"Eh, I said, can you not take me with you next time this kind of thing, but I am also a conscientious public security officer, if someone finds out, won't I know the law and break the law?"

"You just have to shut up and no one will find out." Wang Shiqi turned around and flew an eye knife, and continued to walk towards the root of the front wall. It was eleven o'clock at night, and it was so quiet that I couldn't even hear a single insect chirping. The dusk moon was half-hidden in the clouds like a hook, and the summer night was so humid that the mist steamed up from the nearby river, and the field of vision was suddenly very narrow. After two expansions, the new life hospital has covered an area of more than 10,000 square meters, the whole is in the shape of "product", the outpatient building guards the front, and it is also the only entrance.

The three buildings are tightly surrounded by high walls poured with cement, and it is easy to touch an old iron door in the middle of nowhere, and there are traces of hanging cards on the stone pillars. The two stepped on a circle, and they couldn't find a breakthrough, Xu Ye leaned against the wall and spat: "Rub, this level of security is about to catch up with the detention center, as for it?" So that someone can get out over the wall? This one flew out with wings! ”

Wang Shiqi stared at the galvanized spikes above his head, and even in the middle of the night, he could see the sharp reflection on them. Xu Ye was right, it was impossible for the two of them to pass through this barrier unscathed, let alone the group of half-grown children who were locked inside. The corpse of the girl crawling on the dirt road resurfaced in front of the retina, making Wang Shiqi's eyeballs tingle. No one can escape from this, he thought, unless he is dead.

"What should I do?" Xu Ye turned his head and asked him. "You're not really going to go over here, are you? I can tell you, I will not accompany this one. ”

"Am I like that stupid? Do you see, there's a door over there. ”

"I'm blind, I can't see the door over there, the key is that we can't go in so swaggering!"

Wang Shiqi took out his mobile phone: "The door repair is there for people to enter, and if there is a door, there is a key." ”

He crackled on the keyboard, a cigarette, and a skinny figure got out of a taxi with his pocket in his pocket. Xu Ye looked at it, and his eyes were about to pop out: "When did I rely on you kid to be a little nurse again?" ”

"What do you mean by another?" Wang Shiqi pouted. "This is what I helped when I was in charge of Chahu Liqin before. I warn you not to talk nonsense, I have always been innocent in the relationship between men and women. ”

"Oh yes," Xu Ye squinted at him, estimating whether it was worth throwing it in his face now if he was caught running naked at the girl's house and being caught and returned on the day of the engagement. "Then does our female forensic doctor know about this?"

"Uncle Policeman......"

"Shut up!"

The little nurse shrank her head and just rubbed in front of her, and when she saw him fiercely, she almost didn't turn around and ran back. Wang Shiqi hurriedly stretched his arm and stopped: "No, no, no, no, it's not about you." He turned his head and glared at Xu Ye: "Don't say a word, I won't choke you." ”

"Okay, okay." Xu Ye raised his hands in surrender: "Sister nurse, hurry up and do me a favor, we need to handle the case, I bother you to take us in." ”

"This ...... It depends on where you plan to go. The little nurse frowned: "You can go to the emergency department here in the hospital, but the growth center behind it is closed management, and there is only one passage in the emergency building to pass, which is a card-type door lock, I ......" She lowered her head and wrenched her fingers in embarrassment: "If I open it, it will be miserable if I find out later......"

"Hey, you're still thinking about this, do you know how big the case is right now? When it breaks, maybe this hospital will be yellow! Frightened by Xu Ye, the little nurse cringed even more, and even her eyes turned red in an instant: "Huh? …… You spare me, I really don't want to lose my job, and I don't want to go to jail......"

"Don't, no, don't listen to him, there's nothing-" Wang Shiqi hurriedly took out a tissue and stuffed it into the girl's hand, "I know this is a reluctant invitation, but we may really have to rely on you." You're not very old, and if you work here, you've probably seen children of your age and maybe even younger being sent in, right? Even if you haven't seen them in person, you should be able to guess what kind of life they are living in. They are all at the right age of youth, starving, beating, and imprisoned, and may even die. Do you feel pitiful? ”

The little nurse wiped the corners of her eyes and nodded hesitantly.

"It is a serious violation of the law to do so, and I will bring the perpetrators to justice, but now I still need evidence, and this evidence can only be achieved by you. I know it's hard to be a hero, and it's even harder to sacrifice your own interests, but your last performance told me that you are a girl with a conscience. ”

Wang Shiqi grabbed the girl's shoulder and said the second half of the sentence: "It's a big deal, I'll find you a job in the future." ”

Ten minutes later, with the electronic sound of "Didi", the little nurse sent them to the other side of the iron gate.

"Uncle policeman, I won't go inside, be careful yourself." Wang Shiqi turned around and thanked him, and the little nurse was stared at by him, and her cheeks immediately burned again.

"Huh! Wait a minute......" she bit her lip, "there is 24-hour monitoring in and inside the building, and after ten o'clock it will be a curfew, and the alarm will sound when you enter and exit, you ......"

"Don't worry, I'm not going into the building. You should hurry back, too. He stretched out his hand and patted the little girl's head, turned around and stepped into the realm of the growth center, Xu Ye looked back, and the little girl was still there stupidly poking and not leaving. He elbowed Wang Shiqi's waist: "Wow, I can't see it, you kid, who did you learn this from, you haven't been out of the line for more than half a year, why did you suddenly learn to solve the case with your face?" ”

Wang Shiqi raised his foot and kicked him: "It's endless, am I using my face, this is Xiaoyi's righteousness." Besides, I have to solve the problem in the end, and when I first became a police officer, no one told me that I had to take care of this. ”

"Didn't you make it yourself?" Xu Ye smiled: "By the way, you haven't said it yet, what are we looking for in mysteriously in the middle of the night?" ”

"Look for flowers." Wang Shiqi looked left and right, and walked in the direction of a small red brick building: "Ling Xiaohua, have you seen it?" ”

Xu Ye was unconvinced: "I eat more salt than you eat, why haven't you seen it-eh, coincidentally, isn't this all?" ”

In front of them, a sea of fiery red flowers bloomed.

Lingxiao, climbing vines, mostly planted in central China, like warm and moist, borrowing air roots to climb upward growth. As early as in the Book of Songs, there was a record of it, and people called it Lingyuan at that time.

"The flower of the flower, its leaves are green. Knowing that I am like this, it is better to have no life. Wang Shiqi muttered: "Looking at such a brilliant flower in my eyes, what I thought in my heart was that it was good that I was not born, this flower has really declined since ancient times." ”

"When did you read so well? It's not like you. Xu Ye wondered: "That tone scared me just now, and I thought that your reporter friend was on you." ”

"Bah, what are you talking about, Baidu before I came." Wang Shiqi rolled up his sleeves and took out a small folding multi-purpose shovel from behind his back: "I'll give you a project that is particularly like me right away." ”

Xu Ye had an ominous premonition: "What? ”

"Dig the pit."

"Are you crazy?!" Xu Ye was so frightened that he shouted in a loud voice: "This whole thing is a little bit of movement, and the two of us can't eat and walk around!" What the hell do you want to do? ”

"Don't worry, it's very small, I just want to confirm something. Besides, isn't it still up to you to take the wind? Wang Shiqi shook his fingers, the person had already squatted behind the flower bed, he took a deep breath, estimated the position of the shovel, the slender flower stem was planed to the side, and then the dwarf shrubs that were covered below, it was not difficult to dig up the sandy soil, it didn't take long for Wang Shiqi to dig out a small pit as deep as an arm, he lay on the ground and stretched his arm and then probed down, the tip of the shovel seemed to touch a little strange, hard and soft, it should be some kind of rough braid.

Wang Shiqi's breathing became rapid. His palms trembled slightly, and his gaze began to jump. The deep sea in the nightmare suddenly attacked at this moment, as if the whole thing was poured into him, heavy pressure, lack of oxygen, dark seabed, buried Lao Zheng...... No, it's not him! He almost cried out until a hand reached over and pinched the back of his neck: "Are you okay?" Xu Ye's face was rarely in shape, probably frightened by his pale face: "Are you digging up the baby, if you don't leave, the sky will be bright." ”

"It's okay, you can come and have a look." Wang Shiqi pulled out his hand and quickly wiped a handful of sweat, and took a light on Xu Ye with his mobile phone, Xu Ye looked down on the edge of the pit, and his eyes narrowed in embarrassment: "This is ...... Canvas? ”

"Rainproof canvas, used to make trucks or tents, looks like the degree of fading is a bit old." Wang Shiqi took a breath and sat down on the ground: "Guess, why do you want to bury this under the flower bed?" ”

Xu Ye's eyes widened instantly: "Could it be ......?"

"Let's go find a search warrant from above." Wang Shiqi took out the cigarette case: "I suspect that someone is buried under this." ”

***

On July 31, 2006, a skeleton was resurfaced to the roar of an excavator.

The tarp cut into 200X150 was supposed to belong to an emergency tent, but now it has become the last destination of a teenager. Wrapped in it is a slender skeleton, the skin and flesh have been rotted, the upper pelvic opening is narrow, the basal slit of the skull has not been fully fused, the height is no more than 1.5 meters, there are multiple fracture marks, and the skull is repaired by a piece of titanium alloy, which is consistent with the surgical record after the car accident.

Gender, age, surgical marks, everything points to a familiar name: Xie Li.

Wang Shiqi stood not far away and watched all this—in the flower bed of the freshman hospital, or the family building of the former freshman growth center, the golden-red flowers were torn apart by the claw-like bucket, scattered into a brilliant blanket, covering the mud and sand all over the ground. The incident happened suddenly, Ge Yumei did not show up, only the female secretary of her class coordinated with a black face, and under her command, the more than 100 people who were "treated" in the building were dismissed by the instructors, and lined up to go around to the outpatient hall from the other side, waiting for their respective families to take them home. Regaining their freedom doesn't seem to excite these people, just as the discovery of a white skeleton around them doesn't make them panic.

A numb face flickered in front of Wang Shiqi's eyes, wearing a uniform mouse gray T-shirt, black shorts, and shaved hair behind his ears. Compared to then, he seemed to be fat, and his cheekbones were suspiciously full and shiny, glowing with a deep and light apricot yellow. Maybe he felt the sight from the side, his eyes rolled for a moment, and he immediately fell back to the ground quickly, and the other half of his face fell into Wang Shiqi's eyes, and he reacted - half of the boy's face was swollen.

This was the first time he had a real sense of the situation of the students of the Freshman Growth Center. The details that had stayed in Xie Li's dictation before were refracted from the scars on each person's body, the stiff steps, the shrunken demeanor, and the godless pupils, like the intuitiveness and cruelty of the fake exchange. For a moment, he almost had a little empathy for Gu Tianqing's revenge on society—for a child, it was better to burn down such a place.

Otherwise, they will be like the delicate bones of this place, which have fallen to the ground before they can bloom, back and forth, one by one, the petals are crushed and squeezed, and the air is filled with the smell of dead plants.

The cigarettes in his pocket had been exhausted, he took two deep breaths with some irritability, and was just about to stop someone from borrowing cigarettes, when he saw Cheng Nuo coming over, the mask covering her expression, but, maybe it was an illusion, he felt that the other party's eyes looked at him much softer.

"Well done." She nodded at him, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"What a hard work?" Wang Shiqi shaved his messy hair like a chicken nest. "This can only be regarded as atonement, otherwise, I will be led by the nose by criminals again."

"You don't have to be under so much pressure, solving the case is a coordinated operation, and I personally don't approve of lone heroes." Cheng Nuo took off his mask and took out a lady's cold cigarette from his pocket: "Let's make do with it, it seems that it's not good for men to smoke too much, but I don't think you can do it." ”

Wang Shiqi hurriedly took it and lit it, and the white smoke exhaled was fierce and intense, as if he had a bad breath: "Hurry up and have some good news, otherwise I really can't bear it." ”

"The good news is that the preliminary identification has been made, and a number of data are in line with the indicators of male adolescents between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and the next step is DNA identification, but unfortunately I can't get Ge Yumei's DNA sample now, otherwise according to the kinship, it will soon be possible to confirm whether the deceased is Xie Li." She looked at the record in hand curiously: "Strange, how do you confirm that there are people buried underneath here?" ”

"Look at this." Zheng Yuan took out a copy of the photo in his pocket, which was a group photo cut out of the advertorial of the anniversary of the New Life Hospital every year, from 1995 to the present. Cheng Nuo flipped through a stack of pieces of paper back and forth, looking puzzled: "Is there anything wrong with this?" ”

"Absolutely. Look at this flower bed, every year Ge Yumei will take an outstanding student to take a photo in front. I have checked this place, the predecessor was an abandoned nursing home, and later Ge Yumei took down the growth center, and then it became bigger and bigger, and the surrounding land was also bought, and it became the current new life hospital. The dean must have earned a lot of money by disciplining his children, and in the years that followed, all the original buildings were torn down and rebuilt, except for ......"

"Except for this parterre." Cheng Nuo suddenly realized: "Oh, this flower bed has been renovated once in the photo, and the time is ...... In 1997? ”

That was exactly what the neighbors of the Song family provided, the year Song Anning was sent to the growth center.

"Before 1997, Ge Yumei's son had never appeared on the scene, and it would be reasonable to say that he was weak and still in the recovery period, but after Song Anning went in, Xie Li came out again to take a group photo. I have every reason to suspect that in 1997, the real Xie Li had died in the growth center, and Ge Yumei concealed his death for some reason, and found Song Anning, who was about the same size and appearance, as a replacement, and at the same time issued a notice to his father Song Youyang that Song Anning had left school. She should have already grasped the information about the discord between the Song family's father and son, and she also expected that Song Youyang would not react, not to mention that there was a valuable compensation as hush money. ”

Then, in the name of renovation, she dug up the flower bed and buried the body of her own son. A hint of mockery flashed on Cheng Nuo's usually cold face: "It's also full of Lingxiao flowers...... Not to mention, the plants in this flower bed didn't look good before, so it's very beautiful. ”

When the body of a teenager is at its most prosperous, even if he dies, the energy seems to be constantly radiating, nourishing this sea of flowers that seems to be on fire. Wang Shiqi felt a little scary - did Ge Yumei choose to take photos in the same place every year just because of coincidence? Xie Li, the only son marked below the photo, is it the one with a blurred face in the crowd, or the one whose bones and blood have been integrated into the flowers and leaves?

"But how did you come up with the idea to go through the old news? I remember that the day before yesterday, your little follower Qi Kexiu also came to send a handwriting test, why was it so coincidental that all the questions about Xie Li's identity came out all of a sudden? Cheng Nuo turned his face to look at him, and Wang Shiqi's expression froze: "These...... It's all thanks to Lao Zheng, it's the clues he left. ”

"And what about him now? Still haven't found it yet? ”

"Hmm." Wang Shiqi nodded and refused to say any more. Cheng Nuo felt that the atmosphere at the scene became solemn - Zheng Yuan had been missing for longer and longer, and the later he found it, the more unoptimistic the situation became.

"Then where is this fake Xie Liren now?"

"The secretary who has already investigated Ge Yumei, the dean called her last Friday night, saying that he was going to take Xie out for a break, and handed over the work to the people below. I have also checked several directors and instructors, and the confessions are true. However, we did not find any flight or train records. ”

"It at least shows that they didn't go far." Cheng Nuo patted Wang Shiqi's generous back: "The scope of the search has been greatly reduced, and now the body has been found, whether this is Xie Li or not, we all have a reason to issue a wanted warrant for Ge Yumei." ”

"Nope." Wang Shiqi interrupted her: "For the time being, I can't startle the snake, I can't risk Zheng Yuan's safety." ”

Cheng Nuo raised his eyebrows: "What you said about safety, including the fact that he was not caught by the police?" ”

Wang Shiqi's face turned blue all of a sudden: "You still doubt him?" ”

"I don't doubt it. The earliest letter was discovered by him, and it was he who suspected that someone was kidnapped, and this fake Xie Li's earliest confession was to him, and even the current location of this corpse was guided by him, and every step you deviated from before was based on his behavior, such a key person actually disappeared at this juncture...... "Cheng Nuo asked: "Do you really believe that such a big man as him will be kidnapped?" ”

"What do you mean?" Wang Shiqi dropped the cigarette butt: "Why do I think you have something to say?" ”

"Yes, I'm just talking about the last case. Why was Xiaoye tied up? Why was he killed? The two of them disappeared one after the other, why did he come back alive? The surname Zheng can't say anything clearly, you still surround him everywhere, do you know Wang Shiqi, you will one day harm others and yourself. ”

"I don't need you to worry, and he can't let you doubt it." Wang Shiqi let out a heavy breath, turned around and strode towards his car, and then left a sentence: "Give me a few more hours, whether you live or die, I will bear all the consequences." ”