The agreed western restaurant is located in the northeast corner of the first floor of the commercial building. Cheng Ruimin arrived ahead of schedule and observed the entire environment. The restaurant has two floors. On the first floor there is a café or round table, and on the basement level, there is a vacant bar with a few more intimate sofa seats, and the rest is the restroom, changing room and utility room.

The restaurant closes at 11 p.m., and by 10 o'clock the customers are almost gone, leaving only two tables of couple-like guests in the corner of the restaurant. Therefore, Cheng Ruimin easily found the high-quality imitation of "Starry Sky" in the depths of the store, and sat down with his back to the store door under it.

At this point, it is relatively rare for a guest to eat, and the waiter came over lazily: "Sir, we are about to close." ”

"I know." Cheng Ruimin raised his head and smiled, "I'm waiting for a friend, and it won't affect you to close the store." ”

He ordered a bottle of mineral water, took a random magazine from the magazine rack at the door of the restaurant, opened it, and looked at the watch on his wrist, 10:25. He turned around and nodded imperceptibly to Ji Xiaoou, who was sitting near the door.

Ji Xiaoou also nodded slightly, indicating that he was ready. Her mobile phone recording function has been turned on, and the camera is facing the doorway, and the environment at the door can be seen at a glance on her mobile phone screen. And she herself wore headphones, held a cup of milk tea, and pretended to be watching a video on her mobile phone.

At 10:30, the door of the western restaurant was pushed open, and someone poked his head in. Ji Xiaoou's nerves tensed all over his body, and he quietly pressed the video button. But the man just chatted with the waiter at the door, and when the waiter said that it would close immediately, he left immediately.

At 10:35 a.m., the interior of the commercial building was so quiet that you could hear footsteps from far and near outside the door. Ji Xiaoou had to take a deep breath to calm himself down a little. But the footsteps gradually disappeared from near to far, but he was just a passerby.

Checking the effect of the shooting just now, due to the dim light, the faces were blurred, Ji Xiaoou lowered his head and called up the menu, ready to change to night mode.

At the moment when she lowered her head, the door of the western restaurant was slowly pushed open, without a sound.

A figure in a black hooded sweatshirt and black jacket slowly emerged from the dim light outside the restaurant. It was an emaciated man, not tall, wearing a baseball cap, the upper half of his face was hidden in shadows, but the lower half of his face had a clear nose, lips, and chin.

Ji Xiaoou didn't look up, she could clearly see this man's every move from the phone screen. The waiter didn't know where to hide, no one greeted him, and he didn't go inside, just stood at the door, watching quietly, like a statue of silence. But across the screen, Ji Xiaoou could feel a cold aura rushing towards her face, and her hair seemed to stand on end all at once.

She couldn't help but turn her head to look at Cheng Ruimin not far away. Cheng Ruimin was still sitting and didn't look back, as if he was unaware of the movement behind him.

And the man in black began to walk forward, heading straight in the direction of Cheng Ruimin. And if he wants to walk under the painting where Cheng Ruimin is, he must pass Ji Xiaoou's seat.

Ji Xiaoou pressed the crazy heartbeat, and gently turned the direction of the mobile phone with small movements that were not easy to be noticed, staring at every move of the man in black in the camera without blinking.

The figure of the man in black is getting bigger and bigger on the screen, and his facial features are getting clearer and clearer. Ji Xiaoou suddenly felt that this nose and mouth had a sense of déjà vu, but her facial blindness also attacked at the same time, and she couldn't remember when she had seen such facial features. At this time, as if the brim of the hat was blocking the view, the man in black pushed the hat up, and half of the conspicuous brain door suddenly appeared in Ji Xiaoou's sight.

Her eyes widened suddenly, and she subconsciously raised her head-

This person, she actually knows!

She stared at the face so hard that her whole body seemed to be frozen, and the entire cranial cavity seemed to be hollowed out, leaving only a few words to bump wildly into it.

It's you?

Why you?

At this moment, all the dead knots that she had ever had in her heart were opened.

understood why Zhan Yu met him.

understood who the last person Zhan Yu went to see before his death was.

I understood why Fang Nia would give her that QQ number.

I understand why Fontia is pretending to be crazy.

She stood up and wanted to ask him, two living lives! Two lives! Why?

The man in black's attention was originally all on Cheng Ruimin, but Ji Xiaoou's abrupt actions diverted his attention. When his eyes fell on Ji Xiaoou, an expression of shock and disbelief appeared on his face in an instant. But his steps only lingered for a moment, and then, as if he did not know her, he passed by her, and still walked behind. But his target was no longer Cheng Ruimin, but turned a corner to the right and walked towards the stairs on one side.

From that staircase, you will find the basement level of the restaurant.

His steps were fast, and he was about to walk down the stairs and disappear from Ji Xiaoou's sight.

Ji Xiaoou chased after him, and he didn't even have time to pick up the mobile phone on the table. She also forgot that Cheng Ruimin was still sitting next to her. There was only one thought in her heart: she couldn't let him run away! Xiao Yu, Sister Nia, for your sake, I will never let him run away, no matter what the price is.

Cheng Ruimin sat there without looking back. He can't let his face be easily exposed to the other party's field of vision when the other party has not fully appeared.

The door opened and closed again, silent silence, the sound of approaching footsteps...... He listened intently, sweat slowly pouring from his clenched fists.

But without warning, the rhythm of the footsteps was suddenly disrupted, followed by the sharp sound of the stairs, and he hesitated for a moment, thinking about how to deal with the sudden change. When he turned around, he found that there was no one behind him, and even Ji Xiaoou was gone.

Cheng Ruimin stood up solemnly, and his innate sensitivity made him immediately realize that something was wrong.

He rushed down the stairs like crazy.

The basement level was silent and empty. He stood in the middle of the empty hall with his overwhelmed heart and shouted, "Xiaoou! ”

No one answered him.

There was a cold wind passing by, and the curtain of the bathroom in front of him was raised and swung back by the passing wind, like the wings of a white dove.

Cheng Ruimin walked over slowly.

In the middle of the toilet is a communal sink, and Tibetan incense burns above the sink, and a wisp of green smoke spirals up under the ambiguous light, and a smoky incense rushes straight to people's heads. On the left and right are the men's and women's restrooms, both with half-hidden doors.

Cheng Ruimin first pushed open the wooden door of the women's bathroom, the doors of the two cubicles were open, and the two urinals with an unobstructed view were not abnormal. He withdrew, holding his breath and gently pushing open the door to the men's bathroom.

Then he saw Ji Xiaoou who fell to the ground.

Cheng Ruimin felt like he had entered a dream, but the dream came so quickly and suddenly that he didn't even have time to discern whether it was a nightmare or not.

He stretched out his arm to help Ji Xiaoou up. Her body was still soft and warm, exactly the same as the one he had embraced in his arms this morning. Gradually, however, a warm liquid trickled down his fingers, sticky between them. The small window above the urinal opened, and a cool breeze swept by, and the smell of sweet orangutans rushed straight to the nostrils, and even the thick Tibetan incense could not hide the smell.

The strength of Cheng Ruimin's arms and legs seemed to be drained by the smell of fresh blood. He grew up proud of his ability to control people and things, but this time things were completely out of his control, even though he didn't know how it all came to be. In the end, he suppressed the fear and panic in his heart, picked up Ji Xiaoou and ran upstairs.

This was originally a night of intoxicating spring breeze, but the gentleness and charm of the spring night were torn apart by the bloody case of the Western restaurant in Dongcheng.

Police cars were the first to arrive at the scene of the crime, and a cordon was placed around the restaurant. It was another ten minutes before the ambulance arrived. But it doesn't make a difference sooner or later. The girl who was killed was stabbed in the chest with a thin blade, and the blade pierced through the gap in the ribs and directly into the heart.

Cheng Ruimin sat on a bench in the hospital, his light-colored suit covered in large patches of dark brown blood. He stared down at the terrazzo floor beneath his feet, motionless as if it were a clay sculpture carved from wood.

His wife, Tan Bin, rushed to the hospital, grabbed his shoulders and called softly: "Ruimin? ”

Cheng Ruimin slowly raised his head and looked at his wife as if he didn't know him, his face looked extremely haggard, and there was a deep shadow under his eye sockets.

Tan Bin touched his face: "Ruimin." ”

He hugged Tan Bin and buried his face in her chest. Tan Bin heard his whimpering voice: "I was wrong, I did wrong, how can I explain to my brother when I turn around?" ”

Tan Bin silently hugged his shoulders and sighed gloomily. Two people who grew up in an ivory tower, even if they have been in society for many years, know that the most difficult thing in the world to control is the human heart. But they have never had the opportunity to understand that in everyone's heart, where the sun does not shine, there is a silent dark river, once sin grows, the darkness and cruelty of human nature are like a dark abyss, and the bottom line can never be touched.

Ji Xiaoou's parents were notified by the police at about 1 a.m. The two stumbled to the hospital and were taken by police into the autopsy room next to the morgue.

Ji Xiaoou lay quietly on the dissecting table, his face exposed outside the white cloth sheet was clean, peaceful and calm, more like immersed in a quiet dreamland.

Zhao Yamin stood on the side of the dissecting table, leaned over and called her daughter's nickname: "Niuniu? ”

Her voice was soft and trembling, shocked, painful and desperate. She reached out and stroked her daughter's cheek, and the tentacles were cold, no longer her warm and soft girl. Dozens of days ago, the mother and daughter just quarreled as usual, but they didn't expect to meet again, but they were already separated by yin and yang, and their daughter was gone, and the rest of her life was completely in vain.

"Mom is angry with you, Mom has never really been angry with you......" She shook her daughter's cold body, "Xiaoou, don't be like this, you go back with Mom, let's go home...... Niu Niu, Niu Niu, Mom is sorry for you......"

In the deep night outside the window, there were rare fireflies flying by in the city, and it was Ji Xiaoou's soul that broke away from the shell, and it couldn't be recovered, and it couldn't be kept.

Ji Zhaolin tried his best to support his heartbroken wife, but he was also confused by tears, and his facial features were distorted in pain.

Sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person is probably the most unbearable nightmare for every parent. Zhao Tinghui, the criminal policeman standing behind them, also had tears in the corners of his eyes. He glanced at the policeman next to him, who nodded, and the two of them walked out of the morgue together and walked in front of Cheng Ruimin.

"You're an eyewitness at the scene?" Zhao Tinghui asked him.

Cheng Ruimin nodded: "Yes." ”

"I've read the transcript of the police station, do you think this case is related to another case?"

"Yes."

"Then please go with us to the city bureau and make a detailed inquiry."

Cheng Ruimin stood up: "I am willing to cooperate." ”

According to the results of Cheng Ruimin's interrogation and the chat records in Zhan Yu's QQ, the police highly suspect that the perpetrator of the Western restaurant case is also seriously suspected in the case of Zhan Yu's murder, and plans to combine the two cases. The Dongcheng Branch soon handed over the case of Ji Xiaoou's murder in a Western restaurant to the "12.29" task force.

The task force retrieved the surveillance video of the commercial building. It can be seen from the video that the man in black who is suspected of being the murderer is obviously very familiar with the environment of the commercial building and the western restaurant, and entering the restaurant from the parking lot, he did not enter the elevator with the camera, but entered the first floor of the commercial building from the safety staircase. The security staircase happens to be a surveillance blind spot in the commercial building where there are no cameras. Although the surveillance at the door of the restaurant captured his figure, the camera position was too high, and he was wearing a long-brimmed baseball cap.

As for what happened after Ji Xiaoou chased him to the basement of the restaurant, Cheng Ruimin did not see it with his own eyes, and the police could only make a live simulation based on the remaining traces. The two seemed to have stopped at the door of the men's toilet for a short time, and then Ji Xiaoou was dragged into the men's toilet. The murderer was obviously very familiar with human anatomy, and killed with a single knife, and the position of the knife was directly facing the heart, without a trace of deviation. Immediately after the killing, he opened the ventilated window above the men's toilet and climbed out. Outside the window is a dead corner in the parking lot, piled up with ladders and bamboo brooms and other miscellaneous items that are difficult for the building's cleaning staff to use, and few people or cars come in this direction. After the man in black climbed out of the window in the surveillance video, he pulled up the hat of his hooded jacket to cover his head and face, and watched him disappear behind a car, and since then the black clothes and black pants have not appeared in the surveillance video of the shopping mall.

Such a strict behavior makes the crime scene almost untraceable, indicating that the murderer is an extremely cautious and clear-minded person. In fact, even Cheng Ruimin, who was at the scene, didn't see the true face of the suspect, and he didn't understand the plan that was originally good, why Ji Xiaoou would immediately chase after the man in black when he saw it. But fortunately, Ji Xiaoou didn't have time to put away his mobile phone when he was chasing the suspected murderer, so this mobile phone with the video of the suspected murderer was lucky not to fall into his hands.

From Ji Xiaoou's mobile phone, the police extracted a fairly clear screenshot of the suspected murderer, although the shooting angle was from top to bottom, and the person's face was slightly deformed, but the facial features were still clear.

It seems to be in full swing and in order, but the investigation activities of the police can only go here. The most critical problem is this: no one recognizes the person in the photo. Although according to the simulation of the situation at the scene, the police speculated that Ji Xiaoou was likely to know the suspect. But Cheng Ruimin, Ji Xiaoou's parents, and people close to her don't know the man in the photo. The special case team sent the photos of the suspected murderers to various subordinate sub-bureaus for identification, but in the vast sea of people, a huge capital, and a population of nearly 20 million, where to find a person with a vague face?

Even if Ji Xiaoou mentioned the origin of the QQ number to Cheng Ruimin before his death, so that the police restarted the investigation of Fang Niya's suicide case, which had already made a suicide conclusion, but through the re-investigation of her surroundings, it can only be proved that she does suffer from depression, has been taking medication for a long time, and her mental state before suicide has indeed been abnormal, and has not been able to lock any reliable evidence to help solve Ji Xiaoou's murder case.

In the end, there was only one choice left for the police: stick to the QQ number called "Forbidden Love Without Regrets". As soon as he is online, the cyber police will be able to lock his IP address and thus find the person. Since that day, the avatar of this QQ number has always been gray and has never lit up again.

Ji Xiaoou's body has been forensically examined, ruling out other causes of death, and with the consent of the family, it will be cremated within a week.

On the eve of the cremation, an uninvited guest came to the Ji family.

Strict mother, accompanied by Yan Shen and lawyer Zhou, sent a wooden box. Inside the wooden box is a jade bracelet with an emerald green body. With her right hand, which could only move, she trembled and put the wooden box into Zhao Yamin's hand.

Yan Shen spoke on behalf of her mother: "My mother said that in her heart, she has long regarded Xiaoou as a daughter-in-law, and this bracelet is a token left by the Yan family to her future daughter-in-law, and she wants this bracelet to accompany Xiaoou on the road." ”

Zhao Yamin looked at the wooden box in her hand, and then looked up at the three of them, her dull eyes suddenly changed, as if she saw a flood beast, she raised the wooden box and threw it out: "Get out!" I don't want to have anything to do with your family. If it weren't for the rigor, how could Xiaoou have come to this point? You pay back my daughter......"

Ji Zhaolin still kept his sanity in grief, and he stopped his wife: "Don't do this! It was an accident and had nothing to do with them. You also saw Xiaoou's last letter, maybe the child...... Maybe she wants that, child......"

A white envelope with the words: Lawyer Zhou turned to Yan Yan to open it in person.

After reading the letter, Lawyer Zhou sighed deeply and handed the letter to Yan Shen. Yan Shen read it slowly, almost word by word, and then she didn't say anything, walked straight to Ji Xiaoou's portrait, and bowed deeply.

"I'm sorry, Xiaoou, I'm sorry!"

On the eve of the trial, he was transferred back to another detention center in Beijing. He was also placed in a small cell for safety reasons. There is also an official who has been put on trial for corruption, and the conditions are naturally quite good compared to other large prison cells. Speaking of which, he was very lucky, in the detention center for a few months, except for losing seven or eight pounds because of that illness, he did not suffer much.

The prosecutor's final decision to prosecute made him uncomfortable for a few days, but after a few days, he wanted to open again. Anyway, it's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, isn't it that the final trial can determine his final fate. For things that have not yet become facts, he has always been too lazy to think about them, and it is useless to think about them, but he can't eat and sleep, and he feels that this is too bad for himself.

On this day, he received a notice of a lawyer's meeting, and he pinched his fingers and calculated, this should be the last time they met before the trial. But what made him strange was that this time the prison guards only put a pair of handcuffs on him, and did not put him in shackles again. However, he was in a hurry to meet with the lawyer, but he was surprised for a moment, and did not bother to analyze the connotation of this differential treatment. But when he walked into the interview room and saw that Lawyer Zhou, who had always dressed casually, was wearing a full suit today, his hair was neatly combed, and he showed a relieved smile at him, he realized that something seemed to have happened to him.

"Lawyer Zhou." He sat down and grinned and asked, "What is so pleased?" Are you remarried? ”

Lawyer Zhou ignored his ridicule, but looked at him with a solemn expression: "The police have discovered new evidence in the case of Zhan Yu's murder, and there has been a big turning point in the direction of solving the entire case, and the procuratorate has revoked the decision to prosecute you. ”

Rigorous's eyes widened and he looked at Lawyer Zhou—he understood, and he understood. The suspects and police officers who came and went around him suddenly blurred their faces and figures, and only Lawyer Zhou was still clear in front of him.

A smile appeared on Lawyer Zhou's face again: "Maybe you will be able to go out soon." That's the end of my mission. Speaking of which, your job is really not easy to do, where am I a lawyer, the whole thing is a broken urge. ”

Rigor seemed to finally react and smiled: "Good people will always be rewarded." Look at me, isn't that a ready-made role model? If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing. Oops, it's the second time I've said it, and God really thinks of me. ”

"You wait for the task force to really find the real culprit." Lawyer Zhou snorted, "It's not uncommon for this kind of case to drag on for a year and a half." ”

Rigor immediately smiled: "Seriously, Lawyer Zhou, how long do you estimate I will have to stay?" Can I go out before September? ”

Lawyer Zhou shook his head: "It's really hard to say, it depends on the investigation ability of the task force." But why are you thinking about September? ”

Rubbing his hair rigorously, he seemed a little embarrassed: "The end of September is my girlfriend's birthday, I messed up her birthday last year, and I have to make it back this year." Ah, by the way, have you completed the legal formalities? ”

Lawyer Zhou was stunned for a moment before replying, "I didn't have time." ”

"That's fine. If I could get out, I wouldn't have done it. Do you still need to divide the joint property of husband and wife with whom? ”

Lawyer Zhou looked at him, looking at the rigor that he didn't care about, and there was a shy and uneasy expression on his face, and the smile on his lips seemed to be full of thousands of words. He looked rigorous, with both contradiction and deep compassion in his eyes. The letter that Ji Xiaoou left before leaving was in his leather bag at the moment, and his hand reached in a few times, but he couldn't bear to take it out and hand it to Rigorous.

The investigation of Zhan Yu's corpse crushing case and Ji Xiaoou's murder case in Western Restaurant stalled for a long time, and finally ushered in a peak turn one day in May.

Because Liu Wei, who has been missing for a long time, was accidentally arrested in a city below Shunde, Guangdong. This Liu Wei is the Liu Wei who asked Rigor to run out of the detention center at any cost.

Liu Wei lived incognito in Guangdong for nearly half a year, and was detained for a drunken brawl, and then was found out by the police to have a fake identity. He was soon escorted to Beijing by the Guangdong police, where the special case team conducted a surprise interrogation overnight. Although the final result of the interrogation ruled out his suspicion in the Zhan Yu case, when the task force handed over the photo of the man in black taken by Ji Xiaoou to him for identification, he recognized that he had helped this person pimp, because this person was picky and difficult, so he still had an impression after so long. And the object of pimping is Zhan Yu, the KK of the year.

This major gain in the interrogation made the entire task force excited, and the two cases of Zhan Yu and Ji Xiaoou finally had a definite evidence connection. The corpse mutilation case, which has been delayed for nearly half a year, is finally expected to be closed.

Prostitutes who go to bars and nightclubs don't usually use their real names, but Mr. Liu remembers a phone call with the man in October last year. So Liu Wei's mobile phone records in October were retrieved, more than 100 call numbers were checked one by one, and the final suspicion was locked on one person. A man who has never been in the sight of the police.

Fang Niya's husband - Chen Jianguo.

The so-called Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky.

A week later, the "12.29 Murder and Crushing Case" and the "4.21 Western Restaurant Murder Case" were announced to be solved. Another suicide incident was also reclassified as homicide, and the murderer was the same person - Chen Jianguo.

Chen Jianguo, a thin, silent, quiet, and hard-working good husband, son-in-law, and partner in the eyes of relatives, neighbors, and friends, I don't know how many people have broken their glasses.

He confessed to the serial murder he had committed and confessed all the details of the crime. Under his identification, the police seized a large amount of buried and abandoned physical evidence at various locations in the city and searched an apartment he had bought in the name of his sister. The apartment had been unoccupied for a long time, and although it had been carefully cleaned, the police found several splattered blood stains on the walls and floors of the apartment's bathroom. This apartment is in the same neighborhood as the strict residence. So when the police collected evidence, why there was only a picture of Zhan Yu entering the community in the surveillance video and no footage of him leaving the community, this question finally has an answer. Because after Zhan Yu left the strict house, he did not go anywhere else, but turned into another apartment only three buildings apart.

Referring to the motive for the killing, Chen Jianguo confessed that he had known that he was a homosexual since he was an adolescent, but as the eldest son in the family, his sister let him finish college and graduate school at the cost of dropping out of school and working. It wasn't until he became famous that he felt that he could do something out of the ordinary to live for himself. It was at this time that he ran into Zhan Yu. He fell in love with Zhan Yu at first sight, and soon fell in love so deep that he couldn't extricate himself, and he was almost obedient to Zhan Yu, but Zhan Yu was like leaving him, and he still had skin-to-skin kisses with others behind his back, and he endured it. Until the last night, Christmas Eve on December 24 last year, the two completely turned their faces.

At that time, Zhan Yu's family was facing demolition, and Zhan Yu wanted to buy a house as soon as possible to take his mother away from his father's blackmail, but the demolition money in hand was still nearly 300,000 yuan short of his request. On that night, after he left Rigor to see Chen Jianguo, he asked for 300,000 yuan on the grounds of disclosing the other party's sexual orientation. Chen Jianguo, who felt that his true feelings were being played, lost his mind in anger and killed Zhan Yu by mistake. After that, he calmly dismembered the body, threw the body, destroyed and buried other evidence, and was calm and sophisticated, not like a novice. He never went into that apartment since.

And Fania's murder was entirely due to an accident. The rental of the old house in the family has always been taken care of by Chen Jianguo, and Fang Niya has never interfered. But because of Ji Xiaoou's needs, Fang Niya found the rental contract from his study and contacted the agent to quit the lease early, but the agent told her that there was no information about the house in their system now. Fang Niya, who was suspicious, took the door key and went directly to the old house, but inadvertently saw Chen Jianguo and a young man hugging each other. Only then did she understand why she had found signs of his affair several times, but she could never find the third person. Because that third person is not a woman at all, but a man. Angry to angry, but not losing her mind, she quietly returned home, found a lawyer and began to prepare for divorce. The lawyer taught her to try to find evidence of Chen Jian's affair first, regardless of whether the affair was a man or a woman. In this way, she took advantage of his absence from home to remove the hard drive of his computer, find someone to crack his QQ, and restore all the chat records that have been deleted. In these records, she was shocked to see a picture of Zhan Yu. With this thick document that could be used as evidence in court, she asked Chen Jianguo for a showdown, or he left the house and left all his property, or she handed over all the information to the police.

In the face of the threat, Chen Jianguo once again murdered, and after using drugs to incapacitate Fang Niya, he faked the suicide scene and used a nasogastric tube to make her take a large amount of sleeping pills, but was rescued because the nanny found out early. After Fang Niya woke up, she realized that she was already facing a murderous demon who had lost her normality, and she pretended to be insane to make Chen Jianguo lose her vigilance, and found an opportunity to hand over the QQ number to Ji Xiaoou. It's just a pity that Ji Xiaoou has not been able to understand the mystery. She waited for a few days without rescue, she was really anxious, and escaped from the house while Chen Jianguo and the nanny were asleep, but was broken by Chen Jianguo and held hostage to the old house. There, she was pushed off the balcony of the sixteenth floor.

As for Ji Xiaoou, when he went to the appointment that night, he brought a bank card and a scalpel with him, pretending to negotiate conditions, but in fact, he wanted to identify someone and then find a chance to kill him. But he never expected that he would meet Ji Xiaoou. From the shock and anger on Ji Xiaoou's face when he saw him, he understood that he was exposed, and after losing control of his emotions for a while, he went straight to the bathroom on the ground floor, where there was an escape route he had planned in advance. But Ji Xiaoou followed. She asked him: Why? They're all people you've loved once, why?

Many days later, the criminal court of the people's court made a first-instance verdict in the case: Chen Jianguo was guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced to death for immediate execution. The reporter went to interview him and asked the same question: Why? Why do you despise the lives of others so much? Why?

Chen Jianguo didn't answer this question, but looked out the window and said: I can finally sleep well.

On the day Chen Jianguo was formally arrested, Yan Jian finally left the detention center and was free.

His release was scheduled for 10 a.m., but at 5:30 a.m., he was sent out of the detention center and into the city by a tightly covered prison van. Because there is a large number of media squatting outside the door of the detention center at the moment, the detention center has no choice but to use the method of playing hide and seek with the reporters.

At the entrance of the Fifth Ring Road, Cheng Cheng stepped out of the prisoner car.

It was raining, he opened the car door, mixed with the moist smell of the earthy fragrance suddenly filled his nose and lungs, and the peach and apricot outside the isolation zone bloomed heavily, making people suddenly feel slightly drunk.

He saw two familiar cars parked on the side of the road, and Cheng Ruimin and Yan Shen each stood in front of the car with an umbrella. Their smiles seemed to him more touching than the spring drizzle and breeze.

He walked over, a slight choking in his throat: "Xiaoyi! Be careful! ”

Yan Shen threw away the umbrella, threw himself into his arms, hugged him and began to cry bitterly. He gently patted his sister's back: "You girl, what are you crying about?" I've been like this since I was a child, crying when I'm happy, crying when I'm unhappy, I'm a child, can you grow up a little longer? ”

Yan Shen slapped his shoulder, and broke into a smile: "Since I was a child, I have been buried since I was a child, so you can't say something nice?" ”

Seeing Cheng Ruimin next to him, he pushed Yan Shen away rigorously, and gave him a big hug in the past.

Rigor said: "Brother, I just said, like me, it has always been a scourge for thousands of years, and I will not leave you alone." ”

Cheng Ruimin smiled, but he couldn't stretch his smile, as if he had a heavy heart pressing on his heart. Slapping his strict back, he whispered, "Come to my car, I have something to tell you." ”

"No problem." Rigor let go of him, pulled the car door by himself, and looked around again, "Hey, where is Ji Xiaoou?" On such a big day, she didn't come to pick me up? It's so unbelievable! ”

Yan Shen and Cheng Ruimin exchanged a look, Cheng Ruimin nodded slightly, and pushed Cheng Zheng into the back seat, "You go in first, I'll tell you slowly." ”

Rigor sat in the car, only to find that it was Tan Bin who was driving. He frowned: "Xiaoyi, my sister is pregnant with your Cheng family's seed in her belly, why don't you know that you feel sorry for your daughter-in-law and let her be your driver?" ”

Tan Bin turned around and smiled: "I'm only six months old, and I'm not as useless as you think." ”

Cheng Ruimin came in at this time, sat next to him, and said to Tan Bin: "Daughter-in-law, drive quickly, don't wait for those media to wake up, it will be a big trouble to catch up." ”

Tan Bin agreed, and the car drove briskly onto the Fifth Ring Road, heading all the way towards the CBD of the city. She heard Cheng Ruimin's low voice behind her, and also heard the friction of paper, it was Cheng Ruimin who handed over a letter to Rigor . She didn't dare to look back, just quietly peeked in the rearview mirror. What greeted me was a pale face, with no focus in the eyes, as if the soul had gone out of the body. She looked away, unable to bear to look any further. Until she fast-forwarded to the Fourth Ring Road, Cheng Ruimin suddenly said to her: "Tan Bin, there is McDonald's on the side of the road, you go have some breakfast, and buy two cups of coffee and come back." ”

Tan Bin agreed, found a parking space on the side of the road, parked the car, and pushed the car door out without looking back.

After she finished her simple breakfast and walked back with a few cups of coffee, she saw Cheng Ruimin leaning on Cheng Ruimin's shoulder through the car window, covering her face with a piece of stationery with her hands. And in the middle of the letter, there was a wet shadow, which was growing bigger and bigger.

Tan Bin didn't dare to open the door, let alone go in, just stared at the two of them blankly. She had never seen a man cry silently, so she didn't know that the sudden sight could be so shocking. Cheng Ruimin in the car window raised his head, the eyes of the two were tangled, they all looked like they had mixed feelings, and finally Cheng Ruimin lifted his windbreaker and blocked it on his head.

The rain began to fall rapidly, and there was water on the road, and the rain fell to the ground, blistering one after another. The petals of the peach withered in the torrential rain, red and white pink, and the fallen flowers were colorful, and they went down the river with irretrievable regrets.

Ji Xiaoou was buried in a scenic cemetery in Xishan.

Rigor crouched down and placed a bouquet of white roses in front of her tombstone. He knew he was late. I know it's late, but I still want to come. Because he still hoped for a miracle, as if he couldn't see her tombstone, it was not a fact that she had left. Now that he was finally facing her, he heard the sound of his heart beating, beating to the point of pain, as if it had been crushed alive.

At this time, he heard a woman's voice ask him, "Are you rigorous?" ”

Rigor raised his head and saw a beautiful woman in a white shirt looking down at him.

"Are you rigorous?" She asked again.

"Yes. Who are you? ”

She stretched out her hidden hand, holding a small bouquet of wildflowers with crystal dew on the petals. She placed the wildflowers next to the bouquet of white roses, and then said to Rigue, "I am a friend of Xiaoou, and I am waiting for you here." She had entrusted me with one thing, I was leaving China, so I would return it to you. She took out a bank card and put it in the palm of her hand, "I'll leave it to you, I'll do it for her." ”

Strictly holding the card, although full of confusion, this girl had a peculiar aura on her, which made him speechless for a while, and he didn't know where to start.

The girl in white stood up, with a young appearance, but there was a thousand vicissitudes in her voice: "Actually, I came here to say something to you." A relationship, if you have not experienced the trivialities of life, have not experienced the tribulations of reality, and have not been polished out of the original appearance of love, love will stop at its most beautiful and purest moment, so that you will never forget the beautiful person you have loved for the rest of your life, and the beautiful person you have never changed. In fact, compared to too many feelings in the world that have been destroyed by time and reality, it is not too bad. ”

She left, her back fluttering and disappearing into the path among the flowers, as if she had never appeared.

It was already evening, and the sunset on the horizon burned into a cloud. He squatted in front of the grave, thinking nothing in his heart, just watching, watching the glow brighter and darker and darker, watching flocks of birds fly past the low trees and return to their nests, watching the clear sky turn from blue to deep blue, and from dark blue to inky black. The heavens are still the same as before, but the world is no longer the world it used to be, and people are no longer the people they used to be.

He took out the last letter Ji Xiaoou left for him. The letter was now crumpled, the blue handwriting on it blurred, and he couldn't read it in many places, but he remembered every word clearly.

Preciseness:

You okay?

First of all, I have to tell you one thing. Actually, it would be better to tell you about this matter when it is implemented, but I can't help it, maybe by the time this letter is handed over to you, everything will be settled. Because, most likely, I have found the real culprit for you, and you will soon be able to regain your innocence, regain your freedom, and return to us. You can wait for the good news with peace of mind.

I'll tell you what you asked me to do before.

First, Marin's grandfather has been sent to a nursing home, and Marin's father and son have been laid to rest.

Second, Zhan Yu's mother refuses to accept me now, but I have found an older sister to take care of her for me. As for the letter of understanding, I don't want to hear from you, and if I have to go to court in the end, I will only listen to Lawyer Zhou.

Thirdly, the application for the establishment of the fund is complicated and is in progress. You're up to the task of giving it a name, okay? "One-third" of the profit, you don't have to worry at all, I am very capable, and I have solved a lot of troubles for you. I'll do things, you can rest assured. It's just that you have to thank me so much when you come out, I just broke my heart for it.

Then, it was between the two of us. The experience of more than a year has made me understand a lot of things. It turns out that there is no eternal reunion in life, and there is no eternal parting. The feelings we have paid, the encounters we have cherished, and the people we have hugged who we thought we could be together forever, will finally be lost one day, and we still have to say goodbye helplessly. I don't want to wait until that day to find out that we love a lot more than we thought we were. Therefore, even if your family and your sister will become a thorn in my life in the future, I will not give up on you easily.

At this time, it was midnight after the rain outside the window, the new green leaves were dripping with water, the wind gave the fragrance of magnolia to passers-by, and the dark fragrance I received was enough to miss you. Beloved, I want to tell you: if I lose everything, there is still God, and if I lose God, I can find you again.

I'm waiting for you, waiting for you to come back.

Xiaoou

Every time he opened the letter, his hands trembled slightly, as they did now. I've repeated it countless times, and I've passed it in and out of my dreams, and I'm still shivering. He remembered the first time he had seen her a year ago, when she walked in front of him and smiled back at him. He glanced at her, long, long, and amazed at her beautiful figure and dazzling smile. She was very beautiful at that time, and he could even remember the style of her hair and the clothes she was wearing at that time. She came up to him and told him that the zipper of his front door was open, and he felt sorry for the fact that only her mouth was too big in her beautiful features, but he never told her how beautiful she was when she grinned with her white teeth open, and her smile was like that of a child who had just woken up.

Rigor still remembers her laughter at that time. He raised his head, and at some point his eyelashes were stained with water, so that he could see at a glance, no matter what, the trees, the lone bird, the crescent moon, the stars...... Whatever you see, everything with tears.

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