CHAPTER XIX

Sima Wanyan slowed down for a while, wiped the tears from her face, took a deep breath and walked to the hall on the first floor of the University of Minnesota Hospital.

Sima Wanyan lowered her head and bumped into Ouyang Yunxi, who was walking upstairs, at the corner of the stairs.

"I'm sorry." Bumped into someone in a hurry, Sima Wanyan habitually apologized, and when she raised her head, she found that it was Ouyang Yunxi who was obviously stunned.

"It's okay, I was also at fault, I didn't avoid it in time." Ouyang Yunxi was quite surprised to find out that it was Sima Wanyan, looking at Sima Wanyan's red and swollen eyes and the tears that had not completely dried, she couldn't help but be a little worried, so she asked in a tangled way, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'm really sorry, Officer Ouyang, I want to go to my brother's place to have a look?" Sima Wanyan looked directly at Ouyang Yunxi and said.

"Are you going to his dormitory? And don't call me Officer Ouyang, I'm not a few years older than you, if you don't mind, call me Sister Yunxi. ”

"Sister Yunxi, I want to go to the house my brother rented outside." Sima Wanyan nodded and said.

"Do you know where it is?"

Sima Wanyan didn't answer, just shook her head.

"In this way, you wait for me in the hall downstairs, I'll go up and report to our deputy captain, and then I'll drive you there, you may not be able to get in smoothly if you go there alone. Do you think that's okay? Ouyang Yunxi was not only worried that Sima Wanyan would have an accident when she went out alone in this strange city when she was depressed, but also felt that the property and the landlord would not let her in with a few words from her, and more importantly, she also wanted to learn more about Sima Yuanying's situation from Sima Wanyan.

"Sister Yunxi, you are so good, thank you." Sima Wanyan smiled, and the smile with tears in her eyes was still loveful and pitiful.

"Then you go down and wait for me first, and I'll be right away."

Sima Wanyan glanced at the back of Ouyang Yunxi, who was walking up the stairs, and then turned around and went downstairs to wait for Ouyang Yunxi on the rest chair in the hall on the first floor of the Mingda Hospital complex.

Ouyang Yunxi hurriedly went upstairs and reported the situation to Dong Chenghai. It turned out that Sima Yufan had just reported to Dong Chenghai that Sima Yuanying had a 2-centimeter-long scar on the back of his neck, and after ending Sima Yufan's conversation, Dong Chenghai immediately called Ouyang Yunxi, who was still downstairs, and asked her to go to the morgue again, and be sure to personally confirm whether there was also a scar on the back of the deceased's body.

"Brother Dong, there is indeed a scar on the back of the deceased's neck on the left shoulder, but the scar is not 2 centimeters long, but a scar 0.5 centimeters wide and 3.3 centimeters long, the wound has completely healed and grown new flesh, and the difference between the color and the skin color of the surrounding skin is very small, it is difficult to distinguish without looking carefully, so it can be inferred that the scar was left many years ago." Ouyang Yunxi reported to Dong Chenghai with a serious face what she found after examining the body.

"Are you sure it's a scar that's 0.5 centimeters wide and 3.3 centimeters long?" Dong Chenghai further confirmed.

"Yes, I've measured it over and over again."

"That's not right, if the deceased is Sima Yuanying, why is the length of the scar on the back of the neck different from what Sima Yufan said?" Dong Chenghai muttered to himself.

"Brother Dong, do you think Sima Yufan remembered it wrongly, the length of the scar is 3.33 cm, and he remembered it as 2 cm or roughly estimated to be 2 cm?" Ouyang Yunxi assumed.

"There is another possibility, after all, the wound was left when he was a child, and as Sima Yuanying grew older, the scar was gradually lengthened."

"This explanation is also very reasonable." Ouyang Yunxi echoed.

"Let's do it for now, and we'll look for other clues."

"By the way, Brother Dong, I want to take a leave of absence from you."

"What?" Dong Chenghai, who was about to leave, heard Ouyang Yunxi say that he wanted to ask for leave, and turned his head to look at her suspiciously.

"Sima Yuanying's sister Sima Wanyan wanted to go to the house rented by Sima Yuanying in the Blue Moon Community, I thought she was a little girl who didn't know where she was, and it was inconvenient to go alone, so I took the initiative to agree to take her over."

"Yes, our little sister Ouyang is becoming more and more in the spirit of serving the people, go ahead, I approve it." Dong Chenghai deliberately quipped.

"That's, don't look at who my master is."

"Don't be a sycophant, let's go." Dong Chenghai patted Ouyang Yunxi's head and urged Ouyang Yunxi to leave quickly.

Ouyang Yunxi immediately left and walked towards the hall on the first floor where Sima Wanyan was waiting.

After Ouyang Yunxi drove out of Mingda Hospital, the two didn't communicate much. Sima Wanyan sat on the co-pilot and stared blankly ahead, neither taking the initiative to speak, nor changing his posture, just looking ahead.

"Wanyan, let's talk." It didn't take long for the overly quiet carriage environment to make Ouyang Yunxi feel embarrassed, and took the initiative to provoke a topic with Sima Wanyan. "I don't think your brother is much older than you, right?"

"Well, my brother is 92 years old, I am 97 years old, five years older than me." Sima Wanyan turned her head to look at Ouyang Yunxi, her muscles were a little sore because she had been in one position for too long, and she craned her neck when she answered Ouyang Yunxi.

"Is your brother usually good to you?"

"It's good, we had a good relationship before he went to college, he loved me more, often bought me things, and always protected me whenever I was scolded by my mother. After going to college, he couldn't go home a few times a year, and gradually he had less contact, and sometimes he felt a little strange. However, they still call me to ask me about my studies and whether I am used to living in Kyoto. ”

"Does he call you often?"

"It's not very often, sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less, on average it's about once or twice a month."

"What are you all talking about?"

"I didn't talk about anything, he didn't want to talk in the first place, but after he went to college, he didn't like to talk even more, so he cared about my life and study, and occasionally talked about professional issues together."

"Professional questions? What do you study? Ouyang Yunxi asked knowingly.

"Jurisprudence."

"It turns out that you went to the prestigious Kyoto University School of Law, which is amazing!" Ouyang Yunxi pretended to be surprised and admired, in fact, she had already roughly investigated the situation of Sima's family, otherwise Sima Wanyan only said that she studied law, not that she studied law at Kyoto University.

"Thank you." Hearing Ouyang Yunxi's praise, Sima Wanyan rubbed the corners of her clothes a little shyly and said softly.

"Does law have a lot to do with philosophy?" Ouyang Yunxi was a little interested in asking for advice, but her main purpose was not to understand the relationship between law and philosophy, but to try to open Sima Wanyan's chatterbox, hoping to divert Sima Wanyan's attention and relax her mind, and also hoping to learn more about Sima Yuanying's situation from her.

"It depends on how you understand it. Law and philosophy are both independent disciplines, one is the study of social norms, the other is the study of the nature of the world, and there is no obvious connection; But philosophy is also a discipline that teaches people to know and think, so almost all disciplines are related to philosophy. There is a professional theory of law in law, which is generally called legal philosophy abroad, which studies the basic problems and basic thinking of law, and many of these basic problems are abstracted from philosophy or constructed by borrowing the logical way of philosophy. In my brother's words, philosophy is the most basic formal unit of legal knowledge. ”

"Does your brother like to study law too?"

"No, for a while, I was puzzled, and I complained to him at every turn about the boring and difficult study of law, and he always told me not to focus on textbooks and read more academic monographs and papers."

"He means you don't have to read the textbook often?" Ouyang Yunxi was a little surprised by Sima Yuanying's opinion.

"Well, he said that the textbook is for mediocre people, and we are not mediocre people to look at that thing, and it makes no sense." Sima Wanyan stuck out her tongue at Ouyang Yunxi a little embarrassed.

"It's crazy." Ouyang Yunxi heard Zhou Xiaobo say that Sima Yuanying did not obey authority, but he still didn't expect that he was so proud that he regarded the textbook as a meaningless book.

"It turns out that my brother's idea is right, and I now feel more and more that simply acquiring knowledge from textbooks cannot improve my knowledge reserve and improve my thinking ability, let alone broaden my horizons. Since then, if I have any questions that I don't understand, I will first ask my brother, which is strange to say, in my opinion, it is very difficult to ask questions, my brother always changes his perspective and easily explains it to me. ”

"Your brother is really good."

"Maybe people who study philosophy are less rational in their thinking."

Ouyang Yunxi smiled, turned her head to look at Sima Wanyan, and found that a smile appeared on her face, which was a heartfelt smile of pride in having such a brother as Sima Yuanying.

Ouyang Yunxi drove the car into the Blue Moon Community, parked in the parking space downstairs of Building 27, and then led Sima Wanyan into the door of Unit 2 of Building 27.

"Your brother's rented house is room 1709 of this building, I communicated with the landlord before leaving the hospital, he is willing to come and open the door for us, and now he should be waiting for us in the room." While waiting for the elevator, Ouyang Yunxi said to Sima Wanyan.

"I'm sorry for your trouble." Sima Wanyan said apologetically.

"It's okay, let's go up." As soon as Sima Wanyan finished speaking, the elevator door opened, and after finishing speaking, she was the first to walk into the elevator, and Sima Wanyan followed closely behind and also entered the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the 17th floor, and when she stepped out of the elevator, Sima Wanyan saw a house on the right side of the elevator with a false door, and a closer look at the door number found that it was 1709.

Sima Wanyan followed Ouyang Yunxi to 1709, Ouyang Yunxi knocked lightly on the door and opened the door, and saw the landlord sitting on the sofa playing with his mobile phone.

"I'm really sorry to trouble you to run again."

"It's okay, it's just a gesture. Well, I'll leave you the key to this house, which won't expire until March next year, and I don't have the right to use it at the moment. ”

"You give it to her, she is Sima Yuanying's own sister." Ouyang Yunxi really wanted to turn out the key, but because of Sima Wanyan, she could only ask the landlord to give the key to Sima Wanyan against her will.

"Thank you, sorry for your trouble." Sima Wanyan took the key handed over by the landlord and said softly. She didn't look up, so she didn't see the landlord's strange look at Sima Wanyan, which was obvious sympathy.