No.14 Disciple: Death Puzzle

Chapter 57
An Youlin neither asked Zhuo Qingshan why she was drinking, nor persuaded her to drink less.He just took a few mouthfuls of vegetables and drank tasteless mineral water.Zhuo Qingshan poured her own drink, but rarely ate vegetables.

"Hello!" Zhuo Qingshan asked after drinking a glass of beer, "Let me ask you a question!"

An Youlin shrugged his shoulders while picking up vegetables with chopsticks, telling Zhuo Qingshan to speak up.

"I always feel that you are full of confidence and look like you can see through all the cases. But can you tell me if you made any mistakes in these two cases?"

In normal times, Zhuo Qingshan would not have dared to ask An Youlin like this. "Of course there is!"

Zhuo Qingshan originally thought that a person like An Youlin, who was indifferent to everything, would use gags to save face.

"The case of the male corpse in Huangyin Mountain, I thought it was an ordinary murder case." An Youlin put a peanut in his mouth, "My suspects have always been people who had emotional ties with the deceased Zhao Chen. Including Feng Xiaojie. But, after the Tangning mansion case happened, I knew I had made a mistake!"

Facing An Youlin's straightforwardness, Zhuo Qingshan also let go of her courage. She drank another glass of wine, and then asked: "You said that the murderer is very likely to be a woman, and why? Don't tell me Is it your intuition again?" "It's about the same."

"Hey, hey!" Zhuo Qingshan said dissatisfied, "You are just perfunctory! Today, if you tell me these things that make people unclear about the situation, I will never end with you!"

An Youlin didn't expect that Zhuo Qingshan's temper would be so violent tonight, so he had no choice but to reply: "Okay, okay!"

"I don't understand. The most direct and powerful evidence about the murderer's gender is the man you met when you went to Huangyin Mountain with Team Luo behind your back that night? How could there be more convincing evidence than this?" A clue?"

After several glasses of wine, Zhuo Qingshan felt that everything in front of her eyes became very clear, the wine hanging on the wall of the glass, the vegetable leaves in the plate, and the chopsticks shaking in An Youlin's hand.

"Because that man is just an insider, I'm afraid he is not the murderer."

An Youlin did not perfunctory Zhuo Qingshan, who was already in a slightly drunk state, he answered in a very serious tone.

"If he has something to do with the case, why did he go to Huangyin Mountain in the middle of the night? Shouldn't he try to avoid the scene of the murder?"

Facing Zhuo Qingshan's naive questions, An Youlin looked at her seriously, not knowing how to answer.It was rare for Zhuo Qingshan to see An Youlin's serious expression. Seeing the stubble on An Youlin's chin wriggling with her mouth closed, she couldn't help laughing and had to cover her mouth with a tissue.

Several taxi drivers who drove the night bus walked into the store, seeing Zhuo Qingshan's weird smile, they couldn't help but look at her.

"I said Xiao Zhuo, think about it first, how many people will run to Huangyin Mountain in the middle of the night?" An Youlin frowned and said seriously, "That night, Luo Gang and I could only meet him. It's just a coincidence. As for why the man went to Huangyin Mountain, I think he has a certain connection with the deceased Zhao Chen, and this connection will make him have a special feeling for the place where Zhao Chen was abandoned... ..."

"Chunming and Da Liu have also checked, but they can't find this person at all after checking..." "That's because they have already frightened the snake!" An Youlin said while holding the mineral water bottle, "A mistake, a mistake, at the beginning I never thought the case would be so complicated..."

An Youlin in front of Zhuo Qingshan's eyes had become real.But she also thought of An Youlin's comments about the deceased, how to make the deceased not just a cold corpse.Although An Youlin was a living person, in Zhuo Qingshan's eyes, he was as strange as a cold corpse.

The past, An Youlin's past, this is Zhuo Qingshan's goal!
What is the inside story of the Viking Plaza case?Zhuo Qingshan didn't dare to ask rashly, she just kept drinking and discussed with An Youlin the case of the male corpse in Huangyin Mountain and the Tangning mansion case.Zhuo Qingshan was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity that was suitable enough to ask An Youlin directly and he would not refuse, for example, the moment when Zhuo Qingshan seemed the most harmless—drunk.Zhuo Qingshan wanted An Youlin to think that she was drunk, so drunk that An Youlin would not be wary of her.

In the early hours of the morning, when the second wave of night shift taxi drivers came to the small restaurant, Zhuo Qingshan felt that she had reached the limit of drunkenness.After paying the bill, Zhuo Qingshan and An Youlin returned to her car. An Youlin started the car and asked where Zhuo Qingshan's home was.

"I don't want to go home right now..."

Zhuo Qingshan didn't know that the speed of her speech that she thought she was deliberately slowing down was much slower than she had imagined.

"You asked me to drink with you, didn't you just ask me to be your driver? Where are you going if you don't go home?" Zhuo Qingshan told An Youlin slowly that she wanted to sober up.

An Youlin drove Zhuo Qingshan's car, looking at the young people drinking and laughing under the awning on the street in the gloomy weather: "Xiao Zhuo, it's still time to drink, where is there a place to sober up..."

"Shall we go to the mountain?" "Huangyin Mountain?" "Don't go there!"

In the end, at Zhuo Qingshan's request, An Youlin drove Zhuo Qingshan to the nearest Aishan Park.When the car was driving on the road around the mountain, Zhuo Qingshan leaned her head against the car window, looking at the bright lights below the mountain.Xijing City is like a lantern with a black paper skin, and the brilliant candlelight cannot penetrate the black paper-like dark clouds.

There are two peaks in total. On the top of the lower one stands a statue. A child sits on a golden bull with wings. The statue is lifelike. Under the illumination of the night lights, it looks like a golden bull flying in mid-air.On the top of the higher mountain, there is a flying saucer-shaped viewing platform, and the parking lot is below the viewing platform.An Youlin parked the car, opened the window, put the seat down, and held his head with his hands.

"Let's just stay for 10 minutes, okay? I think it will rain soon. Maybe there will be thunder or something. I don't want to be struck to death..."

Zhuo Qingshan also put the seat down and opened the sunroof. "If it's sunny now, can we see many stars?" Zhuo Qingshan looked at the dark sky and sighed.

An Youlin just stared at the black cloud the size of the skylight, he felt an inexplicable depression, this kind of depression is very familiar, not brought by the gloomy weather.

"I asked you so many questions just now, don't you have anything to ask me?"

An Youlin was no longer willing to propose a proposal, so he asked casually, "Why do you want to be a policeman?" Lin drinks to resolve it, but the past she doesn't want to recall is still touched by An Youlin in a roundabout way.

"Because of my mom." "Your mom wants you to be a cop?"

"No, maybe it's because I'm too stubborn." A tear rolled down the corner of Zhuo Qingshan's eyes, "My mother has been dead for 13 years."

An Youlin wanted to comfort Zhuo Qingshan, but he couldn't.

"After my mother passed away, I became a weird girl who didn't want to see other people make mistakes. At school, if I saw my classmates pouring water from their water bottles on the floor, I would criticize them, because the water on the floor might make others slippery. No. In the eyes of my classmates, I am a very strict and unapproachable crazy girl, but the teacher thinks that I have a strong sense of justice."

Zhuo Qingshan laughed twice with tears in her eyes: "Isn't it ridiculous? I even fought with senior boys because they bullied other boys. A low-grade girl who participated in a fight with high-grade boys was very famous in school. Woolen cloth……"

An Youlin listened to Zhuo Qingshan's words, he was silent and sad, as if he had returned to a certain time in the past - a long-haired girl was telling another sad story in his ear.

"I just want to help others and let others know that my small mistakes may have serious consequences. So I went to learn Sanda and Taekwondo when I was in junior high school, and I found a master to learn Wing Chun in high school. I get The school is titled as a pacesetter for righteousness and bravery, and many boys who like to make trouble are afraid of me, and girls like to walk with me after school at night."

The gray sky finally started to rain. An Youlin raised his hand to press the switch to close the skylight, but Zhuo Qingshan grabbed his hand and put it down.

The rain covered Zhuo Qingshan's tears, and she wantonly let the tears flow in the rain.An Youlin lay on the seat, not avoiding the drizzle falling from the skylight.

"Do you know why I'm so weird? Why do I meddle in my own business? Why can't I see other people's mistakes?" Zhuo Qingshan no longer looked at the skylight, she turned her face to look at An Youlin, "Because of my mother's death , it was caused by my father."

An Youlin was still silent in the rain.

"When I was 11 years old, my father drove my mother out to run errands. On the way home, my mother fell asleep in the back seat of the car. My father ran out of cigarettes and wanted to go to the supermarket on the side of the road to buy. My father thought he would soon I came out, so I didn’t wake up my mother. For the sake of convenience, my father parked the car with the engine on at the intersection where parking is prohibited. Just when he was going into the supermarket to buy cigarettes, a large truck rushed over and turned the car... Mom sleeping in the car..."

Zhuo Qingshan's choked sobs were swallowed by the rain.

(End of this chapter)