Banquet

According to what Zhao Changan and Ming Che described, the police and the Central Procuratorate found the bodies of children who had been missing for many days. Apart from these, there was also the skeleton of an adult woman after forensic identification.

Like the previous corpses, the fatal wounds of this female corpse were all caused by sharp axes, and the tools were also found at the excavation site.

The woman's body was later confirmed to be Liu Man, a neighbor of Chang'an.

The two suspects in this case are Zhao Chang'an and Ming Che.

The former is under the age of fourteen and is completely incapable of criminal conduct, does not constitute a crime, and does not bear criminal responsibility.

The latter suffers from moderate depression and is a person with limited capacity for criminal conduct, and may be given a lighter or mitigated punishment when determining a sentence.

Zhao Changan once said that he killed those children, but after forensic examination, the hair and fingerprints at the scene all came from Mingche and had nothing to do with Zhao Changan, so Zhao Changan was acquitted and released.

As for Mingche, since he was affected by paranoia when he killed the victim, he was given a lighter punishment.

Shen Yu participated in the characterization of the case, sorting out the evidence, the conclusion report, the court appearance plan, etc., and finally revised the written public prosecution opinion more than a dozen times, and the whole team won the second-class honor.

The court intends to promote him as a prosecutor, but considering that he is still a college student, a more specific promotion decision will be announced after he has obtained a bachelor's degree and officially graduated.

After the trial, Shen Yu drove Zhao Changan home.

Ming Guoqiang went to prison, Ming Che served his sentence, and Zhao Changan returned to Beijing with the old man who took care of her.

Zhao Chang'an's father can also be regarded as Zhao Su, that is, a side branch of Gu Yan's grandfather's family, so he has some background in the capital because of his relatives.

The girl who returned home gradually recovered her original personality, no longer as cold and mean as in the village.

After the trial, she asked Shen Yu to take her home.

Shen Yu just took the driver's license test, but didn't buy a car.

The understanding little girl suggested that the two of them go for a walk.

"By the way, Zhao Hu asked me to give you this."

Go halfway to Shenyu Road.

He took out half a white rabbit toffee from his arms, bent down and handed it to Zhao Changan.

Zhao Changan looked at the milky white toffee on Shen Yu's palm, and suddenly froze.

She didn't take this piece of candy at first, because she was instinctively worried that Gu Yan and Shen Yu were also members of Ming Guoqiang, and even this piece of candy was a trap.

But those two talked and laughed at Yan Yan, although Shen Yu looked cold and would stare at Gu Yan from time to time, but they were always smiling.

That kind of gentle smile, the familiar way of getting along, seems to be like this with friends who have been friends for many years, or it is a deeper level, like her and Mingche.

"He knows your name, let me share this piece of candy with you, you and him are half."

Seeing that she didn't take it for a long time, Shen Yu knelt down and said patiently.

Zhao Changan froze in place, and asked softly, "How could he know my name?"

When Ah Che was unconscious, he would never call her name.

It is also quiet when awake, only shouting once.

Her heart tightened suddenly, that time was when Ah Che knocked Zhao Hu unconscious with a stone and wanted to kill him.

That day, she stopped Ah Che and talked to him for a long time.

During this period, Ah Che called her name, but Zhao Hu fell asleep with his eyes closed.

She moved her lips, and her eyes were wet.

If he had woken up a long time ago, how would he have listened to everything, heard her lie, and lied in front of Shen Yu and others.

He knew we were going to kill him.

But he gave himself half a candy.

And Aunt Zhao came to the court today to ask the judge to commute Ah Che's sentence despite the long journey.

In the gloomy and mottled misery that you don't want to look back, there is a dark night where you can't see the light all the year round, and there is boundless despair all the year round.

But because of those one or two people, there is a meaning worth looking back on.

Zhao Changan squeezed the candy in his hand, blinked his eyes to hold back his tears.

She looked at Shen Yu with a gentle face, and said with a smile: "What's the point of eating separately, I will eat with him when I go back next time."

She leaned closer to Shen Yu's ear narrowly and said: "Scribe, next time I go back, will you send me off with your good friend?"

Shen Yu said seriously: "He is not my good friend."

Then he was startled, he seemed to think of Gu Yan's face that suddenly sank after Ming Guoqiang was arrested that day.

Gu Yan dragged him to a faucet, turned on the faucet and stretched out his hand to pour water.

In late autumn, when the mountain spring was icy cold, Shen Yu felt numb at first, and soon the back of his hand felt comfortable.

He followed Gu Yan's gloomy eyes, and it turned out that Aunt Zhao had dropped the teacup when she knelt down just now, splashing the back of her hand.

Shen Yu defended in a low voice: "I just wanted to rush."

"But then someone hugged her leg."

"Later, you sternly stopped everyone."

"Later Lin Huan called."

"Later Ming Guoqiang broke into the detention building."

"And then he shot."

"Later you got an extra pig's trotter." Gu Yan blocked his solitaire coldly.

"Hold your pig's trotters, and rush here for 5 minutes." Gu Yan put down his hand, and after walking a few steps, he took off his watch and threw it into his other hand.

"Count the time, if you lose one second, we will have roasted pig's trotters with sauce tonight."

Shen Yu looked at the watch expressionlessly, and quietly counted the time.

In less than 5 minutes, Gu Yan came over with a box.

The box is densely packed with needles.

Shen Yu immediately stretched out the hand that was about to be retracted back into the water, and reminded: "I've been rushing, don't do it."

Without even looking at him, Gu Yan took out a needle and put it under the lighter.

Then he took Shen Yu's hand, and said coldly: "The soy sauce is free, do you want the iced one?"

Shen Yu immediately struggled to take it back.

Gu Yan suddenly yelled: "Don't move."

He realized that he was suppressing this ancestor again, and immediately slowed down his tone: "If you move me again, it's like how Rong Rong is tying Ziwei."

Shen Yu smiled "puchi", but put his hand safely and securely, and it really didn't move.

Gu Yan held a thin silver needle in his rough hand, and was carefully picking out the blisters on the back of his hand due to burns.

His eyes were focused and soft, and even the sunlight became gentle.

Zhao Changan presumably saw this scene, so he asked a question.

Back to the moment, Shen Yu is considering the relationship between himself and Gu Yan, unexpectedly this kind of silence has a different meaning in the eyes of the little girl.

Zhao Changan said: "Not a good friend, could it be a boyfriend."

Zhao Changan walked backwards, and whispered to the figure under the street lamp not far away, "Otherwise, who would be waiting for you here?"

The person waiting was naturally Gu Yan.

How long has he been waiting?

Shen Yu lost his mind for a moment.

Wearing a military uniform, Gu Yan was tall and mighty.

He probably just got off work, and he looked a little tired.

Shen Yu bent down, leaned into Zhao Changan's ear and asked softly, "Did you kill Liu Man?"

Zhao Changan was taken aback for a moment, then asked slyly: "I don't know, what did the judge say?"

Shen Yu didn't speak, and turned to talk about another matter with her.

"Zhao Hu once said that you wanted to take Zhang Jun and others to see the blue turtle. Is there really a blue turtle?" Shen Yu said in a relaxed tone.

Zhao Changan looked into his transparent eyes and didn't speak.

"Really, it's you." Shen Yu said gently.

"Mingche fell ill again that day. You knew that he was going to attack your classmates, but you wanted to save them, so you lied to them, saying that you would take them to see the blue turtle to avoid Mingche, but something happened later and you failed. .”

Zhao Changan avoided his gaze, and said softly: "I was behind them, and kept comforting Ah Che. But they spoke ill of me again, which stimulated Ah Che to go crazy, and I couldn't stop him in the end."

"How do I judge right from wrong? Am I wrong, is Ah Che wrong?"

Shen Yu lowered his head, his slender figure was illuminated by the street lamp, his face was delicate and indifferent, especially when he spoke seriously.

That is water dripping through the stone, gentle and tough.

"No one can put themselves in their shoes and judge others' right and wrong. Follow your heart, it will be a scale to measure the cycle of heaven, right and wrong."

Zhao Changan tilted his head and asked playfully, "Do you believe in the reincarnation of heaven and right and wrong? Then why did Ming Guoqiang get away with it until today, and why did my father die under a tall building in vain all his life?"

She paused on the spot, with a sneering look on her face: "Why are good people so pitiful, and there are so many bad people?"

Shen Yu squatted down to be at the same height as her. Since they met, Shen Yu has maintained this height until today.

This is a height that is equal to each other.

This means that he does not use any age, identity, power, or status to be superior to others.

"Everyone is late, including you and me."

"Justice and justice, too."

"They may come late, but they won't never come."

Zhao Changan looked at him quietly, and said, "It's like you guys are finally here?"

"It's not just me, many people are working hard."

He seemed to be talking to a girl, but also to himself.

Zhao Changan sighed, and said old-fashionedly: "If I hadn't met Ah Che first, I would have taken you home."

Shen Yu scratched her nose with a helpless expression.

The driver who picked up Zhao Changan came over, and Zhao Changan waved to her with a smile: "Go find your boyfriend, don't send me off."

The car then disappeared from view.

Gu Yan walked towards him and said slowly——

"Ming Guoqiang is dead."