Chapter 9: The Bottom of the Mountain

It was bound to be a very torturous day, with a thick horror of death going on for a day.

Everyone sat in the tea room on the second floor, looking at each other, and the atmosphere was unbearable heaviness, coupled with the cold air

The explanation given by the police is that according to the situation at the scene, Lao Ma should just accidentally fall into the water, and it is not involved in the scope of any criminal case, of course, the conclusion can only be determined when the autopsy report comes out, and the police comfort us not to panic excessively, this kind of thing happens every day, and there is nothing unusual.

But I looked at everyone's eyes, everyone's eyebrows flashed with uneasiness, everyone seemed to be thoughtful, and now it seems that everyone is weird, only Xiaotian, who seems to have no idea what is going on, and is still playing happily in the house.

"Really...... I'm sorry that such a sad thing is happening in my house. Han Ke was holding the teacup, his face was really bad, like a withered flower, and he no longer had the beauty of yesterday. This hillside house has been under construction for several years, and there has never been anything like it. ”

"Mrs. Han, don't blame yourself, this may just be Lao Ma's own mistake." Mr. Chen said slowly. "You are kind enough to take us in, and you can't be blamed for this matter anyway."

Han Ke didn't smile because of Lao Ma's polite comfort. "If something like this happens, maybe the mountain bottom house should not be open to the public again in the future." Her eyes were filled with loss.

For a while, the small tearoom seemed to have fallen into a silent world, and everyone stopped saying a word, so the atmosphere continued to be cold.

"I ...... I think you should tell Mr. Ma's family about this bad news. Han Ke thought for a long time before he spoke slowly. Although it is indeed a bit cruel for his family to get such news at this time. ”

"Old Ma, he ......" Hearing this, Mrs. Chen, who had not responded, suddenly spoke. We estimate that it will be difficult to reach his family. ”

"Why? Aren't you friends who came from the same country? ”

"It's because Lao Ma doesn't have any family ......at all," Mr. Chen said in a rambling voice. Originally, it involved his privacy, and I shouldn't have said it, but now that he has passed away, these trivial things in his life are not a secret. ”

I do not know

(Haha the author Jun has finally updated, in fact, as a short story that records life perceptions, it does not have a law of updating.) However, just after the Chinese Valentine's Day, I felt it was necessary to release this beautiful story for all beings to see. )

Act I: Snow

It's an intoxicating morning, and the closer you get to the sky, the purer the sun becomes, so pure that it's spotless. The snow fluttered tirelessly, and the hexagonal flowers were more beautiful than the thin air of the mountains.

This snow-capped mountain is very enchanting, right? It's just that such a beautiful picture scroll seems to be missing a pair of protagonists.

Let's take a closer look, in fact, they are snuggling up to each other, just like normal lovers, such a hug is because it is really cold on this snowy mountain, and they can warm each other by hugging each other tighter. On the one hand, it is because the lovers are in the honeymoon period, and they are really inseparable.

They finally waited for sunrise. It was the most beautiful gift Skyrim had given them after a long night of waiting.

The girl suddenly asked the boy a question.

"Honey, do you like honeymoons like this?"

The boy gently covered her cheek.

"There's really no way you can come up with such a ghost idea and spend your honeymoon on a snowy mountain."

"Hehe, that's unforgettable."

The boy stopped talking, I don't know if it was because the weather was too cold, or if the girl's problem was too cold.

"We will

"If you like it, we have more important tasks after the honeymoon." The boy rubbed his hands together and sighed, and the heat turned into wisps of white smoke on the top of their heads in an instant.

The girl looked at him stupidly, with those big eyes that he liked to love, with those eyes that he liked to kiss lightly every time.

"What task?"

The boy suddenly laughed evilly, and then said slowly. "Hehe, it's a task to fight the aging of the population."

"You scoundrel." The girl hurriedly pushed him hard.

The two of them ran down the hill in the howling cold wind, flirting and scolding.

Boom! There was a sudden crisp sound in the sky, it was not loud, but it was really heard in this silent snow-capped mountain.

The boy hurriedly grabbed the girl's hand, looking anxious. "Did you hear that voice?"

The earth shook violently, and a huge block of snow suddenly fell in front of them, and a crack suddenly appeared in the ice-carved world.

They looked at the sky again, I don't know if it was a dazzle or something, the snow-capped mountains seemed to be melting, only to see that the tide-like snow on the top of the mountain was slowly shaking down, at this moment the sun no longer seemed to be warm, and the snowflakes were no longer beautiful.

"It's an avalanche!"

Act II Song

Nature may be jealous of them, and has given them a different kind of gift on the last day of their honeymoon.

For a moment, they thought it was the end of the world.

Mu Xi looked at the thick information of the parties on the table, and still couldn't swallow the sip of tea that he had buried in his mouth a long time ago. Painter, sculptor, these words jumped and twitched wildly before his eyes as if he had Parkinson's disease. Meng Yan on the sofa on the side also didn't say a word, and the silence had lasted for about 10 minutes. The leaves outside the window have been stripped of their vivid green this season, the sun shines on them with a lifeless yellow, and the curved outline of the skyline makes the whole picture look like an old photograph.

Finally, Meng Yan decided to break the silence, he slowly stood up, the moment the sofa foot rubbed against the wooden floor, his voice finally became a string of fireworks that destroyed this silent world, "Lao Mu, it's not me saying you, this case, we shouldn't take it, this kind of case involving artists has always been a good or bad result, it is a matter of course. The characteristics of an artist are to treat the abnormal as normal, and crime as inspiration, do you remember the last time the female performance artist in Beijing was a goddess who didn't toss us to death, and this time you are still asking for hardship like this. ”

"Goo" Muxi swallowed a sip of tea hard, then took out an iron cigarette case from his jacket pocket and lit a cigarette, "I didn't want to take it at first, but the party gave me a commission that I couldn't refuse before I could reply, and I think this case is still a bit interesting to say." Mu Xi looked at his cigarette case, there were still 5 cigarettes left, he couldn't do without this thing tonight, maybe it would be another sleepless night.

"I wonder what this is. His case is 96 years old, and now it's been 16 years, almost 20 years, why is this case only being tried now. Meng Yan casually flipped through the case materials on the table.

"Do you think about what was unusual about us here twenty years ago?"

"Big brother, don't be funny, I was a primary school student twenty years ago, even if there was anything big, I didn't know."

"Do you remember when we were building the No. 9 Park here, and the whole city was in an uproar."

"Oh, Park Nine. I remember that this was our first park with an amusement park, I remember that at that time we were poor here, not to mention amusement parks, there was not even a movie theater, and finally there was such a tall thing, how could it not be heavily promoted. ”

"Do you remember that time, when this park was first built, because the project was in a hurry, the protection of the shore of the lake was not perfect, and several people drowned in the lake."

"As soon as you say that, my long-sealed memory was awakened at once, I don't know why I was always dead during that time, my mother told me every day, don't go to play next to the lake in No. 9 Park, what dragon vein is there, we alarmed the dragon vein or something." When Meng Yan said this, he felt like he had been knocked over by something, and he couldn't stop, "I was really scared at the time, and I slipped over there quickly, for fear of being caught by some dragon, now that I think about it, it's really because the project is unqualified, doesn't it mean that the city has repaired it many times later?" ”

"Yes, that's right, after the frequent accidents at that time, the leading officials probably also felt that it was because they were in a hurry to make meritorious achievements that there were so many accidents, and they were afraid that the families of those victims would make a big publicity, so they privately compensated the families of those who had accidents. So after half a year, no one mentioned this matter much, and the city reinforced and rebuilt it several times, and nothing happened after that. Our case is related to a little girl who drowned at the time. As Muxi spoke, the cigarette was already halfway smoked, and the ash stuck to it and was crumbling.

"This kind of case should be difficult to confirm, because the scene must have been very chaotic at that time, and there is no sufficient evidence to confirm how the little girl fell into the water."

"Yes, but the party insisted that he pushed the little girl down, and it was true that that time was the time when the party was in school in Pingyuan County, in this case, the police department had to conduct an in-depth investigation of the party, and then found that the party had symptoms of schizophrenia, and after sending it to the hospital for confirmation by a psychiatrist, it was found that the party's schizophrenia was very serious, and the sub-personality did have "aggressive" characteristics. However, this situation is indeed quite special, and it has not been possible to fully confirm the case, so the trial has been entrusted until now. ”

"Therefore, the police department can only default to the fact that the person concerned is the murderer, and now the problem is that this kind of multiple personality crimes, how to determine the sentence, right?" Mu Xi silently walked to the window, and the wind suddenly rose outside the window, but the cool wind in autumn more or less made him a little more sober.

"In fact, there is no clear qualitative method for this kind of case, which is different from the general mental illness that can directly escape criminal prosecution, because although it is multiple personalities, because each personality is actually clear thinking, but if we can confirm which personality the person killed the person and confirm that the normal personality of the person is not deliberately releasing this aggressive personality, and then after treatment, the aggressive personality can be eliminated in the brain of the person, and the person can be acquitted."

"Then we will maintain a neutral attitude in court at that time, and there will definitely be a psychologist present to talk to the parties at that time, and we will confirm it according to the parties' descriptions of the case, right?"

"It's right to be neutral, but I still hope that the person concerned can be exempted from prosecution as much as possible, or in fact, the person may not be the murderer, and if he can save people, he will not kill people." Zhao Yu's cigarette had been extinguished at his fingertips because of a long period of idleness, and he had already rekindled the cigarette while he was saying this.

"In any case, it is necessary for us to talk to the client again before the formal trial to see what his situation is." Xie Ming took off his coat hanging on the hanger,

"Let's go, without further ado, I'll drive this time."

Chapter II

Bang bang, bang bang.

Mu Xi knocked on the heavy wooden door, while exclaiming that he couldn't imagine that the party would live in such a mansion, there is such a European-style villa between the layered shopping malls and office buildings in the central district of the city.

The knock on the door is like the sound of fallen leaves in a valley, in a city full of skyscrapers. So weak, so shallow.

The door was carefully opened in the night, and a sharp light cut through the thick darkness, and the strong glare made the two waiting outside the door couldn't help but stumble back two steps. A pair of crescent-like eyes appeared in this place where the bright light meets the darkness.

A graceful figure gradually moved from behind the door to the center of the two men's field of vision.

"You, aren't you the actress?" Meng Yan couldn't help but exclaim, "That ...... who plays the queen" He hadn't finished speaking, but he felt that it was a little inappropriate for him to be so abrupt, and then he tried his best to suppress what he was about to say.

"You must be two barristers from Jingcheng's firm, come in," the woman said, pulling them into the lavish villa.

Imprinted on Meng Yan's eyes are the oil paintings on the wall, these oil paintings at first glance, full of strange taste, because the color of these oil paintings and the interior decoration are completely incommensurate, the bright colors are like a raging flame, people from the soles of the feet are burned faintly painful. But if you look more closely at these paintings, you will find that in fact, the same woman is hidden under these gorgeous appearances, and these bright colors are just the clothes on the woman's body, and all these exquisite paintings are painted in front of Meng Yan's eyes of the actress.

"I'm really going to ask you two for my lover." The woman beckoned the two lawyers to sit down, "I haven't introduced myself to the two of you yet, just now this gentleman seems to recognize me, yes, I'm the actress who often plays the queen mother, you can just call me mustard seed." "Women are indeed very likable from figure to appearance, and it is no wonder that she is one of the most famous actresses now, and the party in this case will be the husband of this big star, which is indeed something that the two lawyers did not expect at all.

"Hello, my name is Muxi, and this is my partner named Meng Yan." Muxi stretched out the hand that had been hidden in his coat, ready to shake hands with Mustard, but the moment he touched the woman's fingertips, he instinctively retracted his hand violently,

It was like the temperature of the moon, and it was so cold that it made people's hearts throb.

"I'm really sorry, I just came back from the set, and the set was so cold." Mustard glanced at Xie Ming with guilt, and hurriedly retracted his hand.

Meng Yan had not looked at him since he entered the house, he sat motionless on the sofa, and did not want to shake hands with the beautiful mustard lady, because he noticed the figure of a man walking towards the living room.

The man is quite handsome, but his messy hair has almost ruined all his image, and the black circles under his eyes can be seen that he has endured insomnia all year round, and the black and white striped shirt on his body, which is normal, looks a little more sick on this man.