Same crime

Qin Zhengzheng, who was on an evening shift, and his colleague Li Ying went to a mutton soup shop near the work unit for breakfast.

It was windy last night, and the weather was already cold this morning. Li Yingfei said that the weather was just right for mutton soup, so the two of them came together.Their unit is not far from the mutton soup shop, only a 5-minute walk. Qin Zhengzheng was completely frozen as soon as he went out. He wrapped up his clothes and lamented to Li Ying: "One autumn rain and one cold, The long winter is coming, and I really don't like this season."

Li Ying is 38 years old this year, and his busy work has made his hair thinner and his figure out of shape.He glanced at Qin Zhengzheng, who was very thinly dressed, and said with disdain: "I said, you are really young because you wear too little. Your sister-in-law has already asked me to put on long johns, and I think you should wear cotton in a while." pants."

Qin Zhengzheng chuckled, concealing the sadness in the tone of his words just now, and rubbed his sleepy eyes that were not yet fully awake. Seeing that the sheep soup shop was close at hand, he was about to speed up his pace, but it was just a matter of looking around , and saw a familiar figure passing by the post office opposite, he stopped in his tracks.The man had short hair, was tall and thin, was wearing jeans and a jacket, and was carrying a crossbody bag. Although it was just a back view, it still made his heart skip a beat.

"Qin Zhengzheng, what are you looking at?" Li Ying saw that Qin Zhengzheng, who had been striding like a meteor just now, was standing like an idiot at this moment, so she followed his gaze and saw a man standing in front of the mailbox at the entrance of the post office, sending a letter , muttering: "It's strange, people still write letters these days?"

What Qin Zhengzheng was curious about was this, he felt that this person looked familiar, the letter mailer at the gate of the post office was too similar to the Chinese teacher who had only taught him for a few months in high school, both in terms of hairstyle and figure.Seeing this person, Qin Zhengzheng suddenly remembered the past, his eyes were a little moist, he was about to cross the road, and he didn't even see the big truck speeding past the intersection, Li Ying pulled him back to a safe place, angrily Said: "Qin Zhengzheng, show me some cars. How can you lose your soul?"

The truck roared away, but there was no one at the gate of the post office.

When they arrived at the store, the proprietress greeted them eagerly, "Officer Li is here, was he on duty again last night? It was really hard work."

Li Ying smiled at her and said, "Hey, aren't we serving the people?"

After they ordered and ate, Qin Zhengzheng was still in a trance state. When the mutton soup came, he added too much pepper and vinegar with a shake of his hand, took a sip of the soup, and even spilled the soup on his clothes.

Li Ying felt that something was wrong with him, so she asked, "Zhengzheng, what's wrong with you?"

Qin Zhengzheng grabbed the paper towels on the table and wiped the soup on his body indiscriminately. It smelled like acetic acid and the unique smell of mutton soup. He said, "The person who sent the letter may be the teacher who once taught me."

Li Ying was quite disdainful, sniffing and said: "Hey, isn't it a teacher? I forgot what my teacher's name is. When you reach my age, who cares about the teacher-student relationship with your wife, children and work? It’s all nonsense.” After Li Ying finished reading the truth of life, she picked up a pot and put it in her bowl, “Eat it while it’s hot, we have a meeting when we go back. You don’t even know, last night, I As soon as I fell asleep, the team leader called me to ask about the case where the secretary of the district government was attacked, and the voice was quite angry."

Qin Zhengzheng took a mutton pot and put it on the plate, which was covered with vinegar, and said in a voice that only he could hear clearly: "He is different." He is indeed different. After saying this to himself, Qin Zhengzheng's His heart obviously felt touched by something, he smiled slightly, and the teacher's appearance appeared in his mind, very clear and very close.

Thinking about the past days full of haze, he was really a ray of sunshine that illuminated his dark sky. If it wasn't for him, how could he be lucky enough to wear this police uniform.When I was in college, I held my breath and refused to see him. It’s been so long since I graduated, and I haven’t seen him. One is because I am busy, and the other is because I still have a knot in my heart that cannot be solved. He always feels that the responsibility is not on him. So he has been awkward for several years, and now that he thinks about it, maybe he doesn't know himself anymore.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhengzheng couldn't help feeling sad for a while, and then laughed at himself.In fact, Qin Zhengzheng still couldn't figure out why Gong Yuechao suddenly became so indifferent when everything was fine.

Qin Zhengzheng's name was given by his father, implying that he hoped that he would have an iron frame and be a man of indomitable spirit.His father is a criminal policeman. He is usually too busy with work and rarely goes home, but the relationship between father and son is very good. He has always worshiped his father as an idol.Influenced by his father, Qin Zhengzheng has been a child with a sense of justice since he was a child. He is the king of the kids in the community, and he is always the policeman in the police and robber games with the children.He likes his father's big cap and his father's neat uniform. As long as his father comes home, he will pester his father to tell him about the crimes he solved. He also vowed to be a policeman in the future, punishing evil and promoting good. His father Praising him for his ambition, he puffed up his chest and said, "Of course." His tone was full of pride.

His family was harmonious and happy, and the environment in which he grew up was full of sunshine from beginning to end, so much so that even though he went to high school, he still didn't get rid of a certain childishness, which was cultivated by the tolerance and arrogance of his parents.If it weren't for the sudden family change, he might have grown up in such a stable way until he realized his ideal.

He had just entered the third year of high school that year, and it should have been just a few days after the National Day.But Qin Zhengzheng felt that he was quite stupid, because he could never remember the day of his father's death. He didn't know whether his brain deliberately erased that day from the calendar, or selectively forgot it. He only knew that it was a certain day in October. One day, it was quite cold, and there was a heavy rain that is rare in autumn.

In the third year of high school, a lot of happiness was taken for granted, including the weekly physical education class on the schedule.

Qin Zhengzheng is lively and active, likes to play ball, and likes to take physical education class the most, but he has entered the third year of high school. It seems that all the teachers have reached a certain kind of deal with the physical education teacher. The reason for this is the heavy rain, and it is the English teacher who is standing on the podium and talking.In the quiz some time ago, the English scores of their class were not satisfactory. This beautiful female teacher changed her gentle image in the past. Every time she asked a question, she would say: "Students, you are in the third year of high school, and you still want to take the test with such grades." What university?" That tone was really hateful.

Qin Zhengzheng, who couldn't go out to show off his youthful blood, sat down by the window in frustration, listening to the sound of the rain and the analysis of the test paper like a bible. The two voices intertwined and drove him to sleep.At this moment, their homeroom teacher rushed into the classroom without even knocking on the door, interrupting the orderly classroom. Qin Zhengzheng woke up from fright and sat down in a well-behaved manner.

The head teacher searched around in the classroom, finally locked his target on him, and said, "Qin Zhengzheng, come out for a while."

Qin Zhengzheng's academic performance is not outstanding, but he has never been a hindrance to the class. He is also quite naughty, but he has never caused major troubles, because his nature is like this, lively and active but particularly timid.When he was called by the teacher, he was still thinking about what mistake he had made. He was very popular in the class. Many boys thought he was going to be unlucky, so they made faces at him. He stuck out his tongue to retaliate and followed the teacher step by step. Come to the hallway.

"Qin Zhengzheng, the teacher told you something, you are an older child, you have to be strong..." It was raining heavily outside, and the wind was not too light. The wind blew the rain and hit the window lattice, making a "crackling" sound The sound, the uneven playground was full of water, he was thinking one second that he might not be able to play football with the sophomore students, and the next second he heard the teacher say so.Maybe the rain was too loud, or maybe he was still in a kind of chaos, so the teacher's mouth opened and closed, and he didn't understand the teacher's meaning for a while.Qin Zhengzheng felt that he had always been strong, because his father told him that a man should not shrink back when encountering difficulties. If the teacher said that the third year of high school was too hard, he even felt that such difficulties would not overwhelm him.But the teacher's next sentence was like a thunderbolt, which shattered his world. Accompanied by the sound of rain, he clearly heard these words: "I just received a call saying that your father was stabbed by gangsters while he was on a mission. Injured, sent to the hospital, but failed to rescue..."

Qin Zhengzheng stared wide-eyed and looked at the teacher in disbelief. He picked his ears casually and said, "Teacher, it's raining too loudly outside. What are you talking about? I didn't hear clearly."

The teacher repeated what he said just now. Before the teacher finished speaking, he rushed out of the teaching building like crazy. He didn't think about anything, but simply thought that the teacher was lying to him. He ran to the guard to find out The uncle at the door borrowed the phone and dialed the string of numbers that he knew so well, and the call was quickly connected. At that time, he was still thinking, the teacher is really lying to me, adults are really annoying, you see This phone is all through.Who knew it was him on the other end of the phone, a strange man comforted him with the same tone as his teacher, "Qin Zhengzheng, you are an older child, be stronger..." Something dripped down his face, He didn't even know if it was the rain that was pouring on his body just now or the tears streaming from his eyes.

"You're an older boy, be strong."—he probably exchanged his soul with the devil for such a spell, which controlled him, and he barely shed a tear during the funeral process.

Relatives told him that he must be strong, and his mother still needs him; his father’s colleagues told him that you must be strong, and that your father is your role model; the teacher who came to mourn told him that you must be strong, and we are waiting for your return. The school... Qin Zhengzheng returned the salute meekly, gritted his teeth, and said in his heart that I don't even cry, am I not strong enough?

But it seemed to be a mistake not to cry until the end. He clearly heard someone say: "Look at the son of the Qin family, how can he be so hard-hearted? It's been such a long time, and he doesn't even shed a tear..."