile phone number.

"Not long after I arrived in Jinju, I went out to run the news and stumbled upon his paintings. The real Xie Li was only seven years old in 1992, and he had never learned to paint before, and I had read my notes before, and I already felt that there was something wrong with the handwriting of those letters. Zheng Yuan glanced at Wang Shiqi's unsurprised face, and knew in his heart that he had also found out. I was sure he was lying, just in case, I contacted Ge Yumei first, the phone was not heard, the office landline was answered by the secretary, saying that she took her son out on vacation - what kind of person is she, can drag a disabled son to earn the role of a hospital from scratch, I don't believe she has this leisure. ”

Immediately afterwards, he dialed the phone, saying that he wanted to come to Jinju to find him, and by the way, he brought a bag of KFC family buckets to Zhiliu - this was also mentioned by chance in the previous chat. The two chatted for a few words, and when they handed the child a drink, Zheng Yuan suddenly grabbed his wrist:

"Can the child drink it? Will it be bad for the body? ”

At that time, Song Anning, who was still playing Xie Li, put away his harmless eyes for the first time. He was a smart man, and he immediately understood that he had been exposed, but unfortunately the timing was awkward and he could no longer lie, but he was not ready to tell the truth directly. The two were in a stalemate for a few seconds, and Zheng Yuan broke the silence first: "Is the dean still alive?" ”

Song Anning did not speak.

"You were rescued by me, no matter what you plan to do, as long as you haven't implemented it, you will always be a victim with me." Zheng Yuan softened his tone and spoke to him carefully: "I just want to know if the dean is still there." ”

Song Anning hesitated for a long time, but finally nodded. Zheng Yuangang breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately opened his mouth again: "But now that you already know, I have to do it right away." ”

"If you do it, you're a murderer."

"If I didn't do it, I would have sinned! You're saying it nicely now, and you'll call the police when you turn around. Song Anning's face was distorted with indignation: "I can't trust you." ”

The two were at the table for a while, and finally Zheng Yuan let go of his hand first. He leaned back in his chair and quietly measured the facial expressions of the person opposite. The red tide of excitement is receding from the cheekbones, and the skin reflects a warm glow, which is so youthful that it is a pity.

"What were you going to do to me?" He asked, "You came here because I was suspicious of the call, right?" If I don't debunk, what are you going to do? Kill me? Fake another suicide scene? ”

"I won't do that to you, Mr. Zheng." Song Anning's expression also became calm: "I just hope you don't get in the way of me." So I'm probably going to find a way to take your son - just a little while, enough to keep you silent until the end. ”

"I understand...... Zheng Yuan nodded: "Then I'll go with you, okay?" Rather than threatening a child, it is better to control the person directly. He raised his hands: "My only condition is to let the child go." ”

Song Anning hesitated several times, but finally agreed. He fed Zhili milk, got the child into Song Anning's car, and sent Zhizhi back to his residence in Xingsha City. There he left his old mobile phone, saying that the child would call his family when he woke up, but in fact quietly sent Wang Shiqi the location.

Back in the car, he took the tranquilizer handed over by Song Anning, and he didn't know what was going on. When he woke up again, he was locked in a house.

"You're too bold! I was also in a hurry to take the initiative to cooperate with the kidnapping! Do you know how scared I was when I chased after me! "Wang Shiqi is angry." You're not afraid of fainting, people will change their minds and cut off your kidney! ”

"No, it won't. First of all, he is not that bad, and secondly, now that the time is so urgent, he will not do anything superfluous. Zheng Yuan paused and said: "He has begun to hesitate, I can feel it." ”

"Don't say such things, it's okay for you to empathize with a murderer."

"There's no evidence yet that he killed people."

"Lao Zheng, you make it clear, this person is not you, and he will never be you." Wang Shiqi rarely said something heavy to him: "The hands of the instigator are also stained with blood!" ”

Zheng Yuan lowered the corners of his eyes and stopped talking.

Wang Shiqi saw that he was depressed, so he had to go back and make up for it: "And even if you delay a little time, he will definitely not be soft on what he should do." Even a big deal of persuasion, doesn't this still throw you into the lake? If it weren't for my wisdom and skill, I would sacrifice my ego at ...... expense."

"Blow it slowly." Zheng Yuan finally gave face: "The things I left in the computer were not given for nothing. I know you're going to find it, and you're never going to miss a deal at times like this. ”

"You're going to be an afterthought." Wang Shiqi was slapped on the horse's buttocks, and he forgot about his anger for a while. "But I'm also a blue, just your clues, I not only dug out Song Anning's identity, but also dug up other people."

"Xie Li?" There was a bit of luck in Zheng Yuan's tone: "Is he still alive?" ”

"Didn't you ask knowingly......" Wang Shiqi scratched his head, hoping that his tone was not too cruel: "It's been buried under that small flower bed for many years." ”

Sure enough, the other party's face quickly turned gray. "How did you die?"

"Now there are only bones left, and many factors can't be determined, but just because Ge Yumei didn't make a normal death declaration and found a stand-in, we have every reason to suspect that he died of an unnatural cause."

Abuse, beatings, bleeding from internal organs, hunger and thirst, choking, electrolyte disorders.

What happened to Gu Tianyu, Gu Tianqing and Song Anning may have all been rehearsed on him.

"A mother, can she really do this to her own son?" Wang Shiqi was puzzled: "It is said that the son is a piece of meat that fell from his mother's body, and it is too late to hurt, how can he be willing to torture him like this?" ”

Zheng Yuan sighed, and his eyes surging with complicated emotions when he looked at Wang Shiqi. "Not everyone is as lucky as you."

Only by experiencing it first-hand can I know that there are some parents who do not love their children unconditionally. You have to exchange - in exchange for "obedience" that sacrifices freedom, in exchange for "filial piety" that annihilates spirituality, in exchange for grades, hobbies, budding feelings, carefree play time, and unreserved nature and innocence, in exchange for a compliment of "good performance". Selfishness, paranoia and control are entrenched in countless families under the banner of love, and they cannot be refused, and refusal is rebellion, and the end of rebellion can be seen from Gu Tianqing, Gu Tianyu, Song Anning and Xie Li, as well as countless children who have been sent to the new growth center.

Zheng Yuan thought of his mother, who he had avoided for many years, and he couldn't affectionately call out the word "mother" when he accidentally flashed through his memory. The woman had been immersed in her tragic marriage all her life, blaming him for all the fault of her father's departure. There is no less beating, and what is even more sad is that no one takes beating children seriously. "If you want to be obedient, how can you be beaten", "There are no parents in the world who are not," neighbors sometimes come to persuade him when he is beaten hard, but turning it over and over is nothing more than these two sentences, not like persuading someone to stop, but like persuading him not to hold grudges. Even the last stabbing father's reason for the guilt is not so touching: "You're not a good thing, think I don't know you tricked him back?" But if I don't kill him, he'll kill you. At that time, he was in college, and one day she drank too much wine, and her red eyes suddenly turned to Zheng Yuan's face: "You are dead, who will earn money for me to support my old age for the rest of my life?" ”

Maybe the air conditioner was turned on too much, Zheng Yuan felt a chill soaking into his body, so cold that he even wanted to shiver his teeth. Wang Shiqi probably guessed what he remembered, slapped his big hand, and pretended not to care about the topic: "Okay, let's not talk about these for now, the key now is that we have to find Song Anning and Ge Yumei quickly, and it is best that both of them are alive." ”

Where can I find it? Xingsha said that it is not big, and after more than ten years of expansion, it has just reached the second ring; It's not small, it's not small, with a population of five million, and 100 people disappear every year. Wang Shiqi scratched his head in annoyance: "If only I could know where Ge Yumei is being held." ”

"She used to be locked up with me, and I probably know where." Zheng Yuan narrowed his eyes: "I have taken a strong tranquilizer for a year, the dose of ordinary people can't make me unconscious for too long, and the moment I opened the car door, I saw the structure of the community, near Binhai Road, 8-story small building, low density, good greenery, it should be Ge Yumei's own real estate." ”

Wang Shiqi was so shocked that he almost jumped up from his seat: "Why didn't I say it earlier!" ”

"It's useless to say it, with his personality, it must have been transferred by now." Zheng Yuan sizzled the last bit of cigarette: "You also said that he is an executioner like Gu Tianqing, and the act of revenge must be meaningful, so there will be specific means, special dates and designated places, he will not kill Ge Yumei casually, what we can do now, the first is to crack the code of his behavior, which requires an in-depth analysis of his psychological model and personal experience, and it may take a lot of time." ”

"But we don't have a lot of time." Wang Shiqi sat back stupidly: "Maybe we haven't figured it out yet, we can already go directly to collect the body of the female dean." ”

"If you want to be fast, there is a way to be fast." Zheng Yuan saw Wang Shiqi's eyes widen unexpectedly: "We can still disrupt his plan." ”

"You mean ......"

"Give him a new target, let him run into the trap on his own."

The city is a jungle made of steel and concrete, and if you want to find prey, you must either track it or trap it.

Zheng Yuan snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand: "Do you know where Song Anning's father is now?" Why is he okay? ”

***

There is nothing more ironic than this - Song Youyang, who was supposed to be one of the targets, was being locked up in the detention center because of domestic violence at this time, and escaped by mistake. A few days ago, he smashed a pot of boiling water on the back of his second wife in order to grab 200 yuan of gambling money, and the earth-shattering cry attracted the neighbors to call the police.

"Lao Tzu is a hero, Lao Tzu is a bastard, this time it's really insightful." Xu Ye hurriedly rushed to the door to meet, and found that the familiar tail behind Wang Shiqi followed him again, both of them had fluffy hair and a refreshing taste, exuding a suspicious aura that had just finished taking a shower. Especially the one in the back who is still wearing the same jeans, shirt and boots, but unfortunately the size is larger, otherwise it really looks like two brothers from the same mold.

"I said, you're old, why are your mouths so broken?" Wang Shiqi pursed his lips in disgust, and when he saw him glaring at Zheng Yuan directly, he hurriedly flashed and inserted between the two: "Let's talk about it first, I just rescued the person, he didn't do anything, and the suspicious eyes can be put away." ”

"I know, I know, the people's police desperately dived into the bottom of the lake to save the hostages, your glorious deeds have been widely publicized on the phone for several rounds, and the brothers are still busy cleaning up the aftermath for you. Besides, did I say I doubted him? You are a man of bamboo—a weak heart. Xu Ye sarcastically said two words to him, and nodded at Zheng Yuan in a rare and amiable manner: "...... You okay? ”

"It's not a big deal, thank you for your concern." Zheng Yuan raised his chin and said hello: "What's the situation on Song Youyang's side?" ”

"If you can't say it, he doesn't want to care about this son anymore, just one word, if you want to kill or chop us, he doesn't care anyway." Xu Ye shook his head: "Are you really going to do this?" Does this count as fishing enforcement? ”

"Song Anning is a suspect in a major case, and this is also for the sake of safety." Before Zheng Yuan's words fell, Wang Shiqi immediately picked up beside him: "Originally, the case was overturned and then investigated, but if there is another life, this case will not look good at all." ”

"Okay, come with me, watch out for the steps." Xu Ye led the way to the door, and Wang Shiqi followed behind and wondered: "I said, when did you two secretly release your suspicions behind my back?" ”

Xu Ye didn't reply to the words: "I didn't promise to release my suspicions, this is looking at your face!" Isn't this still pointing to your old man to solve the case, let's stop a little, okay. ”

Zheng Yuan turned his head and smiled at him, but didn't speak again.

The air in the detention center exuded a faint musty smell, and Wang Shiqi took Zheng Yuan and Xu Ye in a row, listening boredly to Song Youyang on the other side and Chen Jiashi. The middle-aged man with a fortune leaned on a chair like a tower, and the spittle stars piled up next to his fat lips, like a pike crab out of water. "I knew from the beginning that this kid was not a good thing, comrade policeman, you should teach him a good lesson, I can't control this matter."

"I can't do it. As long as you're not afraid of death. Zheng Yuan slowly took out his glasses and put them on, and the transparent lenses flashed: "You still have a few days to go out, right?" I'm not afraid to tell you that Song Anning is now a major suspect in several kidnapping and murder cases, and his goal is to get revenge on all those who have abused him. I think this should also include you? ”

"This ......" Song Youyang was choked on when he landed, and it took him a long time to find out where his tongue was. Nonsense, nonsense! I've done my duty to that stinky boy! ”

"Really?" Zheng Yuan tilted his head slightly, and Wang Shiqi tacitly took out a stack of files from Xu Ye's hand and spread them out on the table. "He was only 14 years old when he was sent away, and his compulsory education had not yet been completed, and the school said that he was sick and discharged, but his previous physical examination records were quite healthy, and he did not find any major medical history later. The testimonies of the school teachers and neighbors all said that you often beat and scolded Song Anning, making the child's nose blue and swollen, and once chased him with a knife, don't you deny this? ”

"That'...... So what? I'm disciplining him! That kid is a bad seed, if I didn't care, I would have killed people and set fire a long time ago, and I still have to wait? Song Youyang scolded unconvinced: "Damn, I knew it was like this, I should have strangled to death as soon as I came out of my mother's womb." ”

Zheng Yuan bent the corners of his mouth, but there was no trace of a smile in his eyes: "It's a pity that it's too late to start, and now it's his turn to do it to you." As long as he hasn't been caught, as long as you still plan to live in Xingsha City, he will always find you one day. ”

His face was close to the glass, and his glass-bead-like eyes nailed the other party straight to the seat: "I heard that your wife has moved out with the children to hide from you, and you will be left alone at home after you go back. Do you prefer drowning, electrocution, being stabbed to death with a knife, or carbon monoxide poisoning? Think about it, he can stand behind you anytime and anywhere, hide under your bed, kill you with a knife, electricity, gas, and a basin of water, and you still eat well? Can you sleep? Do you think it's better to be in prison now? ”

Zheng Yuan's cold narration had an almost hypnotic magic, even Xu Ye and Wang Shiqi couldn't hold back their hairs from standing on end, Song Youyang on the other side looked like a ghost, his eyes trembled in his sockets in a panic, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva heavily, and then spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "That...... So what do you want me to do? ”

"No one can stop an angry beast from killing unless he is given more attractive prey." Zheng Yuan leaned back in his chair: "You are the prey." ”

Wang Shiqi added beside him: "As long as you are willing to cooperate, pretend to be released from prison early, and find a way to let him know that you are back, our people will ambush you around to ensure your life safety." He raised his eyebrows: "Long pain is better than short pain, you can do it yourself." ”

Song Youyang's face turned red, and it took a while before he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll go." ”

***

Since sending him to the growth center and ignoring him, Song Youyang and Song Anning have long been strangers, and the only thing that can still find a trace of contact can only start with his ex-wife Zhu Yun. Song Youyang mentioned that Zhu Yun's parents couldn't bear the pain of losing their daughter and passed away one after another, her ashes have been stored in the funeral home for many years, and she has not been buried properly, Song Anning has been mentioning this matter in the past few years by his side, and when he was twelve years old, he stole money once and went to the funeral home by himself, and when he came back, of course, he was beaten again. "Ahem, it's not, everyone is busy, besides, it's not a small amount of money to get a cemetery......"

"No matter how expensive it is, it can't be her entire inheritance, right?" Wang Shiqi looked at him coldly: "I know, she left more than 100,000 yuan behind her, all of which are for her son's education fund, you just swallow it yourself, how much can it cost you to buy a tomb?" ”

Song Youyang stiffened his neck and stopped squeaking. Zheng Yuan opened his mouth on the side: "Even if Song Anning remembers this matter, how can you guarantee that he will definitely show up?" You don't even have his contact information, do you? ”

"I don't, but she does." Song Youyang pointed to the lattice belonging to Zhu Yun in the columbarium, with a small black and white posthumous photo pasted in a palm-sized wooden box, and a plastic vase in front of it that could be used to arrange flowers. "Didn't he steal my wallet once before, the money was not enough, and he didn't buy it into a cemetery, but he knew that there was a flower service here, one a month, about 200 yuan a year, and then he seemed to have been paying this money, except for ......"

Except for the years when he was imprisoned in the center.

"Hey, he didn't say anything, I don't know about it, and then it was interrupted for a while, and the funeral home called me, and asked if it was continued, and I knew that this kid was hiding that I had been doing these things."

Of course, it is impossible to get Song Youyang to pay this money. The carnation in front of Zhu Yun disappeared for a while. According to the funeral home, in the second half of 2000, someone sent money over, although it didn't look like Song Anning, it was much taller than him, and he looked more thoughtful. The man said that he was his cousin, and in addition to the annual fee, he also left a contact information, saying that there was a suitable cemetery to call him. Coincidentally, the skin was particularly tight at that time, and it dragged on until now.

"This is not Gu Tianqing's usual mobile phone number." Wang Shiqi's finger tapped the registration book of the funeral home: "If Song Anning was not locked in the secret room by Gu Tianqing, and he still has personal freedom, then this is likely to be his contact information." ”

During the whole process of searching Gu Tianqing's house and rescuing "Xie Li", no one had ever seen a second mobile phone.

Zheng Yuan and Wang Shiqi glanced at each other, decisively arranged countermeasures, picked up the earpiece and dialed the number, and after two rounds of short pulse sounds, a familiar voice came: "Hey? ”

Wang Shiqi and Xu Ye became nervous at the same time - that's right, it was Song Anning.

"Hey, may I ask if it's Zhu Yun's family?" The aunt of the funeral home went down according to the pre-set rhetoric: "That's the case, you have consulted here about buying a cemetery before, and now a position has come out......."

"Give me the account number, and I'll give you money." Song Anning's voice did not hesitate: "But please help me with all the formalities, I can pay more service fees." ”

"Ah...... That's the case," the aunt looked embarrassed: "Another relative of Zhu Yun, named Song Youyang, came here just now, saying that he was going to move the urn, and he would come to go through the formalities in two days, can you discuss it and give an accurate statement, otherwise I don't know if I should leave this place for you." ”

"Song Youyang?" The other end of the phone was almost instantly cold: "Isn't he still in jail?" ”

"I don't know about this, but he did come here, and he said that he would move out of the city after a while, so he seems to be in a hurry."

“…… I know. Song Anning paused for a few seconds, and finally gave the answer Zheng Yuan wanted: "Is it convenient to tell me when he will come?" ”

Hung up the phone, Wang Shiqi excitedly pulled Zheng Yuan's hand and high-fived, Xu Ye also showed joy, only Song Youyang's lips were white: "Hey, let's all say it, you police want to protect my safety, you must not let me have an accident, there are witnesses here, you all heard it!" ”

"Don't worry." Zheng Yuan withdrew his hand and glanced at him coldly: "You haven't finished your prison yet, you won't be so cheap." ”