A charming and dangerous character

Because it had just snowed outside, on the day of the winter solstice, Cheng Ye left work early and returned home from the police station.

And since Cheng Ye and his parents explained the identities of Qiu Chuyi and Qiu Chuchu last time, Ms. Cui Xiuli's attitude towards the young father and daughter has become as warm as sunshine and as gentle as spring breeze—especially towards Qiu Chuyi. Chu Chu, that attitude almost made a 180-degree turn.

She looked at the lively, cute, sensible and well-behaved little girl, and the smile on the corner of her mouth always reached her eyes.Ms. Cui really likes children, and she wishes Cheng Ye could marry on the spot so that she can give birth to a grandson or granddaughter, and she can help take care of her.

But it's a pity that it was precisely because Cheng Ye couldn't do this that his mother sent him to buy green onions when he returned home that night without even hearing a word of greetings.

Qiu Chuchu, who was sitting in the living room watching cartoons, heard the sound of Cheng Ye opening the door to go out, and her deer-like eyes immediately looked at the door.Cheng Ye just put on his shoes at the moment, and when he stood up, he was keenly aware of the little girl's attention.

"Want to go out?" So Cheng Ye asked her.

Although Qiu Chuchu kept staring at the crack where the door was embedded, but then thought of her father's entrustment not to let her go out casually, the little girl still shook her head against her heart—even though the unhappiness was about to overflow her little face .

Cheng Ye naturally saw the little girl's disobedience, but as a principled adult, he couldn't always indulge and spoil the child.So, Cheng Ye asked Qiu Chuyi beside him.

"Mr. Qiu, your little girl's face is almost on the ground! Would you like to let her go out to play with me?" Cheng Ye automatically filtered Qiu Chuchu's glaring, and said with a smile: "She is not an adult. Well, if you let children out at this age regularly, they will go crazy if they stay at home all the time!"

In fact, Qiu Chuyi also found out about Qiu Chuchu's abnormalities - for example, she can't concentrate all the time, and she likes to look out of the window when she has nothing to do.Originally, she was like a chirping bird, but these days she suddenly turned into a silent and listless cat.

So after hearing Cheng Ye's proposal, he was beyond the expectation of the two people present, and readily agreed: "Okay." And he also got up, went to the entrance and changed his clothes: "Then let's go out for a walk together." Bar."

But before the three of them went out, Cheng Ye's mother ran out of the kitchen, took out a brand new down jacket from the closet at the side, and handed it to Cheng Ye: "Yezi, listen to your mother, wear this Get out. Don't change for a few days!"

Cheng Ye looked at the bright red down jacket stuffed into his hand, which could only be worn in the year of birth. He pointed to his face and asked Ms. Cui helplessly: "Mom, do you think I look very festive, like a girl?" Is it a New Year picture doll?"

"What nonsense!" Ms. Cui slapped Cheng Ye directly on the head, and reprimanded sharply: "I tell you to wear it and you wear it. Where are you talking so much? And if you really like New Year picture dolls, then get married quickly." Give me a baby too! I promise to dress him up beautifully, prettier than the doll in the painting!"

Cheng Ye couldn't hear his mother mentioning this, so when Ms. Cui just said "marriage", he took the other two and hurried away from home.

Downstairs in the community there is a small supermarket owned by an individual. Although the number of categories is not as diverse as that of a large supermarket, it is still well prepared such as daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, fruits and vegetables.

The distance from the downstairs of Cheng Ye's house to the small supermarket is less than 100 meters, and the reason why Qiu Chuyi agreed to Cheng Ye's proposal is also based on the consideration that the distance is not long.

After Qiu Chuchu walked out of the unit door, although Qiu Chuyi put on a heavy down jacket and carefully covered her face with a scarf, this did not stop her from being like a bloated little penguin in the Run around in this vast outdoor space.

And after the two adults bought the green onions that Ms. Cui needed, they didn't have any communication with each other. They just stood there side by side, quietly watching the chubby little girl not far away jumping happily in the snow, laughing wantonly.

Perhaps they themselves have never noticed that they should still have a deep nostalgia for the carefree youth who seem to be able to squander at will.

Qiu Chuchu specially ran to a remote location in the community to build a snowman, but soon, she forgot about the unformed snowman's head in her hand, just like a kitten fishing, she was attracted by the noise from a certain corner.

Just when the little girl stretched her head to look at the corner, wanting to see what those big brothers surrounded, the two adults who had been standing behind her had a clear view of the situation in the corner.

"Chuchu—" Qiu Chuyi quickly walked towards the little girl and stretched out her hands: "Come to my side, there is danger there, don't look there."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Chuchu obediently turned her eyes back to her father.Then, while approaching her father, the little girl "innocently and well-behaved" reported to him: "But Dad, why did Uncle Cheng run to watch the excitement knowing that it was dangerous?"

At this time, Qiu Chuyi turned his head and looked to the side again, and sure enough, Cheng Ye, who "likes to join in the fun" beside him, had disappeared.

Not far away, there is a small red dot that is moving fast between the snowy sky and the ground.

Cheng Ye yelled at the group of hairy youths who were beating someone in the middle: "Hey! What are you doing there? No matter how old you are, you will know that there is a crowd fighting, right?"

Hearing Cheng Ye's shout, one of the young men immediately stretched out his hand to signal the others to pause - obviously, this person was the leader of the team.

Cheng Ye also revealed his identity to them at this time: "I am a policeman! You all break up with me quickly and honestly, or you will all be arrested and taken to the police station in a while!"

But the young man in charge didn't show the slightest expression of fear.He stared at Cheng Ye, who was gradually approaching them, kicked the boy lying in the middle again, and spat on the ground: "...There is only one, why are you so cowardly?"

The young man even grinned, and said to his companions sinisterly: "If you can still beat this policeman honestly, I will ask my uncle to give you promotions and extra money!"

So in the next second, Cheng Ye saw the group of fighting youths surrounding him again, and the surprised expression on his face showed that he did not expect that these young people in their early twenties were not afraid of the police.

If they really obeyed the phrase "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers", these children are so bold that they dared to attack the police in broad daylight!

However, Cheng Ye is also an "old fritter" at the grassroots level, and he has not been beaten or scolded once or twice, so Cheng Ye was not intimidated by the crowd in front of him. Welcome up!

But Qiu Chuyi, who had been standing at the back all the time, suddenly felt inexplicably familiar with the scene ahead - because the first meeting between him and Cheng Ye seemed to be the scene of Cheng Ye fighting with more than one enemy.

He couldn't help but sigh deeply: Why do you always encounter such things after meeting Cheng Ye?

However, after carefully analyzing the current situation—there are about eight or nine opponents, and all of them are young and powerful young people—feeling that Cheng Ye's chances of winning a single battle are not high, he had no choice but to tell Qiu Chuchu: "Stay here obediently." , don't rely on it."

Then he took off the cashmere scarf around Qiu Chuchu's neck, half-wrapped his face cautiously, and immediately joined the chaotic chaos in front of him like a leopard.

When Cheng Ye, who was being besieged by everyone, saw Qiu Chuyi, he stiffened and took a sap, and subconsciously exclaimed: "Why are you here! Are you going to come here again to be beaten?"

After finishing speaking, he immediately shook his head and said strangely, "Eh? How did I say 'again'?"

Then, they suddenly remembered the time they fought side by side under similar circumstances ten years ago, and the two also looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

It's hard to walk alone, hard to sing with one hand.

The two of them were no longer impulsive teenagers, but now they unexpectedly felt their long-lost vigor in this scuffle.

The situation on the scene also ended the battle ahead of time because of Qiu Chuyi's joining.The two quickly drove away the group of gangsters, but the boy who was lying on the ground and beaten also disappeared along with those people.

In the end, there are only bloodstains left on the embarrassing snow-maybe after another snow, these traces will be completely buried.

Although Qiu Chuyi and the others had no hope of gaining anything by helping others, the two who had just done "good deeds" did not expect that the objects of help would disappear so quickly.

However, these are little things.

The two squatted on the ground with their knees bent, and because the outside temperature was very low, a series of white breaths were quickly exhaled from their mouths.

"Your physical fitness is pretty good, and you've maintained it pretty well." Cheng Ye wiped the sweat from his brow, turned to Qiu Chuyi, raised his eyebrows and said, "It seems that 'the sword is not old'!" It was just his tone It sounds like a compliment, but it also seems to be a bit of a joke about the age of the other party.

But when Qiu Chuyi heard this, he calmed down his breath, and just smiled slightly: "Is my physical fitness good? Is it old or not—" Just as he was speaking, he also suddenly looked to the side: "I think , you should have been very clear last time."

Although Cheng Ye knew that Qiu Chuyi's words were referring to the fight between the two at the back of Yuying Middle School, but he was no longer a pure boy, and at this moment he couldn't help flashing many images of the eighteen bans in his mind.

Forcing himself to clean up all the sex scenes in his imagination, Cheng Ye coughed unnaturally.

And Qiu Chuyi next to him naturally couldn't know what he was thinking, so he just smiled at him like he did many years ago-but this smile was obviously more sincere and more heartfelt.

When the two adults finally returned home, Ms. Cui Xiuli's dumplings had already been cooked and served on the table.

Ms. Cui was still wearing an apron, and she was sitting on the sofa beside her at the moment watching a certain TV program.And when she heard that Cheng Ye and the others had finally come back from outside, she immediately called her husband to come over for dinner from the bedroom, and then deliberately said loudly: "Yezi, what's going on? Are you out to buy onions, or are you planting onions?" ?”

"Chuchu saw a snowman on the road just now, and I really like it." Cheng Ye immediately put all the responsibility on Qiu Chuchu, because he knew that he was definitely not as high as a child in the eyes of his mother: " The two of us brought it back after talking about it, otherwise we would never go home."

As soon as the words fell, Cheng Ye immediately received a double stare of "death" from Qiu Chuchu and Cui Xiuli - but fortunately, Qiu Chuchu had a rare cooperation this time, and he was very magnanimous in not exposing Cheng Ye's lies in person.

But when she saw the bright black marks on Cheng Ye's festive red down jacket, Ms. Cui made another attack and asked sharply, "Yezi, what did you do with the back of your clothes! Why are there so many black marks?"

Cui Xiuli immediately patted the stains on the down jacket with her hands, trying to save them, but unfortunately those black marks are very stubborn, and it is scary that they cannot be removed so easily.

Then Ms. Cui held the red down jacket in her arms, as if she saw a poor child who died at birth, sat on the sofa annoyed and angrily, pointed her hand at Cheng Ye's nose and reprimanded: "You Why is the child still exactly the same as when I was a child? The clothes must be dirty for me the first day I put them on, right?!"

"This is a new one I bought for you not long ago! And the master said that you can get 'good luck' if you wear it, but it cost me a lot of money!"

Only then did Cheng Ye know the origin of this dress - he didn't know if it would attract peach blossoms, anyway, wearing this color on the street was quite eye-catching.

But he also knew that it would be useless to talk too much at this moment, so he had to turn his back to the sky and make a face.Cheng Ye began to ask everyone to eat quickly: "Dad, Mom! Hurry up, eat, eat! The dumplings should be cold in a while!"

I don't know how Cheng Ye ate that night. Anyway, Ms. Cui only ate two dumplings and put down her chopsticks. Afterwards, she went back to the room angrily, sulking with her "unappreciative" son.

After the meal, when the three returned to the opposite room, Cheng Ye saw Qiu Chuyi go to coax Qiu Chuchu to sleep, and after he came out of the room, Cheng Ye invited him to drink on the balcony.

The temperature outside was still very low. Although the two of them were standing on the balcony and were blown by the cold wind, a feeling of alcohol slowly crept into Cheng Ye's heart.

"Aren't you going to coax your mother?" Qiu Chuyi spoke first, and he asked Cheng Ye.

Cheng Ye smiled and said, "Hey, you still remember this! Don't worry about my mother, she is in menopause, it's okay--and, even if I went to ask her to apologize, it would definitely be useless!"

He looked at Qiu Chuyi beside him, and the corners of his mouth were still smirking like in the past, but now he seemed a little more helpless: "The only one who can completely 'coax' my mother is me!" Get married and have a baby."

The air suddenly became silent, and the atmosphere between the two became a little weird.After Cheng Ye finished speaking, he lowered his head and stopped looking at Qiu Chuyi, just drinking in a muffled voice.

But soon, he took the initiative to ask again: "By the way, what's the matter with you, that female high school student—Amber?"

Xu thought that Qiu Chuyi had knocked him to the ground because of her before, and Cheng Ye deliberately asked, "When did you meet her?"

In fact, he still wanted to ask where the two "progressed", but after thinking about it carefully, he was afraid of being beaten, so he simply didn't ask.

However, based on Cheng Ye's rising tone at the end, Qiu Chuyi heard the overtones hidden by him.So he smiled slightly, and his voice suddenly became more relaxed: "We are just ordinary friends."

He explained to Cheng Ye again: "But she gave me a painting before, you should have seen it too, it hangs opposite the Taoist gate of my home in S City."

Cheng Ye immediately remembered the huge abstract oil painting depicting a family of three, and immediately asked, "Did you invite her to paint for the three of you at home?"

Although he didn't know much about art, he somehow felt that the painting was very vivid: "It felt like the people in the painting were alive. I was shocked when I first saw it."

"No, that painting was given to me privately by Amber after she finished it at school."

Hearing this, Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand the meaning of Qiu Chuyi's words.

However, he soon returned to his usual appearance, only thinking of the knife wound on Qiu Chuyi's stomach, Cheng Ye asked again: "Since you knew each other before, why did she stab you with a knife... ..."

Because in his opinion, since Amber was able to take the initiative to send Qiu Chuyi's painting, at least it showed that Amber's attitude towards him was still friendly at that time.

Qiu Chuyi still smiled and replied: "Yes, Amber probably hates me too."

Cheng Ye immediately recognized Qiu Chuyi's pun, and instantly understood the real reason for Amber's change of attitude.

Therefore, Cheng Ye no longer brought up this topic.

But feeling that there was too much silence between the two of them, he took another sip of wine, casually picked up a topic for a few days and said, "Tell me, where did that kid go in the afternoon?"

"I don't know." In fact, when Cheng Ye spoke, Qiu Chuyi immediately smelled the strong smell of alcohol coming from around him.So he asked, "Are you drunk?"

Of course it was impossible for Cheng Ye to admit it, not to mention that he was indeed not drunk, this little beer was nothing to him at all.He just wanted to stay with Qiu Chuyi like this, even if it was just chatting.

So he said again: "Do you feel that the fight in the afternoon was very similar to the one we had ten years ago—"

As soon as he mentioned the past experience, Cheng Ye felt his whole body energized, and he was full of passion for life again: "That's right, it's not far from here."

Qiu Chuyi tilted his head and looked at his chattering friend. Although he didn't answer, his eyes were shining brightly, obviously reminding him of that unforgettable childhood.

"Do you think my appearance back then was an established event, or was it just an accident like this afternoon?"

This time Qiu Chuyi opened his mouth, but he didn't say it directly, but asked instead: "What do you think?"

After Cheng Ye asked himself a chuckle, he didn't answer the question for a long time.

But now that they were talking about their past, Cheng Ye suddenly remembered something, which was something he had been curious about since he was a student.So, he took the opportunity to ask: "Hey, do you still remember that in my first year of high school, there was a girl who confessed to you but was rejected by you in the end, and she started to smear you?"

He turned over and leaned against the railing behind him, picked up the wine bottle in his hand and took a sip of wine, and said jokingly: "As expected of our autumn senior, he already has an unparalleled 'charm' at a young age !"

Qiu Chuyi raised his head when he heard the words, and found that scattered snow suddenly began to fall from the sky above the two of them.

He replied in his heart, but he would rather he never had that "charismatic" characteristic that brought him countless troubles.

"Do you remember who that girl is?" Cheng Ye was curious about the girl's real identity back then, but unfortunately, he didn't find the girl back then.

And he also remembered that at that time, apart from the rumors about Qiu Chuyi spreading throughout the school, the girl at the center of the topic never seemed to exist, and no one knew who she was.

This made Cheng Ye think of the victim of "Eleventh Two", Jiang Nanxi - after this woman transformed into Jiang Nanxi, she was completely separated from Shi Xiang's identity, and she was the one who was hidden behind the scandal back then. Girls have similarities.

At this moment, Qiu Chuyi imitated Cheng Ye and leaned his back on the railing, and the snowflakes fell on the faces of the two of them, but the cold iron metal texture from behind also awakened him that had been hidden in his heart for a long time. secret.

So, he also laughed, and turned his head to confide in a rare person: "It's Amber."

"It's just that it's amber."

at the same time.

The police archives are only a few kilometers away from the new district of City D.

The incandescent lamp overhead that had not been turned on for a long time was finally lit at this moment.

Under the dim yellow light, Song Zhengrong stood at the door against the light, his shadow was silently reflected on the ground by the light from above, as if the past time was stretched lonely and long.

But the policeman who was in charge of the archives room next to him seemed a little nervous because he couldn't see the true expression on Deputy Director Song's face.

He couldn't help but squeezed the key in his hand, and asked in a low voice: "Deputy Song, are you here to find some urgent materials this late at night? Perhaps, I can help you..."

But before the person finished asking, Song Zhengrong didn't seem to hear it, nor did he respond as usual.

He just walked quickly through the rows of bookshelves in the room as if no one else was there, countless dust was flying under his feet, and finally he came to a relatively rear position in the room.

But he still stood quietly in front of that row of shelves for a long time. Just when the archivist was worried that there was something wrong with Deputy Song, Song Zhengrong slowly stretched out his right hand——

But this time, he didn't hesitate at all and very accurately found the sealed document marked "199X Autumn Jian Rape Case" on the row of shelves in front of him.

This is also the first time in many years that Song Zhengrong wants to fully present the memory that he dare not face directly in front of his eyes.

After removing the sealed documents from the shelf, a large amount of dust, light and those lost memories rushed towards him like a tide.

And the motivation for his behavior was all because of a few days ago.

When Song Zhengrong came out of the prison hospital again, he thought of Qiu Jian who was still in the same situation, Qiu Chuyi who became a suspect, and Jiang Nanxi, Amber and others who were murdered—the time nodes of all cases happened at the same time. After Qiu Jian was accused of sexual assault, and everything revolved around Ye Tianchi—the two cases seemed unrelated, but in fact they were inextricably linked.

Therefore, Song Zhengrong finally made up his mind to find out the real relationship between the "[-]" murder case and the rape case that year.

And just when Song Zhengrong bent his knees and squatted down, quickly flipping through all the files of the year beside the bookshelf, the administrator came over cautiously again, and asked in an even more cautious tone: "Where do you want to see?" Part of the information? I can really help you find it together, I'm not busy right now..."

He watched Song Zhengrong's gradually gloomy face. Although he was afraid in his heart, he still tried to muster up the courage to see Song Fuchu's subordinates spare no effort to turn over the pages, and said, "Well, you...won't you turn over these things more slowly? They are all 'old things', very easy to tear..."

But this time he couldn't finish his sentence.

Because in the next second, he found that Song Zhengrong's eyes were fixed on a certain yellowed page, and he didn't turn the page after a long time.

As a senior administrator of the police archives room, he is very familiar with Song Zhengrong's slightly pursed lips and non-stop rolling eyes-because the police officers who came to check the information before found what they wanted When you ask for something, you always have this expression on your face.

He looked in the direction Song Zhengrong was staring at, and found that what Deputy Director Song was staring at was a picture of a girl!

I saw that the girl in the photo looked pretty and charming, with bright eyes and sparkling eyes, but there seemed to be undried tears on her face, her white teeth were biting her lips tightly, and her expression didn't look happy.

What's even more impressive is that even though the girl pursed her lips, there was a slightly deep ridge on the top of the girl's face. Immediately afterwards, the administrator continued to look down and found a line of notes written under the photo:

"The whistleblower of the Qiu Jian case (and one of the victims), a freshman at Deming High School, Amber."

And the next volume will continue to recall the past, and most of the mysteries will be revealed!

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