River Breeze Night Sparrow

Jiang Yi hurried and hurried, but in the end he still didn't go home within an hour and a half.

He entered the door quietly, only a small dim light was left in the living room.

A boring late-night documentary is playing on the TV, and the floating light of the tropical rainforest is constantly shaking in the spacious room.And there was a quiet figure on the back of the sofa in front of the TV, the broken hair on the top of his head was gently stirring with his shallow breathing.

I saw a white and quiet face exposed under a fluffy blanket.Lin Qiu's head was still a little wet, but he had already fallen asleep with his head tilted.

Jiang Yi put away the snacks he bought lightly, walked to the sofa, squatted on the side and gently woke Lin Qiu up.

"Mr. Lin, you can't sleep without drying your hair, you'll catch a cold."

The dim warm light shone on Jiang Yi's soft black hair, making him look much more cute.After returning home, he changed into a white long gown, restraining his coldness and sharpness outside, leaving only a clean demeanor, and even looked the same as ten years ago.

Lin Qiu frowned slightly, slowly opened his eyes, looked at the person in front of him and smiled faintly, reached out and stroked Jiang Yi's hair, and murmured: "Why do I see you again when I was a child?"

Jiang Yi paused in his heart.

He reached out and touched Lin Qiu's forehead, but luckily it didn't feel hot.Looks like he just fell asleep.

Jiang Yi was thinking about how to get Lin Qiu back to bed to sleep well, when Lin Qiu suddenly pointed to the coffee table and said, "Here you are."

He turned his head and saw a small purse on the coffee table.

Looking again, the shochu he bought earlier on the coffee table for drinking was opened, and a third of it was poured out.And half a glass of transparent liquid dangled in the glass next to it, emitting a faint aroma of wine.

Jiang Yi muttered inwardly that it was not good.

The packaging of this shochu is indeed somewhat similar to that of an Evian glass bottle. Could it be that Mr. Lin treats it like water for a few sips?

Looking back at Lin Qiu's comatose state, it seems that he can't drink very much.

Jiang Yi was silent.

However, if you can't drink well, you're afraid that you won't pour a thousand cups!

He gently opened the purse on the table, only to see a red rope that was neither long nor short, with a piece of white jade wrapped around the end.It has not been polished very carefully, and even has a bit of primitive unrestrainedness.

This is for him?Jiang Yi had only heard of "men wear Bodhisattvas and women wear Buddhas" before. It was just a piece of white jade, so he didn't know what it meant.

However, it doesn't matter, he likes whatever Lin Qiu gives.

Jiang Yi found the hair dryer, and dried Lin Qiu's head with low-grade warm air from the socket in the living room. During the period, he tried to watch the TV program that Lin Qiu tuned out for a while, and yawned three times in less than 2 minutes.

Okay, I won't worry about insomnia in the future.

Jiang Yi couldn't help wondering whether Lin Qiu was drunk, or just fainted from watching boring programs.

But no matter which one it was, Lin Qiu kept her eyes closed quietly and did not speak.

After finally tidying up Lin Qiu, Jiang Yi planned to carry him back to his room.Just when Jiang Yi was thinking about how to take advantage of it, Lin Qiu suddenly moved his lips, which startled him.

"Sorry……"

"...?" Jiang Yi held his breath and remained still.

"Tim, I'm sorry..."

Jiang Yi touched his nose.

It seems that Mr. Lin is not so drunk that he is unconscious.Fortunately, he hasn't had time to do anything too extreme.

However, it's hard to say.

He grinned and said, "It's okay, Mr. Lin, you are always welcome to be my trouble."

----

The next day, in the criminal investigation office.

"...I put breakfast on the dining table. If you have a headache, there is fresh milk in the refrigerator, warm it up."

Ye Yuan moved his ears, and heard Jiang Yi speaking softly by the bed in the corner. In addition to suddenly feeling a bit chilly while the big man was showing off his cuteness, he also smelled a strange sweet and sour smell.

She leaned her head to wink and winked: "Boss, are you happy?"

Jiang Yi put down the phone and said sadly, "I'm sorry Comrade Ye Yuan, I can't get pregnant."

"Gee, you know I don't mean that!"

Jiang Yi just smiled and skipped the topic.On the contrary, this aroused Ye Yuan's gossip spirit even more.

Lin Lin on the side glanced at Jiang Yi and raised his eyebrows, Jiang Yi's smile became even more unpredictable.

"What, brother Lin Ling, you also know? Tell me, tell me, who is it?" Ye Yuan became more curious.

Lin Lin coughed twice and quickly diverted his attention, distributed the information in his hands to everyone, and said seriously: "After sorting out, there have been 15 criminal cases related to sex workers in this city in the past 23 years, including 1 rape case. Three were slightly injured by violence, one was seriously injured, one was fatal, and three were missing."

"The main disputes with sex workers are the original families of married clients, who often hire thugs to beat them. There are also some cases involving gangsters. As for the rape case, after the investigation found that the murderer was released from prison, last year He is dead. I think it is these three disappearances that may be related to this case."

"The time of these three disappearances is not too far from now. They were five years ago, four years ago and three years ago. The specific time points all happened in early summer, which is about the same time as ours now."

"This is very suspicious. The three informants all said that the money and ID card were missing from the house of the missing person, and it looked as if they had gone away without a sound. I couldn’t get through. After contacting their families, they found that they hadn’t returned to their hometowns either, as if they had disappeared from the world.”

Jiang Yi frowned as he browsed through the documents.

These three cases are not only similar to the disappearance of the victim, but all three informants mentioned that the missing person once complained of "meeting a strange/weird guest".

"Get to know the situation with these three informants." Jiang Yi paused, and said, "There is also Shi Yichun, and I have to go there again."

"By the way, how is Jia Yubo watching?"

"He seems quite normal. Besides going to work, he goes to the exhibition, and he seems to be a part-time graduate student. He has nothing to do and runs to the university."

"Which university is a working graduate student?"

"Foreign language."

"Oh?" Jiang Yi frowned sensitively. "Okay, let's do this first, keep watching."

After leaving the office, Jiang Yi called Shen Jiageng, but instead of answering, she sent a message saying that it was inconvenient to attend class.

Jiang Yi typed a message and went back, telling her to pay attention to safety in the past two days, and it is best not to leave the campus.Shen Jiageng also replied quickly.

Putting down his phone, he felt inexplicably panicked, but before he had time to think about it, Lin Lin walked in quickly from the door and handed him a stack of documents.

"Song Danqing sent it here. He went back to Zijin Garden again. After learning about Hou Shihao, he found something we didn't find in the dark room of the house."

I saw pictures of nude women drawn with cheap watercolor pens and crayons on blank sheets of paper, all of them looking up, dotted with various flowers around them.

This one renders and depicts delicate hibiscus flowers in light pink, making the flowers spread and become a tattoo on the woman's leg;

On this one, red begonia flowers make up the woman's waterfall-like hair, which radiates outward along the wavy ends. Her eyes are cold, like ice in a sea of ​​fire;

In this picture, there is a piece of blue cloud covered with flowers of various colors such as light yellow and light pink, and the woman's body is deeply embedded in it. The light red flower on the chest is of unknown species, but it is particularly conspicuous... …

The paintings look old but are well preserved.Although the content of the painting is not suitable for children, the style is indeed a bit childish, and the handwriting on it is also extremely immature.

"Kaiqin, Xiangyun, Daiyu?..." Jiang Yi flipped through one by one, only to see that the notes above were all the names of "Twelve Gold Hairpins".

Growing up in that deformed environment, children's minds will inevitably be adversely affected.It's hard to imagine that what such a young child draws are not blue sky, white clouds, stars and the moon, but strange pictures of naked women, and the protagonists are the elders who exist beside him.

It is not difficult to imagine what terrible psychological struggle Hou Shihao encountered in his adolescence.However, it can also be seen from the side that he had a deep affection for his sisters back then.

"Wait a minute, these two pictures seem to be different from the others." Lin Lin picked out two pictures.

"Look, these two are obviously simpler than the others, with only one or two flowers. The other ones have a lot of flowers."

He took a closer look, frowned and said, "Also, I think some of the colors are a bit newer than before, as if a few strokes were added later."

He pondered for a while and said, "I don't know why, but it reminds me of a feeling of being surrounded, even a little weird, like..."

Lin Lin suddenly hesitated when he spoke.

"Like what?" Jiang Yi asked with a frown.

He only heard him slowly complete his sentence: "...it's like a funeral coffin covered with flowers."

Hearing this, Jiang Yi immediately picked up the stack of drawing paper, stood up and said, "Let's go immediately."

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"I've said it all, I admit everything, if I'm sentenced to death earlier, I don't want to live anymore."

Hou Shihao's feeble voice floated over, looking at the person facing him with a look of a dead pig who is not afraid of the provocation of boiling water.

Regarding this negative non-cooperation, Jiang Yi was not angry, but said slowly: "Don't worry, even if you want to admit it, you have to follow our process, and you must speak clearly together."

He put the evidence photo on the table, and asked slowly: "When did you paint these stacks of portraits of 'Twelve Gold Hairpins' in Yichun Hair Salon?"

Hearing "Yichun Hair Salon", Hou Shihao froze for a moment, and when he mentioned "Twelve Gold Hairpins", his face turned pale.

"...when I was a child."

"Then why do you want to add a few more strokes to the painting recently?"

"...Is this important? If you want to paint, just paint."

Jiang Yi said softly: "Hou Shihao, since you said you will admit everything, according to our procedure, everything must be explained clearly to pass the test, you understand?"

Hearing this, Hou Shihao clenched his fists tightly.

Jiang Yi smiled and said, "Or, actually, you don't know why?"

He looked at Hou Shihao's micro-expression, and suddenly realized: "Oh, it's not you. So, we should have another suspect."

"Okay, since that's the case, we don't waste time on you, we immediately correct our direction of solving the case and leave right away..."

Jiang Yi made a gesture to put away the documents on the table, but Hou Shihao called them to stop all of a sudden.

"Don't go!" He lowered his eyes and said, "I said."

"The women I painted later are all dead."

"They're all dead? You mean all the people in 'Twelve Gold Hairpins' are dead?"

Hou Shihao let out a "hmm".

Sure enough.

However, they did not believe Hou Shihao's words.

"Hou Shihao, I advise you not to think too carefully. After the Yichun hair salon disappeared, the original proprietress didn't know the current situation of the ladies. How did you know the whereabouts of each of them?"

"If you look for it, you can always find it." His tone was a bit contemptuous, even angry, "So someone is missing, and you police can't find it no matter how hard you look, because you didn't even try to find it!"

Lin Lin and Jiang Yi looked at each other.

Lin Lin changed the way of asking: "Then the remaining two people, 'Amiable' and 'Daiyu', are they still alive, or did you not have time to draw?"

"The whereabouts have not been found yet."

"Why do you want to know their life and death so much?"

"Comrade police, growing up in that environment, I am destined to be a scum and waste of society. How can I still find a girlfriend? I have been surrounded by birds and swallows since I was a child in my life, and I have never touched a woman since then. I salute Take a look at my youth that died young, can't you?"

Hou Shihao started to speak badly again, and said, "I've finished explaining everything, is it okay now?"

But Jiang Yi, who was silent for a moment, interrupted him and said, "No, you lied."

"..." Hou Shihao turned cold and turned his head away. "Whatever you say, believe it or not."

"Your mother, Hou Sisi, was the 'Daiyu' back then. She passed away a long time ago. Why is this 'Daiyu' still blank? You said just now that you haven't found her whereabouts. Are you still unclear about your mother's life and death? ?”

At that time, at Shi Yichun's house, there was the "Daiyu Burying Flowers Picture" hanging in front of Jiang Yi.

Although he didn't pay attention at the time, his body still left a picture memory of that time.However, he was only seven or eight points sure, which was a trick to Hou Shihao.

And he was really flustered, saying: "I, I didn't have time to draw!"

"You could draw nude photos of your own mother when you were a child, are you up to it, Hou Shihao?"

"you……!"

Under Jiang Yi's persecution, Hou Shihao retreated steadily. He had nothing to say, so he gritted his teeth and stared at Jiang Yi bitterly.

"What do these paintings mean, Hou Shihao, I will give you one last chance to confess. You just said that they died. Did you mean that there were other victims later?"

Hou Shihao remained silent.

"Just now you said that you are doomed to be a waste, and you can't find a partner. Did you feel disgusted with sex workers and even all women, so you killed them? Didn't you?"

"Hou Shihao, let me ask you one last time, this is also your last chance to confess..."

Hou Shihao took a long breath, interrupted Jiang Yi, and said, "Okay, I admit it, I admit everything!"

"Yes, I killed them."

A strange and sad smile appeared on his face, as if he was caught in some kind of memory.

"I don't hate them, though, I do it for their own good. Die that way and they'll always be beautiful. I love them."

I miss them, and it would be great if they could always be by my side.