sincerity of lies

In the nick of time, Ji Xun raised his hand, ready to push classmate Zhou away!

His hand had already touched Classmate Zhou's clothes, but Classmate Zhou was like a fish swimming, and with a slight, invisible movement, he got rid of Ji Xun's fingers. At this moment, it was not so much that Yu Xiaoyu stabbed him, but rather It was he who met Yu Xiaoyu's knife tip.

Silver practiced across classmate Zhou's shoulder, broke the silver light, and dragged out the red tail.

The blood splattered in front of several people in the room, and it splattered in Xiao Yu's eyes.

The girl who had fallen into madness was stunned in the blood... At this moment, classmate Zhou grabbed Yu Xiaoyu's hand. He didn't take Yu Xiaoyu's knife. He held her hand, and her hand held the knife. He aimed the knife at his chest, and his voice was brisk, brisk and even joyful, like ice beads falling into a jade plate:

"Do you want to kill me? You can't kill someone by stabbing the arm. If you want to stab here, stab the heart, do you dare?"

No one really understands Yu Xiaoyu, understands the pain under her weak appearance; just like no one really understands Zhou, understands the madness under his silent appearance.

At this moment, in this room, it is very likely that it is Yu Xiaoyu and Classmate Zhou-they are more able to understand each other's desperate hearts that are suppressed to the extreme.They saw themselves in each other, similar but different selves in the mirror, disgusting selves.

"... Put down the knife!" The belated cry of the police sounded.

The cry woke Ji Xun up.

In a blink of an eye, Ji Xun made a decision that was not right, but perhaps the most valuable for the current situation.

"Yeah, calm down, put down the knife, it's useless for you to hold a knife—"

He seemed to be cheering and shouting for the police, but in fact, he took a step forward and inserted between the police and Yu Xiaoyu, blocking the police's path to Yu Xiaoyu and protecting the space for Zhou and Yu Xiaoyu to face each other alone.

Just a few days.

Yes, in just a few days of getting along, less than 96 hours from beginning to end, he knew and contacted Zhou, and finally, he chose to trust Zhou.

He believes that everything that Zhou is doing now is after careful consideration.

He believes that Zhou's deliberate decision will be beneficial to the cracking of the case.

He chose to help classmate Zhou!

Time is short and long.

In two seconds, blood rolled down from the blade like beads.The light of the knife reflected on Xiao Yu's face, that cold silver light dazzled the girl's eyes, and her eyes were as cold as frost.

"Kill me, even if you are under 18 years old, you will go to the juvenile detention center."

Classmate Zhou gradually relaxed his hand. He no longer stopped Yu Xiaoyu. Yu Xiaoyu held a knife in both hands. As long as he stabbed hard, the knife would penetrate the heart of the person she hated.

Great happiness came long after, filling her heart, as if an invisible force was pushing her hand, she was delighted to see the point of the knife piercing the dented clothes, touching the beating heart, and the beating of the opponent's heart was already following the handle of the knife , transmitted to her all the way, stimulating her spirit and body...

A little more, a little more.she thought.Right away, right away.

"Then," said classmate Zhou softly, "you won't be able to see Xu Shijin anymore."

Yu Xiaoyu was stunned.

"There is no one to bring food to Xu Shijin anymore." Classmate Zhou, "There is no one to accompany Xu Shijin when she is injured, to comfort her...and to help her avenge her."

He looked at Yu Xiaoyu and saw tears in Yu Xiaoyu's eyes.

He said the last sentence: "And, no one will accompany you, comfort you, or make you happy when you are hurt."

The force that pushed her hands disappeared at once—they didn't disappear, they became the opposite force, binding her hands. She looked at Classmate Zhou, and what appeared in her eyes was no longer the face of a hater, but the face of someone who was being held back. The world blurred by tears, Xu Shijin's face blurred by tears.

There was a light clink of porcelain in the room.

Listening carefully, it was the sound of Yu Xiaoyu's teeth clashing. The collision of teeth was transmitted to her shoulders, and then to her hands. The knife tightly held in her hand slipped out of her hands and fell to the ground, accompanied by the knife. With a falling sound, she screamed:

"I say--"

The voice was the last strength supporting the body, and when the voice rushed out of her throat, she also fell to the ground.

"I say! I say it all! I tell you all!" she whimpered, "Let me bring her food! Let me see her... woo... Please, I want to see her... She needs me... ..."

Then how did the police control Yu Xiaoyu, and what did Yu Xiaoyu say? Ji Xun didn't listen any more, and he didn't give Zhou a chance to listen—he grabbed Zhou's hand and left the place before the police came to deal with them. house, avoid the stairs outside.

There were only the two of them on the stairs.

Ji Xun frowned, and went to pick off classmate Zhou's torn clothes first: "Is it serious?"

Classmate Zhou: "It's not serious, just scratched a little bit of skin."

"We still need to use alcohol to disinfect it, and then wrap it with gauze..." Ji Xun did not loosen his brows.

"Yeah." Classmate Zhou was not distracted, and only looked at the room with the open door below. They could still hear a little voice from the room, "Where do you think Yu Xiaoyu will lock Xu Shijin?"

"...Still thinking about this?"

"Isn't this our ultimate goal?"

"I thought your ultimate goal was to let Yu Xiaoyu stab you to death." Ji Xun.

"Why do you think so?"

"Should I not think so?"

"No." Classmate Zhou looked at Ji Xun seriously, "If I want anyone on the street to stab me to death, what's the difference from me jumping off a random bridge? Yu Xiaoyu chose Xu Shijin, I chose It wasn't Yu Xiaoyu. I chose..."

A flick of the forehead stopped Classmate Zhou's words.

Classmate Zhou covered his head and was stunned.

Ji Xun: "Little classmate, be mature, your life is not in anyone's hands, your life is only in your hands. I don't know who you choose, but I hope the person you choose will be like this Tell you, if not—promise me, let him go."

"..."

"Also," Ji Xun endured and endured, and still couldn't help nagging to classmate Zhou, "Solving a case is a smart job, not a dangerous job. Don't blindly pursue excitement. White Blade, obviously there are more safe and efficient solutions—”

"... Leaving aside what happened yesterday, what if Xu Shijin, who was under house arrest by Yu Xiaoyu, starved to death today while you were slowly and gently looking for Yu Xiaoyu's mental weakness? Yu Xiaoyu wanted to send Xu Shijin so eagerly. Food, how much can be guessed, there is not much food in the place where Xu Shijin is under house arrest." Zhou said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"It's impossible. Yu Xiaoyu attaches great importance to Xu Shijin and will not really do anything to hurt Xu Shijin. So the police are destined to win in this game." Ji Xun denied, "Besides, when I went in just now, I saw the printers and paper patterns. Ordinary people don’t place so many paper patterns. From this, we can infer that Yu Xiaoyu’s parents are in a printing-related business—and then infer that they may have a warehouse, and the warehouse will probably be at the Qinshi Printing Factory. There is a lot of noise when the printing factory works, and Yu Xiaoyu shuts Xu Shijin there, so there is no need to worry about Xu Shijin’s yelling to attract people. To sum up, I can probably guess where Xu Shijin is hidden by Yu Xiaoyu. You need to play this bitter trick."

"You are so confident in your reasoning." Classmate Zhou snorted, "I am also very confident in my ability. You have your way to solve the case, and I have my solution."

After taking off the pretense of silence, he is like an unpolished rough stone, so sharp and sharp.

"So Ji Xun," he put down his hand covering his forehead, and took a deep look at Ji Xun, "Don't use the same self-confidence we all have to control me solemnly, I won't just be your little follower..."

Their conversation ends here.

Yu Xiaoyu in the room has already told everything, about poisoning, setting fire, kidnapping Xu Shijin, etc., she confessed everything, in her mouth, Xu Shijin didn't know about everything, all of these were for her own good A friend did it for revenge.

The police did not fully believe her statement.

But the top priority at the moment is to rescue Xu Shijin who is under house arrest by Yu Xiaoyu. The two policemen brought Yu Xiaoyu, including Ji Xun and Classmate Zhou—to this extent, the police can only watch them under their noses, so as not to come back again. What accident happened - let's go to the warehouse that Yu Xiaoyu mentioned.

When the car was on the road, Ji Xun, who had been busy for half the morning, finally got some free time. He took out his mobile phone and looked at it. He happened to see Meng Lingshan calling - before this call, Meng Lingshan had already called him. 10 calls, 2 voicemails.

Ji Xun quickly picked it up: "Hello?"

Meng Lingshan sneered, "I thought you were dead."

"Sorry, sorry." Ji Xun, "Something happened just now, and the phone was muted. Why are you in such a hurry to find me?"

"You ran away for three days and disappeared. The counselor misses you."

"Uh……"

"Thinking of telling everyone in the dormitory that I want to persuade you to quit."

"Uh uh."

"Don't worry about it." Meng Lingshan said, "You can't help it. You write the self-criticism and admit your mistakes. I won't write it for you. You ask the other two."

"I still have something to do here..." Ji Xun had a bitter face.

"That's why I don't want a college degree." Meng Lingshan said plainly, "I have to pay back the money. I probably won't be able to go to your house during the winter vacation. Your parents will break your legs."

"Okay, okay, I understand..."

"Tomorrow morning, before class, you must come. I suggest you buy tickets for the afternoon." Meng Lingshan emphasized again, and then hung up coldly, "See you later."

Ji Xun put his head in his hands and frowned.

Classmate Zhou was sitting next to him. Ji Xun didn’t avoid him when he talked on the phone just now. When the matter is over, when the truth comes out..."

Ji Xun shook his head: "He will help me, that's not the point. I just feel like I've forgotten a very important clue."

The distress came from Meng Lingshan's phone call, and Ji Xun pressed back and forth on the short-term phone call records in the address book, trying to figure out something.Then he clicked on those two messages.

Meng Lingshan's message was as concise as his words.

Rule [-]: If the punch card is exposed, the counselor will find you.

Rule number two: Don't play dead.

It's normal... very Meng Lingshan.

What's wrong?

The warehouse is not far away. Police officer Qin quickly arrived at the destination with one foot of the accelerator. He stopped and turned to Ji Xun and said, "Don't keep your head down and play with your mobile phone. I think many of you can't live without it for a moment, and you are prone to myopia. .Get out of the car."

Ji Xun raised his head abruptly.

He suddenly understood the clue that he had missed - if Xu Shijin was under house arrest, how could the mobile phone signal of her venting call to Chen Ya appear in the school?

Before, I always thought that people and mobile phones were together, but since she was under house arrest, her mobile phone could also be taken away by Yu Xiaoyu, so Yu Xiaoyu could also make the call.When Yu Xiaoyu is at school, the signal will only be at school.

As for the part of Xu Shijin scolding Chen Ya, not only did it not mention anything else, it also had no subject.

It could have been said by Xu Shijin at other times, and it was recorded by Yu Xiaoyu just like Meng Lingshan's message just now, and played to Chen Ya at that time.

In Ji Xun's ears, the vicious insults repeated by Chen Ya rang again.

"It's all your fault! If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be like this! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

If this sentence is not Xu Shijin scolding Chen Ya, if this sentence, this sentence is true——say it!

Ji Xun's breathing was stagnant. If he deduced it now, then——a lot of mud appeared under his feet out of thin air, and the mud soaked his ankles, blocking his forward steps.

He looked at Zhou's back, at Yu Xiaoyu's back, at the way they opened the warehouse and rushed in...

The shutter door of the warehouse rolled up with a clatter.

Yu Xiaoyu got short, hugged the lunch box in her hand, and ran into the warehouse in a hurry. Before she entered, she yelled loudly:

"Shijin, I'm here, Shijin, did you sleep well yesterday—"

The police followed her, and they soon saw that there was a female classmate chained up in the warehouse. Her clothes and face were a little dirty, and she was sitting on a bed—"bed" was actually a few The benches were put together and covered with quilts to form a temporary bed.

She looked blankly at the people who came in, and when she saw a certain figure, a surprised smile suddenly flashed on her face, she jumped up from the bed, and ran forward quickly.

Such good sunlight slanted in from the high windows of the factory.

Highlight Xu Shijin's raised hair ends and skirt corners while running, highlight the silver chains rubbing against the ground, and highlight the gold-foil dotted flowers on the dark blue furoshiki that Yu Xiaoyu protects in her hand.

It brightened Xu Shijin's face full of surprise and happiness, and also brightened her coldness when she passed by Yu Xiaoyu.

Ji Xun saw that Xu Shijin hugged Zhou in classmate Zhou's unsuspecting astonishment, crying and laughing with the joy of remaining alive after the catastrophe: "Are you here to save me, right, that's great, that's great ! I thought... I thought I'd never see you again!"

He looked at classmate Zhou, and saw Yu Xiaoyu looking at Xu Shijin just like he looked at classmate Zhou.

He suddenly remembered that poem, the poem Yu Xiaoyu was holding, and Xu Shijin asked Zhou to write the poem on the blackboard.

The poems on the blackboard are so high that Yu Xiaoyu can't reach them.

That was the position that Zhou didn't care about, but it was the position where the owner only wanted it to stay from the beginning.

She angrily wiped off the love of Zhou Zhaonan and Yu Xiaoyu on the blackboard, and shouted to everyone: "What's so funny, which bastard wrote it!"

Ji Xun looked at Yu Xiaoyu's dazed face, dazed eyes, and stared at Xu Shijin embracing classmate Zhou.

...Yes, that sentence was what Xu Shijin said to Xiao Yu.

Yu Xiaoyu stayed alone in her parents' empty house, listening to such sharp and piercing curses with the pair of white earphones over and over again. She cut open the flesh with a knife and burned her skin with smoke.

But no matter how self-mutilating it is, it's useless.

It's like Zhou has never looked back at Xu Shijin.

Xu Shijin would not look back at her either.

Yu Xiaoyu burst into tears like rain.

Chapter [-] The joys and sorrows of the world are always like this, what I think of you is not you, and what you think of me is not me.

Xu Shijin hugged her classmate Zhou and cried and laughed. After losing her composure for a long time, she belatedly realized that her appearance was in a mess and her taste was not good, and there were other unknown people watching around. The girl was naturally shy by two beats. , finally arrived.

A blush rose on her cheeks, she let go of Classmate Zhou in a hurry, and almost jumped to hide behind the policeman.

The police unchained her, and she ran into the police car like a bird that had been released from its cage.

The glass of the car was against the light, and the light covered the girl's face behind the glass.

In a moment, in the light, she rolled down the car window, poked out a strand of hair, and pointed in the direction of Classmate Zhou, as if she was saying something to Classmate Zhou. Until now, she still thinks about Classmate Zhou, only Classmate Zhou.

Then the car left, Xu Shijin left, Yu Xiaoyu left, and the story also left.

The police who followed the story had to bring the story to an end, but these had nothing to do with Ji Xun—he was originally a person outside the story.

Now, he should rush back to his life.

Classmate Zhou accompanied Ji Xun to the hotel to pick up the bag and checked out the room, and silently sent him to the train station all the way.

In the station, no matter what day and time, there are people coming and going, men and women, old and young, each carrying their luggage. Most of them are in a hurry, but there are also some staying here, laughing here, Crying here attracted a few curious eyes, and saved the silhouette on the smooth tiled floor for a few more seconds. Finally, it dissipated, like fallen leaves returning to the veins of the earth, like ripples disappearing in a lake.

Classmate Zhou sent Ji Xun to the boarding passage in the station and stood still.

"I noticed it before," Ji Xun said, "You seem to have something to say to me along the way?"

"Why did Xu Shijin scold Yu Xiaoyu?"

"I speculate...it's just speculation. But I think the result of the police's questioning may be similar to my speculation." Ji Xun said softly. He paused for a while, as if he didn't know what to say, but finally said it.

It was a brutal start.

Cruel beginning for anyone.

"The person who saw Zhen Huan by the river that day was not Xu Shijin, but Yu Xiaoyu."

Chen Ya only mentioned the person who saw the red hat, she didn't name it, she even just guessed it, this is a very unfortunate coincidence.

Compared to Ji Xun's hesitation, Zhou was much calmer.After listening to Ji Xun's speculation, he just nodded: "So that's how it should be. Yu Xiaoyu saw Zhen Huan drowned and died, and was very scared, so she went to Xu Shijin to cry. I can guess why Xu Shijin came out. I'm afraid it's not all. It's because of sisterhood, and because she doesn't think there's anything to be afraid of in this matter."

"Of course, dead people are not a pleasant thing in themselves."

"But Yu Xiaoyu didn't push Zhen Huan, and he didn't mock Zhen Huan. Zhen Huan's death can't be blamed on Yu Xiaoyu—of course, it can't be blamed on her who Yu Xiaoyu recognized."

Speaking of this, Zhou was silent for a moment, and then spoke again, with a touch of sarcasm in his words.

"Xu Shijin has never suffered from malice, so she never felt that maliciousness from all directions is so great, so she thinks that she can--no problem at all. After all, a small method can easily defeat Jiang Jie. She may still take This incident proves to Xiaoyu that, look, counterattack is so simple."

"But the things that followed told her that she couldn't. It's always easy for people to misunderstand themselves. When the maliciousness overwhelmed her, she began to abuse Yu Xiaoyu under the collapse, and put all the blame on Xiaoyu...'It's all you It's all your fault."

"But it's not Yu Xiaoyu's fault." Ji Xun was a little sad.

"No." Classmate Zhou said, "This is Yu Xiaoyu's fault. Yu Xiaoyu thinks so too. She's probably still thinking...why did I go to the reservoir that day? Why did I see Zhen Huan die? Best friend in my place? It's my fault, it's all my fault."

"So, she, who has always been timid, started to take revenge, revenge for Xu Shijin, and revenge for herself."

"But I still don't understand one thing..." Classmate Zhou paused, "I don't understand why Xu Shijin likes me."

"Did you hear what Xu Shijin said to you just now?"

"?"

"She told you to see you tomorrow."

"I didn't notice at all." Classmate Zhou.

"You don't care about her." Ji Xun said an objective and clichéd fact, and he followed closely, "From another perspective, she doesn't actually care about you either?"

Classmate Zhou frowned.

"What she cares about is not the real you, but the silent and melancholy you. People are complex emotional animals. They want to like people and be liked by them; they want to save people, but they also want to be saved by others. You said that Xu Shijin is an ordinary girl. An ordinary person is always yearning for the extraordinary. She reads the extraordinary in her poems. She yearns for these. Depressed you."

"I'm not what she imagined." Classmate Zhou, "She didn't even say a few words to me."

"Yes, you are not what she imagined."

"Girls' feelings are always poetic. Her shyness made her hesitate how to approach you, but the act of erasing the blackboard made her easily approach Yu Xiaoyu of the same sex." Ji Xun added, "From the outside, you There are many similarities with Yu Xiaoyu, you are both quiet, silent, and bullied. Maybe if you get along well with the melancholy Yu Xiaoyu, you will be able to understand your melancholy heart?"

"But for Xiaoyu, no matter what purpose Xu Shijin maintains to approach her, she is her salvation and her driftwood. So when Xu Shijin couldn't bear the malice from all parties because of her, she used Do everything possible to try to comfort her. She tries to empathize with Xu Shijin, she wants to share Xu Shijin's pain."

"But the fragile Xu Shijin has Yu Xiaoyu, the easiest excuse to shirk her pain. She will only vent her pain on Yu Xiaoyu, instead of trying to take revenge on others. She will use all the complaints she can think of to take back the original randomness. Give a little kindness, so as to balance the gap in her heart." Ji Xun shook her head, "Yu Xiaoyu was stabbed, she was determined to take revenge, maybe she thought Xu Shijin would not hate her if she took revenge on others, but this is also her own wishful thinking. What she is releasing is her own pain, not Xu Shijin's. From the beginning to the end, she is only empathizing with herself."

"Xu Shijin wants to know you, and Yu Xiaoyu wants to know Xu Shijin, but what they see is always what they want to see." Ji Xun smiled, "The joys and sorrows of the world are always like this, I don't think of you, What you think of me is not me. The melancholy you think about is still a delusion in your mind after all."

There was a sudden commotion in the queue, the door opened, and the train to the capital was about to start.

The flow of people moved forward in a crowded manner.

"It's time." Classmate Zhou said.

"Yeah, we're going to separate..." Ji Xun was still a little bit lost, but all the meetings, no matter how happy or intimate they were, would always come to the moment of parting. If there is no parting, there will be no meeting.He glanced forward, raised his hand, and patted Classmate Zhou on the shoulder, "Then I'll go back first."

"Ah."

He heard Classmate Zhou's faint response, and he only listened to the sound, as if Classmate Zhou didn't care about his coming and going at all, but if he looked into Classmate Zhou's eyes again, he could find that Classmate Zhou was looking at him very intently, concentrating It was as if he wanted to tell him something with these eyes.

Ji Xun looked at those eyes that seemed to contain a thousand words for a moment, then suddenly opened the backpack and found a notebook and a pen from it.He turned the notebook to a blank page, took a pen and wrote down his phone number on it, then tore off the paper and handed it to Classmate Zhou:

"My mobile phone number. Although I am gone, our connection will not be broken. When you miss me, or when you want to talk to me, you can call this number at any time. When you have a mobile phone in the future, remember it Give me the number!"

"..." Classmate Zhou took the paper.

The movement of the team has reached the position where Ji Xun was standing, and he wanted to say a few more words, but the people behind hurried forward, the crowd was like a wave, and he was just an insignificant pebble in the wave, being pushed forward .

He had no choice but to wave to classmate Zhou: "waiting for your call."

However, until he entered the tunnel, he could no longer see Classmate Zhou, and he did not wait for Classmate Zhou's answer.

More and more people entered the passage, and when the flow of people was gone, the passage was closed, and the train on the platform started to move away, Zhou still stood there.

Holding the note Ji Xun gave him in his hand, he thought in his heart:

you do not know.

My name is not Zhou Zhaonan, but Huo Ranyin.

I want to tell you my secret.

I killed my parents.

Floating paper, heavy heart.

On the piece of paper held in his hand, it seems that the temperature of Ji Xun's palm still remains.

The imprint of the numbers touched from the back of the paper is Ji Xun's power.

He rubbed his fingers on the paper, and finally came to the edge of the paper, and with a light force, he tore the paper.Then slowly tear it, tear it into snowflakes, tear it into pieces, tear it into pieces that can no longer be grasped or put together——

Not what he wanted.