Chapter 13
There is a middle school nearby, and at noon, students in school uniforms are walking on the street. Two students, a man and a woman, pushed open the door of the café and walked in, Zhao Xiaoyun stopped and looked at the two students.
The boy walked straight to the bar, and the young bartender asked with a smile.
"Need something?"
The boy turned to the girl and said, "Is it okay to have a glass of iced Americano?" ”
The girl smiled and nodded: "It's up to you." ”
The smiling face full of youth is particularly beautiful, and Zhao Xiaoyun on the opposite side seems to be stunned.
With a glass of iced Americana and two straws, the two walked out of the café door laughing.
Zhao Xiaoyun looked at the two figures who were drifting away through the glass window, as if they were talking to themselves, as if they were talking to Xiao Mo.
"What a beautiful youth!"
Xiao Mo is not good at words, and he doesn't know how to answer her words, but he understands that Zhao Xiaoyun is comparing his flawed youth with others, which caused him to sigh.
She said again: "If I could go back to the past, I, I, I'd rather not know Lu Chen, than meet Hu Lai, a beast, but unfortunately life has not been repeated." ”
Xiao Mo: "I know that incident must have left a shadow in your hearts, but the past is always in the past, and the future is still promising, and you are living so well." ”
was originally a persuasion remark, but it touched the string in Zhao Xiaoyun's heart.
"I can't get by, really, Officer Xiao, with us, I really can't get by."
She began to cry in a stolen manner, described in fits and starts, but very logically:
I used to naively think that everything was over, but in fact it was a lingering cancer, deep roots, sprouts, and rotted in the bone marrow. The trigger for everything was on the wedding night, and that night, I learned that Lu Chen had been caring about that matter, and for so long, he had hidden it deeply, but he didn't show it.
From that day on, I almost thought that our seemingly beautiful and peaceful relationship was coming to an end, and I gave each other a week to calm down, but I didn't hold out any hope. It wasn't until a week later, on the second day of the National Day, that I returned to our new home, and I had already made up my mind to accept the final judgment, and a person like me was not worthy of love, marriage, and hope for a better life.
However, when I saw Lu Chen again, he behaved unexpectedly. I could tell that he had rearranged the house and carefully made a candlelit dinner, and I was still touched even though the steak he had fried was still bloody.
On that day, we were in unprecedented harmony, and when the wine glass was raised, he said to me very sincerely, and we will be happy every day in the future.
I've been here since our spring really came. It wasn't until the next day that I watched the news and learned from my former classmates that Hulai had received the punishment he deserved and was lying dead at home.
It's not that I'm sensitive, Lu Chen's performance before and after judging the two is really suspicious, but I don't dare to mention it, and I don't dare to question him, I'm afraid that the peace between us that has been hard won will be broken, and I don't dare to take that risk.
It was Lu Chen, at the dinner table that night, he was very excited, and he said to me: "Xiao Yun, do you know? That scumbag, that animal was killed, and I heard that the death was quite tragic. Haha, he finally got the punishment he deserved, and the stone that weighed on our hearts finally landed. I am so happy. ”
I was going to ask him, did Hulay's death have anything to do with him? The words came to my lips and I put them down again, officer, I am afraid of losing him, he is the best man for me in this world, I don't know if I will have the courage to live after losing him.
In fact, I still have hope in my heart, that is, I hope that everything has nothing to do with him, but I think about it too much.
For the past week, I watched the news every day, and when I chatted with my classmates, I also knocked on the side, hoping that the police had solved the case.
However, I didn't wait for that news.
The truth began to develop more and more in the direction I thought, two days ago, Lu Chen and I went back to the countryside to visit my grandmother, and when we woke up in the middle of the night, Lu Chen was not there.
Standing on the balcony, through the hazy moonlight, I saw Lu Chen squatting in that vegetable patch and tinkering with something? When he came back, I asked him where he had gone. He said he couldn't sleep and went out to smoke two cigarettes.
He was obviously lying, I had to stay with my grandmother for two more days under the pretext of a rare vacation, and he worked at the bank, so he had to rush back to duty and returned to the city early the next morning.
There was a piece of freshly dug soil in the vegetable field, and I dug up two things in the soil, a jacket, and the trench coat was a gift that I bought for Lu Chen on his birthday for a month's salary, and he liked that dress very much. For a while, I wore it almost every day.
The clothes that had been buried in the soil were stained with blood, and there was a fruit knife with blood stains on the hilt of the fruit knife.
I was stupefied and slumped in the vegetable patch.
I understand that a woman like me does not deserve happiness, and I should die alone, so why should I come out and harm others?
In the past two days, I have been tormented, and I am in a world of contradictions.
I wanted to protect my hard-won happiness with Lu Chen, but this kind of happiness was controlled by the Fa, and I felt strongly uneasy in my heart.
Officer Xiao, on the way here, I wanted to turn back several times, until you appeared in front of me, I didn't know that I had no way back.
When Zhao Xiaoyun said this, she began to cry again.
Xiao Mo: "Where are the clothes and the knife?" ”
"Also, still in my grandmother's vegetable patch, I buried it again. Forgive my selfishness, I meant to keep the truth buried underground. But, but I couldn't get over the hurdle in my heart, a sense of guilt kept growing in my heart, and I couldn't hold it anymore. ”
"Xiao Yun, I heard that I did the right thing. Hulai's crime is unforgivable, but it should be the law that punishes him, not the punishment of evil, and you should not have a psychological burden. ”
The coffee in front of him bottomed out, and Zhao Xiaoyun stood up.
"Officer Xiao, don't tell Lu Chen that I denounced him, I don't want to see him disappointed. In addition, I would like to ask Officer Xiao if he can be given a lenient punishment. He's a good guy, he's really a good guy, he's so stupid......"
What can Xiao Mo say? There are feelings outside the law, but they cannot be separated from the law.
"Xiao Yun, I can't admit anything to you, but in front of the law, everyone is equal, and now it can't be said that Lu Chen is the murderer, he is just suspicious. The law will give him a fair and just judgment. ”