Back to 1990. Criminal Investigation

The girl's swaying ponytail was particularly conspicuous under the moonlight. Leng Jiucheng recognized the running back in the alley at a glance. He speeded up and caught Fang Yuanyuan effortlessly. "What are you doing outside Ding Chong's house?"

Fang Yuanyuan struggled hard, but couldn't shake off the restraint of her wrist, "I'm just passing by, and I won't let you pass by?"

"Don't forget that I just came back from your house in the afternoon. The distance from your house to Ding Chong's house, no matter how hard I drop in, I can't make it here, and I don't sleep at home at night, so I came to such a far place to drop in? Do you think I will believe it?"

Fang Yuanyuan's tense shoulders loosened, and she gave up on herself and said, "Let go of me first."

Leng Jiucheng let go of his hand and stared at her closely.

Fang Yuanyuan was stared at with sharp eyes like knives and had nowhere to escape, so she had no choice but to say: "I was in a bad mood after arguing with my parents, so I came to find Ding Chong to chat with him. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing." She raised her head and confronted Leng Jiucheng. TV, "Ding Chong's father often does this?"

Leng Jiucheng: "It's usually fine, but it's more serious after drinking."

Fang Yuanyuan followed Leng Jiucheng and asked urgently, "Why didn't you arrest his father? Aren't you a policeman?"

Leng Jiucheng put one hand in his pocket and turned his head to look at the dark alley, "The police can't arrest people casually. If Ding Chong's mother doesn't report the crime, we have nothing to do."

Fang Yuanyuan grabbed Leng Jiucheng's wrist, "Why can't the police do anything? Can you arrest him?"

Leng Jiucheng pushed her hand away, "Don't think too much about the police."

Fang Yuanyuan paced back and forth anxiously, "Then what should I do? What should I do?"

Leng Jiucheng: "I'll think of a way to do this. Since you're here, why don't you go in and look for Ding Chong?"

"The class monitor definitely doesn't want his classmates to see his father like this. I went in rashly because I was afraid he would lose face. I don't want him to lose face, and I don't want him either." Fang Yuanyuan suddenly changed her tone and begged, "Please find a way to stop the class monitor's father Such behavior."

Leng Jiucheng nodded in response, "What happened to you and your parents?"

Fang Yuanyuan bowed her head and did not speak. Her cheeks were sunken, her eyes were red and bloodshot, her clothes were patched, her shoes didn't fit her feet, her hair was withered, yellow and dry. She didn't look like a girl of sixteen or seventeen at all. She looked like weeds on the side of the road , the appearance is not so beautiful, but the vitality is extremely tenacious. Leng Jiucheng is more and more eager to know the reason why the tenacious weeds disappeared. He relaxed his expression a little, and his voice softened a little bit, trying to make himself look amiable. "Your father mentioned the matter of not allowing you to study again?"

Fang Yuanyuan: "He hopes that I can get married as soon as possible, or go out to work to earn money to support the family."

In this day and age, most elder brothers and sisters have to sacrifice for the family. There are not many elder sisters like Fang Yuanyuan who insist on studying. Leng Jiucheng tentatively asked: "In your family's situation, it is really difficult to support you to study. Why?" Do you have to go this way?"

Fang Yuanyuan pursed her lips tightly, and said after a while: "I want to leave here, leave them, and give up studying. In the future, I will be like my mother, marry a mediocre man, have a litter of children, and live a poor and sad life." , that is not the life I want, and only by leaving them and leaving that cage can I live the life I yearn for."

Leng Jiucheng was slightly surprised. He didn't expect Fang Yuanyuan to have such an idea. He tried to bring the topic to Liang Cheng, "Where do you want to take the exam in the future?"

"Not ready yet."

"Where is Liang Cheng? Where does he want to take the exam?"

"He wants to go." Halfway through the conversation, Fang Yuanyuan looked at Leng Jiucheng vigilantly, "Did my dad tell you about our childhood? I didn't tell you the truth because I didn't want to get into trouble. Me and Liang Cheng had a good relationship when he was young, and when he grew up, he had his own life circle, so there was no intersection. Police officer Leng has had friends like this before, right?"

Fang Yuanyuan had a clear mind, and when her lie was exposed, she immediately used another explanation to cover up the previous statement. The statement was logically explainable, but this kind of behavior reflected that she had a ghost in her heart. She knew the university that Liang Cheng yearned for. She and Liang Cheng have communicated in the near future, unlike what Fang's father said they hadn't contacted for a year or two.

Fang Yuanyuan is very guarded, she is not someone who can tell the truth in a few words, the more she asks, the more likely she will be on guard. Leng Jiucheng didn't say any more, and drove her home by bicycle. Before leaving, he thought of Fang Yuanyuan's safety, Leng Jiucheng Cheng reminded: "Ding Chong has no idea of ​​dating for the time being, you should keep some distance from him."

Fang Yuanyuan ran away shyly without saying a word.

When Leng Jiucheng went home, the young man leaned over and asked urgently, "Who is eavesdropping outside my house?"

Leng Jiucheng told Fang Yuanyuan the truth.

"Why is she eavesdropping?"

"She said she was in a bad mood after arguing with her father, and she came to chat with you. She didn't go in because she was afraid that you would feel ashamed."

"There's nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone knows about my dad." Ding Chong was so depressed that he added, "Only I don't know."

In Ding Chong’s memory, his father was kind and amiable. He liked to drink but never hit anyone. The family of three went to the park, laughed and romped and ate. Every frame in his memory was warm and happy. Ding Jianmin’s behavior made him wonder if his memory had come out. question.

If memory is not reliable, what is reliable and reliable?Has Ding Jianmin always been like this, or has the past changed after his rebirth?

Ding Chong looked at the dark windows of the house, while Leng Jiucheng looked at Ding Chong from the side, thinking, where did Ding Jianmin and his wife go?Why is it missing?If dead, who was the murderer?According to Ding Chong's personality, he couldn't sit idly by when his parents were killed. He didn't track down the murderer, and he didn't report the case. What's wrong with it?

The two of them, each with their own thoughts, sat in the courtyard and meditated on each other until the night was quiet and a cool breeze blew up. Leng Jiucheng kicked Ding Chong lightly on the leg of the stool, "Go in and sleep."

I haven't come to the cold for a few days. Jiucheng put up a mosquito net on his bed. On a hot day, the two of them squeezed into the same bed and were still wrapped in a mosquito net. No matter how strange he thought, Ding Chong was at a loss: "How to sleep?"

Leng Jiucheng said expressionlessly, "Lie down and sleep."

Ding Chong: "..."

Leng Jiucheng: "Are you inside or outside?"

"I'm down there."

The corner of Leng Jiucheng's mouth twitched slightly, "You have special hobbies, but I don't like sleeping on top of each other."

"No...it's not what you think...I said I slept on the floor under the bed..." Ding Chong blushed so anxiously.

Leng Jiucheng said without changing his expression, "What am I thinking?"

"..." Ding Chong gave up explaining, broke the jar, threw away his slippers, got into the mosquito net, and lay down by the window.

Leng Jiucheng turned off the lights, and the room fell into darkness. Under the moonlight, the boy tensed his body, motionless as if he was being tortured. Leng Jiucheng curled his lips and slipped into the mosquito net, lying on the outside of the bed with a quilt in between, and no one spoke.

The night is quiet and silent, the crescent moon hangs in the sky, and the faint light shines into the window, reflecting on the young man's face, Ding Chong can't sleep, although it's not the first time he has squeezed into a bed with someone, but sleeping with Leng Jiucheng feels awkward and inexplicably nervous, To alleviate this silent embarrassment, Ding Chong tilted his head and said, "Brother Leng, teach me to smoke?"

"Stop learning, it's no good."

"Then why are you still smoking?"

"My life is hard."

"I'm harder."

Leng Jiucheng: "..."

Ding Chong jumped over the quilt and moved closer to Leng Jiucheng, "Let me try it, it's quite interesting to see you smoking." He let out a breath imitating smoking, and happened to blow into Leng Jiucheng's ear.

The warm breath lingered around his ears, like a feather gently touching the pinnae, his body seemed to be passed by an electric current, it was crispy, numb and a little itchy, a strange feeling that he had never had before suddenly rose in Leng Jiucheng's heart, he immediately Sit up and distance yourself from Ding Chong.

Ding Chong was confused, "What are you doing?"

Leng Jiucheng sat on the edge of the bed and put on his shoes, "Go out and smoke a cigarette, you go to bed first."

Hearing the word "噗", Ding Chong jumped up from the bed and grabbed Leng Jiucheng's arm, "I'll go with you."

The temperature of his palm penetrated into Leng Jiucheng's body through his skin, he threw Ding Chong away suddenly, and stood more than one meter away from Ding Chong, "You...you...don't come here. ..."

Ding Chong:? ? ?

What happened to the calm police officer?

Can't you grab your arm and talk?

"No smoking" was not finished, Leng Jiucheng had already left the room, Ding Chong was sitting on the bedside, looking out of the window, Leng Jiucheng leaned against the wall in the courtyard and smoked with his head bowed, his eyes were deep and dark in the dark night, filled with After thinking about something, his eyes were colder than during the day, and the white smoke surrounded the surroundings, adding a bit of loneliness, and a sense of familiarity spontaneously emerged. He seemed to have seen Leng Jiucheng somewhere, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him, so he simply said directly. Looking out the window, he asked, "Have we met before?"

The finger holding the cigarette lightly paused, Leng Jiucheng turned his head, and his eyes fell on the bright face of the young man in front of the window, not only had he seen it before, they had lived together in the Jinshanjiao area for 5 years, but the hatred of those five years blinded Leng Jiu Cheng's eyes, except for work needs, never looked at Ding Chong directly. When he thought of the bloody scene in the past, the hatred and disgust engraved in the bone marrow surged up again.

Young Ding Chong's eyes were clean and clear, like a gust of wind blowing away the dust left by time, Leng Jiucheng looked back and said, "I haven't seen it before."

Ding Chong: "Then why did you strangle me as soon as we met?"

Leng Jiucheng put out the cigarette and walked into the room, "Because you are handsome."

Ding Chong: "..."

The next day when Leng Jiucheng stepped into the office, Li Xun ran over with dark circles under his eyes and said, "Captain, except for Ding Chong who is in charge of you, the others have been very quiet these past few days. I didn't notice the five of them gathering together. Li Jingwei didn't." Signs of wanting to leave, no other cases have occurred recently, no suspicious persons have appeared... what should we do now?"

In Liang Cheng's case, all the evidence in the hands of the police now points to Ding Chong and the others. Staring at them, they found no abnormality, and there is no new situation or new progress. The case has completely entered a dead end.

Li Xun hesitated and said, "Do you want to bring Ding Chong and his group here again?"

Ding Chong has been under the nose of Leng Jiucheng for the past day or two, showing no signs of suspiciousness. Regarding Liang Cheng's current situation of Liang Guoxiang and Fang Yuanyuan's hidden situation, Leng Jiucheng said: "You go with me again. Liang Cheng's family, ask Gao Qingwu to visit Liang Guoxiang's hometown again, and verify Liang Guoxiang's situation on the night of the incident."

When I came to Liang Cheng's house again, Liang's mother saw Leng Jiucheng closed the door and disappeared. Li Xun talked hard and soft for a long time before opening the door. What to do? Come to my house again and again, why don't you go to the school and ask for the compensation, so that Liang Cheng will understand."

Liang's mother didn't invite them to sit in. Leng Jiucheng stood at the door, looking down at Liang's mother, with a majestic presence, giving people a full sense of oppression without speaking.

Liang's mother looked down at the basin, avoiding Leng Jiucheng's gaze, "You... what do you see me doing?"

Leng Jiucheng followed her with sharp eyes, "I really want Liang Cheng to understand, so I shouldn't hide the matter of Liang Guoxiang and Liang Cheng."

The copper basin fell to the ground with a "bang", and in the next second, Mother Liang squatted down to pick it up, glaring at Jiucheng angrily, "Speaking nonsense...I'll go to the police station and report you to the leader."

There was no wave in Leng Jiucheng's eyes, and he said calmly: "The director is in the office today, you can go anytime."

"You..." Liang's mother put the basin on the ground, pinched her waist and said, "My old Liang treats Liang Cheng better than his own son, and everyone in the neighborhood can see it, so don't spout blood."

Leng Jiucheng pointed to the master bedroom, "It's good enough to sleep on the same bed? With the same quilt? As the hostess, take a look at that bedroom. Is there any trace of you? Don't think that you can fill it up as a father and son." Everyone, Liang Guoxiang's preferences, you know better than anyone else."

Liang's mother leaned against the wall, staring straight at the bedroom, as if she had been frozen. Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes for a long time, and she said in a raving voice: "I'm sorry Liang Cheng...Liang Guoxiang is just a beast ,he....."