"Zhou Cheng, it's much easier now, right?" Lao Zhang looked at me for the past few days, and was very active when handling the case, and asked me.

"I can understand your mood very well now, much better than before." I put down what I was doing and chatted with Lao Zhang.

"This murderer is really cunning enough." Lao Zhang sat down on the other side of my desk and said to me, "It's rare to be so relaxed today, and I don't have to go out on work." ”

"yes!"

"But before, you said that you thought the murderer was more than two people, how did you know?" Lao Zhang seems to be deliberately talking to me today.

"Because I saw the black man at the police station before, I called our hometown, and it took about 20 minutes to come and go, but it took an hour from the police station to our hometown, and the time was not right, so I am sure that the murderer was definitely more than two people." I told Lao Zhang what I knew in detail.

"That's what it looks like!"

"Yes! Lao Zhang, did you do something sorry for me today? Huh?" I thought Lao Zhang was looking very strange today, so he jokingly asked, "You have been taking the initiative to chat with me, the purpose is not pure, just say anything directly, there is nothing between us." ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Actually, there is one thing that I didn't tell you. ”

My bombing, really, blew up a problem. I was taken aback, "Damn, Lao Zhang, you really have something to hide from me." ”

"Ahh You don't know? Lao Zhang blindfolded himself with one hand, frightened by his stupidity, "I thought you knew." ”

"Confess leniently, resist strictly, you explain to me clearly, what is the matter?" I asked Lao Zhang.

"Actually, it's not hiding it from you, it's that I didn't know how to tell you before, this is also a secret that I have hidden in my heart for many years, I originally wanted to bury this secret in my heart all the time and take it away, but now I think saying it should help solve the case, I still decided to tell you." Lao Zhang was very serious when he said this, not as hippie and smiling as usual, and I also watched him listen carefully.

"Lao Zhang, you say, no matter what it is, I will go in with one ear and out with the other."

"Here's the thing, when I was in middle school, there was a boy in our class at that time, I will call him A for the time being, I have completely forgotten the name, a person who looks white and pure, is rare and good-looking at that time, but his personality is very gentlemanly, many girls in the class like him, but he doesn't even glance at it, we were adolescent at that time, many boys envy him, but he loves to play with a friend of mine, often buy him things, my friend doesn't, But he insisted on giving it to others......" Lao Zhang paused for a few seconds, and then continued, "That friend of mine, whose name is Zhang Xiyao, is also a very good person, but he is indeed very humble and very kind to everyone around him. ”

When Lao Zhang said this, I felt very curious, why hadn't I seen him as a friend before, so I asked him, "What about later?" Why haven't I seen you as a friend. ”

"Hey! This friend of mine has been dead for years. When Lao Zhang said this, he choked up.

"So what's going on?" I patted Lao Zhang on the shoulder, comforted him, and asked him again.

"Hey, this is what my friend told me, one day when we went home together, he didn't talk all the time, I thought he was in a bad mood, I didn't talk much, and when I got home, Zhang Xiyao stopped, he told me that someone confessed to him, I was very excited, and quickly asked who he was, he said it was A, I was taken aback, said no wonder A usually doesn't even glance at girls, it turned out that there was another person he loved, Zhang Xiyao was really unhappy, he told me that he was afraid, and he also told me that he didn't want to go to school, let me not wait for him next week, I didn't expect that to be the last time I saw Zhang Xiyao, hey! When Lao Zhang said this, he took a pack of cigarettes from my table, smoked one from it, pinched the cigarette between the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, lit the cigarette, and took a puff, "It's all my fault, there is no main reason for his abnormality at that time, otherwise he would not have ......"

"Lao Zhang, it's not your fault, don't say that, everyone has their own fate, it's just that his luck is a little worse." I comforted Lao Zhang.

"Hey, he really didn't go to school the next week, I went to his house after the holiday, ready to persuade him, but when I went to his house, their family was doing a funeral, and I walked in to find out that ......" Lao Zhang choked up again before saying, "Zhang Xiyao hanged himself...... What a good person is gone, God doesn't open his eyes! ”

"Lao Zhang, does classmate A know about this?" I asked Lao Zhang.

Lao Zhang nodded, "I was so angry that I went to A, beat him, and then told him that it was you who killed Zhang Xiyao, do you think he committed suicide?" Then you are wrong, he is ostensibly suicidal, but in fact he is murdering, and you are the murderer who killed him! I said it almost in a roaring voice. After that, I walked away. Now that I think about what I said at the time, it should have hurt A a lot. After Lao Zhang finished speaking, he rubbed his face with his hands, and I could see that he was indeed quite remorseful.

"Why do you say that?" I asked Lao Zhang.

"After I said that, A never came to school again."

"He's dropped out of school too?" I asked.

Lao Zhang nodded, "Since then, I haven't seen him again, and if I see him again, I really want to apologize to him." ”

"Why?"

"After this case, I also understand that it is not wrong for A to love someone, but he loves the wrong person, it just so happens that my friend Zhang Xiyao is a very traditional person, and Zhang Xiyao's death is not a small blow to him! After all, he loves him. Lao Zhang said.

"Is this the reason why you reacted so much when you heard about Zhou Xing and Wang Zihan before?" I asked Lao Zhang.

"Sort of, it brings back memories I don't want to remember." Lao Zhang's cigarette was only the last part, he poked the cigarette in the ashtray, and choked on the cigarette and coughed twice, "But Zhou Xing and Wang Zihan are very lucky, but my friend is very unlucky." ”

"They weren't lucky, they didn't come together, and they took their lives." I also picked up the cigarette on the table and lit it.