Lawyer Zhou put the procuratorate's notice of indictment in front of him rigorously.

Yan Yan didn't pick it up, just looked down at the table for a while, and then hastily signed on the delivery receipt, and gently pushed it back. Lawyer Zhou stretched out his hand and held it, and the two confronted each other in silence. The fluorescent lamp overhead shone coldly, and the handcuffs on Rig's wrists reflected the bright light, flashing shockingly.

In the end, Rigor spoke first: "That's it?" ”

Lawyer Zhou said: "You should understand that this is the inevitable result. ”

Rigorous laughed dryly: "The inevitable result, shouldn't it be the real murderer who is caught?" ”

Lawyer Zhou lowered his head, avoided his sharp eyes, and muttered for a while before saying, "Your family is fighting for the victim's family to forgive, if you get that, maybe you can wait until the day you want to wait." ”

The original expression of indifferent rigor suddenly became excited: "Forgive what?" I didn't kill anyone, so what forgiveness do I want? Lawyer Zhou, I didn't kill anyone, and I don't accept this way of pleading guilty. You know that I have been a soldier, and in my case, a bullet hitting a target is called a success, and if it is not, it is a failure, and there will be no compromise. ”

Lawyer Zhou waved his hand and signaled him to calm down: "There is still a period of time before the trial begins, you can think about it again." I suggest that when you make a decision, you should consider not only yourself, but also your family. ”

Rigor didn't speak, held his forehead like a headache, and didn't make a sound for a long time.

Lawyer Zhou began to pack his things: "Think about it, wait for me to come next time, and tell me your decision." ”

Raising his head rigorously, it was just a moment's work, and the corners of his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be a few years older suddenly: "Lawyer Zhou, can you lend me a pen?" ”

"What do you want to write?"

"Explain a few things to your family. You can rest assured that there will be no explicit prohibitions. ”

Lawyer Zhou hesitated for a moment, but still took out the paper and pen and handed it to him.

I probably haven't written with a pen for a long time, and I held the pen carefully, and the tip of the pen shook on the paper for a long time, but it didn't fall. He bit the tip of his pen and was stunned for a moment, and finally began to write down one stroke at a time.

Lawyer Zhou looked sideways, thinking that he was going to write to his parents, but he didn't expect to look up with the word "Xiaoou". Lawyer Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly, very disapproving.

Rigor said as he wrote: "You don't know, there are some things I can only give to her, and if I hand them over to our family, I will be completely blind." ”

Holding the letter of Rigor Rigor and reading it several times with Rigor Prudence, he finally sighed: "Alas, it is so stupid that people have nothing to say. ”

She picked up the phone at hand and dialed Ji Xiaoou's mobile phone.

Ji Xiaoou is on his way back to Beijing from Tianjin at the moment. She stopped on the side of the road and answered the phone, and her strict request made her frown, "I still have a lot of things to deal with, and it's inconvenient to go west, what can't I talk about on the phone, or find a place to meet nearby?" ”

Yan Shen said: "It's my mother who wants to see you, you don't give me face, but the old man's face has to be given, right?" ”

Ji Xiaoou hesitated: "Okay, I'll go over." ”

Ji Xiaoou rushed to Yan's house, and Yan Shen and the nanny were pushing their mother in a wheelchair to bask in the sun in the yard. The strict mother is out of danger, but the recovery is not very good, not only has she lost her speech function, but also the left half of her body is unable to move. Seeing Ji Xiaoou appear, her emotions suddenly became excited, and she screamed a few times, as if she recognized her.

Yan Shen squatted down in front of his mother's knee and held her hand, "Mom, look, this is my brother's girlfriend." Pretty huh? The family is also very good, both parents are doctors, and my brother is serious this time. You must get better as soon as possible, and they are pointing to you to take the baby for them in the future! ”

The old lady snapped a few more times, and slapped the back of Yan Shen's hand anxiously with her movable right hand. Yan Shen beckoned to Ji Xiaoou: "Come!" ”

Ji Xiaoou hesitated for a moment, but still walked over and squatted in front of the wheelchair. Yan carefully put her hand in her mother's palm.

The old lady tilted her neck on one side, looked at Ji Xiaoou for a long time, and then put her hand under the blanket on her knee, trembling to find something. Yan Shen lifted the blanket for her and took out a palm-sized mahogany box.

"Is that it?"

Strict Mom nodded. Yan cautiously opened the wooden box, revealing a jade bracelet with an emerald green body.

"To her?" Yan Shen pointed at Ji Xiaoou with a reluctant expression.

Strict Mom nodded again.

"This ......" Ji Xiaoou panicked suddenly. It's okay for her to pretend to be a girlfriend to comfort the old man, but Yan Yan's mother treats her like a prospective daughter-in-law, but between her and Yan Yan, there is no promise.

She stood up and stepped back: "Auntie, this is not appropriate, let's wait for Rigor to come back." ”

Strict mom ah ah a few times, looking very unhappy.

Yan Shen hurriedly pulled Ji Xiaoou back, and said softly in a coaxing tone: "Mom, people are still little girls, ashamed." You watch, I'll put it on for you. ”

She held Ji Xiaoou's wrist tightly and secretly shook it a few times to signal her not to move.

Ji Xiaoou had no choice but to stand and let her put the jade bracelet on her wrist. The jade bracelet is as green as a bay of spring water, and it is worth a lot of money at a glance.

Yan Shen took Ji Xiaoou's hand and showed it to his mother. Strict mother nodded, and smiled hard at her daughter and Ji Xiaoou. Although this half-half smile looked very weird, Ji Xiaoou could feel the joy and relief in it.

Yan Shen glanced at the nanny on the side, asked her to go over immediately to attract the old lady's attention, and then pulled Ji Xiaoou to leave quickly.

The two walked under the pergola not far away. Ji Xiaoou took off the jade bracelet as he walked and handed it to Yan Shen: "You can take it." ”

Yan Shen was not polite, carefully took it and put it back in the wooden box, closed the lid of the box, and then said curtly: "This is the heirloom that my grandmother left to my mother......"

Ji Xiaoou interrupted her unceremoniously: "I understand, you don't have to explain." ”

A hint of annoyance flashed across Yan Shen's face, but she quickly took control of it and picked up a file bag on the stone table: "This is the main purpose for you to come to the house. My brother has already completed the procedures for the conversion of the 'third' to the legal person, which is all the notarization materials, when you have time, lawyer Zhou will send someone to go to the industrial and commercial office with you, and then, the 'third' is yours, congratulations! ”

Ji Xiaoou opened the file bag, took out half of the file and looked at it, then pushed it back and put it away. Raising her head to look at Yan Shen, she smiled: "Your attitude really confuses me. I don't know what makes you have such a deep prejudice against people who are not in the same class as you. You are the sister of Rigor and that is my sister, and I am willing to respect you, but I must tell you that I accept the 'third of the 'third' not for the sake of this property, but for the sake of Rigour, in order to help him keep a promise to his friends and brothers. The day he returns, the day 'one-third' of the things return to their original owners, please rest assured! ”

Yan Shen raised his eyebrows: "Okay, I hope there is a chance to prove that I was wrong." She took out a piece of A4 paper folded in half, "This is what my brother just sent out of it, for you, of course I still hope you don't live up to his trust." ”

Ji Xiaoou's originally calm expression disappeared suddenly, and her fingers were trembling when she took the paper, and she unfolded the folded part, and what came to her face was indeed the handwriting of the rigorous teeth and claws.

Xiaoou:

Nonsense aside, there are a few things to explain, be sure to help me get it done.

First, there was a death row prisoner named Ma Lin in Beijing who was guarded in Beijing, so please help me buy a cemetery for his father and son and send my grandfather to a nursing home.

Second, go to see Zhan Yu's mother for me, if she needs anything, she must be satisfied, and prevent Yan Shen from forcing her to sign a letter of understanding, I don't need such a letter of understanding.

Third, if there is a surplus in the future, help me set up a fund to help students with difficult families complete their studies.

Fourth, the suicide note in the safe, if I am executed, give it to my parents. I've been thinking a lot these days, and you're right, I've ruined the ten years I've been back from the army in the most inappropriate way. That suicide note was written by me before the last mission of the army, and if that time was really glorious, it would actually be the best end. Just let them think that in the past ten years, there has never been me.

Xiaoou, go back and find a serious boyfriend and live a good life with him. Don't worry about me, I've had more difficult days than this. Forget about me. That's it, goodbye.

preciseness

Ji Xiaoou's hands trembled when he saw it, and the paper rattled. From these concise words, she could already see the meaning of the farewell.

She shoved her index finger into her mouth and bit down hard, and the pain between her fingers reached her brain, which barely calmed herself. Putting the A4 paper into the file bag, she raised her head: "Do you have Zhan Yu's mother's address or contact information?" ”

"All the information is with Lawyer Zhou, including the little murderer's name Marin."

Ji Xiaoou nodded: "Thank you, goodbye!" ”

Yan Shen smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry to leave, there is another thing I just forgot to tell you." Do you know? So far, the Zhan family has received a total of more than 3 million social donations, and not a penny has fallen into the hands of his mother. His dad and your ex-boyfriend, because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, now each hired a gunman to scold each other on the Internet, you can check it on the Internet, Sensei Duo is lively. ”

Ji Xiaoou looked at her: "What does this have to do with me?" ”

Yan Shen said, "Answer your question." Didn't you ask me why there was a prejudice against people who weren't of the same class? It's not a stereotype, it's a fact. ”

Ji Xiaoou sneered: "I have to correct you, this is not a fact, this is your serious paranoia after wearing colored glasses." ”

After saying that, she turned her head and ran away, and walked a long way away with her chest rising and falling in anger. If it weren't for the sake of rigor, she would not have had to, and would not have accepted such humiliation anyway.

After getting the address of Zhan Yu's mother Li Meiqin from Lawyer Zhou, Ji Xiaoou struggled to find where she lives now. It was a bungalow in the southern city, and there were about seven or eight families living in the compound. In the middle of the courtyard there were a few wires in the air, covered with clothes and quilts, and she had to pass under the colorful underwear to reach the hallway of the main house. The environment in the yard, although there are a lot of clutter, fortunately it is quite clean.

Li Meiqin lived in a wing room on the east side, and Ji Xiaoou stood at the door, raised her hand and hesitated for a long time before finally knocking lightly on the door with her fingers. There was an answer from someone in the door, followed by the sound of a wheelchair rolling on the brick floor. The door opened, and what Ji Xiaoou saw was Li Meiqin, who had snow-white hair on her forehead and sideburns.

Li Meiqin raised her head, her eyes fell on the person who came, but Ji Xiaoou felt that she didn't recognize herself, because the muscles on her face didn't fluctuate. If she had recognized herself, she wouldn't have been so calm. Since Lin Haipeng has been in this house, with his temper, he will not fail to tell the family about Ji Xiaoou's relationship with Yanyan.

Ji Xiaoou observed her carefully, and then understood the reason. Li Meiqin's eyes couldn't see what was in front of her clearly.

"Auntie." She spoke timidly, "I'm Ji Xiaoou." ”

She was ready for Li Meiqin to be angry and told her to get out, but Li Meiqin just twitched the corners of her mouth, and then moved her wheelchair to the house: "Come in, it's windy outside." ”

Ji Xiaoou followed up. She didn't dare to sit on the chair, but dared to stand far away from Li Meiqin, looking at everything in this room. The room was simply furnished, with only a bed, a simple wardrobe, a few chairs, and a half-worn desk by the window with pots and pans. Although the room is cramped, the ventilation and sunshine are better than the original house, the walls are white, and you can smell the faint smell of lime water. A posthumous photograph of Zhan Yu inlaid with black gauze hangs on top of the chest of drawers, on which in addition to the incense burner and two plates of fruit, there is also a boxy cloth wrap. Visually judging from the dimensions, it should be an urn.

Ji Xiaoou looked up at the photo, and the handsome young man also looked at her quietly, and the memories of those details gradually blurred came back at this moment. She put down her handbag, walked to the chest of drawers, lit a stick of incense and inserted it into the incense burner, bowed her head and prayed silently for a while.

When she did these things, Li Meiqin moved to the side of the bed, leaned over with great effort, and groped around under the mattress, as if looking for something. Ji Xiaoou walked over: "Auntie, can I help you with what you are looking for?" ”

Li Meiqin sat up straight and beckoned to her: "Xiao Ji, come here." ”

Ji Xiaoou took two steps closer, squatted down in front of her, and put his hand on her knee: "Auntie, I'm here." ”

Li Meiqin fumbled to hold her hand and put a hard card in her palm: "You can take this card." ”

Ji Xiaoou lowered his head, and what he was holding in his hand was a bank debit card.

"This ...... What is it? ”

"There are 180,000 in the card, it was the last time I was hospitalized, you brought it, take it, I don't need it."

"However, this money is for your surgery."

A bleak smile appeared on Li Meiqin's face: "At that time, I desperately wanted to live, for Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu is gone, what hope do I have for life? I don't need money, money is not a good thing. If it weren't for the money, Xiao Yu wouldn't have gone down that path. Take it! Xiao Ji, don't come back in the future. ”

"Auntie......"

"Xiao Ji, I know you're a good girl, but when I see you, I think of the murderer. I was afraid that I would lose this card, and I was afraid that Xiao Yu's father would find it, so I hid it under the mattress, and every night, it burned like a soldering iron, so that I couldn't sleep. As soon as I remembered that the money was given by Xiao Yu's brute, I hated to cut it to pieces. Let's go, Xiao Ji, take this card and go, don't let me see you again! ”

"Auntie, listen to me, there is definitely a misunderstanding here. Rigor won't hurt Xiao Yu, he's not a bad person, he can't do that kind of thing......"

"My eyes are about to go blind, but my heart is not blind." Li Meiqin interrupted her, "I'm going to wait, I'm going to open my eyes and watch the murderer be executed." Her eyes lacked brilliance, but they shone with a strange light. Her voice was not high-pitched, and her speed of speech was slow, but she spat out word by word, and every word seemed to have a bitter hatred attached to it.

The bank card was tightly held in the palm of Ji Xiaoou's hand, and the four sides were like knife blades, almost cutting into the flesh. She slowly stood up and nodded: "Okay, I won't come again until I find the real murderer." ”

The weather was fine that day, with a warm spring sun and lush flowers outside. Ji Xiaoou sat in the driver's seat, but felt cold all over his body and cold fingers. The fingers holding the steering wheel tightened, and the nails of the joints were all white. She sat motionless for a long time before she pulled her phone out of her handbag, found May's phone number and dialed it.

"Sister May, can you please help me put on a show? Among the people I know, only you are the most suitable to play Bai Fumei, please help me donate a sum of money to her regularly. ”

May listened quietly to what she had to say, and then said, "Yes, I can play this scene for you, but she is bored now, are you sure she will accept donations and funding from a stranger?" ”

Ji Xiaoou pondered the words for a moment before replying: "There is a sentence, I know it may be inappropriate to say it, if it offends you, please forgive me." Sister May, how did you go through the most uncomfortable days in the first place, please help her in the same way. ”

May was silent on the other end of the phone for a long time, then said, "Okay. ”

When Ji Xiaoou returned to the "third" and dialed the number "040812" on the safe dial, she remembered May again. In fact, she was full of curiosity about May's story, but she could see that for May, it was probably an untouchable pain in this life, and any attempt to uncover the scars of the past seemed too cruel. Some people will keep their pain in their hearts as a part of their lives, or they themselves will wonder if they have ever loved it. She also wondered what would happen if the same thing happened to her. She thought about it for a long time, and felt that she would still be like her grandmother when she died, and after venting her grief hysterically, she stood up and wiped away her tears and lived as happily as she could. I will never bury myself in the past and refuse to extricate myself. People can't live in memory forever, you always have to say goodbye to the past and move forward to the future.

Ji Xiaoou stayed in Tanggu for a week and did not return to Beijing. The agreement with Gao Yang had been signed, and the price was fair, but she had to make sure that the charity dinner in a week would meet the other party's requirements.

She has a lot of things to do, from seafood purchases, wine purchases, to kitchen side dishes, and she keeps an eye on every detail, for fear that something will go wrong if she doesn't take care of it. And because Gao Yang told her that with May's help, the last program of the dinner was temporarily changed to a performance of the church choir. Ji Xiaoou stood in the lobby on the first floor, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the original luxurious and cold decoration of the store had the luxury taste of urban drunkenness, which was seriously inconsistent with the holy religious atmosphere. So she urgently contacted a curtain supplier and produced a batch of European-style curtains at an expedited pace.

On the first day, as soon as the curtain was hoisted, the style of the hall on the first floor suddenly changed, and everyone was surprised. The soft curtain obscures the cold and hard lines of mirrors and Roman columns, the snow-white tablecloth is furnished with black chandelabras, the lights in the hall are dimmed, and the candles the size of a baby's arm are erected on the candlesticks, the candlelight flickers, blurring the boundary between dark and light, and the whole shop hall is like a deep and gorgeous palace. Especially in the choir program, the dancing candlelight reflects the smooth faces of the girls, the organ sound is melodious, the song is graceful and compassionate, soft as velvet, rubbing against the black night, rubbing the nerves that have been tempered so hard in the city. Almost all of them put down their glasses or mobile phones, and the song had a strange appeal that made them think they seemed to have lost something. This loss is indescribable, and it seems to have hollowed out people's hearts all at once.

Ji Xiaoou quietly retreated at this moment, and slowly climbed onto the top deck alone. The sea was very windy, and she lifted her long skirt, and the black cut was like a fluttering flag. The singing of the hall came faintly, as if it was a voice from the depths of the clouds, ethereal and profound.

"Rigorous, did you see that?" She muttered in the direction of Beijing, "I did it!" 'One-third' of the business will definitely recover, you can rest assured. God will not abandon us, and you must not give up, and I believe that one day the real murderer will be caught and your innocence will be restored. ”

After the night passed, the once-declining "third" was miraculously rejuvenated. The charity dinner was attended by a number of high-level executives from large corporations, as well as officials from government agencies. They were impressed by the chic atmosphere of the "third", as well as the exquisite freshness of the dishes. As a result, word of mouth has spread that the impact of the last male PR rumor has gradually faded. Although there is still a gap between the daily flow of water in the heyday, compared to the miserable wind and rain some time ago, it is completely ice and fire. The two months of wages owed to the employees were finally repaid, and Ji Xiaoou finally had normal liquidity in his hands. As if she had lifted her shackles, her whole body became light. What she has to concentrate on dealing with next is the lawsuit of Furlong. Fulong's lawsuit is about to go to trial, and she must settle the matter before the serious case starts, and she wants to say "rest assured" to him in a down-to-earth manner when she sees rigor in court.

The method of dealing with the "Fulong" company was obtained by herself after thinking about it for a long time and having a flash of inspiration. For this reason, Cheng Ruimin and his wife also drove to Tianjin. Because Cheng Ruimin's wife, Tan Bin, has a college classmate who works in the Quality Supervision Bureau, the couple invited him to have a meal at "One-third" and introduced him to Ji Xiaoou.

With the backing of this middle-level leader of the Quality Supervision Bureau, Ji Xiaoou is confident and bold to implement his plan.

In addition to supplying several seafood restaurants on a regular basis for a long time, the company also has a fixed stall in the city's largest seafood wholesale market, which is mainly aimed at small restaurants and individual citizens. On this day, a customer came to the market, asked the price next to the stall, checked the freshness of the fish, and finally stopped in front of the stall of "Fulong". The stall owner of Fulong observed the words and looks, and when he heard a northeast accent, he knew that he was a foreigner. After talking for a while, this person introduced himself and said that he had just opened a restaurant in downtown Tianjin, specializing in seafood, and was looking for a suitable and reliable seafood supplier for long-term cooperation. Thinking that he had met a potential customer, the stall owner hurriedly handed over a business card with the company's name on it, and blew the variety and quality of Fulllong's seafood to the sky. The man nodded frequently, and finally bought thousands of yuan of sea crabs, shrimp and scallops on the spot, and explained that he would come back in three days, and then left the market with half a cart of seafood.

Three days later, this person was never seen in the market again, but the joint inspection team of the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Agricultural Bureau, which received the quality report, dispatched and seized the stall of "Fulong" in the wholesale market with an inspection report on the serious exceedance of formaldehyde and eugenol.

Using formalin to keep it fresh, using clove oil cement to prolong the survival time of aquatic products, in the seafood market is simply an open industry secret, the owner of the "Fulong" company Chen Fulong understood that he was being cheated by someone as soon as he heard it. He took it for granted that the dark arrow came from his peers, and when he was asking around who betrayed him, and was anxious to find someone to dredge up the relationship with the Quality Supervision Bureau, Ji Xiaoou appeared.

Still in that Cantonese teahouse, the table was full of cutlery, and she had to gently place a freshly printed prosecution application on Chen Fulong's lap. It said in black and white that "One-Third" sued "Fulong" for supplying seafood products that did not meet national food standards, and demanded compensation for "One-third" for all losses.

Chen Fulong looked down for a while, and when he understood the content on the paper, his posture did not change, he only raised his eyes and glared at Ji Xiaoou: "Did you do it?" ”

"That's right."

Chen Fulong slapped the application on the greasy table: "Are you tired?" What do you want? ”

"I'll talk to you about the terms." Ji Xiaoou was not frightened by the fierce light in his eyes, but replied unhurriedly, "Uncle Chen, we don't say secret words, I don't mean anything else by doing this, I just want to tell you that after my counter-indictment is filed, the two cases of our two families will be screwed together, and if my case is not judged, your case will not end." But this kind of quality lawsuit, I don't need to remind you, you probably know that it can't be finished without a year and a half. I don't object to you being willing to spend it, but if this matter is in the newspaper, I don't have anything, it's just a matter of changing suppliers, but your Fulong, it's hard to say, right? No matter how good Li Guoqiang is, even if he can control the prices of the entire seafood wholesale market, he can't force other restaurants to buy from a wholesaler with questionable quality. He opened a restaurant not to make money, but to launder money, with the two half-dead seafood restaurants under his name, do you think you can support so many brothers in your company? I inquired, and you and he are not close friends, so why do you need to be such a vain ghost? ”

Chen Fulong brushed the piece of paper to the ground, and then fell to the ground, along with seven or eight dishes. A soup bowl smashed at Ji Xiaoou's feet, shattered, and the soup splashed all over her pants. But Ji Xiaoou only shrunk his feet, still looking calm, and did not show the slightest fear.

Chen Fulong pulled the collar of his clothes, his expression was still very hideous, and his voice unexpectedly lowered: "What conditions do you want to discuss?" ”

Ji Xiaoou smiled, knowing that he had cleared up the situation and began to soften, so he sat up straight: "First, withdraw the lawsuit." Second, we sign a repayment agreement, and I will be responsible for paying off your arrears within five months. ”

Chen Fulong sneered: "If I withdraw the lawsuit, you can pay it back?" When I'm a three-year-old, who do I coax? ”

"As far as you said, it is only natural to pay off debts. I still have to mix on the ground of Tanggu, and I won't joke with my reputation. Five months, starting the next month, one-fifth of each month, paid off at the end of September. The effective date of the agreement, starting from the time you withdraw the lawsuit. If you are willing to settle out of court, we can sign this agreement immediately, and if you insist on going to court, then it doesn't matter, I will accompany you throughout the process. ”

Chen Fulong stared at her for a long time, "What do you use to make me believe you?" ”

Ji Xiaoou took out a red-skinned real estate certificate from his purse, opened it and turned the page of the text towards him: "This is a property in my name, located in a prosperous area within the Fourth Ring Road of Beijing, with a market value of 3.5 million, we can go to the mortgage notarization, if I can't repay the money on time, the house is yours." ”

Chen Fulong took the real estate certificate, carefully identified the authenticity, and threw it back to her: "What about the Quality Supervision Bureau?" ”

"I'm responsible for helping you dredge up the relationship, as long as you make sure that the formaldehyde and eugenol are below the quality inspection standard."

Chen Fulong was silent, only put one leg on the other, looked at Ji Xiaoou, kept shaking the leg underneath, and shook the chair all the time. Ji Xiaoou knew that he was thinking and weighing the pros and cons, so he waited patiently quietly.

Chen Fulong finally put down his leg and slapped the table: "Deal!" ”

Ji Xiaoou stretched out his hand to him: "Uncle Chen, you are an understanding person, and I am sorry to disturb your breakfast again!" ”

Chen Fulong didn't even look at the hand stretched out in front of him, just grinded his teeth, stood up and walked towards the door, shouting as he walked: "Pay the bill!" ”

Ji Xiaoou watched his back pass through the crowd for the second time, disappearing from the door in the same posture, and smiled a little smugly. Solving Chen Fulong is equivalent to removing the black hand of "Little Beauty" that stuck "one-third". As long as "one-third" of the business has maintained its current state, she is not afraid that he will secretly do it again.

After a moment of self-absorption, she pulled her phone out of the back pocket of her jeans and glanced down at it. Then this glance made her face change greatly.

The text message was from a customer at the beauty shop and from Fang Niya's neighbor: Xiao Ji, Nia jumped off the building. 16 floors.

Ji Xiaoou's eyes went dark, and his mobile phone fell to the ground with a bang. The waiter passing by picked it up and handed it back to her, she mechanically clenched her phone, forgot to say thank you, stood up and ran out.

On the highway, Ji Xiaoou, who has been driving cautiously, raised the speed to 120 kilometers per hour for the first time. She remembered the last time she saw Fontia, and tears began to well-up in the corners of her eyes.

She drove the car into the neighborhood of Fanya's house, and when she was far away, she saw that the door of her yard was open, and the door was full of cars, including two eye-catching police cars.

Ji Xiaoou parked the car and walked down, but stopped hesitantly at the door of Fang's house. Across the yard, she could hear the heart-rending cries coming from the living room. She pressed her chest, not daring to go any further, only to feel a burst of nausea in her heart, her back was covered with cold sweat, and her temples were like a small hammer constantly beating, banging......

She closed her eyes, wondering where the sudden fear and disgust had come from. Until someone gently patted her on the shoulder.

"Xiao Ji, what's wrong with you?" Ji Xiaoou turned around, and the neighbor who texted her stood behind her.

"Why is your face so ugly? Come to my house for a drink. She took Ji Xiaoou's arm.

"Why is this happening? Didn't Sister Nia have a nanny watching all the time? Where did she jump from the sixteenth floor? Ji Xiaoou was holding a cup of hot tea, but he was still swinging as if he was in cold storage.

"Didn't her family have an old house? Now it's empty. The neighbor sighed, "At night, while the nanny and her husband were asleep, she drove there by herself, and ...... Just jumped off. Nothing was left. I heard it was because of severe depression. The police investigated for a long time and concluded that it was also a suicide. ”

Coming out of the neighbor's house, Ji Xiaoou returned to the car and sat alone for a long time, thinking about the details of the last meeting with Fang Niya over and over again. Finally, she opened the tool box, took out the napkin, and spread it on her lap to look at it.

What does the number left by Fontia mean? Telephone number? Ten digits, mobile numbers and fixed numbers are not possible. Bank card number? She has no relationship with Fang Niya, what did she leave a bank card number for her?

Ji Xiaoou raised her head and pondered, trying to substitute herself into Fang Niya's life, what else is related to numbers in her life circle? ID number? Social Security Number? Internet password? WeChat? QQ number? QQ…… Wait, she picked up the napkin and looked carefully at the two circles other than the numbers, although the two circles were drawn crookedly, and the two little tails were not obvious, but judging from the pause of the strokes, they did exist!

Ji Xiaoou heard a thunder in her ears, and for dozens of seconds she forgot where she was. When she came back to her senses, she threw down the napkin, hung up, stepped on the accelerator, and the little "Bora" rushed out with a snort.

Back downstairs in the apartment, she parked the car, trotted onto the elevator, ran all the way into the house from the elevator, panted and turned on the computer, logged in QQ, entered the ten digits, and began to search.

The Internet was so slow that she was anxious, in fact, the search time was only a dozen seconds, but she felt like a few years. The search results finally appeared in the small window of QQ. She leaned up to take a closer look, and her heart almost jumped out of her throat. The ID nickname that comes up according to this number is called "God's Outcast".

God's Outcast? On her birthday a year ago, she and Zhan Yu had dinner at a Thai restaurant, and she remembered that Zhan Yu had said that he was an outcast of God.

My God! Ji Xiaoou stood up from his chair. Is this number Zhan Yu's QQ number?

Her simple mind suddenly couldn't accept such a complicated and strange truth. She had to think about it carefully to understand why Fang Niya deliberately left Zhan Yu's QQ number to her before she died. Could it be that Fang Niya wants to tell her what important secrets are in this QQ account? If this number is meaningful, it means that Fangnia was actually conscious at the time, and all the crazy actions were probably fake, just to distract the nanny and give her the napkin. So why is she pretending to be crazy?

Ji Xiaoou calmed down, quit his QQ, returned to the login page, re-entered the QQ number suspected of Zhan Yu, and then tried the password with Zhan Yu's birthday, but was rejected by the system, and the password was wrong. This was to be expected by her. Holding her forehead and thinking about it, she turned to the QQ space of this ID. The space was not encrypted, and there were still a few logs. She clicked on a random article at the bottom and started reading.

March 16 was fine

It turns out that there are really beautiful women left in the world. The title of sister is so beautiful.

It was rainy on April 8

Dirty. Disgusting. When I took the money, I hated to burn it with a fire, and I burned myself to the whole world. Sister, you are the last ray of sunshine in this world.

May 14 sunny

She didn't know in the end. Thankfully, she didn't know, and he didn't tell her. Sister, I'm starting to hate you because I hate myself, and I always hate myself more in front of you.

It was cloudy on June 5

Sister, I'm scared, I don't know if I'll be able to escape this, I feel like I'm going to die. In the past, I was not afraid of death, death was liberation. But looking at you, I'm scared to death. Because I will go to another world, there must be no you.

Heavy rain on June 19

The person I hated the most actually helped me. Hate, because of his intentions towards his sister, because they are born with everything, and I, have nothing.

September 25 was fine

Tomorrow is your birthday. I'd love to say this to you face to face. Sister, I love you! I want to give you everything, but I have nothing, I want to give up everything for you, but I have nothing to give up.

It was cloudy on September 26

I see. It's all fake. In her eyes, I was dirty, cheap, smelly, and nothing. The armor, once extremely trusted, rolled up and turned into a knife and stabbed into the heart. I woke up from a dream. So be it.

This is the end of the space log, and there is no further follow-up.

Ji Xiaoou found that the spine that supported his weight softened. Now she was slumped in her chair. Needless to say, the owner of this number and ID is Zhan Yu. She was saddened by her own sluggishness, and the few paragraphs of her journal, each word tingling with a sharp sting, made her feel like a thousand arrows piercing her heart. Before that birthday last year, before Zhan Yu's true identity was revealed, she thought he was good-looking, fragile, clean, and in need of care and love, and after that birthday, she thought that he was self-defeating, self-depraved, and unworthy of sympathy and help. She thought about it so much, but she never thought that this child would fall in love with her. If she had sensed his intentions earlier, if what she said that night had not been so hurtful, if she had been more caring and patient, would his fate have been rewritten?

She put her hands over her face. His fingers were cold, but his cheeks were hot. Everything in the past is like a flood that bursts the levee, breaking through the floodgates of memory, and becoming clear bit by bit. And he is like a boat in the stormy waves, beaten to pieces by the torrent of fate. She didn't have the strength to stand up, let alone shed tears. There was only one thought left in her mind: Did Fang Niya's death have anything to do with Zhan Yu's murder?

She must try to find the truth. This time it's not just for rigor, but also for Zhan Yu.

Ji Xiaoou searched the Internet for a powerful password cracking software and installed it on the computer. But hacking is not something that everyone can do, she worked hard for two hours, and she can only admit that she has no talent in this area, and if she wants to crack the password, she must find professional help.

And she is familiar with only one person in the IT industry, Cheng Ruimin.

Cheng Ruimin was still working when he received Ji Xiaoou's call, and when he replied, he subconsciously glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer, it was already ten forty in the evening. His wife had already rested because she was pregnant, so he stood up while talking and gently closed the door of the study.

"Xiaoou, are you sure it's a QQ number, and it's related to the victim?"

"Yes, Brother Ruimin." Ji Xiaoou replied very affirmatively, "I can confirm it 100%. ”

Cheng Ruimin thought for a while, and then said, "You wait, I'll make a call first, and then I'll contact you." ”

Ji Xiaoou obediently hung up the phone and obediently waited for him to reply. Cheng Ruimin's call back came quickly, with an interval of less than ten minutes.

"Xiaoou, tell me your address, and I'll go over."

Ji Xiaoou was startled: "No need brother, just teach me how to use it." My sister-in-law is pregnant and needs to be taken care of, so you don't have to come over so late. ”

Cheng Ruimin, who has always been steady and peaceful, seemed undoubted at this moment: "I will arrange at home, send me a text message with your address, and wait for me to come over." ”

When Cheng Ruimin arrived, it was already half past eleven at night. He pulled out his chair and sat in front of the computer as he entered, not saying a word of nonsense.

Ji Xiaoou looked at him all the time, and a black task window finally appeared on the computer screen, the characters flashed, and he began to match the password. Only then did he raise his head and say to her, "Xiaoou, excuse me, if you have coffee or strong tea, help me get a cup." ”

Ji Xiaoou didn't move, just looked at him: "Brother, why are you so nervous about this number?" ”

Cheng Ruimin put his forehead on the back of his hand, as if he didn't want to answer this question, and said after a while: "I called your brother Zhiqun before I came, and it turned out that the task force has not found the victim's computer and mobile phone so far. ”

"That is, this QQ number may be valuable?"

"I don't know. Open it up and take a look to find out. ”

Ji Xiaoou stared at the beating screen for a while: "How long does it take?" ”

"It depends on how many digits there is in the password and whether the combination is complicated, it may be able to be cracked immediately, or it may take more than ten hours."

Ji Xiaoou lowered his head. In fact, there was a question in her heart, she always wanted to ask, but she didn't know if it was appropriate, so she hesitated for a long time and asked it.

"Brother Zhiqun, he ...... Is he okay? ”

Cheng Ruimin looked very tired, originally closing his eyes to recuperate, but when he heard this, he opened his eyes and looked her up and down, and then asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"That phone ......"

“ok。” Cheng Ruimin immediately interrupted her: "You also know that no matter how perfect a program is, it is made up by people, and there will always be loopholes...... He's supposed to be leaving. But you don't have to worry, he will always have something to eat when he comes out of that major, and it won't be much worse than before. ”

Ji Xiaoou lowered his head and played with his fingers: "If Rigor knew that it affected him, it would be very uncomfortable." ”

Cheng Ruimin smiled: "You girls, you don't know the feelings between men." There are many things that need to be done without hesitation. Before doing that, what will cost him in the future, Zhiqun knows better than anyone. ”

Ji Xiaoou shrugged: "Okay, you said so, I still have to admit that I am a little woman, and I don't understand what you big men think every day." Brother, I want to ask you one more thing. ”

"Say it."

"I know a sister, she seems to know your second brother, and the relationship seems to be quite deep."

"Who?"

"Rigorously call him 'second son', then it should be your second brother, right?"

Cheng Ruimin's eyes narrowed: "Yes." ”

"That sister, I don't know her real name, but her English name is May. She went with me for a third of the time, and when she saw the photo of you when you were children, she cried for some reason, and she cried very sadly......"

Speaking of this, Ji Xiaoou was suddenly silent, because compared with a few minutes ago, Cheng Ruimin's expression seemed to have dimmed in an instant and became a little bleak.

Ji Xiaoou was silent with interest, and after a while, he heard him answer quietly: "This story is too long, let's wait for Rigor to come back and let him tell you from the beginning." ”

"Oh." Ji Xiaoou agreed, and didn't dare to mention this topic again. Both stared at their computer screens in silence. At this moment, he suddenly heard a "ding" sound, and Cheng Ruimin immediately straightened his body.

"The code is unlocked." Then he shook his head, "It's so simple, this is the date, right?" ”

Ji Xiaoou looked at the small numbers on the screen and 19860926. Her birthday. Zhan Yu's QQ password is actually her birthday!

Her hand holding the mouse was as immovable as if it had been nailed to the table. She thought how stupid she had been, and she didn't even notice it. He said that I will not be your brother, he said that if you want me, I will give it to you, but she completely ignored these many hints, no wonder Rigor scolded her, saying that he had never seen a woman as dull as her, as incomprehensible as her.

Cheng Ruimin waited for her to click on the page, but there was no movement for a long time. He patted her on the shoulder: "Xiaoou, what's wrong?" ”

Ji Xiaoou came back to his senses and forced his composure: "It's okay." ”

She opened the QQ page, entered her ID and password, and logged in to QQ smoothly.

Cheng Ruimin pointed out: "Look at the friend list first." ”

The mouse moved to the friends list, and the mouse button clicked slightly, and the list opened, and the two of them said "oh" almost at the same time. The friends list is densely packed with long columns, with at least fifty or sixty screen names hanging on it.

Ji Xiaoou lay on the table: "My God, there are so many people, look at the chat history page by page, how long do you have to watch this?" ”

Cheng Ruimin stood up: "Where is the coffee?" I'm going to make two glasses. ”

But when he got up, his body shook obviously, but fortunately, he immediately reached out and pressed the table, so he didn't fall. Ji Xiaoou saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly helped him sit down.

"Brother Ruimin, I'm so embarrassed!" She was full of guilt, "I forgot that you have always been in poor health. Why don't you go back and rest first, and I'll just look at these things myself. ”

"Don't listen to Tan Bin's nonsense." Cheng Ruimin waved his hand: "It's okay, it was fierce just now." Two people can see if they can hurry. ”

Ji Xiaoou refused to agree, stuffed the mobile phone and USB flash drive he put on the table into his jacket pocket, and pulled him up forcefully: "You go quickly, don't hurt me." Don't look at yourself, and the little guy in your sister-in-law's belly. If you want to do something, my sister-in-law will scold me to death when I turn around! ”

Cheng Ruimin reluctantly retreated to the door: "Then you can rest too, and see it tomorrow, don't be in a hurry for a while." ”

"Got it, got it!" Ji Xiaoou pushed him out of the door, and then closed the door.

Cheng Ruimin knocked on the door outside: "If you find anything, notify me immediately." ”

"Got it!" Ji Xiaoou replied in a long voice inside the door.

Ji Xiaoou didn't rest that night. Sending Cheng Ruimin away, she made a cup of strong tea, returned to the computer desk and sat down, clicked on the first name in the friend list, opened the call history and began to browse. After only three or four pages, however, she got up and went to the window. Because I can't stand it. The content in the chat log is too explicit, this person named "God's outcast", this person whose words are provocative to the point that he has no bottom line, is not the Zhan Yu she knows at all.

She calmed down, took a sip of tea, gritted her teeth and sat back down, clicking on the second person's record. The content is similar, but Zhan Yu is more familiar with this person, she saw Zhan Yu coquettish with the other party, and asked the other party to buy the latest model of Apple computer before they would meet.

Slowly, one by one, she clicked on it, reading page by page, drinking bitter tea cup by day, the Zhan Yu she never knew, in these past words, bit by bit, became transparent and unobscure.

By four o'clock in the morning, she was too tired to hold on, and her eyes were too dry to see. She stood up, intending to go to bed and rest for a while. At the moment when she turned around, she heard the prompt tone of the QQ message.

As soon as she turned around, she saw a conversation window pop up on the computer screen, and someone asked her: Who are you?

Who are you?

Ji Xiaoou sat down slowly again. At the top of the dialogue window, the other party's screen name is displayed: Forbidden Love Without Regrets. She clicked on her friends list and took a look, and the name was indeed at the bottom of the list. But this question gave her a strong sense of unease. After reading so many chat records before, she has understood that this QQ number is actually a contact number that Zhan Yu uses to do business. The people on the list are basically his benefactors or potential benefactors. It can be seen that Zhan Yu is very cautious, and he is basically * with those people, and his personal information is very tightly hidden, and it has nothing to do with his real student identity. In other words, there should be very few people who can know that this "God's outcast" is no longer alive. But when the other party saw the light up avatar, he came up and asked: Who are you? Apparently he knew that the person sitting across the computer was no longer the original "God's outcast".

Ji Xiaoou didn't answer immediately, but clicked on the call record of the two, and after only looking at a few lines, her heart began to beat wildly. The last conversation between Zhan Yu and this "forbidden love without regrets" occurred at 2:50 pm on December 24 last year.

God's Outcast: Let's break up.

Abstaining from love without regrets: why?

God's Outcast: You didn't love me at all.

Forbidden Love Without Regrets: Nonsense! I'm going to give you my life.

God's Outcast: Your life is not uncommon to me. You don't give me what I want. Someone wants to hunt me down, and you can't protect me. It's not interesting, I don't want to play anymore.

No regrets: Come over at night, we'll talk.

God's Outcast: Have another covenant with someone else at night.

No regrets: Then come and spend the night. I've got a Christmas gift for you.

Seeing this conversation, Ji Xiaoou was so nervous that he couldn't breathe. This proves that the person Zhan Yu had met before he was killed, in addition to Rigorous, there was another person. If this is true, then the evidence of the Public Security Bureau's special case team on rigorous homicide may not be tenable. She had a hunch that she was beginning to get closer to the truth about Zhan Yu's murder, and Pandora's box was about to be opened.

"Don't you know who I am? It's so forgetful. Carefully typing out these two sentences, her fingers hovering over the keyboard, thinking and thinking, and finally landing, landing on the enter key.

The other side reacted immediately, as if they had been waiting for her answer.

"Who the hell are you?"

"We know each other's bodies very well, and we haven't seen each other for four months, and you forgot about me?"

This time, "Forbidden Love Without Regrets" did not respond.

Ji Xiaoou then wrote: "The last time we met was on Christmas Eve last year, and you gave me a gift. Have you forgotten everything? ”

The other party still didn't respond, but the avatar was still on, and the top of the window showed that the other party was typing, and it took a long time before he sent a sentence: "What do you want to do?" ”

"I don't want to do anything, I just miss you." At the end, she also marked a flower heart symbol. The other party still insisted, "What do you want to do?" “

Ji Xiaoou stared at the screen for a long time before answering: "I need a lot of money." ”

This time, the state of "typing" lasted for a long, long time again, and finally a sentence popped up on the window: "Meet and talk." ”

Ji Xiaoou replied: "Yes." ”

"Tonight." The other party then sent an address, "×× commercial building××× Western restaurant, half past ten in the evening." ”

Ji Xiaoou clicked on the map and searched, although the location of the commercial building was slightly remote, but there were supermarkets and residential areas around, and the flow of people was not small, so it should be safe. At this moment, she was bent on finding out the real person behind the ID, for fear that he would regret it, so she immediately replied, "Okay." ”

"There's an oil painting on the wall of the dining room, it's Van Gogh's Starry Sky, and you sit under it." ”

Ji Xiaoou replied: "See you or leave." ”

The avatar of "forbidden love without regrets" immediately turned gray.

Ji Xiaoou let out a long breath, and only then did he relax little by little. At this time, it was already the first dawn outside the window, and when she opened the curtains, she heard a few pleasant bird calls, and her mood was also lightened, and she felt that the crisp call was a complete auspicious sign. Although the evening date made her nervous, the hope of revenge for the rigors overcame the anxiety, and she was eager to find someone to share. After walking around the room a few times, she still sat down at the table, took out a blank piece of paper, and wrote a letter to Rigor Rigor . In fact, she didn't confirm whether Lawyer Zhou could hand over the letter to Rigor before the trial, but at this moment, she could only hear what she said. The letter worried her, and she didn't want to see him collapse before the truth was revealed.

After writing the letter, she seemed to have a worry on her mind. Fold the letter paper, put it in a blank envelope, write the words "Lawyer Zhou Turns Strict and Personally Opened", and prepare to hand over the letter to him when he goes to the industrial and commercial bureau with Lawyer Zhou in two days.

At nine o'clock in the morning, it is estimated that Cheng Ruimin has already gotten up to work, and Ji Xiaoou sent a text message to Cheng Ruimin: I have found something suspicious.

Cheng Ruimin immediately replied to the text message: If it is convenient, you come to my company, and I will wait for you.

Cheng Ruimin read the chat record countless times, and then said: "Judging from the conversation between the two of you, he regarded you as the one who blackmailed him." This man is very smart, as soon as you mention Christmas Eve, he immediately reacts that you are an insider. ”

Ji Xiaoou nodded: "Yes, I originally wanted to pretend to be a ghost to scare him, but as soon as he asked me what I wanted to do, I knew that he didn't believe it at all." ”

Cheng Ruimin closed the computer and looked at her: "What are you going to do when we meet in the evening?" Call the police? ”

Ji Xiaoou's eyes were full of contradiction and hesitation: "I've been thinking about this question. You said that based on this chat record, it can only prove that this person and Zhan Yu made an appointment to meet, as for whether their meeting was before or after rigorous, whether they met or not, I don't know, I will take this to the police, will they take it seriously? I'm afraid that if I delay or something goes wrong, this person will come back to his senses and be alert, and he won't show up again, so what can I do? He's already asked me to meet anyway, and I'm going to have to meet him anyway. ”

Cheng Ruimin walked to the window, crossed his arms and thought for a while, and then said, "I'll go see him." ”

"Nope." Ji Xiaoou was so anxious that he stood up, "How can I let you go?" ”

Cheng Ruimin walked over and pressed her shoulder: "Shao'an is not impatient." This can be a very dangerous person, you are a girl, how can you be allowed to go into danger?"

"But ......"

"Don't say it, just do it. Listen, let's go ahead of time, I'll sit under the painting, and you find a place near the door that is easy to take pictures with your phone. If something is wrong, you leave immediately with your phone and call the police immediately. ”

"Brother, it's really not good......"

"Alright." Cheng Ruimin stretched out his arm and hugged her without saying anything, "Think about Rigour, if this person is the real murderer, then Rigor will come out soon, and you will be able to see him soon, how good is this!" ”

He only smells of cologne perfume, and his shoulders are not as generous as rigorous, but they have the same reassuring power. Ji Xiaoou leaned on his shoulder and quietly shed a tear: "He is so lucky to have you here." ”