winter past

It was still hot.Xia Chan was noisy in the woods, but after walking into the depths of the woods for a while, the heat faded, and the cicadas suddenly disappeared. It wasn't blown away by the wind. There is no wind in this woods, but there are many trees covering them. When the sun is out, the cicadas probably don't like these tree species that grow deep in the dense forest, nor do they like the coolness in the forest.Some poplars and elms grow together, the snow-white branches are covered with black cracks, and thin maple palmatums can be seen everywhere. Going up the mountain—climbing along the slope for a while, you can also see sporadic mountain rhododendrons in full bloom.Some are crimson pink, some are yellow, and the petals are cool to the touch.

The densely packed branches wove into a canopy, blinding the sky, and beams of light, like spotlights, leaked into the forest through the gaps in the woven lattice.

The surrounding area is very quiet, except for the sound of human footsteps can only be heard very occasionally.Sasa.A chipmunk jumped out of a pile of fallen leaves, climbed onto a broken branch of camphor that lay across the road, scrambled across it, ran up a nearby elm tree, and disappeared behind a pile of green leaves.

Moss grew on the side of the camphor that was close to the fallen leaves.The forest is covered with wet fallen leaves all year round.

Dai Rou drank the mineral water and said, "Isn't it cool?" She grabbed the mineral water bottle and drew an arc in the air, "It's very pleasant, right?"

Zhao You nodded: "It's quite pleasant."

"I come here every day to decompress." Dai Rou took a deep breath, picked up the two branches that fell on the ground, and threw them into the nearby woods.rustle rustle.Like a snake crawling through the woods.

Dai Rou pointed to a muddy car mark on the blades and said, "Sometimes people come to ride bicycles in the mountains." She bent down and squeezed some mud on her hands, and said, "It's quite new, it probably came in the morning .”

"Mountain bike." Zhao You said while looking at the tire marks and drinking water.

Dai Rou smiled: "Occupational diseases."

Zhao You also laughed, and Dai Rou asked him, "How is it? The construction of a civilized city has yielded fruitful results, right? Are you still getting used to it?"

Zhao You nodded with a smile: "Mr. Bian doesn't dislike me, so I'm grateful. I'm grateful." He looked at Dai Rou, "Director Dai is still getting used to it, right?"

Dai Rou laughed and raised her head to drink water: "Don't look at the trees, there are no mosquitoes."

"There are many camphor trees, which repel mosquitoes."

Dai Rou nodded and said, "It's pretty good, the air is good, there's a lot of greenery, and the food is good. The vegetables in the cafeteria are all grown by myself."

"That's not bad."

"right."

"What about meat dishes?"

"Free-range chickens, fighting geese, the quality of the meat is incomparable to those locked in a shed in the canteen of the city bureau." Dai Rou pointed forward: "The place where Xiao Yin and the others go is the place where I took them. There are so many fish here, I haven’t even touched a fishing rod, and I caught several fish that day.”

"What kind of fish are they?"

"There are all of them, the kind that looks like a thin blade, Qingshi saury, that kind is the most."

"That's pretty fresh."

Dai Rou took out a box of chewing gum, ate one, and handed it to Zhao You, who also took one.Dai Rou smiled and said, "There are many trees, smoking is easy to cause forest fires."

She asked Zhao You: "Do you think Cao Lv has a split personality?"

Zhao You smiled, lowered his head and said, "Who knows."

Dai Judao: "A few days ago, a nurse from the Montenegro Welfare Institute came back to the archives to look for archives. I was chatting with someone in the police station. I went over and said a few words. She said that that year, Dean Cao retired early. When he left, I took away all the photos of the children in the orphanage, saying it was a souvenir..." She looked at Zhao You again, "Don't you think it's a bit strange? Did Yao Lingdang die at that time, and he knew that Cao Lv did it, It is speculated that because Yao Lingdang and Little Apple look alike, in case someone would find something suspicious, they destroyed all the photos of Little Apple?"

Zhao You nodded: "It's a little strange."

"Look at that little apple, is it Elizabeth's interview draft? She said that Dean Cao had contacted her specially in 06 and told her not to contact Cao Lv, saying that he was mentally unstable. Words, a single word can easily irritate him, and he plans to take him to Nanjing for treatment."

Zhao You fell silent.Dai Rou scratched the center of her eyebrows and asked him, "You really haven't seen Cao Lv again? Just that one time?"

Zhao You said: "That's right, Team Zhan and Team Wang dealt with it later," he said with a smile, "That time was enough for me." He patted his chest, "Interrogation of prisoners is really frustrating. Nervous, can't eat well and sleep well."

Dai Rou raised her eyebrows, noncommittal.Zhao You said: "A few days ago, Dui Wang came back from the province to visit his son. I met him in the cafeteria and he asked about you."

Dai Judao: "As soon as Xiaoman's video was posted, he called me and asked me, no one would brighten up the shadow processing in the video, and expose Xiaoman's appearance, he was quite worried .”

Zhao You said: "The matter of the gun is Wang Changming's fault."

Dai Rou stretched her waist, stretched her neck and wrists, and said, "Cough, who knows, dog eats dog. I originally wanted to kill two birds with one stone and kill my husband. A crazy woman who gained fame and fortune and a doctor's seal, acting type." Crazy dogs with personalities take advantage of each other?" She hooked her lips, "Don't you think it's a cliché, always a hysterical woman and a crazy psychotic serial killer."

Zhao You said: "Ah, yes, motivation is really a headache..."

"You're not interested in motives, are you?"

"It's okay..."

Dai Rou said: "I saw a saying that an Internet psychologist analyzed Cao Lv, saying that his mentality is the kind of 'why not' mentality, that is, his life is too boring, he is smart enough, and he still has If there are enough ways to escape legal sanctions, why not do something? Why not try the fact that killing people will not be sentenced to death? Wouldn’t it be very exciting if something that sounds impossible is done? " Dai Rou glanced at Zhao You, "Do you agree with this view?"

Zhao You drank water and said, "Well, it sounds like he is quite boring."

Dai Rou went on to say: "There is also his mental illness history. He said that Cao Lu's childhood experience must have had a certain impact on him. He may be slightly depressed, but he will not develop into autism, or personality. Split, he took advantage of other people's strange vision, attitude, and special treatment of mental patients to obtain the results he wanted."

Dai Rou asked him, "What do you think the sentence will be?"

Zhao You shook his head, and Dai Ju said: "It's a pity, he didn't let go of Yao Lingdang's case, I heard..." She signaled Zhao You to follow her into a path less traveled by, and continued: "A film company wants to film him. In this case, you have to ask him to buy the copyright, do you know? You said that he is legally incapable of signing the copyright, so is the signed contract invalid or valid? "

The footsteps of the two rustled.Zhao You said, "Really?" He smiled, "Who knows..."

Dai Rou walked in front of Zhao You: "Listen to me, this is boring, right? The case is over, don't you want to worry about it?" She looked back at Zhao You: "Is the truth not important to you at all?" important?"

Zhao You sneered: "Let's wait for the verdict to come down."

Dai Rou also smiled: "That's right, what is the truth, maybe it really doesn't matter..."

Zhao You looked forward for a while, pointed to the front and said, "Is that where it is?"

He heard the sound of water, and saw two figures behind two sweet-scented osmanthus trees, shaking and busy.He and Dai Rou pushed aside the obstructive branches, and they walked to the edge of a stream. Zhao You could clearly see the two busy figures——Xiao Man and Yin Miaozai were setting up a tent by the water.

The sound of the water was murmuring, and gradually, the chirping of birds and insects could be heard. The green color of the sky faded slightly to the sides, and the sky revealed a width similar to that of the stream.

Yin Miaozai also saw them, smiled and waved to them.Xiaoman raised his head, his long hair was tied into a loose bun, he was kneeling on the ground with a lollipop in his mouth, wearing knee-length trousers, a short-sleeved floral shirt, and a tent nail in one hand. Holding a hammer in one hand.

"Ding."

A light breeze blows, the trees shake, the branches and leaves collide, a bullfinch skims over the water, and the world becomes restless.

Zhao You touched his ears and walked towards Xiaoman. He took out a bag of bread from his backpack and said, "Butter toast."

Yin Miaozai shouted "Long live", opened the bread bag, tore off a piece of bread, and walked to the place where the fishing rod was placed.Xiao Man said, "Help me dig some earthworms."

"Did you bring bait?" Dai Rou asked.Xiao Man pouted his chin at Yin Miaozai, and Yin Miaozai hurriedly said, "Oh, I forgot to take it... It's okay, it's okay, just use bread."

Xiaoman nodded with a smile.Zhao You put down his backpack and said, "This is baked for people to eat."

Yin Miaozai has reason and evidence: "The fish ate the bread and got hooked. We eat fish, it's the same."

Xiao Man asked Dai Rou: "Can the fish you catch be eaten? Don't some country protect wild animals?"

Dai Rou walked around the tent, bent down to check the fixing nails in every corner, and said, "Is this the only nail missing?"

Xiaoman nodded.Zhao You helped Xiaoman pull one end of the tent, and Xiaoman continued to knock on the nails.Dai Rou said, "I haven't eaten it, and I don't know if I can eat it."

"Didn't you come to fish before?"

Dai Rou pointed to Zhao You: "Xiao Zhao said the taste is quite fresh."

Xiao Man asked Zhao You: "Have you ever fished here?"

"No, I've heard what Deputy Dai said..."

"It's Director Dai!" Yin Miaozai shouted.

"I have eaten the kind of fish she said can be caught here." Zhao You asked Xiaoman, "Won't you try the bread?"

Xiao Man handed the lollipop to Zhao You, grabbed the bag of bread, tore some and stuffed it into his mouth, giving Zhao You a thumbs up.

"Is there anything to improve?"

Dai Rou opened the tent, got into half of her body, and said, "Fishing is not for eating, is it?"

"Ah? It's not for eating, so what are you fishing for?" Yin Miaozai carefully put the bread-wrapped fishing rod into the stream, and said, "Then we really eat self-heating pot at night?"

She said, "Sister Dai Rou, is there a vegetable market near here? I'll just go and buy some food now," she suddenly thought, "Let Xiaojing and the others bring some cooked food?"

She called Dai Rou to go fishing, ran back to the tent by herself, dug out her backpack, took out her mobile phone, raised her mobile phone high, and walked around the camp: "I'll find a place with a signal!"

At this time, Zhao You's cell phone rang, and Yin Miaozai hurriedly ran to him: "Hey, there is still a signal here!"

She held up her mobile phone and called Xiao Jing.Zhao You took out his phone and looked, Yan Boyuan sent him a video on WeChat.He clicked on it to watch, and Xiaoman followed suit. The signal in the mountains was too bad, and the video froze when he clicked on it. He could only see a title: The latest developments in the disappearance of a female executive from a foreign company, Yan Mingming, her husband, a former police officer. Zhou Sichang, a senior university teacher, recently surrendered himself to the Yancheng Public Security Bureau.

Xiao Man was startled, glanced at Zhao You, and put down the hammer: "Old Zhou?"

Zhao You clicked the video a few more times, and even the last signal was gone.Yin Miaozai didn't have a signal anymore, so she searched for a signal again.

Dai Rou asked, "Why don't you bake it?"

Zhao You said, "That oven? The one made of stone?"

Xiao Man asked him, "Don't you want to watch it?"

"The signal is not good." Zhao You put away the phone, "Don't watch it, let's go find a stone."

"What stone oven?" Xiaoman stood up and wiped his hands on his pants.

"It's the kind in "Survival in the Wild", surrounded by stones, hey, do you think there are those kind of wide leaves nearby, this is not tropical, palm leaves are definitely useless..." Zhao You pulled Xiaoman into the woods .Xiao Man followed him and said, "Wrap up the fish and bake it?"

Zhao You said, "I saw wild cranberries on the road."

Xiaoman took his hand and led him to a big tree with a big hole in its trunk.There are many brown mushrooms growing around the roots of the tree.The two squatted to look at the mushrooms with umbrellas, Xiao Man asked him, "Do you think it's edible?"

Zhao You said: "It doesn't seem to work..." He pointed to a yellow spot on an umbrella cover, "It seems to be poisonous."

Xiao Man moved closer and said, "What kind of flying insects are they like?"

"Really?" Zhao You followed closely, their foreheads bumped together, Xiao Man covered his head and laughed, Zhao You also laughed.His cell phone rang again, this time it was an incoming call, and the yellow dot on the umbrella cover suddenly flew up.Xiaoman shouted: "It's really a bug!"

Zhao You answered the phone, and it was Yan Boyuan who asked eagerly on the other end of the phone, "Where are you?"

After saying this, the signal went bad again, intermittently.Zhao You stood up and asked, "Are you looking for me?"

He only heard Yan Boyuan saying incoherently: "The police... find... quickly..."

Zhao You walked a few steps to the east, and the noise lessened a little. He said, "The signal is not good, can you hear it?"

"I hear, I hear, you can send me your location." Yan Boyuan sounded very angry.

"I'm in the mountains..." Zhao You looked at Xiaoman, and Xiaoman made a mouth shape: "Old Zhou".

Zhao You shook his head and said, "Let's meet at the gate of Heishan Police Station."

The phone was cut off immediately.Zhao You looked at the phone, looked at the sky, and continued to go east.Xiao Man stopped him and said: "Tell Xiao Yin and the others first, I will go there with you, I know the way."

They went back to find Yin Miaozai and Dai Rou, called the two of them, put on a flashlight and a GPS locator, and headed towards the Heishan Police Station.

Xiaoman picked up a branch on the road, brushed the leaves in front of him from time to time, and sometimes held it in his hand and used it as a trekking pole.Zhao You walked beside him, looking east and west, and sometimes he walked into the woods, where there was no road, Xiao Man pulled his clothes corner from time to time and pulled him back to his side.When encountering a narrow road, Xiaoman will pass first, and Zhao You will follow. Occasionally, Zhao You will pass first, and Xiaoman will follow.They walked quietly in the woods.They saw some wild cranberries, some wild blueberries, some fungi, snakes with yellow spots, ladybugs on cockscombs.Xiaoman heard the sound of woodpeckers pecking wood, and pulled Zhao You's hand. The two looked up, only to see that the sky seemed to be covered with green jade pieces.

Xiaoman asked Zhao You: "Have you been here in winter?"

"Nope, what about you?"

"No."

"Qingshi doesn't snow heavily in winter, so the winter here probably looks very desolate and desolate."

Zhao You said, "We can take a look in winter."

"No, it's so cold." Xiaoman took a ray of light in his hand, and Zhao You said, "Don't be afraid, I'll be with you, and your heart will be warm."

Xiao Man laughed out loud, and Zhao You said again: "Take a radish up to the mountain to eat, and you will feel beautiful and warm in your heart, and you will be able to live a very nourishing winter."

Xiaoman said: "You can almost do it... It's a winter gnawing carrots, thank you for thinking it out!"

After walking out of the woods and walking on the dirt road for a while, we arrived at a place where there are people.They were walking side by side. Before reaching the Heishan Police Station, Zhao You saw Yan Boyuan's car coming from the direction of downtown Qingshi.Yan Boyuan must have seen him too, he slammed on the brakes and stopped the car beside him, Xiao Man was unexpected, Zhao You was also a little surprised, before the two of them could say anything, they saw four men get off the car, Three of them were raw-faced, one had a camera around his neck, and the other two were wearing black jackets.

Yan Boyuan introduced: "This is Zhao You, and these three are from the Yancheng Public Security Bureau."

The one with the camera hanging around his neck looked left and right, and pulled Zhao You to stand in front of a small bicycle repair booth. The other two followed, and one of them, who was older, shook hands with Zhao You, looking anxious The one with the camera urged: "Hold it, hold it!"

Xiaoman asked Yan Boyuan: "What happened to Lao Zhou?"

Zhao You heard the words and looked at them. Yan Boyuan shook his head with a solemn expression.Zhao You shook hands with the older man.The camera card rattled, and the person who hung the camera made an "ok" gesture.The older one nodded to Zhao You, and introduced himself: "Zhao You, right, hello, hello."

Zhao You smiled and said, "Hello, hello."

The older one didn't smile, looked at Zhao You, frowned slightly, and said, "I'm Hang Fengnian from Yancheng Criminal Investigation Team [-]."

Another person said: "I am Mo Gaofeng from Yancheng Criminal Investigation."

Yan Boyuan signaled everyone to get in the car, and said, "Let's go, let's talk on the way, talk on the way, Mr. Zhou..." He looked at Zhao You, and reluctantly changed his words, "After the suspect Zhou Sichang turned himself in, he said that he wanted to talk to you."

"Me? Now?" Zhao You looked at Xiaoman with helplessness and reluctance.Hang Fengnian and Mo Gaofeng also looked at Xiaoman.Yan Boyuan said: "A former colleague from the Municipal Bureau, one of our own."

Mo Gaofeng said to Zhao You: "Yes, he said that he will only confess the case when you arrive."

Xiao Man looked at Zhao You, and he laughed. Although there was still a bit of helplessness in his eyes, he smiled happily, as if a naughty boy who had played with all the toys in the world finally found a new one.

He scratched his cheek and said, "It seems interesting."

——End of "Winter, Past"——