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When the two of them packed their luggage and left early the next morning, Qiao Zhi was still a little bit reluctant.Qiu Shui hugged her from behind, kissed her side face and said comfortingly: "If you like this kind of life, we will come and be neighbors with Lao Gu and the others in the future."

Qiao Zhi leaned on her body, put his hand on hers around his waist, and couldn't tell what was going on in his heart.The life here is indeed very leisurely and comfortable, and it is also very happy to be in a daze with Qiushui.However, she also felt that if she was really allowed to live like this for the next few decades, it would probably be enough.

"Qiu'er, let me ask you, what kind of life do you want to live in the future?" Qiao Zhi asked.

Qiu Shui's cheek was next to hers, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I never thought about it. Before you called me that time, I didn't even think we could meet again in this life."

Qiao Zhi's heart trembled, yes, once upon a time, she also had the same thought, thinking that in this life, the two of them would never have a chance to see each other again.

"I'm sorry Qiu'er, these five years... At the beginning I..." She felt helpless, guilty, distressed and regretful, but she didn't know how to express it. Apart from being sorry, she felt like she was shirking responsibility .

"Hush——" Qiu Shui turned her around, kissed her forehead, her lips, stared at her with the most gentle eyes, shook her head slightly and said, "Don't apologize, as long as you love me not because of guilt, then I will only Grateful for everything in the past."

……

It was almost noon when the two arrived at the airport in the city from the county seat, and they were queuing up at the security checkpoint. Qiushui received a call from Gu Jia. Because there was a row of tourist groups behind her, she called Qiao Zhi. He said hello and walked to the side to answer the phone.After talking a few words, he hung up the phone and came back only to find that Qiao Zhi was looking at the phone distracted.

"What's wrong?" She subconsciously glanced at the phone screen.

Qiao Zhi looked up at her: "My brother sent a text message telling me to go home quickly, there is something urgent."

Of course this brother is none other than Luo Hai.

Qiu Shui asked, "Did you say anything?"

Qiao Zhi shook her head: "He called me earlier but I didn't answer." After a pause, "I'll call him back first."

The two withdrew from the security inspection line. Qiao Zhi didn't avoid Qiushui on the phone, and dialed Luo Hai's number in front of her.The call was connected quickly, Qiu Shui kept looking at her, but couldn't hear what the person on the other end said, only saw Qiao Zhi's face getting more and more ugly.

"...Okay, I get it, I'll be right back." Qiao Zhi hung up the phone, looked at her and said, "We won't be going back to Beijing, we have to go back to our hometown first."

"What happened?" Qiu Shui asked with a frown.

Qiao Zhi looked hesitant, and didn't seem to have figured it out: "I don't know the details. He only said on the phone that Jiao Da was arrested, and my dad... seems to be missing."

After Qiao Dalou was rescued by the teapot and the others, Qiao Zhi almost forgot the existence of this "father" for a long time because of his anger and resentment.Later, when she thought about it again during the holidays, there was no news from him.She also sent people around to inquire about it with money and effort, but there was no response at all. The person "Joe Loud" seemed to have suddenly disappeared from the world.

As for Jiao Da, I only heard that he was betrayed by his subordinates not long after he took the position of the boss of Chengnan many years ago, saying that he poisoned the boss of Huo, and the person who betrayed him also produced a lot of evidence.In the face of the ironclad evidence, Jiao Da was indisputable. He wanted to use iron and blood to wipe out a group of people, but unfortunately, the son of Huo Boss suddenly returned from Hong Kong. They all stood in line with the prince.In order to save his life, Jiao Da fled in a hurry, and then he didn't know who he went to defect to, and what kind of shady deeds he did. Anyway, I heard about him later, and it was already a major murder case in the newspaper that the Ministry of Public Security offered a reward for arrest. Guilty.

After Qiao Zhi got off the plane, she called Luo Hai, who told her to go directly to the Municipal Bureau, saying that she would wait for her there.

Half an hour later, at the gate of the Municipal Bureau, the three of them met suddenly. Luo Hai was still a little dazed, but then he caught a glimpse of the two tightly clasped hands, and subconsciously frowned.

Qiu Shui naturally noticed it, but the current situation was special, for Qiao Zhi's sake, neither of them could get angry on the spot, so they had to act as if they didn't see each other.

Qiao Zhi was uneasy all the way, got off the car and rushed to him in two or three steps, asking, "Where's my dad?"

Luo Hai patted her on the shoulder and said without hesitation, "Your father is gone. When the police found him, his body was rotten and only bones remained."

Qiao Zhi only felt that her eyes were dark, and she fell back two steps. Luo Hai was taken aback, and stretched out his hand to pull her, but before she could speak, Qiu Shui who was chasing up immediately pulled her back.

Luo Hai: "..."

Qiao Zhi leaned limply in her arms, the high heels on her feet seemed to be stepping on the water, and she had no focus at all.There seemed to be many small circles of light in front of her eyes, her ears were buzzing, and her body felt chills. She shook her head desperately and asked repeatedly: "Is it Jiao Da! Is it him!!"

With red eyes, Qiao Zhi clenched her heart and took a breath of anger. She grabbed Luo Hai tightly with both hands, and asked, "Where is Jiao Da? Where is he? Where is my dad? How could he die—" She roared hoarsely , the whole person knelt down suddenly and fell into a faint.

……

Hospital ward.

Qiu Shui sat by the hospital bed and quietly watched over the sleeping person on the bed, while Luo Hai stood by the window, looked at the two of them, opened his mouth several times, but didn't know where to start.

There was the sound of quick footsteps outside the door, Sister Hong pushed the door open and entered, before she could see the people in the room clearly, tears came down.

Luo Hai sighed, walked over to her and booed her several times: "Keep your voice down, let her sleep for a while, don't wake her up."

Sister Hong covered her mouth and nodded again and again, she seemed terrified, and after she calmed down a little, she saw the person sitting beside the bed, her eyes were as wide as copper bells, and she covered her mouth and let out a very small sound: "Qiu Shui... "

"Sister Hong." Qiu Shui got up and looked at her, hesitating whether to go over.Sister Hong didn't hesitate as much as she did, she pushed Luo Hai away, stepped forward and dragged her out of the ward.

Luo Hai: "..."

Outside the ward, Sister Hong hugged her and patted and thumped her, crying all over her face: "You have no conscience! You just leave as soon as you say, and you don't even bring back a message for so many years. Ah Zhi and I were so worried about you! In the two years since you left, your sister couldn't sleep all night, and she looked thinner day by day. Later, the old lady of the Guo family left again. I was really afraid of your sister at that time. If you can't think about it, then..." She choked up and couldn't continue.

Qiu Shui was startled: "Grandma Qingshan passed away?"

Sister Hong wiped away her tears and said, "I passed away the year before last. I was not ill or in trouble, and the person in my dream was gone. It is also a joy and mourning."

The two chattered for a while, and when they entered the ward again, Qiao Zhi had already woken up, and was leaning on the pillow listening to Luo Hai.

"...The body was dug up in an abandoned chemical factory in Wuzhou, a neighboring province. Besides your father, he also took three lives. Maybe he thought it was a death anyway, and the police didn't interrogate him much, so he just Take the initiative to explain."

Qiao Zhi's eyes were lost, and she asked in a dull voice, "Why did he kill my dad?"

Luo Hai glanced at her, lowered his head and said, "According to his own account, it's because your father wanted to kill him first..."

Jiao Da was chased and killed for poisoning Huo Boss, and fled all the way to a neighboring province. In order to survive, he found a factory in the suburbs to work incognito.One night, he drank too much and went back to the rental house drunk. He was lying on the bed and was sleeping in a daze when someone hit his head with a brick...

Jiao Da was originally drunk and unconscious, but unexpectedly, he was woken up by the brick. He had a splitting headache, half of his face was covered with blood, and his murderous intentions arose immediately.The person who hit him with a brick was also a coward. Seeing that he stood up instead of falling down, he panicked. In the end, Jiao Da pulled out the machete under the bed and hacked him to death with a few knives.

……

No one knows what Joe Loud was thinking at the last moment before he died, maybe even he himself didn't figure out why he did it.

The police said they also found a letter in the rotting pocket of Qiao Dalou's body, presumably it was a suicide note written by the deceased before his death.However, due to the environment of the burial, more than half of the letter paper was basically rotten.

Qiao Zhi got the letter later, except for the rotten half, the remaining half began with the words "To my daughter", and many of the rest were fragmented sentences, perhaps because Qiao was writing aloud. I was not emotionally stable when I wrote this letter. In short, the original meaning of the letter can no longer be pieced together.

……

"This is my grandpa and grandma." Qiao Zhi pointed to the tombstone next to him and said, "The two old people left early, I have never seen them, but my dad always mentioned my grandpa to me, saying that he has a bad temper and is always very angry. Discipline him severely."

Qiu Shui stretched out his arms to embrace her, took the flowers in her hand and leaned over to put them on the stele, then bowed three times to the black and white photo on the tombstone.

"Dad..." Qiao Zhi looked at the young man in the black and white photo in a daze. It turned out that her father was such a handsome and refined man when he was young, but why did she always remember his ugly appearance? Woolen cloth?

"Azhi, don't make things difficult for yourself in your heart. What's in the past, let it go." Qiu Shui wiped away her tears and hugged her into his arms, "You still have me, I will never, never leave you."

A person will experience countless growths in his life, and one of them must be brought about by death.Although it is a fixed ending that everyone knows from birth, it must be a painful experience to truly understand the truth and reflection of life brought about by death.

Qiao Zhi was depressed at home for more than half a month, and everyone in the family treated her as a first-class protected animal. Therefore, even if they saw her and Qiu Shui go in and out together, sleeping on the same pillow, no one dared to touch her. She has a bad head and mostly speaks a word.

Since Sister Hong lives under the same roof as the two of them, she inevitably sees more things than others. She was not without surprise and shock at first, but gradually she discovered that if there are thousands of people in this world If anyone could make Qiao Zhi laugh, Qiu Shui was probably the only one.Wanting to understand this, Sister Hong also acquiesced to the matter between the two of them.

Luo Hai is different. He is straight-hearted and has a brain. He never thought that after five years, the two of them would be able to stage such a show. He scratched his heart and wanted to drag Qiao Zhi to him to ask him clearly. , See if there is water in her brain?

Teapot and Bai Jiao also belatedly found out about the two of them, because Luo Hai said a word to tell Luo Hai not to meddle in his own business, and Luo Hai was furious and beat him up.

This day, Luo Hai couldn't bear it any longer, thinking, even if he tried to make her sad, he still had to ask clearly!

He thought about it for a day, typed up a lot of "persuasion" manuscripts, and then called Qiao Zhi into his room on the pretext of drinking.After drinking for three rounds, Luo Hai felt that the atmosphere was almost the same, and was about to talk to her about it, when suddenly, the door rang——

Luo Hai suppressed his displeasure, got up and went to open the door, only to find that it was an unexpected guest.

Qiu Shui was wearing pajamas and leaning against the door frame with a pillow in his arms. Luo Hai grabbed the doorknob and looked at her. Just as he was about to close the door again, Qiu Shui suddenly called out: "Sister Qiao——"

Luo Hai: "..."

Hearing her voice, Qiao Zhi stood up from the stool and rushed to the door in a few steps.

Luo Hai gritted his teeth and said, "We haven't finished drinking yet!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Qiao Zhi stood in front of Qiu Shui and smiled at Luo Hai: "Brother, why don't you drink here today? I'll drink with you another day."

"I just want to drink today!" Luo Hai sternly said, looking at Qiu Shui with sparks in his eyes.

Qiu Shui ignored him, focused on harassing Qiao Zhi as if no one else was there, and kept coquettishly whispering in her ear: "I can't sleep alone, you sleep with me."

Luo Hai: "..."

Luo Hai's face was prone to redness after drinking, but when he got angry, he became Guan Gong's face.For a moment, he couldn't care less about his shame, and said directly: "Child, I'm going to ask you a question today. What do you think of the person behind you? Give me an answer!"

Qiao Zhi was in a dilemma, and wanted to wait for the atmosphere to calm down before talking to him, but when Luo Hai's stubborn temper came up, he couldn't say anything good, so she insisted on giving her an answer.

Qiu Shui rested his chin on her shoulder and looked at the man with a cold expression.

Qiao Zhi hesitated for a moment, but was immediately grabbed by the person behind him.

Qiao Zhi: "..."

"She's my girlfriend, the one I like. It's getting late, brother, go to bed early and see you tomorrow!" Qiao Zhi finished speaking in one breath, not daring to look at Luo Hai, and fled with Qiu Shui like a fly.

Luo Hai: "..."