Chapter 37: The Human Heart
Between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, he was probably a soldier with impressive arm strength, reticent, unsociable, and able to see victims as they went out and into the city.
Only the city gate officials can meet this condition at the same time.
Once a specific target was determined, the suspect was quickly arrested in one fell swoop after investigation.
The suspect, the city gate official Lin Ji, was brought up.
This person is burly and looks very loyal and honest.
It is hard to imagine that such a person could be a bloodthirsty serial murderer.
"Why do you want to kill?"
"My lord, I didn't kill anyone."
Until now, there was not a trace of remorse on Lin Ji's face.
"The evidence is conclusive, and you still can't deny it!"
"I told you I didn't kill anyone, I was helping them get free."
Hearing this, everyone's faces were very strange.
Only Lu Manman knows that people like Lin Ji can't judge them by ordinary people's thinking.
It was to lead him to say the motive for the crime, "Relief? How so? β
"They live too hard, and I let them go to Elysium, where there is no pain, only happiness."
The look on his face seemed to be longing.
Not to mention the chasing power that has never been very serious, just ran to the thunder, and almost broke the pen that recorded the paperwork.
"And what about lotus-scented rouge and sesame seeds? Do you use these? β
Lynch seemed to be caught up in the memory, and he wanted to bring a happy smile to his face.
"My mother loved lotus flowers, and in the summer she always picked them and put them on the windowsill under the eaves, and the dew was rolling on them......"
"As for the sesame seeds, ...... didn't have anything to eat in winter, so my mother fried sesame seeds and mixed them with sugar for me to eat as a snack......
He didn't speak again for a while, and Lu Yanyan broke the silence.
"Then tell me about your mother!"
At the mention of his mother, Lin Ji's mood changed significantly.
"My mother'......"
It turned out that Lin Ji's father was an alcoholic, and when he was drunk, he beat his mother, punched and kicked.
Every time I hit it, I couldn't get out of bed for a few days, and I was scarred all over my body, often old injuries that had not healed, and new injuries were added, and so on.
The once graceful girl has never been tortured for a few years, and even the road is not very smooth.
And Lin Ji was timid and cowardly when he was a child, and whenever his father beat his mother, he only dared to shrink in the corner and cry.
Until he was eight years old, once his father got drunk and began to beat his mother again, and his head was bleeding and bloody.
I don't know where I got the courage, so I suddenly picked up the firewood knife in the corner and rushed towards his father.
I didn't expect it to be his mother......
Lin Ji hugged his mother, who was bleeding constantly, and cried in fear.
But his mother said to him, "Don't cry, child, you are helping your mother, and your mother can finally be freed." β
The relieved look in her mother's eyes before she died, he will never forget.
On that day he was on duty at the gate of the city, and he paid more attention to the girl who had sesame flowers embroidered on her skirt.
On the way home from shift, I saw the girl at a glance, and from time to time I took out the rouge in my pocket, opened the lid and smelled it.
When he staggered past the girl, he smelled the faint fragrance of lotus flowers.
He remembered his mother's relieved eyes.
He set the girl as free as his mother.
So he quietly followed, dragged her into a no-man's alley, and strangled people to death with his belt.
When he was young, his mother believed in a small foreign religion, which was later banned for some unknown reason.
That strange posture was the posture of the cultists when they ascended.
He thought that by putting her like this, he would be able to fly into an immortal and reach the Land of Elysium.
The second victim was holding a jar of sesame oil, and the faint fragrance of lotus flowers was smelled by him when he walked through the city gate.
Patiently waited for the change of value, and went to the city early to squat.
The third victim was the same, when he returned home from the shift, he smelled a faint lotus mixed with the smell of sesame oil......
Lu Yanyan was silent for a moment.
"Your mother doesn't want to die, if she wants to die, she will have committed suicide in pain for all these years of being tortured by your father."
"The reason why I said these words to you before I died was just to hope that you would live well and never fall into the painful remorse of killing your mother with your own hands."
"But you distorted her meaning and wasted a piece of her love for her son."
This case came to light, but Lu Yanyan was not in a happy mood, but her heart was depressed, an indescribable feeling.
Until Zhou Ruowei appeared with pastries.
"Sister Xiaolu, Brother Lei has a situation, does he have another woman?"
Lu Yan's mouth is open.
"Chick, are you thinking a little too much? Look at our six doors, swept through with a stick, and even a bird is male. β
Besides, it's a mouthless gourd, and it's very boring and rare.
"Impossible!"
Zhou Ruowei was categorical.
"With the experience you've been taught, it's clear that it's changed a little bit."
Zhou Ruowei pounded the table, "But the past two days have returned to before." β
Even worse than before.
I'm mad at her!
Lu Yanyan scratched the back of her head.
"Is there one? Not at all! β
In her opinion, it's still the same stuffy gourd, no different from usual!
Zhou Ruowei asked in vain, and the food box was stuffed into her arms.
"It's all for you, I'll go back first."
Full of fighting spirit:
"I'll come every day from tomorrow, and those flowers and grass will never have a chance."
"Heyββ, I'm going to Jingzhou tomorrow for business......"
Zhou Ruowei didn't hear it at all.
The busy days passed very quickly, and before I knew it, it was the day of rest again.
The oven was brought back for some days, and Banxia was thinking about eating roast duck all day long, so she didn't take a break today, and went to the big kitchen early to get three or five ducks back.
Well, one is simply not enough for her to eat.
Then he folded his hands and counted, "Old lady." One for the eldest lady, one for the lady, and one for the eldest lady......"
As if it wasn't enough, I ran to the big kitchen again.
Wait until Lu Yanyan gets up and has breakfast and comes to the kitchenette-
Ho! Unbelievable, there is a row of gorgeously hung under the windowsill, a dozen ducks.
Is this girl going to let her open a roast duck shop to buy it?
Fortunately, the custom-made oven is large enough, and it can bake three or five at a time.
Otherwise, there is no need to squat in the small kitchen to roast duck all day.
Give the duck a hot bath, let it dry, apply crispy water and dry it, then apply crispy water and dry it again, and start roasting.
There were five in the first pot, and one was sent down in a circle, and Banxia ate most of it alone, and the rest of the cooks were divided.
The cooks are not half a summer, and after the young grandmothers are busy, they sit and eat?
"Grandma, go and try it, let's do these jobs."
Lu Yanyan enjoys the process of cooking, and she really doesn't care much about eating.
But they also know that if they don't eat, they are not at ease, so they make an excuse at random.
"You eat first, this oven will be baked, and I will only eat it with the eldest young master."
The young grandmother has the ability to cook and is delicious, the key is that she doesn't dislike the young master's legs at all, she is really a good person, and it must be right to follow such a person.
Lu Yanyan never thought that a casual excuse would capture a vote of people's hearts for her.