365 Difficult Ways To Live

5 years ago, on November 11st.

Xia Yihan returned to Wangjiang City with money, mobile phone and purple cardstock.This day is her birthday, and she wants to spend it with Mu Shangqing.Although Mu Shangqing is very busy, he still brings her a cake for her birthday every year.Or take her out for a walk.

At the end of September and the beginning of October, he sent her to her aunt's house and told her to get along well with her aunt and uncle.During that time, Mu Shangqing was so busy that he sometimes slept in the work unit at night, desperately working at work, but Xia Yihan didn't think that it was because he was busy that he threw her to Huang Li.

She felt that he had a last resort, but he didn't tell her, and she didn't ask, and if she asked, he probably wouldn't say it.

Leaving home, leaving Mu Shangqing, Xia Yihan was not sad, but just a little unaccustomed.

She continued to live her own life, as if copying and pasting Wangjiang's lifestyle.

But on November 11st, she wanted to meet Mu Shangqing and celebrate her birthday together.

Xia Yihan saved up his living expenses, chartered a car online, and drove directly back to Wangjiang City, to Mingpin District.But Mu Shangqing was not at home, and the atmosphere at home was still a bit weird.

Mu Shangqing loves to be clean. Every morning when he wakes up, he will fold the quilt, arrange the things on the table, and open the windows to let in the air.But now the empty room looks messy, as if just after a fight, and the windows are not open, just looking at this "scene", I thought it was Mu Shangqing who fled in fear of crime, and was ready to leave forever.

Looking at the messy room, Xia Yihan called Mu Shangqing, but no one answered.She simply searched the house to see if something was missing.

After a thorough search, she found that not only was there nothing missing, but there was something more - there was a piece of paper on the corner of the bed, she was very familiar with it, it was her personal belongings, and Mu Shangqing actually took a piece of paper secretly, which said A few large characters: "Supernormal Person Research and Investigation Director", followed by a fork made of personal bones.

After Xia Yihan finished reading it.Print these words firmly in your mind, and put the cardboard back in place.Other than that, she found nothing unusual and walked out of the house.

She came to Changning Street, next to the Public Security Office, there was a low white building, where Mu Shangqing worked. She played truant from school and followed Mu Shangqing, and found out that he worked here.

I don't know what the sneaky thing is doing.

The place where he works is very mysterious, it looks like a row of frontages selling motorcycles, and there are residents or offices on it, but Xia Yihan has gone up there for shopping, and there are only stairs, no rooms, and no entrance.

It was as if Mu Shangqing had walked into a short building and disappeared out of thin air.

On the evening of November 11st, Xia Yihan wandered outside the low building, hoping to meet Mu Shangqing, but after waiting for a long time, no one came in or out of the building.

She was tired and walked home, but when she got to the door, she found that the door was opened, and the light from inside fell on the ground in a slanted line, and there was a sound, mixed with the sound of indistinct conversation.

There were people coming up from behind one after another, Xia Yihan was afraid of being discovered, so he turned on his toes and left immediately.

After walking out of the unit building, she looked up at the lighted window, and suddenly had a premonition.

Mu Shangqing ran away, and those who are at home now are either his colleagues or the police.

On November 11nd, Xia Yihan has been wandering in the street, she went to many places, cafes, museums, galleries, parks, these are the places Mu Shangqing took her to for her birthday in previous years.She hoped to see Mu Shangqing in these places, saw him sitting in a coffee shop, standing in front of an art gallery, saw her, and said to her: Xiaohan, I have been waiting for you!

But after searching for a day, nothing came of it. It seemed that Mu Shangqing not only went on strike and ran away, but also didn't want her as a cub—he definitely didn't go back to Chenyang to look for her, otherwise he would try to contact her.

But her mobile phone has not received a reply.

Xia Yihan finally came to a place, Huaxie Court, where it was like a wasteland, because of the demolition, and the stoppage of work, all the people were evacuated, and the construction team disappeared. Even wild dogs hate it.

She remembered that Mu Shangqing once told her that if he retired in the future, he must come here to grow vegetables.

Xia Yihan also knew that Mu Shangqing spent his childhood here, and there was a pagoda tree there, who was older than Mu Shangqing.

She wandered around for a long time, and the streets and roads around her were nowhere to be found. She somewhat forgot where the pagoda tree was planted.Maybe it has been pushed down, carried away, made into firewood and burned away.

There were no street lights around, only the moonlight. She searched and finally found the pagoda tree. It was lying on the ground, mixed with bricks and stones, as if it was going to be buried together.

She walked to the pagoda tree, touched the trunk, and suddenly noticed a deep hole beside the tree, which seemed to have just been dug. Room outgoing.

She was nimble and hid behind the small brick house. In the dark night, several figures appeared.Two of them were carrying a person.Xia Yihan had good eyesight, and he recognized almost immediately that the person they were carrying was Mu Shangqing.

The other two people pulled out their shovels from the nearby stone pile, and dug a little deeper the hole next to the locust tree.Afterwards, they put Mu Shangqing into the pit and threw some things into it.In the end, the five people worked together to restore the earth pit. The earth around here had been overturned, and it was in a mess. There was no abnormality in the pit where people were buried.

Xia Yihan is like a black cat, lurking in the dark night, hiding even the light in his eyes.Her heart beat faster, but she wasn't nervous.She saw five figures, his father, and saw those people holding knives in their hands, and she could even smell the blood on them.

Her mouth was a little dry, her eyes were wide open, and she looked ahead motionlessly. With the outline of the moonlight, she imprinted the outlines of these five people in her mind.

She could see clearly that among the five people, there were two men and three women, all of whom were older, about 30 to 50 years old, gathered together, like a premeditated murder scene, after the murder, they buried the bodies in an orderly manner , destroy the stolen goods.

After the corpse was buried, five people stood in a circle, all with their heads down, looking at their feet.Finally, they left at the same time, scattered.

These five people walked in different directions, Xia Yihan couldn't follow at the same time, so he chose one of the younger men, took out a card in his hand, folded it, and put it in his pocket again.

When she was following her, she was a little flustered, because she clearly realized that she must not lose track, otherwise she would never know who killed her father.

Xia Yihan followed the murderer from afar, silently, quieter and smarter than a wild cat.Outside a public restroom, the murderer took off his coat and stood by the faucet to wash the blood off his hands.After that, he dug some mud on the side of the road and wiped it on his body to cover up the blood.It was like driving through a puddle and splashing mud on him.

After completing the disguise, he continued to move forward until he arrived at the Xinye District.Xia Yihan was familiar with this neighborhood, it was near the mysterious low building.She saw the murderer approaching Building 11.

He is an inhabitant, and lives in it!

After writing down his address, Xia Yihan hurried back to Huaxie Court and back to the locust tree.

She took the shovel and dug the soil again.

After searching for two full days, she finally saw her father. He was lying in the dirt, covered in blood, with a peaceful face.

Xia Yihan stretched out his hand and wiped off the dirt on Mu Shangqing's face.She turned on her phone, illuminating his face.

He was so good-looking, even though he was covered with blood, mixed with mud, and his face was full of injuries, his facial features were still correct. People wanted to clean his face and heal all his wounds.

Xia Yihan sat by the pit, she was surprisingly calm, she didn't cry, she didn't yell, even her breathing was calm.

In her imagination, seeing her father, he would smile at her, look bright, and extend his arms to her.But at this moment, he was lying motionless in an earthen coffin with five stab wounds on his body.

Xia Yihan stripped Mu Shangqing's clothes off and observed carefully. One of the knife wounds was bandaged and had scab marks, so it shouldn't be the wound he suffered tonight.The other four wounds were fresh wounds, with obvious messy bloodstains.

There were five knives in the pit, and she identified them with the light of her mobile phone. Four of them had dried blood, and one of them was clean and did not seem to have penetrated into the body.

In the deserted Huaxie Court, Xia Yihan was like a detective, concentrating on observing the scene and searching for evidence.

In addition to the knives, she also found a mobile phone, a second-hand counterfeit phone with almost no traces of use. It seemed that Mu Shangqing had just bought it, but it had 5 call records.Call each of the five numbers.

In the dark night, Xia Yihan's pupils shrank sharply in the face of the glaring light from the phone.She turned off the screen of her phone and put it in her bag. She took the shovel, took one last look at Mu Shangxin, and put the pit back into it. Sophora japonica was beside her, motionless.

Xia Yihan remembered that Mu Shangqing once said that he liked the pagoda tree in his hometown very much. This tree was full of his childhood. Now that the tree fell, he fell too. Fortunately, one person, one tree, and a companion Son.

Xia Yihan put her hands in her pockets, and after confirming that there was no one around, she returned the same way and disappeared into the night.

After returning to Chenyang City, her life was still the same. She went to school every day, finished school, ate, slept, did her own things, lived in her own world, had no companions, and had no communication.A person goes out facing the morning sun, and returns with the stars.

A few days after returning to Chenyang, the police came to her and asked about Mu Shangqing.Xia Yihan just said lightly that she didn't know, after arriving at her aunt's house, they lost contact.

On her birthday, she called her dad, but he didn't answer, so be it.

She said nothing about what she saw and heard, and she didn't trust the police.After Xiaomei's death, she went to the police, but to no avail.The police believed the words of the good teacher and automatically ignored her as a bad student.

Moreover, she also guessed that the mysterious organization Mu Shangqing worked for had inextricable relations with the Public Security Bureau.

First, the headquarters of the mysterious organization is near the Public Security Bureau, and she has seen people inside rushing to the Public Security Bureau, as if they were working together; second, before she left Wangjiang City, she asked Mu Shangqing if the work how's it going?And Mu Shangqing's answer was: The place where I work is a hell.

Perhaps, the murderer behind the murder of Mu Shangqing was the mysterious organization and the Public Security Bureau, and now they are just calling for a thief.

She kept this secret and didn't even mention it to Huang Li and Wang Zitao.They asked her where she went on her birthday, but she just avoided the seriousness and said lightly: I'm bored, I went out to relax.

But not saying it doesn't mean forgetting, she knows that what she wants to remember will never be forgotten.