Same crime

Suijiang's winter is always a few degrees colder than many cities in the province. The days are shorter in winter, and it's completely dark before six o'clock after get off work.The trees on both sides of the road were bare with only a few withered yellow leaves, shivering under the blowing of the north wind, looking very pitiful on the verge of falling.The store located outside Liuyuan Community in Lixia District is a well-known local food street, but it forms a contrast with this bleak winter night. This happens to be the busiest time of the day here, and there is a row of cars parked in front of the store outside the community. , people coming and going, brightly lit, making this winter night very noisy.

Old Sichuan Jiugongge Hot Pot is a very popular hot pot restaurant on this street. It tastes authentic. Usually, if you arrive a little late, you will have to queue up for an hour or two. No one would have thought that it would be locked outside on this day. rolling shutter door.But looking in through the foggy window, there are still figures shaking inside.

Several diners who came here admiringly got out of the car and were confused when they saw that the door was closed. They didn't give up, so the young man driving knocked on the door, "Boss, are you there? Why is the door closed today?"

At this time, a blunt reply came from the inside saying that it is closed today, and several people were a little disappointed, and turned to go to another place for dinner.

The owner of the hot pot restaurant is Wu Yi. He has been in the catering industry for five years. His business was not so hot until the year before last when he married a Sichuan wife and used the base recipe she brought from his hometown. The first authentic Sichuan hot pot in Suijiang is the only way to make a lot of money.

After Wu put the tripe and duck intestines on the table, he sat on the wooden stool.The butter in the pot was already boiling at the bottom of the pot, exuding a strong aroma, which whetted one's appetite, but the other diners sitting around the table looked heavy and preoccupied, and had no desire to lift their chopsticks.

"You eat..." Wu Yi greeted, dissatisfied and said: "I have decided to close the business today to entertain you, and you are still sitting here staring at the small eyes, I am sorry for this night's business that I took advantage of." Forehead."

The only woman on the table, with some bruises on her face and some wounds on her wrists, she shrank and said nah na: "I don't want to participate anymore, can I go home? If I go back too late, my husband I will misunderstand..."

"No!" The man sitting opposite the woman was a big and round man. He wore a big golden ring on the ring finger of his left hand, but the size of the ring was so small that it almost tightened his flesh. He spoke loudly and his voice was slightly Hoarse, "I said, Sun Yu, you were pretty good at bragging when you were in school? What's the matter now?"

Sun Yu was that woman. Hearing what the man said, she trembled reflexively, "I..." She said "I" for a long time, but didn't say anything.

Another man wearing glasses, his hair was meticulously smeared by styling things, and there was a weird oily sheen under the light. He was wearing a V-neck sweater with a white shirt inside. He raised his hand to stop him. He got off the fat man next to him, and at this moment a valuable watch slipped out from his left wrist, which was shining even in this dim shop.He said to the fat man, "Hey, old Qian, please speak softly, we are here today to discuss things with Old Wu."

"It's just..." Ying He's surname is Zhao, his name is Zhao Yuan. He is sitting next to Sun Yu. He is a doctor from the Central Hospital. Cushion your belly." He was informal, and his sitting posture was extremely unrefined. He took a chopstick of crispy meat and chewed it in his mouth. He first praised Wu Yi for his skill, and then said to the man wearing glasses: "I Speaking of Zhang Mingfeng and Zhang Dami, why did you call us old classmates here? We haven’t seen each other for almost 20 years, do you want to talk about the old days?” After Zhao Yuan received the call, he thought it was a class reunion, but when he saw the people present These few people, the heart will understand.

"Hmph..." A man with parted hair and wearing a jacket snorted softly, his tone full of disdain, "What is there to talk about? Tell me about our glorious deeds? What happened when we were in school , if Zhang Mingfeng's father hadn't worked hard, none of us would have gotten into what we are today!" His face was rough and dark, and he looked very tired.

Zhao Yuan heard this, and said sarcastically at the man: "Zhou Li and Zhou Dami, I said that you and Zhang Dami are both government secretaries, but one is in the district and the other is in the town, but you are one level behind. , how did you get along? You didn’t let Zhang Dami’s father support you.”

He was really mean-spirited, and when Zhou Lihe heard it, he spat: "Zhao Yuan, get out of here!"

Zhao Yuan giggled, didn't care about the mild insults, scoured his belly a bit, and praised the delicious taste of the hot pot after eating it.

Zhang Mingfeng didn't move his chopsticks, but took a sip of the soy milk drink on the table, cleared his throat, and said, "I called you here today to discuss what happened a while ago... I think everyone has experienced it too. Well, I stayed in the hospital for half a month for this, and until now, whenever I do something, my ribs still hurt, this person is too ruthless."

Zhao Yuan suppressed the laughter at the corner of his mouth, raised his left hand, and said, "Yes, he directly broke my finger and fractured it. I can't do surgery at all now, and my income has dropped a lot. You bastard."

Zhou Lihe snorted coldly, and said angrily, "I have a broken nasal bone and a perforated eardrum. Do you think I'll be fine? Previously, our town finally had a chance to enter the city, but I was hospitalized!"

"Ha, you are all light. I was stabbed in the kidney. Fortunately, I am thick, but I have lived in the hospital for a long time!" The fat man surnamed Qian turned the ring on his hand, "I know how much I lost. Money? I feel powerless with my wife. I called the police, and the police told me that there was no evidence, no one could be caught, and the case could not be solved.”

Sun Yu held the hot water cup, took a sip and swallowed it, tears streaming down her face, "My husband received a courier one day, in which I participated in a sports meeting organized by the city and a male colleague was playing threesome He was very angry when he saw the photo that was taken when he was full. Because of this, he beat me up. I felt very strange, who did this. "

Everyone was talking about the same thing, but Wu Yi was silent. He poured himself a glass of beer, sighed after he was breathless.

Zhang Mingfeng asked: "Wu Yi, what about you?"

"I..." He smiled wryly, "Since October this year, people have been calling the Food and Drug Administration to report that we use waste oil here, and people have checked time and time again... To be honest, this Those who make old hot pot, who don’t use it.”

Hearing what he said, Zhao Yuan threw away his chopsticks with a "snap", and a few drops of scarlet oil fell on the table and quickly condensed. He pointed to Wu Yi and said, "Wu Yi, thanks to the fact that I always came to you before Eat here, you, you actually hurt me so much?"

Wu Yi shook his head and drank another glass of wine, "How dare I now! The other party has been persistently calling the report for two months, and batch after batch of inspectors have come, from food safety to fire protection, sanitation... I The people who entertained the inspectors have already bought cigarettes. There are also reporters, so they should be treated well, lest they write nonsense, the real right to speak is with them! Is it easy to be an online celebrity shop? A negative Once the report is published, I have to close the door the next day!" Wu Yiyi had no one to confide in the pain in his stomach, but after seeing some old classmates, he poured out all of it.

Zhang Mingfeng rolled up the sleeves of his clothes, and said: "There are so many unbelievable things, don't you have any doubts in your heart? I think..."

Hearing this, Sun Yu immediately straightened his back, looked at the people present, as if thinking of who did it, and showed an expression of disbelief, as if he had met a ghost, "No, it won't be... …almost 20 years have passed.”

"Why not?" Zhang Mingfeng said firmly: "Look at us, and think about the past, who else could there be besides him?"

Zhou Lihe, who had been silent all this time, nodded and asked puzzledly, "But why...the police couldn't solve the case? That day I felt like I was hit with a sap from behind, and I didn't know anything after that. The police said they didn't have any clues... ..."

Zhang Mingfeng said: "Me too, the man even kicked me in the chest a few times. The police said that from the footprints, it was a kind of high-top leather boots, but this kind of shoes can be sold in labor insurance stores. It is really hard to find them." I found a clue. The leader saw that I was hospitalized. Although they took it very seriously, I had dinner with the leader of the Lixia Branch some time ago. He asked me about the beating. Discussing whether to join the case, I asked him who was there, he mentioned your names, I don’t know what happened, the first time I thought it was him.”

"Then you didn't tell the police?" Wu Yi asked.

"Say? How do you say? Talk about the things we did when we were young, and say that those were ignorant? Do you think it's honorable? Is he coming back for revenge? Please, I'm working as a secretary next to the leader. If it spreads, I will How do you mess around?" Zhang Mingfeng knocked on the solid wooden table with such force that it shook the bowls and chopsticks, venting his unspeakable resentment.

Zhou Lihe responded: "That's right, Mingfeng called me that night, he told me about it, and I guessed it was him, but our identities... and Sun Yu, after all They all have heads and faces."

Seeing that she was mentioned, Sun Yu quickly waved her hands and said, "Don't talk about me... I wasn't beaten, and I didn't call the police."

Only Zhao Yuan said something else: "Sun Yu, don't you plan to divorce that person?"

Sun Yu waved her hand again, bowed her head and said nothing, just at this moment her cell phone rang, seeing the name on the screen, she trembled almost reflexively, and quickly picked it up.Everyone was quiet, only the sound of the hot pot rolling away and the angry male voice on the phone could be heard.Sun Yu hung up the phone, picked up his coat and got up, "You guys discuss it, just tell me the result, if the police come to ask, I'm sure I won't say I missed it, I have to go."

Zhang Mingfeng wanted to stop him, but Zhao Yuan stood up and stopped him, "Let her go."

Wu Yi opened the shutter door a little for her, a gust of cold wind blew in from outside the door, and the mist from the pot drifted towards the big fat man Qian Siwei, who stood up and tore a piece of duck intestine to rinse it off. After rinsing, he wrapped the dipping material in the bowl, stuffed it into his mouth and said with a sneer: "Zhang Mingfeng, you really deserve to be the leader's secret. You didn't want to admit you did wrong things back then. Now that people have come back to take revenge, you still want to go You poured dirty water on them, right? Any good thing is yours."

Zhang Mingfeng blushed as if he had been told something, "Qian Siwei, you..."

"Actually, I still annoy him until now. Thinking about his unlucky appearance makes me feel angry." Qian Siwei put down his chopsticks, cracked his fingers, and made a clicking sound, his brows were also furrowed tightly, his face Almost all the oil on the skin has gathered in the crevices of those wrinkles, "So, what do you say? Let's do as you said."

Zhang Mingfeng yelled at Qian Siwei, "Why are you panting when you speak?"

"Hmph..." Qian Siwei went to fish for beef again, "Or I wouldn't be able to take the lead back then."

"What about you?" Zhang Mingfeng asked the other people present, seeing everyone nodded, he lowered his voice, as if afraid of being heard by others, and said: "Okay...the police will ask again later, then let's... say so... ..."

Zhang Mingfeng finished talking, Qian Siwei frowned and said: "Is this okay? It's too far-fetched!"

Zhang Mingfeng said: "Three people become tigers. Then Wu Yi and Sun Yu will go for a certificate. We have suffered such serious injuries, so we must send him to jail."

"Yes." Zhao Yuan replied.

On the contrary, Zhou Lihe patted his forehead and remembered something, "What about Wang Xuejiang?"

Zhang Mingfeng was stunned, as if he had forgotten about the other classmate who was far away in Zhangzhou, "Maybe he can't remember, Wang Xuejiang himself is doing well in Zhangzhou, so don't involve him."

"... also." Zhou Lihe said doubtfully.

"Come on, since we've discussed it, let's have a drink." Zhao Yuan raised the soy milk bottle in his hand, and several people touched it in response. The most authentic match for Sichuan hotpot!"

At this time, snowflakes floated outside the window, and the north wind was blowing. Against the backdrop of the street lamps, the dance was very beautiful. After a while, the ground turned white.However, this white snow can't cover up the sins of people's hearts.