pupil mirror

The next day, when Lu Zhiyao woke up, he habitually shrank to his side. Originally, he could have leaned into his firm chest for a long time, huddled under his chin for a while before getting up, but now he could only touch it. A sheet of ice cold.The hotel exudes a weekly fragrance, which seems to be cedar today, but no matter how fragrant it is, it doesn't smell like it has been for a long time.

Lu Zhiyao stayed in bed for a long time before accepting the fact that he had left home for a long time.I have lived in the hotel for several years, and suddenly the slippers are not comfortable, the toothbrush is not comfortable, the towels are too hard, the floor is too slippery, and even the legs of the chairs and dining tables have been hit several times. If the housekeeper rang the doorbell, The room has been demolished by the irritable Mr. Lu.

"Mr. Lu, don't you still not have breakfast?" The housekeeper, Ou Shu, asked politely. Through the door, he could feel his gentlemanly posture with his arms raised in front of him and his waist slightly bent.

Lu Zhiyao was hit by the corner of the table and was baring his teeth and screaming, "Eat! Bring it in."

Pumpkin porridge, meat floss and sesame rice balls and soy milk are served on the table.Lu Zhiyao was stunned, this is not Shang Yuan's style.

"Doesn't the hotel serve Western food for breakfast now?" Lu Zhiyao grabbed the rice ball and took a bite, suddenly felt that the taste was not right, and finally distracted, the memory of the taste buds in his mouth dragged him back to the alley.

Uncle Ou explained politely: "The hotel is holding a folk culture festival this month. For breakfast, we have collected delicacies from the old streets and alleys of the city to provide to VIP guests. Today I picked a few for Mr. Lu. You can see which one you like. I will let the food and beverage department Prepare early."

Lu Zhiyao reported more than a dozen kinds of street food in one go, and the old butler's face twitched a little.

"I'll buy these kinds of food at Jianlu Lane. There's a sister Chen's, and there's Lao Liao's stall. I don't eat them from other places. Hey, you can buy more for other customers to try."

"Alright Mr. Lu."

Just after eating, Lu Zhile's phone rang: "I don't care if you're dead or alive, crying or laughing, I'm in your own company, hurry over here, there's news from the overseas company on the remittance slip."

Mobius, the aroma of coffee is overflowing in Mr. Lu's office.

Lu Zhile handed over a document and pushed it in front of Lu Zhiyao: "This is a few shareholders who were separated from Nobiqi's company back then. Among them, the company that still has business dealings with Yuanhong is this company called Boqi. His boss is Shi Huayi, 62 years old, from Wuzhou."

"Shi Huayi? I don't have any impression. It's normal for Yuanhong to cooperate with overseas companies opened by Wuzhou people. What does this have to do with what happened back then?" Lu Zhiyao flipped through the materials, Qian Xiaoding poured two cups of coffee and left Come in, Lu Zhile's glass is a flowered cappuccino, and Lu Zhiyao's glass is only perfunctorily sprinkled with some chocolate shavings.

What the hell!Lu Zhiyao snatched Lu Zhile's cup over: "Qian Xiaoding, when did you learn how to do latte art? Did I give you too little work!"

Lu Zhile knocked Lu Zhiyao's hand away: "Be serious. This Shi Huayi has a brother in China, do you know who it is..." Zhile sipped his cappuccino: "Shi Hualin!"

Lu Zhiyao's hand to pinch the coffee cup stopped suddenly: "Who? Shi Hualin? Municipal Secretary Shi Hualin?"

"That's him! I checked. This Shihualin was an ordinary cadre in the municipal environmental protection department more than 20 years ago. Not long after the Wanyuan fund-raising case happened, he was promoted to the Communist Party, and then all the way to the city government office. , he doesn’t have a high degree of education, and he was too old when he started, otherwise, I’m afraid it’s not enough for this position.”

Lu Zhiyao squinted his eyes and rubbed his fingers. He picked up the remittance approval form that had been returned to him for a long time with Zhou Hengyuan's signature stamp. Suddenly, four words came out of his mind-"collusion between government and businessmen".With the perfect cover all the way, no traces to be found all the way, accompanied by some people's official fortune and Yuanhong's smooth business roads, there is no other word that is more suitable to explain the plot of this cheating than following these four words.

However, if Lu Yuanzhen and Cao Wanhong could benefit from it and keep silent if they were able to cover up the secrets of the year until the land files were nowhere to be found and the fund-raising case could not be filed, it would definitely not be possible at Shi Hualin's level.

If Yuanhong had a constant relationship with someone back then, then Yuanhong and the "Qingshui District", which is about to take a rocket to skyrocket, are the "fate" formed more than 20 years ago.

City Police Department.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Chen Jian slapped Jiu Jiu's forehead with his backhand: "I told you not to intervene in Cao Wanhong's case. Is it because what I said doesn't work, and you have to send you a formal letter before you implement it?"

"I do not……"

Just as he was about to explain for a long time, Chen Jian slapped Zhao Yi on the forehead again: "It's for his own good not to let him intervene. When the hell did you change your career as a spy? You think it's so easy to get into the National Security Bureau! What the hell? , the wings of the two bastards are so hard that they can climb out of the pot."

The two rubbed their heads in the same position, and Chen Jian turned around and sat down on the chair with a cigarette in his mouth: "The nurse who was knocked out in the hospital confessed: the first time he entered Cao Wanhong's ward to commit a crime and confronted him and knocked him out. It was a short but powerful man, and the image investigation report also showed that the person who entered the ward twice was not the same person, and the suspicion of your mother can basically be ruled out at present. However, harboring is the same crime as harboring!"

"Bureau Chen!"

Chen Jian waved his hand: "Needless to say, at this point, it would be more useful to dig out the reasons behind your mother's actions. I will let people continue the interrogation, and she will not be released on bail until she cooperates."

Jiu Jiu: "Chen Bureau, let me go and talk to her!"

Chen Jian said in a rough voice, "What does the suspect have to do with you? If you are allowed to go in this situation, you not only want to get Zhao Yi suspended, but also want me to retire early, don't you?"

"Chen Bureau, I found some clues when I went to Qingshui yesterday. If my mother is determined to protect Li Xiao, you can't ask anything! Only I know where to lead this matter is right!"

Chen Jian's face was buried behind the lingering gray smoke and he thought for a long time, then he sighed heavily: "Let Jiaer go with you, Zhao Yi will sign the interrogation record."

After sorting out the documents for a long time and walking away, Chen Jian snorted: "In the future, the internal inspection and monitoring will fucking blame you bastards!"

In the interrogation room, Xu Jiu and Chen Jiaer sat across the table. Xu Dongmei's expression was a little dim and haggard, but she was not in a mess. She was a little surprised to see Jiu Jiu coming in, and her eyes soon softened.

Xu Dongmei lowered her head and asked, "You must have not eaten well last night, did you?"

Nose sore for a long time: "Stop talking about this, let's try to get out as soon as possible."

Xu Dongmei's eyes suddenly became a little relieved: "Did you find out?"

For a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Where should I start, there are really too many clues—let's start with Qin Guohao."

When Xu Dongmei heard this name, her eyes froze for a moment, and the tears that were floating in her eyes suddenly fell down. Chen Jiaer walked over and handed the tissue to her.

Jiu Jiu: "When you left home, I remember that you were pregnant. You took me away to save my life, and you didn't want to implicate him, so you divorced Uncle Qin. I remember that you left me alone in the countryside. After three or four months at the relatives’ house, the child was gone when I came back, I always thought that you killed the child, but in fact, you gave birth to the child, right?”

Xu Dongmei didn't make a sound.

Continued for a long time: "You gave the child to Uncle Qin, and then you came back and took me around to settle down. After returning to Wuzhou, we settled down. Uncle Qin took your child and married another woman , that woman's name is Li Xinyi, and the child's name is Li Xiao after taking Li Xinyi's surname!"

Xu Dongmei's tears flowed down drop by drop, she watched it for a long time, breathed and trembled with distress, but had to continue.

"I'm afraid you didn't find out who Li Xiao was when he appeared in Tianyi for the first time. You only knew that he was a relative from his hometown who entrusted you to find a job. I always thought that Li Xiao was involved in Shen Li's case. The monitoring and tracking of me was too coincidental. The ambush point in the nursing home seemed to be buried too precisely and unreasonably. After all, not every criminal case will definitely pass my hands, but it is easier to be exposed when it appears in front of me. Now I just realized that this is a coincidence! Li Xiao came to the nursing home not to follow me at all, but for you, he wanted to come back to you, and wanted you to know that his son was still alive—or, he really wanted to Take care of you by your side, right?"

Chen Jiaer who was next to him widened his eyes when he heard this, with an expression of disbelief.

Continued for a long time: "How did you know his identity? I haven't guessed yet. On the day Li Xiao escaped, you hid him in your room, escaped their search, and misled us to follow in the direction of Chongxi Mountain. , successfully let him escape our pursuit and returned to the city. He should have sneaked into the hospital and killed Cao Wanhong with drugs in the early hours of yesterday. It was you who appeared to replace his identity and misled the guards and police. Actually, you know You can't hide whether you killed Cao Wanhong or not, there is only one reason for you to do this, and that is to delay his escape."

The voice after a long time suddenly lowered: "Mom, Li Xiao already has two lives in his hands, how long are you going to help him do evil? Even if Cao Wanhong deserves to die, it's not in this way, you forgot all these years you are How did you keep me away from these right and wrong? Why did you become a moth to the flame when it came to your head! Do you think that if you exchanged Cao Wanhong's life with your own, I would be able to live with peace of mind!"

Chen Jiaer's fingers began to tremble when holding the pen. In this interrogation room, countless dark crimes have been exposed, and countless confessions of souls have been heard, but there are too many gray areas in this world. The difference is the world of difference, whether to go forward or back, it is just a matter of one thought.

Xu Dongmei wiped away her tears, her throat was hoarse and her voice was very low, as if she was carefully dismantling an old object from a long time ago, it was full of dust, and if she accidentally disassembled it, she would be blindfolded.

"When Li Xiao first came to the nursing home, I did not recognize him. You also know that this kid is honest and hardworking. He was so kind to me. I only thought he was repaying me for finding him a stable job. Until one day last year I'm not in good health, it seems to be the day you came back from the Zhiyao banquet. After you left, I found him at the door. He was on duty on the day you agreed with Police Officer Zhao, but he asked for leave, so I kept my mind on it After asking people in my hometown to find out that he is Li Xinyi's son, I probably guessed it. I went to his dormitory and saw the photo he posted on the wall beside the bed. It was a photo of Guohao and I after we got married Zhang Hezhao, he never thought of denying it, and soon recognized me. I never thought that I would see him after more than 20 years, really never thought about it.”

"The day you hunted him down, he fled to the nursing home, gave me the skirt and asked me to give it to you, and asked me to help him get rid of your hunt. He said he would tell me all the truth about the Zhou family that he found out, but In fact, I will help him if he doesn't tell me. After all, I owe him. I was forced to work by my family's debts when I was a teenager. It was your father who kindly took me in. I have been in the Zhou family for so many years. Your parents Treat me like a family member, even marry Guohao because of your father's arrangement, treat me like a mother's family, I owe too much to the Zhou family in this life. When Mr. Zhou was involved in Yuanhong's case, they said he was the mastermind of bribery, but Your father is honest and kind, absolutely impossible to do these things. Later, he committed suicide. I suspect that he was killed by Cao Wanhong, but I have no evidence. Cao Wanhong sent someone to keep an eye on you. It has been more than 20 years since you escaped from the Zhou family and stayed away from Yuanhong. I have tried everything possible to keep you away from hatred and not to go back to that pit of fire, but I have never let go of it myself.

After biting his tongue for a long time, he held back his tears: "Mom, if you still want to find the truth about the past, every step is the key now. Now that Li Xiao killed Cao Wanhong, he is still turning over the evidence of the past step by step. Come out and send it to us, no matter his purpose is for you or something else, don’t forget that he has already killed an innocent girl, if you protect him again, those people you can’t let go of in your heart for more than 20 years, they will agree !"

A moment of silence.

The report in Jiujiu's hand contained pictures taken by the hospital video. He glanced at Chen Jiaer, Jiaer nodded and turned on the surveillance, and pushed the picture in front of Xu Dongmei: "Auntie, can you identify these two nurses now? Who are they?" Chen Jiaer glanced at the surveillance camera.

Xu Dongmei pursed her lips and remained silent.

Jiu Jiu said softly: "Trust me."

Xu Dongmei looked into Jiu Jiu's eyes, and slowly stretched out her hand: "This is me, and that is Li Xiao. Li Xiao told me that he was going to attack Cao Wanhong, and I wanted to stop him, but it was too late when I rushed to the hospital. So I hid Waiting for him in a place where the surveillance cameras can’t capture him, he asked me to help him escape, saying that after the police investigate, they will know that I am not the murderer, and he just needs time to escape. In fact, for me, even if I take the blame for him, I am willing, so After I changed clothes with him, I wiped the syringe and put my fingerprint on it and threw it into Cao Wanhong's ward, and when I came out, I met security guards."

After a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, the sweat on his back had pressed the shirt tightly to his skin.

"Where is Li Xiao now? Do you know? How did you get in touch?"

Xu Dongmei shook her head: "I don't know where he is. He called me a long string of strange numbers. You can check it in my mobile phone."

I have known for a long time that this number probably won't yield any results.

He stared into Xu Dongmei's eyes: "Can you tell us what happened back then, as much as you know?"

The dusty box is being wiped off by a pair of old hands, the dust is floating in the air, and every pore of the past is tied with a heavy burden, no matter black or white is so heavy, mixed with longing and sorrow, clearly The earth is engraved in the memory and slowly rots. It takes courage to pry the lock on the box, but it also needs a key.Lu Yuanzhen had warned for a long time that if he wanted to re-examine the past, he must have the key in his hand. His hands were sweating for a long time, and he knew that he was getting closer and closer to the key.

After completing the mission for a long time and retreating, Zhao Yi came in to take over.

An hour later, looking at the second half of Xu Dongmei's interrogation record handed over by Zhao Yi, the memories of more than 20 years, whether clear or fuzzy, burst from his heart like a tsunami, violently tearing his whole body, and he trembled. Touching the three words "Zhou Hengyuan" mentioned countless times in the interrogation materials, a tear fell on the black and white words.

After more than 20 years, he finally used this strange way to connect himself with that person again.

After a long time, he called "Dad" softly, covering his face and crying silently on the bench in the corridor.

The sky outside the corridor is already dusk, and the twilight is gradually covering the road in front of the corridor, inch by inch, and the dusk is passing away, but the road ahead is still very, very long after all.