On the way home, the little girl sat on the back seat of the bicycle, hugged Huang Yuanguang's waist tightly, and told him the story that happened in school today.

"Dad, Chen Haoyu was punished by the teacher today."

"Why?"

"Because of robbing the girl's eraser!"

"Deserve the punishment! How can you rob a girl of something! ”

"But...... At that time, I saw that the eraser was very good-looking, and I said that I also wanted to have one, so Chen Haoyu went to grab it. ”

"Ah...... This, tsk, is still not right - he wants to give you an eraser, you should buy it yourself, how can you grab it? This shows that this child is stupid and wants to empty gloves white wolf, Yiyi, stay away from this kind of child in the future. ”

"Uh-huh! I don't usually talk to other boys! ”

"Then how do you talk to this kid named Chen Haoyu?"

"Because she's a girl duck~"

Conversations like this take place between the two men on the bike, and the evening sunset shines on them, lingering with just the right amount of softness.

When I got home, the woman in the apron stood at the door, looking at the two with a smile.

The little girl immediately jumped off the back seat of the bicycle and threw herself into the woman's arms.

"Mom!"

The woman who also squatted down like Huang Yuanguang, hugged the little girl who ran over, rubbed her hair lovingly, looked at her collar, cuffs and hem of her clothes, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Keep your clothes clean today, and keep them going tomorrow."

"Then I want a little red flower reward!"

The woman stood up and took her hand.

"Okay, okay, little red flower, I'll give it to you later."

As he spoke, he turned his head, looked at Huang Yuanguang, and smiled.

"Husband, you're back - there's your favorite dish tonight."

Huang Yuanguang nodded, walked over, and hugged the woman's waist deeply.

"Well, I'm back."

……

The dining table in the living room is filled with the aroma of food, all of which are home-cooked dishes, but they show a woman's craftsmanship.

The braised lion's head is fragrant and not greasy; The seaweed egg drop soup is delicious and delicious; Green pepper shredded potatoes are crispy and refreshing; The tomato beef is cooked just right, and in the reddish-brown oil broth, the pieces of beef are paired with the aroma of tomatoes, which is appetizing.

The little girl soon feasted on her meal, and made a "purr" sound like a gluttonous pig. Huang Yuanguang deliberately competed with her for beef, and the six-year-old girl couldn't grab him at all, so she quickly curled her lips, but as Huang Yuanguang laughed and handed the beef piece she grabbed to the girl's bowl, the little girl regained her smile and ate happily.

The woman smiled at the interaction between father and daughter, and her face was full of happy smiles.

The little girl was happily eating and talking inarticulate about her recent anecdotes at school.

"I'm hungry in kindergarten today, and I've been praised privately."

"That's amazing, Yiyi, what's the reason for it?"

Huang Yuanguang praised it at the right time, and the woman reminded the little girl a little:

"Eat slowly, swallow what is in your mouth first."

"Hey, hey......"

After swallowing the food, the girl happily continued:

"The teacher asked us to write an essay today, and I wrote more than 70 words! However, Wang Pengyu writes more words than me, but the words he uses are too complicated, I guess he didn't write it himself, hum......"

Seeing that the topic was about to deviate again, Huang Yuanguang joked:

"What is written?"

"It's written 'My Dad'!"

The little girl smiled happily.

The woman touched her head:

"What's your dad writing about?"

"I wrote - 'My dad is a jingcha', because I can't remember how the police write it, so I only use pinyin, but the teacher still thinks I write very well." He is a good man with a lot of righteousness. Dad is always catching bad guys, although before I was born, Dad was retaliated by bad guys, but he is not angry, he is still being a good jingcha, I am Jiaoao for my dad! ’”

The little girl held her head high and proudly read her composition, wanting to receive the applause and approval she imagined.

However, to her surprise, the first time she finished reading this composition, neither the woman nor Huang Yuanguang spoke for a while, and the two of them fell into a strange silence at the same time, as if they were frozen.

The little girl looked left and right in a panic, and Huang Yuanguang finally reacted and squeezed out a smile. Touching the little girl's head:

"That's a good job, Yiyi, maybe you'll be a writer in the future."

"Yi Yi is awesome, Mom and Dad applaud you."

The woman and Huang Yuanguang reluctantly clapped their hands for the little girl, and finally pulled up the atmosphere a little more, making the little girl smile again.

But whether it was a woman or Huang Yuanguang, at this moment, they all glanced at each other and exchanged a complicated look.

……

After eating, when it was time to clean up the dishes, the little girl climbed on the table in the living room alone to do her homework, and Huang Yuanguang came to the kitchen with the woman to clean up the pots and pans.

The division of labor between two people is clear, one person washes large pieces, one person washes small pieces, and two washing pools are enough. The two hands wiped the grease side by side, but they were silent with each other.

Suddenly, without turning his head, Huang Yuanguang asked the woman:

“…… You said to Yiyi: I was retaliated against by the bad guys? ”

"Hmm."

The woman snorted from her nose.

"Why do you say that? If she kept remembering it, she would want to inquire when she grew up...... What to do? ”

In order to avoid being discovered by the little girl doing homework in the living room, Huang Yuanguang tried his best to lower his voice and asked briefly and urgently.

"—what can I do?"

The woman who had been burying her head and scrubbing the already visible plate raised her head, looking at Huang Yuanguang's eyes, tears were faintly oozing.

"Since that incident 10 years ago, you've been in a state of flux. During that time, you would sit by the window in a daze for hours every night with your clothes on. Even now, you seem to have forgotten about it, but you still haunt it. Even if I don't say it, I'll definitely know about it in the future. And is what I'm saying wrong with the truth? Isn't that the right thing to say to Yiyi? Even if everyone else thinks—"

"-Enough!"

Huang Yuanguang was rarely angry, but despite this, he still thought about the little girl in the living room and lowered his voice.

“…… You~"

He shook his head, trying to accuse something, but found that he couldn't say a word.

And the woman turned her back and said with some dryness:

"After a while, I'm going to go out and look for a job."

“…… You are crazy? ”

Hearing this, Huang Yuanguang forgot all the things he wanted to say just now, and only the incredible remained. He stared at the woman's back.

"People in their forties still go to the job market, what kind of pig nose and green onion are you?"

"I'm going to elementary school right soon – I want to buy the best school district house and not let her fall behind at the starting line."

"How much salary you can earn in a month is not a drop in the bucket."

"At least it can subsidize the ...... of the family"

The woman's hand was holding the plate, and it was a little red and chapped in some places.

Huang Yuanguang looked at her hand, was silent for a moment, and suddenly, hugged the woman's shoulders tightly from behind.

"I'll figure it out."

The woman turned her head and looked at Huang Yuanguang in a daze. The latter's face was incomparably calm.

"It's okay, money is not a problem, I'll figure it out...... I'm going to go to the study later, and if you do the housework, don't come in and disturb me. ”

Hearing the word "study", the woman's body trembled, and she seemed to understand something.

She turned around and wrapped her arms around Huang Yuanguang's waist as well.

However, he never said a word.

……

In the study, Huang Yuanguang sat quietly in front of the computer and smoked.

In the midst of the smoke, a red-skinned copy of the Criminal Procedure Law sat next to the computer desk, and the cover was about to be polished white.

Staring at the book, Huang Yuanguang recalled memories of the past.

That was the case 10 years ago.

It was the murder case he told Lin Heng today.

In fact, as he said, the case was finally successfully convicted, the murderer was caught, the deceased was relieved, and he completed another case, upholding social justice, and everyone was happy.

However, he deliberately omitted one thing when he told -

That is, when the suspect was caught, even if the evidence was conclusive, he still tried all kinds of ways to deny it, and he always refused to sign and confess.

So at that time, Huang Yuanguang, who was the head of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Provincial Department, used some "means" in order to pry his mouth open, in that era, this kind of "means" were not uncommon, and they were really useful.

However, after the court hearing, the murderer died violently in the car being transported to the prison and died - according to the hospital diagnosis, the fatal injuries were all recent, that is, those "means" planted internal injuries in the man's body.

Originally, only this incident was fine, but another thing was turned over, that is, what Huang Yuanguang said to Lin Heng today - there was no murderer in the surveillance video at the scene of the crime at that time, and from this point alone, he had no possibility of committing the crime.

As a result, the family of the deceased immediately submitted the relevant situation to the media, which immediately aroused turbulent public opinion, and some lawyers who kept saying "procedural justice" also participated, colluded with the family, and overturned this case, which only had such a little doubt, and demanded a large amount of state compensation.

And he was even punished on his back, and was transferred from the front line of criminal investigation, he had a great future, and even hoped to compete for the position of captain of the criminal investigation team within a few years, but then he tossed and turned in various unpopular departments of the provincial department for many years, until in the end, he was placed by a marginalized department such as the "Behavior Analysis Section".

In fact, relatively speaking, this is already a relatively good ending. If it weren't for the fact that Huang Yuanguang at that time was appreciated by the high-level of the provincial department because of his past achievements, then he might have gone to prison.

But such a result did not satisfy Huang Yuanguang.

- Why, even though the prisoners are caught and the righteousness of society is promoted, they should be treated like this!

As an old criminal policeman who joined the criminal investigation team in his early twenties and has been up and down for ten years, he can vouch for his life, and that young man was indeed the criminal of the murder back then. This doesn't even require any evidence, it can be confirmed purely by the intuition of the old detective.

- So, is it because of the little "tricks" he used?

But how many colleagues would not have used this "method" at the beginning?

What's more, can the murderer continue to let him escape justice arrogantly? Seeing that the murderer obviously killed a person, but he still only wanted to get rid of the crime and was full of nonsense and self-justification, which criminal policeman could not be angry when he saw it!

- I was so engrossed in my work and fighting illegal crimes that I didn't leave any offspring after my thirties, and this is the end of the year?!

The smoke in front of him was like Huang Yuanguang's disturbed state of mind. He took a deep breath and snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray next to him.

The past is like smoke.

In the past ten years, his heart has gradually become cold.

From a criminal investigation captain with justice in his heart to a sleek old section chief, Huang Yuanguang only felt endless strangeness when he recalled the justice and enthusiasm of the past.

"Police...... It's just a job. The salary is more than 10,000 yuan, and the provident fund is less than 4,000. ”

Now he just wants to create a better life for his wife and daughter.

For example, buying the best school district house so that my daughter can go to the best elementary school in the city; For example, dispel the idea of her wife going out to work, so that she can live at home with peace of mind; Another example is to add a dishwasher to your home so you don't have to worry about it......

Huang Yuanguang turned on the computer.

A virtual network bridge is carried out, a connection is made to an off-domain website, and a dedicated communication chat is opened. The servers of this software are abroad - private, secure, and all traces can be deleted at any time.

The moment I opened the chat, I already saw the latest message from my "friend":

"Any recent information?"

(End of chapter)