winter past

Xiao Man ran out of the private room in a panic. Xu Tian was on the phone in the corridor. When he saw Xiao Man, he pointed behind him and said, "Looking for the toilet? This is the toilet."

Xiao Man shook his head, waved with him, and retreated to the door of the tea room: "I have something urgent, I have to go first, you and Xing Ji can talk slowly."

At this time, Yin Miaozai also came out of the private room, with a big bag on her shoulder and a camera in one hand, she turned to one side and talked to Xu Tian.Xiao Man turned around and walked out of the tea room without looking back.Not long after, Yin Miaozai chased her up from behind, she patted Xiao Man, and pointed at the tea room out of breath: "Don't... don't worry, I'll take you, I'll take you... Let's pick up Lu together Positive……"

Xiaoman took her bag and carried it, stuffed the camera in, and said for her, "Speak slowly."

Yin Miaozai waved his hands: "It's okay, I'm fine, I'll take you there, otherwise, otherwise, how do you go back? Take a taxi? In the wilderness... call a taxi at this time, who knows when the car will be..." Yin Miaozai swallowed. , "Ghost knows when the car will arrive, let's go."

Xiaoman asked her: "Then what about your interview?"

Yin Miaozai swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and seemed to be recovering. She looked into the nearby cemetery and said, "I told him that we will make an appointment next time. He said that there is an urgent matter in our agency and there is a new progress in the case. We have to go back." Have a meeting."

They walked on a downhill road paved with steps. Yin Miaozai held Xiaoman's shoulders and stood on tiptoe to look south: "Xu Tian said that he wanted to take us to see..."

"Look at what?"

"Lin Midong's tomb, don't tell me, he was really buried here, Xu Tian gave it to Zhang Luo." Yin Miaozai was suspicious, "You said he and Lin Midong have such a good relationship? This cemetery will cost a lot Money? Could it be that he owed Lin Midong some huge favor? No, this man is dead too, and there is no need to repay the favor, so he feels guilty?" She looked at Xiaoman, her eyes rolled Gulu spun around, "Do you think Xu Tian might be the murderer? He also works in the funeral home. Did he want to divert attention by saying that Meng Nangui came out?"

Xiao Man said, "Do you want to visit Lin Midong's grave?"

"It's not grave-sweeping, it's just to have a look. What if there is a photo on the tombstone, wouldn't we be able to know what he looked like?" Yin Miaozai landed on the ground and looked at Xiaoman: "Or have you already seen him on the Internet before?" Have you seen his picture? Know what he looks like?"

It was obvious that there was something in her words, so Xiaoman laughed along, scratched her ears, and said, "It doesn't matter what you look like..."

"Aren't you curious?"

"What are you curious about? What does a perverted murderer look like?" Xiao Man smiled straight, "Mr. Yin, you teach statistics? Do big data analysis of the appearance characteristics of perverted murderers, and the whole people screen perverted murderers?"

Yin Miaozai laughed: "Are you writing science fiction?"

"I wrote it, so do you read it?"

Yin Miaozai looked at the place lined with tombstones again, and murmured: "Let's not go today, let's go, hurry up, don't make Lu Yang wait." She asked Xiaoman: "Is your mobile phone Give him what he wants?"

Xiaoman smiled: "Yes, why hasn't the phone been delivered yet? It's been a few days."

"It's only been a few days." Yin Miaozai said, "It's only been two days. I should be able to arrive this afternoon."

She lowered her head, stepped on the overgrown weeds by the side of the road, and said softly: "Do you sometimes feel that the day is very long? You feel... It's been a long, long time when you open and close your eyes. When you look at the time, you can see the time." Less than a minute passed."

Xiaoman said: "Then you may have time cognitive impairment."

Yin Miaozai stuck out her tongue, and suddenly yelled "Ah", pointing to an Arabic numeral "4" drawn in paint on the ground, and said, "The fourth row."

"Xu Tian said that the tomb is at No. 4, row 546."

Xiaoman continued to walk down, but Yin Miaozai stopped at the edge of the four rows, looking far away.He asked her: "If you want to see it, go and see it."

Yin Miaozai shook his head, and ran down towards him: "The monk can't run away from the tomb if he can run, come and see it next time! Let's go, don't dawdle!"

She pulled Xiaoman and ran down the mountain quickly.

After leaving the Wulinyuan cemetery, the two went straight to the Affiliated High School of Qingda University. From a distance, Xiaoman saw Lu Yang sitting under a sycamore tree at the school gate reading a book.The school was very quiet, and there was no one behind the iron gate.Yin Miaozai drove the car close to the sycamore tree, Xiaoman lowered the window and called out to Lu Yang.Lu Yang ignored it.A guard in the guard room of the attached middle school came out backwards and said to Xiaoman, "It's stuffy and hot outside, and there's no wind at all. Ask him to come into the guard room, but he doesn't agree."

Xiaoman cupped his hands to the guard repeatedly: "You are caring, thank you, thank you."

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Lu Yang getting into the car with his schoolbag.Xiao Man pushed back the car window and looked back at Lu Yang. Lu Yang was still reading in silence, with his head lowered, his chin resting on one hand, and the book spread out on his lap.

"I'll take you there." Yin Miaozai turned around and greeted Lu Yang, "Have you had lunch? If you haven't eaten, buy some on the way? What time do your visits start?"

"The visitation starts at two o'clock, and you have to arrive 15 minutes earlier to register and check." Lu Yangweng said in a low voice, "It takes two hours by bus from here, and it's already twelve o'clock."

Xiaoman hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, the bus has to stop a lot along the way, this time Teacher Yin will drive us there and we will be there soon."

"Give me an address, and I'll set up a navigation."

Lu Yang still lowered his head: "Qingshi Women's Prison."

Xiaoman asked Yin Miaozai: "Are you hungry? Do you want to buy something to eat on the way?" He turned around and patted Lu Yang's calf: "What good food are you eating in the cafeteria at noon?"

Lu Yang moved his legs and leaned against the car door, propping his chin with both hands and staring at the book.

Xiao Man made friends with him: "Are you going to take the exam again? Hey, when are you guys on summer vacation?"

Yin Miaozai said: "I'm fine, let's take you there first. I can't go in when you go to visit. I'll see if there is anything to eat when you are waiting." She asked Xiaoman: "What about you? Want to eat?" something?"

Lu Yang snorted coldly, and mocked: "Just give him wine. He doesn't need to eat. If he drinks too much, he won't even remember that he needs to eat, and he won't be able to remember things at all."

Xiao Man looked at the top of Lu Yang's pitch-black head, and said, "I'm sorry, it's my fault, too many things have happened recently."

Yin Miaozai helped and said: "It's also my fault. Before going out, Xiaoman reminded me that he has something to do this afternoon and he must return to the city before twelve o'clock, but I was procrastinating... Lu Yang, I'm sorry."

Lu Yang tugged on the shoulder strap of his schoolbag, and stopped talking.Yin Miaozai asked: "Can I send something for the visit? Do you want to buy something on the way and send it there?"

"There are only two days in a month, and I reminded you in the morning, so you can forget about it..." Lu Yang squeezed out a sentence.

Xiao Man asked him, "Have you brought your account book?"

Lu Yang nodded.Xiaoman asked again: "I'll cook tonight, what would you like to eat?"

Yin Miaozai wondered: "Is there a place where you can cook in Yaochi? Do you have a secret room?"

"Sister Xu's house is nearby, I just need to tell her."

Yin Miaozai then said: "Sister Xu also has her own life to live, don't bother others, come to my house to do it, I live alone."

Xiaoman then asked Lu Yang: "How about dry pot lotus root slices, braised pork, shredded beef with onions?"

Lu Yang slightly raised his eyes to look at the driver's seat: "There is no need to send anything, she will be out in two days."

Yin Miaozai said: "Then we have to celebrate. How about this? Today is a rehearsal in advance. Tell me what your mother likes to eat. If you don't know how to cook, we will buy vegetables and try to cook first. You How about it? Would you like to order a cake?"

She blinked in the rearview mirror: "I don't like what Xiao Man mentioned. There are no vegetables here. Lu Yang, do you think so?"

Lu Yang said: "My mother loves fried shrimp cakes."

Xiaoman smiled: "Okay, fine, then fried shrimp cakes."

Yin Miaozai shouted: "There are still no vegetables!"

"Isn't lotus root a vegetable?" Xiaoman was surprised.

"Lotus root is a vegetable, no, I'm talking about the kind of vegetable with green leaves."

"There will be green onions and coriander in the lotus root slices in the dry pot."

Yin Miaozai laughed loudly, and Lu Yang burst out laughing too.Yin Miaozai asked Xiaoman: "Is tomato a vegetable?"

"A tomato is a fruit, isn't it?"

"Is scrambled eggs with tomato a dessert?"

"If there are eggs, then it's a dish."

Lu Yang also asked Xiao Man: "Is the fermented glutinous egg soup a dish or a dessert?"

Yin Miaozai raised her hand: "Sweet soup!"

Xiao Man shrugged at her: "Why are you rushing to answer?" He motioned to Lu Yang: "You have to say 'Start'."

Lu Yang leaned in between the two of them and said, "Is cucumber a fruit or a vegetable..." He looked left and right, drew his voice, and shouted after a long time, "Start!"

Xiaoman said: "Fruit cucumbers are fruits."

Yin Miaozai said loudly: "Vegetables!"

The car drove out of the Baixiang area, Xiaoman felt a little sleepy again, closed his eyes and leaned against the car window, Lu Yang and Yin Miaozai were talking one after another, the voice was high and low at times, like the waves of the sea. With him, the waves rise and the tide ebbs and flows.Xiaoman didn't fall asleep.

The three arrived at the women's prison at 02:30. Yin Miaozai made an appointment with them at [-]:[-] and drove away.Xiao Man and Lu Yang entered through the side door of the prison. When registering the visiting list, a prison guard said to Xiao Man, "Zhang Huifen hopes to meet Lu Yang alone this time."

Lu Yang asked unexpectedly: "Did Zhang Huifen ask for it?"

The prison guard nodded, Xiao Man patted him, folded the guardian certificate issued by the police station in his hand, stuffed it back into his wallet, and said, "Then I'll wait outside."

Lu Yang left accompanied by two prison guards.Xiaoman went to smoke outside the prison, and the cloud above the female prison was also very low, and there was no one on the playground. The columnar blue shadow of the watchtower fell on the ground, and there seemed to be a person patrolling on the tower. In that shadow, people Like a giant ant, this ant walks from one wooden bench to another in an empty playground.Huge ants can only travel back and forth within a distance of less than a meter.

Xiaoman lit a cigarette, but there were no trees around. The parking lot was full of drooping young saplings, and the cicadas who didn't know where to hide were shouting loudly.The sound of cicadas is mixed with the sound of stepping on the sewing machine, da da da, da da da.The iron gate at the prison's entrance cast a large, heavy shadow on the ground.Standing in the shadow, Xiao Man searched for "Break-in and Robbery in Qingshui Garden" on the Internet.There were so many reports over and over again. When he was tired of reading, he pulled out the navigation map and located the Lanxin Jewelry Processing Factory. Then, he took a line to Qingshui Garden. It takes about ten minutes to arrive. If you walk, there are several paths. The shortest one is 10 minutes, which is completely driven. There are also 10 minutes and 10 minutes walking paths to choose from. The small road where the car didn't drive.

Xiaoman was about to zoom in on the map to study the route from Lanxin Jewelry Processing Factory, which took three to ten minutes, passed a park, and passed through Xingfu Street to Qingshui Garden.Lu Yang came out of the prison, listless, like those saplings on the side of the road, and his speech was weak.He said, "My mother has something to tell you."

Xiaoman threw the cigarette and entered the prison, led by the two prison guards he had seen before.Xiaoman asked: "Has Zhang Huifen performed well recently?"

"It's 10:30 the morning after tomorrow, don't be late," said a prison guard.

Another prison guard said: "Take care of her emotions, she is about to go out, and live a good life with her son in the future."

Xiaoman agreed repeatedly, and said yes repeatedly. When he saw Zhang Huifen, he laughed first, sat down in front of the glass partition, picked up the microphone next to him, and said, "Sister Zhang, how do you want to celebrate when you go out? Go shopping? Have a big meal? Or where should we go for karaoke?”

Zhang Huifen's eye circles were red, she flapped her eyelashes, sniffed her nose, and cried a little: "Officer Xiao, thank you for taking care of Yangyang for the past five years."

"I told you not to call me that. I'm not a policeman anymore. Just call me Xiaoman." Xiaoman said, "We will pick you up the day after tomorrow. Is there any custom in your hometown? We will bring a piece of tofu here." , shall I bring it for you?"

Zhang Huifen nodded slightly.Xiaoman said again: "By the way, I have found a place to live, and I will move tomorrow. If you still need someone for the dance hall in the future, you tell me, if you don't need it, I will settle the account for you. Close the door for two days, waiting for you..."

Zhang Huifen raised her eyes, looked at Xiaoman, and interrupted him: "I plan to take Yangyang back to my hometown."

"Okay, not bad, he hasn't been back to his hometown yet, right? It also happens to be summer vacation soon, so it would be good to go back and have a look during the summer vacation." Xiaoman said happily, "I told you last time that I will recommend you. I think it’s very interesting, don’t worry about the tuition fee, once it’s done, the school will definitely give him my scholarship.”

Zhang Huifen said: "I plan to take Yangyang back to my hometown to live after I go out."

Xiaoman was stunned.Zhang Huifen continued: "I have called Sister Xu, and the ballroom plans to give her the money. I will bring the money back to my hometown, and I will repair the old house with part of it..."

Xiaoman wiped his face and said, "You mean to let Lu Yang go back to his hometown to study now? He's going to be a junior after the summer vacation. It's not suitable to transfer at this time? Is the college entrance examination going to go back to his hometown to take the exam? This inter-provincial transfer Student status, how to do this? I remember that there is no high school in your hometown..."

Zhang Huifen touched the scar on her wrist and said, "I've inquired about it. There is an auto repair school in our hometown, and high school students can transfer directly to it without taking an exam."

Covering half of his face, Xiaoman asked Zhang Huifen inexplicably: "Have you ever asked Lu Yang what he thinks? Did he tell you about his plan, his dream? Don't you want to listen to the child's own thoughts?"

Zhang Huifen cried out, sobbing and lowering her head: "With a mother like me, what dreams does he have? I know the child's dream, I know his thoughts, he said a lot, what kind of policeman, what kind of diplomat, I also know that his grades are good, he is good at reading, I didn't have the heart to tell him...the child doesn't know about the political examination...he is a good boy, really good, I said I wanted to take him back to his hometown, but he didn't say With the word 'no', I asked him if he would like to stay with his mother, and he said yes," Zhang Huifen broke down in tears, clenched his fists for a long while, and started sobbing fiercely: "I am sorry for him... Why didn't I die at that time! I stayed and dragged the child, I should die! I should die!"

A prison guard came over and knocked on the glass partition: "Pay attention to controlling your emotions!"

Xiaoman comforted Zhang Huifen nervously: "Sister Zhang, I didn't mean that, or you can think about it again, it's still like this, you and Lu Yang stay in Qingshi, at least wait until his college entrance examination is over. You go back to your hometown, let’s talk about the specific situation.”

Zhang Huifen was tearful, she bit her lip and looked at Xiaoman, her voice trembling: "Officer Xiao, you don't know that once I go out, I will never be able to stay in Qingshi. It’s okay, I live a stable life, and I just want my son by my side.”

"In that case, you see, you go back to your hometown to repair the house first, and I will take the child with me. After the college entrance examination is over, and during the holidays, I will take him back to see you. What do you think? You can't read this book and give up halfway."

Zhang Huifen took a deep breath and asked Xiaoman, "Officer Xiao, are you still married?"

Xiaoman held the microphone, fingered the coil, and said: "We're talking, we're talking, she sent us here today, I met Sister Xu, it's very good, it's a teacher, you can ask Sister Xu .”

Zhang Huifen's mood stabilized a little, and she said slowly: "When I go out, I will be Lu Yang's guardian. Thank you very much for these five years." She hung up the microphone, put her hands together, and bowed to Xiaoman Several thanks.

When visiting time came, the prisoners stood up spontaneously, lined up, and followed the prison guards towards a small gray door.

Xiaoman sat on the stool in a daze, and couldn't get up for a long time. A prison guard came to urge him, and he stood up with the table.

After he went out, he saw Yin Miaozai's car, Lu Yang was sitting in the car, and both of them lowered the window and waved at him.Yin Miaozai said: "I bought vegetables, let's go, go to my house."

The rain has not yet come down, and the air pressure is even lower, which makes people panic.

Xiaoman approached the jeep.Lu Yang asked him, "Xiao Man, can you adopt me?" He said, "My mother wants to take me back to my hometown and help me transfer schools. I don't want to go back, and I don't want to transfer schools, but if I tell her that I don't want to go with her , I am afraid that she will do stupid things again in prison, and I am afraid that she will die in prison. Xiaoman, can I have two guardians? One is my own, and the other is not related by blood. You will be my first guardian. My mother is the second guardian..."

Yin Miaozai said: "I know a lawyer, let me consult you, Xiaoman, get in the car first, it seems to be raining."

Xiaoman got into the car.Yin Miaozai suddenly cleared her throat, raised her right hand, and said, "Quick answer time! Is eggplant a fruit or a vegetable?"

Lu Yang said loudly: "Vegetables!"

"I haven't shouted to start yet!" Yin Miaozai pushed Xiaoman down, made a face at him, and said, "The boat will go straight when it reaches the bridge. Go home first, eat first, and then we'll talk when we're full."

Xiaoman smiled, it was raining.The raindrops were very heavy, crackling and hitting the car, Yin Miaozai looked out a few times and said, "It's raining so hard in the city?" Then he pressed the radio to listen.

A sweet female voice spoke: "Hello everyone, this is the [-]th anniversary special program of "Music Accompanied by Me". If you participate in the WeChat interaction, you will have a chance to win our anniversary gift. I am the host Xiaojie. Colleagues on your music journey, today we have invited two veteran figures, and one, some old listeners should be familiar with, is my senior An An..."

Xiaoman turned off the radio, and the sound of rain became louder. There seemed to be a vast ocean in the sky, which was originally supported by dark clouds, but now the clouds leaked, and the sky began to cry.

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