Summer 1997

At the age of 16, Hou Guangyan couldn't remember when he started hating Xun Keran, as if he couldn't remember when he started liking Xun Yunjie.

That slug, the little follower, never leaves the dead girl by Yun Jie's side, she can memorize poems and formulas than herself, and she cries at every turn, every time she quarrels with her, the little slug is unhappy when she wins the quarrel, she cries when she loses, and when she cries, Yun Jie coaxes her to protect her, and Hou Guangyan is even more unhappy.

On that day, the three of them ran out of the experimental building and stood under the huge ginkgo tree, Hou Guangyan stood behind the sisters and said, "Your sister is so disgusting, snot and tears have not stopped." ”

Xun Yunjie turned around and punched him in the face.

Then he looked condescendingly at Hou Guangyan who was lying on the ground, frowning coldly and not saying a word.

immediately pulled his sister and turned away.

After two weeks of being a stranger, Hou Guangyan still surrendered, spent a month's pocket money to buy enough candy, and when he knocked on the door of Xun's house, he was in a state of apprehension.

The one who opened the door was Xun Keran, who was a head smaller than herself, and the little girl's shining eyes blinked, and she turned her head and shouted to the house: "Sister! Brother Monkey has come to apologize! ”

Hou Guangyan was so frightened that he almost threw away the candy in his arms, and shouted urgently: "Who said I came to apologize!" I'm here to condole ......."

Coco looked at the big bag of candy in his arms, turned his head and shouted, "Sister! Brother Monkey failed the exam again! ”

Bah!! Hou Guangyan didn't even think about it, he spewed saliva in his heart, and the midterm results haven't come out yet! Why do you say that Lao Tzu failed! It's just a possibility, it's possible...... Wait, wait, etc.,

"How do you know?" Maybe the child has psychic abilities?

"Give me candy and I'll tell you." Coco stretched out her hand.

Hou Guangyan is very unwilling to give it, he will ask for it at a young age, and he will definitely not contribute to the society in the future.

I don't remember that I bought candy for this girl.

Coco took the full White Rabbit toffee, fruit candy and some lollipops that he had never seen before, and then replied to him with a smile, "You can only pass or fail the exam, Brother Monkey, the possibility of failing is relatively large." ”

…… Hou Guangyan didn't have the strength to do it, she just felt that it was dark in front of her, so failed, failed, failed......

"Are you coming to my house to pretend to be demented?" Xun Yunjie was wearing her mother's floral apron, holding an apple in one hand and a fruit knife in the other, and said with a smile.

Hou Guangyan watched the reflective fruit knife spin around in Yun Jie's hand, and ......, "Wowowo is here to apologize." ”

Calm, a good man is not afraid of fruit knives! Hou Guangyan meditated in his heart.

Xun Yunjie nodded with satisfaction for some reason for his submissive expression, turned around and went to the kitchen to get a bowl and spoon.

Hou Guangyan looked at her back in a daze, wearing an apron, and suddenly had a warm illusion, in the future, when he came back from work, he would see this woman also wearing an apron, busy cooking for herself in the kitchen......

"Wow!" Keran suddenly climbed on Hou Guangyan's thigh, startling him, only to see the child touching and crawling left, not knowing what he was doing.

"Xun Keran!" My sister's majestic voice wafted from the kitchen along with the smell of white fungus soup, "You eat sugar again!" Teeth are decayed! Saying that, he snatched the large fruit lollipop in her mouth, but Coco cried for a while, Hou Guangyan watched her jump and scream at Yun Jie for a while, and finally all the sugar on her body was confiscated. I suddenly feel that having a sister to discipline is sometimes quite pitiful.

Yun Jie glanced back at him, "The white fungus soup is for you to eat, go back and wait for your failure notice when you finish eating!" With that, he went back to the kitchen.

Xiao Keran's cry stopped abruptly as Yun Jie disappeared from sight, turned around and walked to Guangyan's side, with an expression as if nothing had happened, reached out and took out two lollipops from his pants pocket, and walked away.

"Huh? When did you hide ......" Guangyan was surprised, and then was stunned, this little girl, obviously hid sugar on me, and actually cried so miserably and pitifully just now. Is...... Wait, you're girl, the crying that is usually bullied by me is fake!

Xun Keran, eleven years old, turned around, squinted at Hou Guangyan and smiled, revealing an expression of "You just found out, no wonder you always fail".

The corners of Hou Guangyan's mouth twitched twice.

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Late summer 2013

"Then I saw the bloodied corpse move, and I immediately felt that my soul had drifted away from my body a little!" Bai Ling held a cold beer in one hand and danced to demonstrate the expression of being zombified with fear at that time, and everyone laughed at him for being as timid as a mouse.

"To be honest, it was quite scary at that time, Sister Xun and the others were all next door, and I heard Xiaobai stiffly pointing at the corpse on the ground, and let out a crisp scream-" Xue Yang said while pouring tea for Xu Wanli.

"Nonsense! I didn't scream! Bai Ling put the cold beer on the table, "At most, I just issued an interjection: Ah! ”

"That's right, the interjection made by eight decibels: Ah~~~~~" Xue Yang's words caused a table of people to laugh, "I don't believe you ask the captain and Sister Xun, are they attracted by your high decibels?" ”

Coco just handed the menu book to the waiter, turned his head and smiled: "You should ask, at that time, who was not attracted by the scream?" ”

Da Xuan sat beside her, smiling, recalling the situation in his mind, the scene that had been characterized as a murder was a little chaotic, the body was lying in front of the TV cabinet in the living room, the recorder took photos of the suspected murder weapon in the kitchen, Coco and Da Xuan had just arrived, and suddenly heard a panicked cry from the living room, the two hurriedly turned around and went back, when Da Xuan was still unknown, Xun Keran had already been lying on the chest of the corpse and listening for a while, and then ripped off the clothes on the corpse and observed his wounds.

"In ...... Bleeding, his blood is still gushing out, call first aid!! Coco roared, several police officers around him immediately jumped up as if they were pointed, some called for first aid, and some immediately stepped forward to help hold down the wound, that day Coco never left the victim's side, from the ambulance to the operating room, Da Xuan chased after it, watching her follow up the operating room desperately, the doctor was trying his best to rescue at the same time, looking for possible physical evidence from the wound that was cleaned little by little, and carefully took away all the clothes and shoes, but almost fainted due to dehydration and hypoglycemia after leaving the operating room, He was arrested by doctors and kept in the hospital for observation overnight.

In this bizarre case that changed from a burglary murder case to a robbery and intentional wounding, the victim woke up and testified against the suspect and the suspect had a smooth journey, and it was not until the conviction that the question of physical evidence was brought to mind, and the subsequent answers from the forensic medical department made the defense lawyer frown.

"Does that defense lawyer remember the war? Before Sister Xun's report came out, she had been shouting that we had arrested the wrong person, saying that our police had arrested people indiscriminately, and she also patted her chest and assured the prosecutor that the prisoner had been wronged. Xiaobai said.

Xue Yang said it vigorously, "Yes, yes, every time I see that 'I am the most correct in the world' face in the police station, my fists itch!" ”

So later Xun Keran's report made Da Xuan laugh while slapping the table.

There was a small piece of fingernails, with the murder weapon deeply pierced into the victim's wound, when the doctor was cleaning the wound, the sharp-eyed Xun Keran shouted to stop, and asked the recorder to take it down on the spot and then take it out, DNA proved that this piece of nail stained with the victim's blood belonged to the suspect.

When the lawyer went around in circles to find some sophistry, the suspect said himself: "Is there any way to reduce the sentence?" ”

Everyone recalled the situation at that time, and sighed at the thought that the victim was almost one step away from stepping into another world.

"Seriously," Wanli poked the chicken nuggets, "Fate is really fate sometimes, if it wasn't for Bai Ling seeing him move at that moment, now he has become a memory of his family, instead of basking in the sun every day and enjoying the rest of his life~"

"For the rest of our lives, we are enjoying Ariki every day!?" Wang Aiguo's smile caused everyone to laugh and start to raise their glasses to celebrate.

Da Xuan turned his head to see that Ke Ke could caress the rim of the glass with his hand, looking thoughtful. He knew that Coco's unusual subtle emotions must have something to do with the strange man in the morning, but he couldn't ask directly.

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The street lamp illuminated the dim path, and Coco walked slowly with her head down, dreaming about the past one after another for the past few days, and the memories of her childhood were like slides put out by the teacher in class, lingering in her dreams all night long. My sister and that person got to know, got acquainted, and played until the three of them grew up, and gradually became two people, and superfluous Xiao Keran. Then everything came to an abrupt end, and the dream woke up, and Coco looked at the ceiling, hoping that she would never wake up.

She knew who the person giving the gift was, and after years of not seeing her, she was still keenly aware of that person's existence.

"Hey......" Da Xuan's voice made Coco wake up suddenly.

What the?

"I mean, ahem, that, I didn't buy anything good...", Da Xuan said, twisting his head to the side, actually a little shy.

"No, it's just a birthday."

"I didn't say I didn't buy it." Da Xuan's tone suddenly became fierce, "Take it." ”

Coco looked at the small box handed over inexplicably for a while, glanced at Da Xuan, who didn't dare to look at her directly, and smiled when she took it, "Zhou Daxuan, what are you shy, pretending to be puberty?" ”

The protesting Da Xuan muttered a few words on the side, but Coco didn't pay attention, she opened the box in her hand and saw the necklace of the small cube pendant.

“…… Thank...... Thank you. Even the person receiving the gift became shy.

After an awkward silence, the two began to say goodbye in unison.

"Ah, I should go that way, you ......"

"I'm fine, it's just a little road, I'll go by myself."

"Ah, okay, goodbye, then." Da Xuan strode away.

"Hmm," Coco said, walking briskly in the direction of home without looking back.

If you are found blushing, you will be embarrassed and lose your life!! - The two of them thought the same thing and strode away from each other.

But after a short stretch of time, Coco walked and suddenly noticed footsteps behind her.

She finally stopped as she walked through the aperture under another streetlamp.

"If you have something to say, come out, don't sneakily follow me."

The figure of the man slowly walked out of the corner, Coco turned around, took a deep breath, and the person in front of him made the memories come like waves.

"I'll see you in the morning, Hou Guangyan."

A faint smile appeared on the face of the slightly older-looking man, "I interrupted the good play between the two of you......"

"What's the matter?"

"Isn't it exciting to be followed?"

"You're underestimating me, it's exciting when you're being followed in the morgue!"

"Yo! Hahaha, it's really hard to connect you with the little girl who was dripping with snot back then. Hou Guangyan teased, seeing that the other party had no angry face, and realized that the girl in front of him who had heard from rumors from all sides was no longer the person in his memory.

"The one just now, don't you want to introduce me?" Hou Guangyan asked with a playful smile.

"What are you looking for me?" Coco directly opened the topic, and the other party didn't ask, just stared at Coco.

"When was the last time we met?" Hou Guangyan approached casually.

"At my sister's funeral, you said to me, 'I won't forgive you.'"

The two of them were silent for a while, those words full of love and hate, the chaotic scene of adults pulling at that time, and the indescribable pain of the girl's eyes widening, Hou Guangyan remembered.

The day of the funeral was a summer rainy day, and Xun Keran was sitting in the corner at that time, the sound of raindrops knocking on the glass outside the window behind her, and the sound of people talking in the farewell venue She couldn't hear anything, and there was only the expression of her sister asleep not far away in her eyes.

"Even if they all say it's not your fault, even if it'...... She will also say that you have done nothing wrong, but I will not forgive you, your willfulness, taking away my only ...... The only ......" Xun Keran's eyes widened and he looked up at the condescending Hou Guangyan.

In the backlight, his eyes were deep black, and he couldn't see the darkness to the end, and then watched him be forcibly dragged away by the adults and disappear in the pouring rain.

That day became the dividing line in Xun Keran's life.