I looked at Li Xu's cold face, and felt a little panicked, thinking that she and Shi Ling were sisters, and Shi Ling's parents were almost a parental kindness to her, but now she was so calm and almost indifferent to me analyzing the possibility and depth of the Shi family's involvement, there was no temperature in her voice at all, it was inevitable that it would not be worrying, but she couldn't say anything comforting.

She guessed what I was thinking, turned her face and smiled bitterly, and said: "If you see too much, you will see through it, human feelings are warm and cold, life and death or something, it is just a matter of coming and going, as soon as you close your eyes and swallow your breath, you will be gone." There was a time when I always felt that I owed Shi Ling, and I always thought that if it wasn't for me, she wouldn't have had an accident. But then, I gradually didn't think so. Things are there, and there is always something going to happen when something happens, and there is no one who is right or wrong, and there is no one who owes anyone. ”

I can't quite accept this statement, yes, Shi Ling's accident really can't be counted on her head, but who owes someone this kind of thing, there is always something.

But at this time, it's okay not to comfort her, where can you refute her.

She continued: "So, if I'm unlucky enough to not carry it this time and die, you don't have to feel sorry, you don't have to think that you called me there to save Fleur and I died, don't think so." I am an adult with brains, I will consider and weigh issues such as where to go, what to do, whether I can go, whether I should go, whether there will be consequences, etc., and I will weigh it, and if I don't go, I won't feel ashamed of you; It's my own choice, and it's none of your business. In the future, no matter what I die for, where I die, even if I am killed by you by mistake, you should not have any burden on your mind. On the other hand, if you die before me, even if you die to save me, I will not be unable to live with myself. ”

It turned out to be a long time off, and the focus was on these words.

She said it lightly, don't feel ashamed, don't have a burden of thoughts, it sounds very simple, but who can really think so when it comes to the end. It's like someone is out of love, you run to comfort him and say what's the big deal about falling out of love, it's hard to find a five-legged toad in the world, and two-legged men are not everywhere, what's the use? The reason is such a reason, but it doesn't work, the sad ones are still sad to death, and the guilty ones are still guilty to death. If Li Xu really can't carry it this time, I'm afraid that I won't have a good time in my life, and I will want to cry when I see a woman smoking.

Li Xu obviously didn't want to talk about these useless words anymore, so he changed the topic and asked me if there was anyone who could arrange to follow Shi Yan and his wife.

I replied that she had arranged for the lazy to pass, and had followed her for a few days, and so far I hadn't noticed anything wrong.

Li Xu nodded slightly and said, "Yes, you can't have much hope if you follow it, Uncle Shi has been a policeman for decades, and he is very powerful, and ordinary people can't follow him." And if they really have anything to do with the incident, the old dilapidated house in the small barren mountain will definitely be on guard the moment we break into, and there will be no more movement easily. Shi Yan is not so easy to show flaws, I have known him for too long. ”

Listening to her words, it seemed that Shi Yan had definitely decided that there was something wrong with him, and she just waited for her health to get better and declared war with him.

But from my point of view, it may not be that there is a problem with Shi Yan and his wife, it may also be Shi Ling's other relatives, aunts, aunts, grandmothers, wet nurses and the like, or it may be a more bloody plot, this world is too crazy and unreliable, and things that often happen beyond imagination, I am used to it, so I try not to limit my imagination when reasoning or conjecture.

To be honest, although I have only met Shi Yan once, he gave me a really good impression, a very decent person, soft, quiet, and personable, and there is an indescribable power in his speech and demeanor, which is the strength of his heart precipitated in decades of police career, which can be said to be incomparable.

I told Li Xu all these words, Li Xu smiled, and then sighed, his face became dead, his eyes were sad, and he spit out one word in a heavy tone: "Snake." ”

"Snakes?"

I reacted as I muttered in a daze, she was talking about the pattern of two snakes wrapped around a scepter, and she had mentioned to me before that she had seen it at Shi Ling's house.

She said, "Yes, snake." Isn't that eye on my back changing when I get hot water? In the left corner is a pattern of two snakes intertwined on a stick. ”

I want to tell her that according to the seriousness of the matter, it should not be called a "stick" that is wrapped around two snakes, it is a bit too inappropriate, it may be more appropriate to call it a "scepter", and those two fangs and sharp mouths should be called "grasshoppers", I don't know the specifics, of course, this is not the time to dwell on such details.

Li Xu told me that when she was a child, she saw the pattern of the double snake wrapped around the cane in Shi Ling's house, which was engraved on a tablet.

Shi Ling's old home had a very small storage room on the first floor, which was used to put bicycles or sundries, one afternoon during the summer vacation of the second grade of primary school, she was playing at Shi Ling's house, the two of them had nothing to do, found a bunch of keys, and locked the house one by one, leaving a small one useless, Shi Ling thought about it and said that there was a storage room downstairs, and the two of them took the key and drove into the storage room.

There were a lot of useless things piled up in that storeroom, and there was a couch box in the far corner, locked with an old-fashioned padlock, and there was no key, Li Xu found a tool on the spot to remove the two hinges behind the crate, and then turned out a wooden box under a pile of old clothes, opened it, and there was a tablet inside.

Their knowledge at that time could not understand what the tablet was, and they only vaguely felt that it had something to do with the dead, so Shi Ling was frightened and almost cried. But Li Xu didn't, she wasn't afraid, but curious, because there was a strange pattern engraved on the back of the tablet.

It was the pattern that appeared on her skin when it was exposed to hot water, which she called "two snakes wrapped around sticks", and she said it was too special to be mistaken.

I remembered the day at my house when she saw the pattern on her back after the hot water appeared, her miserable face and violent temper.

Li Xu said that it was the most important name on the tablet, and it should be engraved with the side of "XXX position", she didn't look at it much, because there were not many words she recognized at that time, and it seemed that they were all words she didn't know, so she didn't pay attention to it.

But she remembers a very special place, that is, the base of the tablet is not a regular shape, but a long diamond with several notches.

She could remember this so clearly because Shi Ling was frightened at that time and wanted to put the tablet back in its place, and when she grabbed it, she was scratched by the sharp notched edge of the base, although it didn't bleed, but it hurt a lot. Many years later, she became a reporter, went to a farmhouse for an interview, saw the tablet enshrined in the hall of the deceased male owner, took a closer look, recalled the one she saw in Shi Ling's storeroom, and felt that it was very strange, different from the normal tablet, but she didn't think much about it.

Then a while ago, under my reminder, she found that she had a picture of "double python wrapped around the staff" on her skin, and immediately realized that the Shi family must have something to do with these messy and weird events, so she immediately returned to Jiangcheng to follow Shi Yan and his wife.

That's why she left my house in a hurry that day.

Li Xu said that she secretly followed Shi Yan and them for a few days, but she didn't find out anything, so she went back and did some other investigations.

Investigate her own past.

She thought of the incident she had discussed with me before, and I analyzed that almost all of the reasons why I have come to this point today were deliberately arranged by Xia Dongyi, including the initial acquaintance with Bai Yafeng, and also because Xia Dongyi hired someone to make trouble with the city management. Li Xu also faintly felt in her heart that she seemed to be being manipulated all her life, but she couldn't find the inner logic, so when she returned to Jiangcheng a while ago, she reviewed all her life experiences, visited all the characters related to her growth experience, and finally found the original point.

The origin is Xia Dongyi.

Li Xu is also a chess piece in Xia Dongyi's hand, and going back further, probably Li Shuzhen is too.

Li Xu went back to Jiangcheng and found the head teacher, the director of teaching, and the vice principal and other people of the primary school where she studied, two of them still remember one thing, Li Xu's first grade was about to end that semester, and her mother went to the school to go through the transfer procedures for her, the reason was to move. But at the beginning of the second semester, she ran to the school again and said that she would not change schools. But because the school has already accepted students transferred from other places and arranged for Li Xu's place, there is no way to ask for her anymore. Li Shuzhen politely said something like causing trouble to the school, and left without complaining, but a few days later, a man came to the principal with a personal letter from the then director of the education bureau, forcing the school to take Li Xu again.

The man who took the letter to the principal to stuff Li Xu back to his original school, according to the description of his appearance, is undoubtedly Xia Dongyi.

His appearance is so easy to remember, thin, tall, with an awl face, single eyelids, a cold expression, and long hair in front that covers half of his right eye, but anyone who has dealt with him directly will be impressed.

Li Xu said that from the time calculation, Li Shuzhen took her to move and transfer her to a school after she found out that Shi Ling's father was a policeman, and she always thought that Li Shuzhen did not transfer to the school because of her crying and hunger strike, and she didn't think that there was an external force in it. She said that now when she thinks back to Li Shuzhen, all the timidity, nervousness, sensitivity, anger, all kinds of inexplicable nervousness, etc., etc., can suddenly all be explained.

Because Li Shuzhen has been living under the forcible arrangement and control of others, she is in danger, desperately trying to escape but can't get out.

And the person who arranged and manipulated the lives of their mother and daughter is undoubtedly Xia Dongyi now.