Chapter Ninety-Five: The Silent Witness (Part II)
Luo Li was pressed back to bed by her mother, but where could she sleep, when she closed her eyes, Miao Miao invited her to take the bus with a pink umbrella, and the scene when she waved goodbye to her through the car glass.
Why are the people who were fine yesterday gone? There were so many people on the bus, how could something happen to her?
Miao Miao's murder tore her world open, darkness and cold poured in, and the flowers in the greenhouse were instantly stained with frost......
Lori trembled uncontrollably, and she had to bite the quilt to keep her chattering teeth from making a sound.
At the same time, in the living room, her parents were not having a good time. The father wanted to call the police and tell the police what Luo Li had said.
But his mother pressed his hand: "If we tell the police what Luo Li said, will we be retaliated against by the murderer?" To know...... The first person he targeted was our ...... Lori."
"If the Miao Miao family knew that the person that person was targeting was Luo Li...... Will she be to blame? ”
"And the man was a rapist...... If we do, will there be gossip to point out our daughter......"
"Ah Nian, you don't know the horror of gossip. I'm afraid...... The daughter will be troubled by these. ”
The husband held his wife's hand instead: "You think too much. We are not afraid of shadows, so we don't care about that. They are chewing the root of their tongue behind their backs. ”
The wife's hands were cold: "The terrible place is here." If they say it to their faces, we can argue with it, but they say behind their backs, "Who are you going to explain?" You can't just catch someone and talk about it...... Moreover, the people who are rumored are often the last to know. ”
"Lori is still so young, how can she bear this."
"Yesterday...... We didn't wake up our daughter...... Will Miao Miao's parents blame us? If we had provided this information yesterday, maybe ...... Maybe Miao Miao won't die......"
"Miao Miao is dead, what's the use of you saying this now?"
After listening to his wife's words, the husband sat down on the sofa in a dejected manner. The wife had a point, if they had provided this information yesterday, the police would have been able to lock the bus quickly and prevent the tragedy from happening.
They didn't say it yesterday...... If you say it again today, others will have to complain about them.
At this moment, Luo Li suddenly exclaimed. They immediately rushed into their daughter's room. I saw Luo Li shivering behind the quilt, but her eyes were looking out of the window......
"Lily, what's wrong?" The mother stepped forward and hugged her daughter.
"There...... There was a dark shadow just now......" Lori held out her little white finger and looked out the window.
When the father heard this, he asked the mother to lock the door with her daughter, and he took a clothes pole to check outside......
Luo Li's family is in an old community, where there are only 4 red brick slab buildings, and their house is on the first floor of the first slab building on the north side of the entrance of the community. Moreover, there is no property and monitoring in the community, and the only access control has long been broken.
My father soon came outside, and a few years ago he had planted a row of boxwood in the window for safety.
He quickly checked the outside of the house and found nothing. Even he walked outside the community to look around, the path after the rain was paved with fallen leaves, and the occasional few people passing by were also in a hurry......
He stood for a moment, made sure there were no suspicious people, and then walked back. When he came to the window of his house, he subconsciously glanced at it, and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something hanging in the boxwood bush......
He immediately walked over and used the clothes pole to open the branches, and saw a white rabbit doll hanging on it, which he had given to his daughter for her birthday...... How did it end up here?
He carefully removed the doll and examined it carefully. The mouth of the bunny doll was sewn with a big cross with red thread...... The red × is terrifying among the white fluff.
Is it what it means to shut up? He clenched his fists and searched around frantically, even running out of the alley, and the sewing man asked if he had encountered a suspicious person...... Passers-by were caught by him, frowning and shaking him off with a better temper, and directly scolding him for being a madman if they were a little worse-tempered......
Lori's mother was worried and scared when she saw that her husband had not returned, and just as she was hesitating to go out to check, her husband pushed the door open.
The moment the door was opened, two embarrassed people looked at each other, one holding a clothes pole and the other holding a kitchen knife......
Seeing that it was the husband who entered the door, the strength that the wife had just burst out disappeared in an instant, and if it wasn't for the husband helping her, she almost collapsed to the ground.
In the living room, the atmosphere was solemn, and the wife only glanced at the doll and looked away.
"It's Lily's stuff, how could it be there?"
"Could it be...... Could it be that the man deliberately sent us back to warn us......" she said with a nervous voice.
"Let's not tell Lily about this...... I went and dealt with it. As he spoke, the husband picked up the doll.
"How's it going, Dad? See people? ”
"Isn't this the bunny doll I hung on my school bag? How did it end up here? ”
When the father saw Luo Li coming out of the bedroom, he hurriedly tried to carry the doll behind him, but was stopped by his daughter who pounced.
She grabbed the doll and saw the big red × at a glance.
Luo Li sighed and hurriedly let go, and her father took the opportunity to take the doll away.
The mother hugged her daughter: "Why did you come out?" You're still sick, don't worry about these things, we have them. Well, hurry back to the house and rest. ”
Luo Li's mind was full of the doll she had just seen, and the big red × pounded her mind. She was mechanically helped back to bed by her mother.
After her mother left, Luo Li raised her hand and pressed the quilt forward, trying to breathe. At this moment, a faint smell of lavender slipped through the fluffy quilt.
She sniffed, trying to catch the fleeting scent, but to no avail. She flipped open the covers and sniffed everywhere, until she reached the fingers of her right hand and smelled the lavender again.
This hand...... Just touched the doll...... Thinking of this, she stumbled to the living room and told her parents what she had found.
They were not particularly surprised to hear the news. Mother pulled Lori to sit on the couch, "Lily, Mom has something important to tell you."
Lori looked at her mother in confusion. Mom and Dad exchanged glances, apparently they had come to an agreement.
Mom took her in her arms and whispered to her not to tell her about what had happened in the past two days. Not to mention that she sat on the bus with Miao Miao......
Lori's first instinct was to refuse, and she now understood that the man in the white shirt was probably the murderer. If she can provide this clue to the police, maybe the case will be solved.
That day, for the first time, Lori had a heated argument with her parents. She cried for a long time, and her mother cried for a long time.
They recounted their worries and fears, trying to convince Lori. But Luo Li, who has never experienced the world, is not afraid of these at all, her mind is Miao Miao's figure, and she wants to seek justice for her.
(End of chapter)