Abyss of ignorance

Chapter 227
"I know, he has ample alibi." Lin Xiaodong nodded, "Besides, if he is the murderer, he shouldn't tell me so much about Xu Binyong's life before he was alive. It's completely unnecessary to reveal Nanpu's information to me. .”

The two of them walked upstairs while talking. From a distance, they saw Xiao Xu at his work station, wiping something with his head down.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Yue Jianfeng patted Xiao Xu on the back in a tricky manner, which scared Xiao Xu so much that he almost fell off the chair. When he looked up and saw that it was Yue Jianfeng, he was angry and didn't dare to attack. He muttered: "Captain Yue, you scared me to death. I just wiped my shoes and went to the cafeteria for lunch. I don't know who spilled the food. I accidentally stepped on it. I always feel that my shoes are dirty when I sit at work. It smells so bad, I just want to wipe it off."

"Oh, you are a dog's nose. Next time, when you go to the scene of the crime, it would be great if your nose has such a light." Yue Jianfeng said with a smirk.

"I don't know if there is garlic in the overturned dish. It really smells like it. If you don't believe me, you can smell it?" Xiao Xu is now familiar with the team, and he is about the same age as Yue Jianfeng. When Yue Jianfeng heard this, Yue Jianfeng ran away, and the two started playing childishly.

Only Lin Xiaodong listened to the conversation between the two silently, standing there in a daze, and said to himself: "She has just been to the vegetable market..." As he spoke, he looked at the one that Yue Jianfeng had just casually placed on Xiao Xu's desk. A report, I took it out and looked at it again, "It's too clean..."

……

Before the sun set, Lin Xiaodong returned to his home in the new district.

This time, Jiang Lin was here, and when she saw him come back, she looked happy: "Finally, I don't have to work overtime today? I've been worrying about your health for the past two days. I recently learned from the video and cooked pumpkin porridge today. I was thinking of waiting for you to come back at night for supper, but now you come back just in time, I bought steamed buns, and now I have steamed porridge for dinner..." She said attentively, and she got up to go to the kitchen.

"No need." Lin Xiaodong said, and put a bag of pears in his hand on the dining table, "Can you peel a pear for me to eat." He said.

Jiang Lin froze for a moment, then took the whole bag of pears with a smile, and said, "I went to the kitchen to peel them for you."

Lin Xiaodong had already gone to the kitchen first, took out a fruit knife, handed it to her, and said blankly, "It's okay, just cut it in the living room."

Jiang Lin hesitated and reached out to pick up the fruit knife. When her hand touched the handle of the knife, Lin Xiaodong suddenly turned the knife and sent the tip of the knife towards Jiang Lin. Seeing that it was about to stab her in the chest, Jiang Lin yelled Seeing that he was about to be stabbed, Lin Xiaodong quickly restrained his strength.

This time, both of them broke out in a cold sweat.

Jiang Lin's eyes widened and she looked at Lin Xiaodong, astonished and puzzled.

"Why don't you hide?!" Lin Xiaodong said in a deep voice, looking directly into her face.

"I, I was scared stupid just now, Xiaodong, what's wrong with you?" Jiang Lin's eyes were full of panic and worry.

This look made Lin Xiaodong feel a little shaken in his heart, but he knew he couldn't.

"You can dodge completely." Lin Xiaodong insisted, "The first reaction of a normal person is to dodge, not to stand still."

"Do you know what you're talking about? I'm so scared that I can't move..." Jiang Lin had tears in her eyes, and her fear was gradually replaced by grievances.

"You said you can't cook, but your knife skills are good?" Lin Xiaodong looked at Jiang Lin with a sense of scrutiny.

"What on earth are you doubting me?!" Jiang Lin asked back, as if she had just realized that Lin Xiaodong was testing her, and endured the humiliation, she pursed her lips and said, "Because, before marrying Xu Binyong, I have studied sculpture, is there anything strange about that?"

"The other day you said that you went out to buy vegetables, but the soles of your shoes were exceptionally clean, and there weren't even many bacteria. This doesn't look like someone who walked around the vegetable market and came back?" Lin Xiaodong continued to ask, as if he had already entered the interrogation status.

"Are you secretly checking my shoes?" Jiang Lin's tone at this time was not as simple as aggrieved, and even angry.

Lin Xiaodong didn't speak, just looked at her, waiting for an explanation.

Never before has he needed an explanation so much.

"I just washed the soles of my shoes in the public sink downstairs because I was afraid of dirtying your home. I have caused you too much trouble, do you understand how I feel? I don't know what to do, just I can make up for what I owe you, I want to repay you, but I feel unworthy to repay you..." Jiang Lin said, tears already falling down.

Lin Xiaodong fell silent. He really wanted to believe her, but he didn't think these explanations were enough for him to believe her.

"Xiaodong... I don't know why you doubt me, and I don't expect your trust. You saved my life. Even if you really killed me today, I won't blame you. But, you always Give me an understanding, why do you doubt me?" Now it was Jiang Lin's turn to ask.

"I..." Lin Xiaodong was actually asked for a while, why he doubted Jiang Lin, it was because of what Ye Mimi said to him in the ward, but, a long time ago, Ye Mimi also told him However, falling into a logical and self-consistent obsession is the beginning of destruction.He used to be so persistent in believing that Ye Mimi was guilty, but at this moment, facing Jiang Lin, he seemed to see himself falling into that strange circle again, and everything reappeared like a samsara.

"Xiaodong, I know I shouldn't say this, but, I..." Jiang Lin blushed in front of him, "I know I'm 14 years older than you, I'm not in good health, and my husband just died , is such an unlucky and unlucky person, I don't even know how to scan the QR code to pay... That day, on Hawthorne East Road, if you don't come back, I have already made up my mind to disappear from Linzhou, I don't want to drag you down , to make things difficult for you.

But, I, I can't bear to part with you so much, how I hope that you are a chance given to me by God, a chance to be reborn..." Jiang Lin babbled like this.

Lin Xiaodong let her speak, as if he had a premonition of what she was going to say, but was also afraid of what she was going to say.

"Lin Xiaodong... I love you." Jiang Lin finally said it, and then covered her face and began to cry, "I just want you to know that I will never do anything to hurt you, and you don't have to be burdened, I know I do not deserve……"

However, at this moment, Lin Xiaodong suddenly understood what the gap in his heart that could not be filled, consciously or unconsciously, these days. He put down the fruit knife in his hand, and took Jiang Lin into his arms, not paying attention to her. There is something strange about the hands that cover their faces...

(End of this chapter)