When Bai Yifan arrived home, she found that the lights were still on, she looked at her watch, it was already more than twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and when she got home, her parents were sitting in the living room. Seeing her come back, her mother hurriedly said, "Why did you come back so late?" ”

"It's not work." Bai Yifan had a coquettish tone.

Her mother brought a bowl of soup from the kitchen, "This is the soup I made for you, drink it quickly." ”

Bai Yifan's father yawned, "It's good to come back, clean up and go to bed quickly, these two days have been dry, I put a humidifier in your room." ”

"Okay, it's so late, you guys go to sleep quickly, you don't have to wait for me in the future, I'm not a child anymore." Bai Yifan persuaded her parents to go to sleep, she sat in the living room, drinking the soup her mother made for herself, and suddenly felt warm in her heart.

Han Yu walked on the way home, and passed by the bookstore last time, he walked in and wandered around, this bookstore is open 24 hours, even if it is so late, there are many people inside. In the quiet bookstore, Han Yu suddenly heard a gentle voice behind him, "Han Yu? ”

He turned his head, the woman in front of him was familiar, but he couldn't remember who this person was, and the puzzled expression in his eyes seemed even more incredible to the woman opposite. The woman seemed to be a little nervous, and spoke up again, "Han Yu, I'm Menghua, Xia Menghua, don't you remember?" ”

Han Yu searched for this name in his mind, and his memory seemed to go back to many years ago, when his mother was still there, his mother took him back to his hometown, the little girl in the neighborhood was about the same age as himself, every time he went back, the little girl would come to play with him, and he would bring some gifts to the little girl every time, and the little girl was this name.

Xia Menghua felt very surprised, the last time she saw it in the cemetery, she felt that she must have seen it wrong, this time Han Yu was standing in front of her, she had a lot of things to ask, but she didn't know where to start for a while. It was Han Yu who broke the silence first, "Why are you here?" ”

"I now settle in Linhua, and the last time I saw you at my aunt's cemetery, I thought I was wrong." was reminded by Xia Menghua like this, and he also remembered it, and there was a trace of embarrassment on his usually serious face.

"You still haven't changed much, your personality is still so serious, you were like that when you were a child, and you are still like this when you grow up, but you are getting better and better." Xia Menghua is a mature and cheerful woman, she has a generous personality, has a degree of advance and retreat, and is very comfortable to get along with. "Take out your phone."

Han Yu was stunned, she didn't know what she was going to do, she still took out her mobile phone, Xia Menghua took it and entered her phone number on the phone, and then dialed it again, her own mobile phone vibrate, "This is my mobile phone number, keep it, WeChat is the mobile phone number, I will add you." ”

"Okay," Han Yu glanced at the time, "It's late, where do you live, I'll send you back." ”

Xia Menghua smiled, "Okay, I don't live far away." ”

The two left together, and it turned out that the two of them lived very close, just one street away. Xia Menghua was very emotional, obviously living so close, maybe he had encountered it many times on the road, but he actually missed it, but fortunately, he finally met it this time.

Standing downstairs in Xia Menghua, Xia Menghua was about to go upstairs, but he walked a few steps and suddenly turned around, "Han Yu, ask you something?" ”

"You say?"

"Do you have a girlfriend now?" Xia Menghua's tone was natural, but only she knew how nervous she was.

Han Yu was a little surprised, but still shook his head, "No." ”

"That's good, good night." Xia Menghua left after speaking. Han Yu stayed where he was, remembering the childhood time he used to get along with Xia Menghua, those memories are beautiful, but since his mother died and he went abroad to study, many things have been gradually put in his heart, not that he doesn't remember, but he doesn't want to think about it again. It's been so long, perhaps, that will change.

Socrates once said, "The deepest desires always give rise to the strongest hatred." "Everyone's world is built up by adulthood, and everything that happens and every word spoken in the process of growing up will be a brick and tile in their own world. When one day the world collapses and becomes ruins, those bricks and tiles become the culprits, and the expectations are as high as the disappointments are deep.

People who live and understand often turn disappointment into strength to rebuild a new world. And those who are deeply disappointed will fall into it, from love to hate, and from hate to sin!

On the other side, Ye Xiaoxiao finished punching, took out a bottle of red wine and drank it, and was drinking happily, when he received a text message on his mobile phone, this number is not unfamiliar, and the content of the text message is very brief: Sister, can you lend me 20,000 yuan?

Ye Xiaoxiao was surprised when he looked at the text message, hesitated, and replied: Why do you want so much money?

The message was sent but there was no reply, Ye Xiaoxiao simply went to take a shower and came out, but found that there was still no reply, thought about it and called again, but no one answered, she stopped making calls, thinking that she would simply ask again the next day, so she fell asleep peacefully.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright outside, Ye Xiaoxiao's mobile phone rang, it was a call from Cheng Jiaxuan, Ye Xiaoxiao just answered the phone, only to hear the other side say, "Xiao Xiao, hurry up and come to Beihe." ”

"What's wrong?"

"There's a case over there, and I don't know the specifics, and now everyone is rushing over there."

The North River is a river in the north of Linhua City, so it is so named. The river is not big, there is a bridge on the river, vehicles will pass through the bridge, the river is very desolate, there are many weeds, some of the weeds are even about the same height as adults, there are a lot of stones and mud on the ground by the river, there are often people here to fish, especially some elderly people, when the sky is not yet dawn, they take a small bench and fishing tools here, so when Han Yu and his party arrived at the scene, the footprints on the ground were already very messy, and there was almost no value.

Cai Bo and Mo Hanwen also arrived not long ago, Ye Xiaoxiao was wearing a black jacket and jeans today, and the whole person looked very energetic, she walked to the side of the corpse, and originally wanted to ask Cai Bo about the situation of the corpse, but she was stunned for a moment when she saw the corpse. Then, she turned to Han Yu and said in a calm voice, "Team Han, I can't participate in this case, the deceased is my sister, Ye Tingting." ”

Everyone present was stunned, although they knew that Ye Xiaoxiao had a younger sister, but no one had ever seen it. After Ye Xiaoxiao finished speaking, she returned to the car, locked the car, and looked like it was fine, but her hands trembled, and her face began to turn pale.

Han Yu walked in front of the corpse, the corpse was found on the shore, and she was lying flat on the shore. Her hair was loose, and her head was on the rocks on the shore, and her face was clean except for the fact that her hair was wet with water. Her face was delicately painted, her lips were painted with red lipstick, her hands were at her sides, her hands were painted with red nail polish, she was wearing a long light green dress that seemed to match her, and a pair of light green heeled sandals of the same color on her feet.

Han Yu looked at it for a while, and suddenly remembered the last time he dealt with the fire case, one night he went to look for Ye Youchen and saw a girl near his house, and he felt familiar at the time, it was this girl. Because he had seen Ye Tingting's photos, he always felt very familiar.

After Cai Bo finished the preliminary examination of the body, he and his assistant prepared to take the body back to the team for examination, he glanced at Ye Xiaoxiao in the car not far away, and then said, "The time of death of the deceased was about 3 hours, the deceased had strangulation marks on his neck, and there were many bleeding spots in the conjunctiva of the eye, so it was preliminarily determined that he was strangled to death." The specific situation will not be known until I go back for further examination. ”

"Good work, Lao Cai." Han Yu nodded and said.

Cai Bo waved his hand and left. Han Yu glanced back at Ye Xiaoxiao, and then focused on the scene again, after Bai Yifan and Cheng Jiaxuan investigated nearby, Cheng Jiaxuan thought for a while and said, "This should not be the first crime scene. ”

"Why?" Bai Yifan was puzzled.

"Just now Lao Cai said that the deceased may have been strangled to death, and generally speaking, if the deceased is strangled to death, there will be varying degrees of struggle. But the place where the deceased was just now was very clean, and there were no signs of fighting and struggling nearby, and she felt as if she was asleep there. ”