winter past

With the flashlight in her mouth, Xiaoman gently opened a file drawer in Chen Wan'er's office.A row of labels labeled "Split Personality" popped up.Each file bag is written with the patient's name, symptoms and filing time.He dug out all the file bags and looked at them, and then opened a side drawer, where the files of patients with "split personality" were still stored.It was pitch black outside, and the tulle curtains could hardly conceal the richness and thickness of the sky.There is no moonlight this night.

In this drawer, Xiao Man quickly found a portfolio with the name "Fu Weiqiang" written on it.It's just that the illness marked on this bag is "autism", and the remarks are: a consultation recording tape is attached, but a note paper is pasted on this bag, which reads: "Renamed, Cao Lv, split personality, 2018, merged file".Fu Weiqiang's "autism" file was created in 98.Xiaoman pulled out all the materials in the bag, took out his mobile phone to take pictures one by one, then he put the bag back to its original position, dug in the deep part of the drawer, and muttered, "Where's the tape?"

He opened all the drawers of the "split personality" files and searched several times, only to find a few sporadic boxes of tapes marked with the names of other patients.Xiao Man then closed the drawer, touched Chen Wan'er's computer desk, and after confirming that the speakers were off, turned on the computer, and the prompt box that needed to enter the password popped up again.He rubbed his hands and tried to type: fei0813!

"wrong password."

He tried: fei0813#

It worked!Xiaoman took out the USB flash drive in his pocket, searched for Fu Weiqiang's name in the computer, and found two folders in total, one was under the item "autistic patients", and the name of the folder was "Fu Weiqiang". Weiqiang”, which contains some text materials and pictures similar to children’s drawings, and another folder related to Fu Weiqiang is named “Cao Lv (Fu Weiqiang)”, which is located under the item of “Split Personality Disorder Patients”. The properties of the folder show that it was created on January 2018, 1. There are also some text materials, some paintings-like pictures and some audio recorded this year.

Xiaoman copied all the contents of these two folders, turned off the computer, turned off the flashlight, slipped out of Chen Wan'er's office, went out through the window of the men's toilet on this floor, climbed to the first floor, and walked along the bamboo forest path to In front of a small abandoned courtyard with iron gates, Hong Feng was dug out from the courtyard.

He walked down the road for a while with his head down, glanced to the opposite side, saw a jeep parked on the side of the road, ran over quickly, knocked on the door, the door was unlocked, and he got into the car.Yin Miaozai was sitting in the driver's seat, looked at him and asked, "Is the password an exclamation mark or a pound sign?"

Xiao Man said, "Let's go!"

Yin Miaozai started the car, he sat still, and said, "It's a hashtag."

Yin Miaozai raised his right hand and pressed it in the air, sighing to himself: "Ah, yes, yes, that position is indeed..."

Xiaoman said: "The tapes recording Fu Weiqiang's medical visits when he was a child may have been confiscated by the police." He took out the USB flash drive, "Copy all the materials related to Fu Weiqiang in the computer, and put them in the file bag. I also took photos of all the paper records." He thanked, "Thank you for knowing Dr. Chen's password."

Yin Miaozai asked: "Do you know what this means?"

"what?"

"Women chatting with women, whether I am a patient or the other party is a psychiatrist, we are all listening to each other carefully, women chatting with men, men just talk blindly!"

Xiaoman laughed heartily, and Yin Miaozai had reason and evidence: "Think about it, you have known her for ten years, and you don't even know her daughter's birthday!" She added, "Then I will ask Zhao You to find out if the special case team received her Take the tape."

Xiaoman nodded and asked her, "Did Zhao You reply to your message?"

Yin Miaozai shook his head, Xiaoman said, "I'm sorry, it may not be convenient for me to contact him recently."

Yin Miaozai still shook her head, and said: "The old Xing is back to me, the rules will be at the hotel soon, Xiao Jing..." She sighed: "I will send another message to Xiao Jing and Zhao You when we arrive."

"It's fine if Xiao Jing doesn't reply, he may need some time to digest what happened recently."

Yin Miaozai looked gloomy: "I don't know before Lao Xing..."

Xiao Man stroked his right wrist, lowered his eyes, also worried: "I don't know..."

"Maybe that's why he's so obsessed with this case." Yin Miaozai smiled and patted the steering wheel, "We are all the same, who knows what? In your opinion, am I just Is it a boring woman who has money and leisure and has nothing to do, and likes to investigate cases and find excitement?"

Xiaoman asked her: "If you don't want to be a teacher, what do you want to do?"

"You ask me about my dream? Now or when I was a child?"

"When you were young?"

"Astronaut!" Yin Miaozai pointed to the street lamp on the street, leaned over and looked out, "When I was young, when I was walking on the road at night, I saw a street lamp, it was so round and big, so I called it Said, Mom, Mom, the moon is so close to me! My mother said, it’s not the moon, it’s a street lamp. It turned out that the lamppost was blocked by tree branches. I thought the moon was hanging on the treetops. My mother said, she said, you In the future, give birth to a child and train him well, let him become an astronaut, being an astronaut is very hard, very tiring, and you can’t bear it.”

Xiao Man smiled, and looked at the street lamps on the street. The street lamps were indeed very yellow, but they were not big. There were no children on the road, only a passerby who stumbled like a drunk. Get up and sleep soundly.

Xiao Man asked, "What about now?"

Yin Miaozai said: "Being a detective, or opening a bakery, ordering buns, anyway, selling breakfast, don't you feel happy to smell the smell of breakfast?"

"happiness?"

"It's called Xingfu Baozipu. How about Xingfu Bakery?"

"It's a thousand miles away from being a detective, isn't it?"

"You can eavesdrop on neighbors' gossip." Yin Miaozai said, "Isn't investigating a case just collecting information? You can see that Zhao You is so efficient in handling cases, that's because he is like a satellite receiving signals all day long..." Said At this point, Yin Miaozai put his hands on his head and made a turning movement, "I listen to this and that all day long, buzzing buzzing."

"Teletubbies?"

Yin Miaozai shook her shoulders, stuck out her tongue, opened her mobile phone, clicked it a few times and threw it to Xiaoman. Xiaoman picked up her mobile phone and took a look. It was the WeChat chat interface between her and Zhao You. The background picture is a purple teletubbies.Xiaoman laughed.Yin Miaozai made a silent gesture to him, and smiled slyly: "Keep it a secret, if we two have any secrets, and he senses it, it will kill him in a hurry."

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

When the car arrived at the Green Chain Hotel on Wuyuan Road, Yin Miaozai parked the car in the underground garage and took the computer bag from the back row. Xiao Man saw Xing Tianxiang get off a small car.He just parked the car, and the three of them nodded to each other, entered the elevator together, and went to the sixteenth floor together.

There were only the three of them in the elevator right now, Xiao Man said, "Boss Wang, who runs a grocery store in Huangguozi Village, is also there."

"Wang Da?" Xing Tianxiang said, "Why is he with you?"

"I went to the place where Cao Lv lives in the afternoon to find Cao Lv." Xiaoman looked at Xing Tianxiang, "It's that Fu Weiqiang, he changed his name."

"I know, my colleagues at the newspaper told me about it, and other media outlets also reported it."

Yin Miaozai took out his mobile phone and swiped, watching: "So fast? Really, Weibo has spread, and the mummy killer has become a big hit! This announcement is just out..."

"Then, instead of Cao Lu, did you find Wang Da? What is he doing at Cao Lu's house?"

Xiao Man said: "He suspected that Cao Lv was going to kill him, saying that he came to seek revenge on himself."

"revenge?"

When they reached the fourth floor, the elevator stopped and a stranger came in. Both Xiaoman and Xing Tianxiang shut up.Along the way, people came in and out. When they reached the 1623th floor, the three of them went out and walked to the door of room [-]. Yin Miaozai took out the room card and opened the door.This is a room with a double bed, and there is a small sofa by the window. Wang Da is sitting on the sofa, and the three of them go in. He came over at the door and opened his mouth to curse: "Fuck! You didn't let me go home, you said there would be reporters, but you sold me to reporters??! How much did he pay you??!"

Xiao Man stopped him and explained: "Mr. Xing is on vacation. He came to help us sort out the information. He also contacted Fu Weiqiang."

Xing Tianxiang smiled wryly, and said, "I was on leave, really."

Wang Da didn't believe it, and still wanted to leave, Xiaoman wanted to pull again, Yin Miaozai said: "Let him go, let him go back and see how many reporters are blocking his door now, isn't he still beating Fu Weiqiang?" Have you ever been to the hospital? The beating turned into amnesia! Maybe Fu Weiqiang's autism and split personality are the root causes of the disease at that time, and he beat people's heads!"

When Wang Da heard this, he was suddenly discouraged. Xing Tianxiang smiled beside him, patted Wang Da on the shoulder, and said in a good voice: "Boss Wang, I am indeed on vacation. I don't want to take this vacation. It's just that we The editor-in-chief ordered, and I can't do anything about it, let me show you the WeChat message he sent me."

As he said that, he took out his mobile phone and showed it to Wang Da. Xiaoman glanced at it. On Xing Tianxiang's mobile phone, a person marked as "Editor Zhang" sent a letter to him: Things are getting big on the Internet, you should rest at home for a while Bar.

Wang Da asked, "What about the Internet?"

"Our editor-in-chief suspected that I was breaking news on the Internet. Didn't I interview you ten years ago, do you still remember? Didn't the manuscript not be sent out in the end? He suspected that I used it to make the report ten years ago come to the fore. The manuscript that he suppressed back then was posted online.”

"You really did that?" Wang Da looked at him.

Xiao Man said, "His computer was hacked."

Wang Da scratched his hair, walked back to the sofa and sat down again, put his head in his hands and said: "I called my second uncle, let alone my store, someone from my second uncle's family has been looking for it, I told my wife and children to stay at my mother's house, so don't go back." He looked up and looked at Xiao Man: "What information are you sorting out? Is there anything to sort out?"

"Didn't you say that Fu Weiqiang was just pretending?" Xiao Man said.

Wang Da thumped his thigh, full of confidence: "That's right! He's not autistic at all! Let me tell you, he's a very thief!"

Xing Tianxiang sat next to him and said, "Then tell me specifically?"

Wang Da grabbed a plastic bag on the coffee table, which was full of fruits. He took out a bunch of bananas from it, hugged it, and tore off one, saying: "When he lived in my house, he Let me tell you, he doesn’t pay attention to anyone who talks to him, and he just talks to himself, isn’t it that autistic doesn’t say a word? He talks, he! He just doesn’t talk to us!”

"Talking to yourself?"

"Just at night, the two of us slept in the same room. When I got up to pee, I saw him kneeling on the bed alone, mumbling alone in the corner, and I said, what are you doing? Why don't you sleep? A silent movement! That's it!" Wang Da put up a finger and pressed his lips tightly.

Yin Miaozai took the laptop out of the computer bag: "Is this a horror movie?"

Xiaoman handed her the USB flash drive, looked at Wang Da: "Did he tell you who he talked to?"

"No, he doesn't talk to me either."

Xiao Man said: "This doesn't mean he's not autistic, does it? Autism means living in his own world, and it doesn't mean he doesn't communicate with others at all."

"Are autistic people abusing cats? Playing with fire?? My dad always thinks I did it! I know it's him!" Wang Da shouted after taking a big bite of banana.

At this time, someone knocked on the door, and Xiao Man said, "I'll go and see if it's Zhao You."

He walked to the door and looked into the cat's eye first, and it was Xiao Jing standing outside the door.He opened the door, and Xiao Jing entered the room. Xing Tianxiang was obviously very surprised by his appearance, and stood up, as if he didn't know where to put his hands, and he stumbled when he spoke: "You... You, you are not... why are you here?"

Xiaojing was carrying a computer bag and a sports bag in his hand. He glanced around the room, lowered his head slightly, and said, "Aren't we in the same team?"

Yin Miaozai hurriedly said, "Come in and sit down, everyone." She put down her notebook, picked up the electric kettle and said, "I'll make some tea."

Xiao Jing straightened his face and said coldly, "You didn't tell Mom when you went out in the middle of the night?"

Xiao Man picked up Yin Miaozai's notebook, copied the files in the USB flash drive, and opened the folder named "Cao Lv (Fu Weiqiang)". He looked at Xing Tianxiang and Xiao Jing, but said nothing.Xing Tianxiang was also speechless, but kept rubbing his right wrist.Xiao Jing walked to the desk with a dark face, put down the backpack and bags, and complained: "You Chinese parents just don't like to say anything, and if you want to say it, you can only say one sentence, I am for your own good, If you suffer from illness, you just support yourself, it's a shame for a big man to be beaten!"

Yin Miaozai asked loudly in the bathroom: "Do you want to eat late at night?"

Xing Tianxiang sat back again, sent cigarettes to Wang Da, and asked, "Do you think he has changed since he changed his name to Cao Lu?"

Wang Da nodded: "He's kind and outgoing. He came to the village last month and said he would visit the old house. He also gave me a business card. I think he works in Nanjing. .”

Xiaojing said: "Didn't you read the news on the Internet? He was fired by the company last year."

Wang Da said: "I don't know! I don't know him well! I just nodded when I saw it, and said a few words...!"

Xiaojing asked, "Who are you?" He asked Xiaoman, "Who is this person? I said, why do you guys like to absorb stray dogs as companions so much?"

Yin Miaozai came out with an electric kettle: "This is the owner of the grocery store at the entrance of Huangguozi Village. Cao Lu lived in his house for a while when he was a child."

Xiao Jing blurted out: "Weng Qing's good friend!"

Wang Da was very depressed again, very depressed, and said to Xing Tianxiang: "He is targeting me. Let me tell you, he must have killed my dog! He just wants to make me restless!"

Xiao Jing blurted out again: "You beat someone into the hospital when you were in junior high school!"

Xing Tianxiang asked him: "Have you had dinner yet?"

Xiao Jing said: "It's all written on the Internet. Cao Lu's junior high school classmates came out and broke the news. The bulletin said that it was Cao, who used to use the name Fu Mouqiang. Now the human flesh search is so powerful, haven't you read it? Cao Lu's His junior high school classmates, people he knew in the orphanage, the psychiatrist who saw him, and the policeman who dealt with his mother's 98 case were all interviewed."

Wang Da hugged his head again, shook his head for a while, got up and said, "I'm going out to smoke a cigarette." He left the room.

As soon as he left, Xiao Jing said, "Everyone has surrendered, and the notifications have been issued, why are we still here?"

Yin Miaozai looked at him with a smile: "Then you are still here?"

Xiao Jing clicked her tongue, feeling uneasy for a while: "The police are still faster than us."

"He turned himself in." Yin Miaozai analyzed, "Maybe it was your speech on the Internet that stimulated him. He felt that his identity could no longer be maintained, so he might as well turn himself in."

Yin Miaozai walked to Xiaoman's side: "How do you look?"

Xiaoman is browsing those copied files. From November 98, Fu Weiqiang went to Hongfeng to see a doctor every three days. In 11, the frequency changed to once a week. In 99, only Dr. Chen went to the welfare office every month. The hospital made a return visit, and after 00, the file of this autistic patient was completely terminated.Xiaoman looked at the rest of the room and said, "I got Cao Lv's illness file from 01 to 98 when he was still Fu Weiqiang. He was autistic at that time. According to the data, there should be some audio files. Yes, but it may have been taken away by the police. In January 01, he was already Cao Lv. He returned to Qingshi and went to see a psychiatrist again. There are also records. He was diagnosed as a human personality, with audio and Paper records."

Xiao Jing asked: "I don't quite understand, don't you suspect that he is not a split personality? The psychiatrist has testified, and there are records. He went to see a doctor in January, and his colleagues on the Internet also By the way, before he was dismissed in 1, he had a car accident and hit his head, after that he was in a bad mood, as if he was a different person, could it be that his head was hit at that time?"

Yin Miaozai said: "Have you heard the story of twenty four Billy? William Milligan was once diagnosed by a psychiatrist. He has 24 personalities, both men and women, old and young. He has a Boston accent, a Yugoslav accent, an Australian accent, and a British accent. , can also speak Arabic and Croatian, but he learned to write some simple Arabic with a patient during his stay in a psychiatric nursing home, and every time he was asked to communicate with people in Croatian, he would avoid it, and the accent It's easy to imitate."

Xiao Jing thought for a while: "He doesn't want to use mental illness to exonerate himself?" Xiao Jing looked at Xiao Man and said, "You just said that he was diagnosed with split personality by a psychiatrist in January. Premeditatedly create a file for myself with a split personality, and then go to kill people..." At this point, Xiao Jing didn't go on talking, he shivered, sat in front of the desk, and fell silent.No one spoke in the room, and the air conditioner was blowing coldly.

Xiao Man looked at the crowd, broke the silence, and said, "I have something to tell everyone."

Everyone looked at him.Xiaoman really wants to confess to Yin Miaozai, Xiaojing, and Xing Tianxiangsuo the past that he has hidden.Without further ado.At least at this moment, he knew that even if everyone spurned him, hated him, and hated him because of the secret he had kept for many years, he could escape to Zhao You's boat, and he would give him a ride.Xiao Man couldn't help but glanced behind him, Zhao You wasn't there, so he hesitated again, his throat was a little dry, and he couldn't speak.Xiaoman clenched his fists. He really hated his indecision and indecision. He only made two decisive decisions in his life. The first time was when he had a big fight with his mother and admitted that he was gay. The second time he shot and killed Lin Midong.

People never know the consequences of their decisions.People are always afraid of the unknown.

In the future, at an unknown moment, perhaps tomorrow, Zhao You may get tired of him, and may leave him, and he will become a lonely boat drifting alone again...

Xiao Man cleared his throat, he remembered the way Zhao You looked at him.So sincere, so direct, which is exactly what he has been lacking.He even envied his frankness and frankness. He once had such frankness with Lin Midong in terms of feelings. In the fog of "seeing through but not telling through", they are always burdened with all kinds of troubles from friends and family. Only among the same kind can they let go of their hands and feet and plunge into the clear desire.They are always unable to invest too much, they don't often mention "love", let alone promise, sometimes they don't even need to talk, a look is enough, similarly, he can't give them too much, and he can't give them any more Saying "love" to anyone, no promises can be made.He always thought that this was just right for him, he didn't need any vigorous and deviant scripts, he was always just a timid little boy who secretly removed those explicit magazines from under the bed and put them under the pillow in the middle of the night baby.Because he knew that his mother would wash the sheets at home the next day, and his mother would open his pillow to see those magazines.

He has always been a person who is afraid of loneliness, unable to sleep alone at night, two people keeping warm and afraid that the other is another Lin Midong.

He suddenly remembered that night when he and Zhao You walked out of Lin Midong's old residence and walked on the slope of Huangguozi Village, he walked in front, and it was dark in front of him, he didn't know what was there, Zhao You walked behind him, he knew, He is right behind him.He said he was not Lin Midong.

Xiaoman plucked up his courage and said, "In April 08, when I returned to Qingshi, I met Lin Midong. We..."

Xiaojing snapped his fingers, turned to look at Yin Miaozai and said, "Where did you get the information? You are not involved in a crime, right? I don't want to carry the case."

Xing Tianxiang smiled and said, "Then you'd better not ask."

Xiao Jing asked again: "Can Zhao You get the recording materials confiscated by the police?"

Yin Miaozai said: "This involves illegal crimes..." She walked to the bed, sat on the floor and kept clicking documents, "Here is Fu Weiqiang's diary and Cao Lv's, why not start here first ? Split personality can’t be a sudden split, maybe there are some signs when I was a child? Boss Wang just meant that Cao Lu didn’t have some imaginary friends when he was a child, right? "

Xiao Man blinked, Xiao Jing also came over, pushed him away, picked up Yin Miaozai's notebook and said, "Who has time to listen to your old stories from ten years ago? Isn't it time to find out if this person is Split personality?"

Xiao Jing said: "Can I get the chat records between him and the friend's house? There are also chats with colleagues and so on. People with split personalities will definitely show some strange things in their daily life?" He tapped on the notebook : "Hey, do we need a language behaviorist now?"

Yin Miaozai raised his hand.Xing Tianxiang said: "The water is boiling." He took out his mobile phone and said: "The linguist at Qingda University is quite famous, I remember, I will check..."

Yin Miaozai went to the water bar to pour water to make tea, then raised her hand, as if she had something to say, Xiaoman wanted to ask her, Xiaojing sat next to him, turned on the computer she brought, and said: "Let me copy your USB flash drive." His computer screen lit up, and there was a hot post with the title clearly written: That's right, I called that "Qingshi storyteller"!Xing Tianxiang!I am He Junjun's uncle!

Xiao Jing closed the webpage, looked up and asked Xing Tianxiang: "Didn't you interview Fu Weiqiang? What impression did you have of him at that time? By the way! You also had recordings at that time! I have a backup here! I remember that he spoke a little Nanjing at the time. Accent, he has a split personality, is the split person from Qingshi or..." He hurriedly copied the file, muttering, "I still need a language expert, analyze and analyze his audio, diary, what is revealed between the lines information……"

Xiao Jing clicked on the earliest audio recorded in Cao Lu's folder, and a woman said, "Cao Lu, now I'm going to hypnotize you."

A man replied, "Okay, okay."

Xiao Jing asked, "Is there a Nanjing accent?"

Xiaoman nodded.The woman said: "Now close your eyes and imagine that you are lying on a piece of grass, the wind is soft and blows on your face, everything is so comfortable, you feel very safe and at ease, and people are also very relaxed. When you count to three, you will fall asleep...one, two, three." The woman asked, "Cao Lu, are you still there?"

"Hey." The man smiled, "I'm not Cao Lu."

The voice is still like the man who said "OK" just now, it's just an accent...

Xing Tianxiang said: "This is obviously Qingshi accent!"

The woman asked the man: "What is your relationship with Cao Lv?"

"Cao Lv? Are you trying to say that Fu Weiqiang is a wimp!"

Yin Miaozai waved vigorously at them. At this time, someone knocked on the door. Xiao Jing's eyes tightened. He turned off the audio and closed his notebook. Xiaoman went to open the door, and it was Zhao You who knocked.He came in and took a look: "Is everyone there?" He smiled and asked, "What are you busy with?"

Xiaojing heaved a sigh of relief, opened his notebook again, and raised his chin at Zhao You: "Do you know any experts who specialize in languages ​​and dialects and colloquialisms?"

"Where's Xiao Yin?" Zhao You looked around.Yin Miaozai was indeed gone.

Xiao Jing said: "I don't know. I was still there just now. Did I go to the bathroom? I'm asking you something, so don't interrupt."

Xiaoman looked around, and saw Yin Miaozai coming out of the bathroom holding a wet apple.She leaned against the wall, crossed her arms, and watched them bite the apple with cold eyes.

Zhao You blinked and said, "She is a teacher at Qingda University. You all know that she is an associate professor of Chinese Linguistics, and her major is sociolinguistics and dialects..."

"Crack." Yin Miaozai silently took a big bite of the apple and made a crisp sound.