Seagull

Chang Ze slept well last night and woke up early.He stood up and saw Zhang Lan who was motionless next to him, with his eyes closed and his mouth slightly open, and he finally looked a little obedient to face his sister.Chang Ze felt itchy in his heart when he saw it, and his mouth also felt itchy, he had to kiss something.He slowed down and knelt on the bed with one leg, propped one hand beside the bed pillow, brushed Zhang Lan's hair with the other, kissed Zhang Lan's forehead, but felt that it was not satisfying, took a light bite on his mouth, and finally got up to go out up.

As soon as he got to the stairwell, he ran into Chen Nan who also got up early. Chang Ze smiled and waved his hand: "Good morning, Brother Nan!"

Chen Nan looked at him like a cat who stole a fish, recalled yesterday's scene, and asked softly: "I guess they haven't woken up yet, tell me, yesterday was a premeditated plan? I recognized you Can I share a room with Zhang Lan?"

"No, I can fight unprepared battles. I went upstairs to distribute the documents yesterday and took a look at them. There are 6 houses in total, two study rooms, two master bedrooms, one room is locked and locked, and the rest are still open. What could it be? After a simple reasoning, it will come out, right?" Chang Ze looked smug.

Chen Nan: "What if Zhang Lan doesn't agree? Are you really going to go back and sleep alone?"

Chang Ze: "Didn't I believe that my Ah Lan wouldn't be so unfeeling?"

"..." Chen Nan regretted bringing up this topic, and then sighed: "However, it's really nice to sleep alone in this room, not counting the air-conditioning, and a separate guard, and the area is also large, which is about the same size as the room I sleep in at home. The car I drove last night was not bad, their family is a bit rich."

Chang Ze added: "Not only that, the two study rooms are also equipped with air-conditioning. People's food and clothing are not bad, even the dog, even though he lives in a stone house outside, food and clothing are also expensive."

"So why do they stay in a convenient place outside, and stay in this place that's a bit...'isolated'?" Chen Nan picked a neutral word and asked the question in his heart.

"Maybe the air is good? Why don't you ask?" Fortunately, Chang Ze still knows the business: "Today, let's go to the town and ask more questions, hoping to find some clues."

The two went out, following the direction Zhang Cen had told them yesterday.

"The day is almost over, there are not many useful clues, and the useful ones point back to Shanping Village." Chang Ze had no choice but to turn around and go back with Chen Nan.

It turned out that after they went out early in the morning, they first stopped in the square of the town for a while, but those old men and women knew nothing except square dancing against the cold wind and juggling diabolos like acrobatics.They knocked on the door of each house along the street. In addition to showing them Chen Jia's photo and asking if they knew this person, they also expanded the scope to know about the abduction case here 15 years ago.There are more and more affirmative answers, but many people only know about it, and don't know the details, only know some gossip.The culprit is the mayor's son, they catch children for food, the police catch the wrong murderer and the murderer is still at large... Hearing that, Chang Ze is unreliable, so he wants to buy a bottle of water to drink and rest.

The owner of the shop is a middle-aged woman in her 50s, and she is taking her one or two-year-old granddaughter with her. Chen Nan also asked with the mentality of "don't ask, don't ask, maybe it's her". When it came to someone, they obviously didn't have any hope, but they didn't expect that the owner of the shop mentioned "female college students", which seemed to be really sensible.

"Sister, can you tell me in detail?" Chang Ze asked excitedly.

"I can't go into more detail. Later, a frequent visitor chatted with me, saying that the case was not solved yet, and there were female college students in their village. I asked whose house it was, why didn't they call the police? She I just shut up and left." The shopkeeper recalled a moment and told the scene at that time.

"Then can you tell me who that person is? This is very important to us!" Chen Nan looked at the shopkeeper solemnly.

"Yes, it's Li Juan from Shanping Village. She has a mole on her right eyebrow. But she hasn't been to my store for many years, and it seems that she has moved. I don't know about it. Go to the village and ask. .” Said, carrying granddaughter into the room.

Chang Ze and Chen Nan had to go back to Shanping Village after going around for a while, so Chang Ze and Chen Nan could only go back to the village and inquire about the woman named Li Juan.this is them

The only clue these days, they must seize.

When they arrived at Zhang Lan's house, they found that the usually quiet village was especially lively today.Many people were running in one direction, and the sounds of arguing, cursing, persuading... gathered together, and the scene seemed chaotic for a while.

Before Chang Ze entered the door, he only heard a female voice, which was louder than the others and approached Chang Ze's ears, even faintly echoing in the village: "Zhang Jun, let me tell you! This marriage can be divorced, you have to be clean." Born out of the house! My old lady has worked hard in your Zhang family for so many years. There is no credit but hard work. Just because you can’t give birth to a baby, you are going to divorce? As far as your old Zhang family’s genes are concerned, no one wants to be submissive! Or do you want to learn from your brother, think about his fate..."

Chang Ze went into the back room and closed the door, shutting out the cold wind and sound.

"Sister Cen, we are back, this is..." Chen Nan asked.

"Come in quickly. This is my colleague, the girl who met A Lan today, Xiao Ke's mother. Sister Li, they are friends of A Lan. They are coming to stay for a few days." Zhang Cen introduced each other.

"Ah Lan's friends are indeed handsome and have an extraordinary bearing." Sister Zhang laughed.

"Sister Zhang has won the prize." Chen Nan shook hands with her, and continued: "I won't disturb your chat, we'll leave after drinking the water."

"Don't bother, we have nothing to chat about A Lan and Xiao Ke. Where are you going? It's almost dinner time, and you're tired all day," Zhang Cen said.

"Sister, we finally found a clue to find someone named Li Juan. We are so excited and can't wait to go." Chang Ze replied.

"Which Li Juan?" Sister Li interrupted suddenly.

"It's Li Juan from Shanping Village, she has a mole on her face, she should move," Chen Nan replied.

"Is it on the right eyebrow?"

"Yes, Miss Li, do you know her?" Chang Ze asked in surprise.

"Coincidentally, she is my sister."

"Then where is she now? Can you give us a phone number or address? We want to ask her something." Chen Nan looked at Sister Li.

Sister Li pointed to the place where the crowd gathered outside the door, and said, "She's here today, just the one over there who is arguing for a divorce. I just came with her today, and I can't take it anymore, it's like a vegetable market." Yes, I just ran to Xiaozhang to be quiet and quiet." Sister Li paused, "But it can't be done these days, she is angry, and anyone who chases her will be scolded. After a few days, the anger is almost gone, and I will put her Bring it here."

"How about that, we should pay a visit at home, or invite Sister Li Juan to have a meal..." Chen Nan declined politely.

"It's okay, she has to live here for a few days this week to get a divorce. My mother has to nag her all day, and she is very happy to give her a chance to come out to breathe. Xiao Zhang is very nice and warm It's comfortable, and I'll just bring my sister and Xiao Ke with me when the time comes," Sister Li waved her hand, deciding this matter entirely by herself.

As soon as Chang Ze heard it, he knew that Sister Li hadn't given up on dealing with her daughter and A Lan, but he could only compromise: "Then I will trouble Sister Li."

"It's nothing. Can I ask what you are doing with Li Juan?"

"We heard that Sister Li Juan might know some facts about the abduction and trafficking back then, so we wanted to ask. That's right." Chen Nan took out a photo and faced Sister Li, "Sister Li, have you seen this girl? Her name is Chen Jia, and she is ours. My sister is likely to be a victim of abduction back then."

Sister Li glanced at the photo: "I haven't seen it before." After thinking for a while, "But when it comes to trafficking, I seem to know something and have participated in it. Is it the kidnapping case that was solved in Shanruo Town 15 years ago?"

"Well, yes!"

Sister Li squinted her eyes and thought for a while, as if she was remembering something, or organizing her words, and finally said slowly: "If you don't talk about it, I don't even want to think about it, that little girl is so pitiful .Hey, this happened quite early. I went shopping for vegetables a few years after giving birth. As soon as I left the vegetable market, a little girl hugged my thigh and cried, saying, "Help me, help me." Ask her what's wrong, where is your mother, she didn't say anything, just yelled the words 'help me'. I felt that something was wrong, so I led her to go to the police. Not far away, a man pulled I grabbed the little girl's hand, hugged her and said excitedly, "Xiao Wu, I finally found you. Dad was so anxious that he almost called the police." He also kept saying thank you to me and wanted to give me money as a thank you gift. I confiscated the money. Seeing that the little girl looked wrong, she was not happy at all, and a little scared. I thought so, so I asked. The man said that it was because Xiao Wu wanted to buy toys, and he didn’t buy them for him, and he beat her. After a few moments, she was making a fuss. When I heard that the story was quite plausible, before I thought about it, the man hugged the girl and left. I saw the man hugging Xiao Wu walking towards a girl whose back was facing me. The tall and thin woman in red said a few words and then left together."

"Did you call the police?" Chen Nan asked.

"Well, when I got home, I thought something was wrong, so I called the police, and described the man's appearance to the police. After a few days, the man was arrested, and the police found many children. However, no Xiao Wu's..." Sister Li sniffed when she said this, she couldn't continue.

Zhang Cen patted Sister Li on the back comfortingly, poured a cup of hot tea and put it in her hand: "Sister Li..."

"Later, the police dug up a body in the mountains, and asked me to identify it as Xiao Wu. It turned out that after taking Xiao Wu back that day, she was angry that she ran away under his nose, and she was disobedient, so she beat her a few times with a wooden stick. , and then she was knocked out, and when he stopped, she couldn't move, and she couldn't breathe..."

Sister Li could think of that night when she was beaten.Xiao Wu's small body was curled up because of the pain, with blue and black scars all over her body.She frowned, looked painful, and screamed, but no one paid attention to it, but increased the strength in her hands until she died.When Sister Li thought of this, she felt guilty. If she hadn't relaxed holding Xiao Wu's hand that day, if she had thought about it more carefully that day, if she had looked at Xiao Wu's tearful eyes and begged with fear...things would have happened. Not so.Sister Li really felt ashamed of her identity as a teacher and a mother for such a flower bud that was still in bud to be beaten or even withered.

But how can there be so many ifs, how can there be so many opportunities for you to choose the question again with the answer.

The few present here should reasonably advise Sister Li not to magnify her behavior. Without you, there will be others. Everyone has their own destiny, and it will not be changed because of your actions. It's no good to take the blame on yourself. You can't do anything except let yourself live in guilt and drive yourself crazy.But no one spoke.Chang Ze can't do it, Zhang Cen and Chen Nan have tried it and know it won't work.