dead innocent

The lights of Jiuli Jinting 717 are on. Standing downstairs and looking up, you can still see people walking behind the floor-to-ceiling windows.Chu Xingyun recognized it with just one glance, it was He Ying.

He Ying took out a bag of cat food from the kitchen cupboard, went back to the French window in the living room, poured rations into the two cat bowls, and the two cats circled around his feet.Before he finished feeding the cat, he heard the door of the room being opened suddenly, and then it was slammed down hard, and the sound of slightly hurried footsteps approached him from behind.

"These two cats seem to be thinner than the previous two days—"

He stood up with the cat food in his hand, and just as he turned around, the figure rushing in front of him grabbed his neck and pushed him back.

"Where is He Cheng? Where did you take him?!"

He was negligent, but was forced back by Chu Xingyun step by step until he retreated to the floor-to-ceiling window, as if he had been slammed onto the glass.

When the two bodyguards upstairs heard the movement downstairs, they rushed down from the bedroom immediately, and were waved away by He Ying before they could intervene.

The kid was relentless and almost cut off his throat. He Ying blushed and pinched his tiger's mouth fiercely, snapping his thumb back like a willow branch.

Chu Xingyun suffered a pain in his hand, and stopped before he broke his thumb, and punched him again as if he was unwilling: "Fuck, you really do it with me!"

He Ying didn't want to really fight with him, he dodged his punch to the left, rubbed his neck and coughed several times: "Don't be so rude, we can sit down and talk!"

"Then tell me, where is He Cheng now!"

Chu Xingyun's face is sullen, his face is full of anger, and he looks like he will rush over at any time with his fists.

He Ying directly took out his mobile phone and made a video call. After a while, he connected, and said to the mobile phone: "He Cheng." Then he handed the mobile phone to Chu Xingyun.

Chu Xingyun took it over and took a look. The camera was already aimed at He Cheng who was lying in the back seat of the car. He Cheng closed his eyes heavily, and couldn't tell if he was asleep or in a coma.

Seeing that he was safe, Chu Xingyun felt relieved, took a deep breath, threw the phone into He Ying's arms, and said: "I don't have time to explain so much to you now, anyway, what happened today is a trap, He Cheng It's dangerous now, he's being followed. You have to get your men to bring him back immediately."

Seeing that he was serious and serious, He Ying raised his vigilance and asked the person on the other end of the phone, "See if there is a car following you."

The driver scouted for a while, and then the voice was sent out, enough for everyone in the room to hear: "No, we are the only car on the highway."

He Ying didn't say any more, he pinched the phone and sneered at Chu Xingyun: "Did you hear that? He's safe."

Seeing that he didn't trust him, Chu Xingyun wished he could rush over and strangle him to death, but the remaining rationality reminded him to distinguish between the enemy and us, and He Ying is He Cheng's own brother, and he will be his brother in the future, so calm down, calm down ...

"He Cheng is safest only if he stays by my side!"

However, He Ying didn't take his vows seriously. He tidied up the collar of his messed up shirt and smiled casually, "Really? Why do I think it's the most unsafe for him to stay by your side?"

Chu Xingyun gritted his teeth, irritated and impatient: "You fucking keep saying such inexplicable pretense, what do you mean? You must make it clear today!"

He Ying's face cooled down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and said: "You answer me a question first, you only know that He Cheng is in danger now, so do you know who threatened him?"

Chu Xingyun sneered: "Of course I know, it's the person who origami the boat."

He Ying squinted at him, shook his head and laughed: "Stupid."

Chu Xingyun: ...

He Ying said again: "Fortunately, I always thought you were a little clever, but today I realized how confused you are. You actually let He Cheng undergo hypnosis, and you pretended to be clever to remind him of the past. People like you use two The incisive words sum it up, that is..."

As he spoke, He Ying raised an index finger and nodded twice at his figure, saying, "You idiot."

Chu Xingyun: ...

He Ying seemed to have used up all the swear words in his life on him. He was indeed very angry at first, and wanted to scold back, but suddenly he understood something, and he suddenly said 'oh', and looked at He Ying without getting angry. Said: "So what you have been talking about protecting He Cheng is to prevent him from remembering the past? The real danger is not the person who put the paper boat on him, but the person who exists in his memory?"

He Ying: ...

Suddenly there was a feeling of being slapped in the face.

Chu Xingyun saw that his face was sullen, his eyes were flickering, obviously he was pretending to be calm after he broke the secret.

Chu Xingyun suddenly sat down on the floor, and dragged Daman, who was squatting at his feet, into his arms, then politely raised his hand at He Yingke, and said, "Sit down, Brother He Ying, since we have already spoken, let's Have a good chat."

He Ying was in a stalemate with him for a while, as if he wanted to make up for it, but when he saw Chu Xingyun's eyes that had seen through him, he suddenly felt that no matter how much he concealed, it was too thin.He was negligent for a while, so that Chu Xingyun had already found out about him, no matter how much he argued, he was not convincing, and he seemed stupid and unmannered.

In order to maintain his demeanor, He Ying also sat cross-legged on the floor and asked, "How much do you know?"

The initiative is in his own hands, Chu Xingyun couldn't help being a little proud, and also a little vengeful, and said with a smile: "Not much, but I know that a year before I came to your He's house, He Cheng was hypnotized, forget about it. I met some people and some things. And He Cheng fell into the water when he was a child, and it was in your swimming pool. Now I just want to know—"

As he said that, his eyes fixed, all the smiles on his lips were wiped away, he looked at He Ying and said seriously: "Who pushed him into the swimming pool?"

Chu Xingyun didn't know the truth, he was just guessing.He Cheng recalled the sound of falling into the water, and he said it was the sound of a child falling into the water.He Cheng has also repeatedly mentioned that he used to have nightmares, and in the end he must have been awakened by the feeling of falling and the suffocation of being submerged in water.

All these sporadic memory points are connected in series, and Chu Xingyun has to make an assumption, assuming that the child who fell into the water back then was either someone else or He Cheng.Then who pushed him into the water?

He thought he had guessed right, but he saw He Ying frowned frowning, with a complicated smile on his lips, as if he was quite surprised by his words.

"Did He Cheng tell you?"

As if trying to cover up something, He Ying raised his hand to cover his lips and chin, his meaningful eyes fell on him lightly, and asked again: "He told you that the child who fell into the water was himself?"

Chu Xingyun intuitively felt that there was deep meaning in his words, and he was also worried that this black-bellied old thing deliberately said such words to stun him.Falsify the truth, make the false true, and blur the truth.Facing He Ying at this time, he was extremely vigilant and did not dare to take it lightly for a moment. He was more tired than interrogating any cunning suspect in the past.

"No, I guessed it. What? I guessed wrong?"

He Ying suddenly stopped talking, lowered his eyes and seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while he laughed softly: "Since you can make such a guess, it means you don't know the meaning of paper boats yet." Looking up at him, the eyes are heavy, as if there is a backlog of many unspeakable deep meanings: "That's right, you guessed wrong. To be precise, not completely right, there was indeed a child who lived by the swimming pool in No. [-] Heping Avenue fell into the water, but that child is not He Cheng."

Chu Xingyun's heart sank: "It's not He Cheng?"

Could it be that there is a second child?

Having said all this, as if a matter of concern had been resolved, He Ying suddenly felt a sense of relief, and he no longer had any scruples to tell the truth, saying: "He Cheng is the one who pushed that child into the water." .”

Chu Xingyun said nothing, but his expression was extremely nervous, alert, and his eyes trembled violently.

He Ying understood his current mood very well. When he knew about this, he was also in shock and couldn't believe it.That's why he didn't want Chu Xingyun and He Cheng to know the truth.

From the outer pocket of his coat, he took out the paper boat made of white paper that had been preserved from the scene of the navy's death, held it in his hand, looked at it for a moment, and then threw it at Chu Xingyun.

Responding subconsciously, Chu Xingyun raised his hand to catch the paper boat, held it in his palm, and suddenly remembered the scene of He Cheng standing by the pool and putting the paper boat into the water...

It turned out that he had already remembered it at that time.

He Ying seemed to be tired, closed his eyes and propped his forehead, and said in a low voice: "His name is Min Xiaozhou, the son of He Cheng's piano teacher, and he is the same age as He Cheng. Before you came to He's house, he often followed His mother came to our house to teach He Cheng. He Cheng has a good relationship with him, and we can play together. He Cheng is one of the few friends of He Cheng. The piano and the piece you played with He Cheng back then , They also played. After Min Xiaozhou's accident, He Cheng was stimulated, and we had no choice but to hypnotize him to make him forget that memory. But we didn't expect He Cheng's temperament to change drastically. He no longer approached anyone. We used to hypnotize him. He was sent to school by force, but he ran away from the crowd and was not close to anyone."

As he said, he opened his eyes and looked at Chu Xingyun, with a heavy and soft smile on his lips: "Until you appeared, you were the one who rescued him from the abyss. He was so lonely, but the only one I only believe in you and rely on you, and I can't figure out why. Don't think that he regards you as Min Xiaozhou. There is no similarity between you and Min Xiaozhou. We have done many tests on him, and he has completely regarded Min Xiaozhou as Min Xiaozhou. Forgot, the hypnotist also showed him a picture of Min Xiaozhou, but he didn’t remember it at all. He was willing to get close to you, maybe because you appeared at the right time, you were more pleasing to the eye, and you could give him a sense of security and rescue him. His loneliness. So he becomes more and more dependent on you, more and more inseparable from you, until he likes you. Maybe this is what my grandpa used to say... Fate? Or, fate? I can’t tell, All in all, thank you very much.”

It's a pity that Chu Xingyun didn't listen to his general statement, and his attention was all on the name 'Min Xiaozhou'.

It turns out that the real meaning of a paper boat is a person's code name, and Min Xiaozhou is a paper boat, so this Min Xiaozhou has sufficient motivation to take revenge on He Cheng.

While He Ying was still eloquently conveying to him the He family's gratitude to him for saving He Cheng, Chu Xingyun interrupted him abruptly, raised the paper boat and said meticulously, "Kill the navy, blow up the state guests." The person in Lou is this Min Xiaozhou? Is he coming back for revenge?"

The corners of He Ying's eyes twitched, and he felt that he was sitting opposite a big buffalo that could only chew peonies, and he talked about pipa with this buffalo for a long time, which was time-consuming, laborious and emotional.Presumably He Cheng's life would not be much easier when he was with him.

"You still don't understand what I mean."

He Ying buried his head and let out a long sigh, thinking that he must be forced to speak clearly.So he looked up at him and said bluntly: "The one who takes revenge is not Min Xiaozhou."

Chu Xingyun frowned, he was really confused, and when he was about to ask, He Ying said: "Min Xiaozhou is dead."

Chu Xingyun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stopped.

He Ying looked at him and said, "Min Xiaozhou was pushed into the swimming pool by He Cheng, and he drowned to death 16 years ago."

Chu Xingyun suddenly lowered his head and looked at the paper boat in his hand. He never thought that this paper boat made of white paper was actually a token of a dead man.At this time, the paper boat seemed to be haunted by ghosts that harbored resentment and refused to dissipate.

He Cheng killed someone?He killed his friend with his own hands?

What He Ying said to protect him turned out to be to hide the memory of the murder that he had forgotten.

Although shocked, Chu Xingyun still relied on his own restraint, not going to investigate He Cheng's hidden crimes for many years, and forced himself to think about the case in front of him.

"……wrong."

He pinched his brows tightly, his head was dripping with cold sweat unknowingly, his throat seemed to be stuffed with a handful of charcoal, and the pain was unbearable: "If Min Xiaozhou is dead, come back now to seek revenge on He Cheng If it’s not him, then it’s the third person. And he was also an insider of Min Xiaozhou’s drowning incident, or in other words, he was also a participant.”

Suddenly, he raised his head and stared fixedly at He Ying with his fire-stained eyes: "You still have something to hide from me. The participants in that accident back then were not only He Cheng and Min Xiaozhou, but also a third person!"

He Ying looked at him calmly, and could keep smiling under his glare, but the smile was helpless and heavy, and some old things that had rotted in time turned into abscesses and were finally dug out by people. The carefree, and the relief.He has kept this secret for too long.

"Yes, there is a third person."

"Who?"

He Ying didn't answer his question directly, and said in a calm manner: "Although He Cheng was the one who pushed Min Xiaozhou into the water and caused him to drown, he was not the murderer. He was hypnotized and controlled."

"Who? Who the hell!"

He Ying looked into his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "He Qing, He Cheng's twin brother."

puff-

It was the sound of falling water.

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