After Qin Ruochu returned to the box again, he put on a smiling face again.

Since Chu Xinyan hated her, why should she fall into the mud all by herself?

Let's sink together.

Zhang Hengze took her hand: "Why have you been here for so long?"

Qin Ruochu put his hand on his shoulder naturally: "I've put on some makeup, I've been waiting for a long time."

Ma Kangsheng glanced drunkenly at the two tired and crooked people, and wiped his face casually: "Yes, the meal is almost finished. How about we go away first?"

What?He is leaving so soon?

Tian Rui is still copying...

Qin Ruochu quickly apologized and said with a smile: "Uncle Ma, it's still early. After eating, I just reserved a box at KTV, let's go play together."

Ma Kangsheng waved his hand: "I sing badly, so I won't join in the fun..."

Qin Ruochu squeezed Zhang Hengze's hand, and Zhang Hengze hurriedly stopped him: "Godfather, let's go and sing. It's boring to go back now, and the nightlife needs to be colorful! What's more, this is what your future daughter-in-law requires. You have to show some face."

What they were discussing Chu Xinyan didn't understand at all, her eyes were fixed on Qin Ruochu and Zhang Hengze's tightly holding hands from a place Ma Kangsheng couldn't see.

"Why don't we go? Boss Chu, you come too." Ma Kangsheng turned around and said.

Chu Xinyan smiled and said, "Okay."

Qin Ruochu didn't want Chu Xinyan to go.

Or she doesn't want to stay in a cramped place with Chu Xinyan for a long time now.

As soon as I was seated, the waiter brought up three or four fruit plates one after another. The fruits inside were neatly arranged on the plates, with a few rose petals inlaid around them, and a thin layer of ice cubes on the bottom.

Qin Ruochu ordered a few more bottles of red wine.

Ma Kangsheng was sitting next to the karaoke stand, squinting his eyes and tremblingly groping with his index finger, muttering in his mouth: "I can't find that drunk butterfly..."

Zhang Hengze leaned over: "Godfather, you just report your name, I'll help you order."

For a moment, only Qin Ruochu and Chu Xinyan were sitting next to each other.

The theme song about fire safety in the KTV box was still playing in a high-decibel loop, and the lights were not turned on, so it looked very dim.

Qin Ruochu sat awkwardly on the leather sofa as if she had thorns all over her body. Although the temperature of the air conditioner was very low, her palms were already dripping with sweat.

The clear and dry scent of forest wood on Chu Xinyan's body always sticks to Qin Ruochu's body like a naughty child.

This used to be Qin Ruochu's favorite and most reassuring scent, but now she feels oppressed and tormented when she smells it again.

She stretched out her hand to support the sofa and slowly moved to the side, trying to get as far away from Chu Xinyan as possible.

"Is that all you want to stay away from me?"

Amidst the noisy accompaniment, Chu Xinyan's cold voice was clearly not high-pitched, but it still hit Qin Ruochu's heart like an electric current.

Her heart trembled violently.

No, Qin Ruochu answered inwardly with a sullen head.

She didn't move any more, but stopped there, and Chu Xinyan didn't speak again.

Zhang Hengze ordered more than a dozen songs for Ma Kangsheng, and then sat back on the sofa with Qin Ruochu in his arms.

Qin Ruochu fell into Zhang Hengze's arms as if relieved, Zhang Hengze's chin pressed against her forehead: "Is it very hot?"

"No, no." Qin Ruochu glanced at Chu Xinyan out of the corner of her eye, and she was still sitting there expressionless while processing the letter with her head down.

No matter what she does or who she falls into, Chu Xinyan doesn't care anymore.

They really are over.

Qin Ruochu buried her head in Zhang Hengze's arms, using the dark environment and loud music to hide her loss and embarrassment.

But Zhang Hengze enjoyed this moment immensely, and was sketching some unspeakable scenes in his mind.

Ma Kangsheng howled his throat drunkenly, even though he couldn't keep up with the accompaniment at all, the lyrics were full of mistakes and omissions.

Everyone here has their own agenda.

Qin Ruochu rubbed tears on Zhang Hengze's clothes before sitting up, and said with a smile, "Uncle Ma, eat some fruit when you're tired from singing. I'll peel it for you."

Qin Ruochu peeled four oranges and a bunch of grapes, put them on a plate, and put them in front of everyone.

"Eat."

"Ruochu, I want to eat dragon fruit, can you cut it into pieces for me?" Zhang Hengze said.

Qin Ruochu nodded: "Okay."

Ma Kangsheng was tired from singing, so he called Chu Xinyan to drink with him, Qin Ruochu suddenly felt lighter in his hands and feet, and even the air was not so oppressive.

Under the colorful lights in the private room, the juice of the red dragon fruit seemed like bright red blood flowing from Qin Ruochu's fingers. She glanced at the phone in her arms calmly, but there was still no movement.

She had to keep dragging on.

Zhang Hengze said aggressively, "Ruochu, can you feed me?"

Qin Ruochu handed over a piece with a toothpick, and Ma Kangsheng sang while holding the wine bottle fascinatedly. The moment Zhang Hengze bit down on it, Qin Ruochu only felt a glare on his back.

She pretended not to know anything, and picked another piece with a toothpick for herself to eat.

Ma Kangsheng drank a lot of wine at night, and now he wanted to pee, but he walked crookedly, and bumped into the side of the coffee table, grinning his teeth in pain.

Zhang Hengze hurried to help, and accompanied his godfather to release water.

As soon as the door was closed, the accompaniment of Lonely Sandbank was at its climax, and they all looked at each other in unison.

Qin Ruochu was the first to avoid sight.

Chu Xinyan still stared at her.

Qin Ruochu's face was a little hot, but fortunately the box light was dim, so it couldn't be seen.

Chu Xinyan got up and walked towards her, Qin Ruochu lowered her head, the sound of high heels fell on her heart.

Chu Xinyan bent down and took out a wet tissue and sat beside her.

"Give me your hand."

Qin Ruochu stretched out her left hand, Chu Xinyan's hand was icy cold, a wet tissue gently brushed over her palm, then wiped the back of her hand, fingers...

"Okay, okay." Qin Ruochu wanted to withdraw his hand.

Chu Xinyan continued to wipe for her without saying a word.

"Another one."

Qin Ruochu didn't reach out her hand, she stumbled and said, "I, myself..."

"The other one." Chu Xinyan emphasized.

Qin Ruochu could only obediently hand over his hand.

After wiping their hands, the two sat side by side in an awkward atmosphere.

Qin Ruochu asked in a low voice, "You...why did you cut your hair short?"

Chu Xinyan asked mercilessly, "Is it related to Miss Qin?"

Qin Ruochu bit her lower lip and still didn't know what to say, when the phone rang.

Qin Ruochu turned on the phone sideways, and Tian Rui sent a message saying that it was done.

Her hanging heart finally fell.

Footsteps sounded outside the door. Qin Ruochu put the phone away and opened the door for Zhang Hengze.

"Godfather threw up a pool of water." Zhang Hengze said with a wry face.

Qin Ruochu said with concern: "Otherwise, let's send him back to rest first."

"I think so too."

Zhang Hengze pointed at Chu Xinyan with his chin: "Manager Chu, let's go first."

Then they left with Qin Ruochu.

After everyone left, Chu Xinyan turned off the accompaniment, sat on the sofa and ate all the dragon fruit that Qin Ruochu had peeled and cut.

***

Qin Ruochu knocked on the door of the suite, and Zhang Hengze was waiting behind with Ma Kangsheng supporting him.

Tian Rui opened the door.

She met Qin Ruochu's eyes and nodded slightly.

Zhang Hengze didn't seem surprised by Tian Rui's appearance, he just put him on the bed and said, "Sister Tian Rui, my godfather will trouble you."

Tian Rui smiled: "Okay, don't worry."

She brushed past Qin Ruochu and stuffed the USB flash drive into her palm.

Qin Ruochu said: "Then let's not bother."

After Zhang Hengze sent Qin Ruochu back to the hotel, Qin Ruochu quickly turned on the computer and plugged in the USB flash drive.

Dozens of videos appeared in more than one folder one after another, and the content of the videos was simply unsightly. After checking each video, Qin Ruochu copied two copies and saved them in the computer.

After sitting all this, she sat in the chair as if she was empty, and after a while, she slowly opened her hands.

The scent of wet wipes still lingers on my hands.

Qin Ruochu slowly put his hands to his mouth, and after a while, warm tears flowed down his knuckles.

In this quiet night, only now can she reveal her truest sorrow and joy.

***

After they left, Tian Rui didn't care about Ma Kangsheng who was sleeping on the bed like a dead pig.

She sat on the sofa and kept texting with her assistant.

—Is there no news about Yang Qing?

—Sister Rui, Yang Qing quit the entertainment industry four years ago and disappeared without a trace. She can't even search for an entry.

— Apart from name and appearance, Sister Rui, do you have any other information?We can also narrow it down.

other information?

Tian Rui threw the phone aside and closed her eyes to recall the unspeakable past.

Wait, Tian Rui suddenly thought that there seemed to be a chat about hometown in one episode of the talent show variety show, maybe there was a clue there.

So Tian Rui opened her notebook, found that old variety show, and started looking for one episode after another.

After more than two hours, Tian Rui rubbed her sore eyes and closed the computer.

***

Fengcheng Jing County.

"Sister Rui, where can we find someone we don't know?" the little assistant asked against the sun.

"What are you doing with this Yang Qing?"

Tian Rui got out of the car and took off her sunglasses, looked around: "Go to the police station."

The assistant said while driving: "The police station will not transfer other people's information to us."

Tian Rui reprimanded: "Let you drive a car and talk so much nonsense?"

"I'll go as I say, I have a way."

Tian Rui's brother-in-law is the leader of the Weicheng Bureau, and she has already established contacts before she came, so she can go directly to the police station to call Yang Qing's home address.

After the two left the police station, they went to Ganghui Village under the jurisdiction of Jing County.

Apparently it had rained not long ago, and the path was so muddy that cars couldn't drive in.

Tian Rui got out of the car, and without a word, walked inward step by step with her trousers in her hands.

"No. 37, Erxiang..." Tian Rui searched while reading, "It's the 15th, and it's still ahead...Why are you so slow, follow me."

"Oh!" The little assistant's white shoes were already stained with wet mud, and he was devastated.

Who knows what this Tian Rui is thinking in her head, so urgently looking for this person she hasn't contacted for several years.

Wouldn't it be that he owed money and didn't pay back, so he went to his hometown to collect the debt?

Tian Rui finally touched a dilapidated house with the words 37 crookedly printed on the faded sign on the house.

She reached out and slowly pushed open the unlocked door.

"Is there anyone please?"

No one should.

Tian Rui stepped into the gray courtyard, the ground was covered with straw wadding, and several hens were pecking at rice grains.

"Is anyone there?" Tian Rui called again.

The little assistant jumped over chicken feces in two or three steps and pushed open the door of the inner room. Tian Rui was just about to reprimand her for being impolite.

The assistant shouted: "Sister Rui, there is no one. It seems that no one has lived in this house for a long time, and there are piles of firewood inside."

The flames that had just ignited were extinguished in an instant.

The neighbor heard the sound and said, "Who are you?"

Tian Rui walked out slowly and pointed to the yard: "Excuse me, is this Yang Qing's house?"

"You said Yang Qing, her family moved out long ago, and she doesn't live here anymore."

"When did you move?"

The woman said, "It's been three or four years."

Tian Rui frowned and pressed the woman's hand: "Then where did she move?"

"I can't remember clearly either. The old lady said before she left that it seems to be tens of kilometers away from here, so it shouldn't be far away."

"It's called...what's the name, I've mentioned it a few times."

Tian Rui waited anxiously, not daring to interrupt.

"It seems to be Qixing County."

"Okay, thank you." Tian Rui continued to search under the scorching sun again.

The map shows that Qixing County is not far from Jing County. Maybe there are all the addresses of the police station there. This time, instead of asking Yang Qing, she asked her father's name.

Because Yang Qing's household registration has never changed.

The emperor paid off, Tian Rui knocked on the door of a resident of an old-fashioned community.

An old man opened the door. The old man was hunched over and limping on crutches.

"Grandpa, is your name Yang Tianyou?"

The old man was stunned for a while before slowly opening his mouth: "Yes, are you... what's the matter?"

Tian Rui was ecstatic, with tears rolling in her eyes, she said, "Grandpa, I want to find Yang Qing."

"……Who?"

"Yang, Qing, Qing on a sunny day, she is your daughter." Tian Rui couldn't wait to probe inside, hoping that a girl in the room would hear her voice and open the door, calling her Ruirui.

"I'm Yang Qing's good friend. We haven't been in touch for a long time. I want to meet her."

The old man stood at the door for a long while without moving away, staring at the ground in a daze.

Tian Rui thought the old man was tired, so she wanted to help him go back to the house to rest.

The old man said suddenly, "She's gone."

Tian Rui asked again: "Has she gone to work? It's okay, I'll go to the place where she works to find—"

The old man said inarticulately, "My daughter is dead."

"Ah?" Tian Rui's heart sank hard.

"Depression...suicide."

"Her mother went too."

"I'm the only old man left at home."

Tian Rui asked in a deep voice, "Grandpa, can you tell me?"

The old man walked back slowly, and Tian Rui followed suit. The furnishings in the house were neat, but they were not popular.Yang Qing's father is so old, it must be because he has suffered a lot of blows.

"Four years ago, my daughter came back from the outside suddenly and said she would never go out again." The old man's voice was hoarse and he had a strong local accent, Tian Rui could only hear the general idea.

"Her mother asked her what happened, but she didn't say anything."

"I shut myself at home every day, neither eating nor drinking."

"She said she had no face to live on."

"I didn't know what happened at the time..." The old man was about to get up to get the toilet paper from the table, but Tian Rui held him down and brought it for him.

"Later, her mother said that she should make a good family for her and find a job to live on."

"She cried as soon as she heard it, saying that no one wanted her."

Tian Rui's knuckles holding the tissue gradually turned white: "...and then?"

"And then died."

"what?"

"He died there," the old man pointed to the southwest window, "he jumped from there."

"How many people persuaded me to move, but I will not move. If I die at home one day, I will be the bride and groom." The old man wiped his tears as he said.

The gift that Tian Rui sent his assistant to buy for the old man has been delivered: "Sister Rui, where do you put these three big boxes of food?"

Tian Rui took it and moved to the kitchen: "Grandpa, I'll give you something to eat. It's okay to make some rice cereal to eat."

The old man said "Hey": "Are you Qingqing's friend?"

"Yeah. We had a fight and broke contact before, but I didn't expect..." Tian Rui tried her best to restrain her emotions. When the old man went to the kitchen to watch the food, he put all the cash in his wallet on the table, and then ran away from here .

The assistant chased after her: "Rui, Sister Rui, you, you slow down!"

Tian Rui cried while running, got into the car and began to cry.

The assistant didn't understand what happened and quickly handed over the paper: "Sister, sister, don't cry..."

There was silver thread hanging from Tian Rui's mouth mixed with snot, and the assistant had only seen Tian Rui crying like pear blossoms with rain in TV dramas. How could she think that she would cry like this when she was really sad.

"I'm going to go to the [-]th floor of hell..." Tian Rui yelled while crying, "Yang Qing, I'm sorry for you..."

"Damn me, damn me..."

Yang Qing's supposedly beautiful and brilliant life was ruined in her hands.

And she was punished.

There is a cycle of cause and effect in the world, without exception.

After returning, Tian Rui told Qin Ruochu the whole story.

If possible, she asked the police to intervene in an in-depth investigation into the connection between Ma Kangsheng and Yang Qing's suicide.

She is willing to be a notary.

作者有话要说:感谢在2020-07-1100:03:56~2020-07-1321:21:36期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 Cangjuan;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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