crime puzzle

Chapter 14

Cheng Xiaojing watched the Lan family's car disappear in front of him, then turned around and turned into the path back to his home.

After spending some time on the road with Lan He, it was getting late immediately.Now is the time for the warmer weather, still wearing a late spring sweater.As soon as the sun went down, the sky darkened quickly.

Cheng Xiaojing has lived in the city for nearly ten years, and he has long been used to the days of going in and out of the car. The experience of walking on the mountain trails like this is like a long-awaited dream.

He couldn't help slowing down, wanting to experience the wind and air in the mountains, and a little delusional thought in his heart—maybe he could regain the emotional cells that he had lost for many years.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew by, bringing over the coolness of the night in the mountains.Someone bumped into him from behind, Cheng Xiaojing staggered forward and looked sideways.

A young man who was about the same size as him walked forward muffled.

Although they were walking on a trail in the mountains, even if it was just a trail, it was more than three meters wide.It wasn't too dark to see anything, and the other party didn't walk too fast, no matter how you looked at it, it was intentional.

Cheng Xiaojing took off his backpack and saw that the zipper on the bag was intact.Looking back at the other party who walked forward without saying a word, he didn't mean to apologize at all for the fact that he bumped into someone.

'Hello! "Cheng Xiaojing shouted.

The man seemed to pause for a moment, then turned his head and glanced at Cheng Xiaojing.

"Cheng Xiaojing? It's really you..." The voice sounded quite hoarse, but Cheng Xiaojing felt a little familiar.

However, for Cheng Xiaojing, the whole world now has a strange sense of familiarity.

After the man recognized Cheng Xiaojing, he suddenly turned around and rushed towards him.

Cheng Xiaojing retreated subconsciously, frightened: "Don't come over, I'm going to shout."

"Don't shout!" The young man came over a little faster, almost when Cheng Xiao Jingsang said this sentence, the other party immediately followed his words.

"I haven't seen you for a long time so I don't know me?" The man approached Cheng Xiaojing, he gritted his teeth when he spoke, his voice was choked but there was a little hatred.

When Cheng Xiaojing saw that face clearly, his eyes widened in shock.

"Cheng..." Fortunately, he reacted quickly and realized that this place could not be called by this name, so he immediately changed his tone and lowered his voice: "Why are you here?"

"It's not all because of you," Cheng Xiaoguo choked up and said angrily, "If it wasn't for you, how could my family become like this."

Cheng Xiaojing looked around, feeling lonely.He breathed a sigh of relief, but luckily it was late.At this time, in the countryside, most people have already returned home, and there are no people outside.

Seeing him looking around, Cheng Xiaoguo suddenly grabbed his neck and warned: "Don't call anyone, or I will strangle you to death."

Cheng Xiaojing withdrew his gaze, grabbed Cheng Xiaoguo's hands with both hands, stopped him from doing evil things, and said: "If I wanted to call someone, why would I still talk so much nonsense to you? It just so happens that I have something to ask you, so find a place where no one is around. "

Cheng Xiaoguo didn't quite believe him, and said, "You follow me."

Cheng Xiaojing thought that the current self is not as familiar with this place as he is, so he simply nodded and let him lead the way.

Cheng Xiaoguo turned into the mountain road behind the village with his people.

Cheng Xiaojing walked in front, Cheng Xiaoguo followed him closely, and when he reached a secluded place, he asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

Cheng Xiaojing got off the backpack on his back again, handed it to him, and said, "Find it yourself, and whatever you find is yours." Fortunately, there was nothing valuable in the bag, so he did whatever he wanted.

Cheng Xiaoguo snatched his bag, buried his head in searching for a while, and kept complaining, saying: "Didn't your mother come back? And that boy surnamed Lan chased after your ass all day long." , just give you something to eat?"

Cheng Xiaojing looked at the few biscuits he swept out from inside.This is what he brought from home to school to replenish his energy. Recently, Lan Tian was fined by his family to eat. Sometimes he didn’t want to eat at noon, so he gave him the biscuits given by his mother, and he took these biscuits when he was hungry. Cushion your tummy.

The problem of his small appetite probably started from this time.Fortunately, he can still grow to 1.7 meters eight when he becomes an adult.

"Have you not eaten for a few days?" Cheng Xiaojing saw that he was really hungry and panicked.Cheng Xiaoguo is the only son in the family, although his mother is fierce, she will never let Cheng Xiaoguo spend less on food and clothing.The biscuits in their family are all imported biscuits, like the bulk biscuits he ate, Cheng Xiaoguo used to not even take a look at them.

"I want you to take care of it." Cheng Xiaoguo glared at him several times, and suddenly threw back the backpack he had searched.

Cheng Xiaojing said: "Are you planning to go back just now? You should have a lot of food at home."

Cheng Xiaoguo gave him a sideways glance, and said: "It's all you, you still don't go back so late, do you know I want to go back!"

Cheng Xiaojing asked back: "Why should I know that you will come back?" Lan He discussed with him that Cheng Xiaoguo should not let Cheng Xiaoguo know about Cheng Xiaoguo's text messages to him. He thought about it for a while, and continued: "I'm delayed by something today."

After finishing speaking, he immediately asked: "Where are your parents?"

Cheng Xiaoguo's expression changed.

Cheng Xiaojing was fairly close to him, seeing his eyes reddened, and said: "There is no one in your house, and you didn't come to school, so I guess you have moved."

Cheng Xiaoguo sobbed, and said: "My father is dead, and my mother... definitely can't escape their grasp, and she probably died too."

Cheng Xiaojing asked: "Who are they?"

Cheng Xiaoguo looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "Don't you know?"

Cheng Xiaojing felt that his brain was a little bit broken, and asked, "What do I know?"

Cheng Xiaoguo stared at him and asked: "Didn't Lan Tian call those people over?"

"Lan Tian?" Cheng Xiaojing thought that Lan Tian was not a young gangster, and his family status was sensitive, so he could at most yell, how could he have the guts to use real swords and guns, "What did Lan Tian do?"

Cheng Xiaoguo looked at Cheng Xiaojing's face, probably felt that he really didn't seem to be pretending to be ignorant, so he asked in a low voice.

"You really don't know anything?"

Cheng Xiaojing sighed and said, "If I knew, why would I ask you?"

He looked up at the dark sky and said, "It's not early, if I go back too late, my mother will be timid. Let's make a long story short."

Cheng Xiaoguo asked: "Then when will you bring me something to eat? You don't have anything to eat at home, right? I'll give you the key, and you can help me bring something out."

Cheng Xiaojing saw him handing him the key, shook his head and said, "I don't want it. I'll buy you some breakfast tomorrow morning and send it over. Tell me what happened to your house first."

Cheng Xiaoguo squatted on the ground, wiped his face, and said: "After I was taken back by my mother that day, my mother answered the phone. Then she took me out."

Cheng Xiaojing nodded.

"When we arrived in the city, my mother couldn't get through to my father's phone number, so she hurriedly bought two standing tickets and went to Guangzhou." Cheng Xiaoguo buried his head and cried out as if he couldn't hold back.

Cheng Xiaojing didn't interrupt him, pretending that he was air, let Cheng Xiaoguo vent for a while, sucked his nose twice, held his breath, then raised his head and said: "After we got there, we didn't even go out of the train station. My mother Called my dad again... She asked me to wait for me in the waiting hall, and said... no, she asked the waiter next to me, asked her to look at me, and put her clothes into my arms, saying wait She came back. And she specifically told me... not to go anywhere until she came back."

Cheng Xiaojing found it strange that Cheng Xiaoguo was not young anymore. He was sixteen or seventeen years old, and he went out for no reason. Wang Qinxiang just left for a while, and asked the people at the station to help him.

"and then?"

"Then...then I waited for a long time, but my mother didn't come back. I felt strange and wanted to go to my mother, but I was afraid that the waiter would complain to my mother, so I lied to her that I would go to the toilet to get a tuba, and wait a while return."

Cheng Xiaojing looked at him and said, "Then what did you see?"

Cheng Xiaoguo's eyes were wide open, his whole body was trembling, even his voice was so trembling that he couldn't speak completely.

"No... no, no... I saw it, my dad... my dad was covered in blood, lying on the ground... my mother... my mother was crying... I never saw her cry so sad... I I wanted to call her. But there was a circle of people inside...someone was holding a knife, and with one knife...my mother passed out."

Cheng Xiaojing raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder.

Cheng Xiaoguo seemed unable to control himself, he was crying and convulsed, and he spoke intermittently.

"And then? How did you come back?"

"My mother gave me money in the clothes, I was going to buy tickets..." Cheng Xiaoguo glanced at him nervously and said, "When I went to buy tickets, I saw two men talking to the waiter from before , When the waiter saw me, he pointed at me and talked to those two men. I didn’t know them, and when I saw them, I thought they were not good people, so I ran away in fear.”

"Run away?" Cheng Xiaojing asked.

"It happened that there was a ticket gate to get on the train, and there were quite a lot of people, so I confused the ticket gate and found the train going home..." Cheng Xiaoguo suddenly grabbed Cheng Xiaojing and said, "You are not allowed to tell about my return, otherwise I'm dead, they know I'm still alive, and they will definitely come looking for me."

Cheng Xiaojing had many questions in his heart.Cheng Xiaoguo's words can seem to evoke the whole time on the surface, but the details cannot withstand scrutiny.

For example, who did Wang Qinxiang answer the phone at the station before leaving Cheng Xiaoguo alone in the waiting room.Did she know what she would encounter next, or was she just having a premonition in her heart?Why did those people kill Cheng Zhen's family, even the children?

After Cheng Xiaojing cried for a while, he probably came back to his senses. He said: "I heard that group of people mentioned the name of the village chief. I don't know if the village chief is with them. Cheng Xiaojing, my matter, You can't say a word. Only you have seen me now."

Cheng Xiaojing had a lot of doubts in his heart, from the text message Lan He received to when he met Cheng Xiaoguo, there were too many coincidences and contradictions.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

"Find a safe place to stay tonight, and I'll come to you tomorrow." Cheng Xiaojing solemnly said, "Don't worry, I won't say anything about you. Your parents are my relatives after all." Uncle and aunt, I'm not so heartless."

Cheng Xiaoguo asked in a low voice: "Does it really have nothing to do with you? And the village chief... I thought those people were called by Lan Tian to teach us a lesson. I... thought it was me who caused the trouble..." He raised his hand and wiped himself off tears, and looked about to cry again.

"I don't know why now, but since the incident has come out, the truth will be revealed one day. You just need to live as hard as you can now." Cheng Xiaojing said and got up.

Seeing that he turned to leave, Cheng Xiaoguo reached out to grab him in a panic, and said, "You..."

Cheng Xiaojing looked back at him helplessly, and said: "I won't hide it from you, Hu Min talked to me a few days ago, and she also felt that your disappearance had something to do with me, so if I tell you about your return now, when the time comes If you bite me back, then I will really have nothing to do with your disappearance. So I won't say anything. "

Cheng Xiaoguo reluctantly let him go.

Cheng Xiaojing thought for a while, then handed him his clothes, towels and other daily necessities from his bag, and said, "It's not very convenient in the mountains, so I'll lend you these things first."

Cheng Xiaoguo took it, and whispered thank you.

"When I come over, I will first call you by your full name twice, and then I will call you Xiaoguo. Remember, if someone else appears, you will be very careful. If you can't see it, forget it. If you can see it, remember it Look, tell me when the time comes, and I will check it for you."

"it is good."

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