The river is about to burn the mountain

"impossible."

Jiang Zhan frowned and dismissed: "Professor Song said that you can't be stimulated anymore, and your body hasn't recovered yet. Let's see how thin you are now? Go back to the investigation team, those cases will inevitably stimulate you , once again..."

"I know all of this...but Jiang Zhan, the case of the vocational school is so similar that I can't give up."

Ji Qiuhan didn't know Jiang Zhan's worry.

He dragged Jiang Zhan to the next room, which was the study room that Jiang Zhan gave him to work after he came to the Jiang residence.Ji Qiuhan walked to the desk, bent down and took out a thick black cover notebook from the drawer on the first floor.

Jiang Zhan knew that Ji Qiuhan's memory was astonishing. As long as he looked at the clues of any complicated relationship in any case, it was like taking a picture of human flesh in his mind, so he often only brought a very thin computer with him when he picked him up from get off work.

Ji Qiuhan seldom takes notes, unless it's... something he doesn't remember.

Sure enough, as soon as the black notebook was opened, there were densely cut and pasted reports cut from newspapers, with a lot of outlining with a marker pen in the middle, and photocopies of files sealed by the police back then, all pointing directly to the May 5.23 case that year.

"I have been trying to recall all these years, and I have been collecting all the clues I can find about 5.23, even if it reminds me of any details about the murderer..."

"But I found that I couldn't do it. The memory of those 33 days was like being deliberately put on heavy shackles in my mind. I couldn't even get close..."

Ji Qiuhan sat on the desk with his long legs propped up on the ground.

"I have been to a total of 340 or two murder scenes since I joined the company, but they rarely arouse my "sympathy". I can only get some familiar scenes that flashed in my mind in the occasional scene , sporadic and broken pictures..., but they are too blurry, not enough..."

Jiang Zhan listened, and suddenly his eyebrows frowned.

"So... that's why you chose to be a policeman? You want to experience different stimuli by observing different murder scenes, and remind yourself of the relevant..."

Jiang Zhan was very shocked. If this was the case, then Ji Qiuhan's obsession with the 5.23 case would far exceed his imagination.

As if a secret that had been hidden for many years was discovered, Ji Qiuhan's expression seemed to be relieved. This breath was like a huge boulder, which had been pressing on his chest for too many years.

"Yes, but not all. It's more because...I swear to catch Zhao Yonglin with my own hands, for the dead Ji Xia and her unborn child."

Ji Qiuhan reached out and turned the notebook to the last page. From the hidden interlayer of the cover, he took out a yellowed one-inch photo.

It was a high school graduation photo with a white background. The girl with the ponytail had a bright smile, especially her eyes, which were very similar to Ji Qiuhan.

Jiang Zhan knew who the girl was when he saw the girl. He took a quick step and held Ji Qiuhan's hand that was about to smoke: "...Don't smoke, the doctor said you'd better not smoke now..."

Ji Qiuhan shook his head: "Just one", raised his hand and ordered.

Ji Qiuhan's lighting posture is very beautiful, the white light reflects the light spots of the flames, as white and fragile as thin-rolled cigarettes, and the faint smell of mint smoke gradually spreads in the air.

"Didn't I tell you about my childhood...? It's very early, but recently I often feel that they seem to be still in front of me..."

As he spoke, Ji Qiuhan lightly brushed off the soot, the memories in front of him were like dying firewood in the snow, gasping for breath under a pile of charred ashes.

"My mother disappeared when I was born. My father was a small worker in the factory. He lost his fortune by gambling and sold the house. We were driven to live in a warehouse in the basement. Every night, someone came down to lock the car. , I couldn’t sleep because of the noise, and there was always a moldy earthy smell on my body.”

"My father went berserk when he lost money, threw things like crazy, beat me and my sister to death, Ji Xia always protected me, and was beaten badly by him..."

"When I was ten years old, the winter was very cold. I was weak and had a fever. Ji Xia stole my dad's money and took me to the doctor. The roads in the early morning were all frozen, but we didn't even have money to stay in the hospital for one night. , Ji Xia came back behind my back, "

"But I didn't expect... My dad still found out."

"My dad found out that the money was missing, so he beat us up with the car lock. I passed out, and I didn't know until the next day that in such a cold winter, that bastard shut Ji Xia out of the door. one night…"

Seemingly unable to continue, Ji Qiuhan's throat rolled, like swallowing a sharp blade: "And that night Ji Xia was raped...the person who raped her was the son of the factory leader, My dad was afraid, so he gambled all the money Ji Xia had saved for college, and forced Ji Xia to marry that rapist."

"But Ji Xia had just been admitted to university at that time, and she was obviously going to leave this house soon... I asked Ji Xia to escape, but she told me it was too late..."

"She is pregnant."

Ji Qiuhan took a long breath, the corners of his eyes seemed to be tearing open, as if it hurt from rubbing against the dry air, he was able to hold back the tears in his eyes.

This look fell into Jiang Zhan's eyes. He never knew that Ji Qiuhan's past was like this when he was a child. He stroked Ji Qiuhan's cold cheek with distress.

"Ji Xia is a good sister. She loves you very much. Shall we take good care of our health? Put everything else aside and I will help you watch. She definitely doesn't want to see you like this..."

Ji Qiuhan closed his eyes, and finally the unbearable tears rolled down Jiang Zhan's tiger's mouth along his cheeks.

"Baby..." Jiang Zhan panicked. Even when Ji Qiuhan was suffering from the most chaotic memories, he never shed tears.

"Jiang Zhan, I can't let him go..."

Ji Qiuhan leaned against the table with his tense wrist, and a piece of cigarette ash glowing with sparks fell into the ashtray at his fingertips.

"Even if it is completely burned, it will leave ashes... But Zhao Yonglin left nothing for Ji Xia back then...!"

"The police compared the bones dug up from the burial site for a full twelve days. They found all the remains of the victims, but they couldn't find Ji Xia alone, not even a single bone of her..."

"Where did Zhao Yonglin hide my sister?!"

The cigarette on his fingertips was crushed suddenly with a low growl, and Ji Qiuhan suddenly opened his eyes wide, with fine scarlet around his eyes.

"I always thought that I would never remember the last time I met Ji Xia, until the incident in the vocational school, Jiang Zhan, I'm sure I felt it as soon as I entered the door, the boy who witnessed everything, the pregnant girl, the chopped up The uterus and fetus, he put them all in black plastic bags,... I'm sure, that's the last picture I saw of Ji Xia!"

"Qiuhan...! Calm down first..."

Jiang Zhan sensed that his mood was unstable, "Maybe it's a coincidence, the investigation of that cult is still unclear, maybe it's just some kind of perverted and cruel method of theirs..."

"No, it's impossible."

"No one would be so similar. If they didn't deliberately imitate, why didn't they kill that boy? No one but me will know the scene back then. If there was, it must be the murderer on 5.23... Only he was present, only Zhao Yonglin Be there!"

Ji Qiuhan began to calm his breathing under Jiang Zhan's constant comfort.

"Jiang Zhan, there are too many doubts that I can't figure out, but I'm sure, no matter what, it must have something to do with 5.23."

Ji Qiuhan's eyes still had red bloodshot eyes that couldn't fade away. He was extremely serious, and there was a rare determination and paranoia in his usually indifferent pupils.

Jiang Zhan sighed for a long time, but he couldn't help but remember Song Xinghui's warning.

"I know you want to avenge Ji Xia, but have you ever thought about Professor Song's doctor's order? Regardless of whether this matter is really related to the 5.23 case and Zhao Yonglin if you continue to investigate,... Once you continue to investigate and wake up those memories ..."

Jiang Zhan thought of the shocking photos after the police "cleaned up".

"...Qiu Han, I admit that I'm scared... If the box is opened, can you bear it?"

Jiang Zhan's palms were wet with a thin layer of sweat, and Ji Qiuhan noticed that his lover, who had always been decisive and decisive, was now nervous and afraid because of him.

Ji Qiuhan's heart skipped a beat, he suddenly lowered his head and kissed Jiang Zhan's forehead.

Jiang Zhan froze for a moment,

"...you promised me many things, I heard them all, and I knew you would do it."

Ji Qiuhan said softly: "Now I also promise you, if one day I can't bear it, I will tell you, and you will take me home, right?"

Just like in the rainy day of reincarnation, the first time Jiang Zhan saw Ji Qiuhan in the abandoned factory building, the policeman didn't know Yi Qian and led his men to ambush him, and "helped" him get rid of it with one shot. to the pistol at the temple.

"Don't be afraid, follow me, I will take you out."

Jiang Zhan reached out to support Ji Qiuhan's delicate and cold back of the neck, and kissed it deeply.

"Yes...," Jiang Zhan said.

"...Probably because I owe you from the beginning, that's why I can't do anything about you..."

Ji Qiuhan didn't hear what Jiang Zhan was talking to himself in a low voice. He was just about to ask when he heard Jiang Zhan correct his tone again.

"I promise to let you continue the investigation, but I have conditions."

Jiang Zhan simply stretched out his hand, and directly hugged Ji Qiuhan up and sat him on the table.

"In your current state, your weight and blood sugar can't reach normal standards at all. You need 24-hour care from doctors and nutritionists. It is impossible to return to the team, but I can let you have two hours of work every day."

"…Um?"

"You said that if the investigation team leaves, you will greatly delay the progress. Okay, I will send someone to clean up the small building in Xiyuan and use it as a temporary office area for you. You have two hours every afternoon to bring your investigation team over. You can provide assistance. , but I ask to be accompanied by a doctor."

Ji Qiuhan was trapped by Jiang Zhan's hands on the table and had no choice but to retreat. He had nothing to do with this domineering lover who paid too much attention to his physical condition: "Okay, two hours is enough..."

He didn't even bargain any more, maybe it was no longer a kind of control and order for him, but another kind of...belonging, wasn't it?Even though he is deeply in the fog of the road ahead, he still knows that he is absolutely safe, which is extremely reassuring.

Ji Qiuhan rested his chin on Jiang Zhan's shoulder, and he heard Jiang Zhan say, "...Huh? Are you tired...?"

He nodded, Jiang Zhan picked him up and walked to the bedroom, Ji Qiuhan closed his eyes, how lucky he is,

Can meet Jiang Zhan.