traces of all things

"Brother Dali, when will I grow up?"

"It's so boring to study and work part-time when you grow up."

"No, when I grow up, I will marry you. Every day will be very interesting."

A little girl with shofar braids and a dark-skinned, tiger-headed little boy sat on the edge of the field together. The little girl took out a piece of candy wrapped in colored paper from her pocket and stuffed it to the little boy. The little boy smiled happily and gave it three times. Wu Di Er peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth, muttering, "You are really my good wife!"

"You hate it!"

As the sun sets, two small figures chase and fight on the ridge of the field, and the joyful laughter spreads far away.

"Later, A Ping changed." Li Dali stared blankly at the front, tears were still streaming from the corners of his eyes, as if he forgot to turn off the faucet after being turned on, but his voice was still clear without any choking : "I told her that I don't need her to make that money. I raised her, but Aping refused to listen. Every time I went to KTV to find her, I could see her with different men. She wouldn't let me in. She is only willing to see me at the back door quietly, maybe because I am incapable and shameless, the men who are with her are all richer than me, and there is a big boss who drives a good car..."

"Later, Ah Ping was beaten by the wife of the poor family, her face was swollen, and she came to me crying, saying that she regretted it and lived a good life with me in the future. How could I be willing to let her cry? But within two months, Ah Ping felt sick and went to the hospital, only to find out that she was pregnant with a child. She didn't come back that night, and I knew that she went to find that boss again..."

Li Dali wrote a very long confession transcript, rambling as if he wanted to tell all the love-hate relationship between him and A Ping in detail. When he died of her details, he suddenly cried out.

"That day, I saw A Ping sleeping on the bed, wearing pajamas, hugging her stomach. I hated it! I didn't know what I was thinking, so I climbed onto the bed and put my hand on her neck... her neck It was so thin, I just pinched it lightly, and she stopped moving... I didn't want A Ping to be buried alone on the mountain, so I placed her in the pond on the wasteland behind my house, As soon as I opened the window in the kitchen, I could see... I'm sorry for Aping! I'm sorry for our baby! Police officer, please kill me!"

Lu Zheng shook his head, and walked out of the interrogation room through the side door with a heavy heart.

The interrogation room in Dayu County is not well soundproofed, and Li Dali's heart-piercing howls can still be heard when the door is closed.

Tang Shaoyuan was standing outside the door with a long and thin cigarette between the index finger and middle finger of his right hand. Hearing Lu Zheng's footsteps, he raised his eyelids and turned his head, slowly exhaling the cigarette.

White smoke rose densely, and with his posture leaning against the wall, it was like a model taking a hard photo.

"Brother, do you want one?"

"Thanks, I don't smoke."

Lu Zheng dragged a chair over and sat down next to Tang Shaoyuan, pressing his index finger on his temple, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Seeing this, Tang Shaoyuan immediately reached for a glass ashtray on the table in front of him, put out the remaining cigarette butts in it, got up and opened the window again.

The cool night breeze blowing in from the window made Lu Zheng's heavy head a lot lighter. He raised his eyes to look at the expensive-looking white cigarette in the ashtray in front of him, and found that half of it was still unburned.

"Prodigal son." He said with a smile.

The corners of Tang Shaoyuan's mouth curled up slightly, he dragged a stool and sat down, tilted his body and put his head on the brown-red tabletop, quietly looking in Lu Zheng's direction without blinking his eyes.

"After so many days of tossing around, it's finally over." Lu Zheng drank his saliva and narrowed his eyes: "We don't have anything to do with the rest."

"Brother has been out for so many days, won't sister-in-law complain?" Tang Shaoyuan rubbed his face against the table, asking casually, seemingly a little casually.

After hearing this, Lu Zheng shook his head: "I'm single, where is my sister-in-law from? Why, do you want a girlfriend?"

Tang Shaoyuan's face turned reddish, as if he was embarrassed: "I... haven't been in a relationship yet."

I don't know where this sentence hit Lu Zheng's laughter again. He couldn't help laughing out loud before he swallowed down his mouthful of water. He coughed while laughing, until the corners of his eyes became red and a tear dripped out: " Cough cough—I'm sorry Shao Yuan, I'm not kidding you."

"It's okay." Tang Shaoyuan lowered his head and took out a napkin and handed it over. Lu Zheng rubbed the corners of his eyes and nose with the paper, not noticing Tang Shaoyuan's straight eyes in front of him.

**

After Li Dali identified the scene, a group of people bid farewell to Captain Fan Xinyu and drove back to the provincial capital.

Working overtime for many days in a row, even Wei Xiongfeng, who was the youngest and most energetic, was a bit overwhelmed.It's not too early to return to the provincial capital, it's time for dinner.With a wave of his hand, Geng Zhizhong decided to invite a group of people to eat hot pot at his own expense.

The five prohibitions do not allow criminal police to drink alcohol during work hours, but now it is off-duty time and there is no need to worry about it. A big case has just been concluded here, and Geng Zhizhong and Wei Xiongfeng, two alcoholics who have endured for many days, naturally open a few bottles of Yanjing happily. .Especially Wei Xiongfeng, who directly discarded the glasses provided by the store, took two bottles of cold beer and knocked them mouth to mouth in a skillful way that didn't fit his two-dimensional shape.

The two bottle caps fell with a "poof", and the mouth of the bottle was full of delicate foam.

Wei Xiongfeng stuffed a bottle to Boss Geng, and took the remaining bottle and blew on the mouth of the bottle first: "It's cool!"

"Shao Yuan, too?" Geng Zhizhong gestured with a smile on his face.

"No." Tang Shaoyuan covered the mouth of the cup with his fingers. Lu Zheng noticed that his fingers were fair and slender, very beautiful, a bit like the hands of a piano player: "Today, I will drink some sour plum soup with my brother."

"Since Xiaolu came, Shao Yuan has abandoned me. He used to call 'Boss' and 'Boss' wherever he went, but now he goes 'Senior Brother' and 'Senior Brother' everywhere!" Geng Zhizhong laughed loudly. Laughing, he took half a sip of the glass: "You superficial young people, you only know how to look at faces!"

Wei Xiongfeng clinked glasses with Geng Zhizhong, gagging: "Boss, you are wrong, we young people not only look at the face, but also look at the connotation!"

Geng Zhizhong was even more happy when he saw this: "Okay, very good! Shao Yuan and Daxiong, you have the opportunity to learn more from your team leader. As criminal police, professional knowledge is very important, and practical experience is even more important. Although you two are professional It’s not trace inspection, but there is no end to learning, and many of the things that solve the case are common.”

Seeing this, Lu Zheng quickly waved his hands and said a few words of humility, and under Geng Zhizhong's teasing, he also drank half a cup of sour plum soup.

A few big men eat hot pot without considering the issue of balanced nutrition and the combination of meat and vegetables.What's more, these few days in Dayu, the few people are only focused on solving the case and have no time to eat seriously. Sometimes they get busy, and the aunts in the cafeteria of the Public Security Bureau are off work, so they can only eat some sauerkraut and braised beef to satisfy their hunger. After being hungry for several days, I naturally stared at the meat.

On the big plate, thinly sliced ​​snow-white and bright red fat beef and lamb slices were dropped into the pot. When the meat was ready, several people began to adjust the sauce. Lu Zheng just dug out a spoonful of sesame sauce. I saw Tang Shaoyuan on the left holding a small jar, pouring half a bowl of sesame oil into the small bowl in front of him.

"Shao Yuan, what's your way of eating?"

Seeing Lu Zheng's curious expression, Geng Zhizhong smiled and said, "I've never eaten authentic Sichuan hot pot when I saw our road. Shao Yuan's hometown is in Sichuan Province, and he always dips hot pot in oil."

"Hey, I didn't see it!" Lu Zheng opened his eyes wide and was taken aback: "Shao Yuan's accent sounds no different from that of a local in Province A."

Tang Shaoyuan bent his eyes: "I only stayed in Sichuan Province until the second year of junior high school, and then I came to province A to go to school. I can be regarded as half a local."

"Our Tang Shaoyuan is a university bully." Wei Xiongfeng said with his tongue out. He is good at wine, but unfortunately it is not a huge amount. After two bottles, he is already a little dizzy. At this time, he has lost his mind. The eye-catching Tang Shaoyuan blew a rainbow fart: "The high school attached to the Normal University is the top [-] in the grade!"

The High School Affiliated to Normal University in the provincial capital is the best school in Province A. It is well-known throughout the country. Every year, Qingbei re-examination combined can admit six NO.70 people, and it can be in the top [-] of the High School Affiliated to Normal University. It is really a top student. up.

"The High School Affiliated to Normal University?" Lu Zheng was even more surprised: "What a coincidence, I am also from the High School Affiliated to Normal University. Which class is Shao Yuan from?"

"The 06rd session."

"Hey, it's a pity. I'm in the 02 class. I graduated when you enrolled."

"Not necessarily." Tang Shaoyuan turned his head to look at Lu Zheng, his eyes gleamed through the lens, and he seemed a little hesitant to talk under the dim light: "When I transferred, I was in the High School Attached to Normal University I studied in the junior high school, the brother should have not graduated at that time, right? Maybe we met somewhere in the school."

"Probably not." Lu Zheng took a sip of sour plum soup, sweet and sour, which is his favorite taste: "A handsome guy like Shao Yuan must be a famous person in school. If I have seen it, how could I not?" impression."

"That's right." Tang Shaoyuan lowered his head and smiled but didn't answer.

The four of them devoured the dishes they ordered to the fullest, and after they were full, they paid the bill and left the hot pot restaurant.

A white car with flashing lights was parked in front of the store. Seeing them walk in, a gentle woman smiled and waved at them from the windshield.At this time, the window of the co-pilot was rolled down "buzzing", and a short-haired girl with big round eyes yelled, "Dad!"

"Ouch, my big baby! Why did you come to pick up Dad?"

When Boss Geng saw his beloved daughter, he lost his mind in an instant, and got into the back seat of the car in a daze with a silly father's smile on his face.

Geng Zhizhong's wife in the driver's seat smiled and asked her daughter Panpan to call someone, and asked them if they would like to ride back together.Wei Xiongfeng lived in the community opposite the Provincial Office, and Lu Zheng rode a bicycle by himself, so he declined her proposal.

After Geng Zhizhong's family's car drove away, Wei Xiongfeng also returned home step by step, leaving only Lu Zheng and Tang Shaoyuan at the bright door of the hotpot restaurant.

"It's going to rain." Tang Shaoyuan said suddenly.

"Huh? No..."

Before Lu Zheng finished speaking, he saw that the sky seemed to have a hole suddenly, and countless raindrops fell down.

"It's a shower, it will stop soon, let's wait here for a while." Tang Shaoyuan suggested.

The two stood at the door and waited for the rain. It was already getting late, but now that it rained heavily, the sky was even more black and cloudy, like a pot of ink poured into a lake, and countless ink flowers bloomed, and those petals became bigger and bigger , gradually became ferocious, covering the last gap in the sky.

Lu Zheng watched in a daze, until the last ray of sunlight was engulfed by the black cloud, and then he moved his eyes away in a still unsatisfied way.

There is a light at the entrance of the hotpot restaurant, the light is warm and bright yellow, under the light, Tang Shaoyuan straightened his back and was silently looking in his direction, when he saw his eyes move over, he was taken aback, turned his head quickly, and As if suddenly remembering something, he covered the top of his head with his hands.

"What's the matter, Shao Yuan?"

If he didn't cover it, it would be more conspicuous with such a movement of his hand. Lu Zheng looked up at the few locks of hair protruding from between his fingers. His sharp eyes that belonged to the trace made him keenly aware of Tang Shaoyuan's hair suddenly It's changed.

……What's happening here.

Tang Shaoyuan immediately showed an embarrassed expression when he heard the words, and took off his hand a little self-defeating, revealing a fluffy curly hair, like a puppy.

Lu Zheng: ...Pfft.

"Actually...cough, I used to be naturally curly. I went to the barber shop to straighten it before, but every time it's about to rain, my hair will suddenly curl back." Tang Shaoyuan was so embarrassed that his ears and neck curled up. All stained red.

Lu Zheng looked at his curly hair, it was indeed a little more fluffy than usual, but he didn't think such hair was ugly, and even a little cute, so he looked at it with a smile: "We Shaoyuan people are very handsome. Handsome, any hairstyle looks good."

Tang Shaoyuan's face suddenly turned redder inexplicably, and his earlobe seemed to be bleeding.

After laughing, Lu Zheng seemed to remember some vague things again: "It seems that I have seen someone with such a head of hair before——ah, I am old, so I can't remember clearly."

Tang Shaoyuan stared blankly at his smile, and suddenly felt his chest burning.

The most annoying rainy day on weekdays has become lovely.

**

At the corner on one side of the road, there was a black car parked there quietly. The headlights were not turned on, but the wipers kept moving, like a beast dormant in the dark.

"What did you see, Chengye?" A strong and warm arm wrapped around the young man's shoulder, and a string of beautiful colorful swallow tattoos on his forearm was exposed to the dim light, and he was about to fly: "Why do you suddenly let me parking?"

The young man had been staring at the two people who were shrouded in the dark rain curtain and the bright lights of the hot pot restaurant. Hearing this, he suddenly came back to his senses and turned his head to look to the left.

"It's nothing, Brother Yan." He said casually, "I just want to eat hot pot all of a sudden."

"You can't be greedy today." The man in the driver's seat laughed loudly and pinched him on the waist.

The young man patted the man's arm unhappily, turned his head away, and at an angle that the man couldn't see, there was a hint of inquiry in his indifferent expression.

Volume [-] Dolls