Adventures of a middle-aged uncle

"Old Li." He Hao walked in, patted my shoulder and sat down next to me and said, "Judging from all the monitoring of the Xiangyun Reservoir, it can be confirmed that only Zhang Xiong appeared on the monitoring, so... ...."

"So they judged that Zhang Xiong committed suicide, right?" I said coldly.

"It can only be said that the possibility is much greater." He Hao said with a sigh.

"That Li Ming, come here and take the transcript." A crisp voice sounded beside my ears, and I looked up to see that it was Bai Xiao, the policewoman from yesterday.

Bai Xiao didn't look at me, her eyes sparkled, and she shouted to He Hao in surprise, "Senior, it's really you."

I turned my head to look at He Hao, and saw that he nodded calmly and smiled.

"You used to be a criminal policeman." I asked tentatively.

"I used to work for a while, and I resigned because I didn't think it was interesting." He Hao explained.

"Oh." There must be something hidden in it, but this is his private matter, and He Hao obviously doesn't want to say more.I don't have time to take care of myself now, so I didn't ask any more questions.

"Is there anything unusual about the deceased?" Bai Xiao, who was sitting across from me, began to ask.

After finishing the usual questioning, I came out of the room. He Hao was waiting for me at the door. Bai Xiao followed and pulled He Hao and said to him, "Senior, I want to talk to you alone."

When I saw this, I said to He Hao, "Then I will wait for you at the gate of the police station." He Hao nodded.

I left the police station, the sun was shining outside, I closed my eyes habitually, and the faces of Cheng Li and Zhang Xiong appeared in my mind, what should I do.

"In these years alone, the wind and the rain have gone, there have been tears and mistakes, and I still remember what to stick to."

The phone rang for a long time before I realized it and pressed the answer button, "Li Ming, I'll call you and you don't answer. I don't know how to call you back afterwards. Do you still want this home?" An angry voice came from his wife.

"Wife, I..." His voice was choked with sobs, and he didn't know whether to say the next thing.

"What's the matter." Hearing my hoarse voice, my wife suddenly became concerned and gentle.

"Wife, take Dudu to play at his grandpa's house for a few more days, and don't come back this week. I have something to deal with." I remembered that my wife would take the children home to work and school this week.

"Why, what happened to you?" The voice of the unknowing wife was full of doubts.

"It's nothing, but you must remember to pay attention to your own safety and the safety of your son, and don't go out if you have nothing to do. And don't call me again this week. I will explain to you when this matter is finished, please You must believe me." My wife and I have been married for eight years.

There is trust between them.

"Husband, what really happened, I will face it with you." The wife said.

"Trust me, wife, it's just this week."

"Okay." The wife sighed heavily and hung up the phone.

He Hao came out from the police station, looked at me and said with a smile, "Lao Li, the real identity of the fake Wang Bing has been found out."

I looked at He Hao under the scorching summer sun, like a bottle of Coke with just the right temperature, one gulp down, just to relieve the urgent need.

"Who is he?" I asked anxiously.

"Go, go to my small restaurant, and talk while walking."

"Wang Bing, his real name is Wang Zhicheng, I think you should know him, he is your junior high school classmate." He Hao handed me a glass of cold water.

"Wang Zhicheng." I silently chanted this name in my heart, which seemed to be sealed in time and I had never thought of.It's as if there is such a person, he is a person you can see every day, but he will not leave any traces in your life.

Seeing how confused I was, He Hao took out a photo from his pocket and gave it to me.In an instant, the gate of memory was pulled up.

"You bastard, I asked you for the money. Don't want to die." Cheng Li stomped on Ruandan's body, and he knelt on the ground trembling.

"My parents...were not here yesterday, but I will definitely give it to you tomorrow."

"Believe you, believe you will be a ghost. This afternoon, the money must be paid to me. Otherwise, I will kill you." Zhang Xiong pressed the head of Zhang Xiong, who was kneeling on the ground, into the soil.I saw Ruan Dan eating a mouthful of dirt.We all laughed in unison.

At that time, although Wang Bing and I didn't fight, my contempt for the soft guy was that I never looked him in the eye, and Wang Bing was even worse, because touching him made my hands dirty.

"The softie is Wang Zhicheng, and he wants to take revenge on us."

After listening to my memories, He Hao opened his mouth, smoked a cigarette, and didn't speak for a long time.I really hope he can yell at me.They scold us that evil will be rewarded with evil, and that people who commit crimes cannot live.But He Hao didn't say anything, just smoking quietly.

"I know I'm a jerk, but why did he take revenge on us after so many years? Even if we feel sorry for him, we won't die."

"Now it can only be said that Wang Zhicheng pretended to be Wang Bing. It cannot be said that Wang Zhicheng killed Cheng Li and Zhang Xiong. There is no evidence that he did it, and we don't know when Wang Zhicheng started pretending to be Wang Bing. Wang Bing has already been in missing state."

"You mean, Wang Bing died a long time ago, and Wang Zhicheng has replaced Wang Bing these years."

"That's not what I mean. I have no way to confirm whether Wang Bing is dead or alive, because he left the country ten years ago and has not come back now. Wang Zhicheng left the country two years ago. As for when he changed his name, It is not known what the face will look like, but it can be seen from this that Wang Bing had planned it long ago."

"Two years ago, yes, it was two years ago that Wang Bing had less and less contact with us. It was not until recently that he was coming back that he contacted me. At that time, I wondered why he lost my phone, because My phone number has never changed. He explained that it was because he lost his phone and didn’t store my number, and I didn’t think much about it at the time.” Now that I think about it carefully, the clues started two years ago.

"How did you find out the real identity of the fake Wang Bing?" I wondered.

Wang Bing smiled, narrowed his eyes, took a sip of water and said:

"Since I confirmed that Wang Bing is a fake. I asked my former colleagues to check the identity of Wang Bing. There are 152 people named Wang Bing in the whole city. There is only one Wang Bing who went abroad to study ten years ago. I confirmed that it is you. The person in the old photo. I retrieved his identity information. Combined with the time you said Wang Bing returned to China, we found the identity information of this fake Wang Bing and learned that he had changed his name. You are a school, and you know this information by following the clues. As for the time of his plastic surgery, we can only speculate based on his changed identity information."

"That's it. But based on the current information, there is no way to prove that Wang Zhicheng is the murderer of Zhang Xiong and Cheng Li." Looking at He Hao's resolute face, I felt a little more at ease.

"Now you have to think back on what happened to you in the past few days, and see if there is anything we have missed."

I think back to the first day we met Wang Bing, and then think of him giving us things.

"By the way, did the police find Zhang Xiong's mobile phone?" I suddenly remembered the iPhone that Wang Bing gave Zhang Xiong.

"Mobile phone, what did you think of?" He Hao asked.

"Wang Bing gave us gifts at the farmhouse on the day he came back. Cheng Li's is health medicine, mine is red wine, and Zhang Xiong's is a mobile phone."

"That day you said you were going to chase Zhang Xiong, Wang Bing asked you to go back and rest. If Wang Bing sent Zhang Xiong's phone with the location, he could easily find out where Zhang Xiong went." He Hao analyzed. "He really knows you all very well."

He Hao's phone rang, and he picked it up and said, "Hello, how's the investigation going?"

After a while, He Hao put down the phone and said to me, "The bag of rocks that Zhang Xiong carried when he died was determined to be the raw material used by one of the construction sites near the Xiangyun Reservoir. Let's go there now and see if we can find anything from the on-site surveillance. clue."

When she arrived at the construction site, Bai Xiao had already waited at the same spot. When she saw He Hao, she showed a big smile and said happily, "Senior, let's go in quickly, I've already said hello."

He Hao nodded to her with a slight smile and led me into the monitoring room.

What was shown on the surveillance was at nine o'clock last night, a man in black clothes, a mask on his face, and a simple black schoolbag on his back appeared in the camera.That person's figure resembled Zhang Xiong very much, but he couldn't see his face at all, and he covered him up too tightly.

Next, we waited for the fake Wang Bing to arrive, but until twelve o'clock, Wang Bing did not appear on the monitor, and Zhang Xiong did not appear again.

"What time did Zhang Xiong call you for the last time." He Hao confirmed.

"Twelve o'clock in the morning." I blurted out this time, which is really an unforgettable memory.

"Is this the only entrance and exit on your side?" He Hao turned around and asked the little security guard beside him.

"It's just a gate, but we usually take a small path. There is no gate on that path, but there is our staff dormitory next to it. You can ask them. Have you met the person you are looking for?" the little security guard suggested. .

Then Bai Xiao patiently found the migrant workers living in the dormitory one by one to inquire about the situation.Finally got some sporadic news from a big brother.

"It was around ten o'clock that night. I don't remember clearly. I came out to pee in a hurry. I saw a person squatting in front of the wall over there. Ying yelled twice, "What are you doing there?" Nobody paid any attention to me, he just leaned over there motionless, I thought about what was going on, so I zipped up the chain and took a look. Hey , as soon as the shadow saw me approaching, it stood up and ran, but it disappeared before I reached it, and I didn't see what it looked like."

While the elder brother was describing it to us, he peeked at Bai Xiao with squinting eyes.

Bai Xiao noticed that he was peeking at her, and his face turned pale on the spot, so he turned around and walked to the front place alone.

The eldest brother smiled, didn't feel embarrassed, and said:

"Well, that's all I know, I really don't know anything else. You can ask other people." After speaking, he glanced at the position where Bai Xiao was standing, and he was happy when he had enough gone.He Hao and I looked at each other helplessly, planning to tell Bai Xiao to go back.

Bai Xiao suddenly exclaimed. "Come and see."

The location where Bai Xiao stood was the location where the black shadow was pointed by the big migrant worker that night. Bai Xiao took out a red bracelet from the large and small stones all over the ground and said, "I put this same bracelet on Cheng Li's wrist." I've seen it before."

I looked at the red bracelet, and slowly raised my hand. At this time, my hand was also tied with an identical bracelet, with a small black pebble emitting a faint fragrance tied to it.

The memory was instantly pulled back to the day when Wang Bing came back.

"Lao Li, Lao Cheng, Lao Zhang, our three brothers..." Wang Bing put his arms around me and Zhang Xiong, and said to us in an obviously drunk tone, "I haven't seen you for ten years, hehe, this year is just right It's the age of the three of us, and I have prepared a good American for you..."

Wang Bing stroked his head and said, "Black... obsidian can ward off evil spirits and avoid evil, so I'll put it on for you..." Wang Bing took out three red strings tied with dark brown pebbles with faint light, I liked it in my heart, but I never took it off after I put it on.

"Bai Xiao, take this back and analyze the composition." He Hao took mine and Zhang Xiong's necklace which fell on the ground.

He Hao stared at me for a moment with his sharp eyes and said, "Go, Lao Li. Let's go back and get that precious bottle of French red wine."

After we parted ways with Bai Xiao, He Hao and I returned to my residence. I opened the door and subconsciously looked towards the window, only to see the corners of the curtains swaying slightly.

When I went out last time, I remembered that I had to close the window before I left. I looked at He Hao, and silently tugged at the corner of his clothes with my hand, signaling with my eyes that there was something wrong with the window.

At this time, everything is quiet, and the swing of the curtain makes my heart beat faster, as if the only thing left in this world is my heartbeat.

He Hao signaled me not to move, he walked to the window with his toes on the ground without making a sound, and lifted the curtain suddenly.

There is nothing, the windows are half open, and the cool breeze of late summer blows in.

He Hao laughed loudly and said, "Old Li, don't be suspicious. Seeing that my sister-in-law is not here, I don't know how to clean up the mess at home. My sister-in-law will definitely scold you when she comes back. That's fine, I'll go first, call me if you have anything to do." Hao walked towards me, smiled and patted my shoulder, walked out the door, and kindly helped me close the door.

As soon as He Hao left, my body sank and I fell heavily towards the sofa. Sleepless day and night was too exhausting for a middle-aged man who was nearly forty.

But I should be able to fall asleep immediately, but at this time I am terribly awake.

My mind keeps turning the two dead faces of Cheng Li and Zhang Xiong.

Suddenly, the light, snapped off.I was plunged into total darkness.

Maybe I will die in this quiet and eternal darkness in the next second, but when I opened my eyes, I saw the woman who haunted my dreams, the woman who was like the moonlight beside my bed soothingly sprinkled in the first half of my life.

Qi Qi's pale face appeared in front of me, without any change of beauty due to the years.She smiled softly at me, but what she said made my hair stand on end, "Li Ming, you have been doing well these years, don't you think about those people who were killed by you?" His face gradually became very ferocious, and the original gentleness disappeared.

"Qi Qi, I don't know what you're talking about." I slowly shook my head and looked at my goddess with loving eyes.

"Haha, you don't know who you have killed, or you have lied to yourself for so many years. Do you need me to remind you." Her voice suddenly rose, sharp and piercing.

I suddenly felt a retreat, this is not the Qi Qi I knew, I wanted to escape, I wanted to struggle to get up from the sofa, but at this moment, I sadly found that I had no strength, not even my little finger The method moves half a minute.

The unusually heavy body aggravated my despair.

"Qi Qi, I really don't know, I didn't kill anyone." I said to Qi Qi in an almost pleading tone.

"Then let me tell you." Qi Qi stroked my face lightly with her cold fingers, but I felt as if there were thick grit passing across my face.

"Do you remember that boy you robbed 20 years ago. On the first day of school, the four of you paid all his tuition

Robbed.He is so small, how can you do it.The money is gone, and the people are gone.He was afraid that he would not be able to explain to his parents when he got home, so he jumped into the lake.The lake water is so cold, when he was salvaged, his body was swollen, and he couldn't see his tender little face clearly, how could you not have any impression of it. "

Qi Qi's hateful voice awakened the most painful memories hidden deep in my memory. None of us thought that he would commit suicide. Since then, we have never robbed children of money, except for the softie Wang Zhicheng.But what does this have to do with Qi Qi?

Qi Qi continued to say expressionlessly, "Don't you guys know that I am that child's biological sister?"

Everything is gradually becoming clear in my world.Reincarnation of heaven, these four words kept ringing in my mind.Everything I have endured today is all what I deserve, I deserve to die, I am shameless, and have lived in this world with peace of mind for so many years.

Damn me.

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