Live with the forensic chief

Shu Meng asked Lin Pu what he would like to eat. After all, it was almost lunch time, but Lin Pu really didn't want to stay in this weird and depressing building anymore, so he said that he would drive out of Yuansheng Road first.

Coming out of the building, Lin Pu looked up, just from the angle of the door, he could see the place where Zhou Chu jumped off the building and the fallen flower bed.A few white chrysanthemums were placed on the flower bed, as if they were here to mourn the young girl who passed away suddenly a few days ago.

At the same time, an old lady pushing a cart happened to pass by. She stood on the edge of the flower bed, rummaged through her bag for a while, and put a small white wreath on the edge of the flower bed, clasping her hands together. He muttered a few words about the flower bed and bowed.

After a while, she slowly pushed her car to the side of the road.

The junction of the third floor is a crossroad, and the old lady's cart stopped at the crossroads. Lin Pu watched her take out some snacks from her cart and put them in order, with a staggering pace. Convenience, and then stood on the side of the road watching the passing vehicles and pedestrians, did not hawk, just stood hunched over.

Next to it is the non-motorized vehicle lane, and it is also crowded with people. Occasionally, one or two people will stop and ask, and then hurry away.

Lin Pu didn't know why, but his eyes were a little sore.

Shu Meng followed his gaze and squeezed the back of his hand: "What's wrong?"

"When my sister and I were young, when her grandma was still there, sometimes she would push the snack cart and take us to the market in the next village." Lin Pu smiled, "I always feel that the mother-in-law's back reminds me of her... ...I seem to have missed her for many years."

Once the kind of empathy from relatives appears, there will always be a small wave of waves in Lin Pu's heart that has been closed for a long time, like when a stone is thrown into a lake.

Shu Meng pinched his hand in his hand, rubbed his thumb against his wrist, and did not speak, this is the action he likes to do when giving silent comfort to Lin Pu.

The two of them watched for a while, then continued to discuss where to go next.

"Zhang Zixiao is going to school today, do you want to meet her?" Shu Meng said, "There may be some clues to the rumors in the school."

Lin Pu nodded in agreement, but he was still a little hungry, so he rubbed his stomach and said, "Why don't you have a meal first."

However, when they were discussing what to do next, a few urban management-like people came over there, Lin Pu looked back at the intersection, and watched them yelling to tell the old lady not to occupy the road, and moved And rather rude.People who come and go will look at it a few times, but few people really help.

Apparently the old lady didn't open the shop today, and she looked lonely and about to close the stall, which made Lin Pu unspeakably sour.

"...Go and help her." Shu Meng said suddenly.

"Huh?" Lin Pu raised his eyes.

"You've been watching her for a long time." Shu Meng said, "It's not easy for the old lady to be alone."

Lin Pu nodded, and the two of them went down the stairs and walked to the booth.The two city management officials didn't even say they wanted to take over the old lady's stall, they just kept chasing her away.

"It's hard for us too, Auntie." The urban management officer said in a rough voice, "Since this area has been allocated to the west of the city, the appearance of the city is not allowed to set up stalls, and it is not difficult for you to deduct our money! We compare It's harder for you."

The old lady didn't say anything, she pushed the cart and left with a sigh.

Lin Pu followed and stopped her: "...Hello."

The old lady looked back at him: "What's the matter?"

"I bought everything here..." Lin Pu touched some cash and came out.

"Oh, no, no, no." The old lady waved her hand and said, "There are always college students like you who see me as pitiful, so they just sell my money. It's really unnecessary."

The old lady pushed the cart to the front of the building and went up from the passenger elevator. There was something wrong with the wheels of the cart, and it was really inconvenient for her to move down by herself.Lin Pu and Shu Meng helped her carry it, and the old lady said, "Thank you, have you eaten yet?"

"...Ah?" Lin Pu didn't know how to answer it for a while.

"If you don't eat, go to my house." The old lady said, "I live alone, and I am idle."

She pushed the car into the freight elevator and sighed: "After the new cityscape has been managed here, it has been said that it will be demolished... Those of us who make a living by setting up stalls don't know what to do in the future. Seeing that the building has also been closed It’s going to be converted into a shopping mall, and although the place where we are placed is not far away, it’s not as comfortable as living here.”

She reached the floor, and led the two of them around the building again, to the door of a small door.The door is still an old wooden door, which looks a little mottled and worn out. When the door is opened, the inside looks as old as the outside. There is a room, a living room and a kitchen, and there are meals on the table covered by a fence.

"I've seen you." The old lady suddenly turned her head and said, "When the little girl on the sixteenth floor jumped to her death that day, I happened to be right next to you, and I saw you..." She pointed at Shu Meng, "Everyone else is Hide, dodge, you are the first one to rush up and hug her."

"..." Shu Meng said softly, "I am a teacher."

"No wonder, you are such a good teacher." The old lady raised her finger to him, patted the stool for them to sit down, "Sit down."

"We won't sit down..."

"Sit down." The old lady insisted.

Lin Pu glanced at Shu Meng, and Shu Meng pulled out the chair and sat down.

The old lady poured them a glass of water slowly, and brought some snacks she sold to Lin Pu and the others, and said, "So you are here to see Zhou Chu's mother? The police came several times yesterday, and there were people all over the place. I read it again. I didn’t see anything, so I left after that, you guys eat...you won’t be allowed to set up a stall today, and if you don’t eat, you will throw it away, so I should thank you for moving the car for me.”

"...Thank you." Lin Pu nodded, thanked him a little stiffly, and took the snack.

"Since this building is about to be sold to that group over there, it feels like this place has changed." The old lady sat down and chatted with them, "I am the only one in my family, and the house is left by my parents' parents. The house is gone, and I don’t think I will know how to live in the future.”

She patted the table with her hands: "Our place used to be just a residence, but later it was planned and planned, and the policy could be relaxed and started to open shops. It should have been in the [-]s, when Baijin wasn't called Baijin... Most of the old people who live here have their eyes closed, and they can go back to their own home by smelling the corridor, and they can also know whose home it is. Later, we mixed with the shop owner, and we didn’t feel anything, it was so lively It was a good fight."

Her eyes were a little muddy, and she looked at Lin Pu: "Hey, have you been here before? People say that we are now the city's 'poor'. Whoever heard of the land on Yuansheng Road, let alone this It's a slum."

Shu Meng swallowed the last bite, squinted his eyes and smiled at the old lady: "This is super delicious, grandma."

"It's good enough, you two should eat more. My son was not married, but died in a car accident, and my wife also passed away a few years ago... I really want a grandson, and if I have a grandson, I guess it's just like the two of you guys." I'm getting older." The old lady said, "Hi, I really...I lived alone for too long, no one talked, and I talked a lot today."

"No, no." Lin Pu shook his head, his brows and eyes furrowed, "It's a pleasure chatting with you."

"Really?" The old lady smiled all over her face, "That's great, are you busy with work? Are you here for shopping on weekends?"

"Well... let's go shopping." Lin Pu looked around and asked again, "Grandma, can I... ask you something? How will the compensation paid by Min'an Group be calculated? Where will you be resettled later?" What about it? Have you told you all about this?"

"I heard that it will be discounted to us at the current market price." The old lady said, "Move into their newly built community, which is near here."

"Sounds good." Lin Pu said.

"No, no, no." The old lady waved her hand, "There are lots of people in this community, most of them are old people like us, and those who get to the fifth and sixth floors can't be exchanged with others. Besides, most people here are If you start a business, moving away is equivalent to losing your job. Who can afford to rent a store outside? The rent is several times higher than here. If you spend your savings, you can’t open a store or do business.”

"We got to know their group." Lin Pu said, "It seems that they will provide many job opportunities in the future? After all, this is also a business district to be transformed."

"Hey, they're just talking." The old lady handed Lin Pu another snack. Lin Pu wanted to say no to eating it, but he couldn't bear it because of the kindness of the old lady, so he continued to eat two bites.

The old lady gently patted the crumbs off his chest: "It sounds like everyone moved to a new house, got the compensation, and they even solved your work problem for you, it seems like a happy event that fell from the sky. Only we know the suffering. Before the owners and tenants collectively and collectively filed a lawsuit, our legal fees were collected from house to house. If we don’t win...many people don’t know how to live in the future. I’ve been here for a long time, living in such a strange place outside is very hard.”

She sighed in a low voice: "My child, all living beings are suffering. You can see whether Zhou Chu's family is suffering. After losing their daughter for a while, they will lose their house for a while. Every day is a small business... It was just waiting for the child. Go out and get a good university.”

Lin Pu may have an indifferent attitude towards other matters due to nature and work reasons, but what the old lady said made it difficult for him to feel empathy.He knows that his profession does not allow such personal feelings to exist, but the series of events that happened in this building in the past few days always made him seem to be playing a large-scale immersive game. exit.

Especially the appearance of Li Junshen kept appearing in front of him, his arrogance and rudeness overlapped with the stooped kind grandma in front of him.

"Grandma." Lin Pu looked at her, a little uncomfortable, but didn't know what to say, "There is a way, there must be a way."

Shu Meng has not spoken, he looked down at the table.Lin Pu chatted with the old lady for a while, and couldn't help but look at what he was doing, only to find that he was reading something like a few advertising leaflets that the old lady pressed under the glass on the table.

"You eat." The old lady noticed Shu Meng, and said with a smile, "Is it delicious? After talking for so long, I didn't ask the two teachers what their surnames are."

"Ah? Mmm, it's delicious." Shu Meng raised his head and took another piece. He squinted and smiled, "His surname is Lin, and my surname is Shu."

"Are you two brothers? You look a bit alike." The old lady said.

Lin Pu coughed and patted his chest hard.

"Really?" Shu Meng laughed, "I also think we are quite similar."

After he finished laughing, the smile in his eyes faded, and he poked his finger on the glass on the table: "Grandma, I want to ask a question, what is this?"

"Huh?" The old lady followed his fingers to look over, saw the piece of paper, and immediately said "ah".

"This was sent to me...about a year ago." The old lady said, "Someone in the building should believe this, and would send it to us door to door along with pastries or other small things. I am a person I like to stock up on everything, and when I get the paper, I just press it under the glass plate, and I don’t really care about the content.”

Indeed, under the glass plate of the old lady, there are a lot of colorful things, such as discount leaflets from the supermarket, as well as various items from the milk tea shop, cat cafe, and pet shop in other buildings. Half of the leaflets only take up a small part.

Lin Pu looked at the list, which was not well-typed. It said "Great Mercy, Great Compassion..." The words after it couldn't be seen, and were pressed behind the supermarket leaflet.

"At that time, people came to preach and said it was a small branch of Buddhism. I didn't understand it, but I didn't believe it at first. I never went to the temple to worship Buddha during New Years and holidays." There are quite a few of them, and we will organize activities together.”

"Great Mercy..." Shu Meng looked at the piece of paper and followed up, "What...?"

"Bliss Teaching." The old lady said.

Lin Pu knocked on the glass violently: "Madam, can you show us this?"

"Huh? Of course." The old lady gave them something pressed under the glass, moved the glass and took it out for them, and asked strangely, "Are you also interested in this?"

"...Do you understand this?" Lin Pu couldn't help but asked while watching.

"I don't know much about it. Those who don't believe in it will understand it." The old lady said, "Although there are people in the building who organize activities regularly, they don't know where they are. There are so many rituals and ceremonies, and there is a membership fee to go in. I only found out from occasional chats with others that the old man on the seventh floor here is said to have lived to be 97 years old because of this letter."

"...Is he still there?" Shu Meng asked.

"Just left a few months ago." The old lady said.

The leaflet also simply printed some introductions to the "Great Mercy and Great Compassion Bliss Religion", saying what the state of bliss is and what you can get after you believe in the religion. There is no particularly effective information at all.Lin Pu turned the list over and saw a contact number. He pretended to go to the toilet of the old lady's house while dialing the number in the toilet.

However, it is an empty number.

Lin Pu felt strange, and searched for this sect on the search website again. Except for some novels with similar names, there was nothing else.

When he came out of the toilet, the old lady was still chatting with Shu Meng.

"I don't really know exactly who believes in this." The old lady said, "It's just that I come here regularly to promote it, worshiping Buddha and such fasting ceremonies, don't they all have to go to temples? But why are you asking this?"

"Oh...very curious." Shu Meng said, "... Zhou Chu's family, do you believe this?"

"Not sure." The old lady shook her head.

"Okay." Shu Meng knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he could only change the topic silently.

Lin Pu sat down, and the old lady refilled him with hot tea. Lin Pu hurriedly refused, "We have something to do in the afternoon, so maybe... it's inconvenient to stay for a long time."

"Leave?" The old lady said regretfully, "It's been a long time since I've spoken so much, and my voice is a little hoarse."

She stood up, and Lin Pu and Shu Meng also stood up quickly. She was only as tall as Lin Pu's chest, her hair was also gray, and she had a kind and lovely expression on her face: "My surname is Wang, just call me grandma. Come to me when you two are free." Let's eat now, I like you two, you are so nice."

Lin Pu raised his arms to hug her, and said in a low voice with some emotion: "Good grandma, definitely."

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