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It was already the afternoon of the third day when Yuan Ning and President Zhang sent everyone away together.After running for three days, Yuan Ning was still a little tired even though he didn't need to do anything.He was about to go home when President Zhang said, "Come and see someone with me."

Yuan Ning saw that President Zhang's expression was not right, so he nodded obediently.He got into President Zhang's car and went to the cemetery with President Zhang.Yuan Ning was stunned for a moment, and ran to buy two handfuls of white chrysanthemums, handed a handful to President Zhang, and then walked in with President Zhang.The stairs in the cemetery are very high and long, and Yuan Ning followed President Zhang up step by step.

In autumn, the pines and cypresses are getting darker and greener, and some feel that they are so green that they are black, and they don't move much when the wind blows.After being afraid for a long time, President Zhang turned a corner and walked towards one of the tombstones.

There are no photos on the tombstone, and there are not many words, only the words "Wu Qitong" are neatly written, which should be the name of the other party.Yuan Ning thought of Wu Xibi, and also remembered the past events mentioned by President Zhang. The three words "Wu Qitong" reminded Yuan Ning of a sentence: Phoenix is ​​not a phoenix tree.

The phoenix is ​​noble and pure by nature, it does not live in anything other than sycamore trees, and it does not eat anything other than bamboo.Such a name has more or less affected the life of this old man, right?Yuan Ning put the white chrysanthemum he bought in front of the tomb.

President Zhang also put the flowers on it, and said in a low voice, "I came here on a whim, and I didn't buy anything, so don't take offense." After he finished speaking, he wanted to laugh a little, as if an old friend had come back to him, " If you were still alive, you would have heard my words and said, 'What do you want me to bring?' You are the one who can't stand others' favors, and if others are distracted by you, you will pay him ten cents back."

"Li Yunjing said he wanted to see you. Do you want to see him? I don't think you want to, so I didn't bring him." President Zhang paused, staring fixedly at the cold and gloomy tombstone, "I brought him A child came over, he was still very young, but he was great, and gave me a lot of inspiration. I think you will like him, you like children, whether it is a big child or a small child, you like it very much, obviously you are three You can’t keep eating, and you still like to buy candy for them. You said that looking at their smiles makes you happy like making a pen. You said that some things may not be seen by us, but children can see them. You also said , you like children's eyes, bright and clean."

"I still remember what you said."

President Zhang's eyes were moist, but he didn't cry in front of Yuan Ning.He was just silent, silent for a long time, silent until the tears were blocked back, silent until dusk had fallen.

Yuan Ning also stood with him.

President Zhang finally turned his head and asked Yuan Ning: "Compared to committing crimes, being weak and withdrawing seems insignificant, right?"

Yuan Ning was taken aback, not quite understanding what Chairman Zhang meant."It should be," he said hesitantly.

"But I still don't want to bring them over to disturb him." President Zhang stared at the cold tombstone again.

Yuan Ningan was quiet and did not speak.

President Zhang said: "He likes to be clean the most."

President Zhang stood for a while, then turned around and sent Yuan Ning home.The car drove to the gate of Zhang's house and stopped. Seeing President Zhang's gloomy expression, Yuan Ning got out of the car obediently. He didn't invite President Zhang to enter the house, but waved goodbye to President Zhang.Yuan Ning walked into the gate, said hello to the mimosa growing in the garden, and ran back to the main house.

Mr. Zhang will come back later today, so it's not time for dinner at home.Seeing that Zhang Xiuyan was not in the living room, Yuan Ning ran upstairs and knocked on Zhang Xiuyan's door.

"Come in." Zhang Xiuyan's voice came from the room, still so calm and confident, as if he would never lose his composure.

Yuan Ning pushed open the door, squeezed in through the half-open door, and closed the door again.Zhang Xiuyan sat at the desk with sunlight, the afterglow of the setting sun shone in and fell on Zhang Xiuyan's face, leaving a faint shadow on Zhang Xiuyan's fine hair on his forehead.Yuan Ning felt that Zhang Xiuyan looked warm.

Yuan Ning ran over and hugged Zhang Xiuyan.He doesn't understand some things, he doesn't know what's going on, but feelings are amazing things, even if they don't understand, don't understand, or don't know clearly, they can still feel the deep sadness and sadness at once— - That kind of deep yearning and nostalgia.Yuan Ning tightened her small arms and held Zhang Xiuyan tightly in her arms.He had short arms and couldn't hug Zhang Xiuyan, so he could only bury his head in Zhang Xiuyan's chest.

Zhang Xiuyan's heart went numb, he just felt that the vacancy dug in his heart that separated the two places for more than half a year had been severely filled.He frowned and asked, "What's the matter? What happened? Didn't you go out with people from the Calligraphy Association these days?"

"Yes." Yuan Ning's voice was muffled, and he buried his head even tighter, "Just now the teacher took me to see an old friend of his. That old friend is Wu Qitong, and he is no longer there. I stood beside the teacher and felt that the teacher It’s so sad. Brother, we are peaceful now, right? We won’t have so many life and death separations now, right?”

Zhang Xiuyan knew what happened as soon as he heard it.Yuan Ning has a unique charm that often makes people forget that he is just a half-grown child—and often makes people want to talk to him and express the sadness and pain buried in their hearts.But Yuan Ning is just a child after all!It was too early and too sad for him to know all that, to feel all that.He was a sensitive child.

Zhang Xiuyan said: "Yes." He patted Yuan Ning's trembling back, "We are fine now, those things will not happen again, no one will die, we will all live well."

Only then did Yuan Ning feel a little relieved.Big brother never lied, big brother never lied to him.The eldest brother said that they are fine now, so they must be fine now, and such a thing will never happen again!Yuan Ning let go of Zhang Xiuyan's hand, and talked to Zhang Xiuyan about the results of the Calligraphy Association's discussions in the past three days: "Our Calligraphy Association will get busy next."

Zhang Xiuyan rubbed Yuan Ning's head: "When are you not busy? You have to be busy with school affairs and association affairs. You have become the busiest little busy person in the family."

Yuan Ning's face was flushed: "That's not true, elder brother is also busy, father is also busy, sister and the others also have a lot of things to do."

At this time, Aunt Shen came to ask them to go out for dinner, saying that Mr. Zhang had returned.Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiuyan went downstairs, and they saw not only Mr. Zhang, but also Director Liu and the policewoman who was in charge of following up the case of Jia Siwen.When Mr. Zhang saw Yuan Ning, he asked Yuan Ning to sit down next to him, and said, "Your Uncle Liu brought Sister Xu over to talk to you about the case. There are some things that should not be disclosed to the outside world. Just listen to them at home."

Yuan Ning nodded seriously and looked at the policewoman.The policewoman didn't have much smile on her face, sighed, and told the results of this period of time: "I visited 26 families, and only five families were willing to testify. The rest of the families have not really come out of the original shadow. Some families It has even been completely ruined. If I don't want to give the fake Sven a heavier sentence, I actually don't want to bother them."

Zhang Xiuyan frowned, and looked at Mr. Zhang disapprovingly.Yuan Ning's sadness just now was enough to make him worry, wouldn't it be even more uncomfortable for Yuan Ning to hear this now?Zhang Xiuyan said, "Why did you come here to talk to Yuan Ning about this?"

Director Liu and the policewoman glanced at each other, and they could hear the sullenness in Zhang Xiuyan's voice.Director Liu hurriedly said: "In fact, we just met Mr. Zhang and mentioned a few words to him. Mr. Zhang said that Ning Ning should also want to know, so we came here with Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Xiu looked strictly at Mr. Zhang.

Mr. Zhang ignored him, but turned to Yuan Ning: "You don't want to know this?"

Yuan Ning moved his mouth twice before saying, "I want to know."

Zhang Xiuyan stopped talking.

Yuan Ning felt that Zhang Xiuyan was a little angry.He looked at Zhang Xiuyan in a daze, not understanding why Zhang Xiuyan suddenly became angry.

The policewoman looked at Zhang Xiuyan, and then at Mr. Zhang.Seeing that Mr. Zhang nodded to her, the female policeman went on to say: "Justin himself is a law student and a political teacher, and he knows how to take advantage of legal loopholes. He never touches girls, and he will pick someone to attack. This time he invited A returnee lawyer, I have read the previous defense cases of that lawyer, all of them exonerated criminals, and even found out a disease called "occasional mental illness", which means that criminals are mentally ill when they commit crimes, and they are normal at other times , do not need to be admitted to a mental hospital for treatment."

Yuan Ning was dumbfounded: "Is there such a thing?"

The policewoman's face was heavy: "I went to find out, and there is indeed such a thing. This man is unscrupulous. If he learns the victim's home address from Jasvin, I wonder if he will come to find them."

Yuan Ning was very worried: "Then what should I do?"

After Zhang Xiuyan heard this, he realized that they only came to the door because of difficulties, so his face softened a little."There's someone who can help, I'm going to ask him if he can come over," he said.

Yuan Ning looked at Zhang Xiuyan expectantly.

Looking into Yuan Ning's shining eyes, Zhang Xiuyan added a few more words: "Grandfather and I mentioned that it is our cousin, mother's distant cousin. He has half foreign blood, but grew up in China when he was young. big."

"Ah, I remembered." Ms. Xue said, "It's Ryan's cousin, ten years younger than me. I haven't seen him since he went back to his father! What is he doing now?"

"He is also a lawyer now," Zhang Xiuyan said, "but a lawyer who is known as a lawyer killer. It is said that lawyers who meet him choose to change careers."

Yuan Ning said, "It sounds amazing!"

"It's quite powerful," Zhang Xiuyan frowned, "as long as you don't mention his bad temper and personality." He went there because of Ms. I have learned all about the inferiority of my uncle!

Ms. Xue said: "I remembered. Xiu Yan said before that he would go there to find some information. He once stayed at your cousin Laian's house for a while!"

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