365 Difficult Ways To Live

Miao Chengli was taken back to the provincial department to receive condolences from the director; Zhong Yongbao was replaced by the police, who helped him take care of the empty-nest elderly; Chen Min, who was far away in Changyan, also received a call, Wangjiang's colleagues enthusiastically asked, When are they going back.

There are always police patrolling around Superman's place, and you may bump into one as soon as you go out.

Chu Yu sat at the dining table, not even in the mood to eat lunch.

Xia Yihan was lost, and there was no news at all. Now she really became a sinner through the ages who deliberately helped the murderer escape, and she couldn't be washed away by jumping into the Yellow River.

Several subordinates wanted to comfort her, but they didn't know where to start. After all, mentioning such a terrible thing would only make the level of sadness worse.

The distraught Chu Yu still paid attention to the movement of the provincial department. According to Gu Miao, the current focus of the provincial department's work is to cooperate with Changyan City to search for the whereabouts of Sophora japonica Phantom, and focus on protecting the five victims. After carving a circle of Sophora japonica, the next round is ready to cut the weeds and roots.

However, the provincial government did not investigate the series of unsolved cases, probably because the most urgent task was to find the phantom of Sophora japonica, stabilize the hearts of the people, and stop all kinds of rumors and rumours.

Chu Yu knew it in his mind. In the past, when Superman was in charge of commanding, he investigated the Sophora japonica case and the series of unsolved cases together, and advanced them simultaneously. Although the mysteries became more and more complicated, Chu Yu believed that when enough fragments were collected, the chaos would be resolved. However, as long as they find out the most critical arrangement hints, they can put the pieces together and finally form a whole picture to generate the truth.

She was looking for that cue now, the crucial cue.

For the Provincial Department, it is not complicated to end the investigation of Sophora Phantom. The evidence of Xiao Sophora's murder and wounding is already complete. As long as she is arrested and brought to justice, it will be considered a success.

It's just that there's one thing missing -- motivation.

Why do small Sophora japonicas need to be carved?Why do victims help cover criminals?What is the relationship between Xiaohuaihua and the victim?

Chu Yu must find out these things. If the series of unsolved cases cannot be found out, then she will not allow the Huaihua case to be closed.

After all, she ate her lunch. Chu Yu put the food into her mouth like a walking dead, but it was tasteless and she couldn't taste it anymore. She was accumulating energy for the activities in the afternoon, so that her body would not have enough energy to fight against the police.

Now for Superman, especially Chu Yu, the situation is tense, and he should do nothing if he can, and strive for a chance to "confess and be lenient", and the punishment may be lighter in the future.

But Chu Yu was restless. He was a typical "don't cry when you don't see the coffin".

From Gu Miao, she learned the address of Mu Shangqing's former neighbor, and planned to visit her in person.

Chu Yu and Song Qingyang, seeing the opportunity, slipped out from the ground floor, avoiding the monitoring range.

The two also dressed up in disguise, wearing masks and old hats. Fortunately, it was winter, so they could be swollen to cover up their figures.

In the taxi, Chu Yu couldn't help but sigh with emotion, why did he become like this, he was not as good as Xia Yihan, who would cringe when going out.

The two went straight to Huaxieting to visit an old lady named Cai Shuying. At that time, Gu Miao said that she ran into Mu Shangqing and Xia Yihan six or seven years ago, and Chu Yu was very interested. Ask again.

Cai Shuying is considered a veteran resident of Huaxieting. She was born in Huaxieting and grew up in Huaxieting.

Gu Miao asked Cai Shuying about it, but the notes were not complete, because the old lady Cai herself was unclear and had a strong local accent. She didn't know a single character, so she couldn't communicate in written form. To listen to her dictation, she had to rely on guesswork. Gu Miao was in a daze at the time, and he didn't know that after the transcript was handed in, Chu Yu couldn't understand it.

According to the address, Chu Yu went up to the second floor of the shop on the street. At first, Mrs. Cai would come back every now and then to take a look. Later, she simply moved back and lived on the opposite side of the original block.

Chu Yu called her in advance. She knew that there were visitors, so as soon as she knocked on the door, the door opened. Mrs. Cai stood behind the door and invited them to come in. She was in good spirits and smiled. Shiny, the wrinkles at the corners of the mouth look kind.

Because I have heard about Mu Shangqing’s past, I know that Huaxieting is a “backcountry” and the quality of residents is generally low. Mu Shangqing’s neighbors always call him and his mother mentally ill, so Chu Yu treats the residents of Huaxieting. Resentment, but also nothing to like.

But seeing Mrs. Cai now, Chu Yu was in a better mood. She made them two cups of goji berry water. She was afraid that it would not suit young people's tastes, so she added rock sugar to the water.

Chu Yu stood in front of the yellow wooden window and looked around at the buildings outside. After the Huaxieting was demolished, it was re-planned, the roads were paved and widened, and the greening was improved. Businessmen, big and small, came in and opened teahouses, clothing stores, KTV really has the atmosphere of a modern city, unlike before, the urban-rural fringe has a strong atmosphere, which can't be shaken off.

Mrs. Cai stood by the window with her, babbling about Hua Xie Ting's development history. Now that she is old and lives alone, she is often nostalgic, and no one listens to her narration.

Now there are often comrades from the government who want to know the situation, and Mrs. Cai is also willing to share. She digs out the old things. She does not express herself fluently. It may be that she is born with a bad tongue and stutters when she speaks. However, Chu Yu is patient enough. , no matter what she said, she listened attentively.

Song Qingyang finished a cup of wolfberry rock candy. She had nothing to do and was a little bored. She was used to speaking Mandarin, and Mrs. Cai spoke a rural dialect. She didn't quite understand it. She wanted to listen carefully. After three sentences, she started to feel sleepy. , almost fell asleep on the sofa.

Fortunately, Chu Yu persisted, and when she encountered something she didn't understand, she repeated it and guided Mrs. Cai to explain until she understood.

After two or three hours, Chu Yu finally figured out Mrs. Cai's logic and could act as her Mandarin interpreter.

The two chatted from the window to the sofa, and then from the sofa to the kitchen. Mrs. Cai left them for dinner, and Chu Yu helped her peel the beans. His mind and hands were completely separated. The hands were opening the pods, and the brain was sorting out memories. logic.

Mrs. Cai used to live in Mu Shangqing's house facing the street, and she didn't know Zhou Lanxin well, but she asked her to make clothes. She liked Mu Shangqing very much. Stuffed with homemade rice cakes.

Mrs. Cai used to work in Huaxieting Small Restaurant, and the boss was her distant relative. She was kind of helping out as a friend and earning some living expenses by the way.

Zhou Lanxin and Mu Shangqing seldom went to a restaurant to eat. Mrs. Cai knew that his family was poor. Even though the living standard was so low that they needed state subsidies, his family was still outstanding. and features.

When Mrs. Cai was throwing trash, she saw Mu Shangqing being bullied. Those children were not much older than him, and some of them were not taller than him, so they dared to spit on him. Politeness, logically speaking, should be likable, but because they don't fit in, don't like to go wild with other children, don't swear or fight, so they become aliens and are the target of bullying.

It stands to reason that other parents should follow Mu Shangqing as an example. When teaching their cubs, they would say, "Look at Shangqing, who is good at studying and polite, and then look at you, just like growing up in a garbage dump."

But they didn't, because Zhou Lan was frugal and sent Mu Shangqing to the city's elementary and middle schools to enjoy the best educational resources, so the adults had a grudge in their hearts, everyone wanted to be poor and mourn together, how could you Still enjoying something different, is the start different from ours?

Therefore, no matter how good Mu Shangqing is, no matter how excellent he is, in the eyes of adults, it means that the school teaches well and the teachers guide him well. If they send their children to primary and middle schools in the city, the children will be equally good, but they don't have the energy and With spare money, I am living a difficult life, how can I have the mood to take care of my children, and I am not full of food!

The children bullied Mu Shangqing, the adults knew it well, but they didn't say anything, and they were a little relieved. They couldn't help thinking, what made you different from us?If you have the ability to go to a good school, then if you have the ability to move directly to the city, don't be neighbors with us poor ghosts.

Later, when Mu Shangqing was twelve or thirteen years old, he would resist. Those children who bullied him were beaten into incontinence by him, and ran all the way home, crying.

The adults were not happy, and there were discussions:

——This kid who usually looks gentle, how can he beat people so frantically, other kids usually beat him, it's just a joke, he fights back, how can he beat people to death!

——He used to be quiet and sensible, but now he can't hold back anymore, his nature has been exposed, he's just like his mother, maybe he's also like his father, what does his father do, could he be a murderer? , absconded in fear of crime!

——I look like a mental illness. How can a normal person bully others like this? There must be a mental problem, and I can't tell right from wrong!

Later, the adults and the children reached a consensus that Mu Shangqing had mental problems, and the children made up a jingle. At that time, everyone praised: "Lengtouqing, mentally ill, he will not die when he beats others, and he will go crazy Very nervous, my mother said, stay away, or you will get sick if you get infected."

But the jingle, the children only dare to read it behind their backs, if in front of Mu Shangqing, they make him anxious and go crazy again, they don't want to be beaten to the crap again.

Thanks to Mu Shangqing, Zhou Lanxin also got the title of "sick". At first, the neighbors only thought she was stubborn, gloomy, and didn't like to chat. Now how do you think of her? Three hours, sending the kids to and from school?

How can a normal person be good-looking and still be a widow without a partner?

How could a normal person give birth to such a crazy son?

So the neighbors in the neighborhood reached a consensus that Zhou Lan also had a heart disease, which was passed on to Mu Shangqing, and her mother and son were abandoned by the man because of mental problems!

Now, when the children scolded Mu Shangqing, they brought their mother with them, with an extra focus, and the jingles became longer and longer.

This situation lasted until Mu Shangqing was in high school. The school was in Dongcheng District, so far away that he had to live in school. The peers who bullied him before either started working or learned skills, and rarely returned to the school. Home.

The urban-rural junction has a large population flow. People come and go every year, and there are fewer and fewer familiar faces. Those past events gradually disappear with the movement of the population.

However, every time Mu Shangqing returns to Huaxie Ting, she can still see neighbors in the neighborhood, but she never communicates with her—she has lived there for decades, but she has never been able to blend in. I don’t know whether it’s sadness or happiness.

Chu Yu sorted out the content of Old Madam Cai's dictation. Whether it was stated or implied, the meaning was roughly the same, and it was quite different from Gu Miao's previous interrogation transcript.

The other three neighbors that Gu Miao asked mostly focused on Mu Shangqing's mental problems, emphasizing that he was not familiar with his family, while Mrs. Cai told all the neighbors' reactions, she didn't bother about Mu Shangqing's Mental problems, but other people's attitudes towards his problems.

Comparing the two dictations, Chu Yu believed the latter more.Mrs. Cai is not good at chewing the tongue because of her bad tongue, and she has been lonely all the time. Chu Yu guessed that she may have other flaws, so she is a childless person, and she is a different kind. It didn't blend too well either.

She has been working in a restaurant for a long time. People at the dining table love to chat about the world and the world. They can talk for an hour about a little bit of big matter once they are placed on the dining table. I must have heard a lot about the effort of serving dishes back and forth.

Finally, it is also the point that Chu Yu cares about the most. Mrs. Cai has never bullied Mu Shangqing, nor talked about his family. This allows her to look at people and things neutrally from the perspective of an outsider, and draw a more Appraisal close to the truth.

In the evening, at the dinner table, Chu Yu had a good understanding of the background information. She found that Mrs. Cai could not tell any new information, so she turned from passive to active, and asked questions to dig out information in a targeted manner.

"Grandma Cai, Aunt Zhou, when did she die?"

Mrs. Cai was stunned for a while. She could remember the previous experiences and feelings, but it was really difficult to recall the specific time.

"About... more than 20 years ago, I haven't seen her for a long time. When she died, no one was invited to the funeral her child held for her, otherwise I would go see her off."

Chu Yu: "Then where is she buried?"

"It should be buried at the head of the earth dam behind her house. There is a pagoda tree there. It can shade her and protect her from the rain in hot weather. Unfortunately, the tree was pushed away during the demolition. All the sloppy leftovers."

Chu Yu's breath stagnates: "Are there many pagoda trees...?"

"Not many, just one," Mrs. Cai gestured, "but that pagoda tree... is really beautiful. Every summer, the flowers fall, it looks very beautiful, and the ground is full of it, just like... snowing Same."