"Dear Shuqing, my lawyer has released me on bail and I am now back at home. I really want to see you, and there are some things I regret so much. Anyway, let's meet and talk, and besides, I heard that you have a friend, and if you are afraid of not greeting her, I think she can come with you. ”

Shuqing and Mrs. Dean walked slowly on the quiet path of the Palm Springs community, she was a little absent-minded, and her mind kept thinking about the text message Mrs. An sent her.

In Chongqing, where the evening came, there was a gentle breeze, although it was still a little stuffy, but it was bearable.

"I said, you better go back to Longmen with me, the air in this city is really not as good as in the countryside. The director's wife said.

"The bad thing is that everything I observe has to be linked to a particular issue that I am exploring. In the countryside, you look at the houses dotted among the trees, and you are fascinated by the fresh air and beautiful scenery. And when I saw those houses, the only thing that occurred occurred when they were separated from each other, so that possible sins would not go unpunished. Shuqing shook her head and said slowly, "Those places often fill me with a certain sense of horror, and I believe that, according to my experience, the crimes that occur in the happy and beautiful countryside are more terrible than the lowliest, worst alleys in the city." ”

"You are so sensational, the countryside is so simple and beautiful!"

"No, no, the lonely houses in the countryside, each built on their own land, are mostly inhabited by ignorant villagers who do not know any laws. Think about it, those brutal acts, hidden evils, can happen year after year without being discovered. ”

"What kind of society is now, there is no evil to hide. In this regard, the city is not much safer than the countryside. ”

I don't mean that, it's obvious that in the city, the pressure of public opinion can do what the law can't. In any alley, the screams of a beaten child and the beating of a drunk man can arouse the sympathy and anger of the neighbors. Moreover, the judiciary is so close that it can take action whenever a complaint is filed, and the crime is closely linked to the dock. ”

"If you want to say Zhou Zhiwen—"

"Oh, dear, don't you think Zhou Zhiwen's case is strange? Was it really Hu Sheng who killed him?"

"You don't believe he did it, do you?"

"yes, I don't believe it, but—" Shuqing stopped, she looked up at the star-shaped lights slowly lit up on both sides of the path in front of her, it was already so dark. She shook her head and said no more.

"But what?"

"It's nothing, we're almost there. Here it is. ”

Shuqing rang the doorbell and didn't respond, she pressed it again, but there was still no response, she glanced at the director's wife suspiciously.

"No one?" said the director's wife.

Shuqing stretched out her hand again, she didn't ring the doorbell, but knocked on the door vigorously, about 10 minutes later, the door opened, and it was Li Zhen standing in the door. As the door opened, a strange scent came to my nose.

The director's wife and Shuqing glanced at each other, and they both frowned, obviously not liking the fragrance.

Li Zhen looked at Shuqing and the director's wife in surprise, with a look of disgust, obviously dissatisfied with Shuqing's knock on the door.

"Xiaowen asked me to come to her. Shuqing explained.

"You need to wait, my mom is resting upstairs, I'm going to call her. ”

"If we can, can we go upstairs and visit her? I know she's been having a hard time these days. ”

Li Zhen looked at Shuqing suspiciously, and then turned her head to look at the director's wife.

"Okay, please!" she decided. "She's not in a good mood, so you'd better not stimulate her. ”

Shuqing and the director's wife nodded, and followed Li Zhen upstairs.

"Mommy-Mommy-" Li Zhen knocked twice on her mother's bedroom door, her voice sounding sweet.

Even with his daughter's sweet voice, Mrs. An still didn't respond to her in the door. Li Zhen turned her head to look at Shuqing embarrassedly, with an apologetic expression: "She may have fallen asleep, and she looked very tired when she came back." ”

"Then we'll do it another day. The director's wife said.

"You don't have to come again, my mother actually invited you to come?" Li Zhen turned around and glanced at her with disdain, with a look of disgust.

"That's—"

"Ahh "You brute. ”

The door was unlocked and opened.

"Ouch—you have such a big cat?" roared the director's wife, who hated cats the most. "Fuck off, you little brute. She kicked the cat away with her foot.

"Are you okay?" Shuqing bent down to pull Li Zhen, she tilted her head and looked inside strangely, thinking to herself: "Such a big movement, Xiaowen hasn't woken up yet?"

"It's okay, I hope I didn't make a noise to my mother. Li Zhen blushed and stood up in embarrassment. She tugged at her clothes and glanced inside the bedroom.

Mrs. Ann lay quietly on the bed, the quilt was pulled high, covering her whole body and only her head was exposed, her face was very peaceful, and she slept very deeply.

Shuqing and the director's wife looked at each other. They all have the same question: sleeping so deeply?

"She's sleeping too deeply, nothing will happen. Shuqing looked worriedly at Mrs. An on the bed.

"I'm going to wake her up. Li Zhen frowned slightly, and she walked to Mrs. An's bedside. Shuqing and the director's wife followed behind her.

"Mommy-Mommy-"

No response.

"What do you think this is?" said the director's wife, pointing to a small bottle on the bedside table.

"This is my mother's medicine-" Li Zhen said without looking at it, and suddenly she realized something, "Oh my God-no! Mother-mother-wake up-wake up-" She shook her mother violently, but Mrs. Ann on the bed still didn't respond.

"Kombat 120. Shuqing turned her head to look at the director's wife and said hurriedly.

"Oh-oh my God!" she swallowed the whole bottle of pills. Oh my God--Mom-Mom-" Li Zhen was already lying on Mrs. An's body, and her tears kept dripping on Mrs. An's quilt like pearls with broken threads. She almost cried and died.

It took half an hour for the ambulance to arrive. However, Mrs. Ann was already breathless. Doctors said she died from taking too many barbiturates.

It didn't take long for Officer Zhu Mao and his assistant to arrive at the scene.

It took a lot of effort for Shuqing and the director's wife to pull Li Zhen away from her Mrs. An's body, and she couldn't believe that her mother was dead. She is unwilling to accept the fact that she is the only one in this world.

After pulling Li Zhen away from Mrs. Ahn's body, Officer Zhu Mao, his assistant and the forensic doctor examined the scene, and the forensic doctor said that Mrs. An died 30 minutes earlier than he called 120, which means that Mrs. An was already dead before they could arrive. Officer Zhu Mao found a letter from Mrs. Ann in her hand, but other than that, there was no accident. The content of the letter was probably that she hated her actions, that she had no face to face her daughter, and that she did not want to be condemned in her heart again.

"It seems that he committed suicide in fear of sin. Officer Zhu Mao came to a conclusion, he raised his keen little eyes, looked at Li Zhen, who was crying in a mess, and then said, "Miss, please mourn." ”

As soon as he said this, Li Zhen cried even more.

"Didn't she let us see her? Why—" The director's wife leaned closer to Shuqing and whispered.

Shuqing frowned, looking at Mrs. An's corpse, revealing a frightened and injured gaze, she didn't hear the words of Mrs. Director.

"Did she really kill herself?" she asked again. The voice sounded like a hurt, overwhelmed child.

"Oh—I think so. Zhu Mao looked at Shuqing seriously, not too happy that she doubted his judgment.

"Impossible, how could it be suicide, oh - how could Xiaowen be suicide. Shuqing said.

"So, how can you explain that?" Officer Zhu Mao looked at Shuqing with interest.

"You see, she slept soundly, drank a glass of milk before bed, and there was no one else on the cup except her fingerprints. She wrote a letter to herself, a letter of atonement, and she hoped that her daughter would forgive her. This is the case of suicide in general, and a woman like her can't stand a prison trial. ”

"No, no, where is Mama Xu?"

"Mom told her to buy her aspirin, and she said she had a headache. Li Zhen looked at Shuqing with a heartbroken expression on her face. "She went out for a long time and never came back. Then she turned her head to look at Officer Zhu Mao and added: "Aunt Shuqing is right, my mother will not commit suicide, I don't blame her, I know that she will definitely not kill Jinpeng." ”

Shuqing walked up to Li Zhen's side and gently hugged her trembling body, she showed a rare affection, and said, "Child, I really hope you haven't experienced this terrible thing. ”

Li Zhen lay in Shuqing's arms and cried even more. She said: "I didn't expect that my mother would abandon me at this time, I just lost Jinpeng. My world collapsed overnight. It's all gone, it's all gone. Woo-"

Shuqing gently patted Li Zhen on the shoulder and said, "Child, we can't help people avoid misfortune, people will face all this sooner or later. You need to lie down now, you need to rest, leave it to me here for the time being, I will contact Mama Xu, I hope she can rush back to take care of you. Believe Auntie, everything will be fine. At this time, she forgot all her previous speculations about Li Zhen, including her speculation about reporting her mother.

Shu Qingchong nodded to the director's wife and Officer Zhu Mao, and left Mrs. An's bedroom with Li Zhen in her arms.

Except for Zhu Mao, who looked at Li Zhen in surprise, everyone else only cared about An Xiaowen's corpse.