When the glass of boiled water finally stopped being hot, Zhang Chao began to tell the story of him and Qin Xiaohua.

Qin Xiaohua, 33 years ago, was a temporary salesman in the People's Shopping Mall in Chunyang City, and at that time, he should be regarded as a young man without a formal job.

Qin Xiaohua's father died early, and his mother was sick. The mother and daughter live entirely on Qin Xiaohua's work as a temporary worker and the income from setting up a stall in the night market.

I met Qin Xiaohua in the summer of 1986.

That year, Qin Xiaohua was twenty years old and Zhang Chao was twenty-two years old, which was the prime of youth.

That day, Zhang Chao, who worked at the Chengdong Police Station, came home from work at noon for dinner.

I met Qin Xiaohua downstairs.

Zhang Chao said that he will always remember that day, Qin Xiaohua was wearing a printed dress, and the sun made her smile look particularly good.

At that time, Qin Xiaohua was carrying a wooden box to the door, the box was a bit big, and it happened to be stuck at the door, blocking Zhang Chao's way home.

Qin Xiaohua smiled at Zhang Chao embarrassedly, Zhang Chao said, it was the kind of smile that wanted to say goodbye, and suddenly pulled the love string in his heart.

On that day, in line with the fine style of the people's police for the people, he moved all the things that the Qin family had placed in the courtyard to the fifth floor.

This is the first and last girl in Zhang Chao's eyes in the past 22 years.

Nine times out of ten, there are unsatisfactory things in the world, so the relationship between Zhang Chao and Qin Xiaohua only blossomed, and did not bear happy fruits.

The twenty-eighth girl Qin Xiaohua is beautiful, but her beauty has a natural charm.

Coupled with the fact that his work is not stable, this has naturally become a topic of opposition from Zhang Chao's parents.

Qin Xiaohua moved away overnight, and Zhang Chao happened to be busy investigating a case and went on a business trip with his master in those days.

When she came back, where was Qin Xiaohua's shadow, this girl seemed to have evaporated from the world.

It stands to reason that Zhang Chao is a policeman, and it should be easier to find someone, but it is strange to say that Qin Xiaohua just didn't find it.

There is only one reason, and that is that Qin Xiaohua is avoiding him with his life.

In the years since, Zhang Chao said he had never seen Qin Xiaohua again.

Regarding the last statement, Xiao Mo did not agree.

He said, "Officer Zhang, have you really not seen Qin Xiaohua again?" ”

Zhang Chao sat in his chair and was silent.

Xiao Mo continued: "On New Year's Day in 1986, you were indeed on a business trip, but Qin Xiaohua's life in Chunyang City was rewritten on this night. I wonder if that's the main reason why she's determined to leave you. ”

Zhang Chao's eyes were hollow, and he still didn't speak.

Xiao Mo said again: "It was the New Year's Day holiday, and the night market was naturally very lively, Qin Xiaohua sold clothes in the night market, because the business was very good, so he went home much later than usual." From the night market to Qin Xiaohua's home, you have to pass through an alley that few people pass by. Qin Xiaohua is young and beautiful, and at the entrance of this alley, there is a tin house. The old bachelor who held a shoe repair stall in the tin house had been paying attention to Qin Xiaohua for a long time.

That night, the old shoemaker drank a lot of liquor at dinnertime, and when he saw Qin Xiaohua enter the alley, he had accumulated evil thoughts for a long time, and he broke out while he was drinking.

That night was tragic for Qin Xiaohua, a weak woman, and although she shouted for help, no one could hear it, and the tall walls on both sides of the alley blocked her cries for help.

The next day, the police took the old bachelor away. Qin Xiaohua I's innocence is gone, and in that era, a woman's chastity was sometimes more important than her life.

For Qin Xiaohua, who loves you deeply, this is a great shame and sorrow.

Coupled with the help of your parents, she chose to leave you.

As a police officer, how could you not know what happened to Qin Xiaohua after you came back?

Are you looking for her with all your heart? Of course not. Because in your heart, Qin Xiaohua is no longer as pure and beautiful as you think.

She's a defiled woman, and she's no longer worthy of you.

In fact, Qin Xiaohua has always lived humbly somewhere in this city, you have always known that you have even been to her doorstep, after all, she is the woman you once loved with all your might.

Am I right? Officer Zhang? ”

Zhang Chao leaned his body against the wooden sofa behind him and sighed.

"Officer Xiao, you may be right, you can only say that my fate with Xiaohua in this life is a little shallow."

"Is it as simple as a simple love relationship?"

"Otherwise, my beautiful first love ended in such a hurry. I've spent half my life punishing myself, isn't that enough? I don't understand what my love life with Xiaohua has to do with the case you're trying to investigate? ”

"Officer Zhang, in fact, you should have guessed that I didn't come so far to test you. Do you have to make me so clear? ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about?"

"Since you don't want to say it, I'll spare it and go on for you. In fact, you have also had the idea of getting together with Qin Xiaohua. After all, it wasn't her fault for that.

But after you took a year to make this decision, when you went to Qin Xiaohua's house to find her, you saw that child, and it was that child that made you dispel that idea.

Because Qin Xiaohua gave birth to a child for that Qiang, a boy with a tiger head.

You can forgive the misfortune that happened to Qin Xiaohua, but what you can't forgive is that child, you don't dare to imagine how many years in the future, as long as you see that child, you will remember what that ugly old shoemaker did to Qin Xiaohua that night.

You go home, and ten years later, you marry and have a daughter.

But it seems like it's just a process of life, and you're doing all this just to fulfill a wish of your seriously ill father.

Twenty-one years ago, after you ended your short marriage with your wife, you went to Qin Xiaohua again.

In fact, you don't mean anything else, you just want to see how Qin Xiaohua is doing.

It was a weekend, and it was not difficult for a policeman to find Qin Xiaohua at that time.

When you learned that Qin Xiaohua abandoned the boy born back then and left for another country, you still had a trace of excitement in your heart.

The evil seed that should not have appeared in this world, he should be treated like this.

However, your excitement didn't last long.

When you saw Qin Xiaohua in the northern coastal city of D, all the beautiful things that Qin Xiaohua had in your heart disappeared in an instant.

Life tortures a beautiful woman to the point of being inhuman, and she is more than ten years older than her actual age.

The man she was looking for was a sprinkler worker in that city.

A typical northern man, tall and rugged, not to mention, really dare not compliment that look, in terms of appearance, he is really not as good as the old shoemaker back then.

Officer Zhang, did you think that it was too much for you to go all the way to find that woman that time, right? ”