By the time Lin Zhiyi and the others came to Linyuan Town, the police had been gone for a long time and had taken the body away. In fact, this matter ended around 8 o'clock in the morning, because of the lag of the news, Lin Zhiyi and they only saw the news at noon.

But there are still many villagers gathered around the lake where the bodies were recovered. They pointed to the traces left by the salvaged bodies by the lake. and incarnated as detectives one by one, reasoning with a clear eye. One of them, an old man in an old-fashioned black tunic with a navy blue liberation cap, noticed the four students wearing the winter school uniform of Zhiyuan Middle School.

He walked over and asked, "You students, why are you here if you don't study hard at school?" ”

Lin Zhiyi replied, "You know, I'm here today ......," he guessed that the old man who was asking might be the village chief of Liujia Village, with a party emblem pinned to the pocket of his tunic jacket.

The Austrian physicist Schrödinger famously put forward a thought experiment in which a cat was kept in a box with a small amount of the chemicals radium and ***. There is a chance that radium will decay, if radium decays, it will trigger a mechanism to break the bottle containing ***, and the cat will die; If radium does not decay, the cat survives.

According to the theory of quantum mechanics, since the radioactive radium is in the superposition of decay and no decay, there are two possibilities for the cat to be dead or alive before opening the box, but only by opening the box can we know whether the cat is dead or alive.

At this moment, Lin Zhiyi felt that he was holding such a box, but it was not a cat in the box, but Liu Qingyuan. He lost the gas to open the box. He will turn 16 by February next year, his parents are still alive, and both parents are still alive, and he has never died in such close contact.

On the way here, he was also worried in his heart, "What if I really see the corpse?" ”

"Do you know who is the person who is in trouble here?" Unexpectedly, it was Zeppelin who asked first.

"You're not from Linyuan Town, are you? Why do you care about this? "The village chief wasn't going to say anything more about the children. He turned around and continued the discussion with the other villagers.

"We know Liu Qingyuan!" Lin Zhiyi suddenly roared. shocked the other three friends.

Only then did the village chief turn around.

"You guys, how do you know that something happened to Liu Qingyuan?"

His answer was tantamount to opening the box, and Liu Qingyuan inside was dead.

Lin Zhiyi's heart seemed to be broken, he tried hard to control his sadness, and the image of his uncle in his mind was still vivid. He couldn't match the uncle's face with the mosaic face he had seen on the news.

He looked at the other people's reactions.

The two girls were already in tears, and Zeppelin lowered his head and clenched his fists.

"How so?"

"This police is still investigating."

These teenage high school freshmen can't afford any more. Yuan Shasha ran away as if she suddenly remembered something.

"Yuan Shanshan, where are you going?"

Everyone ran with her, and she was running in the direction of her uncle's house.

When I ran to the door of the house, I found that this place had also been fenced off as a crime scene by a yellow cordon.

"Yuan Shanshan, I can't go any further."

Lin Zhi also grabbed Yuan Shanshan, who tried to pass from under the cordon, and crossed the cordon without permission to be detained.

"Let me take a look, is Uncle not at home?"

"He's not in there."

"Lin Zhiyi, let me go in and see for myself!"

"He's dead!"

In the end, Lin Zhiyi still said this fact that no one wants to admit. Even though they already knew that their uncle would not last long if he had lung cancer, they always felt that there was still a lot of time before they really lost him.

Everyone stood quietly at the door of Liu Qingyuan's house, letting time flow. They had only cleaned up the little broken bungalow last week, but it had no owner.

This is also the first time they realize that not every time they part, they can have time to say goodbye.

By the time Lin Zhiyi got home, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening. Before Master Ma got out of the car, he said to him, "Young Master, Mr. is waiting for you in the living room." Don't him off anymore. ”

"Got it." Lin Zhi also thanked Master Ma for his kindness.

Mr. Lin sat on the sofa, flipping through the case files on his laptop. Usually, he works in the study.

"Daddy." With Master Ma's reminder, Lin Zhi can no longer turn a blind eye to his father. Although today's events have made his mood fall to the bottom.

"How did you meet that guy named Liu Qingyuan?" Mr. Lin gets straight to the point. The reason why he asked Master Ma to be Lin Zhiyi's exclusive driver was because Lao Ma would not hide anything from him.

Lin Zhiyi also knew that his every move could not escape his surveillance.

"It's better for you to have less contact with this kind of people in society." Mr. Lin didn't take his eyes off the screen of the notebook and said indifferently.

"Uncle Liu is not a random person." This sentence hit Lin Zhiyi's pain point, "Dad, I hope you can respect him!" He's ......."

"The report from the medical examiner has come out, and the suspicion of his murder has been ruled out. The body will be cremated next Tuesday, he has no relatives, and his ashes will be placed directly in the public welfare mourning hall in the cemetery. ”

Mr. Lam said that he was surprisingly calm, and that he had been exposed to many criminal cases in his practice. For the loss of some insignificant life, he no longer felt any emotion in his heart.

"Whatever your connection to him, I hope this is the end. Don't spend time on a dead man anymore. Today I also received a call from your homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, saying that you also skipped class to take your classmates to the scene of the crime, is this what a class leader should do? ”

Faced with Mr. Lin's successive questions, Lin Zhiyi's heart felt disgusted. If it was Liu Qingyuan twelve years ago, if something like this happened, would he still be so indifferent?

"I promised Teacher Wang, and next time, I will remove you from the position of class leader."

"Withdraw it, I'm not uncommon anyway."

"Say it again!" Mr. Lin has tried his best to restrain his anger today.

Mrs. Lin gave him a look on the second floor, their father-son relationship was not very harmonious anymore, and it could not go in a worse direction.

"I'm tired, I want to go to sleep."

Mr. Lin put down the notebook heavily, and Mrs. Lin immediately ran down the stairs from downstairs and persuaded, "He is no longer a child, he has his own measure." ”

Lin Zhiyi went upstairs and locked his door, so that he could have a real space of his own in this home.

He shared the news he learned from his father in a more tactful way to the band's QQ group.

Qian Wenwen replied to several crying expressions in a row, and Lin Zhiyi was very distressed.

Just as he was typing in Qian Wenwen's chat content to comfort Qian Wenwen, QQ messages kept reminding him that someone applied to join the group, and he clicked on the message, all of which were the same account.

"Wenwen, don't be sad. As long as we always remember Uncle, he will not leave us. ”

Zeppelin took advantage of the fact that he was looking at the applicant's information, and since when did he call her Wenwen, and he also sent a hugging expression! Lin Zhiyi's heart was full of vinegar.

"Squad leader!" Zeppelin wrote, "Have you received Chubby's application to join the group? ”

"Which chubby?"

"It's Hu Haoran, the drummer of their band, who is chubby, from Class 6, called Fang Yuan."

"Why did he suddenly want to join our group?"

"I heard that Hu Haoran was going to transfer to another school and stopped participating in club activities. He wanted to play the drums on our side. When Hu Haoran was there, he didn't dare. ”

Lin Zhiyi still has some impressions of that little fat man. In fact, he played the drum well, but under the pressure of Liu Qingyuan, he was compared.

Lin Zhi also passed his application to join the group.

"Hello everyone. My name is Fang Yuan, and my nickname is Chubby. Chubby came up and greeted the members.

"Do you still have contact with the cleaner uncle from the last PK?"

"I'm going to learn from him."

The unwitting Chubby began to gush endlessly in the group.

"No, you don't want to."

Lin Zhi also kicked him out of the group.

But after a while, countless applications for joining the group flashed. The note was full of: I'm sorry, I was wrong. It was probably Zeppelin, who had known him before, who told the truth.

After Xiaopang joined the group again, he made an expression of kneeling for a long time.

"Let's be flat." Zeppelin brazenly said that not long after that PK, Zeppelin had seen him in his neighborhood. It turned out that they lived in the front and back buildings. Zeppelin didn't want to deal with him more, but Xiaopang, after learning the news that Hu Haoran was going to transfer schools, Xiaopang took the initiative to talk to Zeppelin.

Zeppelin's discovery of this little fat man was quite interesting.

"I didn't even have time to say goodbye to my uncle."

Then the group was swiped by Chubby's sadness again.

"What to do. No one came to teach me the drums. ”

"My life seems to have no meaning. 5555555。 ”

Lin Zhiyi had to kick him out of the group again.

"Tuesday. They. They're going to cremate the uncle. ”

Lin Zhi also told everyone that he had learned first-hand information from Mr. Lam.

"Where?"

"I heard about the crematorium over there in the cemetery."

"There are two cemeteries in Zhucheng, one in the west of the city and one in the east of the city." Zeppelin wrote.

Lin Zhi also wanted to go downstairs and ask Mr. Lin again. Mr. Klin's anger had just been suppressed, and he was afraid that such a bold question would ignite him again.

Halfway up the stairs, Chubby Fangyuan unrelentingly sent an application to join the group, and the note read, "In the east of the city." ”

Lin Zhiyi immediately agreed this time.

"My dad is a police officer, I asked him." Chubby explained in the group.

"Then let's go and send Uncle off together." Qian Wenwen proposed.

Everyone responded. Just wait for Lin Zhi to make a decision.

The crematorium in the east of the city is near the border of Zhucheng near the sea, and it is half a city away from Zhiyuan Middle School, and it takes more than an hour to go back and forth by highway.

Coupled with the time of send-off, it may mean that they have to skip half a day of class together.

"Let's call in sick together that day." Zeppelin said.

"I can do it on my side, after all, I'm the only one in the class. What about you, it's too strange that four people in a class are sick together. Chubby replied.

"Let's tell Mr. Wang the truth, whether he agrees or not, we will go!" Lin Zhiyi said firmly.

"Okay, squad leader!" Everyone replied together.