June 6, 2014.

Nineteen years ago, in the early morning of that day, Liu Man was found dead on the roof of the library of Nanming High School.

On Friday night, before nine o'clock, the streets were exceptionally cool, and Ye Xiao was dressed in neat casual clothes, sitting alone in a food stall on the side of the street, eating fried rice noodles and kelp.

Seeing Si Wang crossing the road from a distance, the young man's body became more and more majestic, compared to the thin boy he saw for the first time, it was no longer the same. Although the kid left the slums, he still often fought with others, and he was naturally invincible in Nanming Middle School, and the neighbors of the new home would also retreat when they saw him. He is the only one who dares to hang out in the middle of the night and buy cut cakes at the price of ice cream. Whenever he encounters a hooligan bullying or a pickpocket on the bus stealing, Si Wang will go up and beat him violently. But no matter how brave and fearless he is, he can't be a hero, but he is treated as a bad boy. He Qingying sighed all day long, and only she dared to slap Siwang.

Hasn't he heard of the "three evils everywhere"?

If Ye Xiao hadn't come forward several times, this kid would have been arrested at the police station and notified the school to expel him. Ye Xiao warned him sternly every time, and even took off his clothes to fight alone, and as a result, Si Wang was knocked to the ground, or became a human sandbag, and occasionally the police officer would hang a lottery.

Si Wang asked the proprietress for a string of beef tendons, sat in front of Ye Xiao and said, "I escaped from home." ”

"If your mother knew, he would break your legs!"

Tomorrow is the first day of the college entrance examination, and all the candidates are locked at home to review, only Si Wang calls to ask Ye Xiao to come out to eat at the food stall.

"There's nothing to worry about, I'm afraid that I won't be able to control it in the next three days, and I'll be the top student in the city's liberal arts or something."

"I wish you success in the college entrance examination!"

"I'm not here to talk to you about this!" Si Wang interrupted his blessing, and his eyes became gloomy, "These days, it seems that there are a pair of eyes staring at me behind my back. ”

"Who?"

Ye Xiao habitually glanced around, the food stalls in the dark night were crowded with people who got off the night shift, as well as young ladies from nearby nightclubs.

"I don't know, I have a feeling - he is Lu Zhongyue."

Hearing this name, Ye Xiao's eyebrows rose upward, after all, there was a senior police officer who sacrificed himself to arrest him: "Does he have the guts?" ”

"I guess the person who wants him to show up the most is you."

"That's right!" The police officer, who was in his thirties, crushed the disposable cup in his hand, "If I remember correctly, in thirteen days, it will be the nineteenth anniversary of the death of the declaration." ”

"June 19, 1995, 10 p.m., Witch Quarter."

"Lu Zhongyue is the most cunning and luckiest wanted criminal I have ever met, and he would not be so stupid as to choose this day to throw himself into the net."

"But I've been waiting for this day."

Looking at the young man's fierce gaze, Ye Xiao grabbed his arm: "Boy! Listen to me! By June 19th, you won't go anywhere, just stay at home and protect your mother. ”

"What about you?"

"Although, knowing that guy won't show up, I'll still go to Nanming High School and go to the witch district of the abandoned factory."

"Don't talk about this, I'll ask you another thing: Is the horsepower sentenced?"

"This morning, the Municipal Intermediate People's Court just made a first-instance verdict."

Ye Xiao went to the court early in the morning to observe, and he was responsible for the investigation of this case. Today he saw Liu Man's father, and the old man was very excited in the auditorium, coinciding with the nineteenth year after her daughter was killed, and demanded that the death penalty be carried out immediately.

About half a year ago, the city's special teacher, Mr. Song, was killed at home, and the murderer was his former student, and he was also a highly talented student who was sent to Tsinghua University and graduated in 1995.

In the early morning of the day of the incident, Ma called 110 to turn himself in. He confessed to the police the motive for the killing, which was indecent assault on him between 1994 and 1995 in the name of make-up classes. Classmate Liu Man discovers this secret, and Ma Li kills her with oleander's venom in the small attic of the school library, and the next day he blames the teacher for the crime. Because of the two murders involved in Nanming Road in 1995, Officer Ye Xiao quickly intervened in the investigation and interrogated the murder suspects in the detention center overnight.

Ma Li said very calmly that he felt extremely guilty about the death of the teacher back then, and he had been deeply remorseful all his life. He had already hated *Song, and broke into his house in the middle of the night, first stripped him naked and tied him, and finally slit his throat with a sharp knife in the kitchen. Why was the scene turned over so chaotically? In the end, *Song said that those photos had been thrown away by him a long time ago, and they might have been spread outside, prompting Ma to kill him for revenge.

A few days later, the scandal of the special teacher *song spread rapidly in Nanming High School and the entire education circle. Soon, a number of graduates he had led, ranging in age from twenty-five to forty, took the initiative to stand up and uncover the truth, admitting that there were five boys who had been molested by *Song, and perhaps more would hide this secret forever.

However, the most critical evidence in this case, the indecent photos taken by *Song, have never appeared.

Ye Xiao and his colleagues repeatedly inspected the scene and confirmed that Ma Li's confession was basically true, the murder weapon matched the wound on the victim's throat, the knife was stained with Ma Li's fingerprints, and the blood stains on his body also belonged to the deceased.

However, based on years of experience in handling cases, Ye Xiao believes that there are suspicious traces of the door, and it seems that someone deliberately left the door for Ma Li? Although, Ma Ma insisted that the murder was done by himself, but he couldn't tell where the nylon rope that tied people came from? At first, he said that he bought it online, but later changed his story to say that he picked it up from the side of the road.

"Don't you think it's weird?"

Ye Xiao said the above questions again, anyway, the case has been pronounced.

"It's a little weird."

Si Wang's nineteen-year-old eyes were unexpectedly mature and calm.

In fact, Ye Xiao was deliberately testing him, but he couldn't come up with evidence. What's more, at the scene of the crime, no fingerprints or hair of the third person were found. * There were no cameras installed in the corridor at the entrance of Song's house, and the security guards only had an impression of the horsepower, and the others deliberately avoided the cameras and came to the scene through the garage and stairs.

"I've checked the call history of Mali's cell phone — the last time I received a call was an hour before the killing, and the caller number was from a public phone near the scene of the crime. Ma Ma explained that the call was made by someone, and I investigated the road surveillance footage, and unfortunately the phone booth was a dead end, and I couldn't see the caller. ”

When Ye Xiao said this, Si Wang remained terrifyingly silent.

"Listen—horsepower's call logs for the past few years have come out, and there's your number among them, about two years ago."

"I met him when I lived in the Gu family."

"Yes, Ma Li used to work in Erya Education Group, and on the eve of the bankruptcy of the Gu family, he served as the assistant general manager of Gu Qiusha. I specifically questioned him, but he said that you were a schoolboy at the time, so it was impossible for you to have a personal relationship with you. Ye Xiao paused and deliberately observed Si Wang's expression, "I want to confirm to you, whether he lied or not?" ”

"I want to know one thing first - the result of today's court decision?"

"Death penalty."

As a police officer who has captured countless murderers, Ye Xiao solemnly spit out these two words.

"Did Ma Li appeal in the first instance?"

"He fully pleaded guilty and did not appeal, hoping that the death penalty would be carried out as soon as possible. The Municipal Intermediate People's Court will report to the Municipal High Court for review within three days, and finally report to the Supreme People's Court for approval. ”

Si Wang's lips were a little purple, he turned his back and coughed a few times, frowning: "This plate is too spicy!" ”

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"Since this is the result, do I need to say it? When will horsepower hit the road? ”

"After receiving an order from the Supreme People's Court to carry out the death penalty, the execution will be carried out within seven days."

"Shot?"

The boy took a hard bite of the cow tendon.

"No, it's the injection method now."

Ye Xiao's words made Si Wangyi bite his tongue carelessly, and covered his mouth in pain: "Les Miserables!" ”

"What?"

"Anyone who reads this book will suffer bad luck and die either from a knife or from a needle!"