Time-Limited Hunt

In 2147, Chen Xiulian was 20 years old and had already entered the factory to work.At that time, there were four children in her family, and her older brother wanted to study, so her mother sent her to work in the factory.She worked in the factory for two years and was very popular, because she was not only beautiful, but also very efficient in handling things, but she was too tall, so she never found a partner.

Mother took Chen Xiulian to go on blind dates.She went there a few times, sitting on a chair like freshly picked vegetables, being picked and picked by others.Chen Xiulian felt that she was good at craftsmanship and could endure hardships, and she didn't want to be wronged, so she never went again.My mother was anxious and dragged her to go, but she just didn't cooperate.

It was in this year that the factory recruited new workers, and a group of young men came, among them was a guy named He Zhiguo, who had a good appearance and loved to play and make trouble.Someone set up a bridge, and Chen Xiulian and He Zhiguo met at the dinner.Chen Xiulian had a good impression of He Zhiguo at the beginning. She was shy and always blushed when talking to people. He Zhiguo not only enlivened the atmosphere, but also always took care of her.The two became acquainted as soon as they came and went. Every time Chen Xiulian worked overtime, He Zhiguo would accompany him to work overtime.

But He Zhiguo didn't know why, he never said that he wanted to establish a relationship with Chen Xiulian, and when people asked him, he just smirked and didn't refute.Chen Xiulian thought it was because the two of them didn't spend enough time together and didn't know each other well, so they had to wait.When He Zhiguo celebrated his birthday half a year later, he invited people to dinner to celebrate, and made Chen Xiulian drink a lot of wine at the dinner table.When the meeting was over, Chen Xiulian wanted to go back with her female companion, but He Zhiguo said no, he was not drunk and could send Chen Xiulian home, but in the end, he sent her to his own home.

Chen Xiulian will never forget the episode of that night.She wanted to go home, but He Zhiguo said no, she was so drunk that she couldn't stand still, and the sliding door couldn't be opened. He Zhiguo half hugged and half dragged her from behind.She repeated "I want to go home", and He Zhiguo responded a few times at first, but then ignored her words.He dragged Chen Xiulian into the room and threw her on the bed.Chen Xiulian recalled later that the memory was broken from here, from the picture to simple pain.All that remained before her eyes was the lamp in He Zhiguo's rented house.

There was still a dead fly hanging on the lamp, flickering.

Chen Xiulian felt nauseous, she couldn't stand it, and vomited loudly during the struggle and beating.Later, she dreamed of the dead fly countless times, as if it was the fly that crawled over her body.She passed out and woke up again, the wine sobered up, only the pain remained.

It was from that night that Chen Xiulian knew how long the night was.At dawn she thought it was over, but after a long time, she finally realized that it was the beginning.

Chen Xiulian curled up at the corner of the bed and said to He Zhiguo, "I want to call the police."

He Zhiguo threw the paper on the ground, and replied, "Are you sick? We are in a romantic relationship, and we have sex because of your will, and we did not break the law."

Chen Xiulian didn't believe it. She took the bruise to the village inspector's office and said that I had been raped and that I would sue He Zhiguo.The members of the inspectorate are all acquaintances. One of them turned to look at her and said, who are you suing?You and He Zhiguo have been in love for a long time.Chen Xiulian said that we are not in love, but no one cares about her.She sat at the inspector's office from morning till night.He Zhiguo came to her, held her hand, and said, why are you still losing your temper?Her own mother also came to her, took her hand, and said that you should go home and quarrel with him.

Chen Xiulian felt that the world was so small, everyone held her hand overnight.They said it was understandable, they said it was like this, they said you don't want it, why did you go with He Zhiguo?Why don't you want to celebrate He Zhiguo's birthday?Why don't you resist?

Why don't you resist?

Why the hell don't you fight back?

Chen Xiulian wanted to scream, shout, and slap hysterically!She wanted to tear off these same faces to see if there was a person or a ghost underneath.But she couldn't do anything, she could only pull out her hand, pointed at He Zhiguo, and said that I would sue him for rape.

He Zhiguo knelt in front of Chen Xiulian, as if she had just said something that made him cry and wanted to marry her.The mother took Chen Xiulian's hand again, and said with distress that my daughter is stubborn, and their young couple often quarrels.

Chen Xiulian finally burst into tears. What made her sad was that she lived to be 20 years old before realizing that she was learning another language, a language that no one could understand.In an instant, she became an alien species, and was thrown into the gap between her feet. No one else was like her.

Her mother took her home, and He Zhiguo followed her in, saying that I wanted to marry Xiulian.He told Chen Xiulian's mother sincerely, including his own canteen, and said that it would all be under Xiulian's management in the future.The two people were touched by each other, and they hit it off immediately, as if this was a business, and Chen Xiulian was the object in this business.

Chen Xiulian gradually realized her strangeness in this farce, she was so strange, He Zhiguo was her boyfriend she never admitted, and what held her down that night was a fly.She leaned against the window of her house, watching the sun rise and set.Every night she couldn't sleep, she would refute herself when she closed her eyes.It was too painful to refute, she could only force herself to open her eyes wide and let herself accept the script given by God.

In 2147, Chen Xiulian was 20 years old and married He Zhiguo in winter.She slept on the bed in her dream, saw the familiar lamp, and the fly that lingered in her mind.He Zhiguo can use her, her body does not belong to him, her eyes, her mouth, and her thoughts all do not belong to him.

Chen Xiulian has thought about a question for decades.What is she?Is she human?Nobody respects her.He Zhiguo drank with others, and talked eloquently about his great achievements when drunk.He is so confident, he regards his wife as a badge, and he also thinks that his wife is not decent enough.

He Zhiguo beat Chen Xiulian because he managed his wife well, and a filial wife is born under the stick!He felt that he was so mighty, comparable to a hero in the Civil War, and had made outstanding contributions to the Northern Front Alliance in stabilizing their families in the rear.It's a pity that no one came to praise him, so he just talked about it online.He regards himself as a cultural person, and he can attract the applause of countless brothers with just a few words.

After the war, the economy in the berthing area declined, and a large number of steel mills closed down. He Zhiguo's small workshop also closed down.His moodiness became more and more obvious, to the point of nervousness.At that time, Chen Xiulian had Qinqin, and the mother and daughter slept downstairs.One day when she woke up in the middle of the night, she turned around and saw He Zhiguo sitting at the door, staring at her with his head exposed.

Chen Xiulian felt that He Zhiguo was sick, and she didn't want He Zhiguo to get close to Qinqin, so she sat by Qinqin's bed all night.She works during the day to feed Qinqin and is willing to do anything.Qinqin is very sensible. Every time after school, she would lie on the table in the cafeteria and do her homework, waiting for Chen Xiulian to get off work.Chen Xiulian finally felt that she was normal, and Qinqin was her connection with the world.She hid money and saved it piece by piece. She wanted Qinqin to go to school, and she wanted to take Qinqin away. The mother and daughter could go wherever they wanted.

But He Zhiguo smashed Chen Xiulian's dream with a drunk driving.

***

When it was about to dawn, it began to rain, and the raindrops beat the tin cover outside the small window in a hurry.Liu Chen was woken up, his cheek was pressed against the ground, and his nose was filled with the musty smell of the basement.Several dogs were barking, and Liu Chen heard the sound of the door opening.

"Get up." Chen Xiulian turned on the light, knelt down and patted Liu Chen's face.

Liu Chen stayed in the damp basement all night, suffering from a splitting headache.When he was photographed, he trembled subconsciously, restraining his thoughts of avoiding, for fear of irritating Chen Xiulian.He replied hoarsely: "Wake up, wake up."

Chen Xiulian held the wooden stick used for picking things, poked the stick out from the window, pushed the stick against the iron cover, and pulled it over to cover the window.

The sound of the rain became dull, like hot oil covered by a pot cover, and Liu Chen was the meat in the oil.Liu Chen's glasses fell somewhere, and the walls are blurry at this moment.He rolled his eyes and his throat was on fire from the aftermath of his shouting last night.

"I thought about it all night," Chen Xiulian put down the wooden stick, picked up the rice bowl, and said while eating, "Your original intention is also good, right? I think it's good that you reported those things, but some words are very... She thought about vocabulary, "Like He Zhiguo."

Liu Chen was beaten up last night, and now his back is burning.He rolled his eyes and could only see Chen Xiulian's shoes.

Chen Xiulian is wearing her own shoes today and plans to go to work later.She ate quickly, and the bowl was full of meat.The meat piles up in the freezer and goes bad if you don't eat it.She said: "You are very talented, I wanted to call you before. Is the number you put on the home page real?"

Liu Chen sifted through the key words, his dry lips moved, and he replied, "True...really."

"I said so," Chen Xiulian put the bowl and chopsticks aside, "I thought it was fake."

Liu Chen felt that his chest was too tight, and the rope on his body prevented him from breathing normally.He rubbed against the ground and turned his body.

Chen Xiulian looked at Liu Chen wriggling like a maggot, and asked, "Have you called me?" She seemed worried that Liu Chen would not understand, so she held the communicator in front of Liu Chen and shook it, "Here, Have you ever played?"

Liu Chen shook his head quickly, his face was wet.When he opened his mouth, the musty smell seemed to swallow him up.

"Oh," Chen Xiulian retracted the communicator, "it's not you. You know 'Snow in May', right? You chatted, I saw it in the chat room." She was a little disappointed, "He called me Sometimes, I thought it was you trying to help me. I always wanted to talk to you, talk about my life."

"We..." Liu Chen swallowed hastily, moistening his throat, "We can chat now."

Chen Xiulian listened to the sound of the rain and thought for a long time. After a while, she said, "No, you're not interesting either. The reports are all lies."

She stood up and brushed away the debris on the table.There were two kitchen knives in the sheath, and she took them out and pressed them on the whetstone to grind them.She has become proficient and has learned to use a kitchen knife to solve problems.

The grinding machines and saws left by He Zhiguo are not durable anymore.

Listening to the sound of sharpening the knife, Liu Chen cried slowly out of his throat.He sobbed hard, rubbing his tears and snot all over his face, looking humble and embarrassed.He rubbed his forehead against the ground, choked up and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! But Huo Qingjun, I reported the case of Mr. Huo after the verdict was clearly pronounced." He gradually burst into tears, "You can't blame me for this, really. , I just obey the verdict."

But Chen Xiulian ignored him, she stubbornly sharpened her knife in the dim light.

***

The rain was beating on the glass windows, and Cheng Lixin was crying and fussing in the investigation room, and said to Pu Lin, "I really don't know any murderer!"

Yan Junxun leaned against the glass and stared at Cheng Lixin.His thoughts were like rain, beating quickly in his head, soaking those new and old details over and over again, as if to soak up some murderer flavor from them.

"Yang Yu is at 240," Jiang Lian came from the other side and said to Yan Junxun, "She said that she has several sisters who work together, and two of them work in the industrial park near Puli Community. Jue, tell Jun Xun the details."

"I checked the information of these two friends, Yang Yu. They are both black households who have not passed the regional audit, and their daily access numbers are not their own. One of them is Lin Hui, an aunt in the cafeteria inside the steel factory in the industrial park. The number used It belongs to her son. The other is Chen Xiulian, a coke transport driver inside the steel factory in the industrial park, and the serial number used belongs to her husband He Zhiguo." Jue adjusted the light screen and continued to Yan Junxun, "Lin Hui usually works There is no vacation, I don’t have much personal contact with Yang Yu, and I haven’t worked for her, only Chen Xiulian has done cleaning work for Yang Yu in the past six months, and knows where Yang Yu’s family lives.”

Yan Junxun's eyelids were heavy, and he said, "Okay."

"You don't look very well." Jue paused after speaking, "We tried to contact He Zhiguo, but no one answered the call."

The monitor screen of Chen Xiulian in front of the weighing room appeared on the light screen. She was waiting for the staff in the weighing room to weigh her and make a record sheet for the coke she pulled.

"His car has been used by Chen Xiulian."

Yan Junxun looked at Chen Xiulian in the surveillance. Her eyes were deeply wrinkled, and she didn't react too fast. She listened to the staff with a serious expression.

Yan Jun thought about it.

This is how she talked to Huo Qingjun.She looks so normal, with no sense of distance, and even a little bully.

"But He Zhiguo moved in 2156. At that time, the pre-war preparations for the berthing area had already begun, and the real-time update of residents' information was ignored. Yang Yu said that she didn't know where they lived, and Chen Xiulian never invited friends to play at home."

"She may have changed the license plate number, but she can't change the car," Yan Junxun said wearily, "You can ask the steel factory for monitoring, find out her driving route, and you will know where she lives."

"Yes, we think so, but the troublesome thing is that the steel mill refuses to provide relevant information on monitoring and truck drivers," Jue said, "because they have too many black households."

"It's up to you to find a way," Shi Shanyan said strangely, still holding the lollipop stick in his mouth, "Is Yan Junxun the negotiator of the Supervision Bureau? Jiang Lian, go ahead."

Yan Junxun looked at the window again, and the rain scratched the glass to pieces.He always felt that there was a steel bullet rolling in his head, as if there was something wrong somewhere.But lunatics, racing cars, and the sound of rain filled his head, leaving him no time to think about it.