Returning to the city by car, we followed the old woman to her house. It's a very simple little room. The houses in the old-fashioned apartments are probably built like this.

The space of the house is not very large, about more than 50 square meters, but because the old woman lives by herself, it is completely enough.

The old woman made us tea, and then went back to her house and took out Ash's relics and the letter paper left behind by the mysterious man.

"That's all there is to it, do you want to see the urn too?"

"No, let's just look at these relics."

After thanking the old woman with a smile and looking down at the relics, Lin and I found the most important evidence in it - among Ash's relics, there was the school uniform of St. Lan Private High School.

Since the style of the school uniform changes almost every year, the school uniform looks very different three years ago and three years later, but ...... The school emblem does not change. Lin whispered to me that we really had a lot of luck this time and found a great clue.

I nodded silently, feeling a little relieved. Now that it is certain that Ash is a student at Shenglan Private High School, then things are much simpler. Extrapolating from the time, Ash died three years ago, which means that if he is still alive now, he is also a senior in high school.

There are two things to do now, one is to determine with Teacher Li whether Ash is a student in their class, and the other is to go to Sister Mumu to see if she can help us find a relevant identification result - I hope she can help me find out what happened to Ash three years ago.

Because I intuitively felt that even if the school knew about it, it would definitely not tell me, and even if it did, it would be from the school's point of view, and it would not tell me the truth. As for the police, it is also unreliable, so I still entrust it to Senior Sister Mu Mu, and it is better to let her secretly help me check it with her connection.

In addition to the school uniform, Ash's relics also include several clothes and study notes. I looked through my study notes, and I could fully imagine Ash's serious attitude towards learning. Neat and densely filled the yellowed notebook.

However, it didn't take long for my hand to stop—on a page with detailed mathematical formulas, several large red crosses, and even unsightly drawings of men and women.

The detailed note was almost completely destroyed, and was painted and abused by a bunch of insulting paintings. But as an investigator, what I'm trying to do is not feel the anger here, but try to decipher the clues. After reading every swear word, I got another important clue.

One of these swear words reads, "Die, poor X, the very fact that you people are in school is a shame!" ”

This helped me determine that Ash belonged to the civilian class in the class, that is, students who were specially promoted to this key private high school with excellent grades, and Li Xiao is an example.

And after seeing this, I thought, in that case, will Li Xiao know Xiaozhi? This commoner-class child doesn't seem to have the characteristics that will make Li Xiao hate. He's just a little cowardly at best, but there's nothing he can do about it.

After going to school every day, he was bullied by a group of rich sons and misses, and no matter how strong a person was, he had to bow his head in front of school violence. The significance of school violence is not only in the physical damage, but even compared to the damage to the spirit, the soul and the personality, the physical injury is not worth mentioning at all.

And this is also an important reason why I am extremely angry about the class gap at St. Lan Private High School. The reason why minors are protected by the Education Law is that their personality has not yet completed their journey, and their worldview and values are in a period of continuous improvement.

At this time, the child suffers from school violence, and the impact after that will follow will follow for a lifetime. And now I feel more and more that my assumptions about Ash are correct, maybe he really built a self-saving personality to protect himself.

But to determine this, you still need to collect more information about Ash from St. Lan Private High School, and you must first find out what kind of person Ash is and who is included in the network.

After carefully examining all of Ash's relics, I was in charge of narrating them, while Rin was in charge of organizing the noteworthy points into ideas and jotting them all down in a notebook. During this time, the old woman did not disturb us, but just sat quietly beside us and watched us sit like this.

When all the work was done, I felt a little relieved - if it weren't for the fact that we had not gone up to talk to the old woman in a moment's heat, how many important clues would we have missed!

Thinking of this, I also looked at the letter left by the mysterious man to the old woman. There is only one sentence written on it: "I have prepared some care for you, and I hope to smile." Please be sure to stay safe on the way back. ”

At least judging from the mysterious man's actions and this humble tone, he should have no ill will towards the old woman, and if he insists on saying it, he puts the old woman in his own position. But why? Is it because of Ash?

I shook my head, unable to think of anything more due to the lack of clues. When we said goodbye to the old woman and were about to leave, the old woman asked us a question.

"Two police comrades, are you very clear about Ash's case three years ago?"

When she asked this, the old woman even had a hint of pleading in her eyes, as if she wanted to get some answer. But we couldn't meet her request. I told her with some guilt that we were only in charge of investigating the disappearance, and that we probably didn't know as much about Ash's case as you do.

The old woman lowered her head in disappointment, sat back down, and sighed deeply. I touched my head and didn't know what to say, but Lin gently sat down next to the old woman and took her hand.

"Old woman, although we don't know anything about Ash's case yet, we can go back and investigate, don't forget that we are special investigators and have the power to investigate this."

The old woman was stunned, and then she was also happy to take Lin's hand, and asked her repeatedly with anticipation if she could really find out. Lin smiled and said that there must be no problem, I stared at her speechlessly, thinking that this thing is also thick enough - we are just two impostors, investigating a fart and investigating.

After Lin agreed to the old woman, she suddenly showed a puzzled look and asked, "Old woman, it's just that the case has been closed three years ago, do you still have questions about this case?" Why? Is there something going on in it that you can't understand? ”

The old woman patted Lynn's hand, and the sigh made her seem to be much older again, she opened her mouth, but she choked again, and Lin hurriedly stroked her back to comfort her.

“…… Comrade policeman, when Ash died, the police said that he had been kidnapped and would die at the hands of the kidnappers in the future. But...... I, I ......"

"Speak slowly, old woman, we're all here listening, okay?"

Lynn's voice was gentle, with an atmosphere that calmed people down. I also found a place to sit down, ready to record what the old woman said.

After crying for a while, the old woman spoke leisurely - she said that in fact, the last time she was contacted by Ash was on a rainy night.

The old woman said that it was strange when the police came to collect evidence from her - she was telling the truth, but the police were unwilling to take notes as she said. Speaking of this, the old woman became excited, saying that although she had not gone to school and had no education, she was still good and bad.

"The cops...... Woo, those policemen don't mean to call the shots for Ash at all! I don't think Ash actually died because he was kidnapped by a kidnapper! ”

I glanced at Lynn, who shook her head at me quietly. Since we didn't know much about the kidnapping that happened three years ago, we asked the old woman to tell us everything she knew.

The old woman said that Ash died three years ago because of a kidnapping case. But this is just a statement from the outside world, which is what the school and the police claim.

However, she was unwilling to believe in this result because of one thing. Because on a rainy night three years ago, she had received a phone call - it was from Ash.

The old woman said that at that time, Ash's voice sounded like it was trembling, and he asked the old woman endlessly, saying Grandma, will people do good deeds will be rewarded?

The old woman didn't know why Ash suddenly asked about this, so she didn't think much about it, and told him without hesitation that of course people who do good deeds will be rewarded.

Ash was silent for a long time, and then asked the old woman, "Grandma, have you lived as kind as you do all your life?" The old woman said no, she never felt that she was a kind person.

“…… Grandma, has anyone ever hurt you? ”

"Of course, how can people live in this world without being harmed in any way?"

"That'...... Should you also be kind to people who have hurt you? than, for example...... Like this person who hurt me...... It really hurts me deeply, I ...... I should too...... Whining...... Should I also forgive her and save her? ”

The old woman told Ash, Ash, I know your character too well, so ...... If that's the case for you, go and save her. Because, you are too kind, if you don't do that, in the end, you will hurt yourself.

After this, the old woman said that Ash stopped crying, and he smiled and said, Actually, grandma, I think the same thing, but I lack the courage...... I'm in a situation where I need a lot of courage. And grandma...... You and she are the only ones who can give me courage.

“…… Ash he, woo...... After saying thank you to me, I hung up. After thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong, and my heartbeat had not been able to calm down anyway, so I called back, but Ash didn't answer. ”

The old woman couldn't cry silently, and the whole person lay on Lin's body, choked and said, "After a few days...... I couldn't get in touch with Ash, so I found Ash's house, and as a result, the result was ...... Woo, they were impatient to tell me about Ash...... Ash is dead. ”

I can almost imagine the despair in the old woman's heart at that time, and I guess this is also a big reason why the old woman is angry with the relatives who raised Ash. The child died, but they didn't care at all, as if it wasn't Ash who died, just stray cats and dogs in the streets.

The old woman said that in the next week, the police came to her to make several records, and the first two times they asked very carefully, but later, they gave her a feeling of forcefully forcing her to change her confession, frequently asking her if she remembered wrongly, and in the end, they directly said that she must have remembered wrong, and it is inevitable that people will be confused when they are old.