Riceless cooking

[like a fish]

Zhou had a dream.

In the dream, both Zhou Yunzhi and Xu Wanqing were still there, the restaurant was dimly lit and warm, and they were sitting across the table, with the aroma of food steaming between them.

The younger brother was also sitting opposite, talking to Bailixuan next to him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

This is a picture of a family relationship that couldn't be more warm. He almost dared not breathe, but he didn't understand why he was so trembling. He could only hold his chopsticks tightly, and awkwardly used the two thin and smooth tableware to pick up vegetables. He couldn't pick them up for a long time. .

"You're stupid." A gentle reproach came from his ear, and then someone reached out to help him pick up some vegetables. He turned his head and couldn't see the other person's face clearly.

That should be his wife, yes, he is 27 years old, he should have a wife.

He turned his head, a pot of boiling soup on the table was gurgling softly, cups and plates were clinking, Xu Wanqing babbled about the afternoon news, Zhou Yunzhi concluded: "That kind of thing is just to deceive you ignorant women and children." Then he was knocked down. head.

Zhou Li picked up the bowl, and while eating, he raised his eyes and peeked at the family members opposite.

Everyone went to sleep at night, Zhou stood in the living room, the glass door leading to the garden outside the house was open, the evening breeze came in, and the curtains were raised.

Do you have a garden at home?

He thought suspiciously, and felt that this house looked familiar, but he shouldn't live here.He walked over to close the door.

The garden was shrouded in a hazy moonlight, and the white roses swayed gently. Zhou Wang stood there and turned around slowly.

For some reason, Zhou Liao seemed to be strangled by something, and the premonition of danger prevented him from taking a step.

Zhou Wang turned around slowly, showing him a light and ambiguous smile.

"Brother, you are here."

This is a big and complete family. The parents are healthy and healthy, and the two brothers are respectful. They are all married and happy in marriage.

But what is this secret meeting hidden in the night?

"Well, it's late." Zhou Liao heard himself answering this, and then walked towards his younger brother. He stretched out his arm and put it on his shoulder. The young man smiled and wrapped his arms around his waist.

What should follow is a kiss, but Zhou Yao feels himself trembling.

A huge sense of guilt and immorality haunted him, and he finally woke up.

Zhou Yue panted on the pillow for a while, then propped up his body, looked at Zhou Wang who was sleeping next to him with his arms around his waist, then got up and got out of bed, put on his coat, and wanted to get a glass of water in the living room .

Last night, he and his younger brother tossed from the living room to the bedroom, all the way messy, he had to bend down to clean up, when he saw the bag Zhou Wang left at the door last night, he remembered that there was a laptop in it, and worried that Zhou Wang was not serious. The action of throwing the ground broke things, so I squatted over to check.

He opened the bag, pulled out the laptop from the interlayer, and accidentally brought out a few sheets of printing paper.

He didn't pay much attention, but still caught a few keywords.

"X City Public Security Bureau", "Investigation Records", and "Duan Yiyuan".

There were still a lot of documents in the bag, and Zhou Yi took them out to look through them. What caught his attention the most was the letterhead with the full name of the X City Public Security Bureau printed on it. It was a photocopy, and there were handwritten records on it. In the entire investigation record of Zhou Wang’s case, there were two underlined places.

[Although there is no criminal record in the suspect’s file, but evidence has been provided, there is indeed a detention record on XX, XX, and he was involved in a personal injury case, but he was released due to insufficient evidence]

[Received a report from an anonymous person that Tao Ran was related to this matter. After investigation, she was indeed involved, so she monitored her mobile phone]

The first place mentions that Zhou Wang has a record of being detained. The date is exactly the date when he and Ruan Yuan beat up the fake agent and entered the bureau. At that time, he rushed to X City, followed by Duan Yiyuan and Jiang Mo.Thinking back to Zhou Yao, the matter was left unsolved at the time because of my younger brother's attention. The Public Security Bureau also said that there would be no criminal records. They were relieved a long time ago, but they did not expect that it would be brought up again in subsequent cases. Zhou Wang was given the title of "not a first-time offender".

The people who knew about it at that time should be the young people in the band, my brother and myself, as well as Duan Yiyuan and Jiang Mo who followed.

After a week, my mind became tense, and I comforted myself.The school also knew about that incident. At that time, the police went to the school to find Zhou Wang's teachers and classmates to investigate their alibi, so it is also possible that someone still remembered this incident. Maybe my younger brother offended a certain classmate and they looked for opportunities to add insult to injury.

Although he himself felt that it didn't make sense.

As for the report that Tao Tao had a phone call with Zhou Wang, Tao Tao was monitored on the phone, and Zhou Wang was further arrested, so that he was ignored in the first trial and his original intention of surrendering himself was ignored.He wondered who would do that.And Zhou Wang seemed to be concerned about the anonymous whistleblower, and repainted those words with a pen.

Zhou Liao couldn't figure it out, but it seemed that his younger brother already had a clear object of suspicion.

He picked up another stack of documents, all about Duan Yiyuan's information, even including some bits and pieces that looked like tracking records.

Zhou Lio squatted there, his temples throbbed for a while, and he felt a little nauseous.

"what are you doing?"

He heard the voice, raised his head, and saw his woke brother standing by the bedroom door, frowning at him.

Zhou Liao stood up, still holding the stack of documents in his hand.

"Have you read it?" Zhou Wang came over, squatted down and picked up the scattered papers on the ground, looked up at his brother who was still in a daze, and gently pulled out the remaining documents from the other party's hand.

"What are these things?"

Zhou Yao finally asked. He looked at his younger brother's whirling, and urgently needed confirmation because of his own associations, but he was also worried about being told the fact that there was no chance.

"It's nothing." Zhou Wang said, stuffing the paper back into the bag casually, "Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and tugged at his brother's trouser leg, raised his head and smiled.

Zhou Yao was even more disturbed: "What's going on? Are you still going to hide it from me?"

"No."

"You...why do you want to go back and investigate that case back then?"

Zhou Wang's expression finally cooled down, he stood up: "Do you really want to know?"

"..." He seemed to hesitate, and then nodded after a moment.

Zhou Wang looked directly into his eyes, and said slowly: "I was too young at that time, and my mind went blank when I got into trouble, and I only knew how to run. If I stayed at that time to take responsibility, maybe the matter would not have developed to the end. That... got me to where I am today."

He stretched out his hand to caress his elder brother's shoulder, and shook it firmly as if reluctant to give up: "I ran away at the time, Ruan Yuan and the others entered the detention center, and only Tao Tao helped outside. She only went to the hospital to see Li Yuan once, and then She was kicked out by the other party's parents because she couldn't afford any money other than carrying two bags of fruit, and in the eyes of Li Yuan's parents, getting compensation is more important than anything else."

"When I was waiting for the second trial, I kept thinking about three things. The first thing, why didn't Li Yuan's parents, who valued compensation so much, didn't appear in court? They didn't want the plaintiff who personally participated in the case, and gave up the right to sue The procuratorate, that's all, why didn't you even come to watch the court? Anyway, my son is dead, don't they plan to look at me as an enemy?" He looked at Zhou with fear in his eyes, paused and continued: "The second thing is that my past crimes have been uncovered. Since the police have monitored Tao Tao's cell phone, they should be able to tell that I returned to City X to surrender, but why did I still plead guilty in court? The absconding should be dealt with more severely? Is there any connection between the unfavorable factors before and after? The third thing, and the most important thing, is that you did not come during the first trial. As my defense lawyer, Duan Yiyuan defended me in court, but that was my first trial. See him once."

"As his client, why didn't I see him after I went to court? Before that, he didn't even come to ask about the situation on the day of the incident and my intention to surrender afterwards. Everything he stated in court The materials are all from my confession at the Public Security Bureau, anyway, with this attitude, even the case materials are second-hand, is he really the best lawyer in D Province?"

"Before the first trial, I was like a frightened coward with nothing in my mind. It wasn't until I heard that I was sentenced to death that I realized why my life was so easy? I killed someone , I didn’t even see how the other party closed his eyes. I was taken to the court in a daze, and the only person who spoke for me was Duan Yiyuan. Does he want me to die?"

Zhou Liao grabbed his brother's arm, Zhou Wang's words seemed to evoke the palpitations caused by the catastrophe back then.

"Even after such a long time, I still can't let it go. If there is another hidden story in the whole thing, then what will I lose because of it? Lose you? This is probably the result Duan Yiyuan wants to see the most."

"So, brother, as you can see, I have to doubt Duan Yiyuan, and after I returned to China, I found out more things. It's still early for the final conclusion, but it won't be too long."

Zhou Liao looked at his younger brother with hatred eyes, and remembered that when he was 12 years old, he was beaten so badly by Zhou Hanzhi that he said to himself that there would be no proof if he fought back.He used to feel that such a small look was strange, but in the difficult days that followed, he gradually became familiar with his younger brother's character of vengeance.

He had heard Zhou Wang's pressing statement earlier, his throat was dry, and slowly, he began to feel the hatred from the bottom of his heart.

He felt that he was going to lose control. After all, he and Xiao Wang were brothers, and they bled the same blood. At this time, the blood was churning with anger, just like when he saw Zhou Hanzhi beat Zhou Wang back then, he wished he could rush up and beat him up. die.

But Zhou Yao restrained himself in time. The difference between him and Zhou Wang was his forbearance and restraint.

"You can't be so impulsive." Zhou Liao said in a low voice, feeling that he couldn't be messed up, let alone whether this suspicion is true, if it is true, then it seems that what a terrible person Duan Yiyuan is is beyond the scope of what he can handle , that person was targeting Xiao Wang, so there can be no more mistakes.

"Impulse? So do you think it's impulsive?" Zhou Wang looked at him in disbelief, and then his voice dropped: "Enough, that Duan is a great benefactor who helped us in your eyes, even if he wants to Come to you, he is also a great benefactor!" He pushed his brother away, picked up the bag on the ground and opened the door.

Zhou Yao was so provoked by him that he could only resist grabbing the other's arm: "Xiao Wang! That's not what I meant!"

Zhou Wang stopped. Seeing half of his side face with his back turned to him, Zhou Liao seemed to grit his teeth: "When I woke up, I found that you were not there. I thought you had left again."

I can't speak for weeks.

"I want to find out all of this, and I want you to feel sorry for me, like when I was a child, if I was bullied by others, you would stand by my side, whether I needed it or not." Zhou Wang paused: "I'm not impulsive. , calm down, will you come back?"

Zhou Yi didn't know what to say for a while, so he opened his mouth: "Xiao Wang, I..."

"It's ridiculous that I've been abandoned by you once, do you still expect you to pick me up now?" Zhou Wang finally looked back at him: "It's Zhou, I regret it."

Zhou Li still held him with his hand, a little dazed: "What do you regret?"

"I regret falling in love with you."