made such a scene, Ge Yumei resolutely asked to send her son to the freshman hospital under her name for treatment, Zheng Yuan was not at ease, so he had to personally send people over to settle down, Wang Shiqi had to follow step by step, and when everything was cleaned up, the time was already in the second half of the night.

"Did you sleep?" Wang Shiqi stood at the door with a cigarette in his mouth and didn't light it, Rao also gained a car of blank eyes from the resident nurses who came and went. Zheng Yuan nodded at him, shook his head again, and pointed outside, Wang Shiqi comprehended, and followed him to the courtyard.

"With oxcarbazepine, the situation stabilized. Preliminary CT scans showed that his epilepsy may be related to trauma to his forehead. Zheng Yuan sat down on the stone bench, but his eyes were fixed on the cigarette in Wang Shiqi's mouth. Wang Shiqi smiled: "Don't look blind, you can't smoke." He fumbled in his pocket: "Here's a lollipop, do you want it?" ”

Zheng Yuan hesitated in front of the pink strawberry-flavored ball for two seconds, but finally couldn't help but take it and dismantle it, and the thick sweetness of synthesis spread from the tip of his tongue, with deceptive pleasure. Zheng Yuan narrowed his eyes, feeling the warmth around him, and Wang Shiqi sat on the side.

"I won't smoke it either, so as not to be hungry for you." Wang Shiqi casually stomped the cigarette in two and stepped on the soles of his feet, and patted his thigh: "You relax, this is still in the recovery period, I have violated the doctor's instructions by running around with you, if you worry so much, beware that your body can't bear it." Zheng Yuan lowered his eyelids and didn't speak, his originally smart eyes were sinking into the sockets at the moment, the baby fat had not retreated at all, the towering eyebrow bones and sharp nose bridge didn't look like what he remembered at all, only the short hair was still a teenager, and it was dark and reflective. It will take another two years to enter thirty, but Zheng Yuan seems to have become a middle-aged man early - he can't be blamed, the small half of his life he has experienced may have been several lives of others. Wang Shiqi's heart softened, and he reached out and touched the top of his head: "When this case is closed, I will take you out for a trip, and you can choose Europe, America and Oceania." ”

Zheng Yuan lifted his eyelids: "Is it really possible?" ”

"Why not. You're looking down on my annual income, aren't you? …… Ah yes, my annual income is not much, isn't there my mother, as long as you nod, the sponsor is proper. ”

"I'm not talking about that." Zheng Yuan's eyes were completely opened, he turned his face, his eyes flashed in the night, reflecting the moist moonlight: "I mean, can the case really be closed?" ”

"Why not, hey, you look down on my annual income, why do you still look down on my level of solving crimes?" Wang Shiqi was not angry: "Now the conviction is not a matter of minutes. ”

"Convicted? Xie Li's sin? ”

"What do you say, if he is going to be guilty, is it possible to let him go back to the hospital of his own house now?" Wang Shiqi laughed: "Now that Gu Tianqing's evidence chain as a suspect is relatively complete, and the motive for the crime is relatively clear, combined with the confession, Xie Li is basically characterized as a witness and a victim and has not run away." ”

"But ......"

"The fingerprints of the first four cases that Xie Li confessed, because it was a long time, and it was a suicide to close the case, the scene was more destructive, our colleagues tried every means to extract and compare, and finally found the residual samples, he was not wrong, there were his fingerprints at each scene, and there was only one. The rest, Sun Zhijun's bedroom, the Gu family's living room, Gu Tianqing's suicide knife handle, including the public phone booth that made a threatening call to you, all extracted Gu Tianqing's clear fingerprints, plus Tian Yu's body

In contrast, this serial murder case is already very clear. ”

Zheng Yuan's cool white fingers covered his eyes: "But...... I still feel ......"

"Think there's something wrong?" Wang Shiqi teased him: "Don't think about it, you are an occupational disease again, and you always want to pick bones in eggs." Besides, I think you don't care a lot about Xie Li's kid, don't you? He raised his elbow and pestled the other party: "Why, a son is not enough for you to support?" ”

"I care about him, and it's because I care that I feel wrong now." Zheng Yuan exhaled softly: "I'm worried that my empathy will blind something - don't you think this case is too logical to solve now?" ”

"Huh?" When he said this, Wang Shiqi's eyebrows also raised: "What do you say?" ”

"I know that confession is a very important part of modern criminal investigation, but in this case, the suspect is dead, the other victims are also dead, and all we can receive is information about one and only one person, which is the kidnapped victim."

"Do you think we're relying too much on confessions to solve crimes?" Wang Shiqi was unconvinced: "But, isn't there all the evidence now?" ”

"There is evidence, but I always feel that this evidence is not discovered, but guided," Zheng Yuan continued: "The investigation vision is swayed by confessions, and it is easy to fall into the rambling verification of confessions, and the suspect points to the rabbit to make people chase this kind of thing before, I am worried about ......."

Wang Shiqi's mind flashed over the body of Zheng Yuan's father who fell in the snow, and quickly shook his head to expel the scene: "Don't worry, professional matters are handed over to the police comrades, you have behaved very well as a family member of the police comrades, so how about making an exception tonight and taking you to have a drink?" ”

"You're letting me drink?" Zheng Yuan smiled and shook his head, "What did Doctor Zhou say before, the first one who doesn't abide by the law is you." He stood up and stretched his neck: "I'd better go back, I've been tossing all day, I'm tired." ”

They sat for a long time, the street lights in the courtyard had been extinguished, Zheng Yuan's first step in the dark was a little hesitant, he forced himself to move forward, and after a few strokes, he tripped over the teeth of the small flower bed, where a neat row of small triangles was made of red bricks, and seeing that his forehead was about to go up, a force intercepted him at the waist - it was Wang Shiqi.

"Look at you, you haven't drunk it yet, why can't you even go straight ahead." Wang Shiqi pulled him up, and hurriedly checked the wound that was rubbed on the ground with the palm of his hand: "Hey, it's bleeding." ”

"A little, it's okay." Zheng Yuan quietly withdrew his hand, but Wang Shiqi chased after him: "Why don't you do anything, you just ...... Or is it a problem with the eyes? ”

"Well...... Zheng Yuan replied vaguely: "In the dark place, I still can't see clearly......"

"Didn't the hospital say that the sequelae of concussion could be eliminated in a month or two, how could it still be like this after half a year, did it treat you blindly? That's not going to work, I'm going to have to find someone to complain. ”

Zheng Yuan hurriedly stopped him: "Don't worry, it's not about other people's doctors, it's my own business, I know...... It's good to pay attention to it. ”

Wang Shiqi knew that he didn't want to go to the hospital again, and he didn't know if it was psychological shadow or self-abuse. He sighed: "It's okay, it's not enough for me to just pay attention to yourself, I mainly have to pay attention." He stretched out his hand in Zheng Yuan's surprised eyes and said to him, "Take it." ”

Zheng Yuan's inexplicable cheeks were hot: "No need, how old are you, you ...... ”

"If you ask you to take it, why do you talk so much nonsense." Wang Shiqi roughly grabbed his hand and squeezed it into his palm: "Go home, it's a big deal, I'll be your eye in the future." ”

***

"I said, is it really going to be here? It doesn't look like wow. On the dirt road in Luanping Town, Zhou Mo probed his brain behind Qi Kexiu, and was pushed back by him impatiently: "I have the final say, you have the final say?" I told you not to come, but to follow. ”

"Why can't I follow, it's my sisters' business, and her business is mine." Zhou Mo flicked his hair nonchalantly: "I am also a third-stage level of Wing Chun, and I won't hold you back." ”

Not to mention that it's okay, as soon as he said it, the wound on Qi Kexiu's forehead immediately throbbed: "Your three-legged cat kung fu is enough to deal with me." He took a handwritten letter and looked at the door number one by one, and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated earthen building: "It should be here." ”

Unexpectedly, Sun Zhijun did not resell or resell his "private collection", but instead adopted a seemingly unreliable route - he has been using a trumpet to mix in a local cat friend forum since three years ago, and after being hit by his wife Duan Xiaojuan, he may have sensed a bit of a risk, so he posted a message for help in the forum, hoping that a car on the way would help him carry a box to the nearby Luanping Town, which is his hometown. Maybe it's the cat moms and cat dads of the pet forum are very kind-hearted, and they really agreed, there was a newlywed girl who happened to go back to her mother's house in Luanping Town that few days, and drove over to transport the box away, which became the "connector man" that Zhou Mo saw when he followed him.

"Cut, if it weren't for my cleverness, you would have found this place?" Zhou Mo pouted dissatisfied, when she was following her attentively, she saw the red golf with a huge fat cat sticker behind the car window. Thanks to her clear memory, Qi Kexiu found the license plate from the traffic police surveillance and found the woman's home all the way.

"What? I really don't know, just look at his old face to help, don't trouble me! The woman's eyes rolled around in horror: "I will send him to the entrance of the town, where an old man took the box away, saying that it is called ...... What is it called, Uncle Gen. She chased after her uncomfortably and asked, "This is not a crime, is it?" ”

Qi Kexiu looked serious: "It's not counted, but I still advise you, you must be cautious when making friends on the Internet is risky, this person is a cat abuse maniac in private, if you really love cats, you should be careful in the future." ”

The woman's face changed, and the fat cat in her arms lost no time in rushing to Qi Kexiu and raised her coat and paws. Zhou Mo laughed out loud when he heard this: "You really can't speak." ”

"What do you know, I need to remind you, for the sake of the safety of the people, besides, I think I have a good attitude?"

"It's hopeless." Zhou Mo rolled his eyes widely, and slammed the straw in his mouth loudly: "Who is this Uncle Gen?" ”

"Uncle Gen is...... Wait a minute, why should I report to you, hurry home, is my homework done? ”

"Uncle, today is the weekend, there are no classes at school, besides, you said that I should report Tang Xiaoyu's recent situation in time, and I will not confiscate your monitoring fee."

"Just make a phone call to report, do you need to come with me in person?" Qi Kexiu looked helpless at the mud ideas that had been splashed all the way: "How is she?" ”

"According to what you said, let's go back to school first, and another classmate and I have been helping her make up for the past two days. The psychiatrist hasn't found ...... yet."

"Why?" Qi Kexiu was dissatisfied: "She needs the intervention of a psychiatrist very much in this situation, in case something falls into the future it will not be good." ”

"Tsk, can others not know? That's why I'll just say you're missing a root in your brain. If someone in her house was in charge, would she casually leave school and go to the bar to serve dishes? Zhou Mo asked back, Qi Kexiu didn't expect this, and he muttered for a while before saying, "I'm sorry......"

"Hey, don't apologize, you didn't say it's your fault." Zhou Mo's eyes sparkled over: "You are a good person." ”

- What's going on, the hero of my dreams was taken up by this yellow-haired girl, and the good guy card was also sent by her, what did I do in my life? Qi Kexiu asked Cangtian speechlessly, while trying to stabilize his sanity and ask Sun Zhijun's relatives everywhere, sure enough, his cousin "Uncle Gen" Sun Dagen lived here, Qi Kexiu knocked on the door, and a half-bald old man shook out in a daze, and there was still a rush of wine on his body: "What are you doing?" ”

"May I ask if it's Sun Zhijun's cousin Sun Dagen, right? I'm a police officer, and I need your cooperation in the investigation. Qi Kexiu flicked his documents, and the other party's narrowed eyes were full of disapproval: "What's the matter, isn't he dead?" ”

"He is dead, but the iniquity he has done is not finished." Qi Kexiu said: "The investigation found that he had sent a fifteen-inch trolley suitcase to Zhenkou Road around the fifteenth of July, and you took it over. Now that box is very important evidence of a crime, where did you hide it? ”

"Me? I don't? Sun Dagen was a little panicked, his eyes kept glancing into the room, Qi Kexiu saw that he understood eight or nine points in his heart, and he pushed the person away: "Then I'll go in and take a look." ”

"Eh, eh, why are you policemen like this, just enter this way, and there is no king law!" Sun Dagen was a little anxious, he didn't dare to pull Qi Kexiu, and turned his head to pull Zhou Mo who was following behind his ass. The little girl was caught by him coldly, and with a scream, Qi Kexiu turned his head and became angry, and crossed between the two and locked each other's wrists: "What are you doing?!" ”

"I, I'm ......" Sun Dagen hurriedly let go, his body was covered to the side, Zhou Mo's eyes were sharp, and he pointed to the bottom of the bed and shouted: "There!" I see it! Right there! ”

Sun Dagen was about to run away, but was put to the ground by Qi Kexiu with a trip, Zhou Mo hit the snake with the stick, and dragged a plastic rope with a fisherman's knot in his hand. While tying it back, he mocked: "I advise you not to move, this knot is getting tighter and tighter the more you struggle, and then it will be necrotic if you don't have bloody hands, it's not worth it." ”

Qi Kexiu glared at her: "Where did you say you learned these hooligan tricks?" ”

Zhou Mo glared back: "There are so many hooligans outside, I'm fighting violence with violence!" ”

Sun Dagen: "You little two quarrel and quarrel, don't step on me, okay?" ”

Qi Kexiu and Zhou Mo bowed their heads together: "Shut up!" ”

The trolley case of black oxford cloth finally saw the light of day, according to Sun Dagen's confession, Sun Zhijun's parents had passed away, and he was such an old relative in the town. He did open the box and look at it, picked the password lock, and after knowing what it was, he asked Sun Zhijun for money twice, and each time he could knock on 12,000. "I'm still counting on more points in the future, who knows, I'll die." Sun Dagen muttered dejectedly, and was spat by Zhou Mo: "I dare to ask for black-hearted money, I'm not afraid of rotten**!" ”

"Alright," Qi Kexiu called her, "go over and turn on the light." ”

As the zipper slowly opened, a photo album full of bits and pieces of little girl's objects were re-exposed under the miserable white fluorescent tubes, head flowers, stickers, keys hanging, and more hardcover notes one by one, pink and white flowers, Qi Kexiu couldn't bear to look at it, Zhou Mo squatted beside him, and his fingers were pulled all the way from the title page: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven......"

There are at least nine girls here, and the latest one has Xiaoyu's name written on it.

"Brute!" Zhou Mo's face wrinkled: "Who knows how many other students have been poisoned by him." She reached out to the bottom and pulled out a copy, the cover of the moon white was already yellow: "Gu ...... Sky...... Rain? ”

Qi Kexiu raised his head violently - he found it.

***

The starting point of the story is about jealousy.

Gu Tianyu didn't know how many classmates had handed homework to Teacher Sun, and in her small universe, Teacher Sun was only the only one with her. She is the representative of the Chinese class, as a privilege, Sun Zhijun gave her the office key, specially approved her to come in to help organize her homework, look through the books in the cabinet, and also write in the small A5 book, he promised that the best works will be published in the city's largest newspaper through his connections. "If you haven't been to West Lake, how can you write about the beauty of West Lake? Mom and Dad said that my brother and I were conceived in Hangzhou, and I was able to recite the ten views of the West Lake since I was a child, but I only knew it when I went face to face once, and only when I saw it in my eyes, the West Lake was alive", "I hate exam-taking essays, and the restricted words have no soul", "The Dai Wangshu I learned today is so beautiful, and there are such long and lonely rain alleys in Xingsha City", "It's snowing, the hexagonal white stains my eyebrows and eyes, and the world in my pupils is also pure white, do you see it?" She gave him page by page wrapped in pure admiration in literature and spirituality, and he commented in indigo pen and ink below: "Dai Wangshu wrote a poem to his favorite first love, and I think it was also written to a girl like you—she is shy, with a peach-colored face, peach-colored lips, and an azure heart." ”

If the story stops here, it may just be a young memory of a literary girl twenty years later, but a third person interjected, she is Li Weiwei, born with thin eyebrows and thin eyes, soft long hair covering her ears, and a single dimple on the side of her smile. Li Weiwei was born with a stutter, usually shrunk and shrunk, and was called "little stammer" by her classmates, Gu Tianyu, the proud daughter of the sky, never looked at her directly. Until one day, she took advantage of the effort to help Mr. Sun sort out the papers, secretly rummaged through his desk, a cloth notebook sprinkled with cherry blossom petals was hidden in the lowest layer, more than hers, better, and more intimate attitude, the owner of that book was the little stammering Li Weiwei.

She asked why, but Sun Zhijun was a middle-aged veteran, and he pushed himself completely between his words, and in the end it looked like Li Weiwei was sticking to him upside down. Gu Tianyu couldn't get angry, so he turned his head and pushed Li Weiwei in the women's toilet cubicle. Li Weiwei didn't come to the last class, she passed by the office after school, and opened the door with the key with a little pride, but saw Li Weiwei in Teacher Sun's arms, crying breathlessly.

Gu Tianyu dropped the key and ran away, she ran so fast, so fast that she couldn't even catch up with her tears. "I want her dead." She wrote a hundred times in her notebook, one stroke at a time, and at that time there was still a month before Li Weiwei's death, and perhaps even she herself did not expect that this wish would come true so quickly.

"This is written by Gu Tianyu himself, why was she sent to this growth center, why did Gu Tianqing kill Sun Zhijun, I think this is the reason." Zheng Yuan put the photocopy of the notebook on Xie Li's lap, and the boy sat up straight on the bench in front of the flower garden, the sun was hot, but it didn't seem to be able to catch him at all, and his pale face seemed to melt into the white clothes. "So...... It's this surnamed Sun...... Killed her classmates...... That's why she ......"

"To be precise, it is Sun Zhijun who has a sadistic fetish, and Li Weiwei is probably the first prey as a living person." Zheng Yuan felt a little unbearable when he said the word prey: "Maybe Sun Zhijun hadn't decided to kill her at that time, he pushed people into the water, probably to amplify the pleasure brought by the previous cat abuse, but what he didn't expect was that he was glimpsed by Gu Tianyu, who had been following him, the whole process." ”

At that time, Gu Tianyu was going to break up or reconcile, there was no answer in the notes, she only wrote down the white description of the scene at that time: "Li Weiwei was pushed, just like I pushed her at school, she was so light, even a little splash, she didn't even scream for help, Teacher Sun was on the shore, looking at her and laughing." ”

The handwriting was scribbled and messy, and it was written by Gu Tianyu's violently trembling hand. When Sun Zhijun left, she mustered up the courage to jump into the water, and tried her best to pull Li Weiwei up, but she fell several times and choked on her. The heavy water of the lake crushed her chest, squeezing out the last wisps of oxygen, and it was then that she realized that drowning could not make a sound—no help, no cry of help, and no call of the man watching the fire from the other side.

In the hazy water, Sun Zhijun waved his hand at her from a distance, turned around and left.

She didn't know how she dragged Li Weiwei to the shore in the end, her mind was blank, she only remembered that the snow-bright headlights illuminated people's eyes and couldn't open their eyes, and their eardrums were full of rumbling water, and it wasn't until she woke up the next day that she found that she had been completely betrayed by Sun Zhijun. "Why, I thought you were the most trustworthy person in me, why did you do this to me? You clearly said that I am the most special and precious, and will always protect me......" The traces of the ballpoint pen penetrate the back of the paper, "You lie to me, you lie to me, you lie to me, you lie to me, you lie to me, you lie to me, you lie to me, you lie to me......"

No one believed her, and even this notebook was returned to Sun Zhijun for some reason. If it weren't for his habit of keeping the "spoils of war", perhaps no one would ever know that Gu Tianqing's opportunity to commit so many bloody crimes was so absurdly simple.

The sun was scorching, Zheng Yuan closed his eyes, and there seemed to be an afterimage of the girl in his retina. He was standing in front of the family building of the New Life Growth Center, the last journey of Gu Tianyu's life. Legend has it that they found her body by the flower bed, and the flowers concealed her young body, so beautiful that it was not reminiscent of death.

The students at the Growth Center lined up across the playground, and Xie Li told Zheng Yuan that this was the only time of the day for them to "let off steam." "It's been a few years, and it hasn't changed at all." He said with a little nonchalance on his face, a few boys passed by, and greeted Xie Li familiarly, Xie Li also responded to them one by one, seeing that there were strangers there, one or two people had hesitant expressions, but they still approached, Xie Li was also ready to take out two biscuit jars and handed them over. "Take it easy, don't say I gave it when I was discovered." He half-jokingly admonished, the other party thanked him vaguely, and ran away without touching the ground, and it was at this moment that Zheng Yuan seemed to see a little brisk teenager from their backs.

"After all, I have a special situation, I am a little freer than them here, sometimes they are hungry and come to me to ask for some food, and the instructor can only turn a blind eye, there is only so much I can help them." Zheng Yuan looked at Xie Li and waved to them: "You know them all?" ”

"There are a few, but they've all been seen before, they were still newcomers when I was taken away five years ago, and it's been so long." He pointed to the tall man who was the last one to leave: "Look at that, Lao Tie, he was sent in on the same day as Gu Tianqing, and his girlfriend Yue Rong was there at that time." I heard that the school and the family were tight, and there was a martyrdom together, and then ......"

Xie choked out of his throat and didn't say any more. Zheng Yuan understood what that meant. (Delete the recollection of newspaper news, the chronological order is wrong, and the first mention of Yue Rong's death is after the next two chapters.) ）

There will probably be no more follow-up, like Gu Tianyu, she stayed forever at the age of 16.

"Compared to us people, at least Gu Tianqing has accomplished what he wants to accomplish." Xie Li touched those immature handwritings, and his emotions slowly calmed down. "Is he buried? I was thinking that maybe I could visit his grave one day. ”

"Don't you hate him?"

"Hate? Maybe, but hatred doesn't make sense anymore, does it? He stood up and stroked the fire-like flowers with his fingers: "At some point, he wasn't bad to me. ”

Zheng Yuan was surprised: "Why do you think so?" ”

"Remember the last time you recorded a confession, did you ask about the meteor?" His eyes cast into the distance, it was daytime, the sun was blazing, and his retina was leaking out of thin air. "My memory was a little confusing before, but then I remembered that there were indeed no meteors that day, and it was Gu Tianqing who lit the fireworks."

A hundred rings of starlight and fire, like a dream, burned out in the dark night of dark clouds.

He had promised to let him see the meteors, and in any case, at the end of his life, he fulfilled his promise.

Tears fell on the bright red petals, Zheng Yuan walked over and patted Xie Li's back comfortingly: "Since you have survived, you will live well in the future, even for those who have left." ”

"Hmm." Xie Li blinked meekly: "I will, I've started painting again recently...... Although the color is still difficult, you can try toner first. For the first time, there was a look of anticipation in his eyes: "Maybe, I can give you one in the future." ”

Zheng Yuan nodded with satisfaction, stepped forward and gently took away the copy in his hand.

"Then I'll wait for your good news. But this, I have to take it away, and I will make an exception to show you today, because I think I can untie these knots, maybe it will be good for your spiritual recovery. He packed his backpack and prepared to leave, "I met your mother outside when I first came, and she said that you are recovering well, and I am relieved, if you don't mind, we will keep in touch in the future." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Zheng."

"No thanks." Zheng Yuan turned around to leave, thought about it and turned his head again: "By the way, you may not be able to go to Gu Tianqing's cemetery for the time being." He pondered for a moment, and carefully said the second half of the sentence: "There are no immediate family members alive, and he is a felon, and his body has been preserved as a forensic student for autopsy." This...... It can be regarded as a kind of compensation for society. ”

With a click, the flexible green stem broke under Xie Li's hand. He met Zheng Yuan's gaze and handed over the flower: "Then, help me bring this to him, is it okay?" Seeing that Zheng Yuan was a little hesitant, he added: "This was planted by the dean himself, and it has been more than five years now, and when the two sisters and brothers were still here, this flower had already bloomed." ”

"Ling Xiao?" Zheng Yuan took the flower and tilted his head slightly, "You know what? Lingxiao's flower language means mother's love. ”

"Really? That's probably the love of the dean. ”

Xie Li gave a big smile, but somehow, Zheng Yuan always felt that there was a bit of sarcasm in this smile.