Listen to the fire

After Yi Suone went out, he never came back. When it was time for dinner in the afternoon, Ji Cheng and Wan Pengfei were also together. However, Yi Suone never contacted Ji Cheng.

When it was time for self-study last night, Ji Cheng still couldn't bear to send a text message to Yi Suone.

[Little elk, what's the matter with you, you won't come back after you go out? 】

After sending the text message, Ji Cheng put the phone back on the table and continued to do the questions.

However, looking at the physics problem in front of him, Ji Cheng has no intention of doing it.

I feel very irritable in my heart, and I don't know what the little elk went out to do. I haven't come back, and it's fine if I don't come back. I haven't sent a message to myself.

After waiting for about 10 minutes, the phone in Ji Cheng's desk finally vibrated.

It was Little Elk's reply to Ji Cheng's text message: 【This afternoon, I'm talking about art exams. I'm already drawing in the Children's Palace. 】

Seeing that Yi Suone said that he was painting in the Children's Palace, Ji Cheng's heart calmed down a little.

Ji Cheng: [The next time I go out for so long, I must send you a message to Brother Deng, you know? 】

Yi Sulfone: [Brother Deng, are you worried about me? 】

Ji Cheng: [Nonsense!You also know that Judgment has made a move on Ji Zhou, who knows what else that lunatic will do, I am naturally worried about you. 】

Looking at the text message he sent, Ji Cheng felt a little guilty.

After all, he wasn't only worried about the little elk because of the trial, he seemed to miss the little elk more.

Yi Suone: [Okay, I see, next time, I will definitely report! 】

Ji Cheng: [That's good, let's draw well, I'm doing the quiz too. 】

Yi Sulfone: [Yes! (smile)]

Seeing the smiling face that Yi Suone sent at the end, Ji Cheng also laughed unconsciously. He locked the screen of his phone again and continued to study the questions.

At this moment, the feeling of brushing the questions is extremely good.

When the evening self-study ended, it was already [-]:[-], Ji Cheng dawdled for a while to do the questions, and it was already [-]:[-] when he left the classroom.

Wan Pengfei was extremely sleepy, and he yawned as he walked: "Hey, brother Deng, tomorrow is the monthly exam, I feel very uncomfortable."

"Okay, go back to bed early at night, and you can get good grades in the exam with a good mental state." Ji Cheng was talking, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a woman standing under the streetlight outside the school gate.

Generally speaking, Ji Cheng is not interested in these things, but this woman is very special and has a familiar feeling.

"Hey, Brother Deng, what are you looking at?" Seeing that Ji Cheng's expression was wrong, Wan Pengfei also followed Ji Cheng to look at the street lamp.

Standing under the street lamp was a tall and slender woman, wearing a dark purple dress. If it weren't for her standing under the street lamp, the color of the dress might be indistinguishable from the darkness.

"Boss lady?"

Getting closer, Ji Cheng finally saw the woman's face clearly, no wonder Ji Cheng felt a little familiar at first glance, it turned out to be the proprietress of Ruolin Bakery.

"Ji Cheng, can we talk?"

When Ji Cheng was wondering why this woman appeared here, the woman walked over first and blocked Ji Cheng's way.

"Brother Deng, do you know him?" Wan Pengfei approached Ji Cheng and asked Ji Cheng in a low voice.

"It's Zhou Yao's girlfriend." Ji Cheng also covered his lips with his hand, and replied to Wan Pengfei.

The proprietress looked at Ji Cheng and Wan Pengfei who were whispering, and frowned uncomfortably: "Officer Ji is no longer a child, and I'm afraid it's a little disrespectful to behave like this in front of me."

"Hehe, I'm used to being a teenager, can't I switch back for a while?" Ji Cheng raised his chin, and smiled at the proprietress casually, but he was thinking about what the proprietress said just now.

She knows her name, and she also knows that she is a policeman. It seems that she knows all these things. She came to Ji Cheng today, probably because of Zhou Yao's affairs.

"Um... does Xiaopang want to eat barbecue?" Ji Cheng turned his face and asked suddenly.

"I want to, I really want to! I want to eat grilled chicken skin, the kind that is sizzling and greasy!" Wan Pengfei's eyes lit up when he heard the barbecue.

Ji Cheng smiled, and looked at the proprietress in front of him: "Will the proprietress go to the barbecue restaurant? Talk while eating?"

The proprietress nodded, and walked forward with Ji Cheng and Wan Pengfei.

There is a well-known barbecue stall near the school, and the business is very good. Ji Cheng and the others arrived and found a relatively remote seat to sit down.

"Little Fatty, go and order, and get what you want." After sitting down, Ji Cheng spoke to Wan Pengfei.

Wan Pengfei responded, then turned around and went to order from the owner of the barbecue stall.

"You came to see me today, probably because of Zhou Yao's affairs." Seeing Xiaopang walking away, Ji Cheng looked at the bakery proprietress opposite and opened his mouth.

The proprietress sighed, then raised her head, with a haggard face: "My name is Zhou Ruolin, and I am the pastry chef in the hotel. My daughter is four years old and just started kindergarten."

Ji Cheng didn't expect that Zhou Ruolin would introduce herself to him first. Surprised, Ji Cheng listened carefully to her words. She should be talking about herself in the previous world.

"My family originally lived in Jiuxingwan Community, because my husband owed a lot of debts for trading in stocks. We sold the house and moved to an old community. My husband hid debts everywhere and disappeared, but he would come back occasionally and come to me for money. .”

Zhou Ruolin spoke calmly about the past, but in her eyes, Ji Cheng saw a little bit of hatred spreading.

Jiuxingwan community, Ji Cheng knows, is the community in his world, and it is indeed a relatively good community in Fengshi. From this point of view, Zhou Ruolin and himself should be from the same world.

"It was very hard for me to take care of the child by myself. As soon as he came back, he took all my money. If I didn't give it back, he would beat me. It's okay to beat me, I can bear it, but he In my face...hitting my daughter...I have no choice but to give him the money..."

As Zhou Ruolin spoke, she became more emotional, and the gloom in her eyes became more distinct at this moment.

"Later, every time I saw him hugging his daughter at the gate of the kindergarten, I was terrified. I knew that he was not going to pick up my daughter. He was reminding me and asking me to give money... In this way, I had to endure His domestic violence and threats, sometimes I even thought, it would be better to die until he appeared..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Ruolin's extremely dark eyes ignited a gleam of hope, and Ji Cheng knew that the "he" she was talking about was Zhou Yao.

Wan Pengfei also came back at this time. He was sitting next to Ji Cheng, happily preparing to tell Ji Cheng what he had ordered, but Ji Cheng gave Wan Pengfei an extremely complicated look, and Wan Pengfei had no choice but to Shut up, didn't say anything, just sat silently beside Ji Cheng.

"Zhou Yao moved next door to me when I was in the most difficult time. At first he asked me to borrow some tools, and we got to know each other like this. Zhou Yao is a writer, and he stays at home writing every day, but I I have to work all the time, so many times, I asked him to take care of my children. At that time, he also said that he and I were both named Zhou, and I felt like his sister..."

"He is a very interesting person, I am deeply attracted by him, our relationship is getting closer and closer, it is he who illuminates the world that I thought was dark and never peaceful, I thought, there is finally light in my world Oh, who knows, my husband appeared again..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Ruolin couldn't help crying anymore, covering her face, Ji Cheng looked at her trembling shoulders, and felt a little distressed.

Such memories should be very cruel to her, but now she is constantly recalling these pains, which is equivalent to tearing off her scabbed scars again.

"Your roast beef, chicken skin and kidneys!"

The owner of the barbecue shop came over with skewers and broke the original sad atmosphere. Zhou Ruolin wiped away her tears and rearranged her emotions.

"How about... eat two skewers of meat to relax?" Wan Pengfei picked up two skewers of beef and handed them to Zhou Ruolin.

Ji Cheng stretched out his hand and patted Wan Pengfei twice, before Wan Pengfei withdrew his hand: "Then Brother Deng will eat."

"You eat by yourself first." As Ji Cheng said, he pulled the plate towards Wan Pengfei, and then watched Zhou Ruolin continue to speak: "Ms. Zhou, continue."

Zhou Ruolin wiped away her tears with a tissue, and then continued: "My husband found out that Zhou Yao and I were very close, and one day he picked up our daughter before the kindergarten was over. When Zhou Yao and I arrived , my daughter has been tortured by him so badly, I couldn't bear it at that time, I rushed to fight him, I was not his opponent, so Zhou Yao also came to help, under the pull, we accidentally killed my husband……"

"So, you came to this world to avoid guilt?" Ji Cheng frowned.

"We want to start a new life, we want to be together." Zhou Ruolin said, raising her eyes, under the dim light of the barbecue booth, Ji Cheng saw the unwillingness and stubbornness in her eyes.

The fingers of Ji Cheng's two hands under the table overlapped, and the corners of his lips raised a very shallow arc: "Do you think that after you came to this world, you will live the life you want?"

"Of course!"

Zhou Ruolin answered Ji Cheng's question without thinking, but after she said the answer, a complex emotion appeared on her face.

After being silent for a while, Zhou Ruolin continued: "My daughter died because he tortured her to death."

Hearing Zhou Ruolin's words, Ji Cheng's chest trembled violently. He never thought that Zhou Ruolin's daughter died.

"After my husband was knocked unconscious by us, I rushed over to hug my daughter. Who knows, she was out of breath at the time. She was not in good health, and she was abused by him like that, so...leaved me... ..."

Zhou Ruolin's voice was crying, and her whole body was trembling. Although her emotions were on the verge of collapse, she still tried her best to suppress herself so that she could tell all this completely.

Wan Pengfei looked at Zhou Ruolin, and stopped eating meat, his eyes filled with sympathy.

"The moment I knew my daughter would leave me forever, I went crazy. I frantically went to beat my husband who fainted. I was so angry that I was heartbroken. I strangled his neck. I wanted to kill him...but , Zhou Yao stopped me and said, he is dead..."

Zhou Ruolin's story is indeed very sad, but as a policeman, Ji Cheng can't just see the emotional part of this story. What he wants to get is not this touching story, but something about this case. some useful clues.

"So, how did you meet the trial?"