winter past

Yin Miaozai finished eating the cone first, then pulled down the mirror in front of the passenger seat to take a look, sniffed and pursed her mouth, no matter how she looked at herself, she was not satisfied. Finally, she took out a cosmetic bag from the glove box , looked out for a while, and said, "I'm going to use the toilet in the shopping mall over there."

As soon as she left, Zhao You called Dai Rou, who answered immediately.Zhao You asked her, "Is it convenient to talk?"

There was a lot of noise in Dairou's place, she said: "Takeaway, right? I'm coming down now, you wait, wait."

Zhao You handed the phone to Xiao Man and said, "Dai Rou."

Xiaoman then talked to Dai Rou: "Zhao You is right next to you, it's okay, he's okay...he knows everything."

Xiaoman smiled at Zhao You. He clamped the phone between his shoulders and ears, tore off the package of the cone a lot, and said in response, "It's okay, I know, um..." He raised his eyes and looked at Zhao You said: "I don't want to hide it, but I can't hide it. He is just curious."

Dai Rou didn't know what to say, Xiaoman giggled when he heard it, Zhao You stretched out his hand to help him remove all the wrapping paper of the cone, and stuffed the last bite of crispy rolled chocolate into his hand, Xiaoman nodded his chin at him and said "thank you" with his mouth.Zhao You overheard Dai Rou sighing on the phone.

Xiao Man said, "Just pretend you don't know anything."

After saying this, he lowered his eyes, lowered his hands, and made a sound of approval.Dai Rou was still talking, Xiao Man just listened and chewed silently.After a while, he raised his eyes again, raised his head to look at Zhao You, grabbed a handful of bangs and pressed them on the top of his head, and said, "Then my life is big enough." He grinned and said, "That's it , I see, it's just what you said."

He said, "thank you, Dai Rou...thank you..."

Xiaoman returned the phone to Zhao You.The phone was hot from his hands.Dai Rou had already hung up the phone, Zhao You thought of the phone call to Suyin last night for no reason, and suddenly questioned his decision.It's hard to say that last night's decision was not impulsive. It wasn't because of the portrait Lin Midong drew for Xiao Man, and Xiao Man's fragility in a daze, in a daze, in a trance, when he saw the portrait. And the feeling of jealousy that arouses is inside.These complicated emotions affected his judgment. Sometimes loving someone is really not happy at all, and it is difficult to make people happy. That deep sense of frustration surged into Zhao You's heart again.

At that time, shouldn't he take down Xiao Man's portrait before notifying Xing Ji?Should I discuss it with Dai Rou before making a decision?Xiao Man has something to hide from Dai Rou, and Dai Rou may have guessed something after seeing those portraits.

But there can only be one version of the story...

Too many versions are too easy to involve too many people...

Will Dai Rou be implicated in this?Will the ten-year-old findings be called into question?Did Xiaoman start to blame himself again?Will you blame yourself again?

Zhao You said annoyedly: "I shouldn't just call the Criminal Technician like that."

Xiao Man patted him and accused him: "You must not have such thoughts, why shouldn't you? You should beat them. Those are evidence, and I shouldn't touch them."

Xiao Man stared at Zhao You with piercing eyes: "You are a policeman, there is nothing wrong with what you did." Xiao Man said, "I don't want Dai Rou to know that I was there last night because she never wanted me to touch that again Case, I'm afraid she's worried..."

"I know, the feeling came out, so I didn't tell her last night." Zhao You thought: "Is there a better way to deal with it?"

Xiaoman still looked at Zhao You, his eyes were extremely firm: "Zhao You, this is my secret, it is not your burden, nor should it be your burden, I told you..."

Zhao You couldn't help interrupting him: "But I'm pressing step by step, isn't it?"

"That means you are powerful, I am not your opponent," Xiaoman smiled, but the smile was restrained immediately, and he was still so determined and firm: "Anyway, the result is that I said it, no matter what the consequences are. , it’s not something you need to worry about, you don’t need to hide anything for me, it can torture me, I don’t want it to torture you, you know?”

Zhao You also looked at him and said, "I just think I could handle it better last night."

"Afterwards, Zhuge Liang?" Xiao Man rubbed his hair and asked him, "What's the point of your Zhan team looking for you?"

"Ah?" Zhao You walked to a nearby trash can, and threw the cone package in his hand into it.Turning around, Xiaoman was looking at him with a "come on" expression.

Zhao You said: "Team Zhan has a cold case related to Lin Midong, and he came to me to discuss this case before, maybe because of this matter." He immediately made amends: "I didn't approach you for this reason. .”

Xiaoman nodded: "I see, you really like me."

"correct."

Xiao Man rolled his eyelids and pointed to the shopping mall not far away. Yin Miaozai came out of the shopping mall and changed into a delicate makeup.Xiao Man waved her hand and said, "I will find a chance to talk to Xiao Yin, Xiao Jing, Lao Xing and the others."

Xiao Man said with emotion: "The secret is really strange. After telling one person, it seems that it doesn't matter who you tell or who knows."

Zhao You didn't say a word, he knew a long time ago that he would not always be the sole owner of Xiao Man's secret.He wondered if he might be the only one still standing by his side after his secret was made public, he said: "Everyone makes wrong choices and has to tell a lot of lies for this mistake, beat A lot of cover, probably because people are afraid, afraid of the truth will make all the people close to them leave themselves, cause them to lose many precious things, and turn themselves into a person with nothing... Ten years ago, I was a As an outsider, I have no position to judge whether the choices you have made are right or wrong, maybe you can have a better way to deal with them, life is full of possibilities, and life is just blocking many of your own possibilities." Zhao You shook Lowering his arms, his shadow was connected with Xiao Man's shadow, and he said: "When you want to sleep, I won't move around."

Xiaoman said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "Everyone is selfish?"

"That's right, it's the same as people's hindsight." Zhao You asked Xiaoman, "Is there anyone who is not selfish?"

Xiaoman thought for a while, then said, "Zhuge Liang?"

Zhao You laughed and said back: "The first emperor did not start his business halfway, but the middle way..."

Yin Miaozai walked up to them at this time, her hair roots were a little wet, she shuddered suddenly, glanced back and forth between Zhao You and Xiaoman, and pointed at the front: "Go over to the examination room for the high school entrance examination."

Xiao Man smiled and walked to the driver's seat: "Then to the Huangguozi Village Committee?"

Zhao You got into the car and also sat in the front, Yin Miaozai had no choice but to go to the back row, muttering: "The driver Xiaoman, the assistant Xiao Zhao, you really treat me like a lady, don't you?"

Zhao You said, "It's too hot in front."

He turned his head and smiled at Yin Miaozai who was sitting behind the driver's seat: "Well, let's go there first, and then go to Yanzigou."

Yin Miaozai clasped her arms and rubbed her arms, tremblingly said: "Stop coming, you smile at me, there must be nothing good, if you have something to say, hurry up!"

Xiaoman drove.Zhao You said leisurely: "You have already experienced what it feels like to be a reporter. Are you interested in experiencing the feeling of being an economic fraudster?"

Yin Miaozai pointed at herself: "Me? Economic fraud? I haven't even posted a selfie and used my beauty to deceive an honest person. You made me leap forward to economic fraud?" She thought for a while, "Is it the kind of pyramid scheme? Organization? Then I want a red diamond level with an annual salary of 500 million."

"All right, Red Diamond, Red Diamond, a key person, an annual salary of 500 million is too little, at least tens of millions per minute, three assistants when going out, one for backpacks, one for laying the red carpet, and one for helping you press your phone. "

"Then I need someone to hold an umbrella for me, and someone to help me taste dishes. Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. I sat in the position of Red Diamond at a young age, and I don't know how many people behind me want to seek power and usurp the throne. "Yin Miaozai stretched out his hand to the front: "And I'm still a scholarly family. First, I was tricked into the MLM cave. Relying on my ingenuity, I counter-killed the big boss..."

Zhao You was puzzled: "Since you are intelligent, how could you be tricked into the magic den of pyramid schemes?"

"Suppressed by the family of origin! After I entered the MLM organization, I found my confidence back, can't it? Can you read more books, this is a classic interpretation of the relationship between id, superego and ego."

Xiaoman couldn't stop laughing, Yin Miaozai patted his shoulder: "Hey, what is the basement you mentioned just now?"

Zhao You said: "Last night we went to the place where Lin Midong lived when he was a child."

"There is a basement in the Heishan Welfare Institute?" Yin Miaozai said, "I knew you were together before Xiaoman came to my house last night!" She was amazed: "The old house caught fire and burned into a pool of stagnant water. Water and fire coexist, okay, existence is instant." Reasonable."

Xiao Man said, "It was where he lived before he was sent to the orphanage."

"What did you find?" Yin Miaozai asked.

Zhao Youdao: "At that time, I contacted the forensic doctor. I have to wait for the report from the forensic doctor. I found a female corpse. According to the preliminary judgment, it has been embalmed. I don't know how long she has been dead."

Xiao Man said, "Maybe it's his mother."

"Lin Midong's mother?" Yin Miaozai pondered and pondered: "Did he kill his mother...his mother was actually his first victim? That's really the same as those perverts caught by the FBI, he Mom doesn't abuse him often, does she?"

Xiaoman said: "He probably didn't do it. People in Huangguozi Village said that no one had seen Lin Midong's mother when he was eight years old. Some said she ran away with a wild man, and some said she was sick. After she passed away, his father buried her in his backyard, so the bushes in their backyard grew very lush. Their house used to be used by the adults in the village to scare the children. If you are not good, you will be sent away Go clean up for Lao Lin, and let Lao Lin bury you in the ground as fertilizer for the saplings."

"Then he was bullied by his peers in the village when he was a child? Was he bullied in school?"

"He learned to write at home since he was a child, and only after he went to the orphanage did he officially get his student status and went to elementary school."

"That is his father abused him, either physically or mentally."

No one answered, Yin Miaozai said again: "Many perverted serial killers are perverted because of childhood shadows, but why are we going to the village committee now? Checking his previous files...isn't it useful for investigating the current case? "

Zhao You said, "It's to inquire about another person."

Xiao Man said: "Boss Wang in the grocery store, do you remember?"

"The one who opened a grocery store at the head of Huangguozi Village, Weng Qing's good friend?" Yin Miaozai fell into deep thought, and soon she said: "When you mention him, he is also very suspicious. He knows Weng Qing and wants to adopt him." The son of love, the child may be his child, maybe he had a dispute with Weng Qing over the child, killed her, and then remembered the case that happened on the 64th, he simulated the situation at that time and set up the scene In order to confuse the public, is the case of Weng Qing an isolated case?" Yin Miaozai asked Zhao You, "Can you get the autopsy reports of Weng Qing and several others? Maybe there is any difference between the corpse and the situation at the scene... "

The car had already left Qingshi, and was driving on the spacious expressway around the city. Yin Miaozai suddenly hit Zhao You several times, and said, "I didn't have a chance to tell you just now, that car..." She pointed at the speeding car outside the car. Che Ying, "When I arrived in Hongfeng just now, I remembered that Volkswagen Tange last night, the one with the tail number 8123, where have I seen it?"

"Qing A998123?" Zhao You said, "Do you know the owner Yan Feifei?"

"What are you talking about? I don't know... No, I've seen that car in Hongfeng more than once. Every time I go, I see it parked in the parking lot, and it's parked in the staff area. The staff area is only a small place. , can’t be wrong, the lucky cat hanging on the car, and the color of the car, are that car.”

Xiaoman asked Zhao You: "What happened to Yan Feifei?"

Zhao You said: "Her car went in and out of Yanzigou at a suspicious time in the early morning of the 5th, but it was not her who was driving, but her mother."

"Her mother is an employee of Hongfeng?" Xiaoman guessed.

Zhao You hurriedly found Wan Qinglang on WeChat and asked for specific information about Yan Feifei's mother.In a blink of an eye, the car arrived at the village committee of Huangguozi Village. This place is a little far away from the village. Opposite is Heishan Junior High School. It shares a three-story office building with several nearby villages. There is a wooden sign with a line of handwriting on it: the police station goes here.

An arrow points to the alley next to the office building.

The three got out of the car, and Xiaoman pointed to Heishan Junior High School opposite and said, "Xiao Yin and I went there to inquire about it."

Yin Miaozai followed him: "Lin Midong used to study here?"

Xiao Man said: "I'm a bit concerned about something, I want to inquire about it."

The two walked away while talking, and Zhao You entered the village committee of Huangguozi Village single-handedly. There were only two people sitting in the office, a middle-aged man was idly drinking tea, and a young girl was sorting out receipts.There is a banner on the wall of the office: No poaching, no poaching, civilized guarding the mountains.

Zhao You and the middle-aged man showed their IDs and asked, "Do you know Boss Wang who runs the grocery store at the entrance of this village? There is a case I want to ask him to help with the investigation, but I couldn't find anyone yesterday, and they said he was going back to his wife's natal home." Now, do you have the address of his wife?"

The middle-aged man's eyes drooped and closed: "The city bureau, what case is it?"

Zhao You looked at the banner on the wall and said, "It's not a big case. Hey, I heard that you haven't seen any wild boars in the mountains recently. Wild boars are a big problem. They always ruin the crops in the middle of the night."

The middle-aged man cleared his throat, put down his teacup, and turned around to greet the girl: "Xiao Jing, didn't the old Wang of the grocery store leave an address before, and during the Chinese New Year, when their children were studying, the household registration book was sent to her." In the past."

The girl who sorted the bills went to a table and rummaged through it.The middle-aged man said again: "I haven't been back to the village recently. I don't know if there are any wild boars. What do you mean that Lao Wang is gone? The shop is not open? The car is not there? No notice? He He came to us the day before yesterday."

"No notice posted, no store opened, you said he came on the 14th?"

"That's right, come to ask someone, I said we are not an archives here, you have to go to the police station, go to the archives."

"Who are you asking?"

"Just that kid from the Fu family."

"Pay home?"

The middle-aged man coughed: "Hey, Lao Wang's father's former friend, after the child's mother died, his father clamored to adopt him. Where is this going? Lao Wang was also young at that time." , You are full of blood, and you even beat up a child, and the injury was serious! Later, the child was sent to the orphanage."

Zhao Youdao: "That child is not the child of the victim of a murder case in 98?"

"correct."

"What's his name?"

"Fu Weiwei or something... I came to the village a while ago, it's a big change! I'm much more energetic, and I'm amicable with Lao Wang."

Having said that, Zhao You's mobile phone rang loudly. He saw an unfamiliar number, and when he picked it up, the other party said: "Mr. Zhao, the film you sent for printing has been printed, when is it convenient for you to come and get it?" ?”

Zhao You said: "That's pretty fast, I'll see if I can come over this afternoon."

At this time Xiaojing came over waving a note: "Dongfengkou Maomao Orchard." Zhao You wrote down the address and asked again: "Do you know why this Huangguozi Village is called Huangguozi Village?"

The middle-aged man blinked dryly: "That's the name, it's the name of the older generation, it's been passed down from generation to generation."

Xiao Jing said: "Isn't it because there are many yellow fruit trees in the village?"

The middle-aged man asked her: "What is a yellow fruit tree? I, who was born and raised for 45 years, don't even know it. Where did you find it?"

"My dad said that he used to study the ecological environment around Montenegro in university, and took biological specimen sampling. He said that there used to be a lot of soil fruit trees in the village with yellow fruits, which could be used to make red yeast rice with other things. Yes, it was the invasion of species later, this fruit tree..."

"Oh, it's an intellectual family after all." The middle-aged man picked up the phone and looked at it while shaking his legs.

Xiao Jing smiled and said nothing.Zhao You thanked Xiaojing, left the village committee and went to the police station.