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?The last person is Zhao Longwen, Yang Shide's junior in college.

Wen Nan missed nothing this time, Zhao Longwen still lives in City A, but he is away on a business trip, so he is not at home, and he does not know when he will come back.

"Then there is no other way, we can only go again after a while." Yang Mingrui was a little disappointed: "But they didn't ask anything from the two before, did they? Maybe they got nothing this time."

"How can we say that we found nothing?" Wen Nan said, "Even if none of these three people is the murderer, we can at least draw a conclusion that the murderer is other than these three people. What we are doing now is definitely not in vain."

"Yes." Yang Mingrui smiled: "Obviously this is my own business, but you are more motivated than me. Thanks to you, otherwise I would not have come to this point. Maybe it is only one step away from the truth. I must persevere."

In the past ten years, he must have motivated himself in the same way. When he was helpless and desperate, when he was about to give up after repeated setbacks, what supported him to go so far?Wen Nan didn't know, but he thought, this must have become a belief in Yang Mingrui's heart.

So... No matter how cruel the truth is, he will continue.

【fifteen】

Wennan disappeared.

He retired from the rental house, quit his job, lost his phone call, and just disappeared.

Yang Mingrui didn't have any more clues. After several days passed, he couldn't find Wen Nan, let alone understand why Wen Nan disappeared.There was no sign of it.

People in Wennan's company said that he left in a hurry, and after handing in his resignation letter, he didn't even pack up his office stuff.The end of the year is a busy time, and Wen Nan's move also made the company very dissatisfied.

"It's all miscellaneous things, nothing important. Since you are friends with him, you can help take them back." Yang Mingrui nodded in agreement, and the colleague then handed him a cardboard box and motioned him to pack the items on the desk.

It was at this moment that Yang Mingrui found the business card.

Attending Physician Xu Chunping, Department of Psychiatry, Hongxingqiao Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, A City.

Yang Mingrui held the thin card, and his heart beat suddenly.

This is the last resort.

After returning home at night, Yang Mingrui immediately dialed the phone number on his business card.

The person who answered the phone was a middle-aged man who was indeed a psychiatrist.Yang Mingrui explained his intentions, but he was rejected as expected. Dr. Junping said, "I'm sorry, I can't disclose the patient's information at will."

Sure enough, Wen Nan went to him to see a doctor, Yang Mingrui thought.

"But Wen Nan is gone now." Yang Mingrui tried hard to fight for it: "I searched everywhere, but there is no news, please ask the doctor, this is the last clue."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and finally Dr. Junpei finally said, "Come over at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and I will tell you everything I know."

Yang Mingrui didn't know what was waiting for him tomorrow, he had come to this point, he had no choice but to keep going.

The next afternoon, Yang Mingrui arrived at Hongxingqiao Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine as scheduled. The psychiatric clinic is at the end of the third floor of the outpatient building.The door of the consulting room was ajar, Yang Mingrui opened the door and walked in. Doctor Junping in a white coat was waiting by the window.

"The next patient appointment is at three o'clock," said Dr. Junpei.

One hour is enough, Yang Mingrui thought.

They sat down face to face, Dr. Chunping did not wait for Yang Mingrui to speak, and said firstly: "Wen Nan saw me for the first time on December 2014, 12. After that, he came again twice, on January 15, 2015. May 1th and 5th."

"Number 18?" Yang Mingrui exclaimed, "That's two days before he disappeared."

Dr. Junpei nodded: "That's why I'm willing to tell you this. I'm afraid this is an important clue to find him."

"Wen Nan...why did he come to see a doctor?"

"He has a mental illness." Now that he has decided to tell the whole story, Dr. Junping no longer hesitates, and said in one breath: "This matter is also closely related to you." He told Wen Nan's long-standing heart disease.

For a moment, Yang Mingrui couldn't say a word.

After a while, he murmured: "These things...he never mentioned it in front of me." He recalled Wen Nan's encouragement to him countless times when he was desperate to find the truth.But he never noticed the entanglement in Wen Nan's heart.

"I also relieved him and asked him to simply confess to you." Dr. Junpei sighed: "At that time he was very sad to hear that." Once a lie is uttered, it is difficult to turn it back.Moreover, this is not a sin that can be eliminated by speaking.

"I have recorded Wen Nan's review of the incident in detail here, do you want to read it?" Dr. Chunping took out a document printed on A4 paper and put it in front of Yang Mingrui.

Yang Mingrui gritted his teeth and said, "I will watch it. But now I want to find Wen Nan's whereabouts as soon as possible."

Dr. Chunping nodded: "Wen Nan told me about the progress of your investigation on that incident back then. He told me on the 18th that only Zhao Longwen, your father's student in college, is left. Think, could he have gone to see Zhao Longwen?"

"However, Zhao Longwen is in City A. If he comes back from a business trip, will it take several days to see him?"

"Perhaps with Zhao Longwen, Wen Nan found out a certain fact, and this fact is something he doesn't want you to know."

Yang Mingrui understood what Dr. Chunping meant, and he decided to find out where Zhao Longwen was when he went back.If Zhao Longwen had indeed returned to City A, he would go to see him immediately. ?

☆, ending

?【ending】

The last time Yang Mingrui contacted me was after the New Year, on March 2015, 3.Since then, I have never heard any news about Winnan from anyone.I don't know where he went, and I don't know if Yang Mingrui found him in the end.

Yang Mingrui went to see Zhao Longwen, and learned from it that Wen Nan really met Zhao Longwen.

Yang Mingrui organized the information he got from Zhao Longwen into a document and sent it to my mailbox.From the document, I know the time when Wen Nan and Zhao Longwen met, and it was indeed the day before Wen Nan disappeared for no reason.

Nine times out of ten the previous speculation was correct.

The conversation between Wen Nan and Zhao Longwen was very simple. Zhao Longwen admitted that he had visited Yang's house on the afternoon of the incident ten years ago, but he said that he did not enter the door because he heard Yang Mingrui's parents quarreling outside the house. , he didn't want to wade into the muddy water, so he went back the same way.

Zhao Longwen learned of the death of Yang Mingrui's parents the next day.But he concealed what he heard that afternoon, because he was at the critical moment of promotion at that time, and he didn't want to get involved with the criminal case.

Regardless of how absurd the reason is, this is a very important clue, and it is the closest moment to the truth that Yang Mingrui and Wen Nan have searched for so far.

Who was the murderer who killed Yang Mingrui's parents?In the past, I always thought it was a homicide, but what Zhao Longwen said shook my mind.On the afternoon of the incident, they had a quarrel. Could they kill each other to death?

It's not just me, anyone who hears Zhao Longwen's words will have such doubts, right?Yang Mingrui is, and so is Wen Nan.

But Wen Nan disappeared with this important message.

why?

Was he unwilling to let Yang Mingrui know the news?On the afternoon when the crime happened, Wen Nan was a door away from the scene. Could he also hear the quarrel between the two?Not only did he see the blood and didn't call an ambulance, he actually heard the quarrel between the two when they were alive?

If this is the truth that has been pursued all along, wouldn't it be too cruel?

Wen Nan didn't want Yang Mingrui to endure such cruelty, so he disappeared?

No no no no.

not like this.

This conjecture cannot explain all the mysteries ahead, and this must not be the reason why Wen Nan chose to disappear.

After the New Year, a new round of busy work ushered in, which made me temporarily unable to take care of this matter.

Half a year passed in a flash.

At the beginning of August, I finally freed up time and began to sort out various testimonies related to this matter.I went to the place where the crime happened and collected as much information as possible. I also met Liang Chuan and asked him about his memory of this incident.

It is roughly the same as what Wennan said.

I just added some information that I don't know, such as the secret room at the scene of the crime, and it is not a complete secret room. The doors and windows are well locked, but there is a small hole above the window.The hole is so small that it is difficult to insert a finger.

For this reason, the detectives ignored it.

When I asked Liang Chuan what they were popular with, Liang Chuan replied——

It's a spinning top.

In September, I began to gradually understand the truth of the matter, and also smoothed out the omissions that appeared intentionally or unintentionally in the previous testimonies.

On October 10, I finally pieced together all the facts.

Here, I will record it one by one.

The death of Yang Mingrui's parents was a homicide, and the murderer was a third party who visited in the afternoon of the incident.Yang Mingrui's parents liked the murderer very much, and often entertained the murderer at home.Therefore, Yang's father and Yang's mother were so happy after learning of the murderer's arrival. Yang's mother sent away the "salesman" Chen Guang and prepared refreshments to entertain the guests.

But on the way, the couple had an argument for some unknown reason, and the quarrel was heard by Zhao Longwen who came outside the door. Zhao Longwen was afraid of getting into trouble, so he left quietly.

So he didn't see the bloody scene later.

This quarrel became an opportunity for the murderer to attack. The four legs of the bookcase in the bedroom of Yang’s father and Yang’s mother were not stable. They put a stone on one of the feet. The bookcase was placed next to the window, opposite to the door. with.When I heard the news from Yang Mingrui, I realized it.

The murderer tied the rope for walking the spinning top to the stone, and the rope passed through the hole in the window. Then the murderer stood behind the window outside the house and pulled the rope. The stone fell off, and the bookcase lost its balance and fell, pressing on Yang’s father and Yang’s mother. led to their deaths.

There was no secret room in the beginning.

Because as early as the beginning of the quarrel between Yang's father and Yang's mother, the murderer pretended to be scared and proposed to leave. They closed the door by themselves. The murderer stood behind the window and carried out this trick. Zhao Longwen who came by chance also saw not see.

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The murderer was Wen Nan, who was only 13 years old at the time.

When Wen Nan came to see me for the first time, I found many contradictions in his self-report.

He said that he and Yang Mingrui had a bad relationship at that time, so when Yang Mingrui appeared, he didn't want to hang out with his friends anymore.But he had a bad relationship with Yang Mingrui, but when he noticed something strange about the Yang family, he immediately recognized that it was Yang Mingrui's parents' bedroom.

It's not surprising that a child who lives in the same place knows the other's home, but since he hasn't had much contact with Yang Mingrui, he probably hasn't been to Yang Mingrui's home either, so how could he even know who lives in this room?

When I saw Liang Chuan, I immediately asked him about the relationship between Wen Nan and Yang Mingrui. Liang Chuan really said that they had the best time.

Later, I found out that Wen Nan would evade the important and briefly mention the incident in some places, but he explained in detail where the body was found, indicating that it was indeed his real memory.

I didn't think at that time that this was indeed part of his memory, a memory after he concealed his murder.After he committed the crime, he walked around from the window to the door and looked at the blood oozing from the crack of the door. Father Yang and mother Yang were still alive, but he didn't move at all.

Because he really wanted them dead.

I don't know what prompted him to commit such a crime. At the beginning, he should have a very good relationship with Yang Mingrui, so Yang Mingrui was so happy after recognizing him later.He often went to Yang's house to play, and knew everything about Yang's family very well. Father Yang and mother Yang were also very kind to him. What went wrong that afternoon?

The murder was improvised, that's why he used the rope he used to walk the spinning top while playing.

When Wen Nan told me about the events of that year, he never mentioned them, including the unstable bookcase and the broken window. He concealed them all, because he knew that these were clues that might expose him.

Later, when he grew up, he met Yang Mingrui again and helped him investigate the truth of that incident back then. I don't know what Wen Nan was thinking, but he still wanted to hide it.

Whether this move is due to the inertia of so many years, or because I don't want to disrupt my current stable life, I don't know.But I think, after so many years, he regretted it very much.

Because of him, Yang Mingrui has lived a life of ups and downs for so many years, even if Wen Nan saves money and sends him money every month, nothing will change.

When I persuaded him to tell the truth, Wen Nan felt very sad.Because the truth is far more cruel than what I thought at the time.

When Yang Mingrui sorted out the three suspects, Wen Nan took the initiative to investigate. He worked very hard. He was afraid that some of the three people would really come to Yang's house and see the crime he committed, right?

His investigation of the three people was also to determine whether they were at the scene at the time.

He worked very hard, maybe he had a premonition at that time, and the truth was about to be revealed.

Therefore, when he found that Zhao Longwen was holding an important clue, he immediately panicked.

Yang Mingrui is very smart. As long as he has this clue, he will be able to find out the truth. Then, what will he do?Wen Nan didn't know, because he didn't know, so he ran away.

I'm just a doctor. If Yang Mingrui asks me, I can tell him everything I know, including my speculation about it, but I won't take the initiative to tell him about it.

It has been almost a year since he last contacted me.I don't know if Yang Mingrui is still looking for Wen Nan's whereabouts, the truth about the murder of his parents, does he know?

It's just that he didn't ask me to return Wen Nan's review materials about the incident, and I think I already know the answer.