Pixar on the left
Chapter 17
Before a lumberjack cuts down a tree, he must first check whether the quality of the tree meets the standards. They use their eyes, touch and check with their hands. If the murderer is a lumberjack, then he is the most likely person to find the hollow tree. .
"When did the Butterfly Tree appear?"
The big man leaned against the door, tilted his head and thought for a while, and replied: "It was just a few months after Li Jue's case happened. I don't remember the details. I just know that someone suddenly discovered it one day."
"The time for the butterfly to attach to the tree trunk and the time for hiding the corpse should not be far apart. The corpse rots in the trunk, and the body fluid is absorbed by the tree, attracting butterflies. Since the hole is high from the ground, the wind in the forest is strong, so the people underneath will die. It smells like corpses."
Xiang Ling crossed his arms and thought, maybe the person who killed Li Jue was the same person who killed the four children.
"The butterfly tree should have appeared after the surrounding trees were cut down, right?
Only in this way can it make sense, the prisoner may be a member of the carpentry team, who deliberately left the tree for the purpose of hiding the body. "The murderer is a member of the carpentry team, and it is only a preliminary suspicion.
"Is there any facility like an orphanage on the island?"
The big man nodded and said, "There is one, which is still in operation. Most of the children in it were sent in and abandoned by people from outside the island."
For such things, they also feel helpless. They don't know who the parents of the children are. Most of them are thrown away in crowded places on the island before they can remember anything. They don't even know the parents' names.
"You suspect that those four bones are children from the orphanage?" Yu Shi didn't expect that the other party would think of this matter.
"It's just a suspicion."
This suspicion is not very realistic. It stands to reason that the orphanage should call the police if a child is missing, but from what Zhang Tu said before, it has not been notified for more than 20 years, so the probability that the bones came from the orphanage is extremely low.
This trip to the orphanage is destined to be a trip.
Xiang Ling woke up early, planning to visit the orphanage by himself, but unexpectedly, Yu Shi woke up earlier than her, so he sat on his bed and stared at her.
"What are you looking at..." Xiang Ling asked in a hoarse voice, it felt so strange to see someone staring at him as soon as he opened his eyes.
"There are still two and a half hours before our agreed meeting time. You got up so early because you want to go to the orphanage!" Yu Shi sat cross-legged with her hands crossed over her chest. She was already ready and was waiting for the other party to wake up.
"It's just an orphanage, there's no need to go together." Xiang Ling sat up and simply combed his sleepy hair with his fingers.
"You were almost killed by a vase in broad daylight yesterday, so don't say that there will be no danger in broad daylight."
Yu Shi always felt that if he was not by the other party's side, Xiang Ling would definitely die early.
"Then just wait, I'll be quick." Xiang Ling stretched his limbs before getting up to wash up.
In less than 10 minutes, the two appeared at the door of the hotel.
According to the location mentioned by the big man, it will take them more than ten minutes to drive there. The orphanage is located in the middle of the South Island, not far from the cross-sea bridge.
The overall appearance of the orphanage is not small, because the government and people from all walks of life have invested in expansion and repairs, so it still looks quite spacious and beautiful, even if there are a hundred children living in it, it will be no problem.
The current director of the orphanage is called Li Pei. She is 56 years old and has served for more than 20 years. When the Li Jue case happened, she had just become the director.
They were greeted by other employees of the orphanage. When they heard that the police were looking for Dean Li Pei, they took them to the playground. The playground has some simple equipment for children to play with, and Dean Li Pei is inside , Helping two children push the swing.
The first impression the two had when they saw Dean Li Pei was that he was amiable, probably like the kind and gentle female teacher who took special care of you in elementary school.
The three came to the dean's office, and Li Pei simply served them two cups of tea.
"I probably know the purpose of your visit." Li Pei didn't beat around the bush, and said straight to the point: "The news about the butterfly tree is spreading all over the island. I think it's reasonable for the police to come to me at this time."
Yu Shi was sitting there talking with Li Pei, and Xiang Ling took the opportunity to walk around the office. The two of them had already assigned work, one was in charge of asking questions, and the other was in charge of watching.
"I just want to ask, during the period when you were the dean, have no children really disappeared?"
It is more effective to directly throw a sharp question and see the other party's immediate reaction and statement than to ask sideways.
"I know the reason for your suspicion, but I can tell you with certainty that there are no missing children in our orphanage, and those who can leave here are all adopted."
Li Pei's unwavering eyes gave Yu Shi a little more credibility to this statement.
Sometimes the police don't use other people's words to tell whether they are true or false, but look at their aura and eyes, but it doesn't rule out that someone's disguise is so clever that they can deceive the world.
"Then can I see the list of adopted children over the years?"
Li Pei was taken aback for a moment, but then she said, "It's okay if you just look at it, wait a minute, I'll get it."
Xiang Ling looked at Li Pei's back, and they would definitely not be able to ask anything if they continued to ask, because the other party's behavior could be said to be impeccable.
Li Pei took out the roster and said, "There are not many rosters, because there are more children who have grown up and left on their own than those who have been adopted. I have not had more than [-] since I took office."
Yu Shi looked at a dozen or so thin pages, and there were adopted children ranging from six to 15 years old, Xiang Ling looked out the window, and suddenly turned his head and asked, "Dean, if I want to adopt a child, how will the process go? "
"You have to submit an adoption application first, and then you can adopt a child after being reviewed and approved by the relevant department." Li Pei paused, and then said: "The most basic conditions for adoption are that the adopter must be at least [-] years old, and There must be a regular source of income, and if the adopter suffers from certain diseases, it is not allowed to adopt a child."
"Will the relevant department review the applicant's family background?"
Xiang Ling has been standing by the window asking questions, the voice is not too loud, so Li Pei can only get up and go to Xiang Ling to talk to her, she said: "Family background is usually checked, but I suggest you wait a few years to check." Considering this issue, firstly, your age does not meet the requirements, and secondly, you are still young, maybe you will have children in the future!"
Xiang Ling smiled and said: "I think the part that I am most unqualified is that I have certain diseases." Just when Li Pei wanted to continue asking, Xiang Ling said: "As for the disease, I don't know what it is." I can't tell you, it seems that adopting a child is not something I should consider right now."
"Dean, I have roughly read your rosters. Since the relevant departments have stamped and verified the certification, I think these children should have a good life now, so we will not continue to disturb your work."
Yu Shi closed the roster, handed the roster to Li Pei, and took Xiang Ling with him to say goodbye.
Back in the car, Yu Shi handed the phone to Xiang Ling, which contained the photos she just took. I have to say that the two of them cooperated very well. She knew it from the moment Xiang Ling stood by the window and asked questions. The other party is creating opportunities for her to take pictures of the roster.
"Are you really considering adopting a child?" The other party asked the question very sincerely just now, which made her not sure if she really wanted to adopt or just asked.
Looking at the photo, Xiang Ling searched for the one who was most likely to fake it, and replied by the way: "I just thought about it for a moment. There is a cute child underneath, but it's not okay." Those conditions are based on her current situation. , not eligible for adoption.
Xiang Ling chose the biggest one from the pile of albums. Yang Yimeng was adopted at the age of 15. Most people who can adopt children will choose younger ones. People who are 15 years old are basically not considered, because the adopters Can't participate in the child's past life, can't accompany the child to grow up together, and the 15-year-old child already has his own inner world, sometimes even the biological parents can't understand it, let alone the strange adoptive parents.
Xiang Ling called the phone number of Yang Yimeng's parents who adopted Yang Yimeng, and after a few rings it was connected. Xiang Ling turned on the loudspeaker and asked, "Hello, are these Yang Yimeng's parents?"
A woman's voice came over the phone saying, "I am, who are you?"
Xiang Ling replied: "Hello, I'm the new nurse at the South Island Orphanage. Our Dean Li Pei asks me to say hello. Is everything normal there?"
"Oh, so it's Dean Li. Please tell her that our place is fine and there are no major problems." When the woman heard Li Pei's name, she suddenly felt enlightened.
Xiang Ling continued to ask: "By the way, how is Yimeng doing now? Is the place where she fell before still okay? Will it still hurt when it rains?"
"Fell... fell? Oh... yes, it's still the same..." The other party could clearly feel a little panic on the phone.
"Well, I will tell the dean, and hang up first."
After hanging up the phone, the two of them understood with just a glance that Yang Yimeng was not really adopted at all. The owner of this number was a passerby invited by Li Pei, and the voice did not sound like he was in his 50s. Yu Shi has been handling the case for many years, and although he can't tell the difference very accurately, the difference is not too much. The person who claims to be Yang Yimeng's adoptive mother is at most 40 years old, and one of the conditions for the adopter is that the adopter must be at least [-] years old.
Those four bones probably really came from the orphanage.
"By the way, I just saw a familiar name in the roster." Xiang Ling glanced at Yu when he enlarged one of the photos.
"Dai Guodong?" Yu Shi didn't really look at the list at that time, she mainly took the time to take photos.
"The person who rented surfboards for us that day may be his adopted son."
Xiang Ling took a closer look at the time of adoption. It was after the Li Jue case that Tang Yinda was adopted when he was about 11 years old.
"Can he remember what happened when he was 11 years old?" Yu Shi expressed doubts, after all, she couldn't even remember what she did when she was 11 years old.
"It depends on the situation, like I remember what I do."
"What did you do?"
"Slapped a child who was two years older than me."
This great feat was much more powerful than she had imagined, and she thought that the other party was playing with mud at most.
The two drove to the beach. At this time, most of the stalls were open and there were many tourists playing in the water. They came to the yellow tent again. They didn't see Dai Guodong, but his son was there. When someone asked, it was confirmed that the son was Tang Yinda, now called Dai Yinda.
Dai Yinda said that he did remember what happened when he was a child, and he also knew how big the Li Jue case was at that time. After his father found the body, he applied to the orphanage for adoption not long after he was not married. He has no children. After seeing the dead body once, he felt very uneasy, so he adopted a child to accompany him. Since then, he has stopped working in the sea, and used a little savings to switch careers and start a business of renting surfboards.
He remembered that before the Li Jue case, there were not as many children in the orphanage as there are now, so almost everyone remembered their names. At that time, because the South Island was not well-known, the bridge across the sea had not yet been built. Therefore, most of the children in the hospital were adopted by the islanders, and adoption by people outside the island was relatively rare, but not completely absent.
He remembered that if a child was going to be adopted, the principal would usually hold a simple farewell party, and would also inform other children in advance who had been adopted and were about to leave the orphanage, but suddenly there was a 15-year-old named Yang Yimeng in the hospital. I usually take good care of him, but one day he disappeared and all his luggage disappeared. Dean Li Pei had just taken office at that time, and other children asked about it before they were informed that Yang Yimeng had been adopted. , Although they were quite surprised, they didn't ask any more questions.
Because for orphans, it is very lucky to have a family. They also sincerely wished Yang Yimeng in their hearts and hoped that she would be happy in the future.
"Before I was adopted, Yang Yimeng was the only one who was adopted in a hurry. I don't know if there are any after that. Maybe you can ask other children who stayed longer." Dai Yinda Pointing to the place where they rented the locker in the distance, he said: "The guy at the counter over there is Ye Kewei, and he stayed in the orphanage until he became an adult before leaving."
The two looked in the direction of Dai Yinda's finger, and the familiar face was the person they were looking for.
After finding Ye Kewei, the two were even more sure that the four bones must have come from the orphanage, because after Yang Yimeng, three other children were adopted in a hurry, and during that time, the orphanage The governor also issued a gate control, and no one was allowed to leave the orphanage after five o'clock in the afternoon.
After informing Zhang Tu of the clues, Yu Shi was of course scolded by Zhang Tu, but the other party didn't plan to report her for cross-district handling of the case because she was a big boss.
Now they have a general idea of the entire crime chain, and the only thing left is to determine the identity of the criminal.
After the two went back, it happened to be the agreed meeting time. Jiu Hua and Shu Xia did not forget to tease them to avoid everyone and go out on a date early in the morning. The words didn't even refute.
"We have to go around the island today. We already negotiated the price with the boss yesterday."
So at Jiuhua's insistence, everyone went to Huandao.
After a whole day, they circled the island and visited other scenic spots on the island. The sky gradually turned yellow. The big uncle said that he would cook a seafood feast for them, because they couldn't take too long on vacation, and they would leave tomorrow. Got to end vacation and leave.
After dinner, several people chatted for a while before disbanding and returning to their rooms to rest.
Xiang Ling borrowed a bicycle from the counter, left the hotel alone, and rode to Li Jue's home.
They inquired about the identity of the younger brother of the noodle stall owner from the local people in the afternoon. The older brother is Li Ziqiang, and the younger brother is Li Buxiu. The two brothers used to be members of the carpentry team. Li Buxiu left the carpentry team and now works as a forest guard for some scenic spots. His brother Li Ziqiang also served as the carpenter captain for several years until the entire carpentry team disbanded. Now he runs a small noodle stall and his wife dries fish. , The two lived a happy life.
They didn't know it at first, but after everything was connected, they found out that Li Ziqiang was Li Jue's father.
Li Buxi lived alone, not far from his elder brother Li Ziqiang. In the afternoon, Xiang Ling and Yu Shi deliberately passed by Li Buxi's house. He could see his clothes hanging outside the house, and there was a dark green dress inside. At this time, Li Buxi was not at home. The two of them sneaked into his house, checked all the shoes on the shoe rack, and found the shoes with exactly the same pattern as the ones found in the wood factory.
Xiang Ling came to Li Jue's house. Li Jue's mother was tidying up the house, but she didn't see Li Jue's father. When Xiang Ling stepped into the house, she saw a pair of familiar shoes and put them outside the door. Li Jue's mother turned to Xiang Ling. Surprised by his sudden visit, he didn't say anything, and prepared to serve Xiang Ling tea.
"You don't need to entertain me. I'm here to ask you something, so I'll leave after I'm done." Stopping Li's mother, Xiang Ling asked: "I'm here to ask you, about Li Jue, do you really want to know the truth? ?"
Mother Li was taken aback for a moment, then said with firm eyes, "I think so."
"Even if the truth is cruel, do you still want to know?"
"Ah."
Because of Mother Li's reply, Xiang Ling had no worries at all.
After bidding farewell to Mother Li, Xiang Ling came to the place where she parked her bicycle, but saw that the front tire of the bicycle was flat, pulled on the ground like a lump of ramen noodles, so she came out for a while, why did she mess up the bicycle at the hotel like this.
So she had no choice but to walk back to the hotel with her bicycle. The journey was not long or short, and she was destined to walk for half an hour.
Leading the bicycle to a dark road, she was not afraid, but had a premonition that something would happen on this road.
I have to say that her premonition was quite accurate. She could hear hurried footsteps running towards her behind her. When she turned around, she saw a shining knife slashing straight at her head. She dodged sideways. Without the support, the bicycle completely fell to the road, took a few steps back to zero, and opened up the distance from the opponent.
When the other party turned around and she finally saw the attacker clearly, she couldn't help being surprised: "Li Ziqiang?"
That's right, the one who was looking at her with a gloomy face at the moment was not her expected younger brother Li Buxiu, but her elder brother Li Ziqiang.
"Why do you want to check? If you don't check, everyone can forget the past and live well."
"What does it mean to live well? Don't those children who were killed deserve to live well?"
Xiang Ling was a little angry. Why do these people want to have the right to live a good life after ruining other people's lives?
"Do you think I thought?! I didn't mean it either!"
During Li Ziqiang's hysterical roar, Xiang Ling was a little confused, so in her judgment, Li Buxi was the murderer who killed the four children, but now Li Ziqiang jumped out, so is Li Ziqiang the real murderer?
"Brother, why are you talking so much, everything will be back to normal when the knife is dropped." Another person came out from the darkness, it was his younger brother Li Buxi.
Xiang Ling was a little annoyed that both brothers were murderers, which was completely unexpected to her.
Although she is now caught between two murderers, she is completely, not at all worried that she will die here.
"Although there are two, it doesn't prevent me from saving people." Yu Shi kicked Li Buxiu from a distance, and Li Buxiu fell to the ground. .
At the same time, Xiang Ling also stunned Li Ziqiang who hadn't reacted behind him with an electric shock rod.
"Next time, don't get too close to the enemy." Yu Shi sent a message on his mobile phone, asking Zhang Tu to come and arrest him.
"I have you!" Xiang Ling put away the electric shock baton, which is why she wasn't worried that she would die here.
Zhang Tu brought his team to bring the two brothers back, and also invited Yu Shi and Xiang Ling back to assist in handling the case.
From the information Zhang Tu told, at the beginning it was his younger brother Li Buxiu who saw Yang Yimeng who was going out alone on the road. Li Buxiu became lustful when he saw Yang Yimeng. They kidnapped Yang Yimeng and hid her in the hole outside the carpentry factory. At that time, the hole was still in the original collapsed state. Coupled with the noisy machinery in the carpentry factory, no one would find a hole outside. , A living person was imprisoned in the cave.
After kidnapping Yang Yimeng, he also felt scared and wanted to let him go, but because he didn't cover up when he committed the crime, Yang Yimeng already knew his identity. He will call the police, but after several days, there is still no movement in the orphanage. No one knows that Yang Yimeng is missing, and no one knows that he has kidnapped a child. In the situation where he can neither release nor kill, he can only Keep people locked up, and deliver water and food on time.
How things got out of control later, he remembers clearly, he was discovered by Li Ziqiang when he was feeding one day, and it turned out that Li Jue delivered food to Li Ziqiang according to Li's mother's order, and happened to overhear the conversation between the two, Li Jue Turning around and running, Li Ziqiang didn't know that the person who eavesdropped was his daughter, so he could only chase with Li Buxiu. Li Ziqiang chased the person first, and beat Li Jue on the back of the head with an iron rod in his studio. By the time he found out that it was his own daughter that he had killed, it was already too late.
Li Buxiong arrived later and saw Li Ziqiang hugging his daughter collapsed. In order to prevent both of them from being arrested, he could only persuade Li Ziqiang and helped dispose of Li Jue's body. the bottom of the sea.
Afterwards, Li Ziqiang seemed to have some short-term amnesia, forgetting that it was the daughter he killed, and he and his wife collapsed looking for Li Jue everywhere. Li Jue's body was found on the river beach a week later. Yang Yimeng also died. I don't know if it was due to malnutrition or other reasons. In short, when Li Buxi went to deliver the meal, he found that she had passed away.
Yang Yimeng's body was left in that hole for several days. Li Buxi didn't know what to do with it. When he was inspecting the quality of the tree, he found a hollow tree, so he used that tree and hid it. Yang Yimeng's body.
After that, Li Ziqiang's mental state was extremely unstable, and Li Buxiu was also afraid that he would tell the truth when he couldn't hold on anymore, but Li Ziqiang was stronger than he imagined, and his way of being strong was to kidnap and kill Other children in the orphanage to numb themselves.
After killing those children, Li Ziqiang's mental state tended to be stable. Except for the occasional murmur in his sleep that he had caused a nap, he looked very normal in normal times. Li Buxiong helped Li Ziqiang hide the bodies of those killed children. in the trunk.
But who knew, the tree trunk attracted a large group of butterflies and formed a butterfly tree. Li Buxi had no choice but to quit the carpentry team and become a forest ranger, always paying attention to the butterfly tree.
After that, Li Ziqiang stopped kidnapping other children from the orphanage until he opened a noodle stall after the carpentry team disbanded.
The two brothers originally thought that life would go on like this until they died, but they didn't expect that after so many years, there would still be people who wanted to find out the truth.
Feeling the crisis, Li Buxiu originally just wanted to follow the two foreign tourists to see what they could find, but he didn't expect that the hole where the child was imprisoned was discovered because of him, and he was afraid that the butterfly tree hiding the corpse would also appear No accident, so I went to build a fence, hoping to temporarily prevent other tourists from approaching, and then try to remove the bones in the tree trunk. As a result, the bones were found that night.
Then they realized that it wasn't the place where the corpses were hidden, but the investigators. They had to get rid of the investigators, so that the secrets that had been buried for many years would not be discovered.
It was precisely because of this that Xiang Ling and Yu Shi took advantage of their mentality of wanting to get rid of the investigators, set them up and exposed themselves first.
And Li Pei and Zhang Tu also brought people here. Because she was new at the time, she was afraid that she would be responsible for the disappearance of the children, so she concealed the fact that the four children were missing, and declared that the missing children were all adopted, and faked After obtaining the adoption documents, they also found four people who pretended to be the adoptive parents of the missing child, and provided the four people with the subsidies they had embezzled over the years as rewards.
"If Li Pei had called the police and said that Yang Yimeng was missing, maybe Yang Yimeng would have been rescued, and the four children would not have been kidnapped and killed by Li Ziqiang."
Yu Shi and Xiang Ling were walking side by side, and a person ran in from the police station. As soon as Li Jue's mother saw Xiang Ling, she slapped her in the face, crying and shouting: "Why should we investigate? Do I know the truth? If I had known the truth earlier, I would not have investigated it! I would rather not know for the rest of my life!"
Yu Shi pulled Li's mother away from Xiang Ling and handed her over to the police officers who came to assist her. She could fully understand Li's mother's mood at the moment. After waiting for the truth for so many years, it was her husband who killed her. own daughter.
But, who would have known earlier...
Xiang Ling sighed and touched his hot cheek.
"Does it hurt?" Yu Shi touched Xiang Ling's slightly flushed cheek, and Mother Li hit hard.
"I'm used to it." Xiang Ling walked out of the police station as if nothing had happened.
As I said a long time ago, getting used to pain is not a good thing.
After returning to the homestay, Yu Shi finished washing up and found that Xiang Ling was not in the room, so he went out to look for it, but saw Xiang Ling staying on the roof, drinking beer, staring into the distance in a daze.
"Do you feel wronged?" Yu Shi asked.
"It would be a lie to say that there is no such thing at all, but if it were me, I might not want to know the truth. Maybe it would be good to live like this for the rest of my life."
Xiang Ling took a sip, she didn't like the taste of wine, and she didn't like it, but only now, she would accept the effects of alcohol a little bit.
At the very least, it can make her feel that her head is not so clear, and she won't think so much.
"What I've always wanted to know, is it really what I want to know?"
Xiang Ling asked herself, she didn't know the answer, and knew that no one would help her answer it after asking.
She just wanted to give herself a reason not to insist.
"If you won't regret it when you get old, just give up!"
People can use the rest of their lives to let go after knowing the truth, but time will never help you eliminate regrets before you die. Regrets will always exist in your heart, and you will only continue to live in the last time of your life. Ask yourself why you didn't do something in the first place, and continue to regret why you didn't choose to stick to it in the first place.
For Li's mother, maybe not knowing the cruel truth is the best choice, but for Li Jue, for those four children, maybe they don't want to disappear alone in this world, as if they never existed
Memory is the proof that a person has lived. If no one remembers a person, who can prove that he has lived?
"If one day I die suddenly, will you remember me?" Xiang Ling asked nonchalantly.
Yu Shi replied: "I will remember that there was once a person named Xiang Ling who complained about me."
Xiang Ling was amused.
Yu Shi laughed for a while, but suddenly stopped, and she said it again seriously: "To be honest, I will remember."
Xiang Ling put down the jar in his hand, fiddled with his fingers and said, "Thank you."
They may be born with something they must pursue, such as money, power, desire, and truth. Some people may find it in their entire life, and some may not find it, but in their hearts, they leave a sense of existence, Leave a memory, only in this way can I prove that I have lived in this vast world where people are as small as dust.
After more than 20 years of silence, the Nandao Butterfly Tree case sparked another controversy in the public opinion.
Some people say that perhaps the truth should be buried forever, and family members who know the truth may not be able to accept the cruel truth, because the truth always exists for the living.
Some people also say that the truth belongs to the deceased, because the real victims are not the family members of the deceased, but the deceased himself. Just because a person is dead and has no ability to express his will, he should not be the master of the deceased.
Of course, some people don’t know where they got what Li Buxiu said when he pleaded guilty: “I didn’t have that kind of thought at first, it’s all because the girl’s dress is too short, do you know how short the skirt is?
She is still wearing a suspender dress, I am a normal single man, do I have no idea after reading it?Isn't it her problem to dress so revealingly?What do you want to dress like this at a young age?Isn't it because she is flirtatious? "
As a matter of course, this remark was scolded by the majority of rational netizens as scumbags, and they all prepared to form a team to the police station to beat up Li Buxiu. However, there are also some anonymous websites that criticize women's clothing in the name of "discussion", because It was anonymous, and the two sides launched a public opinion war.
Soon, the program Deng Tan Ru Shi found a new topic to do a program. This time the program team directly contacted Jiang Xue, the editor-in-chief of Wuyang News, and they asked the author of the report to appear on the program, and hoped that she An in-depth discussion of the topic "Who does the truth belong to?"
"Reject it, and don't allow them to use my things." This was the third day after she came back from the South Island. The report was reposted less than [-] hours ago, and the number of reprints exceeded one million.
After hanging up Jiang Xue's phone call, she opened her work mailbox and saw a new anonymous email with the title Untitled, and the content of the email was only a short line: "The fire at Xiangyang Pharmaceutical Factory was not an accident."
"When did the Butterfly Tree appear?"
The big man leaned against the door, tilted his head and thought for a while, and replied: "It was just a few months after Li Jue's case happened. I don't remember the details. I just know that someone suddenly discovered it one day."
"The time for the butterfly to attach to the tree trunk and the time for hiding the corpse should not be far apart. The corpse rots in the trunk, and the body fluid is absorbed by the tree, attracting butterflies. Since the hole is high from the ground, the wind in the forest is strong, so the people underneath will die. It smells like corpses."
Xiang Ling crossed his arms and thought, maybe the person who killed Li Jue was the same person who killed the four children.
"The butterfly tree should have appeared after the surrounding trees were cut down, right?
Only in this way can it make sense, the prisoner may be a member of the carpentry team, who deliberately left the tree for the purpose of hiding the body. "The murderer is a member of the carpentry team, and it is only a preliminary suspicion.
"Is there any facility like an orphanage on the island?"
The big man nodded and said, "There is one, which is still in operation. Most of the children in it were sent in and abandoned by people from outside the island."
For such things, they also feel helpless. They don't know who the parents of the children are. Most of them are thrown away in crowded places on the island before they can remember anything. They don't even know the parents' names.
"You suspect that those four bones are children from the orphanage?" Yu Shi didn't expect that the other party would think of this matter.
"It's just a suspicion."
This suspicion is not very realistic. It stands to reason that the orphanage should call the police if a child is missing, but from what Zhang Tu said before, it has not been notified for more than 20 years, so the probability that the bones came from the orphanage is extremely low.
This trip to the orphanage is destined to be a trip.
Xiang Ling woke up early, planning to visit the orphanage by himself, but unexpectedly, Yu Shi woke up earlier than her, so he sat on his bed and stared at her.
"What are you looking at..." Xiang Ling asked in a hoarse voice, it felt so strange to see someone staring at him as soon as he opened his eyes.
"There are still two and a half hours before our agreed meeting time. You got up so early because you want to go to the orphanage!" Yu Shi sat cross-legged with her hands crossed over her chest. She was already ready and was waiting for the other party to wake up.
"It's just an orphanage, there's no need to go together." Xiang Ling sat up and simply combed his sleepy hair with his fingers.
"You were almost killed by a vase in broad daylight yesterday, so don't say that there will be no danger in broad daylight."
Yu Shi always felt that if he was not by the other party's side, Xiang Ling would definitely die early.
"Then just wait, I'll be quick." Xiang Ling stretched his limbs before getting up to wash up.
In less than 10 minutes, the two appeared at the door of the hotel.
According to the location mentioned by the big man, it will take them more than ten minutes to drive there. The orphanage is located in the middle of the South Island, not far from the cross-sea bridge.
The overall appearance of the orphanage is not small, because the government and people from all walks of life have invested in expansion and repairs, so it still looks quite spacious and beautiful, even if there are a hundred children living in it, it will be no problem.
The current director of the orphanage is called Li Pei. She is 56 years old and has served for more than 20 years. When the Li Jue case happened, she had just become the director.
They were greeted by other employees of the orphanage. When they heard that the police were looking for Dean Li Pei, they took them to the playground. The playground has some simple equipment for children to play with, and Dean Li Pei is inside , Helping two children push the swing.
The first impression the two had when they saw Dean Li Pei was that he was amiable, probably like the kind and gentle female teacher who took special care of you in elementary school.
The three came to the dean's office, and Li Pei simply served them two cups of tea.
"I probably know the purpose of your visit." Li Pei didn't beat around the bush, and said straight to the point: "The news about the butterfly tree is spreading all over the island. I think it's reasonable for the police to come to me at this time."
Yu Shi was sitting there talking with Li Pei, and Xiang Ling took the opportunity to walk around the office. The two of them had already assigned work, one was in charge of asking questions, and the other was in charge of watching.
"I just want to ask, during the period when you were the dean, have no children really disappeared?"
It is more effective to directly throw a sharp question and see the other party's immediate reaction and statement than to ask sideways.
"I know the reason for your suspicion, but I can tell you with certainty that there are no missing children in our orphanage, and those who can leave here are all adopted."
Li Pei's unwavering eyes gave Yu Shi a little more credibility to this statement.
Sometimes the police don't use other people's words to tell whether they are true or false, but look at their aura and eyes, but it doesn't rule out that someone's disguise is so clever that they can deceive the world.
"Then can I see the list of adopted children over the years?"
Li Pei was taken aback for a moment, but then she said, "It's okay if you just look at it, wait a minute, I'll get it."
Xiang Ling looked at Li Pei's back, and they would definitely not be able to ask anything if they continued to ask, because the other party's behavior could be said to be impeccable.
Li Pei took out the roster and said, "There are not many rosters, because there are more children who have grown up and left on their own than those who have been adopted. I have not had more than [-] since I took office."
Yu Shi looked at a dozen or so thin pages, and there were adopted children ranging from six to 15 years old, Xiang Ling looked out the window, and suddenly turned his head and asked, "Dean, if I want to adopt a child, how will the process go? "
"You have to submit an adoption application first, and then you can adopt a child after being reviewed and approved by the relevant department." Li Pei paused, and then said: "The most basic conditions for adoption are that the adopter must be at least [-] years old, and There must be a regular source of income, and if the adopter suffers from certain diseases, it is not allowed to adopt a child."
"Will the relevant department review the applicant's family background?"
Xiang Ling has been standing by the window asking questions, the voice is not too loud, so Li Pei can only get up and go to Xiang Ling to talk to her, she said: "Family background is usually checked, but I suggest you wait a few years to check." Considering this issue, firstly, your age does not meet the requirements, and secondly, you are still young, maybe you will have children in the future!"
Xiang Ling smiled and said: "I think the part that I am most unqualified is that I have certain diseases." Just when Li Pei wanted to continue asking, Xiang Ling said: "As for the disease, I don't know what it is." I can't tell you, it seems that adopting a child is not something I should consider right now."
"Dean, I have roughly read your rosters. Since the relevant departments have stamped and verified the certification, I think these children should have a good life now, so we will not continue to disturb your work."
Yu Shi closed the roster, handed the roster to Li Pei, and took Xiang Ling with him to say goodbye.
Back in the car, Yu Shi handed the phone to Xiang Ling, which contained the photos she just took. I have to say that the two of them cooperated very well. She knew it from the moment Xiang Ling stood by the window and asked questions. The other party is creating opportunities for her to take pictures of the roster.
"Are you really considering adopting a child?" The other party asked the question very sincerely just now, which made her not sure if she really wanted to adopt or just asked.
Looking at the photo, Xiang Ling searched for the one who was most likely to fake it, and replied by the way: "I just thought about it for a moment. There is a cute child underneath, but it's not okay." Those conditions are based on her current situation. , not eligible for adoption.
Xiang Ling chose the biggest one from the pile of albums. Yang Yimeng was adopted at the age of 15. Most people who can adopt children will choose younger ones. People who are 15 years old are basically not considered, because the adopters Can't participate in the child's past life, can't accompany the child to grow up together, and the 15-year-old child already has his own inner world, sometimes even the biological parents can't understand it, let alone the strange adoptive parents.
Xiang Ling called the phone number of Yang Yimeng's parents who adopted Yang Yimeng, and after a few rings it was connected. Xiang Ling turned on the loudspeaker and asked, "Hello, are these Yang Yimeng's parents?"
A woman's voice came over the phone saying, "I am, who are you?"
Xiang Ling replied: "Hello, I'm the new nurse at the South Island Orphanage. Our Dean Li Pei asks me to say hello. Is everything normal there?"
"Oh, so it's Dean Li. Please tell her that our place is fine and there are no major problems." When the woman heard Li Pei's name, she suddenly felt enlightened.
Xiang Ling continued to ask: "By the way, how is Yimeng doing now? Is the place where she fell before still okay? Will it still hurt when it rains?"
"Fell... fell? Oh... yes, it's still the same..." The other party could clearly feel a little panic on the phone.
"Well, I will tell the dean, and hang up first."
After hanging up the phone, the two of them understood with just a glance that Yang Yimeng was not really adopted at all. The owner of this number was a passerby invited by Li Pei, and the voice did not sound like he was in his 50s. Yu Shi has been handling the case for many years, and although he can't tell the difference very accurately, the difference is not too much. The person who claims to be Yang Yimeng's adoptive mother is at most 40 years old, and one of the conditions for the adopter is that the adopter must be at least [-] years old.
Those four bones probably really came from the orphanage.
"By the way, I just saw a familiar name in the roster." Xiang Ling glanced at Yu when he enlarged one of the photos.
"Dai Guodong?" Yu Shi didn't really look at the list at that time, she mainly took the time to take photos.
"The person who rented surfboards for us that day may be his adopted son."
Xiang Ling took a closer look at the time of adoption. It was after the Li Jue case that Tang Yinda was adopted when he was about 11 years old.
"Can he remember what happened when he was 11 years old?" Yu Shi expressed doubts, after all, she couldn't even remember what she did when she was 11 years old.
"It depends on the situation, like I remember what I do."
"What did you do?"
"Slapped a child who was two years older than me."
This great feat was much more powerful than she had imagined, and she thought that the other party was playing with mud at most.
The two drove to the beach. At this time, most of the stalls were open and there were many tourists playing in the water. They came to the yellow tent again. They didn't see Dai Guodong, but his son was there. When someone asked, it was confirmed that the son was Tang Yinda, now called Dai Yinda.
Dai Yinda said that he did remember what happened when he was a child, and he also knew how big the Li Jue case was at that time. After his father found the body, he applied to the orphanage for adoption not long after he was not married. He has no children. After seeing the dead body once, he felt very uneasy, so he adopted a child to accompany him. Since then, he has stopped working in the sea, and used a little savings to switch careers and start a business of renting surfboards.
He remembered that before the Li Jue case, there were not as many children in the orphanage as there are now, so almost everyone remembered their names. At that time, because the South Island was not well-known, the bridge across the sea had not yet been built. Therefore, most of the children in the hospital were adopted by the islanders, and adoption by people outside the island was relatively rare, but not completely absent.
He remembered that if a child was going to be adopted, the principal would usually hold a simple farewell party, and would also inform other children in advance who had been adopted and were about to leave the orphanage, but suddenly there was a 15-year-old named Yang Yimeng in the hospital. I usually take good care of him, but one day he disappeared and all his luggage disappeared. Dean Li Pei had just taken office at that time, and other children asked about it before they were informed that Yang Yimeng had been adopted. , Although they were quite surprised, they didn't ask any more questions.
Because for orphans, it is very lucky to have a family. They also sincerely wished Yang Yimeng in their hearts and hoped that she would be happy in the future.
"Before I was adopted, Yang Yimeng was the only one who was adopted in a hurry. I don't know if there are any after that. Maybe you can ask other children who stayed longer." Dai Yinda Pointing to the place where they rented the locker in the distance, he said: "The guy at the counter over there is Ye Kewei, and he stayed in the orphanage until he became an adult before leaving."
The two looked in the direction of Dai Yinda's finger, and the familiar face was the person they were looking for.
After finding Ye Kewei, the two were even more sure that the four bones must have come from the orphanage, because after Yang Yimeng, three other children were adopted in a hurry, and during that time, the orphanage The governor also issued a gate control, and no one was allowed to leave the orphanage after five o'clock in the afternoon.
After informing Zhang Tu of the clues, Yu Shi was of course scolded by Zhang Tu, but the other party didn't plan to report her for cross-district handling of the case because she was a big boss.
Now they have a general idea of the entire crime chain, and the only thing left is to determine the identity of the criminal.
After the two went back, it happened to be the agreed meeting time. Jiu Hua and Shu Xia did not forget to tease them to avoid everyone and go out on a date early in the morning. The words didn't even refute.
"We have to go around the island today. We already negotiated the price with the boss yesterday."
So at Jiuhua's insistence, everyone went to Huandao.
After a whole day, they circled the island and visited other scenic spots on the island. The sky gradually turned yellow. The big uncle said that he would cook a seafood feast for them, because they couldn't take too long on vacation, and they would leave tomorrow. Got to end vacation and leave.
After dinner, several people chatted for a while before disbanding and returning to their rooms to rest.
Xiang Ling borrowed a bicycle from the counter, left the hotel alone, and rode to Li Jue's home.
They inquired about the identity of the younger brother of the noodle stall owner from the local people in the afternoon. The older brother is Li Ziqiang, and the younger brother is Li Buxiu. The two brothers used to be members of the carpentry team. Li Buxiu left the carpentry team and now works as a forest guard for some scenic spots. His brother Li Ziqiang also served as the carpenter captain for several years until the entire carpentry team disbanded. Now he runs a small noodle stall and his wife dries fish. , The two lived a happy life.
They didn't know it at first, but after everything was connected, they found out that Li Ziqiang was Li Jue's father.
Li Buxi lived alone, not far from his elder brother Li Ziqiang. In the afternoon, Xiang Ling and Yu Shi deliberately passed by Li Buxi's house. He could see his clothes hanging outside the house, and there was a dark green dress inside. At this time, Li Buxi was not at home. The two of them sneaked into his house, checked all the shoes on the shoe rack, and found the shoes with exactly the same pattern as the ones found in the wood factory.
Xiang Ling came to Li Jue's house. Li Jue's mother was tidying up the house, but she didn't see Li Jue's father. When Xiang Ling stepped into the house, she saw a pair of familiar shoes and put them outside the door. Li Jue's mother turned to Xiang Ling. Surprised by his sudden visit, he didn't say anything, and prepared to serve Xiang Ling tea.
"You don't need to entertain me. I'm here to ask you something, so I'll leave after I'm done." Stopping Li's mother, Xiang Ling asked: "I'm here to ask you, about Li Jue, do you really want to know the truth? ?"
Mother Li was taken aback for a moment, then said with firm eyes, "I think so."
"Even if the truth is cruel, do you still want to know?"
"Ah."
Because of Mother Li's reply, Xiang Ling had no worries at all.
After bidding farewell to Mother Li, Xiang Ling came to the place where she parked her bicycle, but saw that the front tire of the bicycle was flat, pulled on the ground like a lump of ramen noodles, so she came out for a while, why did she mess up the bicycle at the hotel like this.
So she had no choice but to walk back to the hotel with her bicycle. The journey was not long or short, and she was destined to walk for half an hour.
Leading the bicycle to a dark road, she was not afraid, but had a premonition that something would happen on this road.
I have to say that her premonition was quite accurate. She could hear hurried footsteps running towards her behind her. When she turned around, she saw a shining knife slashing straight at her head. She dodged sideways. Without the support, the bicycle completely fell to the road, took a few steps back to zero, and opened up the distance from the opponent.
When the other party turned around and she finally saw the attacker clearly, she couldn't help being surprised: "Li Ziqiang?"
That's right, the one who was looking at her with a gloomy face at the moment was not her expected younger brother Li Buxiu, but her elder brother Li Ziqiang.
"Why do you want to check? If you don't check, everyone can forget the past and live well."
"What does it mean to live well? Don't those children who were killed deserve to live well?"
Xiang Ling was a little angry. Why do these people want to have the right to live a good life after ruining other people's lives?
"Do you think I thought?! I didn't mean it either!"
During Li Ziqiang's hysterical roar, Xiang Ling was a little confused, so in her judgment, Li Buxi was the murderer who killed the four children, but now Li Ziqiang jumped out, so is Li Ziqiang the real murderer?
"Brother, why are you talking so much, everything will be back to normal when the knife is dropped." Another person came out from the darkness, it was his younger brother Li Buxi.
Xiang Ling was a little annoyed that both brothers were murderers, which was completely unexpected to her.
Although she is now caught between two murderers, she is completely, not at all worried that she will die here.
"Although there are two, it doesn't prevent me from saving people." Yu Shi kicked Li Buxiu from a distance, and Li Buxiu fell to the ground. .
At the same time, Xiang Ling also stunned Li Ziqiang who hadn't reacted behind him with an electric shock rod.
"Next time, don't get too close to the enemy." Yu Shi sent a message on his mobile phone, asking Zhang Tu to come and arrest him.
"I have you!" Xiang Ling put away the electric shock baton, which is why she wasn't worried that she would die here.
Zhang Tu brought his team to bring the two brothers back, and also invited Yu Shi and Xiang Ling back to assist in handling the case.
From the information Zhang Tu told, at the beginning it was his younger brother Li Buxiu who saw Yang Yimeng who was going out alone on the road. Li Buxiu became lustful when he saw Yang Yimeng. They kidnapped Yang Yimeng and hid her in the hole outside the carpentry factory. At that time, the hole was still in the original collapsed state. Coupled with the noisy machinery in the carpentry factory, no one would find a hole outside. , A living person was imprisoned in the cave.
After kidnapping Yang Yimeng, he also felt scared and wanted to let him go, but because he didn't cover up when he committed the crime, Yang Yimeng already knew his identity. He will call the police, but after several days, there is still no movement in the orphanage. No one knows that Yang Yimeng is missing, and no one knows that he has kidnapped a child. In the situation where he can neither release nor kill, he can only Keep people locked up, and deliver water and food on time.
How things got out of control later, he remembers clearly, he was discovered by Li Ziqiang when he was feeding one day, and it turned out that Li Jue delivered food to Li Ziqiang according to Li's mother's order, and happened to overhear the conversation between the two, Li Jue Turning around and running, Li Ziqiang didn't know that the person who eavesdropped was his daughter, so he could only chase with Li Buxiu. Li Ziqiang chased the person first, and beat Li Jue on the back of the head with an iron rod in his studio. By the time he found out that it was his own daughter that he had killed, it was already too late.
Li Buxiong arrived later and saw Li Ziqiang hugging his daughter collapsed. In order to prevent both of them from being arrested, he could only persuade Li Ziqiang and helped dispose of Li Jue's body. the bottom of the sea.
Afterwards, Li Ziqiang seemed to have some short-term amnesia, forgetting that it was the daughter he killed, and he and his wife collapsed looking for Li Jue everywhere. Li Jue's body was found on the river beach a week later. Yang Yimeng also died. I don't know if it was due to malnutrition or other reasons. In short, when Li Buxi went to deliver the meal, he found that she had passed away.
Yang Yimeng's body was left in that hole for several days. Li Buxi didn't know what to do with it. When he was inspecting the quality of the tree, he found a hollow tree, so he used that tree and hid it. Yang Yimeng's body.
After that, Li Ziqiang's mental state was extremely unstable, and Li Buxiu was also afraid that he would tell the truth when he couldn't hold on anymore, but Li Ziqiang was stronger than he imagined, and his way of being strong was to kidnap and kill Other children in the orphanage to numb themselves.
After killing those children, Li Ziqiang's mental state tended to be stable. Except for the occasional murmur in his sleep that he had caused a nap, he looked very normal in normal times. Li Buxiong helped Li Ziqiang hide the bodies of those killed children. in the trunk.
But who knew, the tree trunk attracted a large group of butterflies and formed a butterfly tree. Li Buxi had no choice but to quit the carpentry team and become a forest ranger, always paying attention to the butterfly tree.
After that, Li Ziqiang stopped kidnapping other children from the orphanage until he opened a noodle stall after the carpentry team disbanded.
The two brothers originally thought that life would go on like this until they died, but they didn't expect that after so many years, there would still be people who wanted to find out the truth.
Feeling the crisis, Li Buxiu originally just wanted to follow the two foreign tourists to see what they could find, but he didn't expect that the hole where the child was imprisoned was discovered because of him, and he was afraid that the butterfly tree hiding the corpse would also appear No accident, so I went to build a fence, hoping to temporarily prevent other tourists from approaching, and then try to remove the bones in the tree trunk. As a result, the bones were found that night.
Then they realized that it wasn't the place where the corpses were hidden, but the investigators. They had to get rid of the investigators, so that the secrets that had been buried for many years would not be discovered.
It was precisely because of this that Xiang Ling and Yu Shi took advantage of their mentality of wanting to get rid of the investigators, set them up and exposed themselves first.
And Li Pei and Zhang Tu also brought people here. Because she was new at the time, she was afraid that she would be responsible for the disappearance of the children, so she concealed the fact that the four children were missing, and declared that the missing children were all adopted, and faked After obtaining the adoption documents, they also found four people who pretended to be the adoptive parents of the missing child, and provided the four people with the subsidies they had embezzled over the years as rewards.
"If Li Pei had called the police and said that Yang Yimeng was missing, maybe Yang Yimeng would have been rescued, and the four children would not have been kidnapped and killed by Li Ziqiang."
Yu Shi and Xiang Ling were walking side by side, and a person ran in from the police station. As soon as Li Jue's mother saw Xiang Ling, she slapped her in the face, crying and shouting: "Why should we investigate? Do I know the truth? If I had known the truth earlier, I would not have investigated it! I would rather not know for the rest of my life!"
Yu Shi pulled Li's mother away from Xiang Ling and handed her over to the police officers who came to assist her. She could fully understand Li's mother's mood at the moment. After waiting for the truth for so many years, it was her husband who killed her. own daughter.
But, who would have known earlier...
Xiang Ling sighed and touched his hot cheek.
"Does it hurt?" Yu Shi touched Xiang Ling's slightly flushed cheek, and Mother Li hit hard.
"I'm used to it." Xiang Ling walked out of the police station as if nothing had happened.
As I said a long time ago, getting used to pain is not a good thing.
After returning to the homestay, Yu Shi finished washing up and found that Xiang Ling was not in the room, so he went out to look for it, but saw Xiang Ling staying on the roof, drinking beer, staring into the distance in a daze.
"Do you feel wronged?" Yu Shi asked.
"It would be a lie to say that there is no such thing at all, but if it were me, I might not want to know the truth. Maybe it would be good to live like this for the rest of my life."
Xiang Ling took a sip, she didn't like the taste of wine, and she didn't like it, but only now, she would accept the effects of alcohol a little bit.
At the very least, it can make her feel that her head is not so clear, and she won't think so much.
"What I've always wanted to know, is it really what I want to know?"
Xiang Ling asked herself, she didn't know the answer, and knew that no one would help her answer it after asking.
She just wanted to give herself a reason not to insist.
"If you won't regret it when you get old, just give up!"
People can use the rest of their lives to let go after knowing the truth, but time will never help you eliminate regrets before you die. Regrets will always exist in your heart, and you will only continue to live in the last time of your life. Ask yourself why you didn't do something in the first place, and continue to regret why you didn't choose to stick to it in the first place.
For Li's mother, maybe not knowing the cruel truth is the best choice, but for Li Jue, for those four children, maybe they don't want to disappear alone in this world, as if they never existed
Memory is the proof that a person has lived. If no one remembers a person, who can prove that he has lived?
"If one day I die suddenly, will you remember me?" Xiang Ling asked nonchalantly.
Yu Shi replied: "I will remember that there was once a person named Xiang Ling who complained about me."
Xiang Ling was amused.
Yu Shi laughed for a while, but suddenly stopped, and she said it again seriously: "To be honest, I will remember."
Xiang Ling put down the jar in his hand, fiddled with his fingers and said, "Thank you."
They may be born with something they must pursue, such as money, power, desire, and truth. Some people may find it in their entire life, and some may not find it, but in their hearts, they leave a sense of existence, Leave a memory, only in this way can I prove that I have lived in this vast world where people are as small as dust.
After more than 20 years of silence, the Nandao Butterfly Tree case sparked another controversy in the public opinion.
Some people say that perhaps the truth should be buried forever, and family members who know the truth may not be able to accept the cruel truth, because the truth always exists for the living.
Some people also say that the truth belongs to the deceased, because the real victims are not the family members of the deceased, but the deceased himself. Just because a person is dead and has no ability to express his will, he should not be the master of the deceased.
Of course, some people don’t know where they got what Li Buxiu said when he pleaded guilty: “I didn’t have that kind of thought at first, it’s all because the girl’s dress is too short, do you know how short the skirt is?
She is still wearing a suspender dress, I am a normal single man, do I have no idea after reading it?Isn't it her problem to dress so revealingly?What do you want to dress like this at a young age?Isn't it because she is flirtatious? "
As a matter of course, this remark was scolded by the majority of rational netizens as scumbags, and they all prepared to form a team to the police station to beat up Li Buxiu. However, there are also some anonymous websites that criticize women's clothing in the name of "discussion", because It was anonymous, and the two sides launched a public opinion war.
Soon, the program Deng Tan Ru Shi found a new topic to do a program. This time the program team directly contacted Jiang Xue, the editor-in-chief of Wuyang News, and they asked the author of the report to appear on the program, and hoped that she An in-depth discussion of the topic "Who does the truth belong to?"
"Reject it, and don't allow them to use my things." This was the third day after she came back from the South Island. The report was reposted less than [-] hours ago, and the number of reprints exceeded one million.
After hanging up Jiang Xue's phone call, she opened her work mailbox and saw a new anonymous email with the title Untitled, and the content of the email was only a short line: "The fire at Xiangyang Pharmaceutical Factory was not an accident."
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