"I don't know what happened after that. When I went back to my room, I fell asleep very quickly, and I slept very deeply, and I put on earplugs and eye masks, so I couldn't hear any sound at all, and slept until about eight o'clock in the morning. ”

Miao Miao was immersed in the memories of the past, and when she talked about her brother's affairs, there was a trace of indelible tenderness in her voice.

"My brother was really nice to me. However, in order to protect myself, I lied in front of the investigators of the case. ”

Su Xi thought of the clip of the video she had just seen - the girl Miao Miao was sitting on the sofa, and the voiceover kept asking her if she had seen her brother at home at two o'clock in the morning, and her final answer was "no".

Su Xi's heart moved, and asked, "What time can you leave your brother's room specifically?" ”

Miao Miao shook her head, "I can't remember it accurately, I only remember that it should be between 1:50 a.m. and 2 a.m." Because he only watched with me for twenty minutes, he hurried me back to my room to sleep. ”

"The investigator asked you if you saw your brother at home at two o'clock, and you said no, and it wasn't a lie."

Miao Miao's voice was hoarse and she laughed miserably

"It's reasonable to say it to others, but it's for myself...... I still can't fool myself.

One-fifty and two, only ten minutes apart, even if I said I saw him at two o'clock, and stayed in the same room with him, it wouldn't be a lie.

After all, there was only a difference of ten minutes.

So, it all depended on whether I was willing to make a favorable alibi for my brother, and I was afraid that if the news of my liking for my brother got out, people would laugh at me, so I ......"

Su Xi also fell silent.

Miao Miao's self-blame does have a reason.

If she insisted that she and Zhou Jincheng watched horror movies together at two o'clock in the morning, then Zhou Jincheng's suspicion of committing the crime would have been greatly reduced, and the video player could provide proof of the playing time.

The testimony of other witnesses is circumstantial evidence.

If there is an alibi provided by Miao Miao, it is really uncertain how this case will be judged.

But in the world, there is no "if", only the only "result".

And it turned out

Miao Miao retreated, she was afraid of other people's eyes, afraid that others would laugh at her and dislike her, afraid that others would say that she had a deformed relationship with her own brother.

But in the videotape, Miao Miao's mother's behavior is also worth scrutinizing.

She also seemed to be trying her best to hide something, guiding Miao Miao and saying something.

So Su Xi asked

"Miao Miao, when the investigator came to your house, was your mother always with you and sitting next to you?"

Miao Miao tilted her head, not understanding why Su Xi asked this, but still answered truthfully, "Yes, at that time, they told me that someone died next door, and so many people in uniform came to my house all of a sudden, and there was a whining alarm bell outside, I was frightened, and there were neighbors who came to see the excitement." ”

"Did any neighbors come to your house?"

"Hmm...... I don't remember exactly, but at that time, there was an investigator who was responsible for making notes for our family, and asked my parents, as well as me, to come to the living room on the first floor of my house. I was sitting on the couch in the living room and could see a neighbor coming in from the yard and they could see what was going on in our room. ”

Su Xi pondered

Is there a possibility, Miao Miao's mother has long noticed that the two children are wrong, and adults are far more faceless than the children, in that case, she must desperately guide Miao Miao, and she must not be allowed to reveal the fact that she is still in the same room with her brother in the middle of the night.

So Su Xi asked

"Your mother, know what you do to your brother...... Feelings? ”

After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't think of anything that didn't offend Miao Miao.

Miao Miao didn't care, and replied very simply

"My mom shouldn't know."

"Why are you so sure?"

"If she knew, she wouldn't have let me ......" Miao Miao suddenly covered her mouth and screamed in surprise

"Oh my God! My mother, is she ......"

Su Xi nodded slowly

"Miao Miao, you can go back and watch the video of the investigator, your mother has been guiding you verbally, and even the investigator later stopped it, saying that your mother is inducing you and saying what she wants to say."

Miao Miao shook her head violently: "Impossible! No way! Our family is a very conservative family, and if my mother found out that I was interested in my brother, she would have beaten me to death......"

"How is that possible, Miao Miao? No matter what, you and your brother are her children, even if your family is strict and conservative, and she will not hurt you if you stand in your mother's shoes. I'm sure she must have been confused and didn't know what to do after discovering your secret, so she pretended not to know, but she must have known it in her heart. ”

Miao Miao finally let out and cried bitterly

"How can this be, I'm really stupid......"

Perhaps, this is the parents.

Miao Miao's mother also tried to be a good mother and be able to protect her two children.

But at that time, it can be said that she had lost one child, and all she could do was to ensure that the other child was protected from gossip.

A teenage girl lingered in her brother's room in the middle of the night, if this matter spread, how would Miao Miao face her peers in the future?

When she grows up and reaches the age of really falling in love and getting married, if someone takes this matter out and makes a fuss, will it ruin her happiness?

As a mother, this was the only thing Miao Miao's mother could do at that time, and that was

Personally cut off the possibility of her son clearing suspicion, and then save her daughter's reputation.

Su Xi put herself in Miao Miao's mother's position at that time, would she know that her daughter was also suffering in her heart?

Will she know that her daughter is also facing painful entanglements?

Miao Miao's mother is now missing, and the answer is unknown.

But no matter what, she made a mother's choice through her actions

Desperately induce her thirteen-year-old daughter to deny that she was with her brother at two o'clock in the morning, and never mention anything that would bring shame to her daughter.

— even if it comes at the cost of putting my brother in jail.

Su Xi thought of a wildlife documentary he had watched before, and there was such a plot

The impala mother gave birth to two cubs and migrated with the vast impala herd.

At the edge of a pond, the three impala mothers and sons were attacked by lionesses.

The impala mother instinctively ran away, but the two cubs were quickly left behind because they were slow to run not long after birth.

One of the cubs was caught by the lioness while running to dodge, but the caught cub, in a panic, wrapped his leg around his brother and rolled up under him, and both cubs were in danger.

What is the choice of a mother impala?

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