Chapter IV

The surveillance video completely restores the entire process of the case at that time.

On Friday, November 13th, the sky was snowing like goose feathers. As usual, Fridays are only half-day classes, and then weekends are released from the afternoon.

Ordinary children will have parents to pick them up at this time, but Lin Xiaomei's parents are busy people, and it is usually the nanny at home, Aunt Li, who takes the time to pick up Lin Xiaomei home. However, on this day, Aunt Li couldn't come to pick up Xiaomei because of something at home, so Xiaomei had to go home alone.

Of course, even if it is a person who goes home, there will not be any great danger, following the large army going home, Xiaomei's home is actually not far from the school, turn a few intersections, cross a few zebra crossings, or less than twenty minutes, Xiaomei can walk home alone.

However, the problem is not with Mei herself, but with the hateful drunk driver.

On the way out of school, there were a large number of people coming and going, and every small hand carrying a schoolbag was covered by a thick and stable hand. Lin Xiaomei is carrying a limited-edition student school bag with cherry balls, wearing bright red children's clothes by Cloudokids and a pair of light pink children's pants, and a pair of Gucci dreamy blue children's galoshes on her feet are also a birthday present that her mother bought for her when she went to Hong Kong.

Every little girl who passed by Lin Xiaomei's side cast envious, jealous and hateful eyes at her. And every time Lin Xiaomei looks back and sees those slightly disdainful eyes, especially when she sees the mother standing behind those girls stretching out her warm big hand and showing a bright smile, her eyes always have a mature and steady demeanor that is not suitable for her age, and the eyes are like wrapping herself in a thick woolen coat in the cold, as if she can keep out the cold, and she is not afraid of the cold of the world.

Lin Xiaomei followed the way home, humming songs all the way, walking and jumping with relaxed steps. She walked around the corner on Wharf Street and crossed the sidewalk on Fuxing Avenue, and the whole incident happened on the last zebra crossing on the way home, and that zebra crossing was across Huangzhuang Road, which was wide and full of vehicles, which was the so-called accident-prone area in the general sense.

The snow continued to fall as if in a single cycle, and the snow that fell on the road was crushed back and forth by vehicles, and a large pool of water had accumulated on the side of the road. Dirty and black sewage overflowed Lin Xiaomei's beautiful rubber shoes, half the height.

And while waiting for the traffic light, Xiaomei looked down at this strange scene of dirty snow water and beautiful rubber boots overlapping each other, why such two extreme phenomena can coexist very calmly at this moment, Lin Xiaomei half is a little incomprehensible, and the other half is with great curiosity.

With the traffic light erected in the distance, the Arabic numerals flashing in the red light became smaller and smaller, and then in an instant, the red light went out, the yellow light turned on, and then the green light flashed. Lin Xiaomei was pushed forward by a large crowd of people crowded at the intersection, and she was not free to stop and take a look at the rubber boots soaked in the snow, so she lifted her feet and took a step.

Just a few steps away, the crowd suddenly became a little restless, the crowd was pushing each other, and there were signs of increasing intensity. Lin Xiaomei was caught between the dense gap between adults and children, she could neither see the car conditions on the road in the distance, nor could she think of the scene that would happen next, what she could do, what she took for granted, of course, was to move with the current. But the cars in the distance, under the gray sky, projecting dazzling high beams, showed no sign of slowing down.

In those last seconds or two, all the adults and parents have already predicted the loss of control of the car and the damage it may bring to themselves and their children. Every adult who clutched his little hand tightly in his hand quickly picked up, pulled, or forcibly pushed his child away. And in this inexplicable panic, Lin Xiaomei didn't know what was going on, and she didn't even think that she had become a victim of the events she was watching.

In the next second, the vehicle rampaged without the slightest sign of slowing down, and an impenetrable human wall quickly flashed an extremely wide opening, which was almost as fast as a speeding vehicle. Almost all of them were not injured much, and some of them only moved too much, falling into the snow, and letting the dirty snow wet their clothes. Or there are one or two parents who don't have time to dodge, and their lower legs are run over by a vehicle, and they have very serious fractures.

And only Lin Xiaomei was thrown into the air by the flying drunk driving car, and then fell hard in the bloodstained sewage, the drunk driving car body was crooked, and hit the cement stone pillar in the center of the road in the distance, and the entire body was almost compressed in half.

In the process of playing the videotape, Lin Xiaochuan's father only watched half of it, he really couldn't look directly at the scene of his daughter's death, took out a snow-white cigarette from his pocket and stuffed it in his mouth, and hid in the aisle of the police department, smoking a big cigarette to anesthetize himself. Lin Xiaochuan's mother waited until the surveillance video of the intersection was played, then she turned around suddenly, covered her eyes with trembling hands, and did not have the courage to look directly at the scene, and collapsed on the chair as if her consciousness collapsed, crying faintly.

Only Lin Xiaochuan watched the entire video completely. He finally realized that his sister's death was not due to his sister's fault, and he couldn't even blame the drunk driver with a very low chance. The one who really killed his sister was none other than his biological parents. If her mother is like other people's mothers, every Friday when the children are out of school, go to school to pick up Xiaomei home, Xiaomei will not venture to those zebra crossings, let alone be abandoned by her parents at the critical moment when she needs the care of her parents the most.

However, even if Lin Xiaochuan sees through this, for parents who are already on the verge of being completely saturated with acceptance ability, no amount of accusation and complaining at this time will only make things worse, and the so-called salvation has long been declared impossible, and no matter how much it is about the facts, it is just fishing for the moon in the water, and peeping into the flowers in the mirror has become meaningless.

Lin Xiaochuan ignored his parents who were immersed in grief, and walked out of the police department alone, embarking on the journey home.

Since that day, Lin Xiaochuan has never returned to school, and school leaders have also come to Lin Xiaochuan's home to talk to his parents, but in the end, it is all gone. Occasionally, Peng Xuesong came to Xiaochuan's house on monthly vacation, and Lin Xiaochuan mostly closed the door, so he locked himself in the small space of the bedroom day after day.

I can only let the powerful machine of Shi Guang slowly heal Lin Xiaochuan's dead heart bit by bit.