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Six years ago, Gong Haiqiang hit and killed an old man Lei Honggen on Provincial Highway 718. He tried to escape afterwards and even attacked the police when he was chased by the police.Xu Hui, an assistant policeman, indirectly caused Gong Haiqiang's second car accident while chasing him.After Gong Haiqiang's death, Xu Hui took the blame and was dismissed from his post.

Xu Hui changed jobs in August of the same year, left the police force, worked as a housing agency for several years, gradually accumulated some contacts and experience, and opened a small house rental and trusteeship company.

The receptionist in professional suits led Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong through the cubicles on the first floor, to the door of the general manager's office, and knocked on the door.

Xia Bingyang looked into the office through the loose shutters, and saw a few young men and women with 'XX manager' nameplates pinned to their chests standing in a line, holding pens and notebooks, listening to the general manager Xu Hui's lecture .

"President Xu, someone is looking for you."

After getting permission, the girl at the front desk pushed open the doorway of the office room.

As soon as the door opened, Xia Bingyang met Xu Hui immediately.

Xu Hui was wearing a crisp suit without a tie, and his suit jacket was open, but no matter how stiff the clothes were, he couldn't hide his fat figure. The youthful demeanor disappeared completely from him. A pure middle-aged businessman.

Xu Hui is quite tall, but his stocky figure makes him look shorter, his double chin hides the edges and corners of his face, only the brows still vaguely retain a youthful charm.His face is full of shrewdness, and when he looks at people, his eyes are always guessing the other person's worth through his appearance, which is very cunning.

A whiteboard was erected in the general manager's office. Xu Hui was standing in front of the whiteboard like a teacher, holding a marker pen, teaching several subordinates.

Before he could open his mouth to ask, Xia Bingyang walked in first, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Nantai District Second Sub-bureau, Xia Bingyang."

Xu Hui put down the marker in his right hand, took Xia Bingyang's hand, stared at him silently, only smiled and did not answer.He seemed to be guessing his position in his mind.

Xia Bingyang saw it, and added: "Two teams, one team."

Only then did Xu Hui say 'Oh', and turned to let the person in: "Xiao Song, pour two cups of coffee."

The three of them sat down in the shape of a pin, secretary Xiao Song brought coffee, and Xu Hui personally brought it in front of Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong.

"Are you all from the second division?"

Xu Hui smiled and asked Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong.

Ren Erdong showed him his police officer ID, and he nodded in relief.

Xia Bingyang said: "We came to you because we wanted to know about a car accident that happened on Provincial Highway 718 six years ago. You were a witness at that time."

Xu Hui picked up the small milk jug with his left hand and poured milk into their coffee cups, and said, "Oh, you mean the car accident where Gong Haiqiang killed Lei Honggen?"

Xia Bingyang reached out and dragged the bottom of the jug, and said with a smile, "You remember it very clearly."

Xu Hui put down the milk pot, said with a wry smile, "I can't forget it even if I want to." He lowered his eyes and sighed wistfully.

Ren Erdong took out the recording pen and twirled it twice in his hand, saying: "Mr. Xu, let's start then."

Xu Hui glanced at him and said with a smile: "Come to my house to talk, it's in the back neighborhood from here."

The place where Xu Hui lives is only one street away from the company. It is a community that has existed for some years. Through chatting with Xu Hui, Xia Bingyang learned that his house was built six years ago, and he originally planned to buy it. The new house married his girlfriend, but the girlfriend's family did not agree with their marriage. After the girlfriend broke up with him, he has been living alone until now.

Ren Erdong joked with him: "You are so successful in your career now, why can't you find a wife?"

Xu Hui shook his head with a smile, and only said "difficult" twice, as if he didn't want to say more.

Ren Erdong didn't ask any more questions, walked two steps slowly and stood shoulder to shoulder with Xia Bingyang who was behind, and asked in a low voice: "How is it?"

Xia Bingyang held a bottle of frozen mineral water and stuck it to his temples, unable to lift his eyes from the harsh sunlight, he lazily said: "A shrewd businessman."

He and Ren Erdong spent the night in the bar last night, and when they got home in the early morning, they didn't even have time to change their clothes, so they washed their faces and went to work.His drinking capacity had already been practiced when he was in the police academy. Although he can't be said to be drunk after a thousand drinks, there are very few people who can drink him down over the years.Now that the alcohol is on the brain, it is exposed to the sun, and the brain is bubbling in the skull like boiling, and I want to fall to the ground with a headache.

Ren Erdong's drinking capacity is average, and wisely he has never had a drink with Xia Bingyang, so he is still very sober after soaking in the bar all night, and he is still interested in watching Xia Bingyang's excitement.

Ren Erdong looked at him and asked, "What happened to you last night? Something is wrong."

Xia Bingyang supported Ren Erdong's neck, put half of his body weight on him, covered his slightly swollen eye sockets with ice water, turned his head to smell the collar of his shirt, ignored Ren Erdong's words, and asked: "I Does it smell?"

He didn't have time to change clothes, so he just sprayed perfume on his body twice to try to cover up the smell of alcohol and tobacco.

He succeeded, and Ren Erdong could only smell the thrilling perfume on him, so he rubbed his hot nose and said, "I hate big men wearing perfume, it's too greasy. But spray it on you Not bad."

Xia Bingyang folded his collar and smiled at him: "Is it sexy?"

Ren Erdong pulled back the open collar he had pulled back, and helped him fasten a button, saying: "Don't mess around baby, if you keep messing around, you'll burn yourself."

Xia Bingyang hung on him, took out the cigarette case with one hand and lit a cigarette, said with a smile, "Don't worry, your father's ignition point is very high."

Xu Hui lived in Building 5, Room 201. He opened the anti-theft door and pushed open a painted bright red wooden door.

Xia Bingyang stood at the door, raised his right hand with the cigarette in it, and asked, "Do you mind?"

Xu Hui said, "I don't mind, I don't mind."

When Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong walked in, Xu Hui said again: "There's no need to change your shoes, the labor union will come and clean them later."

The house has three bedrooms and one living room, the area is not small, and the hall is decorated with bright wood.It seems that Xu Hui has earned a lot of money over the years. There are old porcelain and wooden furniture everywhere in the house. You must be careful when walking inside, otherwise you will accidentally break the expensive furniture. wood or porcelain.

A string of beaded curtains is hung in the entrance hall and the living room leading to the balcony. Arty calligraphy and paintings are pasted on the walls. The decoration style is very old-fashioned and very bookish.

There are windows open in the house, the wind blowing in from outside the window dyes the woody fragrance of the furniture a bit, the wind in the hallway is also cool, as for the inside, it is quiet and leisurely.

Seeing the decoration style of the house, Xia Bingyang suddenly felt that the modern decoration of his home was a notch lower.

Xu Hui entertained them to sit down at a tea table in the living room, opened a box of excellent Zhuyeqing, boiled water to make tea, and was attentive and enthusiastic.

Xia Bingyang sat on a red lacquered Eight Immortals chair, picked up a delicate wooden teacup that Xu Hui placed in front of him, held it in his hand and looked around, and when Xu Hui got up to get the tea tweezers, he put it close to Ren Erdong's ear and whispered Said: "Small leaf red sandalwood."

Ren Erdong said: "Although the sparrow is small, it is full of gold and jade."

Xia Bingyang nodded: "Upgrade."

To the east of the living room stands a cabinet, made of mahogany, with a large glass window on the front, with three panes inside, a few books and photos are scattered here and there.A police hat is placed in the most conspicuous position on the third baffle.

Xia Bingyang put down his teacup and walked towards the cabinet, bent slightly to look at a photo next to the police cap.

In the photo is a young Xu Hui, wearing brand new sky blue short sleeves, with a police badge on his shoulders, and a police cap, standing in front of a patrol car with two colleagues, saluting and smiling at the camera.Next to it is a photo of Xu Hui painting with a brush when he participated in the unit's party.

Xu Hui came back with a pot of boiling water, saw Xia Bingyang was looking at the photos standing in the glass cabinet, walked up to him and said with a smile: "The three of us were assigned to the patrol brigade in the same batch, and we agreed to take the civil service exam together, and fight for it." All turned right. I didn’t expect me to leave so soon.” As he spoke, he flicked the glass window with his index finger, and said with a smile, “I used to be so proud.”

The police cap and photos are kept in a glass cabinet by him. Presumably he misses his days as a police assistant very much.

Xu Hui made tea, poured it for them, and said, "Captain Xia, come and drink tea."

Xia Bingyang responded, but did not sit back, but walked to the window, leaned on the window sill and smoked: "We came to find you, you don't seem to be surprised."

Xu Hui didn't rush to answer. He took a sip of tea before saying, "Actually, I was a little surprised. I know Gong Haiqiang's wife, Luan Yunfeng, has been appealing all these years. I thought about whether you would re-investigate this traffic accident, but I didn't expect you to come here." gone."

Ren Erdong took out the recording pen and put it on the tea table, and said, "Then let's talk about it."

Xu Hui looked back at the police cap locked in the cabinet, the shrewdness and cunning in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by heavy sentimentality, his expression darkened instantly, and said: "This has to start from April 4th. "

On April 4th, Xu Hui patrolled Provincial Highway 15 along the patrol route as usual.It was raining heavily that day, and his colleagues in the 718 police booth told him to drive slowly on the road and not rush back to eat roast chicken. He joked with his colleagues on the walkie-talkie, and hung up the call quickly.

At that time, there were basically no cars on the road, except for a taxi or a private car occasionally passing by.Their patrol route is from the entrance of Provincial Highway 718 in the east to the police box in the west. It usually takes three to ten minutes for a round of patrolling. Affected by the bad weather that day, it took nearly two to ten minutes to go from the police box to the entrance of the provincial highway in the east. Minutes, on the way back against the wind, he slowed down even more.

Just ten minutes after he passed the bridge hole, the van driven by Gong Haiqiang overtook his car from behind, almost speeding on the road at a speed of no less than 80 mph.

At that time, he shouted into the loudspeaker to the speeding van ahead, but Gong Haiqiang turned a deaf ear to it, so he immediately contacted the police booth ahead to intercept Gong Haiqiang's van.As soon as he contacted the police booth, he saw a figure suddenly flashing on the stormy road ahead, and that person was Lei Honggen.

Gong Haiqiang didn't seem to see the old man, maybe he did, but he didn't have time to slow down, or maybe he slowed down, but the van was too close and there wasn't enough time for him to turn.

No matter what, the final result was that the van driven by Gong Haiqiang hit Lei Honggen. Lei Honggen's body was hit from the one-way street in the north to the one-way street in the west. With multiple fractures, he lay on the ground, bleeding all over the ground in an instant.Died instantly.

After the accident, the van hit the curb, and the rear and front of the van flashed hastily turn signals.

Xu Hui wanted to get out of the car to see how the old man was doing, but the car involved in the accident wanted to escape, so he immediately started the police car and chased after him.While being chased, Gong Haiqiang deliberately rammed the van into the police car, and Xu Hui repeatedly avoided Gong Haiqiang's impact.But Gong Haiqiang seemed intent on getting rid of the police car behind him, ignoring the intersection ahead that required a turn. When he turned the corner, the body of the car had already fallen off the roadbed, and the front of the car rushed to the slope beside the road.

Xu Hui said that he still remembers that Gong Haiqiang's van rolled four or five times on the slope before hitting the mud pit.

Xu Hui recalled the scene of Gong Haiqiang being trapped in the battered van covered in blood. After many years, he still showed guilt and said, "I just wanted to catch up with him, but I didn't expect him to have a car accident."

Xia Bingyang asked: "Later?"

"Later, I contacted my colleagues in the police station and sent the unconscious Luan Yunfeng to the hospital."

The wind suddenly picked up, Xia Bingyang closed a window, went to the tea table and asked: "Luan Yunfeng kept saying that there was a truck that caused the accident at the scene of the accident, do you have any impression?"

Xu Hui frowned and thought for a while: "Truck? There were only two of us on the road at that time, and I didn't see the truck."

"That's it?"

"I can't guarantee that there are other sections of the road, but I did not see the truck passing by."

Xia Bingyang pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray on the tea table, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "That is to say, the van driven by Gong Haiqiang was the only one at the scene of the car accident?"

Xu Hui was a little confused, looked at Xia Bingyang and said, "Yes, there is only one van. I said it six years ago, why are you still investigating this matter?"

Xia Bingyang looked at him with piercing eyes, but didn't speak.

Xu Hui seemed to have noticed something suddenly. His eyes moved to Ren Erdong who was also silent, and then to Xia Bingyang, and said, "Wait, you guys, are you doubting me? Suspecting that I'm lying?"

The white and tender skin he had pampered and nurtured for many years quickly turned red. He slammed the teacup on the tea table and said angrily: "Why do you doubt me? What reason do you have to doubt me? What reason do I have to lie!"

Xia Bingyang looked at him, unmoved, just brushed off a speck of cigarette ash on the skirt of his clothes, and slightly touched Ren Erdong's eyes.

Ren Erdong smiled and said: "No, no, Mr. Xu, don't worry too much, we are also half colleagues, how could we doubt you."

Xu Hui was so depressed that he couldn't calm down: "Okay, since you suspect that I am lying, then you should contact the court and give me a polygraph test!"

Ren Erdong met Xia Bingyang's eyes again, seeing Xia Bingyang's appearance of staying out of the way and not preparing to participate, so he could only calm Xu Hui's emotions with a smile.

When Xu Hui's face looked better, Ren Erdong said: "Mr. Xu, there is still a few moments before we have a match with you. After the match, we will leave."

Xu Hui raised his hand with a sullen face, indicating that he can start at any time.

While Ren Erdong and Xu Hui were checking the time, Xia Bingyang wandered around the living room, lifted the curtain that divided the living room into two, and walked inside.

Inside is a smaller sitting room with a set of wooden sofas, and a small balcony extending out to a width of more than one meter.

There is a curtain made of light blue crystal gauze hanging in front of the balcony. Behind the curtain is a window with open windows and a sunny balcony. Looking through the blue gauze curtain, the sun is also glowing with a shade of blue, which looks beautiful and mysterious. deep pool.

Xia Bingyang liked the blue gauze curtain blown by the wind, and the blue sunlight behind the gauze curtain, so he walked towards the balcony, raised the curtain and walked to the balcony, only to find a bronze mirror standing on the balcony.The mirror surface is polished, and under the reflection of the sun, it looks like layers of water ripples, and people shining in it also flow with the water ripples.

Standing in front of the mirror, Xia Bingyang flicked his bangs, straightened his shirt collar, and glanced at the view of the balcony. He was about to turn around and leave when a gust of wind suddenly blew in from the balcony, which not only opened the gauze curtain, but also fascinated him Eye.

A fine grain of dust was blown into his eyes, and he rubbed his eyelids vigorously, the lower eyelids were rubbed with a little water in an instant, the discomfort of the foreign body invasion disappeared, but his vision was still a little blurry.

In the blur, he saw a person walking out of the mirror with rippling water—no, it should be a figure gradually becoming clearer in the flowing water pattern of the mirror.In short, he just appeared out of thin air, without sound or warning.

A person suddenly appeared on the balcony. Xia Bingyang didn't have time to think, and subconsciously stretched his hands to his waist to take off the handcuffs. Just as his fingers touched the cold handcuffs, he stopped.

He couldn't believe that the person who appeared on the balcony turned out to be Ji Zheng. He and Ji Zheng hadn't seen each other for many years, and only found a recent photo of Ji Zheng in the judicial system.When Ji Zheng appeared in front of him, he still recognized him immediately.

Ji Zheng walked towards him surrounded by a light blue soft light.

Ji Zheng was wearing a dark blue suit, with his suit jacket open due to the hot weather, but his shirt was fastened to the second button meticulously.He has a pair of phoenix eyes with dark pupils and restrained divine light.His eyes flowed and did not move, and his pitch-black eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of cold water.

He lowered his eyes slightly to look at Xia Bingyang, with a gentle and focused smile on his lips.

Xia Bingyang looked at him with wide eyes in astonishment, and was about to call his name, but he raised his hand to cover his mouth.

Ji Zheng didn't touch him, but just put his left palm in front of his mouth and jaw.Subconsciously, Xia Bingyang stepped back as he walked in, stepped back in front of the wall, and stared at him blankly.

Ji Zheng looked into his eyes tenderly, and smiled slightly: "Shhh—"