While rubbing my numb fingers, I thought about what Jing Jing had just said, Yu Ge and she told me the same thing one after another, and I had reason not to believe those suspicions of someone, but now that this strange pool was in front of me, I had no reason to say that they were too suspicious.

I've touched the snow, I've touched the water of the lake in the winter, but it's not as cold as a tenth of the water in this pool, it's a cold that invades the bone marrow, and maybe a few seconds more than my fingers will shatter like glass shards.

A churning, smoky surface of the water but bitterly cold, I don't know if you readers have such an experience, or can tell me the mystery of it, anyway, I don't have any thoughts at all.

"Maybe it's something we don't know yet, right? After all, there are no wonders in the world. I comforted myself.

Jing Jing suddenly smiled, a beautiful smile, but an elusive smile, she quietly looked at the lake, not knowing what to think.

"Big brother...... Have you ever noticed such a thing? ”

"What?"

Jing Jing suddenly grabbed the back of my hand lightly with her hand. "Are my hands cold?"

I couldn't guess what she was trying to say, but there was a faint chill in the palm of her hand. "It's a little cold, you've been outside for too long."

"You know that a person who has grievances in her heart will become very cold in her body." Said quietly and lightly. "It's so cold that the entire lake is covered with a thick layer of ice, and it's so cold that people feel sad when they stand next to it."

I took a deep breath, and these words seemed to be beyond her proper age, making people sound like a vicissitudes of life, as if she had experienced a lot of things to come to such an understanding.

"Jingjing, I don't understand what you said......"

"Haha, just talk to myself as a person." Jing Jing slowly withdrew her hand, and then continued to look at the cold water, the smoky water rendering her very hazy. "Big brother, go get busy, let me be here alone and watch the lake for a while, I'm used to being nervous, and my friends say so about me."

She was still as strange as I thought, and her emotions were sometimes high and sometimes cold, which was really hard to guess.

I slowly stood up and prepared to walk up the stairs, the cold air was really unbearable, and my thin clothes could no longer withstand the biting cold wind. Maybe Jing Jing is right, no matter what, this is someone else's home, and if Mrs. Chen is okay, there is no reason for us to stay here for a long time.

Bang bang, suddenly a ball rolled down the stairs and towards the water.

I hurriedly stepped forward and blocked the ball with my foot.

"Haha, big brother, you move so fast, you can catch this thing." A child's voice burst onto the ground, echoing briskly along the water's edge.

It turned out to be Han Ke's son Xiaotian, and it seems that he has been playing ball alone outside all the time.

I slowly picked up the ball, looking at Xiaotian's cute appearance, I suddenly had a desire to tease him.

"Big brother, give me the ball." Xiaotian was very clever and saw my bad idea, ran down the stairs three times and two times, and then hugged my legs tightly.

"As long as you can grab it, I'll give it back to you." I continued to tease him, and it was the most interesting to tease this innocent and cute child, and after saying that, I deliberately lowered the ball a little.

Xiao Tian was really fooled, and hurriedly jumped up to reach the ball, and the moment he jumped up, I raised the ball a little higher, so that he could almost grab it, these back and forth several times, Xiao Tian was like a spring, banging on the ground, looking as cute as a little doll.

"Big brother, hee-hee. You scoundrel, you lied to me. Xiao Tian grabbed my arm and didn't let go, although he was out of breath, his face was still full of smiles.

What a lovely child, how can I bear to tease him anymore? I gently lowered the ball and stroked his sweaty forehead. "Little God, big brother is going back to the room to rest, you can also go upstairs, don't play by the water."

"Big brother, don't go, play with me for a while, finally someone comes." Xiaotian grabbed the corner of my clothes and didn't let me go. "Play with me for a while."

It's a child's nature to love to play, I don't know why Han Ke is so strictly guarded by his own children, shouldn't children at this age be bouncing around with children outside?

"Oh my God, why don't you go out and play with the other kids in your school?" I asked casually.

"I didn't go to school, and I didn't know any other children."

I looked at Xiao Tian, he looked at least five or six years old, and he should have gone to kindergarten a long time ago, why did he say that he hadn't gone to school?

"Xiaotian, why didn't your mother send you to school?"

"My mother said that it was not safe outside, so she didn't let me go to school or let me go out casually. She said she would ask me for a tutor in the future. ”

This made me a little surprised, and I thought to myself, could it be that rich people are educated in this way. "But this is not good for you, Xiaotian, you should play with other children more to grow up faster."

Hearing this, Xiao Tian suddenly became aggrieved and rubbed his hands uneasily. "Big brother is right!"

"But maybe your mother thinks you're too young, and when you grow up, maybe she'll let you out, boys always have to go out." I smiled and patted him on the head. "My brother is so sleepy, I'm really going to go to sleep."

Xiaotian was very disappointed, and squatted down and patted the ball by himself. "Good...... Okay, big brother, let's go rest, I'll play alone. ”

I couldn't bear to see him sad, but I was really bad at letting me play games with a five or six-year-old child.

"Little friend, is it okay for the big sister to play with you?" Quietly turned her head and beckoned to us.

Xiaotian's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly jumped and ran over. "Okay, okay, I like to play with beautiful young ladies."

A child is a child, and he doesn't understand the difference between men and women, so Xiaotian suddenly threw himself into Jingjing's arms.

Seeing Jingjing hugging him, the yellow skirt lying quietly by the water, I really feel that the picture is very warm, and the expressions of these two people feel like sisters and brothers.

I thought to myself, Jingjing, after all, is young, and must be able to make children happier than me, so I will be relieved. The wind and moon outside were getting bigger and bigger, and I wrapped my coat vigorously and walked upstairs tremblingly.

On the stairs I was still wondering if I should go to Mrs. Chen's room to visit, if there was no major problem, it would be better for Yu Ge and I to return early, because there was still a lot of work to do before the tea shop opened, and as they said, it was indeed a strange place.

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.

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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."

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.