blind circle

French Give/Nee

Li Kaifeng walked down the street in a daze like a walking dead. He sneakily finished his shopping and hurried back home.

He sealed all the doors and windows, and even drew the curtains tightly.The food he bought just now was enough to last him for half a month, so he decided to hide at home and never go out again.

He was terrified in his heart, because he was afraid that Qi Yun would come back and seek revenge on him!He was the one who witnessed Qi Yun's death with his own eyes, but now the person who sends him frequent emails is undoubtedly Qi Yun!

Seeing his strange expression, the neighbor next door thought he had encountered some trouble, so he knocked on the door friendly and asked.However, when Li Kaifeng heard the knock on the door, he seemed to lose his soul in fright. He opened his eyes in horror, as if someone had strangled his neck at this moment.

He couldn't help shaking his body, and kept muttering to himself, "She's here, she's coming back for revenge..."

With a "ding", another email came. The sound made Li Kaifeng tremble all over. He screamed, picked up the coffee cup next to his hand and smashed it at the computer screen.

After the cup was hit, it fell to the ground and instantly fell apart. He picked up a fragment on the ground, as if grabbing a self-defense weapon, and stared at the computer screen.

He even felt that Qi Yun would crawl out of the computer screen in the next moment!

He never believed in ghosts and gods, nor did he fear gods, but this time, he even prayed in his heart that gods would have mercy on him at this moment.

...

Li Kaifeng curled up on the sofa and stood deadlocked for half an hour. Watching the computer screen gradually go black, he stood up cautiously, held the mouse tremblingly, and clicked on the email.

Dear Kaifeng:

Ji □□ Sure enough, there are many tall sycamores, the sun here is bright, and there is even a hint of sweetness in the air.I have longed for this place for a long time, how could you have the heart to abandon me alone in that cold place?

——Qi Yun who is looking for you, September 2019, 9.

"I want to go back to my country...I want to leave this place...I want you to never find me!" Li Kaifeng's last trace of sanity had been swallowed by this email, and he started to order a flight back home online in a panic. Air tickets.

.....

Qijia Village

After a seven-hour trek, Ji Liang took Shu Xin and Shunzi to this remote village, which is the place where Qi Yun was born—Qijia Village.

However, this mountain village is no longer inhabited, because the environment here is very harsh, and the villagers who used to live here have all moved to the resettlement sites below the mountain.

When the three arrived at the new Qijia Village again, night had already fallen, and only a few scattered households in the village were still lit.

When we set off this morning, Deputy Bureau Zhang had already issued a military order to Ji Liang because he couldn't withstand the pressure from above, requiring him to settle the case within a week.

At this moment, Ji Liang didn't intend to go straight to Qi's house for the simple reason that he wanted to hear the objective views of Qi's house from the surrounding residents first.

Shunzi was in charge of contacting the B&B so that the three of them would have a place to stay at night, while Ji Liang took Shu Xin to visit several villagers first, to investigate Qi Yun's background from the side.

Qijia Village was pitch black at night, and many dilapidated and abandoned houses looked like beasts with their mouths wide open in the darkness, humming along with the night wind.

The new Qijia Village is located at the foot of the mountain, and the gusts of wind blowing from behind made Shu Xin shiver.

"Is it cold?" Ji Liang turned his head, looked at Shu Xin whose lips were a little cold and pale, and asked softly.

Shu Xin rubbed his hands, smiled slightly, he was about to respond to Ji Liang but couldn't help but sneezed again.

In the next second, a warm leather jacket was placed on Shu Xin's shoulders, and Ji Liang said, "Wear it, if you get sick, I can't explain to your school."

Shu Xin hesitated for a moment, Ji Liang only had a punk style vest with holes left on him, he reached out to take off the clothes and return them to Ji Liang.

Ji Liang pressed Shu Xin's hand, and smiled in a serious manner, "I'm not cold, I'm flustered, and I want to rock and roll!"

Shu Xin gave a "puchi" smile, he looked around and found no one in this small village so far, so he made a gesture of invitation to Ji Liang.

Ji Liang thought for a moment, cleared his throat solemnly, and sang "Girl in the Flower House" with a slightly vicissitudes of life:

"I walked by you alone and had nothing to say to you.

I dare not look up at your - oh - face.

You asked me where I was going, and I pointed in the direction of the sea.

Your surprise is like a - oops - compliment to me. "

Shu Xin raised his head and smiled silently, and clapped his hands very cooperatively, thinking, Ji Liang is really a tough guy, and he actually likes the 80s rock singer Cui Jian.

Looking at Shu Xin who was applauding enthusiastically, Ji Liang secretly felt complacent.He grinned, showing two rows of neat white teeth, and made a rock metal salute gesture.

At this moment, there was a rustling sound in front of my eyes...

Ji Liang took a closer look, and there was an old man in front of a house with the lights on, sitting on an old teacher's chair, and two old ladies beside him were choosing dishes under the light.

Ji Liang quickly put away his smile, stepped forward and took out Qi Yun's photo, put it in front of his eyes and asked, "Grandpa, do you still remember a girl named Qi Yun?"

"Qi Yun...Let me take a look," the old man took the photo, squinting his eyes and taking advantage of the faint light.

"...Isn't this Qi Dani?" The old man recognized it for a long time, and suddenly realized that he pointed to the photo and said.

"Da Ni?" Ji Liang was surprised when he heard the name.

Often the girl who is the eldest in the family is called Dani, Ji Liang then asked: "Master, do the Qi family have two daughters?"

After hearing this, the old man stopped suddenly and remained silent.

Seeing this posture, the two old ladies next to them hurriedly picked up the plastic bag containing the vegetables at their feet, got up and left, for fear that Ji Liang and Shu Xin would chase them and continue to ask questions.

Ji Liang asked the old man sitting on the chair again, "Master, do you know where Qi Dani's brothers and sisters are now?"

The old man glared at Ji Liang, then waved his hands, picked up his grand teacher's chair, and closed the door with a "bang".

.....

Shu Xin and Ji Liang, who were rejected, walked around the village a few more times, and saw that the doors of the other houses with lights on were closed, so they could only contact Shunzi resentfully, and returned to the B&B.

However, Shu Xin and Ji Liang didn't count as fruitless, at least they confirmed that the Qi family did have other brothers and sisters besides Qi Yun, but it seemed that there was something hidden in this.

When the two returned to the homestay, Grandma Zhang in the homestay had already set up a table of meals.

Ji Liang looked at the busy Grandma Zhang, beckoned to her and said, "Come over and eat together."

Grandma Zhang smiled kindly, and waved her hands: "You young people, eat more, I am old, and I can't digest too much at night."

...

This was originally a resettlement site for residents on the mountain, and those who stayed in the village were mostly old people, and most of the young people went to the provincial capital to work.

When Shunzi came here, she couldn't find a place to live, so she contacted the local village committee, and finally found such a house where only an old lady lived.

The village committee learned that Shunzi was a policeman sent by the provincial capital, and they also greeted him in advance. Originally, everyone in this village lived on the mountain, but one year of heavy rain and landslides, the whole village moved to the resettlement site below the mountain.

That natural disaster caused great losses to the villagers, who walked and died, and there were basically only old, weak, sick and disabled left in the village.

Furthermore, this village is not big, and the affairs of Qi Yun's family must be well known to everyone. The old men and women here must know a lot, but what is the reason why they would keep silent about Qi Yun's affairs?

The village committee told Shunzi at the time that they did not tell the Qi family about Qi Yun's murder. The old man of the Qi family was old, and they were afraid that the old man would not be able to bear the grief of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man.

.....

After dinner, Ji Liang and Shunzi exchanged glances, and then took the initiative to help the old lady clean up the dishes, letting Shu Xin, whose physical fitness was a bit weak, go to rest first.

Shunzi was naturally simple and honest, eloquent and lovable, and soon won the old lady's favor.

"Grandma Zhang, look at how we hit it off so well!" Shunzi made Grandma Zhang laugh out loud with a few words, very happy.

Grandma Zhang quickly relaxed her vigilance under Shunzi's soft offensive. She was really scared when she saw Ji Liang's muscular body, tall and mighty, and not talkative, but after a short time with him, she found that Ji Liang's personality was very calm. , not only is he handsome and well-behaved, but he also likes him very much in his heart.

Shunzi saw that the conversation was almost done, so he quickly made friends with Grandma Zhang: "Grandma, we are here to collect people's customs, do you think there are any stories in your village that you can chat with us about?"

Ji Liang also said something unprecedented: "Just now when Xing Xing and I were out for a walk, I heard a story called Qi Dani...."

Shunzi pretended to be curious, and said, "What's wrong?"

Grandma Zhang immediately put on a sullen face, staggered to close the door, looked at the two young men and said, "Be careful, be careful! Speaking of Qi Dani, I am ashamed to mention it as an old woman!"

Ji Liang and Shunzi quickly helped the old lady to sit on the sofa, "Grandma Zhang, what's going on?"

Grandma Zhang looked at the two boys with a look of embarrassment, as if unwilling to speak: "Children, this is all about our Qijia Village, why do you want to know? Don't ask—you all go back to sleep Bar!"

But Shunzi took Grandma Zhang's hand, and said softly, "Grandma, just tell me, I really feel itchy in my heart, if you don't tell me I can't sleep at night! Besides, we are not from the village again." , even if you know, it won’t do anything!”

Grandma Zhang looked at the curious and eager looks of the two, and sighed.They are indeed not from Qijia Village, what's more, everyone knows about Qijia's affairs, and it doesn't matter whether they say it or not.

The thin moonlight shone on the stone floor in the courtyard, and with Grandma Zhang's dry and hoarse voice, Qi Yun's life experience gradually began to unfold.

Back in time 40 years ago, in Qijia Village, Qi Laosan's wife was pregnant, and her belly was very bulging. The barefoot doctor in the village said that she was pregnant with two babies.

Sure enough, twins were indeed born on the day of labor, but both were girls.But that was the time when family planning was implemented, and if two girls were born at one go, it meant that they would never have children again.

So Qi Laosan threw his youngest daughter to another village, leaving only the eldest daughter, who is now Qi Yun.

Everyone said that Qi Laosan threw away his little daughter, but Qi Laosan refused to admit it after being beaten to death.Later, when he grew up, Qi Yun got good grades and was sent to the county to study, but not long after Qi Yun left, the little girl who was abandoned came back by herself, and everyone called her Qi Erni.

But the youngest Qi felt ashamed, so after Qi Yun successfully graduated and found a job, he sent Qi Erni to Qi Yun.

Qi Yun got married in the city, and one day ten years later, Qi Yun returned to his hometown.Qi Laosan didn't say it was Qi Erni, but everyone in the village knew that it was Qi Yun. Although the two sisters looked almost identical, Qi Yun had a red birthmark behind his ear.

After staying at home for more than half a year, Qi Yun returned to the provincial capital. Immediately afterwards, the real Qi Erni came back.But there was a sudden rumor in the village that Qi Erni was abandoned by her husband after giving birth, and returned to her mother's house only after she had nowhere to go.

Qi Erni couldn't stand those gossips in the village, so she left after staying at home for two months, but no one knew where she went.

"Qi Erni is a poor child..." After speaking, Grandma Zhang let out a long sigh.

Grandma Zhang's deceased wife was of the same clan as Qi Laosan, so a lot of what she said was very cryptic, and the important plot was passed by, but Ji Liang heard more important news in it.

He secretly recalled that according to the survey data, Qi Yun married his teacher Zhang Heng when he graduated from university at the age of 24. She had not given birth to a child in these years. It was not until she was 31 that her eldest son Zhang Yihao was born.

According to the previous genetic test, Ji Liang can conclude that the woman who gave birth to Zhang Heng's son is Qi Yun's younger sister Qi Erni—the poor girl who was abandoned back then and didn't even have a name.

After understanding the general situation, Shunzi took Grandma Zhang to the bedroom to rest, while Ji Liang went to the attic, and found that Shu Xin was not asleep, but listened to the whole process of the story in the attic.

Shu Xin sent Ji Liang a message on WeChat: "According to Grandma Zhang's account, my previous conjecture can basically be confirmed, which is why I came to Qijia Village. It's just that we still need to find evidence of Qi Erni's real existence." After all, Qi Erni is just an existence rumored by everyone."

Ji Liang looked at WeChat and nodded silently.In this way, it makes sense why Qi Yun only locked the door of Zhang Yimeng's room on the day of his murder, but ignored his eldest son Zhang Yihao.

Shu Xin lowered his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly his eyes widened, as if he had thought of an extremely unbelievable thing!