Live with the forensic chief

Shu Meng squinted at Zhang Zixiao.

"Really, I'll take up your time after school for a while."

Zhang Zixiao didn't seem to be lying, and his expression was quite anxious.But all the previous signs made Shu Meng really don't want to have too much other contact with this underage girl. He gathered up the paper and hugged him: "...I really don't have time after school."

After all, today is a special day.

One was that he and Lin Pu hadn't seen each other for a few days, so he missed each other, so he made an appointment with Lin Pu to have dinner outside.

In the restaurant he entrusted someone to book, the signature dish roast goose had to be reserved a few days in advance. He paid the deposit, and they made an appointment to go to the bookstore after dinner.How do you say that you are already in "communication", there must be some ritual sense of communication.

Not at all trying to ruin this first "boyfriend" date.

"Teacher, teacher... I'm really in a hurry." Zhang Zixiao said, "I know the teacher has concerns about me, but I don't know who to turn to."

"Take a good exam in the afternoon, don't think about what you have." Shu Meng said.

"Okay..." Zhang Zixiao said, "Does the teacher agree?"

Shu Meng couldn't help it: "...then you can come and see if I'm free when get out of class is over."

"Yeah!" Zhang Zixiao immediately said, "Then I'm going to take the exam!"

As a result, Shu Meng spent the whole afternoon grading papers in the office, thinking about it and feeling uneasy about Zhang Zixiao's words.After waiting for so long, when the get out of class was about to end, Shu Meng stood up to straighten the table, when he heard someone knocking at the door.

He looked up: "The door is not locked."

"..." Zhang Zixiao opened the door and came in, "Teacher, I'm here."

"...you still hand in the papers early?" Shu Meng said, "at least give the exam..."

"I can pass the test, no problem." Zhang Zixiao sat down without saying hello, "Teacher, listen to me first..."

……

5:40 in the afternoon.

It's almost closing time for the law firm.

Lin Pu still has a few unfinished cases in his hands, and occasionally helps the lawyers next door to make comments on their lawsuits. In order to get off work on time, he will be typing without recognition.

Zhou Qingqing knocked on the door: "Lin Lu."

Lin Pu didn't even raise his head: "Yes."

"Someone is looking for you." Zhou Qingqing said.

"I'm looking at Lawyer Yang's previous cases. Didn't I say that I won't take other cases for the time being?" Lin Pu said.

"No, it's Teacher Shu and a little girl..." Zhou Qingqing said.

Lin Pu raised his head instantly.

Zhou Qingqing said, "I'll bring them here."

After coming here for a while, she brought the person over, Lin Pu was a little surprised: "...Why are you here?"

Then, seeing the person behind Shu Meng, he was even more surprised: "...Zhang Zixiao?"

"Hello, Lawyer Lin..." Zhang Zixiao said softly, "You still remember me."

Because of Lauder's matter, Lin Pu had no affection for Zhang Zixiao, a little girl, and even resisted physically and psychologically.

I don't know which song this is sung.

He knew that Shu Meng had told him in the afternoon that he had already booked a restaurant for half an hour later, and Lin Pu was waiting to go downstairs to have a short date with him after finishing his work.

"Sit." Shu Meng opened the chair in front of Lin Pu for her familiarly, took off his coat and scarf and hung them on the hangers in Lin Pu's office, and then went to close the door of Lin Pu's office.

Lin Pu: "..."

After Zhang Zixiao sat down, he sat down on the armrest of the sofa next to him, stretched his two long legs, and folded his arms to watch.

"Tell me." Shu Meng said to Zhang Zixiao, "Tell Lawyer Lin what you just told me."

"Wait a minute." Lin Pu spread out his hands with a puzzled expression on his face, "May I know what's going on first?"

"It means that tonight's plan is ruined." Shumeng shrugged, "Listen first."

"I went to see Teacher Shu." Zhang Zixiao said, "Mr. Shu said, maybe you can bring me to meet you. Lawyer Lin, I don't really trust the police...the police probably don't believe me either, and I know so I said that no one would believe me, but I was so scared... I couldn't tell my parents, so I could only think of Teacher Shu in the end."

Lin Pu poured her a glass of water: "Speak slowly."

"It's like this. I have a friend who grew up together. Although we haven't been in touch these few years, we happened to be attending a cram school these days. I started going to and from school with her again..." Zhang Zixiao Said, "Because of... because of the matter with Wan Yuyang, now the information spreads so fast, everyone has prejudice against me, so whether it is the school or the cram school, they exclude me. I am not serious. Until later I saw her in the cram school, that is, the Fa Xiao I mentioned, and I found that she is also... such a person."

"Being excluded?" Lin Pu said.

"Yes." Zhang Zixiao nodded weakly, "Although some of her classmates don't know how to beat and scold her, they can see that they don't have a good relationship. They very much refuse all contact with her. During meals, she There is no one next to her, even in class, and she keeps a distance between her desk and her desk, and shows a very disgusted expression. I thought she was the same as me, because something happened to her and she was excluded by her classmates... After all, she gave me My impression is that she is a very good person, so I took the initiative to contact her."

Zhang Zixiao took a sip of water: "Then I found out that there is nothing unusual about her? She is exactly the same as before..."

Lin Pu stared at her, confused by the logic of this passage: "...so?"

"That's why I'm very surprised!" Zhang Zixiao spread her hands, "She is a normal college entrance examination student with average grades, why are others so far away from her and exclude her?"

"You are a college entrance examination candidate, can you think less about this kind of question?" Lin Pu typed the last line, saved it, and closed the web page.

"The key is that I found out later that her classmates didn't seem to exclude her, but more like they were afraid of her because of her weird behavior." Zhang Zixiao said, "I have been with her for a long time, and I can find her. There are many strange places. For example, she eats a kind of steamed cake every morning. I don’t know if you know that kind of steamed cake! It’s just...a colorful peach lotus shape with a lot of pigments on it, some of which can write, Something like 'peace'."

"For sacrificial offerings." Shu Meng added, crossing his arms. "...Yeah, who eats this at home?" Zhang Zixiao said, "For example, she brings her own food, and the food is good... But sometimes she stops eating after eating, and I see a big piece of oil Wang Wang’s meat thought why she didn’t want to eat it, so she put it aside and said no. When I saw it, it was a fake meat, the kind of food model we saw in front of many shops.”

"..." Lin Pu frowned.

"This kind of thing doesn't matter once or twice. It happens often. Later, I found out that the water she drank was also strange. In the thermos, the gray one had an unpleasant burnt smell and yellow confetti. Zhang Zixiao said, "Another time... I went shopping after school and asked her to accompany me, only to find that I lost my wallet. I asked her if she could pay for me, but she agreed without saying a word, but took out A Ming//coin."

Zhang Zixiao looked at Lin Pu: "... She still thinks it's normal? Just... She's not joking, you know? She really treats that thing as money."

Lin Pu glanced at Shu Meng, and then said: "Since the students are behaving strangely, why don't you ask your teacher for help?"

"I said it." Zhang Zixiao said, "but I don't know where her original school is. The teachers in the training institution will definitely not care about it. They just focus on making our papers. So I send In the name of textbooks, I went to her home and met her parents. Her parents told me that they knew about her being bullied at school, and it is not convenient to transfer now, so they can only let her go first."

"I also said that she may have been under too much pressure from studying recently, and she didn't tell them that she didn't have enough to eat at night. She would always steal the tributes they gave to the ancestors and take the money they used to burn paper. They were also very worried, and said that weekends would be Take her to see a psychiatrist, I think they seem to understand the seriousness of the problem? So I was relieved at that time."

"Afterwards, I tried to communicate with her. I bought her breakfast and told her not to eat those tributes. I also told her that you know the money you used is not money? She said it was money or something... ...She is sometimes normal and sometimes abnormal, when she is normal she knows very well that she pays real money, when she is abnormal she pays fake//the money is scolded by the shopkeeper, and she is super wronged and not pretending." Zhang Zixiao said, "I In fact, I was quite worried, but I didn't know what to do, so I thought she might have a mental problem."

"About a week later, she came to me one day and said that she would be 'boarding' next week and might not be able to come to school to make up lessons."

"I thought I was going on a trip with my parents and the whole family. I also said, 'Are you going to go on a cruise after the final exam?', and I asked her if she was going to Japan or Jeju Island...she told me to go to Taiping Lake." Zhang Zi Xiao said, "I thought what the hell kind of place it was, so I didn't ask much."

"Later, I was still curious and checked...After I checked, I found that there is no such place at all? Where is she going? I was quite scared..." Zhang Zixiao took another sip of water and said, "I went to another place yesterday. When I went to her house, there was no one there. I asked my neighbor where their house had gone, but the neighbor didn’t know very well, only that her mother opened a shop outside. The little girl will be alone at home. I also asked the neighbor if there is anything strange about her recently? The neighbor said no, he met her yesterday and brought her dinner."

"This is the address of the store." Zhang Zixiao showed Lin Pu the phone, "I'm really afraid that something will happen to her, and I don't know how to tell the police... Will the police think I'm sick too? I think Teacher Shu and the police There is a connection, I wanted the teacher to accompany me to see it at night, but the teacher brought me here."

"..." Lin Pu looked down at the address.

A very familiar address, Yuansheng Road. In the Lauder case, the organizer of the music festival was in the Yuansheng Building on Yuansheng Road. He and Shumeng went there once.

"Teacher Shu, Lawyer Lin, will something happen to her?" Zhang Zixiao said, "I'm afraid something will happen to her. I'm very disturbed by her appearance. Can you two accompany me to see, because no other adults will Trust me."

"What do you think?" Lin Pu raised his eyebrows and looked at Shu Meng.

"I think you'll be interested after listening to it," Shumen said.

"Then let's go." Lin Pu sighed, stood up and turned off the computer, took his coat and put it on.

Zhang Zixiao was very excited: "Thank you...thank you, Lawyer Lin."

Although Lin Pu had prejudice against Zhang Zixiao, he really felt that if she didn't ask them for help at this moment, there really was no one who could help her in this matter.Besides, she is still an underage girl, so it is dangerous to go looking for someone at night, let alone in a place like Yuansheng Road.

The three of them confirmed their destination and followed Shumeng's car. Just as they got in the car, Shumeng just received a call from the restaurant.

"Ah... Can I cancel or reschedule? Reschedule... I have to think about it." Shu Meng said helplessly, "I know, I know it's difficult to book, so please cancel first, sorry."

He hung up the phone, sighed and said: "...I only booked the dinner through my relationship, and I also pre-ordered the roast goose over there in advance, so tonight is a waste of money. And the deposit is not refundable, I am really mad at me .”

"Are you going out for dinner tonight?" Zhang Zixiao asked.

Shu Meng said in a blink of an eye, "Yes, I told you at noon that I have an appointment."

"Is it Teacher Shu's girlfriend? The girlfriend will be angry." Zhang Zixiao said.

Shu Meng glanced at Lin Pu and smiled: "It seems not."

Seems to be having fun with it.

"Teacher, why don't I pay you the deposit..." Zhang Zixiao said cautiously, "I'm very embarrassed..."

"No, no, no." Shu Meng said in a blink of an eye, "I'll be thankful if you fasten your seat belt."

Lin Pu was afraid that Zhang Zixiao would notice something, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Won't your family worry about you if you don't go back so late?"

"My parents were watching closely a while ago. Seeing that there was nothing wrong with me, they were already relaxed. After all, they often don't come back at night, and they just go to sleep when they come back." Zhang Zixiao said, "I am nothing important to them. , work is the most important."

Shu Meng shook his head: "I want your class teacher to have a good talk with your parents, but I disagree with you saying that you are not important to them. Zhang Zixiao, your parents are very kind to you, cherish it. Otherwise Do you think that in the case last time, you could have fooled the judge by saying 'I am in a relationship with the other party' or appearing in court as a witness?"

"...Teacher, I'm absolutely fine with the final exam this time." Zhang Zixiao lay in front of the back seat and said, "...you just pretend that I'm fine and don't talk to my parents. Seriously, this kind of thing really happened. Aren't you worried about something?"

"You don't come here." Shu Meng started the car and said, "Zhang Zixiao, put more attention on your studies, you are definitely the number one scholar in our province."

Lin Pu, the co-pilot sitting next to him, was searching the map on his mobile phone.

Yuansheng Road is the dividing line at the junction of the three districts. On the left is a district crossing a road and a new district, like a slum in the urban area.The rent is low and can be used for both commercial and residential purposes, attracting many people to set up companies and shop here, and office workers and workers who cannot afford to rent a house also live a group rental life here.Surrounded by newer and taller office buildings, the government cannot afford to demolish them, forming a special environment here.

Lin Pu seldom went to that area, and there were occasional reports of theft in that area before, which sounded like a place with a low degree of security.Even if Zhang Zixiao dared to go, Lin Pu and Shu Meng would definitely not let her go.

Also, what kind of paper money and ghost coins, what kind of sacrifices, it sounds like that.

Lin Pu really seemed more interested in this than the luxury dinner he couldn't book.

Shu Meng glanced at Lin Pu, Lin Pu felt the gaze, and quietly raised his eyelids to look at him.

It's really tacit understanding...

It's not too far to drive from Lin Pu's law firm, and it's almost an hour's drive during the evening rush hour.When he finally arrived, Lin Pu found that this place was next to Yuansheng Building, and the other building next to it, the three buildings were almost identical in shape, like a triplet of twins.These three buildings also share a central garden, which is a facing style. It is estimated that the internal layout is still the same. The hollow style is surrounded by various houses mixed together, and each room is crowded.

"I remembered the experience of not being able to walk the stairs..." Lin Pu said in a low voice.

Shu Meng laughed: "It can't be such a coincidence."

"On the seventh floor." Zhang Zixiao said after checking the address.

The entrance of the building has several steps leading to the door.

Lin Pu stood on the top of the steps at the gate, turned around and said to Shu Meng and Zhang Zixiao who were a few stairs below: "Zhang Zixiao, we are waiting for you at the top of the stairs, how do you think about what you will do with her parents... ..."

--Snapped! ! !

Halfway through Lin Pu's speech, he saw a black shadow falling from the sky behind Shu Meng and Zhang Zixiao, passing under the street lamp, and fell to the ground with a loud noise.It directly caused the second half of his sentence to choke in his throat.

At the same time, Shu Meng and Zhang Zixiao also heard the voice, and immediately turned their heads to look.

Not far from them, under the illumination of street lamps, a... person with his limbs spread out and his face down was clearly seen.You can even see her loose long hair and clothes that look like school uniform jackets.

Lin Pu raised his head subconsciously and glanced up. Shu Meng reacted faster than him. He hardly paused, and directly shouted "Call the police!", and ran towards the man quickly.Then, Zhang Zixiao, who was already staring dumbfounded at the same spot, uttered a shrill cry.

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