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Chapter 23 Who is calling her, is it him, or the teenager in memory?
Chapter 23 Who is calling her, is it him, or the teenager in memory?
The first year Chen Siheng graduated and was assigned to the sub-bureau in the city. Due to his seniority, he was not assigned to serious and important cases. He was first assigned to sort out files and files over the years. He was down-to-earth and hard-working, and his immediate leaders praised him highly.
In the evening of that day, Xiao Xiao, who was on duty, went to the police. He was on top temporarily, and was responsible for answering the phone and registering the situation of the reporter. There were not many emergencies when he got off work.
That girl came here at this point.
It is nominally early autumn, but the scorching heat is still dominating, the sun is about to set, and the light is still as abundant as day.
The girl pushed open the swing door of the police station, the angle of the sunlight falling on the glass door temporarily changed, and the refracted spot of light flashed past his eyes.
She was sent to herself by the evening sun.
Chen Siheng could see the girl's face clearly through a filling table. All her hair was loosely tied into a bun on the top of her head, her skin was as fair as porcelain, her double eyelids were well folded, her lips were beautiful diamond shape, and the corners of her mouth were upward. , Even if you don’t smile, you seem to be smiling, and your appearance is sweet.
Chen Siheng felt that she looked like a star, but the rash questioning showed that he was not professional enough, but also seemed to have ulterior motives.
The girl revealed the purpose of her trip. She wanted to check the surveillance video of the municipal hospital three years ago.
In the prosperous age of peace, in fact, there were not so many unjust, false and wrongful cases and innocent injustices in the news reports. After graduating from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Academy, he was slapped in the face by reality piapia before he could even imagine his life like Sherlock Holmes. The most intense case he has dealt with in the past three months was from a bank. A depositor suspected that he had been defrauded by the bank. He went to the lobby with a knife and kidnapped a little girl. After the bank called the police, a car of criminal police was dispatched Capture people.This matter was done extremely beautifully. Afterwards, the director specially commended the area under his jurisdiction and listed it as an advanced unit of the year. He brought up this case for a whole quarter.
Chen Siheng printed out an application form, gave her a gel pen, and asked her to sit down and fill it out.
The girl was sitting sideways, occupying only a small half of the stool, her profile was graceful and demure, she was writing quietly with her head bowed.
Chen Siheng continued with the task at hand.
A few minutes later, a form with beautiful handwriting was handed to him, and he checked the next few required items, including the signature.
Gao Yueyan.
It is true to its name.
The transfer of monitoring needs to be approved by the higher authorities. Generally, there are more bank disputes. It depends on the monitoring procedures of a hospital. The monitoring process is more complicated. He asked her to go back and wait for the news in a gentle tone, and then left a copy of her ID card. pieces.
Gao Yueyan didn't argue, nodded, took her bag, turned around and left.
Chen Siheng didn't move, but his eyes sent her a short distance, all the way to the door.Only then did he notice a white Mazda parked by the flower bed under the steps, and she opened the door of the passenger seat and sat in.
Yueyan fastened her seat belt, put the small bag on her lap, and looked at the front wistfully.
It's been so long, and I've suffered too many disappointments, so I don't count this once or twice.
Sun Weiwei glanced at her, but still didn't ask anything, and started the car as gently as possible so that she didn't feel any jolts.
Looking at the moving street scene outside the window, she came back to her senses and thanked him again and again: "Please send me all this way."
Sun Weiwei smiled: "I just said don't see outsiders, did you see outsiders again? If there is any trouble with our old classmates for so many years, don't bother."
After Yueyan graduated from university, the school offered her the opportunity to guarantee graduate studies, but she didn't want to be too far away from Hangzhou, so she still considered coming back, looking for a job slowly, and taking care of her father at the same time.
Yue Yan smiled politely.But even when she was smiling, there was still melancholy between her brows, which made her look more pitiful and melancholy among girls of the same age.
In a word, a woman is truly beautiful from the day she is saddest.
Sun Weiwei looked away, feeling a bit of introspection in his heart.If he was still single, he would probably still be attracted to Gao Yueyan unavoidably. Her temperament at every stage so precisely hit the aesthetics of boys of the same age. The innocence of a girl, and the fragility and melancholy of an adult, are irresistible.
Sun Weiwei tried his best to lead the topic in a cheerful direction.
One year after graduation, many of their high school classmates had achieved fruitful couples, such as Si Nan, who had been dating Zhang Jun for four years. Once Zhang Jun graduated, the parents of both parties couldn't wait to put the wedding on the agenda.
Yueyan returned to Hangzhou this time because of her father's business on the one hand, and on the other hand she came to attend her wedding.
I didn't expect to meet Sun Weiwei at the entrance of the hospital. After graduation, he went back to Hangzhou to study for graduate school. Now he is in the first year of graduate school. He has a girlfriend who is the daughter of his tutor. The relationship between the two has always been stable, but because the woman is three years older than him. , the woman's parents urged them to get married in a hurry.
On the way, Sun Weiwei talked about his recent situation in recent years, and Yueyan usually only briefly mentioned his own situation when he asked.
Sun Weiwei didn't get to the bottom of it either.
What happened in her family was published in the local newspaper three years ago. It was a big commotion at the time. They heard about it among their high school classmates, but they were not the parties involved. They didn't know the details deeply. They knew that her father fell into a coma after jumping off the building. The family factory was auctioned, and because of insolvency, the four properties in the family were successively seized.
During that period, Sun Weiwei thought about contacting her, but he couldn't get in touch. He called her school and found out that she had gone through the formalities of suspension.
That year, Yueyan seemed to have completely cut off contact with them and the world, and no one knew where she had gone.
In Sun Weiwei's imagination, she is a wounded kitten who would rather lick her wound behind her back than ask for cheap sympathy from others.
Mazda stopped at the gate of an old residential area in the north of the city.
Sun Weiwei put his hand on the car window and looked outside. There was a pickup truck passing by on the road billowing in smoke and dust, making the soles of his feet tremble.It's almost the outskirts of the city, so she lives in this kind of place?
Seeing Yueyan unbuckle her seat belt and get out of the car, the words rolled on the tip of her tongue a few times, and when she was about to leave her mouth, she realized that it was inappropriate, so he insisted on chasing her out: "I will pick you up on Sinan's wedding day."
The last ray of sunlight in the evening fell on her shoulders, and she made a six to her ear, as if she had returned to the lively spirit of the past, she said, "I'll talk about it on the phone."
People go upstairs.
The car drives away.
As soon as Xiao Xiao came back, Chen Siheng handed over the completed form to him.He glanced roughly, saw the name, flicked the crispy paper with his index finger, and said ho, "It's her again."
Chen Siheng remained calm on the surface, but secretly pricked up his ears: "What's wrong with her?"
Xiao Xiao was surprised: "You don't even know."
"This is big news in our city of Hangzhou. Three years ago, the big boss of a private enterprise broke his capital chain, owed a lot of debt, and jumped off the third floor of the hospital. Now, this is the girl's father."
Chen Siheng searched the memory bank, and soon found a name corresponding to Gao in the huge file, Gao Zhiming.
With professional sensitivity, Chen Siheng sensed the crux of the problem: "Then why did she come to check the hospital's monitoring?"
"Ms. Ren doesn't believe it. She thinks her father wouldn't jump off the building. He was pushed down by someone. When her father had an accident, almost everyone was living in our place. She insisted on checking the surveillance and videotaping."
Chen Siheng asked nervously, "Have you shown it to her?"
"I saw it, but I still don't believe it. But if you say that the evil door is also an evil door, the hospital happened to be repairing the surveillance in the past few days, and the most critical cameras were all black."
A female policewoman with a round face next to it interjected: "If I don't believe it, why is it so good? If it's broken, maybe it's a competitor doing something."
"That kind of boss's house, the relationship is chaotic. Why did the capital chain stop at the beginning? His wife messed with people outside and loaned the factory to the bank behind Gao Zhiming's back. After the accident, Gao Zhiming's son forced the second phase of the factory. If he is pushed down, he is considered a tiger father and has no dogs, and instead of selling clothes, he sells electrical appliances and accessories, and now he is considered a little famous, and he has not lost his father's face."
Chen Siheng paused for a moment, then asked again: "Since Gao Zhiming has a son, why doesn't his son care about it and ask a girl to run around and work?"
"The Gao family's situation is a bit complicated. Gao Zhiming married two wives successively. This Gao Yueyan was born by the first wife, and the latter brought two more after marriage, a son and a daughter."
Chen Siheng frowned, hesitant to speak: "So, your son is not related to Gao Zhiming by blood?"
Xiao Xiao nodded.
Chen Siheng thought of a possibility, which is not uncommon when they deal with family economic disputes: "Brother, tell me, could it be that his wife deliberately designed it so that his son could take over..."
"Stop, stop." Xiao Xiao raised his left index finger, pressed against the palm of his right hand, and made a stop gesture, "Hey, what did the master tell you when you entered this business, don't handle cases with subjective emotions, and As the saying goes, it is difficult for an upright official to decide on housework, the most important thing for us people's police is to do our job well, don't make so many unreasonable assumptions."
When he was studying at school, Chen Siheng was a man of hard work. After he really entered this industry, he showed his hard work spirit to the fullest. That night, he ran to the archives room and made a photocopy of all the materials of the Gao Zhiming case. He was busy for nearly ten hours. At one o'clock, I handed over the key to the archive room, packed up my things and went home.
After arriving home, Chen Siheng went to the bathroom to take a battle bath, wiped his hair casually, went back to his room, spread out his notebook, took out his good habit of taking detective classes back then, first drew a timeline on the blank page, and described the events of the characters as follows: The branches and leaves are added, and the sketches are painted, and it is late at night before you know it.
Before going to bed, I checked my phone for the last time, and accidentally found a WeChat message from a college classmate.
When he clicked on the link, a series of electronic sounds of jingling bells burst out first, which startled him and quickly pressed mute.
After reading it, I realized that it was an electronic wedding invitation letter.
The day before Sinan's wedding, Yueyan, who was a bridesmaid, stayed at her house and slept with her.A total of four bridesmaids were invited at the wedding, except for one who couldn't make it in a foreign country, and all four were classmates in their high school dormitory.
It was so rare to get together, and everyone inevitably began to complain about all the troubles they had encountered in the past year of graduation. Men seem to be the inevitable eternal protagonists in this topic. The one who shed tears and taught them to grow up, talked until late at night, everyone didn't drink a drop of wine, but they seemed to be drunk, there was laughter when talking about happiness, and tears when talking about sadness.
And many scenes are always brought back to the eyes inadvertently by those laughter and tears: desks full of textbooks, blackboards full of sunlight, cheers on the basketball court, and the sound of reading books in an empty campus...
Yue Yan hugged her pillow and sat quietly on the side, listening to her former classmates chatting.She likes this atmosphere very much. Her best friend gets married and her closest classmates are all around, as if returning to the feeling of high school.
So, if she was given another chance, would she still be willing to go back?
She couldn't give an answer.
The night was getting deeper, but they still didn't feel sleepy.The topic became increasingly personal and secretive.
Finally, someone mentioned the name of Chi Zha when he was a student, and a girl sitting at the end of the bed asked softly, "Yueyan, are you still with Shen Ziqiao?"
What happened in her family was almost an open secret among their high school classmates, and the word Shen Ziqiao seemed to be no longer mentioned after the incident happened.
The girls looked at Yueyan at the side, with a hint of curiosity in good intentions.
She lowered her eyes, and the straight hair of the shawl fell from both sides: "It's divided."
For a long time after her father fell from the building, she almost closed herself completely. She became a stone or a sculpture, unable to respond to all external stimuli, and she seemed to die once.
Shen Ziqiao asked her at the time: "Can we go on?"
Yue Yan shook her head: "I can't."
Shen Ziqiao stared at her for a while, nodded, and said, "That's fine."
In the following three years, apart from going to the hospital to visit his paralyzed father, Shen Ziqiao never took the initiative to appear in front of her again.The trajectory of life draws two bifurcated straight lines at that moment, and it seems that there will never be any intersection in this life.
The girls fell silent.
Si Nan's eyes were slightly red, and he called her sadly: "Yueyan..."
Yue Yan smiled, and there was no sorrow on her face: "It's all over, am I fine now?"
Yueyan also didn't understand until after her father's accident. Tears don't necessarily flow only when she is sad. The corners of her lips are obviously upturned, and tears will still flow.
Meng Yan climbed out of bed, sat beside her, and hugged her tightly.
"Okay, okay, don't be like this," Yueyan patted her shoulder lightly, and smiled softly, "We'll book a flight to Holland tomorrow."
"Why are you going to Holland?"
"Elope."
Mengyan was made to want to cry and laugh at the same time, so she patted her lightly: "Did you do it on purpose?"
On the grand occasion of the wedding day, it seemed that a battle was about to start.
As one of the bridesmaids, Yueyan mainly helps the bride to solve various emergencies, such as the breakfast of the bridesmaids, the reception order of relatives, and where to hide the wedding shoes and other wedding customs programs.
At around nine o’clock, the team of bridesmaids drove downstairs. The groom and best man finally picked up the bride amidst the laughter. Yueyan was relieved, swallowed a bowl of Jiuniang Yuanzi, and followed the car. to the hotel.She was so busy all day that her feet didn't touch the ground, but when she saw the beginning of the ceremony, saw the woman's father handing her over to Zhang Jun with tears in her eyes, and saw the scene of the groom kissing the bride in the flower petal rain, Yueyan's eyes were still famous.
For Sinan, for myself, and for this suffering life, there are always beautiful moments worth remembering.
After the banquet, there is a toast session.Sinan, Zhang Jun, was collecting money at the table, and Yueyan was taking care of her with a best man. She did nothing else, and was mainly responsible for secretly mixing boiled water in the bride's cup, or simply replacing the wine with plain water.It was probably the first time that the best man saw this kind of magic operation, and he kept looking at her and smiling.
But there are also many people who look at her and smile.
Out of consideration not to overwhelm the hostess, the bridesmaids' dresses were all light purple, this color can only be suppressed by white skin, the beautiful skin is as white as snow, and it stands out more and more among the group of girls.
When we arrived at the classmate's table, the bride didn't follow, so I left the groom alone to say hello.Sinan left something in his place and asked Yueyan to go and get it. She took it and just left. The fellow men at this table couldn't help but booed and called for him to introduce, but Zhang Jun justly refused: "No, no!" No, my wife has explained that the bridesmaids are not allowed to move, and don't think about my son and my surname if they move."
Amidst the roar of laughter, Chen Siheng looked at the back of the leaving girl, got up and followed.
"hi."
Yueyan was checking the gift money and the list of attendees, when she heard the greeting, her heart tightened suddenly, as if her blood was hard to supply.
She raised her head slowly and saw the face of the boy in front of her clearly, the tension in her eyes faded, and her eyes became puzzled.
Chen Siheng stood very straight, and smiled gently: "Don't remember? We just met Chen Siheng from the Sub-City Sub-bureau the day before yesterday."
She remembered and smiled, "Hello, Comrade Police."
Chen Siheng said: "I didn't expect to meet you here, are you a friend from the bride's side?"
"Well, I'm her high school classmate, what about you?"
"On the groom's side, I'm in the same class as Zhang Jun University."
"It's really a coincidence." Yueyan sighed.
Chen Siheng looked down at the string of lists on the red paper of the long case, stared at the girl's slender fingers pressing on the red paper, and took out his mobile phone with a thought: "By the way, it's not convenient for me to add you on WeChat. In the future, the case will be completed." I can contact you directly for the progress."
Yue Yan's expression turned serious.She nodded and reported her mobile phone number. He looked down and clicked add.
After some gossip, Yueyan was called away again.
The two bid farewell gently.
In the evening, when the groom took the bride to the wedding room, Yue Yan and the three bridesmaids had a hasty dinner and wanted to leave quietly, but Si Nan's mother stared at them hard and chased them to the entrance of the hotel , give each of them a big red envelope.
The girls laughed and refused, but Sinan's mother insisted again and again before asking them to accept.
Meng Yan drove the family car and wanted to drop by to see Yue Yan off, but she declined.
Mengyan was still worried, and told her again and again: "Then you should pay attention to safety on the road."
"Be careful when you drive."
The white car slid lightly into the night, drifting away.
When Chen Siheng was leaving the hotel, he happened to meet Yueyan saying goodbye at the door.He didn't come until the car drove away. Yueyan ran into him twice in a row and was quite surprised: "Comrade policeman, you haven't left yet."
Chen Siheng smiled, he didn't tell her that he was waiting for her here on purpose.Sometimes accidents make encounters more reasonable.
While talking, a white Mazda stopped at the bottom of the steps, the window slid down, and the girl in the passenger seat kept waving at her with a cheerful tone: "Yueyan, do you want to go to the bar?"
"Thank you, no."
The man in the driver's seat persuaded her: "Let's go, ladies are free."
"No," Yueyan smiled softly, "Sun Weiwei, have fun, I still have something to do at home."
The car finally drove away and merged into the dark night.
Yue Yan stepped down the steps, Chen Siheng walked on her right, inexplicably, smiled slightly at the dark night ahead.
Yue Yan looked over suspiciously: "What are you laughing at?"
He smiled in his eyes, raised his hand and clenched his fist to his lips: "I also wanted to say send you off, but suddenly found that according to the situation just now, you probably don't want me to send you off."
Yueyan put her hands in the pockets on both sides of the windbreaker, turned around and looked at Chen Siheng, with a playful smile flashing across her eyes: "There is really no need to send it off. If Officer Chen is willing, you can walk with me."
Chen Siheng smiled and followed her footsteps kindly.
Near the hotel is the Cultural Plaza, which is located in the center of the business district. The neon lights of the city at night are gorgeous, as if it will never make people feel lonely.
They chatted as they walked, and the topic changed a little bit.It was inevitable to talk about hospital surveillance.
Chen Siheng told her frankly that in public places like this, the longest period of monitoring and preservation will not exceed six months. After six months, out of consideration for its own interests and the stability of the hospital, it is difficult to ask the hospital to show the information on the day of the incident. video recording.
Yueyan lowered her head and meditated, feeling as if she was dragging her feet, and the sound of the half-heeled stilettos hitting the road became calm and heavy.
Her speed slowed down unconsciously, and Chen Siheng accommodated her and also slowed down.
They stopped near a streetlight.
Yueyan turned around and faced him, the orange light shone down from above her head, like a chasing light on a stage, fully exposing the fragility and confusion in her eyes.
Yueyan's tone was very light, but Chen Siheng could feel that she regarded herself as a chance.Not only did this kind of trust not give him any sense of satisfaction, but it added a heavy sadness.
"Is there any other way? I want to know who was there when my dad happened, and who pushed him down from the third floor?"
In the three years since the incident, she has always believed that her father would not be so weak.
After she finished speaking, she glanced at him uneasily, as if she had made such an overly demanding request.Chen Siheng's heart throbbed with torment, and he could more or less guess that the reason why she had such a reaction was probably related to the cold stare she had encountered before.
He didn't want to look unprofessional, but the truth was, there wasn't any time for him to think about whether it would make him appear unprofessional before he said those words.
A melancholy orphan girl with a bleak life experience, he believes that anyone with a sense of justice in this world will lend a helping hand to her.
"If Ms. Gao thinks I'm trustworthy, maybe I can help, because I also really want to know the truth behind this case."
Under the blurred street lamp, the man's facial features are tough and his expression is determined.At that miraculous second, Yueyan believed in him deeply, perhaps because of the sincerity in his expression, perhaps because of his identity as a policeman, or perhaps because he had an extremely upright face.
Yue Yan looked at him with emotion.
"So, can you say something about the circumstances before and after what happened?"
In her mind, the memories that she had sealed up with all her strength finally gushed out like a tide after the master gave up resistance. Pain and despair, like a beast that used to follow the old path, occupied the most sensitive nerves of the cerebral cortex.
The father fell from the building, the bank demanded debts, and the workers asked for wages...
From the perspective of a bystander, she narrates mechanically, with a steady and natural tone, and those pictures have been circulating in her mind for several years.
Chen Siheng listened intently, sorting out the relationship between the characters in his mind, and at the same time took a small part of his attention to restrain the pity that was creeping up in his heart.
The two stopped and went, until they passed a Chinese restaurant that was in operation, and through the transparent glass, the warm indoor light shone on her, which made her feel a trace of reality that was still in the world.
She lived, and lived well, in order to seek justice for her father.
Hearing the key point, Chen Siheng wanted to verify a detail.Out of the corner of the eye, driven by intuition, she turned to the restaurant inside the glass.
That was a family of four dining.
No, it could also be two couples, or two couples, who are about the same age, well-dressed, and the atmosphere on the table is so sweet and warm surrounded by food and lighting.
He looks at them.They are also looking at him.For the first time, Chen Siheng saw such strong emotions in the eyes of four strangers.
Yue Yan didn't realize it, she saw him stop, she stopped and asked him: "What's wrong?"
His gaze first followed the extension line of his line of sight.
As if a spell had been cast on her celestial spirit cap, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.
It was a warm family of four.
It is also like the survivors who survived an earthquake or a tsunami. They are safe and sound, leaving the disaster behind and living a stable life in this world.The only wound is probably only the looming nightmare after nightfall.
Maybe not even a nightmare.
After the picture froze for a moment, it continued to flow like water.
The man by the window was the first to stand up, and when he got up he took down a water glass on the table.Then he quickly walked around the screen and quickly disappeared from Chen Siheng's sight.
Next to get up was a woman.
Finally another man.
It's like a relay race without a referee.
But what is surprising is that no one moves as fast as this woman, even if she has a big belly and has difficulty walking.Yueyan walked forward quite a distance, and when she heard gasping and crying voices behind her, she finally stopped sluggishly.
Chen Siheng found that their current positions were very strange.
Yueyan was in front, the woman was behind, and he happened to be standing in the middle of the two.
The pregnant woman passed by him, and was supported by the man who came out last to Yueyan.She held Yueyan's hand, tears kept flowing, and Chen Siheng couldn't understand a word she said.
The street lamps overhead projected onto the ground, temporarily setting up a stage for them to reunite after a long absence.
Yue Yan lowered her face slightly.When Chen Siheng heard her calling sister and brother-in-law, he was a little puzzled at first, and then a flash of light came to his mind.He continued to remain silent.
Logically, he was invited back to the restaurant with Yue Yan.When entering the restaurant, Chen Siheng noticed a tall man standing by the door, wearing a suit and stern eyes, he was the first one to run out of here.
Passing by him, the man glanced at him.
Chen Siheng guessed without hesitation, is this the legendary stepson of Gao Zhiming?
Yueyan was almost numbly pulled into the restaurant by Shen Xiner, the only girl still in the box got up, looked at her with complicated eyes, forced a smile and said: "Yueyan, why didn't you tell us when you returned to Hangzhou?"
Yue Yan said: "I couldn't stay for a few days, so I don't want to disturb you."
Han Zhen helped Shen Xiner to sit down.Li Huifen went back to the countryside of Sichuan three years ago to recuperate due to health problems. In this young family lacking elders, Han Zhen naturally became the uncompromising backbone.Yueyan only heard about his relationship with her sister later on. Han Zhen joined an Internet company as soon as he graduated, and later went out to work alone and started a fast-selling business with his college classmates. The situation began to improve after the situation opened up. In the past two years, several chain supermarkets have been opened in Hangzhou.
Han Zhen didn't say that he was successful and famous, at his age, he was considered a small achievement. He had been introduced to many girlfriends during his career, and he found that he still couldn't forget Shen Xiner.At first, Han Zhen also thought that he was trying to make amends, and wanted to make up for the hardships that Shen Xiner had suffered when she followed him. It was not until one day that Han Zhen heard that Shen Xiner was on a blind date, and Han Zhen finally understood. If you think of this woman If you marry someone else in the future, you will go crazy, then you will never be able to forget this woman in your life.
When they got married, the two hosted a wine at Fortune and invited all relatives and friends of both parties.Yue Yan didn't go, and sent a courier back as a gift.On the night of their wedding, the newlyweds opened the express delivery and found that inside was an amulet that took them through the years of innocence.
So for this nominal cousin, Han Zhen was not only polite, but also grateful.
"Han Ling, my sister, I don't need to introduce you. I heard that you are still classmates in college."
Chen Siheng glanced at him. She was a fashionable urban girl with a pretty face, but her expression was slightly stiff.
"This one?" Han Zhen looked at Chen Siheng suspiciously.
Yueyan explained in a low voice: "This is my friend, Chen Siheng."
"This is my brother-in-law, Han Zhen." She added to the other side.
"Oh, hello, Mr. Chen."
Chen Siheng smiled and nodded towards the table: "Hi, just call me Xiao Chen."
At this point, Yueyan persisted and continued to introduce him: "This is my sister Shen Xiner, my brother-in-law's sister Han Ling, and this is... my brother, Shen Ziqiao."
A bell rang in his heart, and Chen Siheng thought to himself, so this is that complicated big family.
Accustomed to the strife between brothers and sisters, they are more harmonious than he thought, or better at disguising?
Chen Siheng put aside his doubts and greeted them one by one.
Han Zhen took the opportunity to ask the waiter to add two more sets of bowls and chopsticks, during which time he took the initiative to chat with Chen Siheng.
But the atmosphere was really weird.
He couldn't help but want to look up a few times, out of a policeman's intuition.And when he finally did so, the man named Shen Ziqiao happened to be looking this way too.
In the glance that is beautifully wrapped in indifference, there is a hostility that can only be felt by the same sex.
Chen Siheng felt slightly different, thinking it was because of Yueyan.
It was Shen Xiner who was out of tune with the atmosphere of the banquet. She insisted on sitting next to Yueyan, and she had one purpose from the beginning to the end, persuading her to go home.Two years ago, Ziqiao was a little looser, always thinking about redeeming Gao Zhiming's villa loan at a high price.Shen Xiner also likes the old house she lived in when she was a child, and she needs a wedding room when she gets married, so she begged Han Zhen to buy the villa and live in it.
Yueyan declined, saying that she had a place to live outside.Upon hearing this, Shen Xin'er burst into tears immediately, making Chen Siheng a little embarrassed, so she could only try not to look at that place.
Han Zhen had no choice but to help persuade Yueyan.Yueyan's thin-skinned, she couldn't stop the couple from talking to each other, plus Han Zhen's crucial sentence at the end, "Your sister is still pregnant!" Yueyan could only respond hesitantly.
She nodded, and Shen Xiner broke through her tears into a smile, and got up to serve her vegetables. Han Zhen joked that the hormones of pregnant women fluctuated like the stock market, and his wife gave him an angry look.
Shen Ziqiao remained expressionless, but Han Ling's expression froze a little during the dinner.
The dishes on the table didn't move much, and it was getting late.After Han Zhen paid the bill, the group said goodbye at the door.Before leaving, Yueyan thought of Chen Siheng, came over and asked him: "How did you go back?"
"My car is parked at the hotel."
Yue Yan looked at the time on her watch, and then at the side of the road: "Let my brother-in-law take you there."
"No need, just a few steps."
Yue Yan wanted to persuade her again, but there was no way to persuade her. As she was thinking hard, her slender eyebrows were slightly frowned, and there seemed to be a little sadness between her brows all the time.Chen Siheng usually had the most contact with the aggressive female students of the police academy. It was the first time he met a girl who made people feel a little pain just looking at her, but she laughed more than any other girl he had ever met.
He wanted to help her, and that look once again strengthened Chen Siheng's mind.
Han Ling looked at the two people not far away, with her hands behind her waist, one elbow holding the other, she tilted her head and said to Shen Ziqiao with a half-smile, "Don't you want to take a look? They are such a good match. "
With the suit in his hand, he ignored it, and quickly crossed the road to pick up the car across the street. The cold wind blowing up Han Ling's cheeks, she bit her lip, and sneered at the night with her head raised.
Waving off Chen Siheng, a silver-gray car was quietly parked beside her.
"Come up." The man put his hands on the steering wheel, unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt, and kept his eyes on the front.
Yue Yan was startled, and looked back.Han Ling had already bent down and got into a black car behind.
Shen Ziqiao glanced at her, guessing what she was thinking, a smile involuntarily appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I can't sit down anymore, it's useless to watch."
As soon as the words came out, both of them were a little dazed.It seems that many years ago, he also loved teasing her like this.
He regained his concentration and wiped off the redundant expression on his face.Yue Yan pursed her lips, opened the door of the back seat, bent down and sat in.
Along the way, one looked at the front of the car and the other looked out of the car, neither of them said anything.The DJ on the radio station was playing an old song, and it was better than nothing to fill this lonely space with some sounds. When he heard "How pure and pure it would be if you just looked up to the sky", Shen Ziqiao couldn't help but glanced in the rearview mirror.
Leaning against the car door, she was using her slender fingers to wipe away the mist from the car window little by little.The hair is not dyed or permed, it is straight on the shoulders, the complexion is fair, the eyes are pure, it has changed a little, but the change is not big, it is almost the same as the little girl back then, wearing a camel windbreaker, her temperament is more and more calm .
Gradually, the heart that had been intense all night also calmed down under this almost greedy gaze.
Han Zhen's car drove ahead and arrived first. As soon as it stopped by the side of the street, Han Ling got out of the car first, slammed the car door, and walked home quickly with a sullen face.Shen Xiner slowly got out of the passenger seat with her stomach in her hands, and cast a leisurely glance at her husband.Han Zhen pretended to look at his phone, and said in a dazed voice, "Is there something wrong with the company, I'll ask her." Calling Lingling, he chased her up.
Han Zhen blocked the door panel at the last moment before she slammed it, opened the door and walked in, looked at Han Ling who was sitting on the side of the bed, and sat down on the small sofa opposite her, and asked her kindly: "What's the matter?" ?”
She pulled a pillow into her arms, buried her face in her knees, and when she lifted it up again, her face was covered with water, as if she had suffered a great deal of grievance: "Brother, sister-in-law is eccentric, why are you eccentric? I don't want her to live In our family, it’s not that you don’t know how bad she is. She had opinions on me when she was in college, and she deliberately led people to isolate me. Brother, I really don’t want to see her, so you can’t give her some money and let her go Staying in a hotel outside?"
"Okay, okay," Han Zhen persuaded her, "If I don't let her come back to live, your sister-in-law will definitely quarrel with me, even if you don't think about me, think about the child in your sister-in-law's belly. Be good, don't cry, brother will guarantee you that when your sister-in-law gives birth to your nephew safely, she will definitely not let her live in our house again."
Han Zhen promised again and again.Only then did Han Ling regain her strength, raised her arms to squeeze out the remaining tears from her eyes, and said in a muffled voice, "Then you make a deal."
Han Zhen also heaved a sigh of relief to settle this, but the more difficult thing is yet to come.After returning from Han Ling's room, Han Zhen took a deep breath, bravely pushed open the door of the master bedroom, and unexpectedly found Shen Xin'er sitting on the head of the bed with a relaxed expression, rubbing Belly oil on her belly to prevent stretch marks.With a smile all over his face, he squeezed to her side one by one, kissed her belly first, and when he was about to kiss her mouth, Shen Xiner slapped her on the face and pushed her away.
"Coaxed your sister well?" She squinted at him.
Han Zhen pretended to be confused: "What are you coaxing, she can handle the messy things in the company by herself."
Shen Xiner sneered, and he did this after the couple closed the door, and he didn't feel too tired to panic: "Since it's okay, then Mr. Han, I'll be straightforward. You can help your sister, don't stop me from helping my own sister , we each rely on our ability, and no one can hinder the other, if you dare to do something bad, I will hold the child and go to our Shen family's household registration when he is born."
Han Zhen was confused: "Why are you so serious? We are all a family. My skills are not yours. Isn't my sister your sister?"
"Stop it, I can't afford this kind of sister," Shen Xiner sneered, "Don't you look at the good things she has done in the past year since she graduated, arguing with Ziqiao at the company, and quarreling with Aunt Zhou at home. Han Zhen, you always If I say I'm biased, that's where the problem lies, we're all the same age, we are more open-minded than her in life and work, and more loving than her. You—don't interrupt!"
Look at the way he has something to say.Shen Xiner raised her hand and pressed the tip of his nose, as if he was a machine, and there was a device installed there that could make him shut up at any time.
Han Zhen lowered his head and obediently wiped the oil with a depressed face.
"If you don't care about your sister's character, who will want it in the future?"
"Lingling is not like this in front of outsiders," Han Zhen said in a low voice, "She just treats you and Ziqiao as her own family."
The two of them have been together for so long, and Shen Xin'er knows it well, and it's hard to talk about her sister like this, and it will inevitably cause some idleness.Han Zhen came from a small place, so he was inevitably contaminated with the habits of those backward areas. He loves face and has a strong self-esteem. He is most afraid of being gossiped behind his back, saying that his family is petty.The most important point is that I like my son.
Shen Xiner sighed, and couldn't say anything more.
Shen Ziqiao's car was more than half an hour late for them to arrive at home. Turning the last intersection, the lights of the buildings were faintly visible, and every place under the lights hid a warm home, but it no longer belonged to her.
For a long time, when she returned to Hangzhou, she would intentionally or unintentionally avoid this area.Every tree and every street lamp around is stained with the memories of the past, those memories are too heavy, and any piece of them can overwhelm her.
The car stopped at the door.
Pushing open the door, memories with a sour smell flew into her arms together with Night Breeze. The so-called courage and so-called calmness, in the turbulent waves of time, were proved to be groundless.
Just three years seems not enough to completely change the appearance of a building. The living room, kitchen, and stairs still maintain the appearance she remembers.
Go up to the second floor, go straight to the end, the room with the best light facing south, there is no sign that she has lived in it.
For the first time, she knew that without dolls, pianos, and so many sweet decorations, her former boudoir would be so empty and big.
Her fingers brushed over the furniture, feeling cold to the touch, and she looked around the room with complicated emotions.Over the years, she has been practicing how to face the past, and when the overwhelming evidence of the past appeared in front of her, she found that she had no room for parrying.
Lowering his face, a tear splashed on the back of his hand.
And then the second drop, and the third drop.
The door was knocked twice, she sat on the edge of the bed and looked back with tears in her eyes, that look seemed to take her back to the past in an instant, countless ordinary nights, he had appeared at her door like this, told her to go out, She asked for a coat.It's just that a boy is no longer a boy, tall and tall, imposing, and the only constant is his gaze, the kind that no matter how far she walks or how tired she is, when she turns around, she can see a gaze sticking to her body and protecting her.
The question is, after so long, can she still find it?
"Yanyan..."
Who is calling her, is it him, or the teenager in memory?
She lowered her head and raised the back of her hand to wipe away the tears from her eyes.
The hand holding the door leaf slowly tightened, and the Adam's apple rolled with difficulty.In the room with no lights on, Shen Ziqiao's voice was also mixed with the breath of night, a little confused: "If you need anything, just tell me."
Pleasant face and low response.
The two were relatively speechless.
He coughed to get rid of the difficulty in his throat: "I'm right next door."
She groaned softly.
"Then, go to bed early."
She is still oh, with her head down, unable to see the expression on her face clearly.
(End of this chapter)
The first year Chen Siheng graduated and was assigned to the sub-bureau in the city. Due to his seniority, he was not assigned to serious and important cases. He was first assigned to sort out files and files over the years. He was down-to-earth and hard-working, and his immediate leaders praised him highly.
In the evening of that day, Xiao Xiao, who was on duty, went to the police. He was on top temporarily, and was responsible for answering the phone and registering the situation of the reporter. There were not many emergencies when he got off work.
That girl came here at this point.
It is nominally early autumn, but the scorching heat is still dominating, the sun is about to set, and the light is still as abundant as day.
The girl pushed open the swing door of the police station, the angle of the sunlight falling on the glass door temporarily changed, and the refracted spot of light flashed past his eyes.
She was sent to herself by the evening sun.
Chen Siheng could see the girl's face clearly through a filling table. All her hair was loosely tied into a bun on the top of her head, her skin was as fair as porcelain, her double eyelids were well folded, her lips were beautiful diamond shape, and the corners of her mouth were upward. , Even if you don’t smile, you seem to be smiling, and your appearance is sweet.
Chen Siheng felt that she looked like a star, but the rash questioning showed that he was not professional enough, but also seemed to have ulterior motives.
The girl revealed the purpose of her trip. She wanted to check the surveillance video of the municipal hospital three years ago.
In the prosperous age of peace, in fact, there were not so many unjust, false and wrongful cases and innocent injustices in the news reports. After graduating from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Academy, he was slapped in the face by reality piapia before he could even imagine his life like Sherlock Holmes. The most intense case he has dealt with in the past three months was from a bank. A depositor suspected that he had been defrauded by the bank. He went to the lobby with a knife and kidnapped a little girl. After the bank called the police, a car of criminal police was dispatched Capture people.This matter was done extremely beautifully. Afterwards, the director specially commended the area under his jurisdiction and listed it as an advanced unit of the year. He brought up this case for a whole quarter.
Chen Siheng printed out an application form, gave her a gel pen, and asked her to sit down and fill it out.
The girl was sitting sideways, occupying only a small half of the stool, her profile was graceful and demure, she was writing quietly with her head bowed.
Chen Siheng continued with the task at hand.
A few minutes later, a form with beautiful handwriting was handed to him, and he checked the next few required items, including the signature.
Gao Yueyan.
It is true to its name.
The transfer of monitoring needs to be approved by the higher authorities. Generally, there are more bank disputes. It depends on the monitoring procedures of a hospital. The monitoring process is more complicated. He asked her to go back and wait for the news in a gentle tone, and then left a copy of her ID card. pieces.
Gao Yueyan didn't argue, nodded, took her bag, turned around and left.
Chen Siheng didn't move, but his eyes sent her a short distance, all the way to the door.Only then did he notice a white Mazda parked by the flower bed under the steps, and she opened the door of the passenger seat and sat in.
Yueyan fastened her seat belt, put the small bag on her lap, and looked at the front wistfully.
It's been so long, and I've suffered too many disappointments, so I don't count this once or twice.
Sun Weiwei glanced at her, but still didn't ask anything, and started the car as gently as possible so that she didn't feel any jolts.
Looking at the moving street scene outside the window, she came back to her senses and thanked him again and again: "Please send me all this way."
Sun Weiwei smiled: "I just said don't see outsiders, did you see outsiders again? If there is any trouble with our old classmates for so many years, don't bother."
After Yueyan graduated from university, the school offered her the opportunity to guarantee graduate studies, but she didn't want to be too far away from Hangzhou, so she still considered coming back, looking for a job slowly, and taking care of her father at the same time.
Yue Yan smiled politely.But even when she was smiling, there was still melancholy between her brows, which made her look more pitiful and melancholy among girls of the same age.
In a word, a woman is truly beautiful from the day she is saddest.
Sun Weiwei looked away, feeling a bit of introspection in his heart.If he was still single, he would probably still be attracted to Gao Yueyan unavoidably. Her temperament at every stage so precisely hit the aesthetics of boys of the same age. The innocence of a girl, and the fragility and melancholy of an adult, are irresistible.
Sun Weiwei tried his best to lead the topic in a cheerful direction.
One year after graduation, many of their high school classmates had achieved fruitful couples, such as Si Nan, who had been dating Zhang Jun for four years. Once Zhang Jun graduated, the parents of both parties couldn't wait to put the wedding on the agenda.
Yueyan returned to Hangzhou this time because of her father's business on the one hand, and on the other hand she came to attend her wedding.
I didn't expect to meet Sun Weiwei at the entrance of the hospital. After graduation, he went back to Hangzhou to study for graduate school. Now he is in the first year of graduate school. He has a girlfriend who is the daughter of his tutor. The relationship between the two has always been stable, but because the woman is three years older than him. , the woman's parents urged them to get married in a hurry.
On the way, Sun Weiwei talked about his recent situation in recent years, and Yueyan usually only briefly mentioned his own situation when he asked.
Sun Weiwei didn't get to the bottom of it either.
What happened in her family was published in the local newspaper three years ago. It was a big commotion at the time. They heard about it among their high school classmates, but they were not the parties involved. They didn't know the details deeply. They knew that her father fell into a coma after jumping off the building. The family factory was auctioned, and because of insolvency, the four properties in the family were successively seized.
During that period, Sun Weiwei thought about contacting her, but he couldn't get in touch. He called her school and found out that she had gone through the formalities of suspension.
That year, Yueyan seemed to have completely cut off contact with them and the world, and no one knew where she had gone.
In Sun Weiwei's imagination, she is a wounded kitten who would rather lick her wound behind her back than ask for cheap sympathy from others.
Mazda stopped at the gate of an old residential area in the north of the city.
Sun Weiwei put his hand on the car window and looked outside. There was a pickup truck passing by on the road billowing in smoke and dust, making the soles of his feet tremble.It's almost the outskirts of the city, so she lives in this kind of place?
Seeing Yueyan unbuckle her seat belt and get out of the car, the words rolled on the tip of her tongue a few times, and when she was about to leave her mouth, she realized that it was inappropriate, so he insisted on chasing her out: "I will pick you up on Sinan's wedding day."
The last ray of sunlight in the evening fell on her shoulders, and she made a six to her ear, as if she had returned to the lively spirit of the past, she said, "I'll talk about it on the phone."
People go upstairs.
The car drives away.
As soon as Xiao Xiao came back, Chen Siheng handed over the completed form to him.He glanced roughly, saw the name, flicked the crispy paper with his index finger, and said ho, "It's her again."
Chen Siheng remained calm on the surface, but secretly pricked up his ears: "What's wrong with her?"
Xiao Xiao was surprised: "You don't even know."
"This is big news in our city of Hangzhou. Three years ago, the big boss of a private enterprise broke his capital chain, owed a lot of debt, and jumped off the third floor of the hospital. Now, this is the girl's father."
Chen Siheng searched the memory bank, and soon found a name corresponding to Gao in the huge file, Gao Zhiming.
With professional sensitivity, Chen Siheng sensed the crux of the problem: "Then why did she come to check the hospital's monitoring?"
"Ms. Ren doesn't believe it. She thinks her father wouldn't jump off the building. He was pushed down by someone. When her father had an accident, almost everyone was living in our place. She insisted on checking the surveillance and videotaping."
Chen Siheng asked nervously, "Have you shown it to her?"
"I saw it, but I still don't believe it. But if you say that the evil door is also an evil door, the hospital happened to be repairing the surveillance in the past few days, and the most critical cameras were all black."
A female policewoman with a round face next to it interjected: "If I don't believe it, why is it so good? If it's broken, maybe it's a competitor doing something."
"That kind of boss's house, the relationship is chaotic. Why did the capital chain stop at the beginning? His wife messed with people outside and loaned the factory to the bank behind Gao Zhiming's back. After the accident, Gao Zhiming's son forced the second phase of the factory. If he is pushed down, he is considered a tiger father and has no dogs, and instead of selling clothes, he sells electrical appliances and accessories, and now he is considered a little famous, and he has not lost his father's face."
Chen Siheng paused for a moment, then asked again: "Since Gao Zhiming has a son, why doesn't his son care about it and ask a girl to run around and work?"
"The Gao family's situation is a bit complicated. Gao Zhiming married two wives successively. This Gao Yueyan was born by the first wife, and the latter brought two more after marriage, a son and a daughter."
Chen Siheng frowned, hesitant to speak: "So, your son is not related to Gao Zhiming by blood?"
Xiao Xiao nodded.
Chen Siheng thought of a possibility, which is not uncommon when they deal with family economic disputes: "Brother, tell me, could it be that his wife deliberately designed it so that his son could take over..."
"Stop, stop." Xiao Xiao raised his left index finger, pressed against the palm of his right hand, and made a stop gesture, "Hey, what did the master tell you when you entered this business, don't handle cases with subjective emotions, and As the saying goes, it is difficult for an upright official to decide on housework, the most important thing for us people's police is to do our job well, don't make so many unreasonable assumptions."
When he was studying at school, Chen Siheng was a man of hard work. After he really entered this industry, he showed his hard work spirit to the fullest. That night, he ran to the archives room and made a photocopy of all the materials of the Gao Zhiming case. He was busy for nearly ten hours. At one o'clock, I handed over the key to the archive room, packed up my things and went home.
After arriving home, Chen Siheng went to the bathroom to take a battle bath, wiped his hair casually, went back to his room, spread out his notebook, took out his good habit of taking detective classes back then, first drew a timeline on the blank page, and described the events of the characters as follows: The branches and leaves are added, and the sketches are painted, and it is late at night before you know it.
Before going to bed, I checked my phone for the last time, and accidentally found a WeChat message from a college classmate.
When he clicked on the link, a series of electronic sounds of jingling bells burst out first, which startled him and quickly pressed mute.
After reading it, I realized that it was an electronic wedding invitation letter.
The day before Sinan's wedding, Yueyan, who was a bridesmaid, stayed at her house and slept with her.A total of four bridesmaids were invited at the wedding, except for one who couldn't make it in a foreign country, and all four were classmates in their high school dormitory.
It was so rare to get together, and everyone inevitably began to complain about all the troubles they had encountered in the past year of graduation. Men seem to be the inevitable eternal protagonists in this topic. The one who shed tears and taught them to grow up, talked until late at night, everyone didn't drink a drop of wine, but they seemed to be drunk, there was laughter when talking about happiness, and tears when talking about sadness.
And many scenes are always brought back to the eyes inadvertently by those laughter and tears: desks full of textbooks, blackboards full of sunlight, cheers on the basketball court, and the sound of reading books in an empty campus...
Yue Yan hugged her pillow and sat quietly on the side, listening to her former classmates chatting.She likes this atmosphere very much. Her best friend gets married and her closest classmates are all around, as if returning to the feeling of high school.
So, if she was given another chance, would she still be willing to go back?
She couldn't give an answer.
The night was getting deeper, but they still didn't feel sleepy.The topic became increasingly personal and secretive.
Finally, someone mentioned the name of Chi Zha when he was a student, and a girl sitting at the end of the bed asked softly, "Yueyan, are you still with Shen Ziqiao?"
What happened in her family was almost an open secret among their high school classmates, and the word Shen Ziqiao seemed to be no longer mentioned after the incident happened.
The girls looked at Yueyan at the side, with a hint of curiosity in good intentions.
She lowered her eyes, and the straight hair of the shawl fell from both sides: "It's divided."
For a long time after her father fell from the building, she almost closed herself completely. She became a stone or a sculpture, unable to respond to all external stimuli, and she seemed to die once.
Shen Ziqiao asked her at the time: "Can we go on?"
Yue Yan shook her head: "I can't."
Shen Ziqiao stared at her for a while, nodded, and said, "That's fine."
In the following three years, apart from going to the hospital to visit his paralyzed father, Shen Ziqiao never took the initiative to appear in front of her again.The trajectory of life draws two bifurcated straight lines at that moment, and it seems that there will never be any intersection in this life.
The girls fell silent.
Si Nan's eyes were slightly red, and he called her sadly: "Yueyan..."
Yue Yan smiled, and there was no sorrow on her face: "It's all over, am I fine now?"
Yueyan also didn't understand until after her father's accident. Tears don't necessarily flow only when she is sad. The corners of her lips are obviously upturned, and tears will still flow.
Meng Yan climbed out of bed, sat beside her, and hugged her tightly.
"Okay, okay, don't be like this," Yueyan patted her shoulder lightly, and smiled softly, "We'll book a flight to Holland tomorrow."
"Why are you going to Holland?"
"Elope."
Mengyan was made to want to cry and laugh at the same time, so she patted her lightly: "Did you do it on purpose?"
On the grand occasion of the wedding day, it seemed that a battle was about to start.
As one of the bridesmaids, Yueyan mainly helps the bride to solve various emergencies, such as the breakfast of the bridesmaids, the reception order of relatives, and where to hide the wedding shoes and other wedding customs programs.
At around nine o’clock, the team of bridesmaids drove downstairs. The groom and best man finally picked up the bride amidst the laughter. Yueyan was relieved, swallowed a bowl of Jiuniang Yuanzi, and followed the car. to the hotel.She was so busy all day that her feet didn't touch the ground, but when she saw the beginning of the ceremony, saw the woman's father handing her over to Zhang Jun with tears in her eyes, and saw the scene of the groom kissing the bride in the flower petal rain, Yueyan's eyes were still famous.
For Sinan, for myself, and for this suffering life, there are always beautiful moments worth remembering.
After the banquet, there is a toast session.Sinan, Zhang Jun, was collecting money at the table, and Yueyan was taking care of her with a best man. She did nothing else, and was mainly responsible for secretly mixing boiled water in the bride's cup, or simply replacing the wine with plain water.It was probably the first time that the best man saw this kind of magic operation, and he kept looking at her and smiling.
But there are also many people who look at her and smile.
Out of consideration not to overwhelm the hostess, the bridesmaids' dresses were all light purple, this color can only be suppressed by white skin, the beautiful skin is as white as snow, and it stands out more and more among the group of girls.
When we arrived at the classmate's table, the bride didn't follow, so I left the groom alone to say hello.Sinan left something in his place and asked Yueyan to go and get it. She took it and just left. The fellow men at this table couldn't help but booed and called for him to introduce, but Zhang Jun justly refused: "No, no!" No, my wife has explained that the bridesmaids are not allowed to move, and don't think about my son and my surname if they move."
Amidst the roar of laughter, Chen Siheng looked at the back of the leaving girl, got up and followed.
"hi."
Yueyan was checking the gift money and the list of attendees, when she heard the greeting, her heart tightened suddenly, as if her blood was hard to supply.
She raised her head slowly and saw the face of the boy in front of her clearly, the tension in her eyes faded, and her eyes became puzzled.
Chen Siheng stood very straight, and smiled gently: "Don't remember? We just met Chen Siheng from the Sub-City Sub-bureau the day before yesterday."
She remembered and smiled, "Hello, Comrade Police."
Chen Siheng said: "I didn't expect to meet you here, are you a friend from the bride's side?"
"Well, I'm her high school classmate, what about you?"
"On the groom's side, I'm in the same class as Zhang Jun University."
"It's really a coincidence." Yueyan sighed.
Chen Siheng looked down at the string of lists on the red paper of the long case, stared at the girl's slender fingers pressing on the red paper, and took out his mobile phone with a thought: "By the way, it's not convenient for me to add you on WeChat. In the future, the case will be completed." I can contact you directly for the progress."
Yue Yan's expression turned serious.She nodded and reported her mobile phone number. He looked down and clicked add.
After some gossip, Yueyan was called away again.
The two bid farewell gently.
In the evening, when the groom took the bride to the wedding room, Yue Yan and the three bridesmaids had a hasty dinner and wanted to leave quietly, but Si Nan's mother stared at them hard and chased them to the entrance of the hotel , give each of them a big red envelope.
The girls laughed and refused, but Sinan's mother insisted again and again before asking them to accept.
Meng Yan drove the family car and wanted to drop by to see Yue Yan off, but she declined.
Mengyan was still worried, and told her again and again: "Then you should pay attention to safety on the road."
"Be careful when you drive."
The white car slid lightly into the night, drifting away.
When Chen Siheng was leaving the hotel, he happened to meet Yueyan saying goodbye at the door.He didn't come until the car drove away. Yueyan ran into him twice in a row and was quite surprised: "Comrade policeman, you haven't left yet."
Chen Siheng smiled, he didn't tell her that he was waiting for her here on purpose.Sometimes accidents make encounters more reasonable.
While talking, a white Mazda stopped at the bottom of the steps, the window slid down, and the girl in the passenger seat kept waving at her with a cheerful tone: "Yueyan, do you want to go to the bar?"
"Thank you, no."
The man in the driver's seat persuaded her: "Let's go, ladies are free."
"No," Yueyan smiled softly, "Sun Weiwei, have fun, I still have something to do at home."
The car finally drove away and merged into the dark night.
Yue Yan stepped down the steps, Chen Siheng walked on her right, inexplicably, smiled slightly at the dark night ahead.
Yue Yan looked over suspiciously: "What are you laughing at?"
He smiled in his eyes, raised his hand and clenched his fist to his lips: "I also wanted to say send you off, but suddenly found that according to the situation just now, you probably don't want me to send you off."
Yueyan put her hands in the pockets on both sides of the windbreaker, turned around and looked at Chen Siheng, with a playful smile flashing across her eyes: "There is really no need to send it off. If Officer Chen is willing, you can walk with me."
Chen Siheng smiled and followed her footsteps kindly.
Near the hotel is the Cultural Plaza, which is located in the center of the business district. The neon lights of the city at night are gorgeous, as if it will never make people feel lonely.
They chatted as they walked, and the topic changed a little bit.It was inevitable to talk about hospital surveillance.
Chen Siheng told her frankly that in public places like this, the longest period of monitoring and preservation will not exceed six months. After six months, out of consideration for its own interests and the stability of the hospital, it is difficult to ask the hospital to show the information on the day of the incident. video recording.
Yueyan lowered her head and meditated, feeling as if she was dragging her feet, and the sound of the half-heeled stilettos hitting the road became calm and heavy.
Her speed slowed down unconsciously, and Chen Siheng accommodated her and also slowed down.
They stopped near a streetlight.
Yueyan turned around and faced him, the orange light shone down from above her head, like a chasing light on a stage, fully exposing the fragility and confusion in her eyes.
Yueyan's tone was very light, but Chen Siheng could feel that she regarded herself as a chance.Not only did this kind of trust not give him any sense of satisfaction, but it added a heavy sadness.
"Is there any other way? I want to know who was there when my dad happened, and who pushed him down from the third floor?"
In the three years since the incident, she has always believed that her father would not be so weak.
After she finished speaking, she glanced at him uneasily, as if she had made such an overly demanding request.Chen Siheng's heart throbbed with torment, and he could more or less guess that the reason why she had such a reaction was probably related to the cold stare she had encountered before.
He didn't want to look unprofessional, but the truth was, there wasn't any time for him to think about whether it would make him appear unprofessional before he said those words.
A melancholy orphan girl with a bleak life experience, he believes that anyone with a sense of justice in this world will lend a helping hand to her.
"If Ms. Gao thinks I'm trustworthy, maybe I can help, because I also really want to know the truth behind this case."
Under the blurred street lamp, the man's facial features are tough and his expression is determined.At that miraculous second, Yueyan believed in him deeply, perhaps because of the sincerity in his expression, perhaps because of his identity as a policeman, or perhaps because he had an extremely upright face.
Yue Yan looked at him with emotion.
"So, can you say something about the circumstances before and after what happened?"
In her mind, the memories that she had sealed up with all her strength finally gushed out like a tide after the master gave up resistance. Pain and despair, like a beast that used to follow the old path, occupied the most sensitive nerves of the cerebral cortex.
The father fell from the building, the bank demanded debts, and the workers asked for wages...
From the perspective of a bystander, she narrates mechanically, with a steady and natural tone, and those pictures have been circulating in her mind for several years.
Chen Siheng listened intently, sorting out the relationship between the characters in his mind, and at the same time took a small part of his attention to restrain the pity that was creeping up in his heart.
The two stopped and went, until they passed a Chinese restaurant that was in operation, and through the transparent glass, the warm indoor light shone on her, which made her feel a trace of reality that was still in the world.
She lived, and lived well, in order to seek justice for her father.
Hearing the key point, Chen Siheng wanted to verify a detail.Out of the corner of the eye, driven by intuition, she turned to the restaurant inside the glass.
That was a family of four dining.
No, it could also be two couples, or two couples, who are about the same age, well-dressed, and the atmosphere on the table is so sweet and warm surrounded by food and lighting.
He looks at them.They are also looking at him.For the first time, Chen Siheng saw such strong emotions in the eyes of four strangers.
Yue Yan didn't realize it, she saw him stop, she stopped and asked him: "What's wrong?"
His gaze first followed the extension line of his line of sight.
As if a spell had been cast on her celestial spirit cap, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.
It was a warm family of four.
It is also like the survivors who survived an earthquake or a tsunami. They are safe and sound, leaving the disaster behind and living a stable life in this world.The only wound is probably only the looming nightmare after nightfall.
Maybe not even a nightmare.
After the picture froze for a moment, it continued to flow like water.
The man by the window was the first to stand up, and when he got up he took down a water glass on the table.Then he quickly walked around the screen and quickly disappeared from Chen Siheng's sight.
Next to get up was a woman.
Finally another man.
It's like a relay race without a referee.
But what is surprising is that no one moves as fast as this woman, even if she has a big belly and has difficulty walking.Yueyan walked forward quite a distance, and when she heard gasping and crying voices behind her, she finally stopped sluggishly.
Chen Siheng found that their current positions were very strange.
Yueyan was in front, the woman was behind, and he happened to be standing in the middle of the two.
The pregnant woman passed by him, and was supported by the man who came out last to Yueyan.She held Yueyan's hand, tears kept flowing, and Chen Siheng couldn't understand a word she said.
The street lamps overhead projected onto the ground, temporarily setting up a stage for them to reunite after a long absence.
Yue Yan lowered her face slightly.When Chen Siheng heard her calling sister and brother-in-law, he was a little puzzled at first, and then a flash of light came to his mind.He continued to remain silent.
Logically, he was invited back to the restaurant with Yue Yan.When entering the restaurant, Chen Siheng noticed a tall man standing by the door, wearing a suit and stern eyes, he was the first one to run out of here.
Passing by him, the man glanced at him.
Chen Siheng guessed without hesitation, is this the legendary stepson of Gao Zhiming?
Yueyan was almost numbly pulled into the restaurant by Shen Xiner, the only girl still in the box got up, looked at her with complicated eyes, forced a smile and said: "Yueyan, why didn't you tell us when you returned to Hangzhou?"
Yue Yan said: "I couldn't stay for a few days, so I don't want to disturb you."
Han Zhen helped Shen Xiner to sit down.Li Huifen went back to the countryside of Sichuan three years ago to recuperate due to health problems. In this young family lacking elders, Han Zhen naturally became the uncompromising backbone.Yueyan only heard about his relationship with her sister later on. Han Zhen joined an Internet company as soon as he graduated, and later went out to work alone and started a fast-selling business with his college classmates. The situation began to improve after the situation opened up. In the past two years, several chain supermarkets have been opened in Hangzhou.
Han Zhen didn't say that he was successful and famous, at his age, he was considered a small achievement. He had been introduced to many girlfriends during his career, and he found that he still couldn't forget Shen Xiner.At first, Han Zhen also thought that he was trying to make amends, and wanted to make up for the hardships that Shen Xiner had suffered when she followed him. It was not until one day that Han Zhen heard that Shen Xiner was on a blind date, and Han Zhen finally understood. If you think of this woman If you marry someone else in the future, you will go crazy, then you will never be able to forget this woman in your life.
When they got married, the two hosted a wine at Fortune and invited all relatives and friends of both parties.Yue Yan didn't go, and sent a courier back as a gift.On the night of their wedding, the newlyweds opened the express delivery and found that inside was an amulet that took them through the years of innocence.
So for this nominal cousin, Han Zhen was not only polite, but also grateful.
"Han Ling, my sister, I don't need to introduce you. I heard that you are still classmates in college."
Chen Siheng glanced at him. She was a fashionable urban girl with a pretty face, but her expression was slightly stiff.
"This one?" Han Zhen looked at Chen Siheng suspiciously.
Yueyan explained in a low voice: "This is my friend, Chen Siheng."
"This is my brother-in-law, Han Zhen." She added to the other side.
"Oh, hello, Mr. Chen."
Chen Siheng smiled and nodded towards the table: "Hi, just call me Xiao Chen."
At this point, Yueyan persisted and continued to introduce him: "This is my sister Shen Xiner, my brother-in-law's sister Han Ling, and this is... my brother, Shen Ziqiao."
A bell rang in his heart, and Chen Siheng thought to himself, so this is that complicated big family.
Accustomed to the strife between brothers and sisters, they are more harmonious than he thought, or better at disguising?
Chen Siheng put aside his doubts and greeted them one by one.
Han Zhen took the opportunity to ask the waiter to add two more sets of bowls and chopsticks, during which time he took the initiative to chat with Chen Siheng.
But the atmosphere was really weird.
He couldn't help but want to look up a few times, out of a policeman's intuition.And when he finally did so, the man named Shen Ziqiao happened to be looking this way too.
In the glance that is beautifully wrapped in indifference, there is a hostility that can only be felt by the same sex.
Chen Siheng felt slightly different, thinking it was because of Yueyan.
It was Shen Xiner who was out of tune with the atmosphere of the banquet. She insisted on sitting next to Yueyan, and she had one purpose from the beginning to the end, persuading her to go home.Two years ago, Ziqiao was a little looser, always thinking about redeeming Gao Zhiming's villa loan at a high price.Shen Xiner also likes the old house she lived in when she was a child, and she needs a wedding room when she gets married, so she begged Han Zhen to buy the villa and live in it.
Yueyan declined, saying that she had a place to live outside.Upon hearing this, Shen Xin'er burst into tears immediately, making Chen Siheng a little embarrassed, so she could only try not to look at that place.
Han Zhen had no choice but to help persuade Yueyan.Yueyan's thin-skinned, she couldn't stop the couple from talking to each other, plus Han Zhen's crucial sentence at the end, "Your sister is still pregnant!" Yueyan could only respond hesitantly.
She nodded, and Shen Xiner broke through her tears into a smile, and got up to serve her vegetables. Han Zhen joked that the hormones of pregnant women fluctuated like the stock market, and his wife gave him an angry look.
Shen Ziqiao remained expressionless, but Han Ling's expression froze a little during the dinner.
The dishes on the table didn't move much, and it was getting late.After Han Zhen paid the bill, the group said goodbye at the door.Before leaving, Yueyan thought of Chen Siheng, came over and asked him: "How did you go back?"
"My car is parked at the hotel."
Yue Yan looked at the time on her watch, and then at the side of the road: "Let my brother-in-law take you there."
"No need, just a few steps."
Yue Yan wanted to persuade her again, but there was no way to persuade her. As she was thinking hard, her slender eyebrows were slightly frowned, and there seemed to be a little sadness between her brows all the time.Chen Siheng usually had the most contact with the aggressive female students of the police academy. It was the first time he met a girl who made people feel a little pain just looking at her, but she laughed more than any other girl he had ever met.
He wanted to help her, and that look once again strengthened Chen Siheng's mind.
Han Ling looked at the two people not far away, with her hands behind her waist, one elbow holding the other, she tilted her head and said to Shen Ziqiao with a half-smile, "Don't you want to take a look? They are such a good match. "
With the suit in his hand, he ignored it, and quickly crossed the road to pick up the car across the street. The cold wind blowing up Han Ling's cheeks, she bit her lip, and sneered at the night with her head raised.
Waving off Chen Siheng, a silver-gray car was quietly parked beside her.
"Come up." The man put his hands on the steering wheel, unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt, and kept his eyes on the front.
Yue Yan was startled, and looked back.Han Ling had already bent down and got into a black car behind.
Shen Ziqiao glanced at her, guessing what she was thinking, a smile involuntarily appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I can't sit down anymore, it's useless to watch."
As soon as the words came out, both of them were a little dazed.It seems that many years ago, he also loved teasing her like this.
He regained his concentration and wiped off the redundant expression on his face.Yue Yan pursed her lips, opened the door of the back seat, bent down and sat in.
Along the way, one looked at the front of the car and the other looked out of the car, neither of them said anything.The DJ on the radio station was playing an old song, and it was better than nothing to fill this lonely space with some sounds. When he heard "How pure and pure it would be if you just looked up to the sky", Shen Ziqiao couldn't help but glanced in the rearview mirror.
Leaning against the car door, she was using her slender fingers to wipe away the mist from the car window little by little.The hair is not dyed or permed, it is straight on the shoulders, the complexion is fair, the eyes are pure, it has changed a little, but the change is not big, it is almost the same as the little girl back then, wearing a camel windbreaker, her temperament is more and more calm .
Gradually, the heart that had been intense all night also calmed down under this almost greedy gaze.
Han Zhen's car drove ahead and arrived first. As soon as it stopped by the side of the street, Han Ling got out of the car first, slammed the car door, and walked home quickly with a sullen face.Shen Xiner slowly got out of the passenger seat with her stomach in her hands, and cast a leisurely glance at her husband.Han Zhen pretended to look at his phone, and said in a dazed voice, "Is there something wrong with the company, I'll ask her." Calling Lingling, he chased her up.
Han Zhen blocked the door panel at the last moment before she slammed it, opened the door and walked in, looked at Han Ling who was sitting on the side of the bed, and sat down on the small sofa opposite her, and asked her kindly: "What's the matter?" ?”
She pulled a pillow into her arms, buried her face in her knees, and when she lifted it up again, her face was covered with water, as if she had suffered a great deal of grievance: "Brother, sister-in-law is eccentric, why are you eccentric? I don't want her to live In our family, it’s not that you don’t know how bad she is. She had opinions on me when she was in college, and she deliberately led people to isolate me. Brother, I really don’t want to see her, so you can’t give her some money and let her go Staying in a hotel outside?"
"Okay, okay," Han Zhen persuaded her, "If I don't let her come back to live, your sister-in-law will definitely quarrel with me, even if you don't think about me, think about the child in your sister-in-law's belly. Be good, don't cry, brother will guarantee you that when your sister-in-law gives birth to your nephew safely, she will definitely not let her live in our house again."
Han Zhen promised again and again.Only then did Han Ling regain her strength, raised her arms to squeeze out the remaining tears from her eyes, and said in a muffled voice, "Then you make a deal."
Han Zhen also heaved a sigh of relief to settle this, but the more difficult thing is yet to come.After returning from Han Ling's room, Han Zhen took a deep breath, bravely pushed open the door of the master bedroom, and unexpectedly found Shen Xin'er sitting on the head of the bed with a relaxed expression, rubbing Belly oil on her belly to prevent stretch marks.With a smile all over his face, he squeezed to her side one by one, kissed her belly first, and when he was about to kiss her mouth, Shen Xiner slapped her on the face and pushed her away.
"Coaxed your sister well?" She squinted at him.
Han Zhen pretended to be confused: "What are you coaxing, she can handle the messy things in the company by herself."
Shen Xiner sneered, and he did this after the couple closed the door, and he didn't feel too tired to panic: "Since it's okay, then Mr. Han, I'll be straightforward. You can help your sister, don't stop me from helping my own sister , we each rely on our ability, and no one can hinder the other, if you dare to do something bad, I will hold the child and go to our Shen family's household registration when he is born."
Han Zhen was confused: "Why are you so serious? We are all a family. My skills are not yours. Isn't my sister your sister?"
"Stop it, I can't afford this kind of sister," Shen Xiner sneered, "Don't you look at the good things she has done in the past year since she graduated, arguing with Ziqiao at the company, and quarreling with Aunt Zhou at home. Han Zhen, you always If I say I'm biased, that's where the problem lies, we're all the same age, we are more open-minded than her in life and work, and more loving than her. You—don't interrupt!"
Look at the way he has something to say.Shen Xiner raised her hand and pressed the tip of his nose, as if he was a machine, and there was a device installed there that could make him shut up at any time.
Han Zhen lowered his head and obediently wiped the oil with a depressed face.
"If you don't care about your sister's character, who will want it in the future?"
"Lingling is not like this in front of outsiders," Han Zhen said in a low voice, "She just treats you and Ziqiao as her own family."
The two of them have been together for so long, and Shen Xin'er knows it well, and it's hard to talk about her sister like this, and it will inevitably cause some idleness.Han Zhen came from a small place, so he was inevitably contaminated with the habits of those backward areas. He loves face and has a strong self-esteem. He is most afraid of being gossiped behind his back, saying that his family is petty.The most important point is that I like my son.
Shen Xiner sighed, and couldn't say anything more.
Shen Ziqiao's car was more than half an hour late for them to arrive at home. Turning the last intersection, the lights of the buildings were faintly visible, and every place under the lights hid a warm home, but it no longer belonged to her.
For a long time, when she returned to Hangzhou, she would intentionally or unintentionally avoid this area.Every tree and every street lamp around is stained with the memories of the past, those memories are too heavy, and any piece of them can overwhelm her.
The car stopped at the door.
Pushing open the door, memories with a sour smell flew into her arms together with Night Breeze. The so-called courage and so-called calmness, in the turbulent waves of time, were proved to be groundless.
Just three years seems not enough to completely change the appearance of a building. The living room, kitchen, and stairs still maintain the appearance she remembers.
Go up to the second floor, go straight to the end, the room with the best light facing south, there is no sign that she has lived in it.
For the first time, she knew that without dolls, pianos, and so many sweet decorations, her former boudoir would be so empty and big.
Her fingers brushed over the furniture, feeling cold to the touch, and she looked around the room with complicated emotions.Over the years, she has been practicing how to face the past, and when the overwhelming evidence of the past appeared in front of her, she found that she had no room for parrying.
Lowering his face, a tear splashed on the back of his hand.
And then the second drop, and the third drop.
The door was knocked twice, she sat on the edge of the bed and looked back with tears in her eyes, that look seemed to take her back to the past in an instant, countless ordinary nights, he had appeared at her door like this, told her to go out, She asked for a coat.It's just that a boy is no longer a boy, tall and tall, imposing, and the only constant is his gaze, the kind that no matter how far she walks or how tired she is, when she turns around, she can see a gaze sticking to her body and protecting her.
The question is, after so long, can she still find it?
"Yanyan..."
Who is calling her, is it him, or the teenager in memory?
She lowered her head and raised the back of her hand to wipe away the tears from her eyes.
The hand holding the door leaf slowly tightened, and the Adam's apple rolled with difficulty.In the room with no lights on, Shen Ziqiao's voice was also mixed with the breath of night, a little confused: "If you need anything, just tell me."
Pleasant face and low response.
The two were relatively speechless.
He coughed to get rid of the difficulty in his throat: "I'm right next door."
She groaned softly.
"Then, go to bed early."
She is still oh, with her head down, unable to see the expression on her face clearly.
(End of this chapter)
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