Midnight.

Ye Xiao was almost crazy, he had just finished surveying the two murder scenes, which happened almost at the same time.

The first case was in the Qixianqiao Night Market, where a young man in a snack bar in Shaxian County stabbed a middle-aged man to death with a kitchen cutter. The identity of the deceased has just been confirmed, and it is none other than Lu Zhongyue, a wanted criminal who has been on the run for eight years - this person is responsible for several murders, and Officer Huanghai also died in the line of duty to arrest him. The murder suspect has been arrested, named Lu Jizong, who is only nineteen years old, and claims to be Lu Zhongyue's illegitimate son. Ye Xiao contacted the police where his household registration was located, only to learn that his mother Chen Xiangtian was killed at home two months ago, and the local police were also looking for Lu Jizong, who went out to work.

The second occurred at 19 Sabbath Road, an old house that had been vacant for 30 years, and was abandoned after a murder. At around 21:55 this evening, the murderous house suddenly caught fire, and all of it collapsed in just a few minutes, and the subsequent heavy thunderstorm did not work. The fire brigade found a charred body in the rubble, a woman in her thirties, who was urgently checking her identity. The preliminary judgment is that it was an arson case, and there were a large number of gasoline traces at the scene, and there was a remote *. There were survivors at the scene of the fire, a young man who flew out of the second-floor window, broke his leg and was taken to the hospital - his name is Si Wang.

Throughout the day, He Qingying searched for his son everywhere, including calling Officer Ye Xiao, and went to the witch area on Nanming Road together. It wasn't until more than ten o'clock in the evening that it rained heavily in the lightning and thunder, and she remembered another place - Rest Road, at the same time as her expression changed greatly, Ye Xiao's mobile phone also rang, it was reported that there had just been a murder in Qixian Bridge, and the identity of the deceased was very important. When he went to the scene of the killing, He Qingying took a taxi to the rest of the road, only to see that the house he grew up in childhood had been burned to the ground. The fire brigade and police were cleaning up the scene, and there was mention of a young man who survived and was taken to the hospital with a broken bone.

He Qingying rushed to the hospital after several inquiries, and sure enough, he saw his son - he was naked and lying on the hospital bed, half of his head was feverish, gauze was wrapped around his head and mouth, and he was covered with wounds, the most serious was his right calf, and the doctor was putting a plaster cast on him. The nurses also whispered, saying that if they weren't young and strong, so many injuries would have been in the intensive care unit long ago. He had a needle in his hand and was in a coma in the emergency room for a while, and when he woke up just in time to see his mother, several huge tears rolled out.

She didn't ask anything, just carefully hugged Si Wang, avoiding touching his wound, and whispered in her ear, "Wang'er, everything is over." ”

Ye Xiao also came to the hospital, and when he saw their mother and son hugging each other, he wanted to avoid it, but was stopped by Si Wang, and the young man endured the pain on his mouth and asked, "Is she still alive?" ”

He knew who the person Si Wang was asking was. The woman who burned to death in the murderous house on Sabbath Road has verified her identity just now, and it is Ouyang Xiaozhi, Si Wang's former high school Chinese teacher, and she is also a high school graduate who was brought by Shen Ming back then.

Ye Xiao shook his head expressionlessly, in Si Wang's crying, he turned to the outside of the emergency room, the thunderstorm kept falling, I don't know how many people are going to sleep on the streets?

An hour later, He Qingying came out and said, "Officer Ye Xiao, Wang'er refuses to sleep, I want to say a few words to you, but please make a long story short, his mouth is still bleeding." ”

However, the police and the teenager talked alone for the rest of the night, until the early hours of the morning when the sky brightened and the rain gradually stopped.

Si Wang insisted on going home after being discharged from the hospital, and Ye Xiao drove the mother and son back in a police car. He wanted to carry the young man in a plaster cast, but He Qingying politely refused, Si Wang said that as long as he had his mother's support, he could walk up the stairs on one leg.

At six o'clock in the morning, He Qingying helped her son to the door of the house with difficulty, only to see a black figure, she vigilantly turned on the corridor lamp to illuminate a familiar face.

She rubbed her eyes, and the other party also looked at her in fear, as well as the boy in a plaster.

"Twelve years."

The man shook his head sadly, looking to be about fifty years old, with half-gray hair, wrinkles carved on his forehead, and a large suitcase at hand.

Si Wang struggled forward and leaned forward, although he hadn't slept all night, his spirit suddenly recovered, staring at the man's face and saying, "Dad? ”

"Wang'er!"

He trembled and hugged Si Wang in his arms, he didn't expect this child to grow so tall and surpass him. He touched his son's face in distress, wondering why he was so badly injured.

He Qingying silently took out the key and opened the door for the father and son.

Twelve years, she still remembers this face, just like the little Chinese New Year's Eve in 2002, when her husband hurried home and the two had a big fight. But he had come to pack his belongings, and tomorrow morning the loan shark would come to his door, and he had to take refuge in a distant place.

So, this time I went out and never came back.

Si Mingyuan has been adrift for a few months, just wanting to pay off his gambling debts as soon as possible, so as not to put his wife and son in a greater predicament. He managed to smuggle himself to South America, but instead became an indentured laborer, cutting sugar cane in the rainforest for eight years, and finally saved enough money to ransom himself. But he was empty-handed, and instead of returning to China to find his son, he continued to stay on the other side of the world, opened a small supermarket in São Paulo, worked day and night to make money, and by the time he sold the supermarket last month, he had half a million dollars.

Three days ago, he returned to China with the money and found that skyscrapers were being built on his original home. Si Mingyuan looked for people to inquire around, and after several rounds came to the door of this house, he wanted to surprise his wife - the husband who was once a wreck, the incompetent father, finally became a man again, and he could let the family live a decent life.

Si Wang lay in bed in a plaster cast and listened to his father's story of life and adventures in South America, a man who had suffered many hardships and left several scars on his face.

Thinking back to his elementary school days, he had a strong suspicion that his mother had killed his father.

This question has always been buried in my heart, and I never dared to say it to anyone, including my mother.

Many times when facing Huang Hai or Ye Xiao, he had the urge to blurt out, and finally he swore to keep this secret in his heart.

Last year, the body found during the demolition of the old house was recently ascertained by the police, and it was definitely not Si Mingyuan.

Si Wang fell asleep groggily with his father in his arms, remembering another thing that Ye Xiao had told him - Lu Zhongyue was stabbed to death by his own son while using his mobile phone to dial to detonate gasoline.