daytime firefly

When Qi Jingyi turned off the car, Xu Zhi unfastened his seat belt and stopped suddenly, "You go back first, I will call you."

Qi Jingyi thought he had misheard, "What is it that you want to come back in such a hurry?"

"I'll report back to you when I find the answer, please come back soon." Xu Zhi said, got out of the car, and went straight to the lobby on the first floor.

Xu Zhi has become a little stranger recently, he seems to do everything in a hurry, and his spirit has improved a lot. Qi Jingyi's car stopped in place for a few minutes, and only waited for people to come in and out of the gate before slowly driving away. .

After Xu Zhi entered the room, he opened the drawer of the shoe cabinet before he could go to the room to see the little bitch, took out the homework book from inside, and just stood behind the door and flipped through the pages again.

Wrong question, wrong question, still wrong question, wrong answer, unconstrained style, Liu Xintong must be protesting, Xu Zhi boldly thought, protesting against everything that hurt her before Zhang Dingquan's case happened.

"looking at what."

As soon as Zhou Jianming's voice came out, Xu Zhi still shivered in fright, then covered his homework book to his chest, closed his eyes, "Why are you walking so silently!"

Zhou Jianming looked down at his feet. He didn't wear slippers, and stepped on the floor with bare feet. Naturally, he fell silent, "I..."

Xu Zhi also saw it, sighed, and took a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet, "Come here."

Zhou Jianming walked over, and Xu Zhi bent down and put the slippers at his feet, "Your grandfather knows Chinese medicine, didn't you teach you how to be cold from the feet?"

Zhou Jianming didn't answer again, and took the homework book from his arms when he straightened up.

"Hey, give it back to me!" Xu Zhi went to grab it, but Zhou Jianming locked him in his arms like a one-handed fighting style.

It's just that he just glanced at it and lost interest. He took someone to the sofa, sat down and returned the book to him. Xu Zhi didn't make a sound for a long time. , after breathing heavily, Xu Zhi kicked Zhou Jianming hard, "You can kill me!"

Then he put the homework on the coffee table, and squatted down in front of the coffee table to read it again. Zhou Jianming was sitting beside him, neither disturbing nor leaving.

Xu Zhi glanced at him from time to time. When he was young, he flipped through the homework and said, "Do you know about Liu Xintong's case?"

"Suicide." Zhou Jianming said.

"Yo, you really know," Xu Zhi said, "Then do you know why she committed suicide?"

Zhou Jianming didn't speak for more than half a minute. Xu Zhi felt that he had nothing to say. How could Zhou Jianming guess the reason for such a thing? Just when Xu Zhi was about to change the subject, he heard him suddenly ask——

"Why did you want to commit suicide that day?"

"Uh, me," it's boring, boring, and not thinking about it, Xu Zhi recalled that those few days were really just such simple thoughts.

Before Xu Zhi could piece together a complete sentence, Zhou Jianming leaned forward, put his elbows on his thighs, looked at him with his head down, and said, "People who commit suicide all have the same idea."

After thinking about it, Xu Zhi didn't refute for a while, and finally turned his eyes away, flipped through the homework book in his hand, and continued to think wildly in his heart, wondering if this little bitch is a fool...

It was also at this time that he flipped the book over and over again, and there were a few spots of ink passing by. Xu Zhi thought he was confused, so he picked it up again and shuffled it like a gust of wind, and finally fell leisurely on the last few pages of the homework book. The page is full of words, one paragraph at a time, and each paragraph has a date. What makes Xu Zhi feel weirder than the text is that there are obvious tear marks on the bottom of the fourth-to-last page, which Zhou Jianming also saw. , whispered behind him, "Is this page torn off?"

This time Xu Zhi was silent, because his eyes fell on the first paragraph of the penultimate page...

[Morning self-study is late again, the weather is cold, the pain is more than usual, I can't walk, if the school is an orphanage, it will be fine, at this time, the teacher will be off work, the students don't have to go home, I can I have been doing problems in the classroom. 】——2015.3.25

[Luo Xiaowei gave me a piece of chocolate today, white one, he said it was not bitter, he smiled at me stupidly, his nose was still running down, seeing him like this, I didn't say I didn't want to eat it. 】——2015.3.28

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[Why doesn't the school arrange classes for weekends... Who invented weekends? I really want to kill the person who invented weekends! ...Killing him is useless, then kill me...]——2015.4.6

【He stinks, really stinks, like the sow in grandma's house, I vomited again today, he slapped me, and my mouth became even more bitter. 】——2015.4.7

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【Liu Mingyang brought me back to his room last night. He asked how my father did it to me. I didn't say anything, and I don't have any father. 】——2015.5.16

【What to do, Mr. Gao talked about the summer vacation in class today, what to do, what to do...】——2015.5.30

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[He asked me to call him Dad, and he said that I was born to do these things for him. He was like that pig, heavy and smelly, and made me vomit all the time. I don’t know the loquat tree in the yard downstairs If he can't climb up, if he can't climb up, I want to stay on it. 】——2015.7.1

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Xu Zhi also vomited, and retched on the toilet for a long time. Zhou Jianming knelt and squatted behind him, covering his stomach with the palm of one hand, and stroking his back with the other.

Xu Zhi vomited acid reflux, and finally collapsed, leaning against Zhou Jianming's chest. The two of them didn't speak for a long time. He didn't finish the three pages, or even the first page.

In the summer of 2015, Liu Xintong should have spent a fiery and joyful summer vacation. She should have worn beautiful clothes to mingle with the children, and she should have waited at the entrance of the canteen for a male classmate to deliver her an ice cream. Her short hair would be warmed by the warm wind. The streets and alleys were filled with her melodious laughter... But none of this happened, and no one knew that for such a little girl, every day of the year was a harsh, biting winter .

Xu Zhi didn't know what kind of support he used to get out of the house. He took a taxi and went straight to the Public Security Bureau. At the gate of the bureau, he looked no different from a drunkard, so that the policeman on duty at the guard box walked towards him directly, "Sir, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Trouble, please tell Officer Ping Bo Kuanping, I am Xu Zhi, a lawyer from Xinsheng Law Firm, and I want to call the police."

"Sir, calm down first, and I will take you in."

A week later.

Jiangbei City Morning News, Jiangbei Daily and other major media newspapers reported a piece of news, and even the news anchor sighed after the broadcast——

[After the handwriting identification of the trace inspection department of the Public Security Bureau of our city, as well as the evidence of the teachers of Liu Xintong in Yikang Road Primary School, this homework is indeed Liu Xintong's own homework, and the last three pages of this homework are Liu Xintong's diary. In the diary, the tone is calm, but there is endless despair between the lines. It is hard to imagine what kind of hardships an angel who is about to rise up and who is in the best years of his life has endured in such a dark adoptive family...]

In late July, which was the hot summer of 2016, a whole year had passed, and Ping Bokuan gave Xu Zhi a photo.

"Tongtong?"

"Well, when I went to the school to investigate, their teacher took pictures, and everyone else took four or five pictures, and this child only took one."

In the photo, Liu Xintong is holding a red and blue thermos cup, smiling shyly at the camera, Xu Zhi's heart is tight, and he worked hard to let himself breathe evenly, and then put the photo in his pocket, "Officer Ping or It's very humane."

Holding the steering wheel with one hand, Ping Bokuan stopped the car opposite the gate of his community, and said to him, "I just remembered the day you came to call the police. You had a beautiful smile, maybe it can heal you."

Xu Zhi couldn't help but relax in his words, "Thank you, I'll keep it as a souvenir." After finishing speaking, he was about to get out of the car, but Ping Bokuan stopped him again——

"Has Zhou Jianming contacted you?"

Xu Zhi squeezed the corners of his mouth calmly, "No."

"We searched the place where he lived. There was a luminol reaction on the ground. DNA testing showed that the blood belonged to Li Hua. The murder weapon had not been found yet. The wasteland in the east of the city was not monitored for several kilometers, but the blood alone was enough. Applied for arrest, didn't you?"

After Xu Zhi listened carefully, his breathing calmed down without any disturbance, "Officer Ping, the police have their own procedures for handling cases. I don't know if these details are classified as case secrets. Don't worry, I'll pretend I haven't heard of them today. gone back."

Xu Zhi got out of the car, crossed the road and walked towards the gate of the community. It was not until the car behind him left that Xu Zhi went to the doorman's window, "Hey brother, has anyone adjusted the surveillance recently?"

The little brother shook his head, paused, and said again, "Oh, some time ago, the police came to ask for monitoring. On the day of No. 14, the property has arranged for someone to update the monitoring equipment."

"Oh, I got it." Xu Zhi thought about it, walked in, took a few steps, then withdrew, leaning on the window and asked, "I remember that our community just changed a batch of probes last year, why did they change again?"

"It said it was a gift from a company, and it was sent urgently, and I asked to change it quickly. I don't know the specifics."

How could it be such a coincidence... Xu Zhi walked in again, until he got into the elevator, but he didn't sort out the necessary connection here.

After the diary written by Liu Xintong at the end of the homework book revealed the true face of the adoptive family, there was another big wave on the Internet. People began to face the real purpose behind Liu Zhendong's slander, and re-examined the authenticity of Zhang Dingquan's suspected sexual assault. Once the news fermented , Xu Zhi was also rushed into the hot search.

When Xu Zhi returned home that day, he heard that a legal interview column was commenting on current hot spots.

Zhou Jianming was still shirtless, standing at the kitchen counter and cutting tomatoes. He cut tomatoes in half and cut them into four. Xu Zhi changed his shoes and came in, and he stuffed half of them into his mouth. The sour taste was almost gone. Let him swear, "I'm so sour..."

Zhou Jianming took it back and put it in his mouth.

The TV host said at this time, "Some netizens also commented that the profession of being a lawyer is really not easy. What do you think about this?"

Probably some expert, after thinking about it, "Not everyone can fully understand the nature of the profession. It is difficult to be a defense lawyer. When the audience has nothing to do, the defense lawyer is a bad person in their eyes. When things go wrong, the defense lawyers are all good people right away, Lawyer Xu is a very typical example..."

What happened later, Xu Zhi didn't listen, went back to the house to change clothes, the doorbell rang just in time, he ran out in a hurry, the door was already opened, Zhou Jianming was too tall, Xu Zhi didn't see it until he walked to the door, it was Ms. Wang Shuqin next door.

Xu Zhi calmly pulled Zhou Jianming behind him, closed the door and stood outside, with the door half-closed, he asked, "What's wrong, Auntie?"

Wang Shuqin hesitated and said, "Xiao Xu, you are so powerful, help Auntie, help Auntie to file a lawsuit, okay?"

The author says:

Liu Xintong's homework is not over yet.