Lin Ran followed him through the field, and after walking for more than forty minutes, Zhou Huai'an still didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, she couldn't help but ask: "It doesn't look like there are people around here...... Mr. Zhou, you said you have been here, how many years have you not been back? ”

"Seven or eight years." Zhou Huai'an paused, squinted his eyes and looked around, as if he was a little unsure, "But after that incident, this place is indeed uninhabited." ”

"Why?"

Zhou Huai'an shrugged: "It's too biased, the traffic is not very convenient, and it's ......" he smiled, "What do you say?" The people inside such a big fire were burned, and the police said it was murder, and it is still an unsolved case in the file. There weren't many neighbors in the first place, so ...... Probably moved out intermittently. Ah, yes, that's right, it's not far away. ”

There were two cars in front, and when I saw two people coming, a man got out of the driver's seat of one of them, nodded at Zhou Huai'an, handed over the key to him, and got in the car and left.

Lin Ran didn't squeak and got on the train directly, I don't know why, after getting off the train, she felt very strange all the way. Sitting in the taxi, she deliberately paid attention a few times, and did not find half of the person following, which always made her feel a little unusual.

A car sped through the wilderness, turning into a sparsely populated town. Zhou Huai'an answered the phone while playing the steering wheel, put down the "um" twice, turned back to Lin Ran, who was sitting in the co-pilot with his chin up, and smiled: "His reaction was really similar to what I expected, coming this way, I really let you study him thoroughly." ”

Lin Ran didn't squeak.

"Fasten your seatbelts." Zhou Huai'an reminded.

Lin Ran raised her eyebrows, glanced at the seat belt next to her, and ignored him: "What is the relationship between him and the Zhou family?" You've calculated a lot, you should have told me, right? ”

"Alliances, ever." Zhou Huai paused and adjusted the rearview mirror, "If you want to talk about the common denominator, you want to find a way to become a king in your lifetime, but the old man of the Zhou family, that is, your grandfather, later saw the true face of this young man who was eager to emerge, and it took a lot of methods to retreat bravely, and then ...... The old man died before he could finish his work. ”

Lin Ran gently tapped his lips with a few fingers, as if recalling something, and then smiled: "When I graduated from high school, I went out and saw the advertisements posted on the wall, as well as the brochures about self-guided tours in the mailbox, all of which he put away, right?" Deliberately led me through...... How did Wu Ziping know I was there? ”

"I told him." Zhou Huai'an smiled, "He came to ask me for your whereabouts for the ...... reason He knows the secrets I'm hiding. ”

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Lin Ran held her forehead and laughed, shaking her head, "Why didn't I find Wu Ziping so funny before?" ”

"It's actually very easy to find you, your mother has been around from the beginning with someone I arranged, but I didn't tell Wu Ziping, I only promised him to use my own method to lead you to him...... But then I thought, what about that secret, who does Lao Tzu want to protect and kill whom, he can control me? Zhou Huai'an suddenly turned sharply, Lin Ran didn't pay attention, his head slammed on the car window, grinned and held his head and cursed, Zhou Huai'an opened the car window and took a cigarette in his mouth, "Tell you to wear a seat belt, don't listen to the old man, don't spend money at a loss - I led you to that place, did you notice the route of the self-guided tour?" You're so smart, and when you can't find a guide, you can't help but think about that route, and there's an 80% chance you'll figure out what's going on, but you didn't expect that you didn't take the bait at the time and just threw away the brochure. ”

Lin Ran shook his head and sighed: "Sure enough, there is nothing to do, and it is either a traitor or a thief." When I'm old, I'll stay away from the kids who are waiting in line to help me cross the street......" She stopped suddenly, and the gloom on her face flashed.

Zhou Huai'an glanced at her: "What, when you mention the past, who do you think of?" ”

Lin Ran raised the corners of her eyes: "What's the matter with you?" ”

Zhou Huai'an pursed his lips, and after a long while, he asked, "Lin Ran, are you serious?" ...... to Mo Zhi"

Lin Ran grabbed her hair, shook it to the side vigorously, and rolled her eyes a little irritably: "You can manage it too wide......" She twisted her head out of the window and let out a long breath, "They are all adults, whether they are acting on the scene or relieving loneliness, what should they really not do...... I don't even know if I can maintain this mood in the future, but as for me to find out what happened to the Lin family back then, at least I don't want him to know it now. ”

"You're such a casual person?"

"I'm not a human when I get up."

Zhou Huai'an suddenly laughed, and slapped Lin Ran on the shoulder with his free hand: "Don't talk nonsense, I'll tell you the truth, because of the eyeliner around your mother, I watched you grow up, and I don't know where you are?" Isn't it real? Why don't you stay in the dormitory every day? What are you doing when you run back to his villa if you have nothing to do, don't you like tossing on the road? ”

"Shut up." Lin Ran stretched out his hand to beat Zhou Huai'an, hesitated, and finally put down his hand and sighed softly.

Zhou Huai'an glanced at her with complicated eyes, but saw that Lin Ran's face suddenly had some kind of indescribable sad look, so good-looking...... But he was so fragile, he couldn't help but breathe, and called softly: "Lin Ran? ”

Lin Ran smiled and shook her head slowly: "If it's really not serious, what else can it do?" ”

Zhou Huai'an's face changed: "You ......"

"How do I? Like Wu Ziping, Qiao Jingyi, and others, they live by calculating people's feelings every day? Lin Ran sneered, "Don't worry, I still have this bit of self-esteem." ”

"Lin Ran, listen to me, you are never the same as those of them......"

"Okay," Lin Ran interrupted him with a wave of his hand, relaxed his body and leaned on the saddle, closed his eyes, gently put his left hand on his chest, and laughed, "You have come around in such a big circle, don't you just wait for my words, don't worry, I won't think about dying, I regret my life very much." ”

She leaned there tiredly, and there was a faint shadow of eyelashes under her eyes: "I'm not even focusing on them right now...... I just wanted to find out what really happened. ”

The scene outside the car window quickly crossed the surface of Zhou Huai'an's eyes, and he was silent for a long time before he said in a low voice: "He actually didn't think about doing anything to you at all, and Lin Jing didn't have much to do with him back then." ”

"Why?"

"For you." Zhou Huai'an said, "He's protecting you in his own way and won't let you know." ”

Lin Ran opened her eyes and looked a little confused: "I don't understand......"

After knowing those...... She really didn't understand why Wu Ziping wanted to protect her.

"He doesn't get along with people, he doesn't express his liking, and your mother may have told you that. Wu Ziping has never been afraid of death, I don't think he took your threats or anything seriously, but he never got close to you again, why? Zhou Huai'an didn't wait for Lin Ran to answer, so he said to himself, "Because he feels guilty, he wants to make amends." ”

Lin Ran raised his eyebrows: "How does he know my current situation?" ”

"Probably beasts are always sharper than human intuition?" Zhou Huai'an shrugged, "I want to explain...... But he didn't listen, Wu Ziping has been stubborn all his life, paranoid all his life, and never willing to listen to people, he decided that someone wanted to harm you, and then ......"

"Rabies." Lin Ran took the next sentence, she used the somewhat insulting joke, but there was no joke on her face, she looked ahead heavily, and there was a flash of sadness on her face, "Wu Ziping is crazy, and no one can hold ......"

Zhou Huai'an shook his head: "Lin Ran, you are really ......"

The two of them were relatively silent. So many people have died, but now is not the time to repent, they all have to face their responsibilities......

After I don't know how long, Zhou Huai'an finally stopped the car, Lin Ran got out of the car after him, followed his gaze, there was a lonely grave not far away, and there was a bouquet of flowers in front of the tombstone, which was not completely dry. She followed Zhou Huai'an to the tomb and looked at a young woman in the black-and-white photo of the tombstone. The woman has a round face, a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes are very similar to Zhou Xixue, as if she is away from life and death, and she can also make people who look at her black and white photos feel kindness.

"This is my mother," Zhou Huai'an half-squatted down and reached out to stroke the photo, "My father was involved in an incident back then, and it was difficult to protect himself, in order to protect my grandparents, he could only set up a monument here, and he couldn't even write his name." ”