Chapter 1: Sunrise

How about Yidai Zongfu, Qi Lu Qingwei is gone. I believe that everyone will be familiar with Mount Tai.

Mount Tai is the most prestigious scenic spot in Shandong, the tourists here are in an endless stream every day, it is like a giant that supports the sky and the earth, the cascading mountains, the heavy shape, the pine boulders, the blurred changes of clouds and smoke and light, the most spectacular scenery in the world is nothing more than this. Earlier, the ancients were infected by the breathtaking scenery of Mount Tai, and praised Mount Tai as a fairy mountain, which was written in the "Flying Dragon Chapter". "Morning tour of Mount Tai, clouds and mist. Suddenly, the two children are bright, and the color is fresh. Take the white deer, and the hand is grass. I know the real person, kneeling down and asking. Xiden Yutang, Jinlou Fudao. Give me the elixir, made by the Emperor of God. Teach me to take it, and also refine my brain. Longevity is the same as gold and stone, and it is difficult to grow old forever. ”

In addition to the beautiful scenery, another characteristic of Mount Tai is the ancestral temples, Dai Temple, Red Gate Palace, Bixia Temple, Red Gate Palace, Wanxian Building, Doumu Palace, Jade Emperor Temple, Confucius Temple, Qingdi Palace, large and small ancestral temples can be described as countless, all kinds of immortals have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the number of ancestral temples has indirectly long been the prosperity of Mount Tai incense.

Every year, the people who come here to burn incense and bow down reach millions of people, it can be said that Mount Tai is the most famous one of the five mountains, and it is also the place where pilgrims are most in an endless stream on the vast land of the Central Plains.

I don't know if you have gone to Mount Tai to burn incense, hike to the ancestral temple on the top of the mountain just to get the protection of a certain immortal, this has always been a basic daily routine for many people every year, some people seek to study, some people ask for marriage, some people seek to have a noble son early, of course, there are also official luck and prosperity, business is prosperous.

I've always disbelieved in this, and it's naturally related to my bizarre experiences, and when you see those living gods, you know that this kind of shelter doesn't exist, it's just an ethereal fantasy in people's hearts, so I've never been to Tarzan.

But when I opened the grass and trees tea house, this situation has changed, although I don't want to admit myself, but I am a real businessman in the eyes of many people, a businessman does not go to worship, will always make people feel a little unreasonable, some of my merchants will form a team to climb Mount Tai every year, this kind of worship for business is still pious, will come to the bottom of Mount Tai late at night, and then take crutches to climb up, from the middle gate of the South Gate of the Middle Heaven, to the top of the Jade Emperor and then watch a sunrise, Feel the first rays of the morning sun seeping through the misty cracks in the sky, and then go to the god of wealth. They invite me to go with them every year, an alliance of merchants, and they can be considered to have some care together.

Of course, there is no doubt that the Taoist priest next door to me will definitely not participate in this kind of activity. As a result, the Caomujian Tea House and the Ping'an Futai Incense Shop are the only two shops on the entire street that have not joined this alliance.

Later, after Yu Ge came to the tea house, business became better and better, which made some jealous merchants blush, and we never participated in these activities of theirs, so slowly they alienated us and cut us off.

This is a matter that doesn't matter to me, because I didn't define myself as a businessman, and I didn't think that I would live for other people's faces, but Yuge is different, she lives by my side, as a goblin needs to lurk in the crowd, and naturally doesn't want to attract too many people's attention, so she persuaded me many times, hoping that I can be more gregarious, and go to Tarzan with those businessmen, just to clear up misunderstandings.

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.

Behind many successful cases, some may not be great women, but great depots. So you'd believe that in this chaotic space that looks like a large garage, the humble scrap hardware, wooden crates, and bush weeds may not be to be underestimated. Indeed, in the concept of circular economy, it is to find the possibility of everything being reused and recycled.

Thus, tracing the double life of the structures in the park becomes an interesting journey. Sitting on one of the benches, you'll find that it may have been a rowing canoe at one point; Walking down the winding wooden path, you'll notice that it may have once been a floating driftwood. Not to mention the houseboat-converted studios: the abandoned boats and houseboats are mostly equipped with large floor-to-ceiling window frames in the stern for the sake of open vision, and the interior space is mostly different according to different functions. While marveling at their new life today, you can still imagine the splendor of their sailing in the past on the rudder of the ship that is still high despite the thunder, and the fresh red lifebuoy that is still hanging high when it is idle.

However, the process of creating this paradise is not always romantic. I met Tom van de Beek, the founder of The Tipping Point Foundation, a sustainable social enterprise, who generously invited me and my friends to visit his studio. He still remembers the process of painting.

I can't help but recall that when I was touring the park, Metbolic's director, Guus, mentioned that at first he even wanted to do the whole work of all the houseboats in the park, but later handed it over to the tenants due to manpower considerations. Perhaps this is also the case, but now the houseboats in the park have their own characteristics, some are painted with white paint to hang up antique hanging lanterns, and some are pasted with red bricks to hang up log carvings, and the self-evidentness of the community is self-evident. As we looked at the photographs of the studio during construction, it was hard to imagine that the empty houseboats and sparse grass were the same as the land was like two years ago.