Returning to the community where I lived as a child, it is impossible to say that there is no emotion. Coco walked on the path that was once all too familiar, and ran past the children who had finished school, laughing and running wildly. Once with Xun Yunjie, how many times did I chase my sister from these paths one after another...... With an arrogant laugh.

Coco knocked on the familiar door sign, and the person who opened the door reacted for several seconds before suddenly realizing, "Ah, little girl, you have grown so big!" Quick, come and come and sit. ”

Hou Guangyan's mother, like all hospitable aunts, entertained Coco, "Girl, I remember, your name is Xiao Ranran, right?" "Serving tea and taking snacks, since I was a child, Coco remembers this aunt who is different from her mother, likes to be lively, loves to laugh, and every time she comes with her sister, she will give herself a lot of delicious food. Not long after her sister's funeral, her parents moved out of the compound with Coco, but the familiar people and atmosphere of her childhood still made Coco almost indulge in that too happy memory.

Because I used to be too happy, I am sad now that I think about it.

"Auntie, don't bother, I just want to ask something......"

The smile on the face of the aunt who loved to laugh slowly retracted, "It's that I'm so excited, you see, there are usually no people here." ”

As soon as he said this, Coco reacted that Hou Guangyan was not there, and Uncle Hou was not there.

"His father is in the neighborhood committee, and he usually stays there to read books and practice calligraphy. The house is also deserted, so it's nice to see you today...... Alas......" Auntie took Coco's hand and patted it gently, "If nothing happened at that time, you two sisters would be so old...... Don't blame my aunt for mentioning this, I have dreamed several times in the past few years, I dreamed that Xiao Yun'er, together with Guangyan, came back with my grandson, I washed my hands and served the dishes from the kitchen, and my grandson pulled his father to practice calligraphy together... I don't want to wake up......"

Coco's nose was sour, and she didn't make a sound.

"Look at Auntie's grinding," she looked up and stared at Coco for a long time, "I know you want to ask Guangyan about it." Come with me. ”

But Coco didn't bother to mention this person at all, but the aunt over there had already stood up and walked upstairs.

Following her aunt's guidance, Coco walked into the place that evoked countless memories.

"This was the room he had before he went abroad, and he lived there after he came back, but he moved out in less than a month." Auntie stood at the door, looking around like Coco, "Xiaoyun was ...... at that time That's it, after that, Guangyan changed, he refused to go to school, he didn't look for a job, his dad is a strict soldier like your dad, and he thinks the best way to cheer up his son is to send him out to practice. So he was sent to the army as a soldier for two years, and then sent to study abroad......"

In the middle of the room was still the small beige round table, where many years ago she could find her sister and her monkey brother who was being forced to do her homework after school. Those memories of slapstick, when you close your eyes, seem to be right in front of you.

Even if she wanted to forget, this room remembered, the four walls, the floor with old marks, the dust in the sun, and the little wind chimes that Xun Yunjie gave him that froze in mid-air, these witnesses all remembered, and the happiness that seemed to be eternal, they all remembered.

No wonder Hou Guangyan couldn't live anymore.

Coco forced herself to retract her mind and observe with reason. Unlike when I was a child, the bookshelves on the side were already full of all kinds of unfathomable books.

"The medical science he studied abroad was chosen by himself." The aunt stood at the doorway, familiarly surveying every part of the room, but did not come in, "I will occasionally help him play the ashes, and if he messes with his things, he will be angry with me when he turns around." ”

It was as if he would come back to live like he did when he was a kid.

Coco's heart tightened, and he changed the topic, "He chose the medicine himself?" That's not what he wanted to learn, I remember. "When he was a child, Hou Guangyan yelled all day long to be a hero, martial arts and the art of war, probably the main lesson in his heart, mathematics and English, that is the thing he will watch when he has nothing to do.

"I don't even know when he wanted to study medicine...... He doesn't like to talk, the bookseller is serious, the bookshelves are all left by him, and I can't even understand the title of the big box of books he took away. ”

"Something to do with the heart?"

"Oh yes! What kind of heart is it, anesthesia, and then a whole bunch of English. ”

The aunt on the side was still chattering, and Coco walked to the bed where Hou Guangyan had fallen asleep, and suddenly there was a click under her feet, and Coco lowered her head. I found myself stepping on a ginkgo leaf.

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The time was so fast that it was embarrassing, and Coco sat on the raised steps on the side of the road, rubbing his eyes at the sun that was about to go down.

There was a small incense burner beside her, and the slowly burning incense lit an ethereal smoke, occasionally carried by the wind, but never extinguished.

The traffic crashed in front of her, sometimes she blinked, and most of the time she didn't move. She struggled to pull herself out of the past, but she still felt like she was standing helplessly in a swamp, slowly sinking.

Until the sun in front of you is obscured.

Da Xuan appeared in front of her against the light, looked at her condescendingly, and put the cigarette in his mouth, but did not light it.

"You asked me to come and see you commit suicide?" Da Xuan's words were unceremoniously, he was angry from the moment he stepped out of the car, and when he saw Coco sitting cross-legged on the side of the road like a lost soul, fear followed by anger.

Xun Keran was silent, and raised his hand to hand him a brown paper document bag under his buttocks.

After a second, he pulled out the file, which contained several enlarged screenshots of the traffic probe.

"That guy," Coco said, still looking at the middle of the road, "every time he kills someone, he walks to the middle of the road and stands there for dozens of minutes." ”

What the? Da Xuan just wanted to ask, but suddenly reacted to something, he carefully checked the time node on the photo, and then looked back at the road full of cars and smoke, "Your sister is ...... ...... here"

"Ah, yes, twelve years, three months, and seven days ago, she ran across the road, and then stopped here forever."

Da Xuan was silent, and carefully looked at the photo in his hand, "What does Hou Guangyan want to do?" ”

Coco silently looked at the middle of the road, "...... Probably like me, sometimes when I come back here, just sit, that's it. ”

Da Xuan glanced at the incense burner beside her.

If there are really spirits in the world, they probably exist in people's hearts. It's just that when I come back here, I hope that maybe a supernatural event has happened, and I can see your voice and smile again, and even listen to your reprimands and complaints, I will accept them all with a smile.

I didn't, so I came back here and thought to myself, if you knew what I was doing, what would I do?

"Didn't you tell you to stop worrying about this?"

Coco rolled her eyes up at him, her eyes full of "The first day you met me?" Mockery.

Da Xuan sighed silently, and sat down beside her as well, lighting the cigarette in his hand.

"Originally, there was no fence here, and there was no separation between bicycle lanes and motorized lanes, it was just a bare road." Coco muttered to herself.

Da Xuan didn't respond, looking at the photo in his hand, Hou Guangyan was standing in the middle of the road at that time, no matter if he took a step forward or backward, he would be hit by a car.

"Guji asked me to get out of the box and try to see it from a different angle, so I went to his house."

"What? His house has been cordoned off, how do you get in......"

"His parents' house." Coco gave a roll of the eyes to the person next to him, "I can't figure out how he got to this point, and what has happened over the years." ”

"And then?"

Coco sighed fiercely, "Probably because of me, because of my sister's death, he became so hated......" I don't like to talk, I don't want to go back to my parents' house, I live a life of isolation alone, I stay where everything is, but I can't help but be angry with myself. Gu Ji is right, probably no one can understand such Hou Guangyan better than himself.

But lately, it seems that I am gradually no longer closing myself, because ...... Thinking of this, Coco was secretly shocked in her heart, no, no, this and that have nothing to do with the person in front of you, just because of busy work, grace, because of work.

Da Xuan flicked the ash of his cigarette, "It's my business." ”

Coco was stunned for a moment, and turned her gaze from the dusty road back to the people around her, "That's right...... Yes, it's none of your business. ”

"It's none of my business, and it's none of yours." Da Xuan said to Coco, but his eyes looked into the distance, "There are many people in the world who lost their relatives when they were children, and how many people lost their lovers when they grew up, and I haven't heard that every one of them goes to kill people to vent their anger." ”

Coco unconsciously picked up the incense burner that was placed on one side in her arms.

"It was his own choice to kill people to divert his pain. He's an adult, and what he decides to do has nothing to do with you or anyone else. I don't understand that, stupid. ”

Coco stared silently at the incense burner in his arms, the incense had been burned, and a pot of incense ash was quietly precipitating. "I have a higher IQ than you. If I'm stupid, you'll have no place on Earth. Turning around, he couldn't see the angle, revealing a shallow smile.

Zhou Daxuan pursed his lips, got up and stepped on the cigarette under his feet, let's go, I'll send you back.

No, Coco also stood up, still holding the incense burner, and my investigation had just begun.

Da Xuan frowned, can't you do something else? Are you still restless after being suspended?

I've been suspended, and I'm still being arrested? Try it for you?

The two stood facing each other, their eyes crackling with thunder and lightning, and neither of them gave in.

Da Xuan stared at Coco at a height taller than a head.

Xun Keran smiled brightly, raised his hand, and smeared the ashes of the incense burner on Da Xuan's face: How tall you are? We have the ability to be bigger than our breasts!

Da Xuan's face darkened.

Xun Keran was handcuffed to the handlebar.

"I'm not going home, I'm going to those five murder scenes." The restless medical examiner, shaking his handcuffs, protested.

No, Da Xuan starts the car, you can be honest with me.

I didn't have the keys with me.

Send it straight back to your parents' house.

Coco pouted and stopped talking.

"You asked Hou Guangyan's parents about the adopted daughter?"

"Do you know about your adopted daughter?"

"What do you think I do?" Even if he didn't know it before, after checking the identity of the small clinic and Hou Guangyan, he also knew it.

"Then why don't you just find out where that guy is now?"

"Checked, Hou Guangyan is still quite a thief, all bank cards, phone numbers, and bank accounts are under monitoring, but there is no movement."

"Don't you doubt me? Monitored with mine? Coco muttered.

"I suspect you've already locked you up if you say it, tell me honestly, what did you ask?"

Coco pouted, shook off the cuffs, and begged me.

Da Xuan showed a sneer, humming.

"It's okay if you don't ask for it, I'm going to the scene, don't stare at me, even if you send me home now, I'll still go when you leave, sneaking around in the middle of the night alone, which one is more suitable for you to weigh yourself."

…… Da Xuan sighed for half a minute, then turned the steering wheel.

"I asked, and my aunt said she was surprised too, and the man ...... Hou Guangyan suddenly said one day that he wanted to adopt a girl, who was not in good health by nature, and was abandoned by his parents when he was very young. Uncle Hou...... His father had a big fight with him about it, thinking that he was not able to raise a child well, and that he had not yet started a family......"

Hou Guangyan coldly told his father over the phone that he had married Xun Yunjie in his heart and would never marry anyone else in his life. The father threw the phone in anger, and from then on, pretended not to have this unsuccessful son. And the son really almost disappeared from the life of the old couple, except for the New Year's festival and occasionally came back to send some things to his parents, and never went home to live.

"That adopted daughter is the child who died in the robbery......" Zhou Daxuan looked ahead without squinting, but the words directly stabbed the person sitting next to him, "She looks like your sister, right?" ”

"How would you know?!"

"When you saw that page, your expression stiffened, and you went straight to that clinic in less than two hours, the only thing that can be reasonable is that the child has characteristics that make you inevitably think of Hou Guangyan, for example, it is related to your sister."

Coco listened to Da Xuan's step-by-step inference, and could only laugh helplessly, "You are really a hound." ”

"That's right," Da Xuan reached out and pinched her face, "so think about how long you can hide from me next time before you want to betray me." ”

Coco dodged the salty pig hand and glared at him with a pout, "How many times have you said Captain Zhou, you are sexual harassment, stop!" Come back! There's no end... Who betrayed you! ”

The two fought all the way and drove to the scene of the first case.